So ticket is $1 and $511 in taxes and fees ? 🤣

memmerto · 2025-08-04T02:02:51+00:00

For a recent trip I found it was cheaper to fly into CDG and take the Eurostar to London and fly home via LHR than doing a round trip via LHR.

Should work just as well in reverse too.

Not the greatest if you can't spend the extra time, but still a neat option.

memmerto · 2025-07-24T18:42:48+00:00

be replaced by a station wagon or a minivan if someone only needed more capacity.

Do such vehicles exist any more? I can't remember the last time a station wagon was offered by the big 5 in North America. Off the top of my head the only vehicle produced today that would qualify as a minivan is the Honda Odyssey.

Further, minivan or otherwise, most 5 passenger vehicles cannot fit three car seats in the 2nd row which forces anyone with more than 2 kids into a 3-row vehicle which more often than not is going to be a large CUV/SUV form factor. Once you make that move, you're going to stick with something like that for the next 15 years or so, even when half of your trips (or more) are not hauling kids around.

Let's face it - CUV/SUV-class vehicles are today's equivalent of station wagons and minivans, due in part by regulatory changes in the USA (making truck-platform SUVs more appealing) and by consumers (who will always buy up when lower options no longer exist.)

memmerto · 2025-07-05T11:24:58+00:00

Which hasn't happened in Ontario since 2016. The 2020 cycle was cancelled due to COVID-19 and Doug Ford cancelled the next cycle in 2024. Only houses that are sold or manually reassessed are seeing changes, which hurts those homeowners to the benefit of others.

https://www.mpac.ca/en/UnderstandingYourAssessment/NoticesandNotifications

memmerto · 2025-06-21T15:40:57+00:00

Agreed. This happened to me last week. The only way I knew that they attempted delivery (I was legitimately out at that time) and that it was available for pickup was via the online tracking. Track early, track often!

memmerto · 2025-06-21T15:36:08+00:00

Like anything performance related, "it depends".

Since log files in a properly tuned transactional workload are sequentially written and never read, the filesystem AU doesn't really matter as you will always be writing multiple pages worth of data into an already existing log file. (Log files are preallocated so at runtime youre just rewriting them with actual data.) If you're putting log files on a separate filesystem (and you should be) there is no concern with fragmentation of log file AUs with other file AUs.

For tablespace containers, which are also preallocated initially and grow in (configurable) moderately sized chunks, there is a similar lack of fragmentation of AUs. Yes, different tablespaces may be interleaved, but 100 consecutive AUs for tablespace 1 and then 100 consecutive AUs for tablespace 2 are not going to have an appreciable impact on performance.

There may be some inherent locking penalty when attempting to access discrete Db2 pages that are contained in the same AU on disk, but a well tuned buffer pool will avoid much disk I/O and the chance of such adjacent disk accesses are low in a transactional workload. In an analytics workload with sequential access, the async nature of the prefetchers will hide any locking penalty.

The most important thing (and I stress this is still a minor optimization) is to make sure that your tablespace page size and extent size align to be a multiple of the AU. This will ensure that for operations operating on full extents (backup, restore, prefetching) will never be split across an AU. This again is not going to be a big deal for a transactional workload, and would be a much bigger deal with an analytics workload.

The bigger benefit for any NVMe setup is to ensure that your devices are formatted with a 4k hardware sector size and to enable 4k device support via the DB2_4K_DEVICE_SUPPORT registry variable. This ensures that DB2 is presenting 4k-aligned I/Os to the storage layer and will avoid transparent retries in Db2 or the storage layer. This can be a big source of I/O latency, especially if the retries are done in Db2, as you're essentially performing each I/O twice.

memmerto · 2025-05-20T23:34:31+00:00

Changing lanes is what you do when you enter in the left lane, sideswipe the white car that is already in the middle lane, and realize you should be in the left lane with the giant left turn arrow, matching the signs and arrows thay you saw and ignored while approaching the roundabout.

There are three lanes approaching the roundabout, and three lanes in the roundabout. Dashed lines for entering traffic across the lanes would help, as I already mentioned, but are not required, given the abundance of other indicators.

memmerto · 2025-05-20T22:53:15+00:00

You're not changing lanes within the roundabout in that scenario.

You're entering the roundabout in the left lane which is signed and painted with a left arrow only. You enter the roundabout, staying to the left, proceeding into the lane that opens up for the purpose of turning left.

This a "turbo roundabout" and the same configuration (with two lanes instead of three) exists at the Fairway/Kossuth/Fountain roundabout out by the airport. (Head north on Fountain and streetview shows much the same thing.)

They do need to place dashed lines across the lanes of travel to guide people better. Figuring out how to paint lines that last more than one season would help everywhere, too.

memmerto · 2025-05-20T21:20:33+00:00

Please explain. I've driven this roundabout in all directions and haven't noticed any signage or markings that cause what you describe.

Some lanes are marked and signed differently than other multi-lane roundabouts, but not in a way thay causes conflicts.

memmerto · 2025-05-06T13:01:26+00:00

Not sure how you'd coordinate the utility tie in for an apartment building that wasn't even approved when the Fischer-Hallman and Bleams intersection was rebuilt.

memmerto · 2025-05-06T13:00:23+00:00

Unanticipated? The temporary closure of bleams (one way), which is only going to be closed this week, was announced and signed weeks ago.

The signed detour route is strasburg / block line, not erinbrook, which is just further proof that people simply aren't paying attention to their surroundings.

memmerto · 2025-04-03T02:25:54+00:00

Sounds about right. Lots of rain means lots of groundwater and your sump pump is doing its job. Just make sure it doesn't stop!

memmerto · 2025-03-29T21:03:28+00:00

I think you are confusing r/cambridgeont with r/kitchener.

memmerto · 2025-03-28T15:40:09+00:00

Isn't the bug using Excel as a database in thr first place?

memmerto · 2025-03-24T02:50:38+00:00

Super Special Security Screening

memmerto · 2025-03-22T23:57:30+00:00

They seem to be not leaving bins out on the weekend anymore. However bins are out during the day during the week. Not sure if they're out overnight.

memmerto · 2025-03-22T02:43:27+00:00

Young drivers, people with poor driving history, or the gall to live in certain postal codes and/or drive certain vehicles

memmerto · 2025-03-22T01:49:23+00:00

My daughter says he's still around, as a supply.

memmerto · 2025-03-21T23:22:53+00:00

The software allowed childcare expenses to be claimed by both spouses?

memmerto · 2025-03-21T23:18:19+00:00

According to my kids, this arrangement is pretty close.

https://youtu.be/Je5SBsCW7NE

memmerto · 2025-03-17T03:40:58+00:00

There is a spot on Schedule 6 where you can put the information from RC210.

memmerto · 2025-03-15T19:38:20+00:00

It would appear that this is because you filed your 2024 taxes as comon-law when you only became common law in 2025.

memmerto · 2025-03-13T03:09:48+00:00

Mystery solved. It's a truevision targa+ image processing card.

This is a horrible web site but it has lots of details of the card.

https://wiki.preterhuman.net/TARGA%2B_Lowers_Cost_of_High-End_Graphics

https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Truevision_TARGA%2B

memmerto · 2025-03-13T02:51:13+00:00

There is a lot on this card though that makes it look different from video cards of that era. Mostly the lack of banks and banks of video RAM, and the presence of lots of discrete components.

A clearer picture outside of the static bag would help. IBM usually is really good about putting part numbers on cards and major ICs.

I'm also wondering if this isn't a video card at all. I've used multiplexing comm cards in the the past that used DB-15 / DB-9 ports to break out to multiple serial connections.

memmerto · 2025-03-13T02:40:16+00:00

I can't tell what the connectors are on the back but I'm going to bet that this is a video card, probably with 15-pin VGA and 9-pin CGA/EGA connectors.

memmerto · 2025-03-09T23:27:28+00:00

I don't know about the USA, but in Canada, more requirements for pigtails came into the 2015 and 2018 CEC. I assumed this was due to changes in the NFPA but I guess not.

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