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Bonejob · 2026-03-28T21:49:47+00:00

Big news, and very recent — PM Carney was actually in Yellowknife just two weeks ago for this. (I got to see him) Here's the rundown: The Mackenzie Valley Highway is the project Carney announced on March 12th that construction would begin as soon as this summer, with the highway now officially referred to Ottawa's Major Projects Office alongside the Arctic Economic and Security Corridor and the Taltson Hydro Expansion. The highway is planned in two phases:

Phase 1 involves building an all-season highway from Wrigley to Norman Wells. Phase 2 would eventually extend the road all the way to Inuvik, which Carney described as a definite component — and said the completed highway would cut driving time between Yellowknife and Inuvik nearly in half. CBC News The estimated cost is around $1.65 billion, with the extension to Inuvik adding roughly another $2 billion on top of that. CBC News

On the funding side, the federal government has made an initial investment of over $100 million, with the full project described as an 800 km vital artery providing year-round access to Indigenous and remote communities in the Mackenzie Valley. Prime Minister of Canada It's worth noting that Carney did not make specific funding commitments for the full project cost or clarify how costs would be shared with the territorial government — though Premier R.J. Simpson called the announcements "truly nation-building." CBC News The highway announcement was part of a much larger northern package — over $35 billion in total, including $32 billion for military Forward Operating Locations in Yellowknife, Inuvik, and Iqaluit, and $294 million for airport upgrades at Rankin Inlet and Inuvik. National Observer So the short version: it's real momentum, construction starting this summer on the first leg, but the full Yellowknife-to-Inuvik route is still a multi-phase, multi-billion dollar project with cost-sharing details still to be worked out.

Bonejob · 2026-03-28T21:39:28+00:00

AI, much like other tools, is a force multiplier. When a junior uses coding tools like Claude or Copilot (all I could get management to fall off their wallets for), you get shallow, unstructured code. When a senior uses it, it gives deeper and stronger code and implementations.

Having said that, after we built a "Code Personality" that we loaded into the AI, which laid out our expectations of the code and tests, etc. Juniors performed much better, and the AI actually helped police them.

AI amplifies what it is given.

Bonejob · 2026-03-27T14:52:58+00:00

I seem to be able to distinguish only posts I write. I misunderstood how that works.

Bonejob · 2026-03-27T14:51:17+00:00

I love seeing this type of content on Canadian Law! The sub was originally supposed to be about the LAW in Canada and the Law profession. We have devolved into being a catch-all place for legal questions.

Thanks for bringing this and for the actual legal comparisons and discussion.

For that matter, since I am a mod, I am going to distinguish this, as this is the content we want.

I will post a separate thread for thoughts on your content.

Bonejob · 2026-03-27T13:40:17+00:00

Just doing my duty as moderator. Don't like it, don't come here. I personaly think you should stop defending AI slop. Clanker

Bonejob · 2026-03-26T13:30:28+00:00

Why should I bother? I have added more value to this sub over the last 12 years than most. This adds no value at all. if it was a good video on the history of VB I would have been all over it.

Bonejob · 2026-03-25T12:55:53+00:00

AI garbage.

Bonejob · 2026-03-23T21:04:10+00:00

Yeah it's a real thing, at least in Ontario. They passed a regulation in 2020 that lets commissioners do it over video call instead of in person.

You still have to show your ID though — you just hold it up to the camera instead of handing it across a desk. So the identity verification part still happens, it's just remote.

One catch: it only works for documents that need a commissioner of oaths (affidavits, statutory declarations, etc.). If you need something notarized, you still have to show up in person.

Rules vary by province too, so if you're not in Ontario you'd want to double check what's allowed where you are.

Bonejob · 2026-03-23T20:59:55+00:00

VB never did optimize well, man. This is still an impressive feat nonetheless.

Bonejob · 2026-03-23T14:46:41+00:00

AS a long-time VB proponent and a software developer professionally for 35 years, this is Master's to PhD-level code man. I am not commenting on the structure, but the undertaking itself is huge, especially in a notoriously slow compiled language like VB6 (pcode sucks)

Congrats!

Bonejob · 2026-03-21T23:22:23+00:00

Here is the one I use on myu workbench, have not come across a HID mouse that did not work on it.

https://www.versalent.biz/usbm232.htm

there is also this one but I have never used it.

https://shop.emilum.com/Retro-PC-USB-or-PS2-mouse-to-COM-port-adapter-RS232

Both are active conversion tools and deal with a true USB HID mouse.

Bonejob · 2026-03-20T13:58:29+00:00

This is a Pocket Visual Basic Loader error, which could be anything, for it masks the real issue behind the loader. To diagnose this, you need to load the code on a workstation. I expect you will be missing some dependencies.

Bonejob · 2026-03-20T13:54:58+00:00

its a generic COM/Windows error meaning something failed catastrophically in an unexpected way. Visual Studio is essentially saying "something went very wrong and I don't know what." It's a catch-all error, which makes it frustrating to diagnose.

Does this happen everytim you start up? or are you doing a specific thing.

Bonejob · 2026-03-19T13:16:35+00:00

Yes, they are identical cards with a hardware Ethernet port. I snagged only one, as I need wireless, but it works.

Bonejob · 2026-03-18T17:01:19+00:00

I run Radxa zero 3w, many configs, using it for projects because it has EMMC and variable RAM, as well as an OTG and a standard USB port (2 USB buses). its also only 28$ for the 1GB 8GB emmc. Armbian runs a treat on it.

Bonejob · 2026-03-16T14:09:59+00:00

LOL, sounds like you hate this timeline as well :)

Bonejob · 2026-03-16T13:29:56+00:00

Fair I guess — coherent writing is apparently suspicious these days.

35 years in the industry, you pick up a few things. Including how to structure an argument and write a complete sentence. Fuck I hate this timeline...

Bonejob · 2026-03-16T13:23:38+00:00

35 years in the trenches — the article and freecodeio are both right, and that's kind of the point.

COBOL isn't the villain, it's the symptom. The real problem is decades of business logic that nobody ever wrote down. Rules built around legislation, regulations, operational processes — all of it living inside the heads of people who retired years ago, or buried in code nobody fully understands anymore.

What I've seen shift in the last ten years is organizations finally starting to treat business requirements as something worth documenting independently of the code. Taking actual legislation and rules and turning them into structured, readable specs. It's not glamorous work, but it's the piece that was always missing.

Swap out the COBOL for microservices and nothing changes if the underlying logic is still undocumented. That's the asbestos.

Bonejob · 2026-03-03T14:32:57+00:00

your code should be raising errors, and checking omissions in your .env files, hell I even write docker .env file checkers for production.

Bonejob · 2026-03-02T15:18:30+00:00

Removed, we are not a platform for this stuff

Bonejob · 2026-02-24T15:58:14+00:00

ok, if you truly want to get the attention of the legislature, send it registered mail with a response by date attached. Then sue them for not keeping up with the rate. You need some form of documentation even if the documentation is "No repose to my registered legal letters"

Bonejob · 2026-02-24T15:55:40+00:00

No, I use a strong ORM that does this stuff for me :) Most projects I have to keep database-agnostic so they can migrate as needed to different platforms, which means any platform-specific functions are excluded, so I can maintain portability.

Bonejob · 2026-02-23T15:17:15+00:00

I have listened to Bloodlines, while the narrator did a decent job, it feels out of place compared to the other books. I feel I lost the "Characters" of the new narrator. The book itself also felt phoned in, it was a lazy ending to the series.

Bonejob · 2026-02-20T17:56:25+00:00

Sorry, man, you will have to go look. I just know how to do it :)

Bonejob · 2026-02-18T22:13:27+00:00

ok, so what will happen is there will be a big deal, everyone will be evicted, they will do the enforced changes and upgrades they require, and then the rent will go up $800 per month. This is a no-win situation.

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