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jprs

290 karma · joined March 20, 2023

Data scientist, open data advocate. Writing at: https://muddy.jprs.me/
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jprs··on Toronto mayor wants to ban surveillance pricing. Does she have the power?
Unanimous council decision: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2026.E...

Mayor's original motion: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2026/ex/bgrd/backgroundf...

jprs··on The fun has been optimized out of the Internet
Thank you, fixed!
jprs··on Prediction trading is coming to Canada
Archive link: https://archive.is/Xa9ii
jprs··on Owning Code in the Age of AI
Interesting post, but I am surprised the author does not directly address Mozilla's own recent controversy regarding AI authorship of commits to the Firefox repo (https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/71cc24b6a4...).
jprs··on 2.0.0-beta.1, or how I avoided working on my thesis
It would be helpful to add "phpGPX" to the title of this submission.
jprs··on The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database
Below the link to the North America file, you should see a few examples:

> A spirited attack on daylight savings from Canadian intellectual Roberton Davies in 1947: [full quote]

> A story of a public clock in Nashville in the 1950s with “dueling faces”—one time for conservatives and another for liberals.

> An account of the “day of two noons” in New York City in 1883, when standardized time zones were adopted and “local time” was abandoned forever.

> A detective story about ascertaining the proper chronology of time zones in Resolute Bay, a tiny community north of the Arctic circle.