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Thank you for this. I grew up outside the scene but it is so encouraging to see things like this celebrated.

I just looked up Cochrane ON because I hadn't heard of it before and yeah, it seems a bit of a mystery to me why it isn't more settled. I live around Edmonton where farming is a major industry, and just for comparison:

Mean daily temperature range (min to max): Cochrane -19c to +24c, Edmonton -15 to +23

Growing season: Cochrane 155 days, Edmonton 123 days

Frost free days: Cochrane 99 days, Edmonton 135 days

Precipitation: Cochrane 90cm, Edmonton 42cm

Around the first world war when the area was being settled, wikipedia quotes "7 months of snow, two months of rain, and the rest black flies and mosquitos. If I had to describe Edmonton, it would be 6 months of winter, one month of rain (June), 2 months of mosquitos, and 10 months of sun.

If I had to guess, the frost free days is a big factor. Even though Edmonton is further north, we benefit from the jet stream coming over the mountains and largely keeping the arctic air mass away from us. The jet stream tilts further south into the US by the time you get over to Ontario so Manitoba and Northern Ontario can get some bitterly cold winds.

My armchair assessment is that both will have their uses. 80/20 is 3-4x the price, but is lighter and more rigid than EMT conduit. EMT conduit is sold everywhere and will be more useful for quick and dirty setups.

For a machine like a 3d printer, I would choose 80/20. For some lightweight shelves, EMT conduit or wood. So I see this product almost as a wood replacement rather than a 80/20 replacement.

Swimmers on edge lanes get affected more, and they leave the outside lanes unoccupied except for the first stage of qualifying.

You can't use LFP batteries as a direct replacement in your UPS, no. The voltages and charge characteristics are different. What you can do is replace the UPS with a portable battery solution, like another poster suggested. I believe the Anker units are one of the few that can function as a UPS. Most sorta-can, but the key difference most of them lack is that they don't turn on automatically after fully discharging when the mains power comes back on. It's up to you if you need this particular feature.

Will Prowse on youtube I think has some videos comparing and contrasting the different units for this purpose.

I was recently surprised how bad Google results had gotten. Way back when I used Python heavily a google search would return results from python.org. When my kids were learning python for uni I told them the python online docs were great, but my daughter disagreed. I asked her to show me what she meant and she showed me her google search - the first page of links contained no hits for python.org results. She thought python online docs were crap like geeksforgeeks. It was one of those moments when you realize the world has changed around you since the last time you looked.

Yes, this is very true. In my case, I think my weight loss from mountain biking comes from riding hills I wouldn't normally (and often pushing up hills), eating better (I'm not sitting at my desk and therefore spend less time snacking), and building leg muscle.

Running is a much quicker way to burn calories. I hate running. :)

Agreed, I just learned that the next formula for Formula E will eventually have charging stops. The spec will allow 5kwh of charge in 30 seconds, which is 10% SoC in their case. Pretty cool.

So production isn't really subsidized in the traditional sense. Producers actually pay quite a bit in royalties and taxes, and employ people, who also pay taxes. It's more about these externalities like pollution that aren't factored into the total cost of production. Alberta has oil, and when the price is high, oil producers pay top dollar for people, which sucks all the air out of the marketplace, and makes it really difficult for anyone not in oil to stay in business because their people just quit for more money. Then when the price drops, a bunch of people get laid off, some try to start businesses, and the whole cycle starts again. It's difficult to have a well-rounded economy in this situation.

I agree, there's probably a good reason I'm not dictator of Alberta. Several reasons, actually. Something something dehumanizing people something..

Not the person you're asking, but it might also be where it is installed. The connector I looked up online is rated to +40C, and being located in direct sunlight on a hot day could derate the connector compared to a temperature controlled environment. Add in some dirt or corrosion in the connector and it will generate more heat. Like you said about buying a high quality connector, something with more margin in terms of current will help prevent problems from developing.

The electrician may have been referring to the 16 amp connector specifically being too close to the charging current.

It's an advantage because you as a botnet client have made the server side do extra work. You sent two packets, one to request a new connection, and a second to immediately cancel the request. The server on the other hand sees a connection request and does some work like allocating memory and fetching the resource you requested. Once the server starts sending the response back to the client via the reverse proxy, the reverse proxy notices the request is no longer current and just drops the response on the floor. As a result, you made the server do some amount of work and you don't have to worry about saturating your internet connection. They call this a magnification attack because for the cost of two requests you made the server do some multiple of work.

You could add some smarts to the server or reverse proxy that delays starting work in case a cancellation request quickly arrives. This is probably part of the mitigation work they refer to in the article.