I first saw this each time Bush was elected. So many people vowed to move to Canada if that bastard got elected.

Then the bastard got elected. And Canada reported like a tiny spike in traffic to their immigration information website. I think actual applications were up a statistically insignificant amount.

I guess it’s like the difference between filing for bankruptcy and Declaring It, Michael.

Ultra low speed limit signs always make me laugh.

My car has an analog speedometer and the first number is 20. The best speed they’re going to get from me, especially driving up a ramp in stop-and-go traffic is “less than 20”.

I used to live in an apartment building where they just posted a speed limit sign that said “DEAD SLOW”. My friend got a complaint letter from strata that he was speeding. He replied that “dead slow is a nautical term meaning a ship must travel in such a way that they don’t lose the ability to steer. I was not operating a boat and my ability to steer was never in question.” They gave him a “warning” and said the actual speed limit is 10; though that wasn’t on any sign nor ever written anywhere.

Wandering the desert?

Nay, vibe travelling.

They didn’t release their methods, so I can’t be sure that most of those aren’t just frustrated users telling the LLM to go kill itself.

Replaced by AI, ironically.

This feels very adjacent to “we don’t do this because it was easy. We did it because we thought it would be easy.”

Why does Doug have to do anything? Donny is an autocrat, right? Can’t he just phone the American broadcaster airing the ads and demand they stop airing it.

Big Strong Men shouldn’t just go crying on their pet social network when another country is being mean. They should be Big enough and Strong enough to deal with it themselves.

I feel like admitting that would have led to him getting a bullet in the head.

The machines obviously aren’t interested in reconnecting him - they grow humans by the thousand in their facilities. Like you’re not going to hike for a day to pick up lost carrot when you have them growing in your garden.

The only way the machines would consider reconnecting him would be as part of a deal for something significantly more valuable than one human. If Morpheus is on the table? Sure, now that’s worth it. Which isn’t to say they wouldn’t have betrayed and killed him once they had Morpheus anyway. Our only assurance that they would honour an agreement is a throwaway line from the Architect at the end of Reloaded.

And if there’s no going back, what does a terrified resistance do when one of their fighters starts talking about joining the enemy? He’s too dangerous - he’s gotta go.

I always think of this when someone tells me to water my plants regularly and not always let them dry out and subsequently overwater the shit out of them to compensate.

No, motherfucker, we live in uncertain times.

I see way too many EV owners online being very blase about cheap third party adapters they grab off Amazon or the like. For the amount of current coursing through these things, people should probably stop and think for a second what corners were cut in the one they bought for half the price of recognized brands.

That game is too memorable. I tried replaying it a while back after not touching it in 15 years.

Five minutes in and nope, this whole story is seared into my long term memory and there’s nothing fresh yet.

I’ll try again when I’m 80.

This happened on my car after an oil change (not at Canadian Tire) and they did the same thing. Zap straps to reattach the bottom (plastic in my case) because the old bolts had rusted through. They never mentioned to me either, but fortunately I still had 4/6 original bolts still in place.

I get that an oil change customer doesn’t want to hear “uhhhh we found some broke shit that’s going to cost extra to fix”, but it’s not an acceptable alternative to half ass a shitty fix and not tell anyone. It’s like opening up the walls in your home for the first time and discovering the insanely lazy job a plumber or electrician hid behind a wall.

Ross, if our lives ever go sideways and you find yourself needing a roommate, I think we would get along just fine.

Half my visits to Wikipedia are because I need to copy and paste a Unicode character and that’s always the highest search result with a page I can easily copy and paste the exact character from.

They have (had?) a fairly generous free tier that works well for people starting out.

I ended up buying a license after evaluation because the UI provides everything I reasonably want to do, it’s fundamentally a Linux server so I can change things I need, and it requires virtually zero fucking around to get started and keep running.

I guess the short answer is: it ticks a lot of boxes.

They could have just not had the monkeys. They added nothing to the story and were the most egregiously bad CGI.

You can’t do much preparation since you don’t know what they’re going to ask. You can assume there will be some “basic” programming questions, but that’s really as far as you can take it in advance.

My advice here is for during the interview: keep talking. You should always be talking. That’s how the interviewer assesses you. They want to know how you are deconstructing a problem and how you want to solve it. Sitting there silent for 5 minutes and then banging out some code isn’t giving them anything.

“Ok, I need to modify this array and I should try to do that in place. I need to look up the syntax for that because i rarely need to do this…”

“I don’t remember what a splurgenarf is. Can you give me a quick definition before I get started?”

“I’m going to just slop this incomplete code in and run it once to see the output. It won’t work but I want to see if the first part is on the right track.”

“I think you’re asking me to write a wrapper around a basic network call so that it will _______. Is that right?”

Oh, and you’ll always home your first interview if it’s been a few years. Don’t sweat it, and don’t make your first interview at a place you really really want to work because of that. You need to go through a couple of interviews before your brain remembers how to function in a coding interview because it’s so far divorced from how a developer usually works.

I tried them for a few months and cancelled.

For me, the quality of the recipes was poor. It was the kind of stuff I’d make when i’d just moved out from home and was learning to cook for the first time. Boring. Simplistic.

There’s also way too much trash. There’s a big cardboard box, a few ice packs, and a mound of pre-portioned ingredients each in little plastic bags. They cheerfully say you can keep the ice packs and reuse them! How many fucking ice packs can one person use?? Anybody can use a couple of ice packs. No one alive needs 2 new ice packs a week.

If you aren’t a confident cook and/or you need some inspiration for new things to make, it’s totally worth it for a few weeks or months. After that, though, I think most people will outgrow it.

Oh my god it’s real. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/05/spanish-soldiers-change-gender-benefits-for-women/

Similar stories run from all the usual deplorable papers. New York Post, Daily Mail, you name it.

Why don’t they teach this shit in school?!?!