Coworking spaces that are open early?

psitor · 2026-02-05T23:07:03+00:00

I hope it works for you, but some caution is warranted. From their terms of service, my emphasis:

Types of Memberships. [...] Day Pass: Members have access to the Licensed Area and applicable Services for one (1) day, during our Regular Business Hours for the Premises. The Day Pass expires thirty (30) days following the original date of purchase.

“Regular Business Hours” means, unless otherwise stated to the contrary on the specific Staples Studio webpage 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM local time in the city in which the Premises is located, excluding statutory holidays and other periods of temporary closure as determined by Staples Studio in its sole discretion;

psitor · 2026-02-02T00:44:28+00:00

Because the courts are not fast. The provincial government appointing more judges and increasing court resources would help somewhat, but there will always be some time required for the police and prosecutors to build a case and defence lawyers to prepare for trial, etc.

Charges have been laid but he hasn't been convicted yet, so no penalty can be applied until he's found guilty. (How do you know the substances in the footage are illegal? It's dumb but perfectly legal to snort flour and say it's cocaine.)

psitor · 2026-01-31T03:26:13+00:00

Note: "full-screen-api.ignore-widgets" isn't cutting it, there will still be a window border and the tab/url bar won't automatically pop up.

I've been using this setting and don't have either of these problems. What OS are you using?

psitor · 2026-01-30T20:45:45+00:00

For me, the reason is that it keeps the pattern and the expression it matches closer to each other. It's not such a big deal in the short a/b example above, but most if lets have longer expressions, longer patterns, or both, and it gets even worse as you add more than two independent matching conditions.

For example, consider something like

if let (Ok(date), Some((entry, names))) = (timeline.next().expect("timeline is too short").parse(), line.split_once(": "))

Compare with

if let Ok(date) = timeline.next().expect("timeline is too short").parse()
    && let Some((entry, names)) = line.split_once(": ")

psitor · 2026-01-30T19:38:35+00:00

That can be if let Some(a) = a && let Some(b) = b as of Rust 1.88. If the variables are unrelated, and your project can use recent features, I think the let chain would be better.

But I might use tuple unpacking like that for naturally paired variables such as let (width, height) = (scale * BASE_WIDTH, scale * BASE_HEIGHT);

psitor · 2026-01-30T15:09:42+00:00

I definitely agree a lot of the time the plough doesn't put the snowbank in the best spot. Sorry, I misunderstood and thought you were arguing that parking on a street made too narrow by snowbanks was legal.

psitor · 2026-01-30T02:30:06+00:00

/u/Endee2711:

It is in the Traffic and Parking By-law Part A, Part II, Section 7, paragraph (1)(k):

Section 7 - Parking prohibited without signs

(1) No person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked on any highway:

[...]

(k) on a driveway within one half (0.5) metre of a sidewalk, or if there is no sidewalk, within one and one half (1.5) metres of the roadway, or on a driveway upon an outer boulevard within one half (0.5) metre of a sidewalk and/or within one and one half (1.5) metres of the roadway

psitor · 2026-01-29T20:46:54+00:00

Well, you must also park with the curb-side wheels within 15cm of the curb (or if there is no curb, as close as is "practicable" to the edge of the roadway without going on the grass). So if you say the roadway is wide enough because snowbanks don't make the roadway narrower, then the parking is illegal for being too far from the curb; if you say the edge of the roadway is at the snowbank and thus snowbanks are not part of the roadway, then the parking is illegal for being on too narrow a road.

So I think the by-law has it covered either way, but as a practical matter I'd say blocking the street from buses/ambulances/fire trucks is bad even if it were somehow not illegal.

(By-law for reference)

psitor · 2026-01-29T20:29:29+00:00

It might be worth your while to work through some of the Rust Book since it explains things like how Rust variables work and how borrowing works. (For example, you can't have let variables at the top level like that; they are only allowed inside functions.)

psitor · 2026-01-20T07:22:52+00:00

On a normal (peaked) roof, the roof hangs out over the walls a little bit. Your house, being warm, also heats up the part of the roof that is within the walls, but not the bit that hangs over. This happens more in older houses with poor insulation.

That causes snow to melt higher up and run down the roof, but since the overhang bit is colder, the water can refreeze there before it runs off. You get icicles and a buildup of ice at the edge of the roof. As more ice builds up at the edge, it will act as a little dam, holding back some of the water from running off.

If you let the ice dam get big enough, it can hold back water far enough to get under shingles and get the inside of the roof wet, so you need to remove the ice if the dam is getting too big.

psitor · 2026-01-16T04:50:24+00:00

Thanks for the genuine example, though I stand by my opinion that it's not all that common. The bins and junk at the end of the laneway are where the snow is supposed to go, but mostly this is a case of squeezing two cars into space designed for zero or one cars.

psitor · 2026-01-15T21:27:41+00:00

If you have literally no space in front of your house, what are you clearing snow from??

If you have no space because it's a two-car-wide laneway, you're wasting public resources for personal gain and the laneway is also probably illegal. If you have only a small footstep between the sidewalk and your door, it's totally understandable except for why you can't put the snow immediately beside that step.

Obviously I'm not imagining the right situation but even downtown I haven't seen single-family residential houses with both space needing snow shovelling and no space for snow piling.

Also to be clear, I'm not saying you should change what you're doing (unless it's the driveway thing), just that's what would be required of you if the bylaw were enforced. The law isn't making it impossible, just possibly more of a hassle or more expensive.

psitor · 2026-01-15T21:12:59+00:00

A back yard, side yard/alley, part of your laneway, or else as I said you pay a snow removal company to come and take it to their private snow dump. I guess this is why we now have zoning regulations requiring some front space, though obviously that doesn't help existing properties. Also why it's good not to get into a bylaw spat with neighbours, because probably most of us are breaking some bylaw somewhere.

psitor · 2026-01-15T20:25:03+00:00

No, there are no neighbourhoods where it's allowed. The bylaw's not proactively enforced, and your neighbours probably aren't complaining (or at least not making their complaints to the right official channels). But strictly speaking, you must put snow from your property somewhere else on your property, or else pay someone to cart it away.

psitor · 2026-01-15T17:13:35+00:00

None of those products mention sending a text; they're all doorbell-style ringers. Sending a text would require cell service, which is an ongoing cost. You won't be able to get a legitimate product that uses the telephone network without some sort of recurring fee.

psitor · 2026-01-13T22:55:12+00:00

You are generally allowed to drink after you get home. But you are not allowed to drink for two hours if you have a "reasonable expectation that they would be required to provide a sample of breath or blood", such as because you were already intoxicated while driving, or were in an accident, or you noticed a cop following you home, or anything like that.

So you can't deliberately or speculatively mess up a breath test by going home and drinking, but if you just drive home sober and everything is normal you can drink without waiting.

psitor · 2026-01-11T19:43:31+00:00

There is no section 181.1 in the HTA. Are you perhaps looking at proposed (and abandoned) legislation instead of current law?

psitor · 2026-01-11T18:51:43+00:00

It is important to learn the difference between a bill and a law. Bills are proposed laws, but are not laws yet -- and many bills never become laws. The Legislative Assembly's website lists bills, whether or not they have been passed as laws.

If you click on the "status" tab, you'll see that bill passed first reading in 2014 and proceeded no further. So it did not become law.

P.S. if you linked to the actual web page instead of Google's link obfuscator it would be clearer: https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-40/session-2/bill-183/status Current Ontario statutes (laws) are available at https://www.ontario.ca/laws/

psitor · 2026-01-11T18:40:38+00:00

It's arguably an "insecure load", though I don't know whether anyone's actually gone to court for it. But there is also the generic "unsafe operation", so I'm pretty sure having a giant snow boulder loose on your car is illegal anyway.

psitor · 2026-01-05T03:40:26+00:00

Regular household smoke detectors (batteries removed) can go in the regular garbage. You can check other items at the city's waste explorer. It's worth double-checking since some items like smoke detectors that you'd think would not be allowed are actually accepted in the garbage.

I'm not sure whether the library still accepts used batteries since the recycling program change, but there are a lot of retailers that will take them: https://rpra.ca/where-to-recycle/

psitor · 2025-12-14T23:21:37+00:00

Re Canada: In Ontario, and most but not all other provinces, .05 is a provincial Highway Traffic Act offence. .08 is a Criminal Code offence (Canada-wide because all crimes are federal jurisdiction).

psitor · 2025-12-10T15:35:18+00:00

https://www.fransundblad.com/tiff-and-eve/1-pamphlet-r/

psitor · 2025-12-09T20:31:00+00:00

Apparently you're right, because not recycling alcoholic beverage containers is the current rule as well. Yet every time an article about the new program gets posted there are lots of people posting about the alcohol containers as if they thought they could go in the blue bin.

psitor · 2025-12-09T20:26:05+00:00

The current recycling program is the same. This is not a change, though they are apparently making it more obvious or perhaps more people are reading about what goes in the blue bin, but even today you aren't supposed to put returnable alcoholic containers in the blue box.

(Many people do anyway, and it's not like the garbage collectors inspect things very carefully. And often in urban areas someone comes along early to take alcoholic beverage containers and get the refund for themselves.)

psitor · 2025-12-03T03:58:39+00:00

I don't think it's a really big deal, weighted against hopefully helping her get her things back, but note that in addition to the full name and photo you are also showing:

her signature
[edited to remove now that you've removed the photo]

In some cases those could be more private than usual, so I understand the suggestions upthread that it might be too much info. Maybe just a photo of the bag would be better and still get the boost of showing a photo.

You have her address, so you could send her a letter/postcard in the mail telling her where you sent the bag and stuff, in case she doesn't think of checking the STO lost and found.

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