You don't need a techbro robotaxi to tell you where potholes are in Montreal. Just pick any random street in the city. It will have potholes. Finding them isn't part of the problem.

There was an initial large disruption as they dumped a huge number of packages into alternate delivery systems that weren't prepared for the sudden massive increase in load. Within a few weeks, it had settled down, and shipping times had improved enough that same-day and next-day shipping were once again available, albeit with shorter "order by" windows. The quality of the delivery experience has dropped significantly (in terms of failed/late deliveries) due to them relying exclusively on "Intelcom" (a gig delivery service) rather than Amazons own delivery system.

My understanding of how it works, at least for Montreal (which used to have multiple Amazon warehouses in the metro area), is that all orders are shipped from the Toronto area, a ~6 hour drive away. Amazon loads orders onto big Amazon trucks (semi trailers) and drives them to an Intelcom distribution centre in Montreal, and Intelcom handles the last-mile delivery. Intelcom doesn't do inter-city delivery, and Amazon doesn't have any infrastructure in Montreal (or Quebec more broadly).

As for why Amazon services Montreal's orders from Toronto (a ~6 hour drive away) instead of Ottawa (a ~2 hour drive away), my only guess is that Ottawa (1.5m metro pop) wasn't big enough absorb all of Montreal's (4.3m metro pop) demand, but Toronto (6.2m) was.

That ultimately won't matter, because the workers have already been laid off, and the courts can't order Amazon to reverse the decision. The best case scenario is that several years down the road, Amazon will have to make a one-time payout to the workers.

https://github.com/apple-oss-d...

Or the kernel specifically: https://github.com/apple-oss-d...

One of Amazon's warehouses in the Montreal area (Laval) unionized. Amazon took the nuclear response and closed every warehouse in the entire province, seven in total. All Amazon orders destined for Quebec are now shipped from Ontario.

Clive Sinclair's company collapsed within five years of shipping their first computer. Perhaps not a good counter-example.

In what way? Once the model is loaded into VRAM, very little data has to travel over the bus. You're going to be limited by storage speeds loading the model anyway.

You're probably not going to get any external PCIe port other than thunderbolt. Thunderbolt is fast enough for most Mac use cases anyway. TB5 gets you 80 Gbps bidirectional, or 120/40 Gbps asymmetrical, and there aren't a lot of things in a desktop environment that would really benefit from more than 120 Gbps.

I'm confused, most stores like that already have digital price tags, and have for many years. Even Walmart has been using them already for a while now.

Hydro-Quebec is facing future capacity shortages due to past underinvestment in new infrastructure. They're facing losing a significant chunk of their installed capacity due to the Churchill Falls deal being at risk of falling apart. That deal would also have included a bunch of new construction, which may not happen any more. They're making big plans about future investments to increase capacity, but are still returning billions to the government in dividends instead of re-investing in capacity expansion.

Do we really have the capacity to export so much more power to the US?

They did not use a rasberry pi 4, they used an RP2350 microcontroller. If memory serves, there's basically static recompilation happening, where Linden writes SueprFX assembly, which is being translated to ARM assembly at compile time.

Then make it optional. Let me set the location name language versus the spoken language, either just as a global setting, or on a territory by territory basis. Anybody who lives in a city where the language spoken is different from the language they speak is affected (like an English-speaking person living in Montreal), but also any tourist who asks anybody for directions is going to hear street names that are completely different than Google Maps.

As an English-speaking Quebecker, I don't recognize many of the street names that Google says out loud, because some of them sound completely different than what I expect. I could set the whole language to French, but... French is not my native language, so why should I? I just want the street names to be pronounced correctly.

Using Google Maps (or any mapping app) in Montreal is a constant facepalm where it tries to read French names as if they were English words. There are tons of situations in the world where the native language of the driver is not the language of most street names. Is it too much to ask for it to know "I'm speaking in English but I should read all street signs in this territory in French"? There's lots of situations where you might have similar situations (tourists, expats, cities with multi-lingual populations), and using unrecognizable names for streets is a big pain.

The HEV are already a substantial cost reduction over the diesels. It's not clear that the BEVs offer a sufficient cost savings over the HEVs to justify their extra cost. It's not a small extra cost, the cancelled 2023 deal for 1229 BEV from Nova Bus was at a cost of $2.1 billion, or about $1.7 million per bus.

I'm not sure it's just a cashflow issue, if the BEV don't have a lower TCO in the long run. The transit agency *is* partially funded from higher levels of government. They get funding from the fuel tax, funding from the city, funding from the regional transit authority, funding from the provincial government, and funding from the federal government. But all levels of government (and the transit authority itself) are running deficits, and there are competing priorities.

What's more important, buying BEV busses over HEV busses, or making more of the transit network accessible? Building elevators in 60 year old underground (sometimes quite deeply) metro stations without interrupting service isn't cheap or fast, and its taken them 18 years to install elevators in just 30 out of 68 stations, though they only really kicked into high gear ten years ago. But due to the funding shortfall, that work has been cancelled, except for the stations currently in progress (and the new stations being constructed as part of the blue line extension and new above-ground metro system, though the latter is a different transit authority).