paige

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[–] paige@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’ve gotten no response from them after a couple of days

[–] paige@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

This is not sufficient for your conclusion given the burden of proof required for this claim. And, to be clear, you are claiming that: This organization controlled by the municipality is SELLING your email address. Your proof is a screenshot with the addressed censored. Not that there was a leak, not that someone guessed this handle, not that PBSC got hacked, not that you typed the wrong handle into a form. I can run this past bixi for you if you DM me your address, but you're assuming a lot and I would bet not just MAGA but real coins that you're wrong about bixi selling your info.

[–] paige@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The TLDR is that the city isn't focusing on getting costs down on things that have produced good (Metro) or promising (Automated Light Rail) results. It is focusing on things that didn't end up being great investments (BRT) or that we haven't done (Trams).

Based on the experience in Quebec City, trams are expensive AF to build here. RapidBus is something the city should look into, it sits between a BRT and a buslane. Easy to roll out quickly. When routes hit capacity, skip the tram and go straight to metro/REM.

 

It’s one of the most important documents in determining what the city will be like to live in, but I’ve found the coverage very superficial. Has anyone taken the time to read it?

[–] paige@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Blâmer les promoteurs pour les prix élevés des logements, c'est comme blâmer les agriculteurs pour les prix élevés des denrées alimentaires. Lorsque l'on ne construit pas suffisamment de logements pour 10 ans, 500 pi carrés est luxueux. https://video.canadiancivil.com/w/4LSG3iZpRuShJqYhRLFcdG

[–] paige@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

It’s not a news story, it’s the most recent local analysis of the idea if people want to read up on it.

 

New York was set to become the first city in North America to introduce congestion pricing. It’s something that makes a lot of sense in Montreal, not many cities on the continent are centred on an island. Less traffic, less potholes and use the money for more transit.

[–] paige@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Sounds like just a few integration tests for the core use cases is the ticket, just like before. Real unfortunate, I would have bet that by now that there would be some startup that had made an automated user that you trained to do tests with a chrome extension or something.

[–] paige@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

This makes is sound like 10 years later nothing much has changed

 

Nearly a decade back I wrote a lot of browser CI tests with headless chrome as well as browser stack. I loved the idea, but they just didn’t handle things being a bit outside of perfect IRL, like taking a moment longer to load etc. They ended up having a lot of waits in them, taking a long time to write and were prone to being flakey. The tests basically lacked “common sense” and it made me think that one day someone would figure out how to make them work better.

I’m wondering if there are new frameworks, workflows, startups that have made this stuff easier and better. I’m not really in tech anymore but I wouldn’t mind writing some tests if the experience was better.

[–] paige@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago
 

Alberta launched its own plans for urban and intercity rail last week: https://www.alberta.ca/passenger-rail GO is well into its electrification and expansion program to provide fast 15 minute all day service with credit card tap. Cities like Sydney and Melbourne have long since done this and turned their commuter rail into rapid transit. Exo… nothing. How have we ended up left in the dust?