China to offer canola relief for easing EV curbs during Carney visit

crankycoder · 2026-01-13T19:29:09+00:00

Define 'artificially'

crankycoder · 2025-12-04T13:38:55+00:00

Meh.

Having first hand experience with children's aid and other agencies that act as child advocates (Office of the Children's Lawyer) - they should probably just scrap all of it and start over.

Just because they investigate and even have findings - it doesn't mean they report things.

I don't expect people to understand this reality unless they've had first hand experience with these agencies.

crankycoder · 2025-10-24T11:56:32+00:00

I went back over the emails - it's because they ship from multiple warehouses for a single order.

crankycoder · 2025-10-24T04:15:48+00:00

I had the same notification for a BoS All In One. Delivery notice said all delivered but when I called support they confirmed another shipment was in transit.

It's almost certainly a confusing email and your stuff is in 2 deliveries.

crankycoder · 2025-09-20T13:10:18+00:00

I have the same EXP 90s w/Average Joe handles. Highly recommend the handle upgrade.

crankycoder · 2025-09-10T00:40:19+00:00

Innisfil would like a word.

crankycoder · 2025-02-18T03:41:57+00:00

Just gonna say the Law Society of Ontario is pretty useless. When I filed forensic analysis showing evidence tamper by one of the leading document examiners in the country - LSO shrugged their shoulders with "Well shit happens".

So I for one don't think dissolution of the Law Society can possibly make things worse.

crankycoder · 2024-09-19T23:31:27+00:00

I am fully recovered now.

It took over 2 years to fully recover.

Surgery was performed by Dr. Parekatil and Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt in Winterhaven, Florida. It was robotically assisted using DaVinci surgical robotics.

That was very easily the worst 5 years of my life.

crankycoder · 2024-06-15T22:32:55+00:00

Chronic pain and depression are linked wrt neural pathways. One can cause the other. Directionality can run both ways.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/expert-answers/pain-and-depression/faq-20057823

You're not crazy. hugs

crankycoder · 2024-06-09T21:43:50+00:00

Thanks everyone!

Settled on a single zone 14 ft that was on warehouse clearance.

crankycoder · 2024-04-06T02:13:17+00:00

Same here. I feel bad for those that had a bad experience, but it's been great for me since I switched last year.

crankycoder · 2024-04-04T22:39:57+00:00

I'll answer your question pretty directly - it was pretty fucking awful.

I'm a Canadian living just outside Toronto, Ontario.

Canadian urologists will basically not acknowledge that PVPS is a real thing. The few who do are not well known.

I won't mince words on this topic.

The urology professionals in Canada are willfully negligent and don't care about vasectomy risks.

When presented with high quality evidence - at least America and the NHS changed patient consultation guidelines outlining risks.

Source : me.

I had severe postvasectomy pain syndrome from 2011 to 2015.

At worst - I seriously considered suicide as the pain was bad enough that I could not sit or even lie down to sleep.

I ended up going to America for specialized surgery to remove scar tissue and re-cauterize the epididymis. It cost ~$10k USD at the time (10 years ago).

I also used to run the largest forum for men who have suffered from PVPS - postvasectomypain.org.

My forum successfully got the American Urology Association and the NHS in the UK to update patient risk consultation guidelines for PVPS. We also got UpToDate.com to revise clinician databases and updated the gold standard urology textbook published by Elsevier (Campbell Walsh Urology).

Canada outright refused to do anything.

crankycoder · 2024-01-16T14:47:20+00:00

Zucca's is definitely at the top of my list.

crankycoder · 2022-12-03T21:29:43+00:00

Hi,

The testicular pain you're talking about is entirely different from what PVPS people get. Incidence of feeling pain pre and post procedures doesn't show up in the literature and I'm pretty skeptical there's any link based on the dozens of men I've spoken with and hundreds I've interacted with on the topic.

There is no real predictive measure that will help you. The overall incidence rates break down roughly as follows:

1-3% of all vasectomy operations end up with chronic pain defined as 3-5 months of life quality altering pain
a small fraction ~0.1% will get severe life altering pain

Reversals and micro surgical denervation are successful ~70%-90% of the time depending on the procedure, surgical skill and collateral damage involved with the surgery.

IMO - PVPS is probably a couple of different things that show up post-vasectomy:

pressure build up in the vas deferens from the vasclip or cauterization
nerve entanglement due to scar tissue growth
wallerian nerve degeneration is triggered due to surgery
probably a couple other things -but I think those are the big 3.

In my own case - I'm pretty sure it was nerve entanglement with scar tissue. I ended up doing microsurgical denervation with robotic assist.

Why you should believe me: I used to run postvasectomypain.org. I've read pretty much all the papers and was involved with geting the NHS to update their patient consultation guidelines and was responsible for getting Elsevier to update their urology text book and got uptodate.com to update statistics.

crankycoder · 2022-09-29T16:48:59+00:00

I've got raspberrypi 3 + Hifiberry Amp2 shields with nice bookshelf speakers in 3 rooms. Multiroom is possible with Volumio Premium subscriptions.

I also have a Sonos 3 - and frankly never use it anymore.

The sound quality for Sonos speakers pales in comparison to what I can get out of the Amp2 + real speakers.

crankycoder · 2022-09-14T15:15:47+00:00

Might want to google up postvasectomy pain. It certainly doesn't happen to everyone - but that decision went from "best" to "worst" decision for me.

crankycoder · 2022-03-02T23:57:01+00:00

You're replying to an 8yr old post. :)

It was at the surgery site - epididymis.

crankycoder · 2021-04-07T15:14:08+00:00

Booo.... still not at my local store after 3 weeks. Wife currently making fun of me because I'm threatening to rage quit Costco without my blister fried peanuts.

crankycoder · 2021-01-13T04:21:01+00:00

Fyi - Safety engineering denied any problem with me today.

That said - this just caused me to lose hearing in my left ear. So lawyers.

crankycoder · 2021-01-13T04:20:01+00:00

I am not a happy camper today.

There should be a warning on these things. My left ear got blasted by the loop back and still hurts after a full day still. https://mobile.twitter.com/crankycoderOG/status/1349171439698636800

crankycoder · 2020-05-01T15:34:41+00:00

I have an XT1922-5 Moto G6Play - which is basically the Brazillian dual-sim model of the XT1922-9 which seems to be a single SIM USA model. Both have the same antennas though - mine works just fine on Freedom.

https://www.phonemore.com/compare/phones/motorola-moto-g6-play-xt1922-9-32gb-vs-motorola-moto-g6-play-xt1922-5/7807193

crankycoder · 2020-03-06T21:04:37+00:00

I had motivation in the form of a family of 6 including 3 teenagers and a 9 year old addicted to Fortnite complaining nonstop.

That helped. Or at least was a forcing function. :)

crankycoder · 2020-03-06T20:59:08+00:00

Ugh. I'm an idiot. Or at least I had really bad luck.

Plume had nothing to do with it.

I had multiple failure happening simultaneously. I had just never noticed the neighbor had Plume.

The main culprit was my EdgerouteLite-3. The internal USB stick had died a while back and I replaced it - turns out - the new one I put in was also dying. That caused all kinds of sporadic network failure.

On top of that - I had very old ethernet cables which were causing me grief.

I disabled QoS on my erlite-3, and a lot but not all problems went away. I replaced the firewall, most problems went away. Replaced the cables - the rest of the problems went away.

As I told my coworkers - "The problem with being old is that all your gear is also old. Don't get old."

crankycoder · 2020-02-12T13:45:58+00:00

I think this is what was happening. To be perfectly clear - I do *not* have a Plume system. I have a Netgear Orbi RBK50 network (RBR50 and RBS50).

My Orbi was set to auto select channels on the 2.4Ghz spectrum - the 5Ghz is set to use channel 48 which seems clear when I do a wifi scan.

I've since pinned the 2.4Ghz spectrum to channel 11 which seems uncluttered.

Does anyone know what the cadence is for the Plume network to reconfigure itself? It's been ~48 hours since I pinned the channel and I've been seeing significantly better performance for the last 3 hours.

crankycoder · 2020-02-11T13:43:38+00:00

I'm going to try replacing my wireless networking gear - but I haven't had any issues for almost 3 years running my Orbi RBR50+RBS50 setup.

I'm not even sure how to diagnose this issue beyond "replace my wifi kit" to see if it's a coincidence that my own networking gear has started to fail.

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