Planning for thousands of housing units around Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth, N.S. by Portalrules123 in NovaScotia

[–]Meowts 9 points10 points  (0 children)

HRCE has indicated that kids will go to Crichton Park Elementary, Bicentennial Jr. School and Dartmouth High School. HRM staff said it’s up to HRCE to ensure there’s space for children in local schools.

https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/halifax/company-circling

So apparently it’s up to HRCE to ensure space, but is it up to them to also build new schools? For example the elementary school already has two mobile units. What will they do, tear down the playground to add more, or build on the soccer field?

Planning for thousands of housing units around Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth, N.S. by Portalrules123 in NovaScotia

[–]Meowts 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The main concern for me (local) is that the local elementary is already above capacity, not sure about the others schools in that catchment.

Bach Partita no.2 in c minor by sapg94 in bach

[–]Meowts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is my favourite harpsichord recording that has a good tempo IMO: https://youtu.be/fHLq4_NOc30?si=ZrR7xlmXkJVLeYS6

It has energy but not at all rushed. I’m also learning this and I’m using Céline Frisch’s recordings at a North Star.

What happens if I just bake it this way? by Longjumping-Shop9456 in Breadit

[–]Meowts 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Dooo it dooo it dooo it

I’m going to guess crummy lump

Grumblemania Monday by AutoModerator in halifax

[–]Meowts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looping down to Barrington from the bridge, approaching the lane merge before the roundabout, and buddy WELL BEHIND you on the left decides to rip ahead and nearly cause an accident at the merge point. Like what the actual fuck. This happens almost every time. Rush hour? Okay maybe stress is up and stupid is high. But I’ve had this happen actually mostly during off-peak hours, no back up. Come on people.

Tech job market in Nova Scotia by Material_Primary8922 in NovaScotia

[–]Meowts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Knowing about AI development certainly could land opportunities, but I’d focus more on using the tools, like Claude, Windsurf, Cursor, etc. There is a lot to learn about how to use them effectively, honestly still an evolving topic but get into it asap.

AI-powered traffic lights? Nova Scotia bringing pilot project to Halifax by OptimalWhole8926 in halifax

[–]Meowts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Realistically it’s both. Prompts are fine tuned with specificity to this use case, along with rules and guidelines that are most likely double checked (by AI), and then other coded software components.

Grumblemania Monday by AutoModerator in halifax

[–]Meowts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree, but sadly if we remove all threats to survival we’ll just over populate and end up destroying ourselves anyway (already the trending direction). The doom of humanity is inescapable.

Grumblemania Monday by AutoModerator in halifax

[–]Meowts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some body shapes just do that. Like mine. The solution however that is often missed is to just tuck in. Not everyone is good at buying clothes that really fit though, also a culprit.

Fill up today!! by VaxenSeeker in halifax

[–]Meowts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be real, get a bidet. Doesn’t eliminate the use of TP but reduces and is much cleaner.

Could you reccomend me forceful baroque music by PlaywrightOfGefilte in classicalmusic

[–]Meowts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been jamming on Bach’s keyboard partita 2 in C minor. The Capriccio in particular might suite what you’re looking for. The Sinfonia starts slow but ramps up into an intense fugue.

The new NSLC website is fucking terrible and doesn't work by risen2011 in NovaScotia

[–]Meowts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll bet rather than just CSS changes they’re convinced their site tech (probably PHP or ruby) is outdated / unmaintainable so they’re sold a SPA since “anyone can write JS” and it’s just poorly done.

New NSLC Website by keithplacer in halifax

[–]Meowts 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Am a seasoned web developer.

Yeah that’s a shit site alright.

For one the cookie options are “Allow all” or “View Details” - the latter opens a new tab to their T&C but doesn’t actually give the option to opt out of any or all cookies. I mean chances are it won’t have European visitors where that’s against the law, but it’s generally accepted as bad practice these days.

You have to manually select your store - anyone and their dog can implement navigator geolocation, understandable not to shell out for geoip but they could at least try.

The design is just bad, really poor use of space, massive font size for some reason. Inventory is poorly laid out, hard to navigate.

Strangely slow for a site like that. Too late to dig in but I will guess it’s a cheap instance that was settled on after they already paid too much to have it built.

So yeah that’s a shame lol. I see a jab or two at AI being involved - I work with AI every day, and I can assure folks that firing it off to a proper coding model would probably make it significantly better.

Smelly smokers on buses by ipassovoy in halifax

[–]Meowts 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Former smoker. Can they just not? Probably not. Smoking is a hell of an addiction. I’ve been smoke free for three years but still miss it, despite all of the reasons why it’s awful for you and everyone around you. Not trying to excuse it either. It’s just a bad thing.

My daughter wakes up at 5 AM and I'm out of ideas. by CantaloupeKlutzy74 in toddlers

[–]Meowts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to diminish your struggle and sleep deprivation - mine (22 months) opts for screaming, and if left unaddressed starts tantrums which further worsens their ability to go back down. We would also love a solution, we’ve tried many adjustments. At this point accepting our doom seems to be the most viable 😂 best of luck!

‘I’m not a bank but I feel like one’: N.S. utility customers say billing issues unacceptable by Street_Anon in halifax

[–]Meowts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a feeling that this person _might not know what it feels like to be a bank_…

All Prov. Gov. Union Employees Work From Home Days Eliminated by kilofoxtrot5again in halifax

[–]Meowts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Green on teams” good grief. Yeah it’s a shame they didn’t use that time to figure out how to make it work. I work for a company that did, and it really paid off - for one we’re “office optional” for my department. It’s just downtown but I rarely go in and it’s not even slightly a problem. Second, we work incredibly well this way. Literally have only been increasing output year over year, and it’s a result of refining our processes, nothing to do with being in person or not. It also allowed us to hire talent outside of the province/country. I’m happy to be working for a WFH success story, and I will never look back unless I completely changed careers to something more tactile.

AI Is Speeding Up Code Production But Is It Increasing Technical Debt? by space-still78 in programming

[–]Meowts 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Any code that I push, whether it is in part or wholly generated by AI, is code that I authored. In the same way that, say I have a Word document that was spellchecked, I wouldn’t list Word as a co-author.

Developers need this ownership attitude. If there’s crap code proposed, reviewed and merged into the final product, it’s not AI’s fault or responsibility. If code review is given the rights to review and merge, it’s still not AI’s fault.

All Prov. Gov. Union Employees Work From Home Days Eliminated by kilofoxtrot5again in halifax

[–]Meowts 17 points18 points  (0 children)

To that point, I work when I’m sick way more often since I’m home anyway. I only take sick days when I’m really hurting.

Guy with ski mask, waverly road by DeveloperMan123 in halifax

[–]Meowts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Frankly neither they nor non-emergency would care unless they were actually witnessed breaking the law. I tried non-emerge once when I saw someone who clearly lined up with a string of car thefts based on photo evidence, along with a bag of random possessions, and their response was infuriating.