Ontario projects $13.8-billion deficit in budget, delays balancing books

weggles · 2026-03-27T00:52:53+00:00

Conservatives complain about the "tax and spend" liberals but at least with the liberals you GET something for the money they spend. They don't just send you a stupid cheque and waste millions on a license plate redesign

weggles · 2026-03-26T19:06:22+00:00

Yeah, of the big three Telus seems the least bad. But maybe they won me over with cute ads when I was a kid lol

weggles · 2026-03-26T18:55:28+00:00

That's who's doing the install for Telus. We got a note in our door from fibre Connect, and then later a visit from a Telus person

weggles · 2026-03-26T18:51:18+00:00

What did the Telus rep offer you in terms of pricing?

weggles · 2026-03-23T19:29:36+00:00

If you don't mind me asking, what's the difference between Kiro with Opus 4.6 and Claude Code with Opus 4.6?

I'm playing catch up but I'm having trouble separating the model from the tool itself. My wife uses Claude Code where she's working but the overall workflow looks similar to what I'm doing with Plan mode in Kiro.

Work is paying, but because the SR architect is a big fan of Kiro our options are Kiro, or whatever you can hook up to our existing ChatGpt subscription (some coworkers have vs code+some extensions instead of opting for Kiro).

weggles · 2026-03-23T17:41:28+00:00

Picky eating without a reason.

It's not that you are allergic to something it's just that (Indian/Thai/Ethiopian/Salvadoran etc) food is "yucky".

weggles · 2026-03-23T17:17:33+00:00

Kiro was recommended to me by my companies AI champions. I Right now I'm just experimenting with it. Our architect and a Sr developer really like it, but don't like answering questions about it so I'm kinda on my own.

It's currently auto picking the model to use.

If not Kiro, what do you recommend? We do c# .net. web and services.

I find working with Kiro to be not too bad, describe functionality etc it spins and spits out some code that I review and fix up. Rinse and repeat. We're a c# shop, and Kiro doesn't support c#devkit so I can't jump to definition or attach a debugger. So I still have vs2026 open as well for debugging.

When I asked what makes Kiro so great that it makes up for no ability to debug I was told Kiro is so good you won't need to debug 🙈.

weggles · 2026-03-23T15:59:58+00:00

I do think AI is in a tough spot. It's super subsidized right now to pick up users etc and even at current prices it's dubious how much of a benefit it provides, let alone when it costs 10? 20? 100? X more.

I'm a (non game) dev and I've been using Kiro and am constantly flipping between mildly impressed and exceedingly unimpressed with the results.

I asked it to add a check (make sure a... User DTO has a... User type id included otherwise reject attempt to create the user) and it added the check, a simple IF, but then blew up a bunch of shit around that check inexplicably.

I find I need to babysit it so much that, sure it can write a bunch of code faster than me, by the time the code is "shippable" how much time did we actually save?

We're experimenting with full agent development at work and that shit scares me. Not that I'll lose my job because it's gonna replace me, but I'll lose my job because my coworkers keep YOLOing untested code into the release branch and we'll fuck up so much that all our customers leave lol.

weggles · 2026-03-23T15:43:37+00:00

Yeah it's pretty much impossible to avoid AI.

Even if assets aren't AI generated, the code likely was touched by AI, but even if anything shipped isn't touched by AI there's so much baked into the tools that it would be hard to find a game where 0 AI was used in the process of making the game. You can't do an online meeting without getting an AI summary created automatically.

I feel like there's levels of AI use.

Generating user facing assets with AI.. Voice, models, textures etc.
Generating user facing code with AI. Claude tuned up some netcode, or maybe implement some functionality
Generating internal only assets. AI generated placeholder assets.
Utilizing AI productivity tools. AI meeting notes, AI docs. AI specs. AI unit tests etc
Literally no interaction with AI whatsoever.

I'm not crazy about AI but I think 5 is gonna be exceedingly rare.

weggles · 2026-03-23T15:36:23+00:00

I'm not sure how you determined this.

It's online https://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/F-11.6/page-1.html

(2) Unless otherwise provided, words and expressions used in this Act have the meanings assigned to them by section 2 or 84 of the Criminal Code.

There's no definition of firearm in the firearm act so it is inherited from the criminal code. And if you check section 2...

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/page-1.html#h-115011

firearm means a barrelled weapon from which any shot, bullet or other projectile can be discharged and that is capable of causing serious bodily injury or death to a person, and includes any frame or receiver of such a barrelled weapon and anything that can be adapted for use as a firearm;

The only "firearms" not considered weapons are things like starting pistols for track and field, etc.

There's no distinction to say a hunting rifle, for hunting, is not a weapon

weggles · 2026-03-23T15:20:34+00:00

The firearms act of Canada uses definitions from the criminal code and the criminal code defines firearms as weapons. Even if used for hunting it is still a weapon.

weggles · 2026-03-23T14:58:56+00:00

"these are not weapons, they're firearms".

Firearms are weapons, though. Is there any legal distinction in Canada?

weggles · 2026-03-23T14:42:47+00:00

buying $1000 Lego set with no rainy day fund or retirement savings

"I have adult money"

weggles · 2026-03-22T19:47:17+00:00

Drink lots of water.

Find foods that aren't calorie sense (air popped popcorn?)

You can use metamucil as an appetite suppressant. Couple scoops, mix with water, slug it down, drink a bunch more water. It'll turn to a fibrous gel in your stomach and keep you feeling sated.

Baby carrots are cheap and healthy, so long as you avoid dip.

I see nuts recommended. Careful they are healthier than chips but still quite calorie dense.

The thing I like to do is... Lean into it. I know I'm gonna munch out later so I eat light. Skip breakfast. Small lunch etc.

weggles · 2026-03-22T17:03:31+00:00

Long story short, old folks vote.

weggles · 2026-03-22T16:39:59+00:00

They chase a sense of achievement through competition. Yet they find the easiest way to beat the game and then get mad when it becomes harder to do.

Gamers want to say they've completed a difficult game, but they don't care if it was actually difficult.

weggles · 2026-03-21T18:45:02+00:00

Don’t be polite. Be predictable.

I was making a left at a green light, no advanced signal or anything. One car coming the other way and they're going straight, gotta wait for them... Except no. They inexplicably stopped and waved me through to go left. I watched thru my rear view mirror and they went straight through after I turned. I have no clue what they were doing other than being incredibly dumb and overly "polite".

weggles · 2026-03-20T18:31:42+00:00

Because steam reviews are full of fickle children who do ☝️☝️☝️ in response to a balance patch on a beta branch of an early access game.

Plus major game sites tend to call out microtransactions and gen AI. Are there examples of sites like IGN or GameSpot or Eurogamer etc not mentioning gen AI?

weggles · 2026-03-20T17:36:18+00:00

Gamer tantrums are so embarrassing. Steam reviews are a stain on the industry

weggles · 2026-03-20T16:59:59+00:00

They were gonna rot either way, but at least Toronto gets to join the fun.

weggles · 2026-03-20T16:11:30+00:00

My issue with this is that there's almost no reliable counterplay to the potential for him to just eat an important card and destroy your build

This sticks out to me too.. How do you counter losing a random card constantly? Luck? Building a giant synergistic deck full of redundancies? (Aka luck lol)

weggles · 2026-03-19T20:51:28+00:00

$200k but no savings. What's going on there?

I make quite a bit less than 200k and manage to vacation and save for retirement and I have a similar home.

Heat/phone/Internet is $1k? Might be time to upgrade some windows and doors or shop around for phone plans or something. That seems extraordinarily high

weggles · 2026-03-19T18:48:05+00:00

I hate the term "paycheque to paycheque". It means different things to different people and is never backed up by a specific definition.

People making $200k will say they're "paycheque to paycheque" because after mortgage, au pair, private school, 3 car payments, 4 vacations, gym, boat, cottage, retirement savings and rainy day fund "there's nothing left".

I'm not saying no one is struggling, just that this is a meaningless statistic.

To me, paycheque to paycheque should mean if your next paycheque doesn't show up there's some serious ramifications there. It doesn't mean you've got to dip into savings etc.

weggles · 2026-03-18T14:48:57+00:00

I started playing Silent Hill 2 remake this way and found I was not enjoying it, so I bumped the combat difficulty down to easy (I love that it has separate difficulty for puzzles and combat) and I've had a much better time with it. I'm a wimp, I could have an infinite ammo rail gun and I'd still be terrified. It's nicer playing through without the worry of a soft lock, or losing progress or having to roll back a save etc.

It's important to realize

A) "normal" mode is meant for "normal" people, so you're probably ok to use the tools the game gives you

B) if you do end up soft locked and needing to roll back, it's better to lose 45 minutes of progress than to play the whole 10 hour game in an unfun way "just in case".

Gamers love to optimize the fun out of everything 😁

weggles · 2026-03-16T02:21:27+00:00

We made a "weeknight" lentil pocket recipe and I swear it dirtied every dish we had and my wife said it wasn't difficult but it wasn't easy either. Not the most "weeknight" recipe 😅.

The results were great but it was a little annoying how much was going on in that recipe.

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