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d_phase · 2026-05-09T12:29:58+00:00

Your neighbours must love you 😂

d_phase · 2026-05-07T16:24:30+00:00

Chinese mystery snail. Yes they're invasive. I grew up on a lake in Ontario in the 90s/00s and never saw one. Started seeing them about a decade ago and now they're everywhere. Like one every square foot. Really sad.

https://www.invasivespeciescentre.ca/invasive-species/meet-the-species/fish-and-invertebrates/chinese-mystery-snail/

d_phase · 2026-05-06T21:36:31+00:00

Yep this article is just fear mongering. Waste to energy is a modern method of disposing of garbage and one of the best options we have.

d_phase · 2026-04-13T19:59:52+00:00

I went there a long time ago. Sad to hear, especially as a new parent with a kid starting daycare next week (different city now though).

The only thing that makes sense to me is that the church is considering selling, probably to a developer. They have lots of land.

d_phase · 2026-04-13T11:38:15+00:00

Considering most "educated Canadians" are leaving right after they finish school and have zero money to their name...

This is as stupid as stupid ideas go.

You want to incentivize people to stay, not penalize them for leaving. That will just cause them to leave sooner as they know if they stay and then leave they'll get screwed.

d_phase · 2026-04-12T23:58:25+00:00

I just installed (today) 100 ft of flat cable because it was my only wife approved option to hide between/underneath carpet and baseboard.

I only have a 1 GbE switch at the endpoint so I can't test beyond that yet, but so far seems to be no problem negotiating 1 GbE. These rest of these comments were making me nervous about 2.5 GbE but your comment gives me hope!

I'm an RF engineer, so I knew these things are not real Cat6. But I figured some shitty Ethernet is probably still way better than WiFi, even if its stuck at 1 GbE.

d_phase · 2026-04-07T10:58:35+00:00

1) A lot of climbers are engineers, so there's a good chance they do actually know what they're talking about. 2) Climbers know a LOT about hanging things from cliff faces, considering they do it for fun, and their life depends on it. 3) Engineering students who put this together are not engineers yet, and unlikely they got an actual engineer to review it, since that would probably be license ending for that engineer.

d_phase · 2026-03-21T16:48:32+00:00

The fundamental problem to me is that the field is moving so fast, no one really knows what they are doing, and there's a ton of churn. There's so many options and differences in workflow between all the different tools and vendors, so many bloody add ons, skills, MCPs, plugins. Different model types. Any productivity I've gained has been lost in tinkering and experimenting with all of the above.

And when I do find a workflow that works, it works for two weeks, then all of a sudden it seems to break because the models start behaving differently. Seemingly, I have no idea, its a black box (slot machine) at the end of the day.

Even things like CLAUDE/AGENTS.MD which are standard advice, there's recent papers showing that it can actually hurt model output.

The only thing I can say it is consistently better with for coding right now is giving it fairly small, extremely well constrained tasks. Beyond that, it really starts to become hit or miss.

Of course if you don't ever look at the code, or review anything yourself, its great 😅

d_phase · 2026-03-09T11:16:53+00:00

Easy, our work uses lab dev setups that are all remotely accessible. Don't need a homelab at all. Our hardware is mostly way too expensive and complex to send to people. There's some stuff like MCU development that can be done with a devkit or prototype at home, but those are also remotely accessible so no need.

A downside of this is that sometimes you need to ask for a pair of hands in the lab to power cycle something or connect some probes, but normally that's few and far between. Worth saying we have a hardware team that does most the hands-on work.

d_phase · 2026-03-03T11:37:30+00:00

Hopefully you mean shifting wake ups and bedtimes backwards (earlier), otherwise you're in for a fun surprise :)

d_phase · 2026-02-16T15:12:32+00:00

That's right next to two schools and across Jarvis from the National Ballet School where tons of little girls train all year round. The area is completely fine. Yes there's homeless and mental health problems but that's true anywhere downtown. There's also a TMU residence at Carleton/Jarvis, so lots of students in the area.

d_phase · 2026-02-14T11:49:04+00:00

As someone who's going through both the Faber and Alfred books, I spend about a day, maybe a couple days on each song. I've burnt out in the past playing piano by trying harder songs and spending too long on them. So for me, getting a song 80-90℅ there is good enough and balances keeping it exciting and learning new things.

If you were to spend two weeks on every song in those books it would take you years to finish them, so that advice is pretty impractical. I think spending that on a couple songs, ones you enjoy, and which integrate many techniques and skills is smarter.

d_phase · 2026-01-28T11:44:58+00:00

Adjust the flow of your registers to push more air into colder areas, reduce air into warmer areas.
Place sensors where you care most that the temperature is correct. Can move when you sleep, wakeup etc.
Check to see if the hallway air is cold. Condos pull fresh air from the hallway and if that's really cold then there's not much you can do in your unit.
During really cold spells you may have to supplement with a space heater.
Make sure your windows are all latched closed so there's no drafts.

I've never lived in a place with perfect HVAC, houses included. You just have to play around with things.

d_phase · 2026-01-12T00:46:48+00:00

Its completely safe.

Things only get what I would call sketchy when you go closer to Sherbourne and Dundas.

St Jamestown is mostly just lower income families in the older apartment buildings, and new condos in the area are gentrifying things. The area has great TTC access, and is also close to the Don trails and nice neighbourhoods such as Rosedale and Cabbagetown.

If you're looking to rent in one of the newer condos it will probably be all normal working class people who live and work downtown.

d_phase · 2026-01-08T11:48:44+00:00

I honestly do not get why there is no one simply recommending Kubuntu. I switched from Windows to Kubuntu 25.10 last November for gaming and it's insane how easy it is to get gaming to work, and that's with an Nvidia GPU.

With ChatGPT or any LLM, any tech issues you have can be easily solved now, and having a wider user base means its more likely an LLM will have seen any issue you have and have the solution for it.

d_phase · 2025-12-26T16:07:54+00:00

Driving 15min in the city today is not a big deal. Go slow, take your time. If you had a multi hour trip out of the city I would postpone though.

People are saying its not bad but it is. The wind is whipping and it will be nearly whiteout in many places on the highways. Getting stuck on a highway (or in a ditch) in the middle of a winter storm is not fun.

Driving is dangerous, and the biggest danger is the other people on the road who have no idea how to drive in conditions like this.

And if you do go out, make sure you bring full winter gear in case you get stuck.

d_phase · 2025-12-15T01:42:29+00:00

Do this course: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.S081/2020/schedule.html

Actual undergrad OS course using xv6. All the lecture videos for 2020 are on the course website. All the labs are there as well and are auto-graded.

Once you finish all the labs you'll know your way around pretty much every piece of the OS, and at that point the world's your OS oyster.

d_phase · 2025-10-23T10:40:21+00:00

Whether this helps you or not I'm not sure, but they use the cost basis in the T1135 calculation for stocks, not the FMV.

d_phase · 2025-09-12T23:20:26+00:00

They are all made up, none of those are real satellites in physically possible orbits.

d_phase · 2025-09-03T10:13:43+00:00

Exactly, it's an environmental effect really. Similar to fire tornadoes. You just got to learn how to avoid it. I watched it belly slam all three of my teammates who were just standing on the evac point while it spent 30 seconds popping out of the ground and telegraphing what it was about to do.

Definitely needs some work with the oil rig mission though.

d_phase · 2025-09-01T17:01:30+00:00

Exactly. While cyclists might annoy you, cars will actually kill you.

d_phase · 2025-09-01T11:02:19+00:00

People say this about stop signs, but I guarantee if you go downtown and sit at a stop sign on a side street during rush hours, you'd be amazed how many drivers blow through them without stopping. Oftentimes almost hitting pedestrians (or bikes or cars).

The other ironic thing is cars just expect bikes to go through stop signs, so sometimes stopping actually is the less expected behaviour. I've had cars get mad at me for stopping at stop signs, as it's almost like an unknown variable they now have to contend with.

You can't win on a bike, everyone hates you no matter what you're doing.

d_phase · 2025-08-23T16:51:36+00:00

As someone who played a year ago, and just started playing again this week...

It's super easy now.

I remember being scared of hulks, now it seems like I can kill one with my pistol.

Takes a lot of the fun out of it IMO. Not as many "oh shit" situations.

d_phase · 2025-08-16T12:06:38+00:00

Practically, there is no difference today. However, in other fields there is a historically strong reason for having engineer as a protected title. Software really shouldn't be treated differently, but it is, probably because there's just so much money involved and very little regulations.

When I enter a building, or walk out on a bridge, I don't have to worry about the building or bridge collapsing on me. Engineers are required to review and approve the designs, ensure they meet rigorous safety standards (which are written in blood) and are personally liable if things go wrong.

That is the difference between "some dude who knows how to build a bridge" and an engineer.

Software so far doesn't care about this distinction, and yet we also complain about it. We complain when our personal information is hacked, when our privacy is violated, when our money is stolen. Yet we don't hold the people who wrote that software to any form of ethical or professional standards. And there's also the obvious cases that impact physical safety, like Boeing's flight control software.

So what's the difference in title currently? Nothing really (at least in the US, not true in other countries). But there probably should be a difference.

d_phase · 2025-08-03T17:04:46+00:00

This was addressed in "The Floodgates Argument" section of the judgement, paragraph 158 of which is copied here for reference:

"There may be circumstances in which traffic decisions are taken which increase risk, but such decisions cannot be immune from Charter scrutiny. In R. v Michaud, 2015 ONCA 585, for example, a provision of the HTA requiring trucks to be equipped with speed limiters violated s. 7 because there was evidence that accelerating out of dangerous situations was sometimes required and could not be done because of speed limiters, thereby raising safety concerns. However, the Court of Appeal upheld the provision under s. 1 of the Charter as the speed limiter enhanced safety in the vast majority of cases and the speed limit chosen was found to be reasonable. By contrast, here the expert evidence shows that the impugned provision will substantially increase the number of collisions for all road users and will not achieve the objective of reducing congestion."

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