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We both win! Or lose.

You realize the distance Cold Lake is from the Yukon doesn’t have a whole lot to do with how southern Cold Lake is relative to the rest of Canada right? There’s a reason the base is where it is.

I’m well aware of the CF-188 or F/A-18’s capabilities (or lack thereof compared to the F-22), from when I worked on them, sometimes in Cold Lake. ;)

NORAD is a thing, and not just an American one. Mostly, but not only.

Cold Lake, Alberta is one of the two permanent bases for CF-18s, not terribly southern.

Sounds about right! And look, so much less expensive than Data Center per year!

True that makes sense. Although managing two products vs. one , Server and Data Center, even if they are mostly the same, is not free. As @adra noted, subscription revenue (although there are always support payments) is a likely driver.

I relate here with Atlassian discontinuing their Jira Server product. I suppose they did the analysis and it wasn’t worth their dev time but there are some customers who CANT move to Jira Cloud for compliance reasons.

So now we are stuck. Stick with unsupported Jira Server, pay $40k/yr for Jira Data Center (!!) or switch with all the business costs associated with that.

You still can as a kid via land, but a birth certificate is required. The parents do need passports though…

You can also consider buying a FLIR ONE accessory for your Android or iOS device

https://www.flir.ca/flir-one/

Jupyter Notebooks was the start (of things Jupyter)

Then people said it can be tough for people who want to do data analysis to have to figure out installing python locally and getting everything set up to run notebooks just to open a web browser, so JupyterHub was created so that Data Analyst types didn’t have to worry about any of that, they could just open a web browser and work (also running on a server lets you have a beefy server to connect to).

JupyterLab is the next version of Jupyter Notebooks, separating some of the concerns on the back end and giving a bit of a different interface on the front end.

Check out the Twilio API, it wouldn’t work via your iPhone but you could probably get it to dial out and then call you to connect the two sides based on whatever conditions you’d like.

I’ve been thinking of doing this for an automatic WFH / in office screen at work, somehow tied into a cell phone / corporate login status… Thanks for the link!

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Relevant buzzwords include: DOORS, ReqViewPro, Matlab, Simulink, Python, Pandas, Numpy, SolidWorks, Android, Linux, Windows, FreeRTOS, ARP4754, ARP4761

Each province gets to do that by law. There’s absolutely no problem calling yourself a Software Engineer in Canada if you are a licensed engineer in the province in which you practice.

It depends on the province.

The X100 line has a fixed lens, it does not swap out. It’s a bit of a larger, fancier point and shoot that does not zoom. They look really nice and I’ve always wanted one!

I have an X-T2 and have started a collection of lenses. The 56mm F1.2 is a bokeh monster with the autofocus speed of a slug! But when it hits it is beautiful. They just came out with a new version of the 56mm lens that might do better in Auto Focus, and they are up to the X-T4 which has a bunch of features that are nicer too, like IBIS.

Note that the Fuji cameras are unique in that they use a custom colour filter, not a Bayer filter on the sensor. This can affect the RAW processing depending on how you might want to do it. Honestly I got into Fuji cause a friend shot with it, lent me the body when he was out of country for a while, then I just got used to it and that was that. The XT line has more dials than a lot of other makes, some people like that.

I’ve decided on suggesting this to people who ask what camera they should get:

1. Pick your budget first

2. Pick the type (point and shoot, mirrorless interchangeable lens)

3. Go to a camera store and pick up some of the models you might be interested in. See what you like the feel of and the interface of. Between all the big companies, you can’t really go wrong.

4. Don’t go all out on the body (go used!) and get nicer lenses. Once you pick a make with a certain mount, you can have the lenses for life and upgrade the body as you go along. Try 2 lenses to start a prime portrait lens and a zoom in the normal to telephoto range to be able to be a bit away from your kids but still get a tight shot.

You can take a look at my Flickr account and see that a lot of the pictures up there are with a Nikon D40 and a $200 prime lens. In good light, it still takes fine pictures! My son and daughter now runs around with it and get some great shots from their POV.

I think all the tech that's in those Sony's would probably allow for some more shots to turn out, you'll get really good Auto Focus as well as a crazy number of pictures in burst mode - great for chasing kids around.

If you are looking to get more into photography, and honestly it's a hobby that can pay nice dividends as a parent, I might suggest looking at a used body for an interchangeable lens camera and a prime lens to get some of those nice family shots. With another point and shoot, while the option is there to go full-auto, I never found that I did.

I'm quite an amateur as well (although with some work experience on vision systems). The latest Sony RX100 is $1600 CAD so it's quite a different level than the one you currently have. Like they say, and it's true, the best camera is the one you have with you... I really liked the RX100, and my favourite thing with it was actually taking it to events. Concerts and hockey games, it did OK with low light with it's RAW processing, and it was small enough to bring in a pocket.

The G9 X has a "one inch" sensor, which is about as big as you can get in this size, like the RX100. The bigger sensor and the bigger / nicer the optics, the better your pictures. Like you are saying, when you get it right these small point and shoots can easily out perform the phones.

Honestly for the family shots, even though the camera was nice and small, I didn't end up getting it into the diaper bag or backpack as much as I thought I would, I ended up with my phone a lot of the time. Then, I got back into prime lenses on an old Nikon and then new Fuji, and there's no comparison (for me) between a fast prime and a point and shoot, no mater the number of fancy features on the latest RX100. The Fuji 56mm spoiled me.

I bought the RX100m3 from Sony for this reason with the birth of our first child. It worked amazingly and was exactly what I was looking for in what I was buying. Shooting RAW was nice, and all the Sony tech from the larger bodies makes it way down into the RX100 line. They are not cheap though.

https://www.sony.ca/en/electronics/cyber-shot-compact-camera...

While I have not had a chance to work with it yet, there is a path to cert from FreeRTOS in SAFERTOS

https://www.highintegritysystems.com/safertos/

I wrote a tool at work for this. Using python to read in an Excel workbook with states and events in rows and columns that outputs a PlantUML state machine description. Worked really nicely, but not available for open sourcing at the moment.

Thank you! I really appreciate your thoughtful response.

One thing that led me to this realization was doing a simple app-based hearing test and then applying the audiogram to my airpod pros (after reading the thread below). The amount of extra detail I heard was startling - but also annoying in terms of things I didn’t care to have amplified. So in that sense, I may have slightly more than zero understanding of what tuning might sound like.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/xd9p3y/apple_airpods...

I don’t pay for Feedly and I’m a happy user.

Doesn’t everyone who quits at Amazon quit on Day 1?

What tool did you end up using for SysML?

I’ll follow a lot of the vscode tips in this thread plus a helping of running Doxygen on the project. Even without the specific Doxygen markup in the headers, running Doxygen can help with the call graphs and object hierarchies with a browsable interface.

This class of user seems like they would be a good target for the use of a Chromebook.

Starlink worked throughout the Rogers network issues for those I know using it in Canada.

From what I understand of their current network setup, if their base stations in a region had no connectivity then the starlink customers in that region would lose their connectivity too.

This is likely going to be able to be mitigated when Starlink inter-satellite communications is up and running and they can route packets in space.

Why is this place always a mess?

I can’t help it, it’s the Second Law of Thermodynamics!