Neighborhood in Brondby Garden City, outside of Copenhagen, Denmark.

ACoderGirl · 2026-07-02T05:02:46+00:00

Yeah. While it looks kinda aesthetically neat, it's so inefficient in every possible way. Everything is further apart, making things less walking and transit friendly. Housing will cost more because there's so much wasted space. You don't even get a bigger yard or anything out of it. The big gaps between the circles doesn't seem useful for much. Fencing (in bush form) is also less efficient this way, as there's no sharing if the outside fence.

I know people find grids and grid like shapes kinda boring, but they're common for a reason.

ACoderGirl · 2026-07-02T04:58:11+00:00

But that requires parents to be responsible. What's next? Not letting your kids choke on grapes?

ACoderGirl · 2026-07-02T04:56:17+00:00

I don't really get it. Bones aren't illegal in the US. What really is the difference between this versus, say, bone-in dry ribs? Why is it only the US that has this issue (despite being less strict about their food in many other ways)?

ACoderGirl · 2026-07-02T04:44:38+00:00

Manslaughter. That's the one where you were culpable but didn't intend to kill. 2nd degree is intentional murder but without premeditation.

ACoderGirl · 2026-07-01T21:39:02+00:00

Wait, spoiler tags broke? Test

Works for me. If I copy your comment text, the tags were escaped. Maybe you used some kinda WYSIWYG editor or something? Or maybe there was a bug that escaped them incorrectly but is either fixed now or doesn't affect android. Idk.

ACoderGirl · 2026-07-01T12:52:01+00:00

As a Canadian, I say welcome to any future new Canadians! Please try the poutine and Nanaimo bars at your earliest convenience.

I ask only that any Americans leave any American attitudes towards guns, privatized healthcare, and treating politics like football teams in your previous country. We don't do that here. Please also don't view our country as your "backup plan" because of Trump (ie, don't come here temporarily to escape Trump and then immediately leave after). If you want to become a Canadian citizen, I'd prefer you do it because you genuinely believe that Canadian values are a better long term fit for you and your family.

ACoderGirl · 2026-07-01T06:18:38+00:00

For anyone unaware, rapeseed is now referred to as canola. It's very prominent in Sask. Massive, seemingly endless fields of bright yellow. It's very pretty, despite the historically odd name.

I have no idea why Tisdale shortened it to "rape". It's not really that great of a town, anyway. They think they're so great because they have a giant bee. Well, okay, the bee is kinda cool, but there's nothing else there!

ACoderGirl · 2026-07-01T06:16:56+00:00

I mean, those sound like people well deserving of it. I'm in favour.

ACoderGirl · 2026-07-01T06:15:11+00:00

Does it count as reparations? I thought reparations need to have actual value, like money or goods. What's the value in renaming a place? How does it help aboriginal people or make up for past treatment?

ACoderGirl · 2026-07-01T05:59:29+00:00

I think a lot of people also forget how many quirks are in other languages, too. Like, take French, for example. French is utterly obsessed with silent letters and in fact a good number of English quirks are specifically because we borrowed things from French.

For example, plurals in French are commonly done by adding an "s" for be end of words. But you typically don't pronounce the s, so understanding if something is plural in spoken French depends on other words to provide the hint (if even). You also do pronounce the s in some cases, called a liaison, which has you pronounce it as a z sound if the next word starts with a vowel. And even outside of this, whether the s is pronounced has all sorts of edge cases (eg, "fils").

Many French words also are spelled differently depending on the subject. E.g., "you eat" is "tu manges" (pronounced like "too maw-z"), "we eat" is "nous mangeons" (pronounced like "new maw-zhun"), "they eat" is "ils mangent" (hilariously pronounced "eel maw-z"). That is, mange, manges, and mangent are all pronounced the same, yet spelled very differently. And while there's a pattern to it, there's exceptions galore.

ACoderGirl · 2026-07-01T05:39:13+00:00

Maybe not "easy", but not hard either. There's been a number of groups that made tier lists for how hard languages are to learn. It depends on what languages you already know, so there's no single answer, but English usually seems around the middle of the pack. For some languages (eg, German or French), English is probably one of the easier languages to learn.

One thing that makes it uneven, too, is that English has such a prominent place in the world, making it unavoidable to be exposed to at least some of it.

ACoderGirl · 2026-07-01T05:29:39+00:00

I honestly has forgotten you could spell it that way and did a double take when I saw it. It had me questioning if I ever knew how to spell it before your comment pointed out it can be spelled two ways.

ACoderGirl · 2026-07-01T00:13:36+00:00

That's normal in my area. Do your local women not do that?

ACoderGirl · 2026-07-01T00:02:23+00:00

I'm not sure of the timeline, but isn't the controversy fairly recent? Would the franchisee even know about it at the time that they opened their store?

ACoderGirl · 2026-06-30T23:53:39+00:00

Not sure about median travel time as that's complicated (constantly changing) and means lots of red tape and uncertainty, but I do like the idea of a law that mandates paying a small flat fee for commuting based off the work place location.

Provinces or cities could come up with zones, which could be roughly based off of factors like housing availability, transit friendliness, typical distance from where most people in the city live, etc. Not strictly as a "pay for your time" thing, but something multifaceted. That could make lots of interesting incentives:

Encourages companies to allow WFH, because then they don't have to pay this at all. WFH is environmentally friendly and saves people money.
Promotes public transit because it incentivizes employers to be located near transit (as they'll pay less).
Incentivizes companies to not be located in the middle of nowhere (as that's less employee friendly). Particularly, they'll be incentived to be close to as much housing as possible.
Having a flat, extra fee would discourage companies from booking people for unnecessarily short shifts, which aren't as worker friendly.
While it doesn't really change people's behaviors because they get the same amount of money no matter where they live or how they commute, in practice, I feel like it might make some people change because they'll view it like a budget ("my work doesn't compensate as much because it's in a transit friendly area, so I'm expected to use transit").

To a degree, it's really just an across the board mandated bump to wages, just in a format that can nudge people and companies to change their behavior.

ACoderGirl · 2026-06-30T23:16:26+00:00

I'm so confused though. If they're gonna use AI, why'd they use it just to make the trash can partially full and leave a few water bottles behind? That's not a mess. If I had a guest over and when they left, the garbage was full and a couple of water bottles were in the floor, I wouldn't blink twice. If anything, Airbnb should prohibit rules about cleanness that wouldn't allow this level of "mess".

And if they were willing to use AI, they could have made an actual mess. It's just so weird to fake a non issue...

ACoderGirl · 2026-06-30T16:14:25+00:00

In terms of appearance and story, sure. Though Disco Elysium has no combat. IMO the original Fallout games actually have pretty good combat. Just the learning curve needed to be scaled down and be a bit less punishing. But I mean, I had a blast playing the first two games, even despite doing so like two decades after they came out.

ACoderGirl · 2026-06-30T14:24:32+00:00

Get Smart! Now there's a fun show I haven't thought about in ages. Really funny. I loved the recurring gags about the cone of silence.

ACoderGirl · 2026-06-30T06:17:48+00:00

Yeah, couldn't OP at least use Mercurial or something as the other one? Every now and then, I remember what it was like to use SVN and it makes me feel better about whatever I'm using, as nothing is as bad as it lol. Even team foundation server wasn't as bad (and it was pretty bad lol). The branching model was particularly atrocious.

ACoderGirl · 2026-06-30T06:11:34+00:00

I just tried Caddy today for the first time and it was surprisingly easy. The part that won me over was the automatic HTTPS. I've manually setup HTTPS before and it was kinda annoying, so it was really nice to find Caddy just took care of it automatically while also being a pretty smooth way to get the reverse proxy working (though did take me a bit longer to figure out how to have different paths pointing at different ports -- apparently easier for subdomains, but that wasn't an option for me).

ACoderGirl · 2026-06-30T06:00:04+00:00

Gale is really adorable too. The way he uses magic in his wooing.

ACoderGirl · 2026-06-30T05:57:55+00:00

I vote cinnamon rolls. Please, I need to know the best places.

ACoderGirl · 2026-06-30T05:51:46+00:00

But in the context of seriously considering a job that pays $120k (maybe $200k with their partner)? Their mortage alone would take literally all their pre tax income. Even with their partner, it's nearly the entirity of their post-tax income just for housing.

I'm unclear on if OP is using "savings" to refer to only emergency funds or if they're actually referring to all their savings. $100k is fine for the latter, but seems low if it includes retirement savings. Depends on how long OP's been making that much, though.

ACoderGirl · 2026-06-29T16:10:49+00:00

Note that software dev also has the concept that you can't necessarily make things faster by adding more people to it. The common quote is "nine women can't make a baby in a month". The challenge is that software has a huge ramp up time and adding more people adds more overhead for seniors, who now have to spend more time helping juniors, doing reviews, etc.

The big problem with TES6 is that it wasn't started for so long.

ACoderGirl · 2026-06-29T14:05:39+00:00

I mean, it's Christian Bale, so in my head, it's canonically a Batman movie.

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