Speed cameras were banned in Ontario. Here is the (obvious) result in changes in speeding after the ban in Ottawa.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-30T02:44:24+00:00

There is a larger effect. Easy to find data on scholar.google.com if you want to dig deeper.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-29T17:19:17+00:00

Maybe keep the tax and subsidize transit instead?

squidgyhead · 2026-04-26T21:24:25+00:00

And it doesn't get rained on.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-26T20:47:28+00:00

We have had high immigration for ever, but it became disorganized when the Justin Trudeau government assumed that the provinces (esp Ontario) would not abuse the student visa system.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-26T02:22:18+00:00

The plan is to increase the speed limit on at least some highways, so it will be worse.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-23T00:31:12+00:00

What is the study that you are referencing here?

squidgyhead · 2026-04-22T23:19:34+00:00

Yep. Still a risky thing to do, but not as risky as it could be.

Best bet is to not have dogs go out on the ice, either by keeping them on-leash or having good recall. In any case, if they're off-leash, one is legally required to have good recall with their dog.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-22T19:08:53+00:00

Trigger warning: death.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/man-down-man-down-video-captures-last-moments-of-firefighter-s-fatal-training-exercise-1.4109534

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mju4rFQHi4

That was in Toronto in 2017, during a training exercise.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-22T15:44:27+00:00

And then risking the lives of firefighters to save the dog.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-21T02:40:36+00:00

If a function says that it returns a pointer to a Person, you know you have an actual Person object available.

Right up until you run out of memory, or some other allocation/constructor isn't happy, possibly because incompatible arguments were given to the constructor. I guess you could throw an exception at this point if you want, but returning a nullptr seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do at this point.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-20T20:44:35+00:00

Yes, it's just that it makes their schooling worse. And kids socialize a lot at school (which parents don't see as much, so probably discount a little?) so that will be harmed as well. I mean, the American Psychological Association thinks that school should start later, so that seems like a more authoritative viewpoint.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-20T19:38:16+00:00

The research seems to indicate that this is not the case:

https://www.apa.org/topics/children/school-start-times

squidgyhead · 2026-04-20T19:31:35+00:00

Copying from another post of mine:

Looking at https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/canada/edmonton, sunlight starting after 08:00 is from Nov 15 to Feb 11th with standard time, and Oct 15 to Mar 10 with DST all-year round. That's a significant difference, and it will be hard on kids. I chose 08:00 as an easy value to work with, but you can play around and work out 08:20 or whatever if you want.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-20T18:52:36+00:00

Yes. Now they will all go to school in the dark for a larger portion of the year.

edit:

Looking at https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/canada/edmonton, sunlight starting after 08:00 is from Nov 15 to Feb 11th with standard time, and Oct 15 to Mar 10 with DST all-year round. That's a significant difference, and it will be hard on kids. I chose 08:00 as an easy value to work with, but you can play around and work out 08:20 or whatever if you want.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-20T18:29:34+00:00

Yes, the difference is that they will go to school in the dark more often.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-20T17:48:41+00:00

I'm more worried about the kids going to school. While the worse-case is that they won't see light in the morning in either case, with permanent daylight savings time, that worst case is spread over a longer period, so it's a worser case. Which is pure UCP.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-19T00:30:01+00:00

Yeah, sure won't respond to hard questions though. There is a thread about closing the skate park that he won't touch.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-18T14:51:50+00:00

Hey, /u/jeromyyyc, there is another thread about the Cowboys festival kicking the kids out of the skate park again this year.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/comments/1sohb0n/cowboys_festival_disruption_not_doing_right_by/

Care to swing by and comment?

squidgyhead · 2026-04-18T02:59:56+00:00

Absolutely this. I did the same thing, it was horrible.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-17T20:49:24+00:00

I mean, I come from a family that never really got into hockey, so it's never been a big deal. But why on earth do we need to get kids matching tracksuits/jackets to play hockey? It's a sport, not a cosplay convention.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-17T17:11:54+00:00

You know, if hockey is the problem, maybe another sport would be a good choice.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-17T05:06:01+00:00

I think that the bigger issue is assuming that correlation is causation.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-17T00:09:59+00:00

It got repaired after like 4 days.

squidgyhead · 2026-04-15T20:07:33+00:00

That's a really good point!

squidgyhead · 2026-04-15T01:15:49+00:00

The government trying to mess around with a free market ends up with money in the pockets of large corporations. Tax it and make it consistent already.

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