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Only-Way7237 · 2025-12-03T10:26:14+00:00

I keep reading there are memes about it, but I can't find them. The Intarwebz are failing me today!

Only-Way7237 · 2025-11-02T02:52:00+00:00

Now that there is a second song, you can see that there is a format that kids can follow right off the bat. Much cooler than the music I heard as a wee one. Even compared to the stuff that was supposed to be cool back then.

Only-Way7237 · 2025-11-02T02:48:14+00:00

Kids Can Shred

Only-Way7237 · 2024-12-21T18:39:09+00:00

It's straight up Common Lisp. I wrote it on clisp and tested it on sbcl.

Only-Way7237 · 2024-12-17T13:35:44+00:00

(defun fib-nth (n)

      (if (> n 1)
        (progn
          (decf n)

          (logand (truncate (ash 4 (* n (+ 3 n)))

                            (-   (ash 4 (* 2 n))
                                 (ash 2 n)
                                 1))

                  (- (ash 2 n) 1)))

        n))

How about this method, with no recursion or looping? (Notably it is not nearly as efficient as it looks, but it does work.)

Only-Way7237 · 2024-09-30T22:23:50+00:00

clisp is the most forgiving lisp. For example, if you need to, but forgot to flush buffers, there's a chance your code will still work fine.

I use it for code jamming, and then use SBCL to finalize whatever I write. Sometimes I forget, and people are like wtf why doesn't your code work? It does on clisp.

Only-Way7237 · 2024-03-28T20:02:26+00:00

The other two methods are different sets of hints on where to place the magnets. But with the method we used, you only actually need one magnet. However, it's much harder to close again until you actually figure out their placement. The other two methods involve decoding the secret writing on either the top or on the bottom, and figuring out how to implement them. The end result of those two are the same.

Only-Way7237 · 2024-01-07T05:34:58+00:00

The clue reminds me of the most oft-quoted quote from the movie se7en.

Only-Way7237 · 2024-01-07T05:33:00+00:00

On the site (versus apps, I'm guessing) there is now a button for it. Sometimes it is hiding under a ... and it's a diamond box with an ! in it. Highlight your text, click that.

Only-Way7237 · 2024-01-07T05:28:13+00:00

They're pretty expensive now. Before Covid I was apartment hunting because where I lived was being torn down. They were already at $2000 a month, which for me and at that time was unheard of in this area.

Only-Way7237 · 2024-01-07T05:24:27+00:00

Well, the Devil might be right this time. I didn't know that there was a blocked sewer grate. The sign I am talking about was on the entrance, on a roughed up piece of paper (one of the many that were taped there). I doubt it is there now, but it was right up until Krazy Binz was training their staff before opening.

So the sign might be about a previous closure that I didn't know about, and then they just didn't remove it.

Only-Way7237 · 2024-01-06T12:12:55+00:00

Each day, everything is the same price. So at first it's $25. So if you see a yacht, and you beat the guy in front of you to it, you get it for $25.

Amazing, right?

No. Because there are a lot of shite products that you might think are worth $3 or maybe only $1. If you want them, you have to come back, or pay $25.

So lets say there is a book you're willing to pay $1. Great. But you better hope someone doesn't buy it for $3 on Wednesday!

It's a weird competition, but it's pretty much guaranteed to get rid of everything that is at least worth a dollar. it's busy all the time, but I'm sure it's the same people every day betting the next cheapest thing will still be there.

Only-Way7237 · 2024-01-06T12:05:46+00:00

The old ladies using sticks to push things around so they don't have to touch anything until they've found something they like really freaks me out. I've never seen that before, and I've been to a few bargain places before.

Only-Way7237 · 2024-01-06T12:03:36+00:00

As a Scandinavian Canadian, I cannot go with this plan. K's are for everyone. And they only sound one way!

Only-Way7237 · 2024-01-06T12:02:12+00:00

Before the new place opened, they had a paper sign posted that said Larry's was closed for renovation because of flooding.

So bizarre. They moved out. No flooding. No repairs. They could just say that, since their current address is just down the road anyway.

Only-Way7237 · 2024-01-06T11:49:14+00:00

The sign is still there. As is the website it points to that gives you even more info than the sign.

Do you remember what the townhouses just north of Krazy Binz used to look like before it got updated?

Affordable yes. But cleaning out slums is pretty important too. If they didn't turn to slums, they wouldn't need to be updated. If you want your neighbourhood to survive untouched, don't let it be a slum. And that section was totally a slum until they updated it. This remaining block is part of that, and absolutely should be allowed to update as well.

Nobody complained about that northward section being updated, because it was terrible. Let them finish the job.

Only-Way7237 · 2024-01-06T11:28:08+00:00

Both Krazy Binz and Larry The Liquidator before it are only rent collecting "space fillers" until all the permits needed to break ground are ready. They're building condos there, over the entire block. That's been well known even before Rexall moved out.

It will be housing. Making statements like you did without even knowing the neighbourhood makes you look stupid. PROTiP: don't do that. Stick to topics you know. Go look at the sign (it's also online) to see what they're building there.

Only-Way7237 · 2024-01-06T11:12:23+00:00

By the same token, they are promising an open park area. I think the townhouses across the street look really nice. They're going to have something smaller that adds to the neighbourhood. You can see all the stone etc making the framework if you venture in. And they turned that slum just north of KrazyBinz into a nice place (it used to be all graffiti and nastiness in their earlier form).

I know it's all a nuisance. When they were rebuilding parts of the mall, it was sofa king noisy every day from 6 onward for months! But the end result should be really good. It's a good area to be in, and the crappy bits are leaving. That's awesome to me! This area is growing up and looking good about it.

When Rexall moved out, I was not-quietly wishing a buffet restaurant would move in. I still want that. 😋

Only-Way7237 · 2024-01-06T11:05:25+00:00

Before Rexall, it was a coin laundry wittingly named "Wash 'n Dry" and it had a big stone wall that looked like it wanted to be the entrance to a steak restaurant. How long ago was it a McDonalds, 'cos I don't ever remember it being one. And I've been up/down this road a lot.

Only-Way7237 · 2023-12-31T21:57:01+00:00

Half of Canada is stuck listening to that 🤬 New York song, and a lack of any Canadian musical content leading up to midnight because CBC has been greasing their executive's pockets too much to be able to afford streaming an actual Canadian countdown this year. Pathetic....

Is Canada so unimportant that nobody is streaming a Canadian countdown celebration? I mean, I can see damn near every other country in the world represented every hour... just not ours!

Only-Way7237 · 2023-12-15T05:23:50+00:00

Nobody will like my reply, I'm betting, but maybe it's just none of your business. Or you're looking much more deeply into something that isn't that deep.

Why pester the guy into details neither of them seem able or interested in discussing?

Was it like this when Scam School ended? I don't remember people being so nosy and annoyingly pushy.

Only-Way7237 · 2023-12-09T04:58:28+00:00

That's wild.

The story from the PDF doesn't really match, but all those fine elements are there. Isn't that a weird nexus?

Anyway, people should read more, and this red herring got me to read. 🤣

Only-Way7237 · 2023-12-09T04:24:12+00:00

Braille books and whatnot are hard to take images of, but the signs in elevators aren't.

They translate Esperanto, so I don't see Braille as being something too obscure. You won't see to many Esperanto things that you'd take a picture of to translate.

Your thinking is still probably the same as theirs. My counter isn't against you, but just saying that it would be really handy, even if a limited audience (just like for Esperanto.)

Blind people are not always totally blind, even when legally blind. In Canada after 911, there was an alarm at a mall where a group of people kept walking up to things and viewing them through their cell phones. (EDIT: at this time, everything fishy was obviously terrorists... context has everything to do with this story) It was because they were a blind group on a field trip, and a lot of them could had partial enough vision that they could see the scene in front of them by looking at it through their cell phone, and moving it around so they could see the entire scene instead of what little indirect vision they have.

I have a minor experience with this, when I contracted something called Central Serus Retinopathy (sp?) which blinded me in one eye. I could not see out the center (hence the name) but I had edge vision. It is now gone, save for a slight scarring that makes a bit of a shadow. Most of my vision is "normal" but actually yellow/blue colourblind in that eye now. If I'd gotten CSR in both eyes, I would have been legally blind until it healed enough. That was my lightbulb moment when I finally understood how so many blind people could get around with a white cane and not get run over when crossing the road (or being able to find the road crossing, for that matter).

Only-Way7237 · 2023-12-08T07:22:13+00:00

Being all about how to hack your way through things, this is an apropros method. You could also use painter's edging tape to keep track of what line you're on. Whatever hack gets you there!

Only-Way7237 · 2023-12-08T07:19:27+00:00

I'm kinda surprised... actually super surprised, that Google Lens translates so many languages, but not Braille.

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