I just drove from Ottawa to Toronto this morning and it’s so true! Them and the random québécois doing 70 in the middle lane.

Also SponsoBlock

146 countries recognize Palestine as a sovereign state so I guess Netanyahu will declare WW3 on his own.

Meric Gertler doesn’t like when students protest against big oil or Israel. He’s a brilliant scholar in his domain but he lets his obvious bias show a little too often lately. A few years ago he also blocked the hiring of an internationally-renowned human rights lawyer because she had done done legal work on Israel in a somewhat critical way and that pissed-off a Jewish rich donor to the law school (Spiro). Make what you want of it all but I personally think it sends all sorts of wrong messages and doesn’t reflect positively on UofT.

My uncle was forced to write with his right hand for the same stupid reason. Stupid catholics.

I’ve been using the OpenVINO plugins for a few weeks and it’s genuinely impressive. Noise cancelling is one thing, but the transcription tool is amazing. I can create subtitles from conference recordings in minutes and create transcripts of recorded zoom calls, etc. and it does it for multiple languages.

That’s the kind of shit I like using AI for.

AMD keeps the same sockets for ages. I was able to upgrade a 5 year old Ryzen 5 2600G to a 5600G last month. Can’t do that with Intel in general.

Japan has been living in the year 2000 for 40 years

Switzerland is very mountainous and has pretty fast trains too, although not Shinkansen-fast. Swiss trains are expensive and comfortable and the vista is pretty much always great.

Yes, in factories where the tools are programmed to do a job like tightening the bolts for an airplane plug door or your car engine head. The quality assurance gains are enormous (the tool does the job and logs it).

Problems occur when the customer cuts IT security costs or tampers with the tools to increase production rates.

The tools are connected to a central database that logs all operations, it’s super useful. All the difference between Boeing that uses old style pneumatic guns and manual torque wrenches vs. Airbus using fully connected/automated wrenches that not only tighten bolts to the right torque every single time but also keeps track of how many bolts have been tightened. Such tools should be airgapped from the internet but obviously someone messed up on that part. Could be cost-cutting.

My friend who works designing such tools says production stuff should never be connected to the internet for obvious reasons. Someone fucked up.

Mill St brewery was bought by Molson (or other industrial piss maker) a few years back. Total boycott on my part.

50 Gen here I saw them live.

Outages I guess…

Scaramanga, is that you?

It’s technically illegal to consume alcohol in your own backyard if you can be seen from the outside.

Weed, beer, sex, camping, reading. Not necessarily in that order.

My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it.

Even worse, imagine if you could buy stickers!