NotAnArdvark

As someone who takes an ADHD medication, I find the idea of a drug shortage terrifying. Life gets so, so much harder when I'm unmedicated.

It's like the difference between walking on a sidewalk and walking in sucking mud, with stuff falling out of your pockets you have to keep going back to find. You build a life that's only possible thanks to your ability to walk on sidewalks. If you suddenly find you can only get around by walking through mud, even with a huge amount of will power, you're going to watch your life fall apart as you just can't keep up the pace of your old life.

Two things:

It's easy to ask "why didn't Alberta diversify a bit more so this wouldn't have been so 'impossible' to do?" From this point of view, all the fuss being made comes off as Alberta whining because of their own short-sightedness.

Second, the AESO is contradicting themselves now to match the UCP narrative? Sourced from here:

Last year, an AESO report said there are multiple pathways to achieve net-zero emissions in the province’s power system by 2035, estimating the transition would require an additional $44 billion to $52 billion of investment.

Now they're saying:

Alberta won’t have enough supply to ensure the reliability of the system in 2035 and the severity of a shortfall would increase over the years.

??

http://ets.aeso.ca/ets_web/ip/Market/Reports/CSDReportServlet

Check out the "interchange" box on the top right. We're currently importing 132 megawatts. It's not much, but it's often higher, and it's almost always Alberta importing rather than exporting.

Every once in a while I'll use dish soap and my fingers, then dry with a microfiber cloth.

Microfiber cloth and whatever that glasses spray is works ok, but after a while it feels like I'm just pushing smudges around. Dish soap for the microfiber cloth will also fix that.

When I see people using their shirt to clean their glasses I cringe inside.

Just the other day my dog lost track of his frisbee in the water. It barely floats so it must be hard for him to see. He swam around in circles for a while looking for it. My wife started cheering when he would swim towards it, then go "oh! no. no. no" when he was swimming away from it. He essentially worked out hotter/colder on the spot in order to find his frisbee.

I journal to process thoughts, feelings, and problems, so I often go back to try to help me "figure things out." It's a double-edge sword sort of situation. Like it really lays bare the fact that certain problems I've made zero progress on over the years, but on the other hand, it's helps me realize other places where I've made way more progress than I would have thought.

If you've ever seen the Black Mirror episode where they're able to record their memories and play them back, it can be a little like that. An argument with the wife? I can pull back every. single. time. she's done "that" before. I think that's probably not good.

Anyway, overall, when I come away from reading past journal entries I tend to feel a lot more calm and humble.

"If it's free then you're the product" isn't even true when search engines are ad supported, so stick with the much better free alternatives.

This is exactly what "you're the product" means. Google is selling your presence on their platform to advertisers - you are the product they're selling.

"Batteries == Good" is my takeaway, but if you can be grid-tied I think zero batteries is the most environmentally friendly option. For grid stabilization I imagine even still that that should be left to utility-scaled installations.

Actually, now that I wrote that, this might be true for residential grid-tie vs utility solar too.

I don't like this attitude usually, but it seems fitting here - they just don't care. I'm sure they could find your bag, every bag gets bar-coded, they just don't care.

They say no one is using these older LTS kernels, but I'm running into them all the time on Android devices. I don't know if the vendors are taking advantage of those updates, but they're definitely choosing the LTS kernels for their BSPs at release time.

A sticking point I encountered - the drop in efficiency as the weather gets colder means you need a unit sized to heat your home on the coldest days you expect to encounter. So you need to buy a heat pump that's larger than you need for 98% of the year just so you don't freeze that other 2%. In addition to higher cost an oversized unit is less efficient because it's cycling more.

So this is where "heating strips" or "backup heating" come in, and then I get we've come full-circle.

My Dad has a cheap laptop he uses just for banking, and he asked me to put Linux on it so he wouldn't have to upgrade to Windows 10. It's not much - for my Dad, or for the greater Linux market share - but it's something!