With several NA jurisdictions now on permanent DST, or having already passed legislation to use permanent DST pending some condition or other, I’d say the chance of AB switching to permanent standard time is vanishingly small. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. The failure of that referendum gives a ton of ammo to those in favour of the status quo.

Now compare wages vs inflation, and wages vs GDP. GDP of developed countries has climbed dramatically since the 80’s, while wage growth has slowed to a crawl relatively.

One must ask themself: where did all the money go?

Also from Saskatchewan, lived in Alberta for a few years. I have literally never in my life had a moment where I wished Sask did time changes, and found it stressful and annoying every time it happened while living elsewhere.

Stop changing your clocks! Good job BC, I hope you start some dominoes!

Some people seem to use it as an appeal to authority. This only works if you think ChatGPT is an authority on anything, though.

Except it’s not game publishers who are suing. It is an organization representing musicians, some of whom have made music which is included in games which can be purchased through Steam.

Yes, that’s how things work when you live close to a time zone border. Doesn’t really have anything to do with DST.

Most people living close to the BC<->AB or AB<->SK borders, for example, deal with this frequently, and stopping DST won’t change that. You get used to it.

That’s my understanding as well. I’ve seen dummy loads used when testing transmitters at power so that nothing gets too hot. They usually have a big aluminum heat sink.

They’re very cool and intricate indeed. But, as someone who grew up on a farm and is pretty familiar with combines: you’re drastically underestimating the engineering challenges in computers and space travel.

I’m not really familiar with the proposed scale of fusion plants, but how do you get to 120t/day? The paper says the theoretical gold output is 2t/GWth/year.

I’ve always been uncomfortable, honestly, with calling software developers “engineers”. Partly that’s because it’s actually illegal to call a non-PEng role an “engineer” in some jurisdictions (most of Canada), but I think this comment is an excellent point of distinction to make between PEng and other roles.

Legal responsibility along with regulatory requirements. There’s a reason everyone* trusts elevators and airplanes but shouldn’t trust most software.

Her story with her in-laws gets a little sympathy, right up until she’s complaining that the tenant is doing all these things to her and she “didn’t do anything”.

You served him illegal rent increase notices and you tried to evict him! That’s not nothing! All the tenant has done is get the regulator in the loop, and the regulator has repeatedly said, “yeah, you can’t do that.” Flawed as they sometimes are, we have laws like these for a reason.

And I ask you - if those same trillions of dollars were instead spent on materially improving the lives of average people, how much more progress would we make as a society? This is an absolutely absurd sum of money were talking about here.

A lot of LLM hype is wrapped up in how well it can write code. This hype is being used by corporations to justify pouring mind boggling amounts of money into the tech in the hopes that they can lay off all their staff.

I reserve the right to hate this state of affairs and enjoy seeing every headline that shows just how much of a pipe dream it is.

It has to be more nuanced than “self-published”, otherwise everything EA craps out is “indie”.

The definition of “indie game” is a case where there is no easy, clear line to draw in the sand.

Wait, breathing?!

I saw one where the program ran a busy loop on startup to calculate how long it took. Then it used that as an iterations-to-seconds conversion for busy loops between scheduled actions.

Not even “can’t afford”. They’re rolling in money. They merely made the calculation that paying lip service to the problem (and farming their user base for even more data to leverage, count on it) could cost less than future lawsuits.

With what money? They only made $1.3 billion this quarter! Won’t anyone think of the shareholders?!

So that’s what it is!

Netflix has that warning on every episode, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯