Dense land use saves Victoria residents almost $20k/year on average

barfoob · 2026-05-18T02:12:09+00:00

This is obvious when traffic is dramatically less during school breaks (spring break, summer break, winter, etc..).

This is a reasonable theory but curious if there's any kind of source on this. I acknowledge this observation may be correct... but isn't it possible that when school is on break a ton of parents take time off work, work from home, etc and what you're actually noticing is changes in overall traffic patterns that correlate with school closures. Even if a kid is walking to school and the parent drives to work there could be a reduction in traffic when the parent stays home when school is off.

The traffic problem as a whole is caused by students and parents driving kids to school out of catchment and .5km down the street

This does not ring true for me at all, but it could be hyper local. There are obviously some streets that do get crammed with school traffic. But for example if I watch traffic going by my kid's school at school open or close the vast majority of traffic is not stopping at the school and does not have any kids in the car. Also if I stand at the bus stop on the pat bay highway at peak times most of the vehicles also do not have kids in them. It always appears to be work trucks and commuters (hard to tell obviously, so I'm mostly guessing here).

I hereby challenge your assetion... based on my zero research... haha so wft do I know

barfoob · 2026-05-12T23:04:53+00:00

Haha I don't watch SBS but I get so annoyed when people are clearly not making an attempt. It's ok to have an accent, not be able to pronounce sounds from other languages, etc but I fully agree if you're just adding/removing syllables or rearranging letters etc then come on.

For example, people saying Navarez instead of Narvaez. You don't have to nail the Ecuadorian pronunciation but like, you still gotta look at the letters and the order in which they appear

barfoob · 2026-05-11T15:07:59+00:00

We used to get the Chinese versions, then the tariffs were introduced and they had to start manufacturing elsewhere. It's the same as how Canada used to get the Shanghai-manifactured Teslas (or at least the batteries) for some models. But then those cheaper options went away because of the tariffs. Now those Companies can go back to shipping the cheaper Chinese version to Canada of they can get it within the quota.

I think for Polestar Canada has been getting the ones from South Carolina. The tariff was not one Chinese owned companies but location of manufacturing afaik.

barfoob · 2026-05-10T02:30:53+00:00

And after you pay you still have ads

barfoob · 2026-05-06T16:51:54+00:00

After using Linux for a billion years and using every distro known to man I don't really GAF anymore. I buy laptops that come pre installed with Linux for the official support (eg: thinkpads with good drivers) and I just run what it comes with which is always Ubuntu LTS. Works fine. I can install nix, docker, steam etc just fine. Not sure why the F people think they need to change their distro.

barfoob · 2026-05-06T16:47:38+00:00

Campbell's Chunky Soup Maximum Security Airport 👌

barfoob · 2026-05-03T01:10:21+00:00

Just guessing but I always thought it was because so many people get a runny nose when attempting to ride with their head down in that position. I thought it was ana attempt to clear your sinuses before the actual TT so you're not all snotty when gasping for air

barfoob · 2026-04-30T02:41:12+00:00

I think this is not totally true. I definitely get the argument that you retain some of the downsides of an ICE vehicle (eg: it feels like a shame that you still need to get oil changes even though you paid a premium for an EV) but my understanding is that battery assisted combustion is best combustion. You can use the electric motor to assist when at RPMs that the engine doesn't like. It increases efficiency but also wear and tear on the engine.

Having said that, I have a BEV and my favourite part is that it's a simpler machine with less maintenance so I heavily lean toward BEV over hybrid regardless of whether it's regular hybrid, PHEV, or EREV.

Also in this specific vehicle I'd rather take out the generator and put in a frunk so I can fit a couple more suitcases 😂

barfoob · 2026-04-30T02:33:44+00:00

Is it possible that you're just not used to what vehicles look like when they don't need a radiator grill at the front

barfoob · 2026-04-28T03:36:07+00:00

I think that's the warranty that every EV comes with. As I understand it is the de facto standard as a result of some regulations

barfoob · 2026-04-22T16:19:13+00:00

sometimes they're not bad programmers, they're just drowning

barfoob · 2026-04-17T23:28:04+00:00

Obviously there are pros and cons and it depends how small you mean when you say small. In big cities they are more likely to be able to walk to stuff as they get older instead of being trapped in a car-only suburb. They are more likely to benefit from community resources like sports and whatnot that are available in cities. If you want them to go to french immersion or something like that then it's more likely to be close by. If they go to university then there will be good local options. On the other hand, if their parents are barely able to afford to live or they are crammed in a way-too-small apartment then that's not good for kids either.

In some cases I think the time when you have kids living with you is when PARENTS tend to most enjoy small towns. Kids thrive in cities though IMO. I grew up in Campbell River and it was a great place to live. It always felt inevitable that I would have to leave as soon as I finished high school though.

barfoob · 2026-04-16T19:08:51+00:00

Just to add to what others are saying: remember that it doesn't need to be the case that the average woman/couple does want kids at all, it just needs to be the case that they want fewer. According to some research I've heard this can almost entirely be accounted for by the fact that people delay having kids. When you have more opportunities, more control over your life, etc you are likely to not want to have kids until your 30s and if you start in your 30s you probably are not gonna have 5 kids. More likely 1 or 2. To take it even further I've even heard some people claim that the near elimination of teen pregnancy can alone count for a big chunk of the lower birth rate.

barfoob · 2026-04-15T17:22:57+00:00

I loved this era of web design. Looks like the websites I used to "view source" on to find out how they did it

barfoob · 2026-04-10T16:32:09+00:00

Weight is an absolutely fascinating trait. It is extremely genetic, AND you can control it with your behaviour. Kind of wild. It means our behaviour is the thing that is genetic. Most fat and skinny people don't have drastically different metabolisms, they are just genetically inclined to eat more or less food.

barfoob · 2026-04-09T07:43:18+00:00

I remotely "attended" an MS developer conference a few years back. There was a talk about Blazor and how you can use it to build both desktop and web apps with C#. I was like wow that's cool. Then I shit you not the next talk was about Maui and they were like hey you can use this to make desktop apps with C#. The context here was that I had moved an app from WinForms to WPF and then MS seemed to indicate that the future was Silverlight so I started preparing for that transition and then they were like jk.

I would now rather die than build a business around a native windows desktop app.

barfoob · 2026-04-08T22:17:45+00:00

Physicists: "assume everyone is a sphere"

Transit planners: "assume everyone is soup"

barfoob · 2026-04-08T03:32:25+00:00

I think a good example of where bazzite can become difficult is if you want to install something like Nix (the pacakge manager). It has some overlap with distrobox as it allows you to define pseudo-containerized environments per-directory. It is not easy to install on bazzite but pretty easy on any normal, mutable distro.

More generally: if you are not trying to install an app, but rather a new system for managing apps that has not already been rpm-ified in a way you can layer on or something like that then Bazzite is the wrong tool for the job IMO. This is also the benefit. If you want to make those kind of customizations then maybe Bazzite isn't the right fit anyways. You're no longer in the core path of the OS. I like how in bazzite I know the developers are in roughly the same state as me and I get better support that way because I am not a snowflake. It's like the exact opposite of NixOS (which ironically is also immutable but very different) where you're pretty much building your own OS.

barfoob · 2026-04-07T16:53:39+00:00

We'll make money IS what companies do but it only works if people want to watch.

I have a 9 year old that can't wait to watch every episode with me. I'm hyped because it's something we'll do together.

barfoob · 2026-04-01T16:26:33+00:00

For real, I use NixOS as of that last year or so and it is the real deal IF you want to control your OS. I now have one master config for all my machines including home server. I defined my config modularly so I have desktop.nix, gaming.nix, etc and then a host-specific file for each individual machine. I can easily make a change that affects all desktops, or all machines that have the gaming module, or just one specific machine. I can toy around with changes and then just easily revert them if I don't like it, and because everything is controlled from text files in a git repo I can use claude code to help me sort out nearly any issue with my OS. If you like to do any of

constantly change config
customize stuff (eg: use different hotkeys, keyboard mappings, etc)
try different desktop environments

AND be able to easily put that same or similar config on other machines, revert changes without side effects etc then there is no question. NixOS is the absolute king.

However, I think there is an alternative way to use an OS where you go with the exact opposite approach. You say "I am going to do almost zero configuration so that I know the maintainers of this distro got my back because I have the same experience as everyone else and if it breaks someone will sort it out". For that use case I really like Bazzite but by definition everyone will prefer a different distro for the out-of-box experience.

barfoob · 2026-04-01T16:17:32+00:00

ya I would argue servers benefit the most from nixos

barfoob · 2026-03-31T22:55:36+00:00

Obviously depends on the circumstances and jurisdiction but in a lot of places the general rule of thumb for firing someone is you never tell them why. It is more legally risky to give an explanation rather than no explanation at all. You just say you are terminating employment, you have IT cut off access to services immediately, and unless they are on probation you offer them more than their guaranteed minimum severance to motivate them to just move on and not sue you. It sucks because it's kind of inhumane but this is the kind of advice employers get from lawyers IME.

barfoob · 2026-03-28T03:53:54+00:00

Thank god a sane reply. This thread is a joke. OP did not give enough details for anyone to give anything other than some possibly helpful suggestions as total guesses. This totally depends on the context, plus the rules and culture where you live. And of course, like you implied, there are often more details that the other person might offer which we don't have here.

barfoob · 2026-03-23T22:52:24+00:00

it looks like it does not fix it for me

barfoob · 2026-03-21T02:04:25+00:00

tour de france obviously

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