Not really, no...

Québécois here, it's more like chu-t'allée. The French are the ones that pronounce Je like Jeu. These 2 words sound very different in Québec French.

Happy to help with any Québec French question!

Journalists using LLMs to turn bullet points into a full article

 Readers using LLMs to summarize a full article into a series of bullet points

He meant 3/5 (the mother) plus 3/5 (the child), so a total of 6/5.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

Yeah, good code should explain the "what" without the need for comments. Good comments explain the "why".

So you patiently wait for your little white man signal, and as soon as it finally comes on (after 2 full cycles of the traffic lights) you start crossing only to get honked at by some lady who wants to turn right on her red light...

To any non-js dev taking this too seriously: A good half of the technologies mentioned in this meme are redundant, you only need to learn one of them (in addition to the language). It's like complaining that there are too many Linux distributions to learn: you don't, you just pick one and go with it.

Signal had something good when it could simply be your default messaging app on your phone, and it'd transparently send either encrypted messages, or plain-text SMS. Now that they've removed SMS, they've just turned into a worse Whatsapp (because nobody is on it). Network effects are important in messaging apps.

Well, it is the superior siege engine.

Story time. A couple years ago, we were sailing off the US east coast around South Carolina, and as you do in that situation, we were trailing a fishing line behind the boat in hopes of catching something. Suddenly, we were surrounded by dolphins giving us a show, jumping in the waves, playing around the bow, all that jazz. The kids were delighted, we were taking pictures and videos and generally enjoying ourselves when we noticed some splashing a little distance behind the boat. We pulled up the fishing line only to find that the lure and tackle were missing. Looks like the sneaky fuckers were distracting us while they stole our dinner!

Yeah, I once discovered an artist, even bought some albums, only to notice about a year later that the place I discovered them was now blocked in my country. If I would've come a year later, I would never have bought these albums.

No, it's pretty hard to get rid of heat in space, vacuum is a very good insulator. The only way is radiation.

Here in Canada, I recently took a big stumble while snowboarding, and my ankle hurt a lot. I went to the emergency room at the nearest hospital, got X-rays, and they confirmed I had broken my left inner malleolus. They referred me to the specialist clinic, and sent me home with a boot and crutches.

Next Monday, the specialist clinic tell me to show up the next morning (so on Tuesday). I waited pretty much the whole morning for the specialist to see me, he confirmed he needed to operate and put 2 screws in my ankle. The surgery happened later that evening.

Got a follow up 2 weeks later to remove the cast / surgery bandages, more X-rays and they put me back in the boot until the next follow-up a month later, after which I'll probably start physiotherapy.

All of this cost me about 4$ in EV charging while I was at the ER, and maybe 20$ in medication (painkillers and Tylenol)? And I don't think it could've been any faster. People love to shit on our healthcare system here, but in my experience it's been amazing.

In Canada it happens too often: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/police-wellness-checks-deaths-indigenous-black-1.5622320

The scenario is usually the following:

• A person stops answering their loved one's calls or makes suicide threats to the loved one
• The loved one calls the cops to ask them to check in on them
• Said person answers the door with the weapon they were planning to end their life with in their hands
• Cops see a weapon, panic and shoot

What I don't understand is why cops don't just disengage / retreat from these situations. In most cases it looks like they were proceeding as if the person had to be stopped / apprehended.

I bought a car last summer, and I had my wallet out ready to buy an EV. I had only 2 criteria:

• Must seat at least 6 (I have 4 kids)
• Must be under 100k CAD (a bit beyond my budget, but I'm willing to stretch to avoid gas)

Guess how many models were available? 1 - the Tesla Model Y, 7-seater option. And I did order one, but they cancelled my order because they stopped selling that variant in Canada.

So that's why I didn't buy an EV. Manufacturers can't be arsed to build a car that meets my very simple criteria; they prefer making another boring 5-seater crossover or yet another humongous "luxury" SUV. I want a minivan, dammit.

"Do not hallucinate", lol... The best way to get a model to not hallucinate is to include the factual data in the prompt. But for that, you have to know the data in question...

Writing passwords down isn't that bad, actually. We humans are very good at securing little pieces of paper; just put the one you wrote your password on with the other valuable pieces of paper, in your wallet.

It's "sticking the post-it note to the computer screen" that's the problem.

I disagree. Before I had to copy and edit a huge-ass script (100+ lines) in init.d where 80% of it was concerned with PID files. I just want to start a process on boot, why is it so hard?

Now I can look at the documentation and write a simple unit file myself. It's like 4 lines.

Enel is currently doing exactly that with their electric car chargers (the Juicebox), they've decided to pull out from the North American market and just shut down the servers. Like WTF, at least open-source the thing...