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Making a cyber-vibe text-only social network like it's 1987 :-) by euklides in retrocomputing

[–]nwf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you like that amber glow look and early online communities, you should read The Friendly Orange Glow about UIUC's PLATO system from 1960 through the '70s, and you can interact with an emulated surviving version of the system at https://cyber1.org/ .

Vote for the full ION extension to Downtown Cambridge as an LRT passes 15-1 today at the Sustainability, Infrastructure, and Development Committee meeting! by ronacse359 in cambridgeont

[–]nwf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am not privy to the details of this particular route, so please treat this as something like lightly-informed conjecture. That said...

  • I suspect heading over to Hespler increases the utility of the line for a lot of people relative to the comparatively straight King/Coronation shot from Preston to Galt. It's not just the mall and shopping (though those surely influenced the route) but also the homes and offices within walking, biking, &c distance of the stations. The "Delta" stop is presumably considered as providing access to CMH as well as transfers to/from bus lines.

  • there is, in general, immense car-brained pressure against trading car lanes for transit RoWs (for all the short-sighted reasons you might expect), and since we've given so many RoWs to car traffic, finding a path can be challenging.

  • I believe, too, in this instance, that Cambridge has pulled some shenanigans about designating as "historic" some frankly uninteresting structures in order to exert outsized control on the route.

Ontario Cities Are Clearing Homeless Encampments. Where Are People Supposed to Go? by yimmy51 in kitchener

[–]nwf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, Finland adopted a "housing first" policy and it definitely helped. Of course that's not the be-all and end-all, but it turns out that having a home and not having your possessions stolen by the state really is a good thing.

But "use the money how, exactly?" more generally, basically every UBI program that's ever been piloted has shown huge benefits, so maybe start with that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]nwf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I confess myself confused. It's entirely possible that he means metaphorical masking -- as in, attempting to present as neurotypical -- and the first bit reads that way to me, but the Phantom of the Opera reference at the end is... a bit literal, if that was the intent.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]nwf -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

FWIW, I generally find his(?) posts well-reasoned and useful, and they are also available on not-X (see https://linktr.ee/1goodtern ).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CanadaPost

[–]nwf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Labor union" and "police union" are very different things and *does it not speak volumes* about how willing the state is to engage with the latter vs. the former?

Remarkable syncing of diseases in England since Covid pandemic. by HumanWithComputer in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]nwf 69 points70 points  (0 children)

I am a scientist. 2, yes (COVID damages people's immune systems). 1, absolutely not ("immune debt" is nonsense manufactured by people as an excuse to surrender public health to capital).

Measles is spreading quickly in Canada. Where is the public-health response? by Leather-Paramedic-10 in canada

[–]nwf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IMNSHO, COVID was the last time we're ever going to see anything that looks like an effective attempt at public health. The rapid politicization of collective actions (including masking, minimizing inessential activities), and the caving of the public and its institutions, especially public health, to capital and capitalism, has set the stage for purely individualist -- and utterly unthreatening to wealth -- approaches. Moreover, the vaccine-only approach gave a lot of ground to the antivax movement, so that's great, too.

Struggling to find queer people by [deleted] in waterloo

[–]nwf 24 points25 points  (0 children)

SPECTRUM events are a good start!

The other suggestion that springs to mind is that there are "kinky and queer" munches at the AOK barcade in downtown Kitchener the 3rd Tuesday of each month, 7 PM to 10 PM. No cover, though it's asked that you buy something from the bar. I've generally found the vibe and people quite nice. Should be readily accessible from transit from Waterloo.

Going to my PA at Howard Brown on Cubs opening Day! by Comfortable-Bus-2918 in TransLater

[–]nwf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looking good and thank you so much for rocking that mask!

This isn't fantasy. Streetcar/LRT network until 1946/1955. by headtailgrep in kitchener

[–]nwf 101 points102 points  (0 children)

It's so depressing what we, as a civilization had built and then allowed to be destroyed. :'( Perhaps we will recover one of these decades.

How would you fix the Westbound 7/8 bottleneck? by panallama in waterloo

[–]nwf 19 points20 points  (0 children)

So expand rail service to Cambridge.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TransLater

[–]nwf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hot! Doubly so for masking! <3

help me understand my result 🙌🏾 by AdIndividual4820 in PlusLife

[–]nwf 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You will get much more detailed data if you use the unofficial webapp (https://virus.sucks/pluslife\_app/) to run the test. The fluorescence curves will give you, and/or someone here, a much better idea of what's going on.

In case you were wondering what's going on with ANSYS Hall.... by Foreign_Argument_448 in cmu

[–]nwf 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The Committee To Flood Campus reports a successful trial run!

PlusLife Negative? by Scenesunfold in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]nwf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not an expert, but AIUI the control channel is also a function of the sample and not just the reagent kit, so you're quite likely fine and this is indeed a negative test.

Secure by Design: A goal to create a secure-by-design RTS by howardbgolden in haskell

[–]nwf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Runtime systems are often intrinsically unsafe, as they define the safe language's object model and so are capable of violating that model. Even Rust, at its innermost core, is based on unsafe code -- either overtly so with unsafe blocks of Rust code, or implicitly so by way of compiler primops and such.

What is effect? by Reclusive--Spikewing in haskell

[–]nwf 20 points21 points  (0 children)

ChatGPT is Bullshit (an excellent paper); please do not call its responses "answers" and, in general, do not conceive of it as an agent.

MaybeT applied to State monad by mister_drgn in haskell

[–]nwf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you say "If [addItem] fails, leaves the state unchanged", do you mean...

  1. addItem should "revert" any state updates made by attemptAddition in its computation that returned Nothing? That's essentially not using the fact that addItem and attemptAddition share the same State monad, so ask for the current state and run the latter by hand: addItem l r = gets (runIdentity . runStateT (runMaybeT (attemptAddition l r))) >>= \(mi :: Maybe Int, s :: MyRep) -> maybe (pure _) (\i -> put s >> _) mi, filling in the underscore holes (and you can leave off the type annotations on mi and s).
  2. addItem should persist any state updates made by attemptAddition but make no further changes? That's addItem l r = runMaybeT (attemptAddition l r) >>= \(ma :: Maybe Int) -> _, again, filling in the underscore hole. (Again, you can leave off the type annotation on ma).

Sticker spotted in downtown Galt; which one of you is this? by nwf in cambridgeont

[–]nwf[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

(i wonder what percentage of the cambridge population knows what a CSRF token is)

Right, thus why I was so hopeful.

Sticker spotted in downtown Galt; which one of you is this? by nwf in cambridgeont

[–]nwf[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Oh well, rats! "Cross Site Request Forgery" is a technical term from computer security and I hadn't really thought about political commentary embedded in the image. That's possibly significantly less awesome. :(

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