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This is really sad. I used to listen to Cranky Geeks religiously when I was younger. I was always excited about a new episode. I still remember many of them. I remember them talking about web 2.0 and what that means, talking about twitter, and tweeting. A lot of good information and laughs over the years. He will be in my memories.

Anecdata as well: I own a 2022 Jeep Wrangler 4xe that comes with a 17KW battery pack with Samsung Prismatic Cells, battery management includes liquid cooling with chiller, liquid heating for winter months. I've seen about 10% degradation over 3 years, referencing battery SOH data from the onboard battery management module. The last 3 or so months have really slowed down the rate of loss, I'm hoping this continues throughout my ownership of the vehicle.

From my understanding Jeep was really cautious with the battery, on the display you will see 0%, but it's always at least 20% of remaining charge in actuality.

The RayBan AR Glasses are about right for size/style. This is not something I would wear out in public. Cool technology, lacks style. Style for a wearable is necessary.

It may have been an illegal increase, any apartment built before 2018 in Ontario is subject to rent control, 2.5% was the max this year.

RealPage would only have an affect on new leases with new apartments.

Your lease does not renew, it automatically goes month to month. They can't cancel a lease, they would need a reason to evict and apply for it at the LTB.

As a Canadian, living in Southern Ontario, I couldn't agree more with your assessment. Somehow we are ranking #1 on so many charts for quality of life etc. I'm starting to believe these sites and reviews of Canada are paid for.

We were an incredible country before Trudeau took office. His aggressive immigration policy, no economic policy or plan, and creation of infighting on social issues, not tackling any of the core issues we face as a country, until absolutely forced to do so (in this case unlikely re-election).

We need to stop fighting over social issues and start being productive towards a stronger, healthier, and happier Canada. Social issues can't fixed if people can't afford shelter and food.

Having worked in manufacturing IT, I can tell you that the security of shop floor systems is an afterthought. A lot of the systems are German based, and they are set in their ways when it comes to IT, they find something that works and they use that for a long time. This is good for reliability, but bad for security, because there is a lack of patching/updating/security infrastructure.

I work as an IT Infrastructure Architect for VMware and Windows Based Enterprise workloads and a lot of the time it's just more cost effective to have the servers in house for many of the workloads. It isn't the case for ALL workloads, for example we move almost all exchange email services to office 365, in combination with Azure AD for active directory service. As far as datacenter space and power usage, a lot of the time the server room is located in the utility room / closets, they already have the space and the building and the power infrastructure. Typically they have vendors that require VM's because the vendor software is not cloud based, many of these enterprise software can consume quite a lot of CPU/RAM/DISK and are very latency sensitive. Having a couple of powerful vmware hosts and an all NVMe SSD SAN is really really nice for performance and speeding up these applications and not paying 4K+$ a month for equivalent hardware in the cloud. You can even argue against the capital investment cost because a lot of this gear you can lease directly from DELL, and have full service contract for 7 years 24x7 4 hour SLA on hardware.

As someone that works at an IT company, not a software company, Almost every customer that started with google is switching to o365. Nearly 99% of our clients are on o365 or are switching from on-prem exchange to o365. I can see maybe the bubble of silicon valley might be more oriented toward google, but the vast majority of businesses continue to migrate to o365.

I'll be patiently waiting for the vermintide - the day the rats fight back.

This is my childhood and much of my teenage-hood!

Sell it yourself.

Honestly he's got some obsessive issues here. Mental health issues that he's willing to try anything to be younger. He doesn't look young in the face and very little can change that. He must be very insecure about it. The sad this is that the doctors see money, and with that much money people won't tell you no if you have terrible ideas.

There is data that shows that exercise can reverse-aging, I forget the mechanism. Calorie-restriction can do the same, through a different mechanism. It's reversed up to a limit of course, the sands of time continue on.

Couldn't agree more.