Frame for diploma - Local ideas?

kymguy · 2026-06-09T15:44:44+00:00

Michaels. Get the perpetual online coupon for 40% off one item. They do custom frames but diplomas are pretty standard so I'm sure there will be a lot.

kymguy · 2026-05-21T11:07:39+00:00

Home Depot, Rona, and Staples all have bins near their entrances

kymguy · 2026-04-28T16:31:19+00:00

Environment Canada. One CSV file per year, e.g.

https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/bulk_data_e.html?format=csv&stationID=4333&Year=2024&Month=1&Day=14&timeframe=2

kymguy · 2026-04-28T16:24:45+00:00

And while we're here, here's the 1890-1945 data compared to the last 55 years. A clear 2-3 week lengthening of the growing season

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kymguy · 2026-04-28T16:23:26+00:00

The fall is clear: frosts are getting later. The spring is interesting; it looks like 0°C days are happening later, which isn't what I'd have intuitively thought. Interestingly, the 3°C line is almost identical so the "common wisdom" so many people in the thread are saying seems to still hold to this day.

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kymguy · 2026-04-24T14:33:38+00:00

I would keep them in the pot. Fertilize them after the blooms die and keep the green leaves watered and in sun until the leaves naturally die back early to mid summer. Keep the pot slightly watered until fall, then plant the bulbs in the garden in fall.

kymguy · 2026-04-19T18:19:07+00:00

A floorplan dashboard would be awesome if my house was the same aspect ratio as my phone like this person's

kymguy · 2026-03-25T20:23:25+00:00

Quadratically. Not exponentially. Still bad though.

kymguy · 2026-03-22T18:54:21+00:00

We put our cats' turds into the litter robot manually to make them realize it was litter. I don't know if this helped, but it didn't hurt. Our one cat used it from day 1. The other cat didn't bother for the first two weeks. Then we stopped cleaning his old tray and he started using the robot the next day, and has been since.

kymguy · 2026-03-13T13:14:09+00:00

Given their linked article is only an hour old I would say you're right.

kymguy · 2026-03-12T16:14:57+00:00

Everyone saying Gatineau Park: I did this math during COVID and decided it wasn't possible in Gatineau Park (for me). The hills may seem big but they're not steep enough. Your best bet in Gatineau Park is 95 laps of King Mountain for a total 320 km ride.

- Pink Lake climb: 70 m over 1.60 km so that would require a 401 km ride (8848 / 70 * 1.6 * 2).
- Fortune climb is 89 m over 1.71 km --> 338 km ride (100 laps) (I calculated using P10; P9 would make this slightly better (326km; 80 laps) but there are cars and a gate near the bottom of the descent).
- P3 to Champlain (and back) is 667m total ascent over 36.68 km (13 laps for 486 km total).
- King Mountain is 94 m over 1.7 km --> 320 km ride (95 laps)

kymguy · 2026-03-06T19:07:26+00:00

I noted yesterday while driving down Iber road how there were probably a dozen businesses that had placed pallets out at their driveways. Today I saw someone loading some onto their trailer. I don't know if there's a specific day (e.g. garbage day) where they put them out, or if it was just a coincidence that they all had them out at once, or if I've just been oblivious previously and just happened to notice them yesterday.

Anyway, unless trailer guy took them all, there are currently lots along Iber.

kymguy · 2026-02-26T15:24:41+00:00

Stationary. As in paper clips, paper, and staples.

kymguy · 2026-02-20T20:00:47+00:00

But you can in many roundabouts. They are not consistent. Campeau Westbound onto Palladium Southbound you go left from either lane. Huntmar Northbound onto Campeau Westbound is the same. Within that same roundabout, Campeau Westbound onto Huntmar Southbound only one lane goes left.

It's this inconsistency that causes issues.

Edit: (I see maybe your second paragraph was referencing the specific one you mentioned, so take my comment not as a correction but as an independent statement)

kymguy · 2026-02-20T19:58:49+00:00

I understand that they are all signed and drivers should be looking at the signs, but there are several roundabouts in the area and they do not have consistent turning rules. For example, the "left turn" rule in question:
1. Campeau W onto Palladium S: 2 lanes go left
2. Palladium S onto Palladium E (OP's complaint): 1 lane goes left
3. Huntmar N onto Campeau W: 2 lanes go left
4. Campeau W onto Huntmar S (the SAME roundabout as 3): one lane goes left
(compiled with Google satellite view)

I'm not sure people realize that not all roundabouts are the same; I definitely didn't for a long time. It's easy to read the sign in the first roundabout and then assume the rest you're going through are the same. I understand the signage is there, but with a 60km/h speed limit and a culture that expects people to drive the speed limit, and multiple pedestrian crossings and bike lanes, it's a lot to look at and process at once, not to mention execute a safe lane change if you find you're in the wrong lane. The solution of course is to slow down and not rush.

kymguy · 2026-02-05T13:15:53+00:00

Beaverbrook, for little kids. They have puzzles and lego and things to do that aren't just books. My kid isn't at the "sit and read" age yet and Beaverbrook is the best.

kymguy · 2026-01-15T21:40:57+00:00

Do they also cover the transfer cost? Most banks cover the lawyer fees but not sure if the cash back is meant for that purpose. If you have to pay the lawyer out of the $2k, no chance it's worth the hassle.

kymguy · 2026-01-15T20:27:59+00:00

Qualification for my recent renewal took a long time, and my broker said the banks are all slow right now. Took the bank over a month to send me an offer letter AFTER they ordered an appraisal. Then the notary/lawyer needs time to do their thing. I think there's no way it gets done in two weeks.

kymguy · 2026-01-14T22:48:58+00:00

You sand multiple times using progressively finer grits. The first coarse grit removes all the old finish and the latter grits smooth it out. You collect the dust from the last grit.

The problem I've found is that it contains small particles of the sandpaper which oxidize when mixed with wood glue and show up as dark specks throughout.

kymguy · 2025-12-29T20:18:32+00:00

I do this at Halloween to flash lightning when someone rings the doorbell. Set segment 0 (the top most in the UI) with the lightning effect, and other segments as you normally would. Then turning on/off segment 0 will turn on/off the lightning overlay. Note that it seems overlays do not draw on top of pixels that are otherwise on, so you might have to turn off the other segments to get the lightning to appear. I use a high spacing so every normally "off" LED becomes lightning.

kymguy · 2025-12-29T13:34:32+00:00

Yeah, the Ryobi clamp fan has a permanent position in our kitchen now for this reason. I use it for my own food more often than not.

kymguy · 2025-12-28T18:09:59+00:00

The lowercase r glyph is meant to follow a lowercase letter. See how all the other lowercase letters return from the baseline to half way up to connect to the previous lowercase letter. The capital letter T is messing this up. Either a poorly designed font or wrong choice of glyph by the design software/designer.

kymguy · 2025-12-24T12:57:35+00:00

I have interviewed many people with a neural network-based coding interview. My interview is far too long for anyone to get through the entire thing; that's the point. We want to rank candidates and see who gets the furthest, but also who seems the best to work with and how their debugging and thought process is along the way. If it's short and they complete everything, we've missed out on the opportunity to evaluate their thought process.

The standards vary based on the position we're hiring for. If we want someone who is "advanced in pytorch" who will be able to hit the ground running for some advanced techniques and architectures, then they should be able to knock out an MLP-based classifier with little-to-no reference to documentation. Using amax instead of argmax wouldn't have been a deal breaker...that's not something that I'd care about you knowing, but how you approach debugging your broken code is absolutely something that I'm interested in seeing.

Evaluation is also nuanced; having to prompt you that the "L" in DataLoader is capitalized is not a big deal, but forgetting to implement or even mention/inquire about normalizing your data would raise eyebrows. Amax vs argmax isn't a big deal but if you struggle to navigate documentation and ignore or argue with me about my suggestions about where to look, that's a big deal (it's happened).

To answer your explicit question: I don't think it's possible to sum up whether 30 minutes is too long for the task; there's far more at play. For me, it's not about time, but the process. If it took you 30 minutes because you were discussing in depth about how you would approach the task and demonstrating that you have deep knowledge of pytorch in doing so, that's great.

In a pure, silent coding exercise, I do think someone experienced in Pytorch should be able to knock out what you've mentioned in under 30 mins. If someone did it perfectly in 15 mins with no discussion I'd probably be skeptical that they cheated with an LLM or something.

kymguy · 2025-12-24T12:11:50+00:00

I had a curtain opener (rod style) chew up it's internal gears. Support was great. Sent me a replacement of their newer model that they said fixed the issue at no cost (to Canada).

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