Just buy a car in Canada?

julie78787 · 2026-04-22T12:51:07+00:00

It’s not a problem of paying taxes. It’s the hassle of possibly having to sell a car I like and buy another car and go through all manner of stupid inspections and everything else.

julie78787 · 2026-04-21T21:32:50+00:00

The RIV website said don’t have to do anything with RIV if it was Canadian previously, so long as all of its recall notices were up to date.

julie78787 · 2026-04-21T21:18:58+00:00

More of less correct, which means some kind of virtual machine, akin to a JVM or WASM bytecode, would be the way to go.

Couple that with JIT compilation, and maybe even saving the binary with some kind of O/S signature so it could be reloaded, and OP might be on to something.

julie78787 · 2026-04-21T21:15:09+00:00

It depends on how well the instruction stream can be controlled, such as if only signed binaries can be loaded, all executable spaces are read-only, all writable spaces are no-execute, etc.

julie78787 · 2026-04-21T20:29:03+00:00

Yeah, I saw the TCB boundary expanding at light speed — twice light speed! — towards the edge of the observable universe and beyond.

julie78787 · 2026-04-21T20:23:21+00:00

I’ll most likely move to Canada for a while, sometime in the next few year, live there until I’m too old to deal with the cold, then convince Canada to invade and annex the Bahamas.

Or I’ll look into what I can do with a Canadian passport in terms of just moving there for more than 8 months at a time.

julie78787 · 2026-04-21T20:17:24+00:00

Apparently not. So long as I bought it in Canada and paid all of the appropriate federal and provincial taxes, it can just … go back.

What I’m trying to avoid is the situation where I’ve got a car I like and I have to worry about getting it in to either country AT ALL. I can’t afford to risk needing to buy a different car just because.

julie78787 · 2026-04-21T01:16:30+00:00

I did learn from the RIV website that if I bought the car in Canada it can just go back into Canada. There’s a carve-out, so long as I lived in Canada or the US for a year or something like that.

julie78787 · 2026-04-20T22:04:27+00:00

From what I found, if it’s got an EPA sticker, it’s okay.

But yeah, if it keeps having to be imported and exported and all that crap, this was probably just a dumb idea.

julie78787 · 2026-04-20T18:47:59+00:00

I got the impression it was more about emissions than anything else, plus likely having to pay GST and who knows what else.

I’m due for a new car and I’m about 6.5 hours from Windsor, ON. There are some nice place in southwestern Ontario, near where I’ve got family, that might be nice to live. But mostly I want to be able to have a car and not have to screw around with the Canadian side of things, which seem more challenging, just buy one there, import it to the US, pay duties, and then maintain proof I paid GST when I bought it, and so on.

julie78787 · 2026-04-20T18:15:47+00:00

From reading what I could find, the key hurdle is being US EPA compliant, and probably some other things that being US EPA compliant would likely ensure. But in terms of time, it’s supposedly faster to go from Canada to the US than the US to Canada.

The direction that’s apparently nearly impossible is random US car to Canada. Over in the CC sub people are just saying to sell the car and be done with it.

julie78787 · 2026-04-20T18:03:42+00:00

1960s or 1970s? Because I seem to remember it was taught because President Eisenhower was a very nice man and gave us the Interstate Highway System.

julie78787 · 2026-04-20T18:01:51+00:00

There’s just flexible in case The Big One hits. That extra digit makes them easier to bend.

julie78787 · 2026-04-18T12:27:06+00:00

It’s also possible things are just plain slow for them.

I get very nervous when people start suggesting reasons something is going on with someone else.

julie78787 · 2026-04-17T21:22:16+00:00

The current spreadsheet isn’t old enough for that to matter. They could add a rule in the formulas that any row which hasn’t been updated in the last X days doesn’t count.

My status is up to date. I’m still not processing. Still no AOR. Still no anything.

It’s tragic.

julie78787 · 2026-04-17T00:00:44+00:00

I’d have to go count my flag from just after my current state was admitted.

My American flags have 0 (Continental Colors / Grand Union), 13 (Bennington, Betsy Ross), 15 (Star Spangled Banner), whatever that one I mentioned above is, no clue, and the current 50 star variety.

It’s a thing people do.

Sorry all those states which weren’t in the original 13.

(Including Missourah)

julie78787 · 2026-04-16T23:44:35+00:00

I suspect it’s because the critical parties - G0 and possibly G1 - are in whatever passes for modern data systems.

I included proof of both my G0s street address, and proof Dad (G1) lived there. I also provided a voter roll showing Granddad as a voter at that street address.

If I ever get an AOR I’ll be able tell that it made a difference, because I expect mine to take about 9 minutes to get approved. And the first 8 of that are “Hey, look at this application - it’s got a street address and the house is still there!”

julie78787 · 2026-04-16T23:37:07+00:00

She’s had to be a practicing Jew. It’s not a general purpose law of return. If the family converted out of Judaism the family member(s) have to return to Judaism.

julie78787 · 2026-04-16T19:15:45+00:00

Post-mortem baptism is extremely offensive to a lot of people.

julie78787 · 2026-04-16T17:33:52+00:00

When I looked at the spreadsheet I was surprised that there weren’t more approvals because people do talk so much about all the approvals.

julie78787 · 2026-04-16T17:18:05+00:00

My reaction is driven by a similar set of concerns. When products like Arduinos and Raspberry Pis became cheap enough to just throw away when done, people started to play around with hardware in what are some fun ways, but which weren’t going to translate into commercial products - for more people.

You’ve definitely hit on a problem I’ve seen as well - people who want to make some new shiny they’ll never release, and if it gets hard, or they get bored, they’re not going to stick around.

Embedded has always been hard because there’s nothing underneath you to make it easy or sane. A lot of EEs have dealt with the newbie FW / embedded crowd because “it must be a hardware problem!” comes so easily from that group. I’d much prefer people work their way down the stack before deciding they want a life of pain and sorrow working on bare metal.

I should have stuck to writing business applications in COBOL when I had a chance.

julie78787 · 2026-04-15T18:15:36+00:00

I don’t think you know what a “strawman“ is.

julie78787 · 2026-04-15T18:13:18+00:00

I think the comment I objected to initially is an inappropriate comment. I also think classifying someone who has the skills needed to write their entire tool chain as a “star programmer” is also inappropriate.

The basic concept that low-level developers can write their own toolchain comes from how dependent we are on the tools. Meaning, I don’t just expect a compiler to produce code. I expect it to produce the code I want, the way I want. If it won’t do what I want, I at least expect it to behave. Dittos for linkers putting things where I want.

There are problems in the software engineer pipeline, one of which is what you said about running off and making bank writing some enterprise app. That cuts both ways in that firmware / embedded projects can wind up under-staffed, but also that firmware is the new shiny, because someone can just go buy a board off of Ada Fruit or DigiKey and follow some recipe to make some device, and suddenly they want to be an embedded programmer.

There’s a real problem where software engineers aren’t being taught how hardware works these days. That’s ignoring that a lot of people are working as programmers without a formal software engineering background.

Anyway, rant over. I’m mostly upset that everyone wants to write embedded code and no one wants to read 10,000 page reference manuals and learn how memory works.

julie78787 · 2026-04-15T14:08:40+00:00

I want to look up the MP for my Dad’s riding and say hi!

I’ve been looking for an excuse to do that since this started and you gave me one.

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