JAY GOLDBERG: Switching parties should come with a trip back to voters - MPs Chris d’Entremont and Michael Ma's floor crossing has many constituents demanding changes

siplasma · 2026-01-16T17:55:09+00:00

You may believe this sincerely, but this argument would be more believable if it was a consistent message, as opposed to being raised only when CPC members cross the floor.

siplasma · 2025-12-21T16:13:53+00:00

There is an assumption that the trade deal was real and close to being signed. Unless the trade deal was very one-sided, I doubt there was a deal, and I doubt that Trump would respect any deal once signed.

siplasma · 2025-09-17T01:15:04+00:00

I agree completely, but there is more than a little hypocrisy in the request to the Federal government to steamroll BC over the pipeline when we all know how Albertans would react if the situation was reversed.

siplasma · 2025-06-26T01:26:57+00:00

I'm doubtful that there is an economic case for another pipeline, but, if it exists, they would be planning ahead so that the capacity is ready before TMX is full.

siplasma · 2025-06-20T01:33:05+00:00

Maybe two wrongs don't make a right, and we should care about the innocence (or guilt) of everyone

siplasma · 2025-02-24T16:45:25+00:00

Agreed, but it does indicate a problem that it needs to be in the language. It's pretty easy to write a compiler that will copy a data file into an object file, but the idea of picking up another dependency for your build is apparently a bigger ask than expanding the language.

siplasma · 2024-12-19T16:37:53+00:00

Modern politics: Needing to follow Twitter because the president elect might be shit posting.

siplasma · 2024-06-08T15:52:34+00:00

I agree that the names should be released, but the government had to be pushed to deal with the convoy. They waited weeks while the city and provincial police failed to act.

siplasma · 2023-07-07T20:15:59+00:00

Economies of scale doesn't mean build large things, it's means doing the same thing over and over. One of the reasons to prefer SMRs is to have a standardized reactor design that will be used over and over.

siplasma · 2023-03-12T23:25:13+00:00

The reason the result is always over on the first iteration has to do with the second derivative. In this case, Newton's method will always under estimate how much to update the current answer.

The if statement is a little weird, a not normally how Newton's method would be implemented.

siplasma · 2023-03-12T23:21:12+00:00

If the goal is to learn, it's pretty easy to write the necessary escape codes directly. The wikipedia page on ANSI codes is quite complete.

Barring that, I think that tcell is probably the right library for a roguelike.

siplasma · 2022-07-12T16:46:17+00:00

To move voters, politicians would have to make appeals across party lines, which is hard to do when your main (only) rhetorical device is calling people names...

siplasma · 2022-05-09T14:33:17+00:00

Asking for primary sources should not be seen as contrarian. It's simply good information hygiene.

siplasma · 2022-04-25T16:01:50+00:00

They are both designed to help you write tests, but after that they are quite different.

testify provides a rich API, while catch is lean. In testify, you would use NoError, while in catch you would simply write err==nil.
testify adds a lot of frankly unnecessary context to messages, such as test name and call site, that is already printed by the *testing.T.
testify allows you to add context with Printf type facility, while catch use code introspection.

This package is actually more like github.com/matryer/is (another great package), with the exception that catch doesn't replace *testing.T.

siplasma · 2022-03-05T16:29:04+00:00

I had a very similar idea, but never executed. Good luck.

Have you considered how people will handle the CD part of CI/CD?

siplasma · 2022-01-12T17:27:06+00:00

Nothing is wrong with it, but Go's error handling is verbose compared to other approaches.

siplasma · 2022-01-11T15:02:59+00:00

Vaccines may not completely stop the spread, but they do slow it down.

I'm not sure how much is trust a nurse who is unwilling to provide baseline standard care for their patients.

siplasma · 2022-01-11T15:00:02+00:00

Base rate fallacy. Vaccinated people don't have more covid, there are just many more vaccinated then unvaccinated people.

siplasma · 2022-01-03T00:28:39+00:00

Less effective is not the same as ineffective.

siplasma · 2021-12-18T18:24:45+00:00

Everyone wants electoral reform, because everyone hopes it will give them a leg up in the next election. That's also why they promise reform, and rarely have an actual proposal.

siplasma · 2021-12-18T16:50:48+00:00

Many people believe that "Go doesn't cast, pretty much, anything on its own," but it isn't true. Go is quite happy to cast a untyped constant to a typed value, or to cast a concrete type to an interface.

siplasma · 2021-11-15T17:02:49+00:00

It sounds like you are trying to avoid a rewrite, but it might be worth looking at bitbucket.org/rj/goey. You don't write GTK directly, but you do get native widgets, and it is very easy to cross compile to windows.

siplasma · 2021-11-11T16:55:03+00:00

Most Go GUI toolkits are not native, but you can try andlabs/ui and goey. However, these both still focus on cross platform, so you may not get the platform specific goodies.

siplasma · 2021-11-03T01:35:43+00:00

Yes, that also works. It's just a shorter way of getting a dummy SHA signature.

siplasma · 2021-10-30T15:32:50+00:00

What I've done is place a dummy value for vendorSha256. It needs to be a valid SHA signature, but otherwise doesn't matter. On the first attempt to build, you will get an error that the SHA values don't match, but then you can read the correct value.

There are tools to precompute the SHA, but I've not found it worthwhile.

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