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Nils

@ Nils @lemmy.ca

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  • I'm Not Into Politics

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  • I noticed that most people I bump into that says they are not into politics, they mean partisan politics. Often from places where they are disenfranchised about their civics.

    But if you bring up "holly shit, did you see the price of milk is 7CAD?". They will be more than happy to provided their cents on why and think about solutions.

  • Trump Mulls a North American Trade Pact Without Canada

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  • Dude "wrote" a book on negotiations, but only knows how to play one tune.

    And USA congress keeps trying to vote to end those tariffs on Canada.

    If Carney's team is smart, by the time USA move on, we would have stronger ties with the rest of the world and business with USA would be optional.

  • Canadians kind of hate America now. Our new poll shows just how much.

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  • It will be really hard to be friends again when at least 70 millions USA citizens voted for this in 3 different occasions. And only a few did a thing to prevent it.

    Going back to USA would be like a spouse who keeps going back to an abusive partner.

    I hope we improve our friendship with the rest of the world for some peace of mind.

  • By barring Bianca Mugyenyi, NDP shows it’s not interested in renewal

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  • candidacy are engaging in Rwandan genocide denialism,

    and

    NDP national president Lucy Watson said in a statement that candidates in the leadership race need to uphold values of integrity, honesty and respect for human rights.

    Seems like NDP is doing a good job then.

    Should the candidates try for UCP instead? Their values seem to be aligned with some branches of that party.

    also, is @op a bot? +1,4k posts, no engagement.

    edit: found this post that paints a different picture of her husband https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/the-ndp-needs-more-not-less-nuttiness/article_e1364ffd-0245-4060-8d5a-fe582030741f.html take it with a grain of salt because it is an opinion piece.

  • Adobe backlash is getting louder — time to escape proprietary creative tools?

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  • Early 2010s I asked the company I worked for to approve some free game engines to be installed. The legal department returned a big no with pages of why Unity should not be allowed in the premises. We proceeded with Unreal, Blender and eventually Godot as tools any employee could install.

    Unity was bad back them, it is just that people did not read the agreements and tech sheet. Their new leadership just made that more apparent.

  • If you haven't checked them out before, KEXP is a wonderful source of finding new bands.

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  • Puuluup is great, learned about them during Eurovision a couple of years ago. Thanks for the recommendation of KEXP

  • Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

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  • This is the best answer! Thank you for sharing your methods. I was going to reply about the daily editorial, but yours is more complete.

    I would also like to add that I type the name of things I like and often find them on bandcamp. Including big artists.

    Peter Gabriel, Evanescence, Run the Jewels, Flight of Conchords, Ghost...

    What I don't find there, I get from a thrift store (easy to find famous artists there) or quobuz.

  • Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

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  • Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

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  • They gave us a scare over the years, being sold around to companies that are famous for enshittifying platforms.

    Epic sold the company when people unionized, and the next did a trick to not recognized the union and "hire" half of the staff (contrary to fire half of them).

    The platform is not what has been 5 years ago, but it is still my favourite place to get music around.

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    About doing a university at Canada (Financial stuff related)

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  • Brazil (R$ right?) used to have a lot of programs to send students to foreign countries, but around 10 years ago the numbers dwindled.

    I don't see many Brazilian undergrads anymore, some grads, but mostly post-docs.

    If you shared your field and education level, I could point you to a more precise direction.

    But for education, your best bets are:

    • Check the exchange programs with your current university, they have partnership with other universities around the world and you probably can pay cheaper with local currency.
    • The higher your degree, it is easier to come. Despite what we see on the news about people denying science, and we are losing a bunch of researches to the EU, it is still better to find high education positions here than undergrad or lower. Also, you might be able to get paid, either as TA, researcher or just apply for a coop. That might offset your costs a bit.

    Payment here is different, you pay by period X number of curses (Fall term, Winter Term, Spring/Summer) - some places in Europe it would be called semester) not by year, so that 20.000 CAD a year would be split in at least 2 periods. The university puts that so it is easier for you to plan your life. There is no monthly instalments payment like in some countries, but students can apply for awards, support, loans, etc... Check your university of choice for this information.

    As others said, you need to take in account other costs too, from the visa process (a student visa will take longer and be pricier than a visitors visa), to housing and food. Some universities offer housing and food at a smaller cost than doing it all by yourself.

    From your other comment in the thread, it sounds like you just want to leave the country for a while to experience life somewhere else.

    Commonwealth countries and some places in Europe offer an easy to get work visa for under 30 years old. Check if you qualify for those. Usually, those visas lasts for a year, and you can renew if you meet some criteria.

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    I wrote a 573-page physics book, but I suspect it's actually a Game Engine specification. Here is why.

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  • While writing the book, I realized that the core constraints of the universe described in the text

    Did you write the text? Why are you talking about the text like you are reading it for the first time? It might be when you "write" +200 pages in 2 weeks.

    I suspect it's actually a Game Engine specification.

    No, it is not. Your text is a manifesto, even if you eventually figure out physics, it is still not what you need to build a physics simulation engine or the physics abstraction for a game engine. Your text helps to achieve neither.

    Please stop preying on kids for free labour and to spread whatever your goals are.

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    I wrote a 573-page physics book, but I suspect it's actually a Game Engine specification. Here is why.

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  • Just literacy would be enough.

    Without even counting the red flags of the account date, both here and GitHub, that you cannot find the author anywhere, that OP managed to write +200 pages of "physics" in 2 weeks (check changelogs, it went from 211 pages to whatever op is claiming now). The whole thing reads like LLM assisted manifesto.

    I am not joking, people do not need to read the entire thing to see that is just dropping real names (physics, tech) without any support to their claims. And it is just claims as an absolute, there is no proof, logic, nothing.

    I guess they would get a lot more goodwill if they were upfront about writing fiction, or some TempleOS kind of thing.

    They are using this "game engine" excuse just to prey on kids.

  • Enough with american companies siphoning off the profits!

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  • First time I heard of Konek, I have been using Interact for a while but did not know they had this service.

    As far as I am aware, a bunch of countries created something similar to get rid of American payment systems, like UPI in India.

    My favourite so far is the Brazilian Pix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system), becoming the most used payment system in the country in the past few years. Not only because it is technically sound, but it also managed to get the Americans pissed. Credit card and tech lobbies pressuring the American government to do something about it. Meta tried to release a payment system in Brazil that failed miserable because of Pix.

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    I dunno

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  • plugged that into ghci as 5+2*(8-5), and it says 17.

    You might want to report that error. Or, did you mean 2+5*(8-5)?

  • TV recommendations?

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  • A while ago, I was looking to buy a "dumb tv". In the end I narrowed it down to professional display, computer monitors, and projectors. And sadly, the prices are usually higher than a TV of the same size.

    Professional Displays are those you find in fast food with the menu, or in offices with info, doctors etc... One of the reasons they are expensive is because they are made to be on 24x7.

    Projectors are cool, but they work better in darker rooms. The cheaper ones also need more space from the wall.

    I ended up going with a computer monitor, LG ultragear 48 inches, it is great. And it was cheaper than anything else, and I was lucky there was a price drop from the MSRP because they were restocking to a newer model. Usually they are a bit more expensive than the equivalent LG C model TV.

    With a monitor, you will have to plug anything that you want to watch, there is no wifi and apps. Another constrain is size, the largest I could find were 48 inches. Anything bigger would fall into the professional display category and get expensive fast.

    Sadly, I just checked online and neither Amazon or Best Buy are offering those here in Canada https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/lg-ultragear-48-uhd-138hz-0-1ms-gtg-oled-lcd-freesync-gaming-monitor-48gq900-b-black/16310839. LG was usually around 1k CAD, and BenQ was not that far off.

    I hope it is just shortage rather than discontinuing those line of products.

  • Mark Carney’s first budget projects $78B deficit, program and civil service cuts

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  • I understand better your points now, thanks for sharing your thoughts and optimism, I needed some optimism.

    When I first read the report on budge.canada the "greener path" shows that pretty much everything ended in 2024. Moving forward they mention carbon capture without details what kind of investment they are putting money in (best I could find is funding this https://www.alberta.ca/carbon-capture-and-storage that is also a bit vague), investing in mining (justifying that mining specific minerals helps the environment, but no mention on how to make mining less damaging to the environment and hold companies accountable) and removing the carbon cap saying that investments in several sectors would reduce the emissions anyway. A lot of wishful thinking on the budget text, or on the worst case mental gymnastics malice.

    Like, there is this promising

    To finance government spending that helps industrial and agricultural sectors get cleaner and more competitive, ...

    I would love to see the government working with farmers to keep production high and with low footprint. Despite the text being vague on how/who will get the money, farmers are already very thin on their footprint, usually limited to the access of resources to maintain their farms (heat, fertilizers, etc...). A farmer that only has access to gas for heat would not be able to reduce their footprint unless other options are made available.

    I also felt like there is no handling "american shitstorm" either, there are plenty of brags on how they capitulate and are one of the least impacted by tariffs because of that.

    Also, good thing you bought up the taxes. One thing I found interesting while reading the PDF version earlier, they pretty much teach us on many ways to avoid paying them, I wish that was easily available at the CRA website. =P

  • Mark Carney’s first budget projects $78B deficit, program and civil service cuts

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  • dealing with the American shitstormgetting us on a greener path

    Can you clarify your position or share the article you read? I might have missed those points when I read the https://www.budget.canada.ca/ report

    there are parts I’d like more of and otherd of which I’d like lessbroad compromise that I think is reasonable to a large swathe of Canadians,

    A bit vague no? What do you mean?

    Thanks.

  • Mark Carney’s first budget projects $78B deficit, program and civil service cuts

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  • Is Kagi search engine worth it?

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  • The author surely likes that the mascot is a dog. It feels more of a read and analysis of the terms of use than a deep dive of the tool but it was a good reading and I liked the suggestions.

    I also liked the "reminder".

    Edit: you should share this in some community as a post, every time I see this kind of website (pure content no-nonsense) it is shared is in the comments. 15 years ago this kind of stuff was easy to find, but nowadays, I only see them in comment sections. Even the search engine recommended around here would list a bunch of junk in the first pages.

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