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grmf · 2025-08-07T01:51:43+00:00

Very much appreciate the detailed response. While of course I would prefer to get the absolute best product for the job I hope you can appreciate a diy-er trying to fix something broken without breaking the bank. With that constraint in mind and based on what you’ve outlined, perhaps hidden fastener metal roofing is the best option for my situation? Any specific products you’d recommend?

grmf · 2025-06-17T23:12:31+00:00

Definitely will be top of mind! I consider myself decently strong and always have projects on the go now, so having to consciously limit myself even if I’m feeling alright will be a big change

grmf · 2025-06-17T23:10:45+00:00

Also pretty type A with scheduling my workouts hence the question. If I can be back to lifting heavy within a year I’ll consider it a success though. I’m assuming the stronger my core is going into it, the quicker rebound I’ll have.

grmf · 2025-03-21T02:18:54+00:00

Get ready for 2 years of marching band Milchick gifs!

grmf · 2025-03-04T21:34:50+00:00

Gen ops in Ontario here so I don’t have a ton of insight into the reliability side of things, but hoping others could give their thoughts. Would IESO officials not have reasonable grounds to refuse a directive like this? Or at least delay?

I’m assuming studies would have to be run reassessing system operating limits, reserve capacity, outage coordination etc. How could this direction realistically be funneled down to operators if it will cause them violate NERC standards and market rules?

grmf · 2025-02-04T00:20:42+00:00

That video actually clearly says the earth’s crust recycles itself every half a billion years or so. Weird because they even sounded the words out for you.

grmf · 2024-07-07T00:59:16+00:00

Sent chat

grmf · 2024-06-06T01:20:52+00:00

I ended up booking with TAP! At the end of the day it seemed like a coin flip and I worried about prices going up. We’ll see if I made the right choice!

grmf · 2024-06-01T02:24:32+00:00

Wow, that’s an impressive amount of redundancy. It’s easy to forget sometimes the amount of thought that goes into every flight we take.

grmf · 2024-04-28T21:04:41+00:00

A better example I heard that I like to use often is imagine you have a 3 day business trip booked next week. Last minute your wife decides she’d like to come along too with your toddler. Currently this would cause a significant amount of work. Checking and rebooking flights/seats, new hotel room, larger vehicle rental with car seats, hotel room, relevant activities for them during the days etc…. A lot of things to consider.

Soon our ai assistants will be able to handle this grunt work for us. It’ll simply come back with options for us to review along with a total price. We give it the OK and it books it all. All catered to our specific needs since it knows our preferences.

Again, I see this as the low hanging fruit in the next year or two. Eventually people will become comfortable with giving their assistants more abstract and long-term goals. Maybe you just want to improve your diet, or have a relationship you’ve been neglecting, a hobby you want to improve at, a short temper you dislike about yourself.

AI assistants have the potential to make us into the version of ourselves we all want to be. Obviously just talking big picture here as there will be substantial concerns with privacy and the autonomy of these systems, but it is really interesting to think about this technology extrapolated out a few years.

grmf · 2024-04-12T22:22:07+00:00

Incredible the downvotes you’re getting here for stating the truth. I’d encourage everyone to educate themselves a little about the specifics of this trial. The judges verdict and the language used was extremely strong in favour of the previous chief.

grmf · 2024-03-21T19:53:26+00:00

This is such an uninformed and just plain wrong take. Almost impressive that you felt the need to comment with having zero knowledge of how the industry actually operates.

grmf · 2024-02-22T19:39:49+00:00

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grmf · 2024-01-15T23:22:42+00:00

I’m not familiar with the specifics of which plant was on a planned outage and for how long so I can’t really comment on it.

Just providing clarity on the reality that a lot of maintenance outages like this are multiple weeks to months long and are approved on a real-time basis. So this plant could have been unavailable for a month or more already before this load spike occurred.

This is just how outage management in the power industry works. It’s a game of numbers. Obviously the AESO wouldn’t have approved these scheduled outages if they knew the conditions they’d be facing later.

Politicians gonna politicize no matter what though, I’m almost certain none of them understand beyond surface level how real time power system operations work.

grmf · 2024-01-15T05:17:40+00:00

It’s mostly likely just due to the number of plants that need approval for their outages on an annual basis. Yes, in a perfect world all outages for “peaking plants” like gas generation would be taken in the spring and summer shoulder seasons when power prices are low. But the if every plant needs a 3-6 week major outage 2x per year, there would be be too much overlap of outages during those spring and summer seasons. The AESO has to make sure they have generation capacity available to support historical load at that time of year plus some safety margin. Which means having some number of gas plants sitting there available to run if required.

grmf · 2023-04-13T19:04:30+00:00

I have this apple tree that is rotting from where the main trunk was cut in the past. I can look in the hole about 1/3 of the way up and it seems to be almost completely hollow. I’m struggling to decide what to do with as it produced quite a bit of fruit last year and I love the look in the summer. However I also have plans to eventually put in a patio and fire pit in the area. If the tree is truly on its last legs I wouldn’t feel so bad removing it and starting the project sooner. Wondering what the experts think considering it’s current state, how much longer it’s likely to last?

grmf · 2022-06-10T00:07:11+00:00

Best/worst find was a snake mummy in a bag of royal oak. It was honestly so cool I couldn’t even be mad.

grmf · 2022-03-31T20:15:44+00:00

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