That’s why I prefer to hold meetings in room 200. That way everyone finds the room without even having to read the number.

TBF this is not really about programming. You have to be knowledgeable about how computers work and their history for this one.

Just overthinking for fun.

A lock is a bit deeper though. There’s also a ladder but if the lock is being filled/emptied, some currents might suck someone under water.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

TBF kids are already getting killed by other cars and society deems it an acceptable loss for being able to take cars everywhere.

In 2023, there’s been 12 fatalities of kids under 4 years old in Canada, and 48 fatalities between 5 and 14 years old. All ages, it’s a total of nearly 2000 dead in a year in Canada alone for 2023.

When a kid dies in a pool we nearly ban them and strengthen regulations. Cities pay inspectors to make sure people have fences around their pool.

When a kid gets clipped by a fast moving cyclist it makes the news. Dangerous cyclists are roaming the streets at high speed, nearly killing children! What an outrage!

But when cars kill a few thousand people every year, one every 30 seconds on the planet, it’s the price we have to pay for this convenience. We can’t stop the world turning. Our economies would collapse without cars so we can’t really impose any regulations on them. They’re EsSeNtIAl.

Sorry but why would higher fuel prices induce such behaviour? Weren’t some people assholes before?

To me, in Canada, the sudden and steep increase in people driving like assholes dates from the pandemic. The price doesn’t seem to have changed much.

However I have never driven a car among traffic, only my bike when I have no other choice, so I may not be super aware of the latest rage. In fact, me not having a car and avoiding them makes the rising prices not so much of an issue for me. Food prices and everything else will increase, but I’m lucky enough not to pay directly for fuel nor mix with car drivers daily.

I’m doing tech support and customer support. The dev team missed their deadline on the launch of the new ERP and launched it anyway a few days later. There are still Lorem Ipsum in some places. We can’t even edit client’s names or phone numbers yet. We also can’t open new accounts for a handful of clients.

I usually can cover for “my” team. We all make mistakes and sometimes things are not going according to plan. But so far it’s the worst deployment I have ever seen. I gave up on trying to help clients and I’m now just telling them I can’t do anything, while the dev team is telling me they are working on those issues and they should be fixed “in the following days, bro”. It’s been two weeks of “this is gonna get fixed soon” while I am bullshitting the clients telling them “oh I’ve been told it would work now, please try again”.

I’m tired and they should be better. I just script for fun. I was doing PHP 20 years ago and still host a few services for a handful of people, and sometimes I think I might do a better job than some junior programmers.

Yeah but my biggest issue is that I live in the south of Quebec without a car, and most land here except water is private. If i want access to Crown land and wild camp, I have to cycle for a few solid hours up north. Like, at least 100 km.

AFAIK even with a car, it’s like this for most of my province. The vast majority of the population lives concentrated around the archipelago and they have to drive a few hours north to get away from private land. Plus, it’s not easy to be certain what is Crown land or not.

All the red is private.

Someone wasn’t following the 3-2-1 rule. That wouldn’t have happened if they used LTO tape backups.

I used to work for a hosting company that had the IBM i servers of insurance companies and big retailers. Servers were replicated in real time but they also had offline backups on LTO tapes.

If you give AI access to your backups, you deserve what happens.

In Canada, a very old arrangement dating from the creation of the country, says that navigable water is a federal matter. Whether it’s on the side of the ocean, a big lake, or a river, the water and anything below high tide is Crown “land”, and public. There are obviously exceptions and access by land can be controlled but not by water. At least not the beach itself.

It leads to weird situations, like a provincial park that can’t stop boaters from using remote parts of “their” beach. Or another where boats band together between some islands, and party and jetboat among kayaks and SUP.

But this also prevents owners of big houses around lakes to claim a part of that lake, or the foreshore.

We don’t have the right to roam in general here, with some exceptions for Crown lands, and it happens that bodies of water and rivers is Crown land.

Anyway, that’s how I understand this.

Then shoot him in the head. It’s inflated enough.

I hope some day I’ll see something like this live, televised in all glorious details.

I once heard an American say something “weighs as much as a 2 liter bottle” and it made me raise an eyebrow.

AFAIK taxis don’t pretend to be “sustainable”.

Beyond the absurdity autonomous cars only following selected rules of the road, doesn’t London have pretty good public transit?! Like, among the best in the world for a big city. Why in the fucking world would Waymo operate there unless it wants to compete public transit and bikes.

My parents live in a rural area and they have hundreds of multicoloured Asian lady beetles crawling in their windows and in the house.

I have a cabin in the same region and the inside of the walls are filled with their corpses. They agglutinate by thousands in fire wood and I burn so many. They are everywhere and kind of annoying.

I don’t think AI will take a lot of jobs. It could happen but I don’t see it.

Even before AI these things could happen. I just watched a documentary on lighthouse keepers and the disappearance of their job because of automation and LED lights. When I was a kid, well before “AI”, they were telling us that computers amd automation would take most of the jobs.

Translators would be a thing of the past! Yet, machine translation still sucks. Sure it reduced the amount of translators needed, but they’re still needed. AI translation can’t even make the difference between a common and proper noun. It’s making slop.

I work in tech support and customer support. I’ve been told many times that automation and AI would take my job, but so far computers are bad at that. I have scripted myself out of certain tasks at work much before any AI could do it, and it just freed me and my coworkers for other tasks. A big part of my work is understanding what people want and what went wrong, and AI is absolutely not there yet.

Although I can see the effect it has on the industry and job market as enthusiasts are trying to push it everywhere they can, I doubt it will replace lots of work. AI can be a good assistant and help on some tasks, but it still can’t read a piece of paper properly. It’s not even good for data entry.

All those “AI will replace a lot of jobs” claims are exaggerating. Sure, it will happen for a few people in small numbers, slowly. But not like what tech bros are predicting.

Eventually AI will even be able to count the number of minutes and seconds passed, and sometimes be confidently wrong. Revolutionary stuff.

Yeah, there’s no perfect solution. Bicycles also produce microplastics and particles from tire shedding and brake pads. It’s much much less than a car, but it still happens.

There is also a particular swampy area in a park with a paved bike path, where every year, there’s a few dozen frogs flattened on the path. It’s not common to other places where I ride, mostly just there. I was wondering if the heat of the asphalt might lure the frogs to bask on the path, and to their doom. However I’ve also ridden in the night and frogs sometimes just jump in your wheels. Maybe there’s also just a bigger concentration there.

I’ve also seen terrapins lay their eggs in gravel paths. And I’ve never seen one dead, yet. In their case, asphalt might help a bit because they can’t lay in the middle of the path, only the sides.

Plus, my point of view is also guided by the climate in my region, because asphalt can be plowed easily, and it also allows a cycling network to be open year round instead of just 6 months a year here. We can’t cycle in mud or a metre of snow. Other regions might not have such extremes and can get away with well maintained dirt or gravel paths.

And I’ve never really ridden on wood chips for a long distance, only on decorative chips with soft beds. I’d be curious to try in some experimental spots. I would hope it’s easier to roll on than grass. This also reminds me about some trails where they have multiple short wooden bridges to let nature cross in other ways.

I don’t know. It depends.

Asphalt spread out on very large surfaces sure sucks. Like parking lots and street parking. It contributes to flooding and heat island effect. It’s also bad for runoff polluted water, filled with microplastics from tire shedding. Too much asphalt everywhere is bad.

But! Some major bike green ways and rail trails here have started to put asphalt on their bike paths, and they have good reasons for doing so. Those rail trails were covered with fine crushed rocks before, and the runoff was also pretty bad for the environment. The maintenance was higher because the gravel needs to be replaced. And the path couldn’t be used for some weeks in the spring and fall because of thaw cycles. This article in French has a mayor saying they had this studied and it was better for the environment to have their part in asphalt. Plus, bikes are not heavy enough to damage the asphalt so it also needs much less maintenance for cycle routes.

I’m all for having asphalt on major bike roads and rail trails. But not on rural roads mainly for cars, and not to cover parking lots.

EDIT: Asphalt for bicycles, not cars. Like this.

It does vary depending on the manufacturer. Some are pretty quiet. I can’t hear any Tesla “honking at low volume” when they pass by, but they probably just don’t comply with new regulations. I find Hyundai to be the worst.

I live in a tower at the intersection of a busy street with traffic lights and I can hear the Hyundai EVs while sitting in my couch when the windows are open. In fact, they’re open right now and I can clearly hear a Chevrolet EV decelerating before coming to a stop at the traffic light while I’m typing this. Toyota EVs are also pretty loud. Granted I can also hear loud and modified fossil fuel engines but most of them usually blend into a white noise.

When walking around the smaller streets of my neighbourhood, cars are going pretty slow and the noises of Hyundai, Chevrolet and Toyota EVs definitely stand out. It’s weird because I’m a pedestrian. I don’t have a car. I hate them. And I want them to be secure for pedestrians. But some of those warning systems are so loud and annoying that I wish they would just be quiet.