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I wonder where the data is sourced. It has lots of detail about some VIA Rail routes in Canada and entirely misses others.

Flattening old things down to plain HTML is underrated and important here. Old apps don’t need to be updated or upgraded or maintained or even deployed. It’s way simpler to argue t…

I too have a positive view of Shopify engineers. But no longer Shopify management. It went from bottom up trust basted to top down AI first and for everything based. It’s very hard…

But you’re more likely to remember it. It’s not trying to be easier.

Most recently he compared Roma people to wolves that should be exterminated, a post so openly racist that an LLM refused to translate it.

Yeah this is roughly the same. It’s just a smear of apps and no real assumption of anything sure to be shared.

But you can just add the space back in! It’s a strict format of six characters, alternating digits and letters, with a space. There is no deviation. You can easily write a parser a…

Canadian here. I have a WhatsApp account and the app on my phone with zero contacts in it. Nobody here uses it. But every time I leave the country I need it for some service or bus…

Unfortunately en-CA is not really supported as a locale and we have to choose between en-US and en-GB. I’ll usually choose the latter, because despite more differences in language,…

Whereas tens of thousands contract Lyme, often in life altering infections. Lyme is a big deal. But yes, I agree, we can both aim to reduce new disease without letting old vectors …

I care about the Lyme more than the rats tbh. That is way more likely to fuck you up long term than anything a rat will bring in this day and age. We aren’t getting the black plagu…

I live in Ottawa and I watched a crow rip a dead brown rat apart in my front street this week. I don’t see them often but they’re here. (I swear I live in a nice neighbourhood)

It’s worth knowing the answer, but also the answer shouldn’t matter for most cases. Regular users should only use these stations for road trips. Nearly all charging should be done …

Manitoba is almost 100% powered by hydro, and exports something like 7TWh of power a year. You’re drawing your line in the wrong spot.

Wow! Two hours!

This is not correct, for me at least. I want a very good washing machine with frills, but it want it to wash well and quietly without needing to be configured from my phone over wi…

Used in production? Probably not yet. But likely tested in production on a small %. They’ve gotten practiced at using the Shopify Rails monolith as the biggest test suite and regre…

Businesses and reviews mostly. Not navigation. I participated actively in the Google Local Guides. I depend on the content from there to discover stuff geographically. But I’m also…

Yes, I am also hopelessly tied to Google Maps. Which I think is relatively distinct from web search, IMO.

My wife and I have a family account. I absolutely love it and have used it for a while. I’m a programmer and use it more for that kind of thing. She, however, does the purchasing a…

Are these… real names? I can no longer tell if this is satire.

There is an excellent children’s book about their story. It’s hard to read to my kids without getting teary, tbh. https://www.petermercurio.com/our-subway-baby/

The issue here is that Canada belongs to all Canadians. A portion of voters in one province can’t just vote to help themselves to the territory of Canada.

Unfortunately it wasn't my project so I can't speak to it with detail or authority. I was just observing. It was things like: Where do log statements go? Via what path? Are we sure…

I have most often used it to be every amiibo that exists.