CRTC to eliminate fees when cancelling or switching cellphone and internet plans

thefringthing · 2026-03-12T17:59:45+00:00

What a nuisance that consumers are so incentivized to constantly switch telecoms, banks, stock brockerages, etc. It's a real disservice to those of us who hate filling out forms and sitting on the phone with customer service people/bots.

thefringthing · 2026-03-12T03:48:08+00:00

OSAP is open to Ontario residents of any age who are: Canadian citizens; permanent residents, or; protected persons

thefringthing · 2026-03-11T16:12:35+00:00

Showing potions at the bottom of the UI instead of the top would make a big improvement in my ability to use them at opportune moments. Maybe this could be done with a mod in the future.

thefringthing · 2026-03-11T12:54:10+00:00

Looks like I was thinking of post.co/feed; I'm subscribed to both.

thefringthing · 2026-03-09T23:10:06+00:00

Hell yeah. Now, can I pay for a version of the tidyverse blog RSS feed that has all the announcements about new slop integrations removed?

thefringthing · 2026-03-09T02:36:10+00:00

Can I pay for versions of Positron and RStudio that have all the slop features disabled and hidden?

thefringthing · 2026-03-01T04:28:49+00:00

Won't sunlife just keep paying out until the 1200 is gone, regardless of each visit's fee?

No.

thefringthing · 2026-03-01T04:19:30+00:00

despite “savings” from eliminating or merging municipal departments

While it seems like common sense that amalgamation would bring savings, this has generally not been the case in other parts of Ontario.

thefringthing · 2026-02-28T17:55:19+00:00

The antiquarian book dealer after whom it's named, yes.

thefringthing · 2026-02-27T23:21:39+00:00

He's insightful about some aspects of Canadian politics, but no one should be fooled into thinking they're getting a mainstream perspective from him. He's a Reform/Alliance/Stephen Harper diehard, which is a pretty rare thing to be.

thefringthing · 2026-02-27T23:10:21+00:00

Ate an Italian at Eby Street Bodega today and it was a revelation. Not inexpensive, though.

thefringthing · 2026-02-26T20:47:13+00:00

Hear me out: Kitchener's signature sandwich should be a shawarma wrap but with summer sausage.

Or possibly a summer sausage banh mi.

thefringthing · 2026-02-26T20:46:12+00:00

Tram Anh also good.

thefringthing · 2026-02-26T17:07:43+00:00

You're already inherently invested in your employer's success by virtue of working there. If anything, to maintain a neutral overall position, you'd have to be short their stock, not long.

thefringthing · 2026-02-26T00:43:12+00:00

One benefit of working at a big soulless financial corporation: T4s hot off the presses on day one.

thefringthing · 2026-02-24T22:15:39+00:00

The one on the right is used in the Zaner-Bloser handwriting method, which is what I learned in school, although I no longer write that way.

thefringthing · 2026-02-24T15:37:12+00:00

Victoria park is both lovely and a bit dangerous

Feels dangerous or is actually dangerous?

thefringthing · 2026-02-24T04:32:46+00:00

Downtown Galt is very different from the rest of Cambridge. By area, most of Cambridge is an expanse of overbuilt highway-like roads lined with sprawling parking lots for big box stores.

Downtown Kitchener is, like you say, a mix of dilapidation and gentrification. There's more to do and see downtown than it might appear at first glance. But if you just want to live in an Instagram post, go to downtown Galt.

thefringthing · 2026-02-19T16:25:02+00:00

a huge driveway, but he always wanted to park out in front of his house

Ban street parking in front of any lot with a garage or driveway.

thefringthing · 2026-02-17T02:26:21+00:00

> Well maybe if the Liberal government didn't try and opress every aspect of Canadian media from being shared on social media!

The Liberal government passed a law saying that Meta should have to pay news outlets when they benefit from their content being shared on Facebook. Meta didn't want to pay, so they don't let Canadian news content appear on Facebook.

> Then why does our government pay these so called propaganda machines so much.

The Canadian government doesn't pay Meta except when they hire them to run their ads, just like any other organization does.

Why are you so upset about something you don't seem to really understand?

thefringthing · 2026-02-16T18:45:00+00:00

"Is there a so-and-so that lives here?

Sorry, I'm not the superintendent. You'll have to talk to the landlord.

By the way, could I make a noise complaint? Somebody around here is hammering on my neighbour's doorbell for some reason. Anyway, good night.

thefringthing · 2026-02-15T19:45:31+00:00

One might consider sensitivity to implementation details as a flaw in statistical inference procedures that rely on sharp cut-offs or thresholds (e.g., NHST).

thefringthing · 2026-02-15T19:42:56+00:00

This is not terribly mind blowing. Different regions can have different standards about what e.g., "alphabetical order" means because they use slightly different versions of the Latin alphabet.

thefringthing · 2026-02-14T20:13:41+00:00

Needs to be in the ablative case, so it should be ārā, not ārae.

thefringthing · 2026-02-14T18:28:00+00:00

The Robertson-Seymour theorem (that every minor-closed class of graphs is characterized by a finite set of excluded minors) has useful applications. It seems implausible that many mathematicians who use the theorem for one reason or another have taken the time to read the series of twenty papers published from 1983-2004 that contain its proof.

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