In this case, BC Hydro is a crown corporation, so is wholly owned by the provincial government. They are largely independent, but follow provincial regulations to the letter.

Personally, this is the correct decision. Crypto mining is a huge scam and the power could be put to better use.

If they want cheap power, they can setup in Ocean Falls, which has a huge stranded hydroelectric dam that canâ(TM)t connect to the provincial grid.

Why do you need NAT? There’s no reason for it when you have enough addresses for every cell of every being on earth. You do need firewalls, but the only time I can think of ever needing NAT in ipv6 is if you’re trying to multihome while not running a full BGP stack. That’s a pretty rare usecase.

No one said that youhave to give up your firewall. Firewalling and NAT are two separate things.

Hey, I can still list off my FidoNet address

Youâ(TM)re not subsiding canada. Youâ(TM)re being bent over by the medical industry and they ate charging you for the lube.

Yep, same here. I donâ(TM)t but enough from them to make it worthwhile for shipping, and Iâ(TM)ve decided that Plex is a better experience.

Rust does not make deadlocks safe (they cannot be). Rather, it disallows some ways of structuring your code and will then refuse to compile your code until you've written it in a way that the compiler can prove that a deadlock (or memory error, or other types of error) cannot occur. That can sometimes make Rust code much harder to write, but the benefit is that you can be much more aggressive at using threads because you don't have to "play it safe because of the risk of errors".

I didnâ(TM)t know that anyone was using RCS these days. I thought everyone had moved on to SVN or Git (never mind CVS, which I was using 20 years ago).

That's why you build them in places with near constant wind, and also build them out in a geographically distributed way. These people are smart, you know.

The nameplate capacity of a generator is very rarely ever realized, no matter what the energy source is. Wind isn't radically different than hydro, solar, nuclear, or whatever else in that respect.

This is exactly it. Masking isn't about protecting the individual, it's about reducing the probability of transmission population-wide. It's all about statistics.

The reality is that to pay for roads, there will need to be a transition to mobility pricing, regardless of whether itâ(TM)s for gasoline vehicles or electric.

Something needs to pay for the roads. Gasoline taxes used to do that (at least partially), but thereâ(TM)s no way to differentiate between the electrons going to your house for your car, and the ones going there for your stove.

During the Apollo program, they wound up awarding the space suit program to a company that primarily made Bras and Girdles. ILC, aka the company that makes "Playtex" won the contract, and produced very high quality suits. Why would a bra maker ever be the right company? Well, as it turns out, building form fitting clothes that are equivolume, close fitting, out of many different materials, is a skill, whether it's to keep a woman's bust under control or keep a pressurized atmosphere in against the harsh vacuum of space.

I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Yeah, why would one ever contract with a company that makes bras and girdles to make a space suit? what do they know about aerospace?

Oh... Wait...

I guess ILC Dover doesn't exist.

I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt; knowing how to integrate multiple different fabrics and textures is a very valuable skill.

At least for groceries, that's not a big deal if you're living in a walkable place. I have 3 grocery stores within a 5 block radius, plus a couple more ethnic grocers. I don't recall the last time I actually used my car for grocery shopping. Yeah, I tend to only shop for 2 or 3 days at a time (other than when picking up staples) but it's really nice.

This is the whole point of the whole "15 minute cities" thing. Within a 15 minute walk, I have everything I could possibly want. The only time I need to use my vehicle is when I want to go and do something further afield, say go skiing or what not.

On the flip side, it's virtually impossible to clean a USB female socket. Connectors are magnets for pocket lint. With the lightning connector, I can just clean out the connector with a paperclip or a thumbtack or similar.