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Darren Stone, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Once men turned their thinking over to
machines in the hope that this would
set them free. But that only permitted
other men with machines to enslave
them." - Frank P. Herbert, Jr., 1965
"The programmer, like the poet, works
only slightly removed from pure
thought-stuff. He builds his castles
in the air, from air, creating by
exertion of the imagination."
- Fred P. Brooks, Jr., 1975recent activity (1,004 total)
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I'm barely a skier but I really enjoyed this! The style. The backstory. The person . Happy thoughts. Then (inevitably?) ... "I wonder what the right AI model and prompt could generate in Ni…
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I worry that industry solutions involving more proprietary layers and/or encryption on buses will make our vehicles and appliances even less modifiable, diagnosable, and serviceable by anyone exc…
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Another vote for GrapheneOS here. I moved away from a great iOS experience to a great GrapheneOS experience nearly two years ago. Pixel 5. Works fantastic. Bonus: I get nearly two full days of battery…
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You're catching a lot of flak and downvotes for your comment. I'm Canadian yet your general sentiment, made famous by Thomas Jefferson, seems pretty reasonable to me: "When the people f…
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> "it's not the tool's job to regulate my creativity. the law exists to regulate the use of my art, not the act of creating the art. I can draw hello kitty all I want and leave it in…
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> "if we can figure out how to successfully stop organ rejection then we will most likely have cured cancer on the way" Genuinely ignorant and layperson curious here ... how are these tw…
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Ha brutal. Yes, the CRA has effectively given access to My Account to all SIN holders so the burden is on us all to know about these T&C! Lolsigh.
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I'll go out on a limb here ... tell me if you disagree ... that if you file your taxes on paper, all that personal information will be quickly scanned and available in a database. The database of…
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Canadian here. Thank you for sharing your Terms of Service. I don't agree to them. Thus, I wish to opt out of your Tax Revenue Collection Service. M'kay?
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https://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/us-nuclear-plant-ow... …
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And, yet, unknowable. So we play.
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I like his art and his definition of art.
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> "Art is not what I think when I'm painting. It's what you feel when you're looking." I love this definition of art and it's why some of the recent knee-jerk rejectio…
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> lost touch with their humanity Humanity. Hm. Maybe. But is it possible that some who seek to limit what "humanity" means are also gatekeeping a safe place for themselves while other hum…
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Most parents won't drastically change the financial resources or personal time they commit to their kids' development. They probably can't. But this aspect seems immediately achievable …
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OP here. I submitted this with what I felt was a good headline and it lived with this for a while (less than an hour, I reckon): "99 phones in handcart make Google Maps traffic jam, turn gree…
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All words in use today were made up at some point and then accepted through popular use. Merriam-Webster accepted this one into their dictionary some years ago.[1] And Dictionary.com acknowledges it m…
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I think conventional camera gear will do it. If you enjoy this view into microworlds, here's one of my favourite macro photographers. This is a collection of garnets (sand grains) that are 0.2 to…
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Page 8 of the report[1] concludes two or fewer standard drinks[2] per week "will likely avoid alcohol related consequences". Three or more standard drinks per week increases breast and colon…