That's the Canadian spelling, which is why when you take the taxi to the Harbour Centre it drops you off at the curb, rather than the kerb.
...and what are those rubber things rolling under the taxi called in BC? ;-)
Readit Newssefrost commented on Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling bbc.com/news/articles/cj6... · Posted by u/haunter
sefrost commented on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 wired.com/story/ford-kill... · Posted by u/sacred-rat
> Why do you need a truck?
To haul dirt. To haul junk out to the dump. Etc.
Do people load their Transits with piles of dirt and mulch? I doubt it.
I live in the US and have a small house in the city, and I haul stuff like this all the time.
Yes, you can rent a pickup truck as needed from U-Haul, but that gets old real quick.
Yes, I would love it if there was a nice small or mid-sized truck with an extended bed available, because most trucks are overkill for my use case.
But this idea that no normal person needs a pickup truck a dozen times a year is just weird.
> Do people load their Transits with piles of dirt and mulch? I doubt it.
I am from the UK but live in Canada. I only see three types of businesses using those Transit style vans here in North America: food delivery, parcel delivery and landscaping businesses. I assume the landscapers are carrying dirt at least some of the time.
source: me
I wrote 4000 lines of Rust code with Codex - a high throughput websocket data collector.
Spoiler: I do not know Rust at all. I discussed possible architectures with GPT/Gemini/Grok (sync/async, data flow, storage options, ...), refined a design and then it was all implemented with agents.
Works perfectly, no bugs.
I would be interested in a web series (podcast or video) where people who do not know a language create something with AI. Then somebody with experience building in that technology reviews the code and gives feedback on it.
I am personally progressing to a point where I wonder if it even matters what the code looks like if it passes functional and unit tests. Do patterns matter if humans are not going to write and edit the code? Maybe sometimes. Maybe not other times.
sefrost commented on Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps frinkiac.com/... · Posted by u/GlumWoodpecker
shameless plug to something similar (albeit less polished) I’ve been hobbying on for Fantozzi and PeepShow (still wip)
Yeah I think that's a fair critique. It kind of looks like a bad cut-and-replace job (if you zoom in you can even see part of the neck is missing). I might give it some more attempts to see if it can do a better job.
I agree that Seedream could definitely be called out as a fail since it might just be a trick of perspective.
Have you ever considered a “partial pass”?
Perhaps it would be an easy cop out of making a decision if you had to choose something outside of pass/fail.
sefrost commented on The 'Toy Story' You Remember animationobsessive.substa... · Posted by u/ani_obsessive
The simpsons was originally made in 4:3. Many people don't like watching with large black bars to the right and left, so they show a cropped 16:9 version. People complained because this is occasionally a problem and ruins a joke, so I believe you can opt into either.
I believe this is the best example of the problems that can be caused:
https://x.com/TristanACooper/status/1194298167824650240
Open both images and compare. The visual joke is completely ruined with the cropping.
sefrost commented on How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
You touch on the core issue of the UK, but there's both a cultural and policy aspect.
1. As you say, an aging population has placed the entire country into a gridlock - the pensions system as it stands is ridiculous and unsustainable. Unfortunately, it is an almost immediate political suicide to even attempt to reform it. Young people are disillusioned and wield little monetary or political power. The old generation has all the cards, and are actively destroying their children's future for their own short term benefit. They have mortgaged their children's future, which they won't get to see, for the short period of time they still have remaining. 2. There's no investment culture in the UK. Literally everything and everyone is rent seeking. Want a retirement? Buy property and rent it out. Want a pension? Pension funds just buy gilts - government bonds. Very little money goes into productive assets. This creates a vicious cycle where money is simply siphoned away from the little productivity that remains to an ever growing number of rent seekers.
There's no easy way out of this. One generation will effectively have to give up their welfare, but nobody wants to do this (understandable). The UK cannot afford to be the welfare state it wants to be.
> There's no easy way out of this. One generation will effectively have to give up their welfare, but nobody wants to do this (understandable). The UK cannot afford to be the welfare state it wants to be.
It can be done over a period of time. Canada moved from a non-funded pension model like the UK currently has, to a partially funded model which currently has over $731 billion in assets.
They began this change in 1999. If they hadn't made that change in direction they'd be in a much worse situation today.
It's possible to change from one system to another, if a government is able to look much further ahead than its own term in government.
With the Canadian model, your payments out at the end are tied to what you put in. Which is not quite the case in the UK, which allows extremely low payments in for just 10 years to get a very high amount out indefinitely.
The British government must take the same path the Canadians took.
sefrost commented on How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
>anybody that ever worked there for more than 3 years
To be fair what you get is proportional. If you are an NI payer for 4 years then you only get 4/32 of the state pension.
Having said that the triple lock is a ridiculous idea. The trouble is people are loss averse so it is really hard to take away things people have got used to.
Actually once you are back in your home country (or in fact any other country) you can pay an optional £180/year to buy a full qualifying year.
Anybody who ever worked in the UK can do it and you don’t need to have ever been a citizen.
There are adverts on Irish radio about it quite often.
It’s an absolutely terrible deal for the British government when you consider how high the state pension annual payout is.
I live in another country right now and I do it myself!
sefrost commented on How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
If we zoom out a bit the UK is a failed country.
All the industries in the UK are on the decline and most UK companies are being either sold off, shut down or are being owned (for a long time) by foreign companies.
It may take several decades for the UK to come back from this.
The economic situation in the UK has become bizarre.
I would recommend interested HNers to read up on the State Pension Triple Lock; and the various income tax cliff edges as some key examples.
With respect to the income tax, it is possible for higher earning (not by US standards) employees to receive a bonus and actually take home less money than before they received the bonus.
The triple lock is a politically motivated policy which always grows the state pension (given to essentially all UK citizens and anybody that ever worked there for more than 3 years) at a rate faster than earnings grow or faster than the economy grows. It will subsume the entire government budget.
Given the extremely high cost of energy, and housing in many places, younger people also seem to be opting out entirely. Disability payments the government pays are increasing at a rapid rate. (1 in 13 of the population are currently receiving this benefit).
sefrost commented on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous immich.app/blog/google-fl... · Posted by u/janpio
A part of the issue is IMO that browsers have become ridiculously bloated everything-programs. You could take about 90% of that out and into dedicated tools and end up with something vastly saner and safer and not a lot less capable for all practical purposes. Instead, we collectively are OK with frosting this atrocious layer cake that is today's web with multiple flavors of security measures of sometimes questionable utility.
End of random rant.
You are right from a technical point, I think, but in reality - how would one begin to make that change?