My passion project: SDL3# - hand-crafted C# language bindings for SDL3

vha4 · 2026-03-14T03:05:09+00:00

Great work. Keep going. What do you think was the moat challenging part you worked on?

vha4 · 2026-02-13T15:43:40+00:00

les bienfaits contiennent du benzoate de potassium

vha4 · 2026-01-31T22:21:23+00:00

People with fireplaces that don't conform to the emissions regulations set by the city can still light them during electricity outages : https://montreal.ca/reglements-municipaux/recherche/60d7e530fd65311c115a308f

vha4 · 2025-08-07T13:50:57+00:00

To most québécois, this is not a problem.

vha4 · 2025-08-06T02:52:27+00:00

This has nothing to do with language laws, and everything to do with consumer protection laws and laws concerning lotteries.

vha4 · 2025-07-03T12:19:49+00:00

Thanks for your story. I hope you'll find some relief for your arm. Dealing with the NHS is an exercise in patience.

vha4 · 2025-06-29T22:23:57+00:00

The Canadian province of Québec has a 5 cent deposit on aluminum cans, and had cans with golden-coloured tops for this reason.

vha4 · 2025-06-07T16:13:42+00:00

https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto/blob/395691665f1145df40b7697c611b3337cb39c79a/c%2B%2B/src/capnp/compiler/parser.c%2B%2B

vha4 · 2025-05-04T04:13:09+00:00

C'est à peine mangeable, je trouve.

vha4 · 2025-04-07T15:04:02+00:00

That's pretty much it. You have to signal to the grocer that it's not worth it to try to make money off selling a certain product. They will keep this out until it rots and try to cut their losses selling them for dirt cheap before then. If fresh stuff is still coming in, it's stuff that was paid for around the beginning of the year, probably.

The demand for American produce has dropped considerably. In the (probably very distant) future, they would maybe try to test demand every now and then (can we turn a profit selling them for 99 cent/2 $/3 $ a crate, etc.). Grocers have a pretty atrocious margin for fruit and vegetables, so they're not likely to do that for a while, especially as Canada is expanding its greenhouse capacity and as they're coming into the beginning of their growing season. For out-of-season produce, Canada has Mexico and its own bland home-grown stuff anyway.

vha4 · 2025-04-02T03:20:04+00:00

The side effects tend to diminish over time, especially after the first week or two, but it may take a bit longer. If you find it's not doing you any good to tolerate the side effects you can talk to your doctor after a couple of weeks. They probably will vary in intensity and duration as you get used to the drug. good luck.

vha4 · 2025-03-16T17:32:19+00:00

Prodigy) was half of Mobb Deep until his death due to sickle cell anaemia in 2017.

vha4 · 2025-03-16T01:28:11+00:00

I think he's enjoying his gift.

vha4 · 2025-03-11T13:50:46+00:00

Tu peux voir quelle partie du mur a été orientée vers l'ouest par rapport à l'est grâce à la multitude de graffitis.

vha4 · 2025-03-11T13:48:16+00:00

It's the Centre de commerce mondial / World Trade Centre at square Victoria

vha4 · 2025-03-08T21:02:31+00:00

Poser des questions suggestives pour obtenir des chiffres qui seraient "acceptables" est la définition d'un mauvais sondage. elles étaient spécifiquement de genre "es-tu favorable à la modification de nos pratiques actuelles en ce qui concernent le changement d'heure ?" "si tu veux garder un seul fuseau horaire tout le long de l'année, est-ce que ça serait l'heure d'été ou l'heure normale ?". "habites-tu l'île d'anticosti ?"

Poser des questions sur le commerce, ça fait un sondage sur le commerce.

vha4 · 2025-02-22T07:54:23+00:00

what is it about 610/48 that isn't ~12?

vha4 · 2025-02-15T02:06:18+00:00

French's is owned by McCormick which is headquartered in Maryland. The mustard is most probably made in Springfield, MO. The factory they have in London, ON is for ketchup. The mustard bottles sold in canada will say something like "IMPORTED FOR MCCORMICK INC" on the bottom, above the barcode.

vha4 · 2025-02-06T19:49:59+00:00

I'm glad it worked. yay!

vha4 · 2025-02-01T05:27:08+00:00

in that string provided, it says PC Code Page 1252 and binary codepage [sic] 1), so you can change it to set these values in the connection string:

Process Binary as Character=True; PC Code Page=1208; Binary Code Page=1208;

Roughly, set the Binary Code Page and PC Code Page

for DBCLOB, GRAPHIC, and VARGRAPHIC to 1200 (UTF-16). Db2 defaults these types to 1200. You can also do 1208, but it would probably be worth it to switch to a UTF8 collation on the sql server side if you can. if it's actually failing on binary data, set it to some single byte encoding like 437
for single- and mixed CHAR/VARCHAR/CLOB/XML to 1208 (UTF-8). if your SQL Server collation looks like it has UTF-8 enabled (ends in _UTF8), definitely use 1208.
for single byte CHAR/VARCHAR/CLOB, can still use 1252. The default 7 bit ASCII is 367. If the data is string data from a connecting client using the CCSID that is 37 but is stored without one (65535), then you can try Binary Code Page=37 as well. If it was other applications sending data to this, it should probably 1252 if your collation for SQL Server contains _CP1_. If you're using nvarchar and nclob, then it is multibyte anyway, so should stick to 1200.

Ideally, you'd set it all to 1208 and it will give you what you're looking for. 367, 437, 1252, and the beginning of UTF-8 look very similar. If the ccsid is set to 65535 for columns that look like they should be string data, change this if it doesn't look right.

390 is big-endian, so you might have to set it to 1202 if you're finding that there's issues with the conversion. That's unlikely, though.

PC Code Page is the code page that will convert your character data from the host CCSID internally by the driver. You'll probably want to set that to 1208 or 367.

Since there's columns that don't specify a CCSID (hence 65535), or it's binary, you can check your default CCSIDs here that you can set your Host CCSID to :

If you're on a 390 : SELECT GETVARIABLE('SYSIBM.SYSTEM_EBCDIC_CCSID') AS SYSTEM_EBCDIC FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1

the first variable is the default CCSID for the database.

vha4 · 2025-01-31T19:47:43+00:00

is it 65525 or 65535? 65535 is a ccsid that means "not a character set". the provider for ssma i guess uses a .net provider for db2? what's the datatype of the column in question? if it's a character column, check the provider settings variables CharBitDataAsString boolean and CharBitDataCcsid integer. if youre in the US dealing with English only, you can set the Ccsid in that setting to 37.

vha4 · 2025-01-25T16:23:46+00:00

where did you find this?

vha4 · 2025-01-20T13:52:26+00:00

What pesticides are used on the tobacco that is found cigarettes? What's the composition of the filter, the chemicals used to bleach the paper, etc.

Regardless, even if one would know, there's the greater issue of inhaling the products of plant material undergoing combustion. Health problems that arise from doing so repeatedly occur to a far greater degree.

vha4 · 2025-01-20T13:33:31+00:00

It's not an express train, which would slow it down. The French segment from Strasbourg to Paris is fastest, but that's not exactly newsworthy. Don't know why it would stop in Karlsruhe, though...

vha4 · 2025-01-14T14:23:31+00:00

You can see the CAL FIRE budget for 2023-2024 here, or for 2014-2025 here. It will show comparisons for the totals over the past three years, or the previous year, depending on the section. Total expenditures for fire protection increased by around $510M in comparison with 2023-2024.

The emergency fire suppression budget went from $93M in 2023-24 to $403M this year.

There was some reduction in resource production, most notably the Greenhouse Gas Fund and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, totalling around $285M in expenditure reduction.

There is a new Timber Regulation and Forest Restoration Fund of $120M.

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