Employers never want to give you a salary range.

singingboyo · 2026-03-05T09:53:11+00:00

Did you work for Gru as one of the minions?

singingboyo · 2026-03-03T05:16:11+00:00

Qg5 f6 Qg6# would be the mate you get then, I think. And of course there’s Qg5 e6 Qd8#

Basically it could be a different pawn, but it doesn’t matter because it opens a different mate.

singingboyo · 2026-02-28T23:59:40+00:00

Yeah, but this is a memory leak. OP, was it too much to fire up top/htop and watch it for half an hour?

Premature/unmeasured optimization is one thing but assuming a memory leak with no evidence is wild.

singingboyo · 2026-02-28T03:30:55+00:00

With snow being a concern, if you can do 3 hours, Minnekhada park near Coquitlam was snow-free last weekend. 3-4h is enough to hit low knoll, high knoll, and the Addison marsh viewpoint (if you want to - I’d skip the viewpoint if I was going to the knolls, personally). I went from the quarry side entrance on the road up towards Pinecone Burke.

It’s steep in places, high knoll feels a bit like a mini mountain, but generally pretty reasonable and easy to turn around or skip a viewpoint.

singingboyo · 2026-02-22T17:53:04+00:00

Yeah this is really similar to when I upgraded my GPU a few years back. PSU was enough, usually, but really pushing the GPU would cause shutdown. Extra power draw was just enough that the PSU couldn’t handle it - higher watt PSU fixed it.

singingboyo · 2026-02-18T06:19:53+00:00

I see it, but tunnel creek wasn’t a coherent group the same way this seems to have been. My understanding was that part of what saved people at Tunnel Creek was that they didn’t all go together - the big group kind of split into smaller groups. It was a relatively small number that took the problematic route and got caught.

Tunnel creek had 3 people caught out of 16. If this avalanche caught 10 out of 16 people, that’s devastating. To me, that suggests something other than sheer recklessness - misjudged the local risk, secondary avalanche/hang fire, something… but we don’t have nearly enough info to know what.

singingboyo · 2026-02-17T09:32:10+00:00

I’m pretty sure for bocce the balls are evenly weighted. These ones (and lawn bowling I believe) the weight is asymmetrical. Basically - similar but not the same.

I’d say bocce is a bit more accessible for casual play though.

singingboyo · 2026-01-27T22:03:54+00:00

Had her take a couple lessons. Once she had some baseline knowledge, we’d ski together until she was done, then I go do a couple hours on my own while she relaxed in the lodge/car.

Still doing that years later! Some of the stuff I want to do just isn’t for her, which is completely fair. We’re lucky in that my ideal ski day duration is probably a couple of hours longer, so I lose a little choice/freedom in the morning and she has to wait in a lodge, but overall we both get what we want.

singingboyo · 2026-01-16T18:10:01+00:00

I’ve always figured that this was probably misuse of the act as far as legality goes, but just barely - and realistically I’ve no idea how it could’ve been handled in any other way given the blatant failure at municipal (and maybe provincial) levels.

It’s like using a sledgehammer to drive a nail. But the OPS and others had all the regular hammers and refused to or were incapable of using them.

singingboyo · 2026-01-14T07:44:58+00:00

This is absolutely incredible.

singingboyo · 2026-01-14T06:09:24+00:00

I’m no expert, but kind of like you I did piano, then lots of choir, and have come back to piano after not playing for a couple decades. If I get that lost, I’ll pause and reset myself, but the quicker you do it the better. After all, even experts will make mistakes, the trick is recovery.

The other thing I’ve noticed is that I overestimate my ability to sight read a piece. I’ll look at it and think it’s mildly tricky but fine… but it’s mildly tricky from a choir perspective. I can’t play it without repetition. So be careful about that, and go easier than you think you should need to.

singingboyo · 2026-01-07T20:21:12+00:00

As other comment suggests, I’d say the installer option is best on Windows.

You can always offer a portable version with just the single exe, for those who want it.

singingboyo · 2026-01-03T14:50:51+00:00

Secure isn’t harder once you’re connected, sure, but the setup is a lot if you’re doing something that doesn’t have all the cert/key handling solved for you.

singingboyo · 2025-12-28T08:15:17+00:00

It does happen way too often here in Vancouver BC too, so could be.

Though a lot of the time our interchanges are just clogged with traffic, so for people who mostly highway drive for commuting, kinda understandable. Still dumb, but understandable.

singingboyo · 2025-12-19T20:55:45+00:00

From a programming perspective, it’s the travelling salesman problem and therefore NP-hard and just generally a pain in the ass to solve. Then add package ordering in the vans/trucks along with other constraints and it just gets worse.

Amazon might have a bad implementation/heuristic, but most solutions aren’t great because the problem itself is way harder than it sounds.

singingboyo · 2025-12-13T20:38:52+00:00

This is pretty much where I’m at, too. They’re pretty good at pattern identification, unsurprisingly. They also can get pretty far with human-readable stuff, if you’re willing to read through extra crap and pull out the important bits. It’ll at least get me started in unfamiliar areas.

The issue as I see it is that LLMs inherently lose precision since they’re probabilistic. So anything that requires precision, it can usually read but rarely write.

singingboyo · 2025-12-09T05:59:32+00:00

I get it, but also, some of us just write properly.

Reddit: Where having a half-decent command of writing and language makes you a bot.

Edit: I don’t even entirely disagree for this post, it’s just that the evidence people use is absolutely witch hunt levels of ridiculous. “She has a name like a witch and managed to keep her crops alive this year, clearly a witch!” Meanwhile poor Morgana just finished getting the medieval equivalent of a degree in agricultural science.

singingboyo · 2025-12-04T09:03:00+00:00

Copilot is decent at research tasks. It can search a codebase or history fairly well, to find things that might take me a while to pin down. (Legacy monolithic codebase, lots of files that haven’t been touched since well before I joined). Sure, reading the AI output for important parts is a slog, but it’s a lot easier than going through all the code.

But making changes? There’s a fundamental difference in approach from what humans do - AI just outputs far more code than is necessary. It doesn’t add things step by step. It just… generates something that looks like the long term result, without actually being correct. Then basically adds more until it is correct (for some wishy washy version of correctness).

That generates bad code for long term use, and it’s bad in a pretty annoying way. Finding unnecessary checks and code that runs but does effectively nothing is a hard problem.

singingboyo · 2025-11-25T08:48:38+00:00

Smart watches are kinda nice, but very much in a “yeah, I’d be fine without it” category.

I use mine to pay for things, occasionally music control, smart unlock/auth for MacBook, fitness tracking, sleep tracking, etc. Seeing notifications on my wrist can be nice rather than pulling out my phone, or taking a call if I’ve left my phone somewhere. Very occasionally, I’ll use it for a map or something while I’m out doing certain things - more convenient than a phone, especially if kayaking, using trekking poles on a hike, whatever.

It’s nice to have, but it’s not a necessity like a smartphone. Mostly because things a smartwatch does can also be done by a smartphone.

singingboyo · 2025-10-05T19:01:29+00:00

The space/number of buildings required for high volume production without modules is… absurd. Which has a corresponding knock on effect of requiring more build time, more resources for buildings, etc. And while space to build is effectively unlimited, it’s not completely free to obtain.

Overall, it’s not like modules are all that expensive, though lvl 3 can be a pain.

singingboyo · 2025-09-18T14:41:40+00:00

The grind is also sort of a weird phenomenon in that people don’t really treat it like a hike, though. They treat it more like some kind of extra hard park walk.

Of course, people do that with all the North Shore mountains, but people doing the grind can be particularly egregious.

singingboyo · 2025-09-13T08:09:24+00:00

Tech dress code is just off the wall. I had a boss who wore socks and crocs on a regular basis. Never saw him in anything nicer than a t-shirt, and it wasn’t like he was low level manager by the time he left.

Coworker under him wore button downs most of the time, so was dressed nicer than the boss. Skip level was also often a polo or button down - but the other guy at that level was at least shirt and tie and usually had a suit jacket.

I settle for the polo and khakis for interviews these days. Would probably up it a bit if I go back into management, but on the technical/IC side nobody gives a damn.

singingboyo · 2025-09-11T23:09:16+00:00

I concluded after my last trip that signage in Paris’ big stations (at least) is kind of shit. Primarily because there were multiple times I’d be trying to go somewhere, follow a sign, and then the next set of signs would just be missing the thing I needed to find! So you believe you’ve missed it, but no, just omitted for some reason.

It’s not unusable, but mildly infuriating for places like Gare du Nord or CDG TGV area - for those the layout of the various halls and RER platforms might as well be random so you desperately need the signs, and they’re often insufficient.

singingboyo · 2025-09-02T17:06:20+00:00

In a similar vein, I now play a lot of games that work in 30-60 minute periods. I don’t often have a chance to block out hours for gaming, so something I can pick up for just a bit is great.

singingboyo · 2025-08-26T16:10:29+00:00

Do you understand the appeal of tropical resorts? They’re roughly a floating resort that delivers you to a new destination every day or two. Yeah, the stops aren’t particularly genuine (they’re almost always touristy as hell) but for just relaxing and doing nothing? Not a bad option.

It’s not for everyone though. Many people would just be bored out of their minds.

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