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I don't think it is difficult to accept that fundamentals should be taught. We spend years learning basic arithmetic like the addition of integers. You could very well argue that t…

They made programming so simple any idiot could do it. So they do.

"Ohh, soo cute! Here little kitty! OMG... RUN!!!"

The catch is that native North American pollinators are adapted to native North American flowers and have a great deal of difficulty pollinating introduced species that are native …

You know what they say: ship a village 1000 bicycles and they ride for a day. Teach a village to make bicycles and they ride for the rest of their lives. The counterargument is, of…

It's because the more important question of "how can I personally profit from this?" usually takes precedence.

"Lymne" refers to an infection by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, a bacteria closely related to syphillis. There are plenty of other tick-borne diseases (including localized s…

Ottawa summers are hot and very humid but the ticks disappear during that season.

The black-legged tick season in Ottawa is March through June and again September through November. Summer (deerfly season) is just too hot for them and they go to ground. We do all…

You want the wrinkles to be conspicuous. It lets everyone know you can afford linen.

Perhaps a nice relaxing week at my private Caribbean island will help cure you?

I'm willing to wager most CTOs would agree with you.

A site to report tick bytes. Is there a similar site to report mosquito bites? They also carry many debilitation or fatal diseases. I live in prime tick country. During peak season…

It depends. We have a few sewing machines that are finicky. Tension goes off rapidly, binds a lot, lint buildup constantly has to be cleaned, clunks mysteriously sometimes. We also…

> I've never understood the fixation with avoiding them in favour of repurposing letter keys, something that is just a holdover from the very anemic terminal keyboard that vi was f…

They're also used where I am with milk to keep the outer bag closed.

It is my experience that it's the opposite. LLMs are very very precise but wildly inaccurate. They might give you 17 significant digits but be off by 10 orders of magnitude, to use…

Get used to it: I think we're going to be pretending to predict the future for many years to come.

The American political "left" is way to the right of centre compared with everywhere else in the world.

I live in Canada, winter is 6 months and we get a few weeks below -30 and deep snow November through March. It's a different story.

My experience is it takes 100 hours to buck, split, haul, and stack the 7 or so cords of wood it takes to heat my house. A cord is 4 feet by 4 feet by 8 feet. The total time includ…

I got some burly maple ends that even my 22-ton hydraulic splitter can't handle. Toss 'em into the woods, let nature take care of 'em.

Ah, sweet summer child. When the days you have to break the ice on the dog's water bowl in the morning come, you will quickly learn what kinds of wood there are and what you want t…

I don't burn softwood because hardwood is a much better fuel as a primary heat source, especially when you live in a mixed forest. Sugar maple, red oak, birch, and beech. Beech is …

The political right is obsessed with minimizing Type II error. They feel it's better to miss good research results than to have the wrong people performing the research or chasing …