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🇨🇦 tunetardis

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  • Like Trump says that the cartels have invaded Canada wouldn't they have to pass through the US, avoid checkpoint, border control on both sides and many other things? So Canada can only blame the US?

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  • This highlights the folly of trying to lock down the Canada-US land border. If you really wanted to cut down drugs and human trafficking, you'd focus on ports of entry to the continent. The border is just way too long. Only an idiot would try to police its full length. If you think it's only the 4000 miles from Maine to Washington State, you're forgetting that extra 1500 miles with Alaska.

  • Trump might have to ask foes like Trudeau for emergency eggs

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  • Oof.

    Or oeuf, as we sometimes say in Canada.

  • Tradeoffs

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  • Thanks, I'll give that a shot.

  • Ontario: TODAY IS ELECTION DAY

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  • If you didn't get a voter card, you can get an electronic one by downloading the app. I did that and it was pretty painless. You still need to go to the polling station with a piece of ID but the app generates a bar code they scan and you're in and out of there pretty quick.

  • Pixelfed ebbing

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  • Ah ok, thanks!

  • Tradeoffs

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  • Thanks, it makes me feel relieved to hear I'm not the only one finding it a little overwhelming! Previously, I had been using chatgpt and the like where I would be hunting for the answer to a particularly esoteric programming question. I've had a fair amount of success with that, though occasionally I would catch it in the act of contradicting itself, so I've learned you have to follow up on it a bit.

  • Tradeoffs

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  • I turned on copilot in VSCode for the first time this week. The results so far have been less than stellar. It's batting about .100 in terms of completing code the way I intended. Now, people tell me it needs to learn your ways, so I'm going to give it a chance. But one thing it has done is replaced the normal auto-completion which showed you what sort of arguments a function takes with something that is sometimes dead wrong. Like the code will not even compile with the suggested args.

    It also has a knack for making me forget what I was trying to do. It will show me something like the left side picture with a nice rail stretching off into the distance when I had intended it to turn, and then I can't remember whether I wanted to go left or right? I guess it's just something you need to adjust to. Like you need to have a thought fairly firmly in your mind before you begin typing so that you can react to the AI code in a reasonable way? It may occasionally be better than what you have it mind, but you need to keep the original idea in your head for comparison purposes. I'm not good at that yet.

  • Pixelfed ebbing

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  • What caused the jump in the first place? I only just opened an account myself because the folks who run my home instance lemmy.ca started up pixelfed.ca about a week ago and I decided to check it out.

  • Under new bill, Bigfoot could become California’s “official cryptid”

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  • I was actually in both the Bay Area and Portland last month and have to agree. Let Oregon have this one. Even the people in Portland had bigfoot energy. Big scruffy men with tons of facial hair, flannel, and those longshoreman beanies. And I actually picked up a Sasquatch field guide someplace that was the most amazingly detailed document on a cryptid I'd ever seen.

  • Trump orders trade chief to revive tariff retaliation against digital taxes

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  • Digital services tend to be an area where the US enjoys huge trade surpluses. If that pandora's box is opened, it's going to be really bad for the tech giants when retaliatory steps are inevitably taken. I thought this was why Trump was trying to keep the tariff war focused on material goods?

    I know in Canada, FB stopped serving news when they refused to contribute to a government fund to help the struggling domestic journalism industry which they were scraping content from with reckless abandon. Personally, I'm happy to see one less stifling algorithm-fed echo chamber. It's like a breath of fresh air.

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    US is positioned for "another 9/11" former CSIS official warns

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  • Well the gist of the interview was that American intelligence services are in chaos right now after their top-level management got expelled and their "eye is no longer on the ball" in terms of threats from Russia, China, etc. with new personnel being brought in who have no clue what's going on.

  • Solar has taken off in red states. Trump’s funding freeze is causing panic

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  • Correct me if I'm wrong but as an outside observer, it seems to me you have your big oil Republicans and your fuck the government solar off grid types. When they clash, I just sit back with some popcorn.

  • Do you have any work of art (writing, visual, film, video game, etc) that you think is accidentally a masterpiece? e.g. a work with a lot of unintended powerful meaning?

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  • Well I play violin in a Celtic bar band that mostly does covers, but back around the time of the pandemic when I was feeling super bored, I worked on a song I'm kind of proud of? It's called Anticipation.

    I just casually mentioned to our lead singer that I had some licks that almost seem to be coming together like a song? He was similarly goofing around in his basement and said show me what you got? Next thing you know, I was trying to write parts for accordion and other instruments we had at the time using GarageBand on my iPad while he came up with some lyrics. I was a total amateur at this kind of thing and couldn't believe it actually happened! But we eventually got it recorded with each band member coming in at different times for social distancing. We still play it once in a while at gigs when one of the regulars requests it.

  • What are the signs you've noticed that you're getting older?

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  • My wife and I get excited every time we come across articles about exoskeleton tech. Can we expedite this a little? I want a mech suit—not a fucking wheelchair—when I reach that age.

    Also, a note to the designers: make sure you can use the toilet with it. Extrapolating current trends, I suspect this will become one of my primary activities.

  • What are the signs you've noticed that you're getting older?

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  • Do you have to calculate it now though? I have to go let's see, I was born in the year… It used to be innate knowledge.

  • What are the signs you've noticed that you're getting older?

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  • Ah but you're not really a proper old guy until you get a bidet and start bitching about how medieval everyplace you go is that doesn't have one.

  • Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find

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  • I have no doubt that renewables are the lowest hanging fruit at the moment, and that we could get to net-zero mostly using them. But there is a big difference between mostly and entirely. As you approach the higher-hanging fruit, things get exponentially more expensive, and there may come a point at which some form of carbon capture is needed to cover that last segment of emissions? Also, I see no mention of nuclear here. I suspect it will need to play a role, though how large that would be remains uncertain. It should definitely be included in any cost analysis though.

  • In rural West Texas, a measles outbreak grows with no end in sight

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  • So from what lemmy is reporting, we know West Texas has a measles outbreak and some giant fracking earthquake to contend with. Maybe toss in some radioactive exposure from a now-unmonitored nuclear facility and we've got the makings of a superhero origin story.

  • In rural West Texas, a measles outbreak grows with no end in sight

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  • I have no first-hand experience with it either, but understand that in addition to its direct shitty flu-like symptoms and the telltale rash, it has this strange ability to factory reset your immune system so you get to go through all those other diseases your body fought off in the past again.