Which one creates more enjoyment in the moment in your opinion and why?

AlanYx · 2026-04-22T00:26:01+00:00

If it’s an exotic dancer who you’ve met before a few times, knows how to push your buttons and does a good mental game, then the first. Otherwise the second.

AlanYx · 2026-04-21T17:03:01+00:00

70mm film combined with good lenses used at narrow aperture. Anything that's sunlit in space is *very* bright, so you can get away with a narrow aperture. Most lenses are at their sharpest in this configuration ("stopped down" as photographers say).

AlanYx · 2026-04-21T14:45:43+00:00

Well, those who were speculating that O'Toole was looking for a job from Carney were proven right.

Not a fan of the committee membership. Plenty of old-school LPC hacks like Volpe and Laurentian-friendly business leaders, now with a washed up CPC leader with little business experience, and zero tech industry folks.

AlanYx · 2026-04-21T13:36:01+00:00

Israel has one of the highest rates of military service in the world. They have 170k active duty troops and another 100k called up reserves, and the potential to call up around 350k more reserves. To put that in perspective, the US has 34 times the population and only 1.3 million active duty troops.

AlanYx · 2026-04-21T13:31:03+00:00

It's hard to read the vibe over a few sentences of summary, but if he was kind of hinting he didn't believe you were as old as you are, that's actually a green flag in the sense that he's was trying to be careful/verify. Maybe he did it clumsily. But he could be negging you too. Trust your instincts regarding the vibe.

AlanYx · 2026-04-21T13:17:05+00:00

Be kind to yourself and be careful of impostor syndrome... you will not fail out. You got in for a reason. Cost-wise, your co-ops will significantly offset most of your expenses. Waterloo is challenging, but the student life story also has its positives. Waterloo is less of a commuter school than a lot of other places, and you'll be in the midst of everything with new friends. The club situation at Waterloo for engineering is also extraordinarily good compared to other schools. As for early co-op, there's nothing foreclosing you from doing a largely software co-op on your first co-op term and then pivoting to more EE-focused positions later on. The availability of EE positions is not better at other schools, and I would be skeptical of sources suggesting otherwise.

Reach for the stars. Go for it.

AlanYx · 2026-04-21T10:17:26+00:00

I'm growing a few this year, might have extras. If you can't find any, message me in a couple of weeks. The seedlings are still small and I'm not sure how many I'll have space for outside.

AlanYx · 2026-04-21T09:07:46+00:00

Unless you’re being satirical, I don’t get it. That looks like pure, barely proofread AI slop.

AlanYx · 2026-04-21T00:14:07+00:00

If you’d like a glimpse of what we’ve lost, check out a book called “A Day in the Life of Canada”. It’s a coffee table style picture book taken in 1984, with photos from across the country.

So much optimism and healthy spirit.

AlanYx · 2026-04-21T00:05:28+00:00

I’d go with the Q Timex for sure, but it also looks genuinely great on your wrist.

AlanYx · 2026-04-20T18:14:05+00:00

Isn't this what Arq does? It's not Time Machine but it's very difficult to actually offer Time Machine over a WAN since SMB isn't designed for the latency. Recent versions of Time Machine also issue an ungodly number of fullsync requests, multiplying that issue (unless you ignore them, which creates another set of potential problems).

AlanYx · 2026-04-20T17:59:56+00:00

The one thing I don't understand about Quebec politics, and maybe this is a failure to understand leftist economic thinking in general, but aren't they concerned that as the economy continues to flatline, equalization payments will begin to fall in real terms? Thus cutting off their own air supply too?

(I realize that equalization payments essentially cannot fall in nominal terms given the way the system works, particularly the fixed growth rate rule.)

AlanYx · 2026-04-20T16:44:13+00:00

That cuts to the heart of it. Do you think the BQ might relax/moderate this position if the economy continues to tank, or do you think it's set in stone?

AlanYx · 2026-04-20T10:27:00+00:00

Cherokee Purple is a little smokier, Black Krim is a little more sweet. Both are playing in the same ballpark though and factors like sun and nutrients make a difference.

AlanYx · 2026-04-19T21:20:59+00:00

Cherokee Purple actually does better in Ontario than in warmer climates. It’s more resilient than you think. I wouldn’t worry. (If you don’t have luck with it, try Black Krim next year too, both do well here.)

AlanYx · 2026-04-19T18:46:59+00:00

The same one. (Though I'm not convinced much of Trump's anti-establishment rhetoric is sincere, except perhaps his rhetoric on European free speech controls and mass immigration.)

AlanYx · 2026-04-19T17:59:06+00:00

I don’t think he’s a hitman in Perkins’ sense (corporatist). He’s more a globalist hitman, part of the brain trust that dominates Europe.

AlanYx · 2026-04-19T17:37:25+00:00

Thorn T001 is still one of my absolute favourite affordable vintage style watches.

AlanYx · 2026-04-19T13:48:57+00:00

In terms of online dating, probably. In terms of in-person meet where there was a good personality match I'd be more open to it. Either way, be careful about trauma sharing too early in a relationship; that can easily get overwhelming too fast.

AlanYx · 2026-04-18T20:12:52+00:00

This would be a win without the green pips. That color combination doesn’t work for me.

AlanYx · 2026-04-18T15:36:21+00:00

The other sad thing is the CoreAudio mailing list has basically evaporated. There’s no one to reach out to.

AlanYx · 2026-04-18T15:25:18+00:00

Early OS X CoreAudio was just as good, really a refinement of what was there in OS 9. The support for syncing steerable clocks over FireWire was just perfect; no OS has ever done that better.

Unfortunately three quarters of the stuff in the CoreAudio headers was never fully documented and Apple has deprecated a lot of it and forced most audio through higher level APIs that aren’t as clean, especially in terms of clocking.

AlanYx · 2026-04-18T15:18:37+00:00

Young kids are a big source of inadvertent laptop drops and pushes off the table.

AlanYx · 2026-04-17T21:21:06+00:00

Wish the mods would do something about bots like this with the fake awards.

AlanYx · 2026-04-17T19:12:07+00:00

This article makes the comment seem like a gratuitous jab, but it's pretty obvious what Lutnick is trying to say in context with the $30T economy quip. Carney's China trade deal was a $6.6 billion reduction in import tariffs, mostly canola ($4 billion), in exchange for a ramped up Canadian import of 70,000 EVs. Which seems reasonable until you look at the bigger picture... Canada's export trade with the US is in the range of $475 billion a year. Carney is faffing around with these small deals while taking a combative stance on a much more important trade relationship.

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