
I regret that I can only upvote this once. This needs to be spread far and wide , again and again, until it cannot be ignored.
Thanks, good idea. I will go tomorrow if I can to ask about an antibody test. (Yes I'm in Canada)
So I'm right on the border of age that should get supposedly get a booster. Born in 1970. Would it be safe to get one now, just in case, even if I probably was just young enough to get them that year?
All the info I've read says that somehow everyone 1970 and later is fully vaccinated.. but I don't remember. What if I just missed getting the full round as a child?
I'm sorry, there were sequels? People have also told me there were 'prequels' but that's just silly.
Next you're going to tell me there was a Highlander II, or III, or ... god make it stop.
Hey there's the C-Train! (LRT). I forgot they filmed a few of them in Calgary. I went to see Richard Pryor (well his stunt-double) 'ski' down the Gulf Canada tower for one scene... and I think a scene where a bus skids over a fire hydrant or something.
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing."
Look up the "buy, borrow, die" strategy (spoiler: it's only possible for those who are already rich, go figure).
Have you tried yout.com? Take the URL of any vid, and just delete the 'ube' from it. It only allows a few DLs per day but it works.
Yeah, I got my name when gmail was 'invite only' :/
It actually kinda sucks. At any given time I have between 3 and a zillion idiots around the globe who, for months or years on end, keep buying concert tickets, airline/vacation bookings, get job hits, legal firm or health-care notifications ... using my email (jbloggs@gmail.com) instead of (jbloggs999@gmail.com) or whatever variant they actually signed up for, since I got 'just my name' and they keep. forgetting. their. own. bloody. email.
And most of the time this shit is sent from a 'noreply@wherever.net' so I can't even tell them they have the wrong email address. Grrrrrrr.
Best I could find is, translated: "Don't be a Seehofer"?
OK Romania, now you know which building needs to have repeated, ongoing cockroach and bedbug infestations... and stinky cheeses/spoiled milk 'accidentally' ending up in the HVAC systems.
I'm 50/50 on whether that name is awesome, or a big 'Oof' marketing-wise ;-)
Ah, hashcash. Wish that had taken off, it was a good idea ...
Just using "LLM" is also a bit over-specific, however, as it'd exclude text-to-image models, and others.
Fair point. I haven't heard of an equivalent to LLM for, as per your example, text-to-image models. Hmm.
Oooh, Iike that one.
I feel this -- we had a junior dev on our project who started using AI for coding, without management approval BTW (it was a small company and we didn't yet have a policy specifically for it. Alas.)
I got the fun task, months later, of going through an entire component that I'm almost certain was 'vibe coded' -- it "worked" the first time the main APIs were called, but leaked and crashed on subsequent calls. It used double- and even triple-pointers to data structures, which the API vendor's documentation upon some casual reading indicated could all be declared statically and re-used (this was an embedded system); needless arguments; mallocs and frees everywhere for no good reason (again due to all of the un-needed dynamic storage involving said double/triple pointers to stuff). It was a horrible mess.
It should have never gotten through code review, but the senior devs were themselves overloaded with work (another, separate problem) ...
I took two days and cleaned it all up, much simpler, no mem leaks, and could actually be, you know, used more than once.
Fucking mess, and LLMs (don't call it "AI") just allow those who are lazy and/or inexperienced to skate through short-term tasks, leaving huge technical debt for those that have to clean up after.
If you're doing job interviews, ensure the interviewee is not connected to LLMs in any way and make them do the code themselves. No exceptions. Consider blocking LLMs from your corp network as well and ban locally-installed things like Ollama.
Please everyone, consider calling "AI" something more accurate -- they're not intelligent, though definitely 'artificial' as in man-made. I personally like the terms "stochastic parrot" or even just "LLM".
Fuck AI. This company and whomever created such videos should be charged with hate crimes and fraud. So tired of this bullshit ruining society and the internet.
No comment other than the phrase in title is prominent on the hats intentionally shown behind the young man being interviewed here. I'll let everyone reading this decide for themselves whether this is a problem or not.
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EDIT: For the record, perhaps my original commentary on this post was attempting to be too 'clever'. I was most definitely * not * trying to promote these chuckleheads. It was posted in order to ensure people know the enemy -- there are some scary forces working in Canada to instill the horrors we are seeing down south, right here, right now.
Gosh, maybe we shouldn’t let Big Balls vibe code the deportation system [contains quote post or other embedded content]
As most have predicted and feared, the US Administration appears to now be testing if they can push one step further towards enforcing an authoritarian ethno-state: threatening a full-on US citizen by-birth with detainment and deportation (to where, exactly, if they are a born US citizen?). Someone who, "coincidentally", is an immigration lawyer, someone who might defend other targets of their deportation agenda.
First they came for ...
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EDIT: a thread indicating this has been a mass email to others https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmljpkrdj22h
In response to suggestions by a lunatic in the US Oval Office, Green Party Canada's leader Elizabeth May suggested Canada should invite western states Washington, Oregon and California join B.C and split from Canada to form the 'Cascadia' eco-state.
(Note this article is from Jan 8, 2025 and Elizabeth May has since become co-leader of the party alongside Jonathan Pedneault).
When you hear mustard, you likely think of hotdogs, giant pretzels, or maybe even a honey-mustard dressing, but the origins of your sauce might surprise you.

Would be a darn shame if tariffs applied to it for the US... oh wait
EDIT see my comment below which uses a much cleaner method that avoids the noisy multple udev events and doesn't require udev/eudev at all
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This activates/de-activates the secondary display underneath the removeable keyboard properly. Note though that the keyboard is a composite unit and causes a whole train of udev events, rather than a single one, which means the desktop will flicker multiple times on each re-attachment of the keyboard :(. If anyone knows how to just run the scripts on the 'last' udev event, it would make for a cleaner experience. (XFCE sometimes crashes out on me due to the rapid xrandr reconfigs but it's mostly usable).
>[/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-in] > >#!/bin/bash > >if [ "$(xrandr --listmonitors | wc -l)" -gt "2" ]; then > > #logger -p user.info "=== KEYBOARD REPLACED ===" > > xrandr --output eDP-2 --off > >fi >
>[/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-in_udev] > >#!/bin/bash > >export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin > >/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-in & >
>[/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-out] > >#!/bin/bash > >if [ "$(xrandr --listmonitors | wc -l)" -lt "3" ]; then > > #logger -p user.info "=== KEYBOARD REMOVED ===" > > xrandr --auto && xrandr --output eDP-2 --below eDP-1 > >fi >
>[/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-out_udev] > >#!/bin/bash > >export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin > >/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-out &
>[/etc/udev/rules.d/99-zbduo2024-kbd.rules] > >ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0b05", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1b2c", ENV{XAUTHORITY}="/home/username/.Xauthority", ENV{DISPLAY}=":0", OWNER="username", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-in_udev" > >ACTION=="remove", ENV{ID_MODEL}="ASUS_Zenbook_Duo_Keyboard", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-out_udev"
Now, to get your laptop keyboard working when removed, in bluetooth mode, one must
- Ensure bluetooth-ctl is running and initiate 'pair' in Bluetooth by clicking 'Create pairing with this device' (key icon in the 'Blueman-Manager' window)
- Turn on bluetooth (switch on the left of the keyboard)
- Remove the keyboard
- Hold F10 for 4-5 seconds until its blue LED starts blinking rapidly (kbd in pairing mode)
- Watch your desktop notifications for the connection message with the BT challenge pin code (6 digits)
- type the challenge PIN code on the keyboard
- Now the keyboard should be paired.
... now if only I could get the sound device (Intel HD Audio) and brightness control working for both screens!
I was searching online for quite a while this evening, chasing a half-remembered bit of trivia, that trilobites were supposedly unique in their use of calcite for their lenses, composing the ommatidia of their compound eyes.
It must be so obvious to scientists in the field of studying insects that they never mention it in their papers...
So, what compound(s) do modern arthropods use in their compound eyes. If it isn't calcite, what do modern 'bugs' use?
APL Programmer's Keyboard Keycap Stickers

Whether you are an old hand at APL, or someone just discovering the language, having the symbols in the standard layout right there on your keyboard is a great help... dedicated APL keyboards are pretty expensive, so consider these stickers that let one adapt any standard desktop or laptop keyboard!
APL keyboard sticker set on Tindie
To set up your keyboard for APL programming on Linux, see here.
If you haven't heard of it, this island has a population that the world has collectively decided to leave alone, mostly because they have proven, on multiple occasions, that they absolutely do not want visitors. Like, arrow-to-death anyone attempting to land or even visit near their shores.
This probably cannot go on forever... but maybe, it could. Essentially, we are already implementing a 'Prime Directive' of sorts here. Would the 23rd, 24th, ... centuries in Star Trek canon still have this little island on Earth, isolated from not just from Earth's own unified Federation society, but from the greater Federation races? What steps would the Federation and Earth take to maintain their isolation and the ecosystem on which they depend?
Would make for an interesting episode, or at least a cool side-note reference in one :)
Normally I avoid linking to the old sh$thole here ('cuz you know, f*ck u/Spez), but this is an exception.
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DFV posted DIRECTLY to 'stonk: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/s/8TNza7V2IN
Discussion over on the 'stonk sub: https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1d6r84q/roaring_kitty_theroaringkitty_on_x/
Twitter post tonight: https://x.com/theroaringkitty/status/1797418617908154621
GNU APL is easy to build on your own Linux machine, though the steps aren't detailed on the website.
--- Benefits of building yourself locally:
- One can customize how many cores GNU APL has access to
- Customizing optional extensions like PNG image, SQLite, GTK support etc.
- Having the latest bugfixes ---
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Obtain the latest source
- mkdir apl-build
- svn checkout http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/svn/apl/trunk
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Configure using autotools
- cd trunk
- make clean
- ./configure CORE_COUNT_WANTED=3 RATIONAL_NUMBERS_WANTED=yes --with-ctrld_del
Use ./configure --help to see other options, adjust to taste
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Build and install
- make -j && sudo make install
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Set up your default workspace
- cd ~
- mkdir -p GNUAPL/workspaces ---
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Best book for learning the ins and outs of MIDI I've ever encountered. Relatively obscure, but an invaluable reference book for anyone wanting to dig into the details of how MIDI works.
A wire broke off the ignitor element in our Harman unit. I have ordered a replacement and it looks simple enough to fix myself. But before sourcing the part I had called about 5 different fireplace companies in the area, and it seems everyone has dropped all support for pellet stoves in recent years! Not only does no one sell them any more (other than Canadian Tire), but they all outright refused to even consider sending a repairperson to help.
It's a bit infuriating. I am calling them, literally saying "please come take my money at your standard hourly rate". One would think "struggling businesses" would be more willing to take on what should be profitable work.
Is it such a liability issue for them that they're actually afraid to take on the work?
What if something bigger fails someday on my pellet stove? Why is no one on the island now willing to work on one?
If you know of someone who does still service wood pellet stoves on the island (Courtenay/Comox), please reply here or DM me. Thanks.
EDIT: formatting
TORONTO – The OSC announced today the adoption of OSC Rule 52-503 Exemption from Disclosure of a Specified Financial Measure.
What does this mean? New levels of ass-covering for bank malfeasance, or just the regular sort of opacity?
Also see the original 'interim' declaration: https://www.osc.ca/en/securities-law/instruments-rules-policies/5/52-502/ontario-instrument-52-502-exemption-national-instrument-52-112-non-gaap-and-other-financial
and
https://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/Eng/osfi-bsif/rep-rap/blueprint-plan-directeur/Pages/supervision-surveillance-let.aspx
Thanks to re⊃⊃it user JackTheTranscoder for links.