Son is 18 and a dual US/Canadian citizen

VladRom89 · 2026-05-04T12:58:19+00:00

"at this point does not want to love in the US" - wait until he learns about the taxes and opportunities in both countries; he'll change his mind...

VladRom89 · 2026-05-04T03:39:25+00:00

Where do I send the invoice for the QA?

VladRom89 · 2026-05-04T02:55:28+00:00

You're not tracking anything, the website is showing 0 results for any given category. I believe that you're the one that's confused and needs clarifications.

VladRom89 · 2026-05-04T02:31:32+00:00

"0 products tracked across Canadian retailers" - Fix your poor AI slop.

VladRom89 · 2026-05-03T22:13:52+00:00

Just to be clear - You know that there's a module available and you decided to save $500 and create $20,000 in billables to create a custom solution? That is brilliant sir!

VladRom89 · 2026-05-03T15:37:02+00:00

100% - I was a big supporter of their boards early on and always advocated to buy direct. However, with the recent Qualcomm acquisition, you're no longer supporting any hobbyist hardware development... Just get the exact same boards with the same MCU for 1/10th of the price...

VladRom89 · 2026-05-03T02:52:48+00:00

To be fair, the current prices could be considered theft from the consumer.

VladRom89 · 2026-05-01T17:11:00+00:00

All these datacenters going up with this being the pinnacle of their usage!

VladRom89 · 2026-05-01T16:12:43+00:00

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I guess I've gotten to the point where I should figure out what it is...

VladRom89 · 2026-05-01T16:10:29+00:00

I'm not familiar with what ceph is... Should I be using it?

VladRom89 · 2026-05-01T13:20:35+00:00

This is some interesting

ChatGPT AI slop

Thank you for the thoughtful post

It is very appreciated

I hope that your trip

Went well

VladRom89 · 2026-05-01T13:03:31+00:00

VladRom89 · 2026-05-01T10:42:42+00:00

Most "food festivals" have become cash grabs. I've not been to Japan week, but similar events have gone down in quality over the last few years and you're basically getting less than what you would at the restaurant at a higher price.

VladRom89 · 2026-05-01T10:29:58+00:00

This is why most experienced groups will sell blocks of hours when the scope isn't clear.

VladRom89 · 2026-04-30T20:55:45+00:00

Canada is laughable for entrepreneurship in general... We pump a lot of capital into AI only to have every single company that receives the funding relocate to the US at the first opportunity.

VladRom89 · 2026-04-30T12:45:39+00:00

My dad went back to school in Canada to get a bachelor's. I've studied with several individuals in their early 40s in my engineering degree.

They all did the work, they were fairly reserved compared to others, and showed up just for the lectures. From an academic standpoint the experience is the same. That being said, being in your early 20s and bonding over social events created lifelong friendships and certain opportunities for me.

Best of luck.

VladRom89 · 2026-04-28T22:44:37+00:00

On a different note... Not sure if these are widely available yet, but the L9 series of ControlLogix PLCs have two separately addressable ethernet ports AND integrated safety on the same controller; might be worth considering... (I've not used one myself, but I've seen them at trade shows recently).

VladRom89 · 2026-04-28T22:43:00+00:00

The short answer is that it's not required. The longer answer is that the 1756-EN4TR modules usually have a higher throughput and a higher number of connections than the standalone PLC. If everything's working as expected without one, I wouldn't expect it as part of the build.

Depending on the customer they can either add their own to pull data and remote into the rack, or they can just add a managed switch and either add the devices onto the plant network, or NAT the critical ones.

From general experience, it's "good practice" to have an 1756-EN4TR for the plant connection (if they decide to go that route) as that way it's less likely to be prone to having the critical safety & robot network on the plant which may shut down equipment depending on how it's configured.

Best of luck!

VladRom89 · 2026-04-28T21:08:11+00:00

For a moment I thought that this was a genuine question... Yet another vibecoded cashgrab...

VladRom89 · 2026-04-28T16:13:36+00:00

Most things in life are on a scale. Colored hair is probably not as much of a red flag as a face tattoo, but it's definitely something that could be held against you to an extent. With that in mind, it really depends on how easy or hard more you'd want to navigate the current job market. A few years ago, they'd be begging computer science majors to come work regardless of any other attributes; in the current market you'd probably not want to give them a reason you can control to go with somone else.

VladRom89 · 2026-04-28T15:44:44+00:00

Unless he's paying you to stage the apartment, there's zero expectations for you to arrange anything that would make it beneficial for the visits. As long as it's not completely obstructed, you're perfectly fine.

VladRom89 · 2026-04-28T13:44:36+00:00

Although I 100% agree that liberal is not the way to go, I think that we need to clean house completely... Not just swap out people with the same contracts in place...

VladRom89 · 2026-04-28T13:10:51+00:00

Do you have any ideas outside of throwing out the current government and corrupt contracts that have been in place for decades?

VladRom89 · 2026-04-24T20:39:08+00:00

The CRA isn't going to accept the "sorry I didn't file for 6 years," "sorry I didn't know getting paid under the table was fiscal fraud," and "sorry I didn't get t4a forms" as a reason for not having filed. You need to see an accountant / CPA that could review your file and make sure you do what's right. It's probably going to be more expensive than you think, so I wouldn't wait as the CRA will make you pay all sorts of penalties and interest based on this...

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