The spontaneous peak saver events are creating perverse incentives. It's now in my benefit to schedule laundry, charging, etc during peak times to maintain a higher evening rolling average which I can then cut when a saver event is announced. It doesn't cost any more to do these in the evening.

It's a very New West day, now off to Cockney King for lunch.

Wtf is up with parking at Royal City Centre? Ask on the QR code and there's no option to register for the 4 hours free. How the fuck do I do it? Do I need to do it? Fine print says I do.

I'm seriously considering applying for a public sector job and taking a 30% pay cut (but gaining a pension) because this tech industry bullshit of "am I going to have a job in 6 months" is really taxing my mental health. I'm constantly stressed and snippy.

Using my office window as a note board with a dry erase marker, do I need to worry about industrial espionage?

If governments start further mandating RTO there needs to be a coordinated boycott of commercial centre businesses to send the message, "No, we do not exist to be your captive consumer-base. This is not a justification for RTO." The world has changed, we don't all need to be in offices.

New job title, prompt engineer. Just call me George Jetson.

We find box.

CBC Listen app has become unusable for casting music streams. It consistently gets stuck between tracks.

I can't think of a more deserving peace maker.

I'm getting very annoyed wife might lose out a job because this public sector organization is insisting on a "supervisor" reference, digging back over a decade they've either retired or corps have "no references" policies. How do you win in that situation. You literally can't provide what they want.

Kent's Kitchen is still one of the best deals in town.

I really need to start carrying a bat with a nail in it while walking the kids to school, to swing at the cars who racing through the red at the pedestrian signal. Every. Day.

I keep giving myself headaches from all this coughing. It's getting tiring.

Interesting, BC Hydro has an open position for doing a poc of automated inspections using Spot, lidar, digital twins, etc. I was on a team building exactly that for a US telecom a few years ago. There's diff ppl in this city with exactly those skills and have basically solved this problem.

Walking Planet Earth III with the children, it simultaneously makes me raging angry and cry.

Never trust the prior electrician. I was changing a thermostat for my parents, I trusted the wire going to what was labeled load on the thermostat actually went to the load. Not as important for analog thermostats, a lot more important for digital ones.

The cat is fraggle hunting.

Wife while looking at the curling on tv, "Is this considered a sport?" I'll let some of you give her your opinion next time you see her. 😜

BBQ steak, curling, on a late fall evening, life isn't bad.

It's Christmas again and this is why Canadian retailers are going to die. Out of stock at my local store? Fine, put it on your next truck to the store, I can wait. No, you don't offer that? My only option is buying things I don't want or paying for shipping? Sigh, I can probably find $35 at Amazon..

Must people my age have piles of things still stored in their parents' garage/basement. We have the opposite issue, a basement full of my father's stuff.

Extended health provider overpaid me on a claim, I told them, they sent a letter with how to repay them. "If we do not receive the payment we will deduct the amount from future claims." Can that just be the default solution? That sounds easier.

Listening to The Rest Is Science, choice quotes, "Water is a rock smoothie." Or "water is lava" (because ice is a mineral. I figure these will trigger @pjnewwest.bsky.social 😂

Ugh this cold that won't go away. Time to use our fancy claw foot tube,. probably the first time in a year it's been used. I had to give it a good clean first.

I'm glad I'm not a Node developer. Snicker.

GAH! Reporter on CBC just said New Westmin*I*ster! CBC, how could you!

Jira really is one flaming piece of shit, isn't it.

@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social Yes I found myself singing "Quinn's quiz" while that played.

What is the best fruit and why is it Asian pear. A nice crunch like an apple but an extra sweetness and moisture.

Uh oh, Mandela Effect, I could have sworn Billy Connolly died during covid-ish. What parallel universe have I accidentally slip into. That might explain a few things.

All this recall talk in Alberta and now BC and I haven't received any calls from CBC yet, I guess I'm no longer relevant. 🤣 Last time was the California governor recall, I got to be on a panel hosted by Kim Campbell. That was an experience.

I've told the team I'm pulling a Jellico with some aggressive team changes under my new regime.

Remembered another for my list of old CDs to find, this one is going to be nearly impossible. Universal Soul - Time Capsule - The CBC Sessions

I'm still surprised Montreal REM is overhead powered rather than third rail, that's unusual for an automated system. That feels like a lot of catenary which could be accidentally pulled down because an eyeless computer doesn't see damage, and catenary is a lot slower to fix.

Tech lead is leaving, I'm now tech lead for Unity's generative AI based asset generation for game development and asset search. 😬

What are you doing at 6am? Oh just making a quick batch of fried rice for the childrens' lunch.

@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social is like a vampire for karaoke? He needs an invitation?

I wasn't able to walk the kids to school this morning because of a meeting, which means I have literally not stepped outside the house all day. The down side of wfh.

@canspice.bsky.social Of all the Brad's to have a birthday today, you're number one in my books. Happy birthday.

Minecraft server setup, locked down to whistlisted users and Canadian IPs. The level of excitement from these two children...next step, get their cousins in Edmonton connected. BlueMap mod is pretty cool, I can see the whole map in real-time from a browser.

Tonight two black furballs are looking to steal warmth.

I assume Pi Shop is the best place to buy a RPi these days.

I know I've asked this question before but it was back in the bad place, what hosting provider to people recommend for a private Minecraft server? Thanks.

We witnessed a variant of this policy while living in the UK. It led the horrid sprawl and developments that weren't serviceable by transit, creating unwalkable, disjoin car dependent communities in the middle of nowhere, adding to congestion. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The best way I can describe my adventures into Golang is I have to think upside down. Consequences come first.

Ugh, this seems to be ground that few have tread before according to google, generating text embeddings/vectors with onnx models using Golang. I'm using onnx formatted models because that's what Claude suggested, But then it left a big "put onnx bindings here" comment in the code.

Oooo, I'm being all hip, I'm working in Golang now.

I'm really getting tired of these concrete bunker stores where you have to cower by the front door to get any signal. It makes asking shopping list questions very annoying.

Listening to a podcast, they're arguing with AI code generation that code review is becoming a hot spot in the software developer process. Yes, that's a very valid statement.