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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Per the article, it's money the government gives these people in the first place, so it kinda is.

It does raise the possibility that if the government had just not made it legally impossible to build these things on a normal property, they'd already exist, and probably in a less dumb place.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

Sure, absolutely it's a great skill to have just in case. Ditto for preservation.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yes, but he has four walls now, so he's not homeless and can't complain/can be removed from the statistics.

/s, although that's the vibe of how a lot of systems for poor people work, probably because they're designed by never-poor poiticians.

Edit: And for what they're charging and in what area, I wonder if these are actually profitable rental units.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Carney is still left enough I'd guess it will be hiked progressively. Maybe flat.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

and they made a really astute point that the US’s immense military budget does not exist to produce the most effective weapons (as we can clearly see in their war on Iran)

Sooo what's the casualty ratio right now?

They have great weapons, it's just that weapons can't occupy a country.

Also notice that military contractors give the same average long-term returns as everything else.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yup. Cutting federal staff worth 3.5% of GDP was never going to work.

That's fine. Spending on the military is mildly redistributive anyway.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

And there's other babysitting-type jobs out there, if that's what you want. Actually that's one sector poised to grow a lot do to AI, because AI needs hella babysitting.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you're not eating anything else, but still have a year-round growing season, it takes an acre or two for modern agriculture to feed a person. That's a lot by city standards, but not in general (it was more like 60 in pre-modern times). It's basically what the Ethiopians mentioned are doing, plus the cocoa so they can have things that don't grow on trees, as well.

and will like 30min of effort a day you can have more than enough for your own needs.

Mountains of human experience suggests it takes a lot more effort than that. Have you had to deal with pests, drought or disease yet?

You might still come in under 8 hours a day, but then you add in the cash crops... Again, this is something only white people generations away from subsistence farming seem to think will be easy.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, the people paying the most taxes are doing just fine.

This specific policy seems like it's trying to alienate people, though. They could have gone with anything besides nationalisation, or at least used a bullshit name for it.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Like, radical policies can win, and sometimes aren't even a bad idea, but it just doesn't seem like this one has wide appeal. Unless they win it means about as much as our hot takes on here.

You know how the Conservative party has gotten further and further right to appeal to their own activists, at the expense of appealing to anyone else? There's a similar vibe with this.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is it not loading for me, or are there actually just two sentences?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Poor people 40 and up tend to vote more Conservative. They strike the same angry tone without any of the complicated or uncomfortable stuff.

Actually, poor young people are to the right of affluent young people, as well.

 

Don't fucking let "us" touch the courts, Canada.

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Not sure how to link the exact episode about a "possible" invasion of Venezuela. If somebody knows I'll edit.

We'll see how it plays out. I'm still not sure they're actually planning to send 200,000 troops, but Trump said they're going to "run it" somehow.

Edit: Moving to invidious.

Original Gem link: https://gem.cbc.ca/about-that-with-andrew-chang

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51360759

You do not get to turn these powers off, they are always active.

This question was inspired by those toy dinosaur things.

 

Modern formulations are proprietary and almost certainly require a cleanroom, but the basic concept has existed for a century. I'd assume there's a history out there beyond what little Wikipedia offers.

Would I be able to DIY a tape that could store tens of megabytes of data, at least?

Edit: This adjacent wiki might have more to say on it, based on the reply I got. I assume digital data amounts to a much higher frequency of recording, though.

I do know audio cassette tapes were used repurposed for digital storage in the early PC era. Was there a noticeable difference based on quality and type of tape?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/41849856

If an LLM can't be trusted with a fast food order, I can't imagine what it is reliable enough for. I really was expecting this was the easy use case for the things.

It sounds like most orders still worked, so I guess we'll see if other chains come to the same conclusion.

 

If an LLM can't be trusted with a fast food order, I can't imagine what it is reliable enough for. I really was expecting this was the easy use case for the things.

It sounds like most orders still worked, so I guess we'll see if other chains come to the same conclusion.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/37414239

I've read the old papers proving that fact, but honestly it seems like some of the terminology and notation has changed since the 70's, and I roundly can't make heads or tails of it. The other sources I can find are in textbooks that I don't own.

Ideally, what I'm hoping for is a segment of pseudocode or some modern language that generates an n-character string from some kind of seed, which then cannot be recognised in linear time.

It's of interest to me just because, coming from other areas of math where inverting a bijective function is routine, it's highly unintuitive that you provably can't sometimes in complexity theory.

 

I've read the old papers proving that fact, but honestly it seems like some of the terminology and notation has changed since the 70's, and I roundly can't make heads or tails of it. The other sources I can find are in textbooks that I don't own.

Ideally, what I'm hoping for is a segment of pseudocode or some modern language that generates an n-character string from some kind of seed, which then cannot be recognised in linear time.

It's of interest to me just because, coming from other areas of math where inverting a bijective function is routine, it's highly unintuitive that you provably can't sometimes in complexity theory.

 

All the new art, I presume, is still over there.

 

So, this ate up a full day. Thought someone else might think it was neat. The rules were I allowed myself to look up dates, but not whole new figures I wasn't familiar with, and the goal was to go as far back as possible:

Greta Thunberg 2003-
Emannuel Macron 1977-
Roger Penrose 1931-
Elizabeth II 1926-2022
Albert Einstein 1879-1955
Franz-Joseph I 1830-1916
Victoria I 1819-1901
Nepoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790
Isaac Newton 1642-1727
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642
William Shakespeare 1564-1616
Elizabeth I 1533-1603
Henry VIII 1491-1547
Christopher Colombus 1451-1506
Mehmed the Conquerer 1432-1481
Zheng He 1371-1433
Geoffrey Chaucer 1343-1400
Wat Tyler 1341-1381
Ibn Buttata 1304-1368
Marco Polo 1254-1324
Kublai Khan 1215-1294
Fibbonacci 1170-1245
Ghengis Khan 1162-1227
Saladin 1138-1193
Averroes 1126-1198
Ismail Al-Jazari 1136–1206
Muhammad al-Idrisi 1100-1165
Al-Ghazali 1058-1111
Alexios I Komnenos 1057-1118
Pope Urban II 1035-1099
Willie the Bastard 1028-1087
Avicenna 980-1037
Leif Erikson 975-1020
Erik the Red 950-1003
Herald Fairhair 850-932
Ingolfr Arnarson 849-910
Al-Khwarizmi 780-850
Charlemagne 748-814
Pope Gregory III Unk.-741
An Lushan 703-757
Charles Martel 688-741
Bede 673-735
Empress Wu Zetian 624-705
Aisha bint Abi-Bakr 614-678
Emporer Taizhong 598-649
Prophet Muhammad 570-632
Maurice I 582-602
Gregory of Tours 538-594
Brendan the Navigator 484-577
Justinian I 482-565
Clovis I 466-511
Aleric II 460-507
Theodoric the Great 454-526
Odoacer 433-493
Attila the Hun 406-453
Aleric I 370-411
Theodosius the Great 347-395
Valentinian the Great 321-375
Constantine the Great 272-337
Diocletian 242-311
Valarian 199-264
Ardashir I 180-242
Philip the Arab 204-249
Commodus 161-192
Septimus Severus 145-211
Antoninus 86-161
Hadrian 76-138
Pliny the Younger 61-113
Trajan 53-117
Pliny the Elder 23-79
Josephus 37-100
Nero 37-68
Caligula 12-41
Wang Mang 46-23 BC
Augustus 63-14 BC
Virgil 70-19 BC
Herod the Great 72-4 BC
Julius Caesar 100-44 BC
Pompey 106-48 BC
Cicero 106-43 BC
Cato the Younger 95-46 BC
Gaius Marius 157-86 BC
Gaius Graccus 154-121 BC
Tiberius Graccus 163-133 BC
Hipparchus 190-120 BC
Cato the Elder 234-149 BC
Hannibal 247-183 BC
Archimedes 287-212 BC
Pyrrus 319-272 BC
Epicurus 341-270 BC
Alexander the Great 353-323 BC
Aristotle 384-322 BC
Plato 427-348 BC
Socrates 470-399 BC
Euripedes 480-406 BC
Xerxes I 518-465 BC
Darius the Great 550-486 BC
Croesus 585-546 BC
Cyrus the Great 600-530 BC
Nebuchadnezzar II the Great 605-562 BC
Sappho 630-570 BC

At this point I crapped out, because I hadn't read about Ashurbanipal yet. If I had, I could have gone a few further:

Ashurbanipal 685-631 BC
Taharqa Ukn.-664 BC
Sennacherib 705-681 BC
Sargon II 770-705 BC

Unfortunately my East Asian history is ass, and I'm still not sure about the deeds of You of Zhou, so it ends there. The early 1100's were also weirdly hard, although I'm not sure why - thank god for al-Idrisi's map.

A few things that surprised me: Fibbonacci could have met Ghengis Khan, Benjamin Franklin could have talked to Isaac Newton, and Galileo was literally the same age as Shakespeare.

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