Actual link instead of the Google tracking link https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/council-to-vote-on-motion-directing-ottawas-mayor-to-begin-negotiations-to-upload-o-train/

What slip? If you mean the “package delivery attempted” slip, those aren’t mailed – they’re left by the delivery driver at the location – so they wouldn’t be redirected by mail forwarding.

Honestly, I think the easiest way would be to try to make friends with whoever moves into your old place (and/or the landlord for that place). That way you can arrange for them to hold your packages until you can pick them up if they do end up at their place.

You should also sign up with your current address for Canada Post’s automatic package notifications so you can stay on top of when they are in Canada Post’s hands. You might be able to talk someone at a post office into redirecting the parcels once you’ve got info on them (thought I think it’s a long shot).

Unfortunately CP seems to only offer parcel redirection services for businesses. Their mail redirect service (for regular customers) won’t be much help to you.

Apparently genocide is ok but mass surveillance isn’t, so they’ll continue to do business with Israel but just won’t let one unit use it.

Microsoft must completely stop all service to everyone in Israel. Anything less is still supporting genocide.

Varying levels of disappointed for me.

Others elected a very pro-suburbia mayor who is slowly making our city worse for people who rely on transit (like me).

The provincial government is somehow worse. The leader is very corrupt, which anyone voting should’ve predicted since he used to be a drug dealer… (and also this is his second term)

Federal government just gave a standing ovation to Charlie Kirk so… yeah they’re winning for being the worst right now. Sadly enough that was the only leader I actually voted in support of. Every politician in the room when that happened should resign. It’s now the second time many of them have applauded a Nazi in that room (and this time they definitely knew he was a Nazi).

Union to switch from overtime ban to refusing to deliver corporate flyers

I understand what this is supposed to accomplish but what if they just permanently stopped delivering flyers? Imagine the savings in multiple industries.

Anyway, companies relying on the government violating workers’ rights to avoid having to satisfy union demands is disgusting. I’m surprised CUPW hasn’t been on strike the whole time.

Seems like the union’s primary demand is better job security, which shouldn’t be hard to do. Being willing to give them the proper funding would’ve solved the problem before the strike. Funny how that’s almost always the case…

I hope the Moscone Center didn’t have to ban all LGBTQ+ and/or 18+ events to get Visa to commit

This is the first time I’ve seen someone suggest PowerTools specifically to waste energy lol

It’s never really been about upfront price so much as longevity. If you can avoid a laptop upgrade e.g. every 5 years by upgrading just a few components instead, it’ll last you longer and cost you less longterm.

Fundamentally, the cheapest way to build electronics is with very little modularity. Making parts swappable is more complicated to design and needs more components to be included. Both drive up the cost of the product.

No sweat if it’s too expensive or that’s not what you care about (ok, though you should sweat not caring about longevity), but making it all about the price is sort of missing the point. Capitalism is a tool for improving our lives but is not the only tool for that.

What scenarios do you envision a Result<Result<T, E>, E> having a different meaning than a Result<T, E>? To me, the messy Result type just seems like a case of something that should’ve been handled already (or properly propagated up).

I don’t. Personally I think it has led to more proxy wars, as the stability-instability paradox suggests. I think the amount of actual aggression went down after WWII, but has since recovered and surpassed pre-WWII levels. But now everyone is afraid of declaring war on nuclear powers, so they’ll let the nuclear country get away with genocide or other atrocities instead. Look at Israel and Russia right now for easy examples. Seems like the winning strategy now is to convince your adversaries that you’re crazy enough to launch your nukes and then you can do whatever you want without other countries taking a strong enough stance to stop you. That’s not peace, that’s nuclear intimidation. I don’t even see a peaceful way out of it.

Certainly a much better contender than the king of genocide enablement (Trump)

While the amount did increase, you missed the line right above it – minimum wage in the USA has effectively been decreasing since 1968.

Its purchasing power peaked in 1968, at $1.60 ($14.00 in 2024)