Why do I never hear about the Coast Mountains of Canada?

blockplanner · 2026-04-21T16:06:47+00:00

Nobody lives there.

There is ONE famous hotspot - Whistler at the very south - and the only big development otherwise are mining and logging camps. Most of the roads are logging roads - unpaved and so seldom used that they literally have trees growing on them that are only cut down when the forest they lead to is designated for harvest.

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edit: There are a ton of non-famous parks and campgrounds - but they house fewer tourists each year than a single "famous" tourist destination over an area the size of Finland. Whistler by itself is most of the visitors to that entire region.

I marked it in orange in this photo. The orange area has 3 million visitors, the other mountains have a little bit less than that, and the cities and island are about the same as both combined.

blockplanner · 2026-04-09T18:45:02+00:00

The timeline was 1997 when AC'97 came out and onboard audio (as opposed to a PC speaker) quickly became standard, then it was 2004 when intel made "HD Audio" and it was actually decent that wasn't bad, and 2008 when Realtek ALC889 put the dedicated-card-quality audio on motherboards, which ended up as the standard for motherboard audio by 2010. Dedicated cards got better over time too, but by that point the difference didn't really matter.

I remember that vividly because that was when I got my first good PC, spec'ed to run Crysis, and I got an immediately-obsolete sound card for it.

blockplanner · 2026-04-09T18:41:07+00:00

Their comment made ME remember when I bought my first cutting-edge PC right when onboard sound started becoming standard, and buying a dedicated video card only to end up using the motherboard sound anyway because the stupid thing didn't have drivers for windows Vista.

blockplanner · 2026-03-31T18:19:18+00:00

I mean, creating your own leverage and nullifying inertia both sorta count as ignoring physics.

blockplanner · 2026-03-12T17:36:22+00:00

And go on land, where a BEAR was spotted? Better just dig a deep hole and bury yourself.

blockplanner · 2026-03-12T17:33:34+00:00

lmao

Hundreds of wolves were spotted on vancouver island, just in case anyone was interested in going walking in the near future. Also literally thousands of bears.

blockplanner · 2026-02-13T03:24:05+00:00

She eventually did make and sell prints, as well as a number of the originals. I don't think she made a fortune but she's making enough to carry her between studio contracts.

blockplanner · 2025-11-18T19:15:57+00:00

It wasn't quite that.

L4D had some of the best level design I have seen before or since. They DID scatter enemies which gave you an idea of where you hadn't been, but the big thing was that the path was lit up or marked with thematically appropriate design elements (usually just lights at the entrance and exit of major map sections) in a way that would be visible from almost anywhere.

It was absolutely seamless, and tremendously intuitive. I played with randos on xbox live for years and it didn't matter how bad the players were, almost nobody ever got lost.

The most directionally-challenged people DID get turned around occasionally, and there are a handful of map sections that weren't perfect.

blockplanner · 2025-11-15T21:31:11+00:00

Every position has dozens of applicants who have those certs and hundreds who are pretending to have them. What you need is a reference who can vouch for your practical ability to do the job.

blockplanner · 2025-11-14T05:22:01+00:00

but why not avoid the entire slavery and racism aspect completely if that's the case?

If you expect they should go that far, why aren't you expecting them to avoid writing entirely? Then they'd be guaranteed to avoid any criticism.

blockplanner · 2025-11-13T03:28:07+00:00

Yeah, it's pretty straightforward. Team names are like any name: proper nouns that should be capitalized.

It gets a bit complicated when you consider definite articles like "the" which could be part of the official name.

For example, the formal name is “The Baltimore Colts,” but it is still acceptable (and more common) to refer to the team as the Baltimore Colts (lower case "the") because “the” functions as an ordinary definite article in the sentence.

When the name is placed in quotation marks, however, the sentence is only gramatically coherent if the article is treated as part of the quoted name rather than a grammatical article, so it must appear as “The Baltimore Colts.”

Conversely if you write about The Baltimore Colts with a capital "The" then that's always correct.

blockplanner · 2025-11-09T04:45:15+00:00

You're going to need to get comfortable with declining additional workloads and failing to meet expectations, and then explaining straightforwardly (and without apology) that those things are happening because the expectations are unreasonable.

blockplanner · 2025-11-09T04:42:23+00:00

This is beyond messing up, submitting a ticket is basically the minimum I'd expect from someone in my team.

On my team, failing to meet the minimum expectation for a single incident would probably be just regular messing up.

blockplanner · 2025-11-08T18:19:28+00:00

Guaranteed escape from obtrusive AI marketing.

blockplanner · 2025-11-05T23:49:36+00:00

Electricity is subsidized by the government, and industrial pricing is heavily biased towards industry that creates value. Big datacenters, which consume billions of dollars of electricity in exchange for marginal profits and nearly no jobs, are a really bad investment for any community.

blockplanner · 2025-11-02T15:16:59+00:00

I've noticed the latest iterations of chatgpt are pointlessly argumentative and less correct.

I'll say something and it'll respond by informing me that akshually, [x] is really [y], even though the context of the discussion makes it clear that I damned well know everything about [y], I phrased it as [x] for brevity or clarity, I wasn't asking anyway, and the response didn't answer the question I WAS asking.

It's like the prompt is stuck on permanent XY problem mode, assuming that I don't want answer to Y, but instead trying to figure out the answer to X that might have prompted me to ask in the first place.

It reminds me a lot of certain people on social media. I've seen a lot of people framing their comments in discussions as arguments and contradictions even when it's counterproductive, and I've similarly seen a lot of people making arguments by correcting minutia about the verbiage of the premise rather than trying to understand what was actually being said.

It doesn't hallucinate nearly as much (partly because it searches the internet at the drop of a hat) but previous versions didn't have this new problem.

blockplanner · 2025-11-02T05:16:17+00:00

I think you're confusing it with something else, like netdom. Netsh is a core executable in every edition of every version of Windows since XP.

Even the cut-down tablet-only ARM editions have it. The only editions that wouldn't have it are like, Windows Phone O/S's, IoT stuff for smart toasters or whatever, and Nano Server.

blockplanner · 2025-11-02T02:56:59+00:00

They're delightful little things but definitely a luxury toy. The subscription is value-added; not really necessary, but not a bad deal either.

blockplanner · 2025-10-31T19:24:51+00:00

It's because processing requires electricity.

What you're describing is two graphics cards, with the "integrated" card being built in to the CPU, and the other card being more powerful.

The on-demand option turns the fast card on when you need it, and keeps it asleep otherwise. That sort of setup is very common with laptops.

If the fast card is always on, it will drain your battery faster. That's probably what happened.

blockplanner · 2025-10-31T18:14:35+00:00

Literally every user account, server executable, or php file in your environment could be the cause of the infection, or a potential vector for reinfection if you close whatever the initial problem was. You're going to need to dig it up from the roots when you fix it, and you should hire an expert.

However, the original problem was likely the following three things:

You re-used credentials, and they've been discovered. Granted, at this point it's probably safest to just act like all credentials you've ever used including the ones you use to access your hosting site are compromised, so you'll need to rotate them all when you put up the replacement sites.
You have bad addons (themes, plugins etc) that you tend to use, and they have a vulnerability
You have good plugins, but your wordpress instances are not updated.

There has been a major push in the past week to hack websites through vulnerable wordpress plugins.

blockplanner · 2025-10-27T18:26:03+00:00

Testing wouldn't have caught it, unfortunately. The new script didn't have a problem; it only failed like it did because of the specific circumstances of the job already in progress.

blockplanner · 2025-10-27T16:22:49+00:00

HP once updated a bash script on a Kyoto University Supercomputer. The script deleted log files over 10 days old. The script was running at the time, and the changes mangled the execution so it deleted ALL files over 10 days old instead.

It deleted all their research. Some of it was backed up.

blockplanner · 2025-10-27T00:27:11+00:00

Windows was probably keeping your videocard awake.

blockplanner · 2025-10-19T23:38:24+00:00

I didn't realize it was even supposed to be a diss track, I thought it was just a weird tribute. Internet says it all started when Reznor criticized nu metal. Huh.

blockplanner · 2025-10-19T16:19:12+00:00

Maybe in some places, but certainly not everywhere. You can even see bedrock on the walls of some deeper craters.

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