My weird proposal is that I think the western provinces should be permament daylight savings, while the eastern provinces should be permentantly standard time. The impact would be to narrow the time difference between east and west by 1 hour, which should allow for more options in the job market.

For instance, a company based in Toronto may not be willing to start an office in Vancouver if there’s only 5 hours of overlap per work day, but may be if there’s 6 hours of overlap. Ditto for remote workers.

On the topic of indie films, can people in-the-known share some suggestions for what’s worth watching?

Saskatchewan is effectively on year-round daylight savings time and has been for decades, and they love it. History is not as clear-cut that it will get reversed.

This is unfortunately only true when a landlord fixes things beyond the absolute bare minimum (massive globs of caulk on caulk everywhere is my experience).

You get those stories from the mother posting about how a bakery did this really nice thing for her.

From my perspective, if someone advertises that they did <nice thing> then it’s just ad spend. Give them kudos for spending a portion of their marketing budget on charity rather than just commercials, but it is still marketing. This can apply to individuals building up their social reputation too.

It’s “200” (200th episode). S10E06. Basically the characters are imagining different TV shows that could be based on their experiences. The puppets are only a short part of that episode.

Switching to something rolling release makes sense. My Arch setup (btw) has always felt much more stable than when I was using Ubuntu, because with Ubuntu I’d inevitatebly run into a bug, find out it was fixed months ago but won’t be backported, and then either live with it or try custom-installing the newer version of that thing. Or I’d install something manually that expected dependency X be the latest version, etc.

My friend is an indie game developer and he once told me the typical refund rate, which I think was only a little lower than this. I don’t think the game length is playing that large a role here, rather people use that refund policy as a way to try out a game (like a demo). Probably most of the people who refunded wouldn’t have bought it in the first place without that refund policy, so he shouldn’t really view this as “because of this policy I lost 55K sales”.

Which is precisely the problem; there’s really no way to opt out of the UK’s law. Your only options are to either comply or defy them. They leave no middle ground.

Short answer is yes, it requires hardware that to my knowledge isn’t available on normal consumer motherboards.

Blocking the UK isn’t enough to get them off your back. They’ll claim that if your website is still accessible via VPN to someone in the UK then you’re still subject to their laws.

Of course, but a generation of homeowners grew up learning that, barring short disruptions, home prices always go up. Nevermind that this was largely due to interest rates steadily dropping since the 80s, reaching basically 0% during Covid.

Since there isn’t really room for interest rates to drop anymore people shouldn’t expect home prices to rise faster than incomes rise, but it’s going to be hard to undo 30 years of observation.

+1. In my personal life things are much better and improved, but in terms of world stability, health of politics (at least where I live), the observed impacts of climate change, etc. pre-2016 was so much better on average.

Unless it becomes cheaper than having a datacenter on earth per quanity of compute, it won’t happen in any meaningful scale even if these issues are solved.

I’ve been using AntennaPod for years now to listen to podcasts. It works great and feels like a premium app.

Exactly this. If PP were PM I fully expect he’d be pushing some kind of bail-out too.

• I make a great vegan ice cream that is loved by many non-vegans.
• I beat depression and anxiety.
• I have a fun job that pays well and I’m good at it.

I bet they would be (against Valve) if a competitor donated to Republicans. I mean, they’re keeping a finished bridge they paid $0 for closed because the owner of a competing, tolled bridge donated to them. Of course they’ll open an investigation into a smallish leftish leaning company if a large donor asked them to.

I don’t think DDR4 is significantly cheaper. Plus, they would have had to go a CPU generation back too then and I think the AMD CPUs of that generation had way worse integrated graphics, so now you’d need a dedicated GPU as well.

What does it mean for a project to deserve the [AI] tag? This matters, because you may have a lot of projects where a developer may think “no” and someone else thinks “yes”. Some examples from my day job:

• Developer used AI to understand part of the codebase and suggest ways to accomplish goal. Developer incorporated that suggestion, though using their own knowledge deviated from AI’s suggestion in parts. Developer wrote the code themselves. Is this project [AI] or [NOT AI]?
• Developer used AI to review existing (human-written) code for quality and security purposes. AI noticed some issues and proposed fixes. Developer reviewed and accepted them. Is this project [AI]?
• Developer knew they wanted to implement a feature, and while implementing it there was a boilerplate function. Developer asked AI to write this function, manually reviewed it, confirmed it worked, and added it to the codebase. Is this project [AI]?

In these examples the developer carefully reviews the AI’s output, which I think distinguishes it from vibe-coded slop, which at least is what I want to ignore.

It’s also worth noting that an open-source project may receive and incorporate a well-written contribution where the human developer used AI carefully like this. Unless they disclosed that they used AI, it may be unknowable to the project maintainers whether their project is [AI] or not, depending on how you define it. What tag should these projects use?