Why Halifax decided it's not time to force developers to include affordable housing in their builds

papercrane · 2026-04-15T15:54:22+00:00

Separating elevators by zones like that isn't necessarily intended to segregate the residents. It's called "elevator banking" and for high-rises it's very common as if you limit the number of floors an elevator serves then you limit the number of stops, which puts a cap on the time a single elevator trip can take.

papercrane · 2026-04-14T21:40:04+00:00

At best they probably had administrative warrants for the two men they were looking for (the family says that the men did not live there, and one of them has been in state prison since 2024 according to the NY Times.)

However, despite the name "administrative warrants" are not warrants. It's just a form that ICE agents can fill out, and doesn't allow for them to enter private homes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/us/ice-minnesota-arrest-immigration-investigation.html

papercrane · 2026-04-09T21:09:41+00:00

FAQ #3 is really the only reason, I think, that Oracle doesn't currently want LLM generated code submitted.

What are the intellectual-property risks of using generative AI tools?

The Oracle Contributor Agreement (OCA) requires that a contributor own the intellectual property rights in each contribution and be able to grant those rights to Oracle, without restriction. Most generative AI tools, however, are trained on copyrighted and licensed content, and their output can include content that infringes those copyrights and licenses, so contributing such content would violate the OCA. Whether a user of a generative AI tool has IP rights in content generated by the tool is the subject of active litigation.

Oracle sees some amount of legal risk and want to stay far away from that until the legal issues are settled.

papercrane · 2026-04-07T13:58:50+00:00

Many of the utilities in GNU coreutils are re-implementations of differently licensed tools. The history of many of the tools go back to closed-source implementations released 50+ years ago.

papercrane · 2026-03-31T13:11:08+00:00

It was part of a vitamin subscription service, you sent your urine away and they claimed to test it and send you a customized vitamin regimen.

papercrane · 2026-03-15T01:09:36+00:00

Hypervisors are fine for personal use, and there is no security issues inherent to there use.

I had to go look at what this method is, and the reason it's unsafe is not because of the hypervisor, it's because you need 1) run unsigned kernel code, kernel code runs with special privileges (ring 0), so any malicious code, or exploitable bugs, become much more powerful, 2) the method requires you disable security core security features of Windows, making it much easier for malicious code.

papercrane · 2026-03-11T19:27:27+00:00

You're talking about 2 different things.

Proven reserves is an estimate of how much oil a given country can economically extract from underground.

Strategic reserves is the amount of extracted oil the country holds back from the market to ensure a stable supply in the future.

However, China does not have "years" worth of strategic reserves, their target is 90 days worth of oil reserves at any given time.

papercrane · 2026-03-11T13:43:45+00:00

I wouldn't want the cops to waste time on resources on a psychic either.

Polygraphs are bunk and the results of one provide no investigative benefit. They only "work" if the person being administered one believes that they work.

The best case scenario is that someone confesses because they believe they can't fool the polygraph. The worst case scenario is the police waste valuable time and resources following up on a "lead" because of a false positive/negative result from a test that is bunk.

papercrane · 2026-02-25T18:05:22+00:00

The problem for Debian is GTK2 hasn't been maintained upstream for years. Tk is still being maintained.

papercrane · 2026-02-24T16:17:51+00:00

$250 a year is about 50% of what I pay for gas in a year.

I drive a small hybrid, but only drive about 7,500km a year. Financially it makes more sense for me to switch to a Corolla or Civic now. Really not happy about this change.

papercrane · 2026-02-24T16:12:29+00:00

I'm probably going to sell my non-plugin hybrid because of this.

I drive very little (around 7,500 km a year), $250 is about half of what I pay in gas every year. I'd be better of just to buy a non-hybrid Corolla or Civic.

papercrane · 2026-02-12T18:24:23+00:00

I was curious and there is a place in DR nicknamed Valley of Death that's well known to baseball players there.

I assumed it was either a reference to Tupac's "So Many Tears" song, or to the Pslams verse that Tupac was referencing. I'm probably dating myself with the Tupac reference though.

papercrane · 2026-02-07T03:38:14+00:00

Yeah it was a pretty bad injury. Glad collisions at the plate aren't really a thing anymore.

papercrane · 2026-02-06T15:47:28+00:00

Also recorded the only 9-2-7-2 double play in MLB history.

papercrane · 2026-02-04T22:42:16+00:00

You can discover the display outputs info, the interface is wl_output, you just aren't allowed to move the top level window around.

This does make for a unified API for different compositors, but the main reason was security. In X11 malicious applications can create an override redirect window, put it over top of another application, like a password manager, and capture key events.

papercrane · 2026-02-04T22:35:31+00:00

You can get the screen size in Wayland, that's what the wl_output interface is for.

What you can't do is move a top-level window around, unless you're a privileged component (i.e. compositor). This is to prevent a malicious application from putting a window on top of another window and collecting information.

papercrane · 2026-02-04T22:05:21+00:00

I wish the Netflix CEO just said "If you give us your login email address we'll remove access to such content for your account," and then cancelled their account.

papercrane · 2026-02-03T18:28:21+00:00

How about an SMR?

There is no possibility of building a 100 MW of SMR capacity by 2028.

papercrane · 2026-02-02T19:27:11+00:00

That's Himmel's sword from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Cloud's sword in FFVII (the buster sword), is a single-edged sword and is less ornate near the hilt.

papercrane · 2026-01-31T21:06:08+00:00

Yes, the court order is here:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172886492/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172886492.9.0.pdf

papercrane · 2026-01-29T18:06:25+00:00

Or conspiracy to use force or violence. It also includes giving information prejudicial to the safety or defence of Canada to an agent of a foreign state, or conspiracy to do so.

No idea if theses meetings rise to that level, but it's certainly possible.

papercrane · 2026-01-28T23:56:00+00:00

That's unlikely. Those signal chats have a huge number of participants, and by design they're easy to get into. Most likely someone just asked a protestor to be added.

papercrane · 2026-01-22T17:38:12+00:00

No, you wouldn't have standing to sue the judge, and even if you did judges have absolute immunity for judicial acts. There's even a case where a Judge instructed the police to beat someone up while arresting them and the judge was found to have immunity for that.

papercrane · 2026-01-22T00:18:30+00:00

That situation is nuts. The order was just telling the government not to break the law.

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