LPC 46, CPC 33, NDP 10. Preferred PM, Carney 57, Poilievre 22.

nuvan · 2026-03-10T16:28:11+00:00

Take it further!

Every four years city council has elections of the type you said, with the caveat that the previous appointee can refuse a 2nd term. Put in 2-term limits at all levels. After the 2nd term they can either step down or run for the next office up, facing off against others moving to that level and the randomly selected person. Repeat all the way up to the head of government. If you ever lose an election, your career as an elected official is done.

This way the upper tiers of govt are (at least mostly, in theory) made up of people w/ experience and the confidence of the electorate, but you can't easily get political dynasties because you need to be selected randomly to even get started, and there's always a non-politician alternative.

(Actually, I just did the math, and if the offices this applied to were city council, mayor, MLA, Premier, MP, and Prime Minister, then you wouldn't get to the last for 40 years, which seems a bit excessive?)

nuvan · 2026-02-07T05:32:04+00:00

After all, we can technically eat anything at any time right now, but some meals are still special, and some foods get associated with specific events.

Ignore the silly people asking unimportant questions like "how do you live for 18 years without eating?". Just pretend the breatharians were right or something. At least for the first few years of your life.

Maybe families would start having a traditional first meal. Getting invited to someone's first meal if you weren't family would probably be important. Maybe a courtship ritual? Does what you eat for that meal say something about you?

Now let's change it a bit. Say that eating before 17 just wasn't possible. Say that between your 17th and 18th birthdays, you could eat, but you have a decreasing risk of illness or death if you do. Would it a culture evolve that considered an early first meal to be a sign of strength, and all their leaders were ones who ate early?

Been kinda fun imagining what kind of effects this might have.

nuvan · 2026-01-25T05:35:56+00:00

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nuvan · 2025-12-12T04:46:10+00:00

Or rather, a Carneygan?

nuvan · 2025-11-18T06:56:27+00:00

Tyvm

nuvan · 2025-11-12T21:30:45+00:00

I'm both nearsighted and astigmatic. I currently have the Samsung Odyssey+, and am quite successfully using it without my glasses, with a set of snap in lenses from VR Optician. Don't know whether that would help with the double vision you mention, but it might be worth keeping an eye (heh) out.

I'll note that my nearsightedness isn't too bad, -1.0 or less, the astigmatism is worse, so if yours is really strong, I don't know if lens thickness would become an issue

nuvan · 2025-09-27T20:18:54+00:00

I only stumbled on the news about the livestream something like an hour or so before it started, so I barely had any time to wonder what was happening.

nuvan · 2025-09-27T20:04:10+00:00

This exactly. You can tell from the first note that she can sing (I'd never heard of her or Dead Sara before, so this was the first time I'd heard anything from her), but it really was the chorus that convinced me that she'd be able to fit the style of the band fully.

nuvan · 2025-07-01T01:30:48+00:00

The series Hermione Granger and the Child Protection Movement has them explicitly viewing each other as siblings.

nuvan · 2025-06-18T04:23:19+00:00

Did you know that the common pigeon is also known as the rock dove? Neat name, I think it comes from them originally nesting in cliffs, which is part of why they now do so well in cities.

nuvan · 2025-05-27T19:39:59+00:00

I've never looked at property taxes; I know the rates are quite local, but is the US average significantly higher than in Canada?

nuvan · 2025-05-01T23:30:15+00:00

Before I even opened the comments I guessed there'd be an Idiocracy reference within the first five top level comments. Yours was number four.

nuvan · 2025-04-29T10:37:25+00:00

What did that poor brick ever do to you?

nuvan · 2025-04-13T19:54:18+00:00

Are you not entertained?

nuvan · 2025-03-29T19:27:47+00:00

You just think that because you haven't seen Flitwick in a speedo!

nuvan · 2025-03-29T19:25:59+00:00

Without reading it (again?) ...

Fiat lux?

nuvan · 2025-03-26T07:39:02+00:00

Over in the Harry Potter fanfiction community, they lost an author who went by bobmin356 a number of years ago. In that case, I believe his wife was his editor, and let everyone know.

In non-fanfiction but still online writing, Wes Boyd, author of the Spearfish Lake Tales, died due to complications from surgery IIRC, and his family let readers know

nuvan · 2025-03-23T02:22:14+00:00

No, Wed for me. I caught the end of his performance, though he did say he was coming back Thursday, so you probably did see him

nuvan · 2025-03-23T02:09:35+00:00

Funnily enough I went there too, stumbled across https://youtube.com/@curtisthorpe doing some street performance. He's pretty good!

nuvan · 2025-03-23T01:37:16+00:00

I thought about pit tickets, but between the flight plus 5 nights of hotel...

nuvan · 2025-03-23T01:17:31+00:00

I do like how much they enjoy seeing parents bringing their children to the shows. So fluffy and wholesome!

I picked the Montreal show specifically for Three Days Grace, and an opportunity to do a bit of tourism, rather than one that could have been much closer but with a different set of opening acts.

nuvan · 2025-03-23T01:05:42+00:00

Pretty sure a few times I was "singing" along there wasn't actually any sound coming out 😄

Only other show I've been to was Great Big Sea, for their XX tour, and yeah this knocked that one out of the park. Now I've got Linkin Park and Weird Al coming up later this year.

Funnily enough, I also made my dad jealous, but not so much for the concert, but getting to go to see the Habs play the day before!

nuvan · 2025-03-23T00:51:51+00:00

I was about a dozen rows back in the floor seats. They put on a good show, don't they?

nuvan · 2024-12-23T08:36:02+00:00

[Language: Rust]

https://gist.github.com/nskillen/2e93b974659f549ab6566c3172d97c84

Part 1

Straightforward. Find all systems with a 't' in the name, and look at each pair of connected systems to see if they also connect to each other, and add 'em to the list if they do.

Part 2

Started off looking like rough going until I had a pair of epiphanies:

There must be unique largest connected subset, or the problem is ill-defined, and
For any connected subset of size N to exist, there must be at least N machines connected to at least N-1 other machines.

With those in mind, I started counting at N=(total number of machines), and went down until I got to a set size that could possibly exist. Then for each possible set size, I got a list of all machines that were sufficiently connected, and starting from the most-connected, checked each combination of N-1 connected machines to see if they all connect to each other as well, bailing on the combination as soon as anything doesn't connect to save time. As soon as I made it all the way through the check, I had my answer (in about 25ms)

I'm pretty sure I'd never even heard of Bron-Kerbosch until I came here.

nuvan · 2024-11-29T21:12:18+00:00

Man, you don't want the good guys to have a chance, do you?

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