Tomechangosubanana - since 1995!

these days it’s impossible to browse the web without having the experience ruined by cookie pop ups.

Manitoba adopts permanent daylight time 92 per cent of respondents wanted to see an end to seasonal time changes, with 58 per cent preferring permanent daylight time and 34 per cent siding with standard time.

DOH ms. senator whatever/whoever the hell you are, never heard of you in my life but why are you telling us Canadians these things?

before the original page gets lost to time on the internet INGREDIENTS 1 cup white beans 2 cups water 1/4 cup oil 2 tsp salt 2 tsp paprika 2 tsp onion powder 1 tsp garlic 1/4 tsp tumeric 1 tsp ground fennel 1 tsp sage 1 tsp pepper 1 tsp soy sauce 2 3/4 cup

the irony of pages with AI-generated content, being themselves protected from AI scrapers behind Cloudflare Turnstile or Anubis.

Stirling’s approximation allows for estimates of very large factorials.

this is what putting children in positions of power looks like.

import mpmath milinillionthlimit = mpmath.power(2,mpmath.power(10,3003)-1)-1 decillionthlimit = mpmath.power(2,mpmath.power(10,33)-1)-1 mpmath.nstr(mpmath.log10(milinillionthlimit/2) % 3 ,1500) -> '0.0' mpmath.nstr(mpmath.log10(decillionthlimit/2) % 3,1…

I’ve said this for years but when someone articulates it better than I can, the best thing to do is to just quote.

Ingredients Vegetable oil, for coating the ramekins 1 1/2 cups heavy cream 1 (1/4-ounce) packet unflavoured gelatin 1/3 cup granulated sugar 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise, seeds scraped and reserved 1 1/2 cups low-fat buttermilk Total Time: 25 mins, pl…

25^(3^(2^25)) is about 5.43182606399450523 * 10^(6.962001e+16009532).

Sorry but I had to put this here once I found it - which took a while.

This is pure gold.

So Anthropic, one of the largest frontier AI vendors, made some bad decisions with their newest Claude Fable 5 model, where it would silently fall back to a less-capable model (Opus 4.8) when asked about certain topics like LLM development itself.

After many years of running a few Wordpress sites, last year around September I moved the last of them over to static content serving.

Amazon brings dark mode to Kindle.

The Dark Mode Mafia’s shenanigans have not gone unnoticed by the Internet community at large.

There’s this old movie I kind of remembered and I wanted to know what it was called etc.

This cbc article has the most wonderful portrait of the kind of politician Pierre Poilievre is.

This The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess essay has been making the rounds as it’s being released, chapter by chapter like a good Victorian serialized novel by Dickens, over a few weeks.

Hot take: printers are consumables.

Once AI agents can plausibly work in voice-only mode for prompts and responses, people will legit no longer have a reason to be literate… sigh

It turns out that corporations controlling humankind’s thoughts and actions through computers is a fate that’s been known for decades.

Whenever the topic of plugging your phone into a keyboard/monitor to get a desktop computer comes along (similar to 2014’s Ubuntu Edge I’m always reminded of this weird computer I saw more than 30 years ago in trade magazines around 1990: the elusive Ergo…

I asked Claude to make a change and it decided to modify a function’s signature and update all the call points, because it could, resulting in a massive diff.

A bunch of these are hosted on cheap, wake-on-demand Fly machines or Sprites. https://six-seven.fly.dev https://audio-reverse.fly.dev https://roadmr-isax.sprites.app

When an actual human and not an AI writes an email

I know it’s in his party’s mandate and his ultimate goal and all but gosh, the PQ’s Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s obsession with reading separatist desire in.

I don’t know why this was so hard to find; documentation for Hugo is atrocious.

As a counterpart to the rise of the Dark Mode Mafia, I’m identifying articles pushing against the darkness onslaught and harassment, and explaining the truth about why folks find “normal mode” so difficult to work with.

With Legault out of the way, the next hurdle is this: the PQ’s desire to hand Quebec over to the USA.

Good news: François Legault is resigning.

I’m only 5 episodes into ST:TNG S2 and already Dr.

When someone says “let’s hop on a call” …

Right off the bat, Soraya’s first budget breaks one of her campaign promises (not raising property taxes beyond inflation). first city budget includes an average residential property tax rate hike of nearly four per cent — beyond last year’s rate of infla…

the USA kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela has elicited reactions and comments from everyone.

Good news: Montreal-Ottawa chosen as first leg of Canadian high-speed rail project.

I usually change my status to something indicative of end-of-day (EOD) - I won’t be available until tomorrow.

I just read this post from none other than Simon Willison, where he says “I get enough people complaining that this site is “blinding””.

I found the problem and it’s really bad.

“good news!”

Folks in Alberta doing a counter-petition “We don’t want to secede, so put this to rest before wasting time and resources on a referendum” sounds like they had the right idea.

Ottawa begins to consider the possibility of a Quebec referendum as the PQ has said they’d call for a referendum if they get elected.

Just keep the mess out of the camera’s field of view and you should be good to go.

A few years ago I signed up for Tarsnap.

The fetish modern Internet users have with “dark mode” has to stop, as does the rhetoric they typically use to advance their arguments, stuff like: blasts my eyeballs with full-beam daylight. or the light of a thousand suns Give me a break.

And just like any other computer, the “cloud” can go down.

Things like what the Quebec fascist government is doing to doctors (Bill 2 essentially turning patient care into a big-tech-like performance-oriented race to the bottom - it’s “managing public service like they were a for-profit company” disguised as “imp…

[Tan, 1979] A firm experimenting with an electronic brain designed to translate English into Russian fed it the words: “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”