What is METR?
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/deesrjitvXM4xYGZd/metr-measu...
Readit Newsravendug commented on GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/Philpax
ravendug commented on EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force france24.com/en/europe/20... · Posted by u/belter
Every battery is changeable.
The fact that you can't replace them without a screwdriver and a heat gun doesn't make them irreplaceable.
You're also unlikely to fix the TV, but you have no questions about it.
This is stating the obvious without addressing the point. It is implicit that we are discussing user replaceable batteries. Your average user does not own a heat gun or the knowledge of how to use it to replace their own battery. Removing the requirement for the majority of users to have to take their phone to a technician to do the replacement will undoubtedly result in less eWaste. To the best of my knowledge, my TV does not contain a consumable battery which is core to its primary function. Sure the display panel and other components may have a finite lifetime but these are long enough to not be considered consumables by either consumers or manufacturers like batteries are.
ravendug commented on Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes voanews.com/a/canada-bans... · Posted by u/vincent_s
Why does temporary vs permanent status matter? Whoever is coming to Canada needs a place to live in.
My assumption is that temporary residents no longer consume housing at the end of their stay in the country so, provided the rate of growth in the number of temporary residents is low, their net consumption of the available housing stock over time would also be low. I haven’t seen the growth figures to judge.
Where we stand today, the absolute number of temporary residents are consuming some percentage of housing but I suggest that is the current baseline and is less useful discussing how to solve the problem going forward, unless anyone is advocating for a net reduction in the absolute number going forward. However, I haven’t seen that as part of the discourse and would consider that an extremely short term measure with its own set of ramifications.
ravendug commented on Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes voanews.com/a/canada-bans... · Posted by u/vincent_s
Based on a Google search, Canada builds 200k homes, condos and other dwellings in a year. Looks like the pace needs to be doubled.
I’m not disagreeing that a lot more should be done on the supply side but the suggestion of it needing to double comes across as the additional demand equaling 1 home per immigrant which is simply not the case. I would like to see the hard numbers but I would expect a significant proportion to be 2+ families.
ravendug commented on Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes voanews.com/a/canada-bans... · Posted by u/vincent_s
That's 405,000 permanent residents only. Add to that hundreds of thousands international students + hundreds of thousands temporary workers + tens of thousands asylum seekers + etc + etc
Those are mostly temporary by definition so I don’t see that as a source of the longer term shortages at the macro level unless it is shown that the size of the student and temporary worker pool is growing significantly every year? Sure, many of those eventually go onto permanent residency but that’s still included in the 400k annual figure is it not?
The number of asylum claimants is overstated in my opinion. Even if 100% are granted, which is unlikely, it is a very small number in terms of population growth.
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
ravendug commented on Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes voanews.com/a/canada-bans... · Posted by u/vincent_s
Canada is also bringing in one million immigrants a year to feed the exploitative low paying job market and to try to stave off recession. These immigrants tend to gravitate in either Toronto or Vancouver.
Meanwhile corporate and rich investors are snapping up any property they can get their hands one.
In Ontario the Premiere is reclassifying conservation land owner by his buddies to allow them to build developments. In Toronto they tore down a vital section of the main highway to allow their buddies to build condos. The also allowed polluted lands to be developed a residential by simply putting a thin layer of top cover over the industrial pollution.
The foreign ban is only for high density areas. Small towns and rural land have become unaffordably for the people who grew up there.
It is a major catasrophe that is not being solved, just postponed by a year.
It’s nowhere near 1 million per year. The record from 2021 was 405,000 and the plan for the next 3 years is < 1.5 million in total.
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/ne...
ravendug commented on Recoll – Full-text search for your desktop lesbonscomptes.com/recoll... · Posted by u/nanna
Not bad, I wonder if someone made something similar for ripgrep.
Yes, I haven’t tried it myself yet.