Alexander Rey

There’s a copy (well, clone) of this tree next to my office at the National Research Council! TBH, not the tastiest apples in the world, but they’re not bad: www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/com...

What year was the record high set for this day? It’s cut off the chart, but must have been a massive March snowfall!

Do we know the construction cost for Line 4? Just thinking about it terms of dollars per rider/day

Think the snow overnight will push us up to average?

I’m just not even convinced there’s much of a strategic value to it compared to upgrading the rails to Montreal or Vancouver, or even the St. Lawrence seaway. If it was the only domestic tidewater port, absolutely, but I’m having a hard time thinking of advantages to it

The quote at the end of that article captures it perfectly: if the prairies were their own province they’d take advantage of it. Since they aren’t, the issue will always be that Montreal or Vancouver are so much easier and open year round

Here’s my issue with the new #Ottawa idling bylaw (which I’m broadly supportive of): while I can just put a coat and gloves on, I can’t safely strap a toddler into a car seat in a puffer jacket. When is -10 outside, the only real option is to get the car above freezing before putting them in

Super fair- it’s covered for infants and seniors in Canada, but not for children yet

Do you think it’s the new RSV vaccines helping with this?

Except for Environment Canada water level loggers, which are in standard time. Not local, since they don’t adjust for DST; nor UTC, since they’re in a time zone. Was an adventure finding which Pytz code to use for that.

I really love the idea of PHEVs, but my struggle is justifying the additions upfront cost when interest rates are 7% and gas is $1.50/L. At 15,000 km/year and 10L/100 km, even reducing gas to zero only saves ~$2,000/ year. Hard to square with $10k additional upfront

Ok then! I was thinking that maybe it just looked high in comparison to COVID era lows, but apparently not

Does that credit card data to farther back? Curious about how it looks in a longer context

Like, I give up on emails if I can’t get to them within a couple weeks, and here someone is 5 years behind and still moving forwards

Whenever I get a reply years later from a government department, I have to appreciate that somewhere there’s a person, probably sitting in a windowless office, dutifully checking a spreadsheet with an uncountable number of rows and moving though them one by one

Do you have a source for this? In Canada, it feels like the housing situation is getting worse, so would be really interesting if the number of houses per 1000 people was actually increasing 🏡

I support this, but as someone who works in public transportation, I want to discourage you all from trying to touch buses' bellies as depicted here. In fact, if you see a bus displaying that kind of "leaping" behavior, you should get as far away as possible.

Agencies definitely seem problematic, but I’m not convinced the previous system was much better unfortunately. If ONA would let each nurse negotiate their own salary, nurses would be able to earn closer to agency wages instead of a province wide grid that isn’t reflective of local cost of living

Thinking of going into politics just so that someone actually reads my thesis.

Another Roman Empire for tech guys is how many devices do I have that don’t use usb-c chargers

Easily think about this a few times a month

Thanks for the shoutout! It was (and continues to be) a really interesting project to put together, and I love hearing about people using this service ☀️