ChatGPT writing style is so annoying at this point that it’s genuinely unusable
Denis Trailin
@denis.trailin.ca
Software engineer and transit enthusiast living in Vancouver.
The quality of Avalanche safety information in Canada seems much higher than the US
Bounty for whoever can get decent Canadian residency and employment data. www.subwaybuilder.com/data-bounty
Subway Builder
Craft the subway system your city deserves
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Bitcoin has now underperformed the S&P500 over the past 5 years
So many amazing camps and spots in BC are owned by weird US based religious groups. This doesn’t seem ideal.
A lot of well priced mid-size software stocks for those on the market
Easily the best way to get a piece of misinformation embedded in the general public is to have the smug "smart" character in a TV or movie say something.
Canada just signed an important new trade deal so of course @jaymepoisson.bsky.social is interviewing an American about America. The producers of this show really wish they were American.
Map of where the the top 500 properties in BC are located in Vancouver
Deepseek R1 runs very well on my M2 Mac with Ollama. It can output stuff about as fast as online model providers which is very impressive.
I wonder if anyone does the reverse commute to Google Kitchener from Toronto
Crazy how much FUD on this was just completely fake www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/most-...
Most assisted deaths in Canada come after cancer diagnosis, annual report finds
OTTAWA - Most people who chose medical assistance in dying in 2024 had a cancer diagnosis and were over the age of 70, new data from Health Canada shows.
thecanadianpressnews.ca
I wonder who will capitulate first to putting ads on their chat LLM.
Oh this is new, Statcan now directly publishes GDP per Capita (though they only use quarter start population which is kind of wrong). www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/t...
Gross domestic product per capita and other per capita macroeconomic indicators
This table contains estimates of gross domestic product per capita and other per capita macroeconomic indicators.
www150.statcan.gc.ca
The media elites don't want you to know that immigrants out earn Canadians by a substantial margin, including the 2021 cohort
One thing I've found counter intuitive is that weaker economic conditions seem to mean taller tower rather than the other way around in Vancouver.
One of my favourite things is when a young conservative writes an angry screed against boomers most of the comments will be conservative boomers going #NotAllBoomers since that’s the primary audience for political writing in this country.
It’s pretty frustrating that basically no one talking about the Cowichan decision wants to engage with the substance that they were promised a reserve but didn’t get one. I guess Governor James Douglas went Woke so it doesn’t count or something.
I somehow got on Australian crime TikTok where every Australian convinces themselves they live in the most dangerous place on earth
Windows as an OS barely works but somehow the AI features are the most impressive I’ve seen on any OS.
Just got a letter that they’re installing a modal filter near me
I find it funny that the anti-immigration people like to cite Denmark as their success story when their youth unemployment is higher than Canada's
DHHs pivot into alt right edge lord is something to be studied.