

A good ask in this case would be for us to send a military escort for the aid flotilla currently heading back to Gaza. Make the Israelis board or fire on a Canadian vessel offering assistance to a civilian aid ship.
Canadian software engineer living in Europe.
A good ask in this case would be for us to send a military escort for the aid flotilla currently heading back to Gaza. Make the Israelis board or fire on a Canadian vessel offering assistance to a civilian aid ship.
It’s unfortunate that they didn’t cover the price question. Is the resulting product comparable in price gram for gram, or are you expected to pay a premium for something grown without human labour closer to home?
I honestly thought that this was The Beaverton with that sort of headline. That woman is insane.
This all appears to be based on the user agent, so wouldn’t that mean that bad-faith scrapers could just declare themselves to be typical search engine user agent?
I’ve been thinking about setting up Anubis to protect my blog from AI scrapers, but I’m not clear on whether this would also block search engines. It would, wouldn’t it?
As someone else said here, programmers are not a monolith. However, I’ve seen it multiple times on the job and in social media where programmers are using these tools to write code voluntarily. The code produced is often garbage, and I have to reject it at review time, but there are a lot of programmers using these things willingly.
I had a job interview a few weeks ago where the lead developer straight-up said that he doesn’t have any tests in the codebase because “it’s just writing your code twice”. I thought he was joking. Unfortunately he was not.
I didn’t end up getting the job, perhaps because I made it clear that I thought he was very wrong. I think I dodged a bullet.
Why would they do that? The current system ensures that at least one of them will always be in charge, and they effectively have the same politics.
I don’t think there’s an official “way”, but here’s mine (which I love):
On start-up I open all the apps I usually use, one per designated workspace:
Workspaces 6-9 are left empty, ready for whatever app I need in the moment, but only ever one app per workspace.
With this setup, I’ve mapped Ctrl+Fx
to each workspace, so Ctrl+F4
takes me to PyCharm where I write the code, and Ctrl+F5
followed by another F5 takes me to Firefox and reloads the page. Ctrl+F3
is always the terminal, etc., so you quickly start building these shortcuts to mean Fwhatever is $APP_NAME.
I almost never use the mouse, unless what I’m doing is necessarily mouse-driven: browsing or drawing charts etc. Everything else is keyboard-driven.
Honestly, I’d favour dropping any incentives for EVs, so long as Canada were to then redirect its efforts into transit and active transport. You just can’t replace every combustion car on the road with an EV, but you can narrow roads, reduce lanes, and add trains, trams, and cycle paths.
Hooooly shit, that man is a sociopath. It’s no wonder we’re barrelling into 5°C with people like him driving the world’s economy.
He’s done the classic trader thing:
Oh I’ve never used it to find games. I just go to the store pages directly. I didn’t even know it had such a feature!
It’s pretty good, but my problem is that if a game doesn’t run I assume it’s because I screwed something up. For example, Synergy, has a platinum rating and it installs just fine, but once started is just do slow for even drawing the starting menu while my CPU goes crazy. Clearly there’s a problem with it not using my GPU, but fucked if I know what package I didn’t install/configure properly.
Me too! I’ve been using Steam on Linux for a while, but thanks to American fuckery, I’ve had to experiment with leveraging Proton in Heroic to play GOG games. It’s pretty smooth though. I installed Disco Elysium this morning and it Just Worked™. I then went ahead and bought a bunch of indie games: Dorfromantik, Frostpunk, and Terraformers in GOG’s own Sumner sale. Not Canadian games mind you, but also not American ;-)
I’ve found that GOG generally has around 40% of the games I like on Steam, so I use lists like this to find interesting ones and then check GOG if it’s there so I can avoid paying Americans anything.
It doesn’t always work. Steam’s library is huge, but I’m doing my part for the whole #ElbowsUp thing, and for me, that means sending as little money their way as possible.
…and honestly, targeted sales like this make me think the boycott is properly hurting them.
…sold through an American company.
Why patronise Valve when GOG is right there?
Why would the Conservatives bring this government down, when it’s doing everything they want and taking the blame?
Exactly this. I came to this conclusion a long time ago, so I guess it’s nice to see others coming around to it.
This is the sort of propaganda these companies leak as if it’s a problem when what they really want is to perpetuate this idea that their autocomplete machines are magical and mysterious.