kimos

I live in Ottawa and I watched a crow rip a dead brown rat apart in my front street this week. I don’t see them often but they’re here. (I swear I live in a nice neighbourhood)

It’s worth knowing the answer, but also the answer shouldn’t matter for most cases.

Regular users should only use these stations for road trips. Nearly all charging should be done with L2 chargers.

Manitoba is almost 100% powered by hydro, and exports something like 7TWh of power a year. You’re drawing your line in the wrong spot.

Wow! Two hours!

This is not correct, for me at least.

I want a very good washing machine with frills, but it want it to wash well and quietly without needing to be configured from my phone over wifi.

Used in production? Probably not yet. But likely tested in production on a small %. They’ve gotten practiced at using the Shopify Rails monolith as the biggest test suite and regression tests for Rails and Ruby.

Businesses and reviews mostly. Not navigation.

I participated actively in the Google Local Guides. I depend on the content from there to discover stuff geographically. But I’m also aware reviews and interactions and even images that look human can’t really be counted on anymore.

Yes, I am also hopelessly tied to Google Maps. Which I think is relatively distinct from web search, IMO.

My wife and I have a family account. I absolutely love it and have used it for a while. I’m a programmer and use it more for that kind of thing. She, however, does the purchasing and shopping and product hunting for our house. She keeps trying to use it but ends up with Google tabs open anyway. As as much as I’m a big Kagi fan, YMMV depending on your usage patterns.

Are these… real names? I can no longer tell if this is satire.

There is an excellent children’s book about their story. It’s hard to read to my kids without getting teary, tbh.

https://www.petermercurio.com/our-subway-baby/

The issue here is that Canada belongs to all Canadians. A portion of voters in one province can’t just vote to help themselves to the territory of Canada.

Unfortunately it wasn't my project so I can't speak to it with detail or authority. I was just observing.

It was things like: Where do log statements go? Via what path? Are we sure none of those routers are in the US? Can we spin up new instances of EVERYTHING in a `-ca` region? Can we force traffic for this shop to only use those instances? What about vendors? Can we disable US-only vendors of whatever? What about backups? What things are centralized (which were good to identify)? Can we region those too? Can we disable/bypass them?

And do that for every bit and packet for a very complex system. I think that it launched with a considerable number of features just disabled. Privacy trumped everything.

I have most often used it to be every amiibo that exists.

I worked at Shopify at the time this became legal and several provinces were launching on our platform. It was a monumental lift to get every single thing a transaction from these shops touches to only run on or through infrastructure on Canadian soil for this exact reason.

My brother in size Small-Tall, tell me where you shop!

This is a good one: https://tallslimtees.com/

I also do some made to order from Son of a Tailor and Proper Cloth, but it’s expensive and laborious and slow and risky.

Then that becomes an ongoing effort. The rewrite is once. (Good idea or not)

It isn’t exactly. They created a list of known extensions by their id and a file which is known to exist in that extension. The site iterates over each pair and tries to load that file, if it doesn’t error it knows the extension is installed. It’s a clever and difficult manual process, but it does bypass the security trying to prevent this kind of thing.

I read that their reasoning is it exists to block users that use known scraper extensions which bypass their terms of use. But don’t entirely buy that.

This is partially why search is doomed. Sure LLMs are overtaking search, because search has been enshitified to the point you need an LLM to even get thr answer you’re looking for.

I keep thinking how often LLMs are used to “solve” problems we created.

“Meeting starts at 3” gets fed into an LLM to turn it into a 3 paragraph email, only to be summarized by a different LLM on the other email client end as “Meeting starts at 3”. What a waste.

I clicked the link out of interest but am quite happy that the article had no image.

This removes a large portion of the magic of Ruby.

I completely understand how this game is brilliant and a perfect puzzle game. But it was so hard and frustrating I could not play it.

Maybe! It won’t change liability. But perception is important too.

I think it’s trying to demonstrate intent. “This is cool and hacking is fun” vs “Here is a tool to do bad things”. I don’t think it would much protect you from consequences, but it can change perception of the intent of the project.

This makes no sense and has nothing to do with serving traffic.

More EC2 workers means more parallelism means tests map to more workers and the CI build finishes faster. It’s just CI perceived complete time.

I’m in Canada. I’ve had a couple of Kobos and I’ve loved every single one of them. The Kobo bookstore works fine. No complaints.

Yes. But to be fair there are plenty of websites that are bad enough they’re not adapted for me to be able to use it.

A subreddit or forum like this is a good resource:

https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/

But it turns every decision into an exhausting research and optimization project.

Canada too.

I only have WhatsApp installed for when I leave the country.

I had just assumed the slow animation was buying time to call out to an LLM.