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New comment by nick__m in "Dopamine Fracking"

nick__m — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:08:18 +0000

There are 2 maple grove owner in my extended family (both are my uncles one on my father side and one on my mother side) so I never saw that as a luxury product and never had to acquire maple syrup at market price.

But I understand your point, if you grew on the fake stuff and considering how expensive maple syrup is, you have nothing to gain by training yourself to prefer the real stuff.

New comment by nick__m in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

nick__m — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:54:36 +0000

Something like the CDPQ in Québec ?

New comment by nick__m in "The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun"

nick__m — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:38:02 +0000

I predict that they will be as effective as Extinction Rebellion : lot's of noise, some protesters arrested and no results.

New comment by nick__m in "Dopamine Fracking"

nick__m — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:03:21 +0000

What's the grade of the maple syrup you tried ? (the new grading system is stupid everything is grade A with a color name)

In my opinion,

The A golden is light and subtle, I don't know what it's for; it's the variety we sell in tourists, and to peoples that likes fancy bottles and higher prices!

The A amber is great as a condiment in small quantities, for pancakes it's the best.

The A dark is the best for cooking deserts.

And the A very dark is my favorite for cooking meats like ham and ribs.

So if you only tasted the A golden I can see why you would prefer the fake syrup if you were raised on that stuff. But I would be surprised if you prefer the fake stuff to the A dark.

New comment by nick__m in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

nick__m — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:35:44 +0000

It's really an old problem, there were graffiti in Greece in 200AD !

New comment by nick__m in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

nick__m — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:27:58 +0000

You can but sadly most people ask for awnsers.

New comment by nick__m in "Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004)"

nick__m — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:59:03 +0000

You could launch it as a systemd user target with OOMScoreAdjust=500 in the service section; weird and unconventional but wrapped in .desktop file it doesn't appear to be unwieldy.

New comment by nick__m in "Restartable Sequences"

nick__m — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:01:02 +0000

That's reads like an egotic cocaine fueled rant mixed with a PBS pledges drive.

I understand why the author deleted it !

New comment by nick__m in "Dav2d"

nick__m — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:29:53 +0000

It's a Rust/ASM port, look there: https://github.com/memorysafety/rav1d/blob/main/src/ext/x86/...

I am not sure if it is that much safer than the C version when raw assembly is still required.

New comment by nick__m in "Dav2d"

nick__m — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:19:52 +0000

This thread made me think of this song/sketch from Kids in the Hall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEGCdVADLWY

New comment by nick__m in "Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine"

nick__m — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:32:57 +0000

excellent article, great vulgarisation and human written !

Thank you

New comment by nick__m in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

nick__m — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:38:54 +0000

It's so cheaper that you can buy 2, disassemble one and inspect the electronic (spot thermometer and a cheap ESR tester). it's a charger not a nuclear power plant !

New comment by nick__m in "What is a Demand Coop"

nick__m — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:32:50 +0000

It really depends on the union, mine concentrate on less hours for a salary that follow inflation, parental leaves and a gold plated drug insurance. I work 32.5 hours per week in the summer, have 24 days off, 2 personal days and 12 statutory holidays; that's 36 paid days off !

New comment by nick__m in "The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention"

nick__m — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:05:42 +0000

Memory safety for existing C and C++ codebase.

New comment by nick__m in ""Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage"

nick__m — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:58:18 +0000

But it was truly not urgent, I would have been ok with waiting 6 months!

And the scans are not scheduled months in advance. We complained that we were only informed of the date and time of the next scan a few days before it... The explanation was that they have a must not be done before and a must be done after dates but the actual scheduling is done just in time so urgent case are prioritized before routine care.

New comment by nick__m in ""Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage"

nick__m — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:31:47 +0000

I live in Québec, Canada and the longest I had to wait was 3 months for a gallbladder ablation. And my wife, who is on her fourtht year of ribociclib to prevent her spinal metastasis (breast cancer) from coming back, have timely periodical CT-PET and IRM scans.

MAID is popular not because of lack of care but because Québécois values their autonomy and quality of life above being simply alive for the longest time possible.

New comment by nick__m in "Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation"

nick__m — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:00:45 +0000

Either it doesn't work or it's happening gradually and then suddenly, like bankruptcy according to Hemingway.

New comment by nick__m in "Using the internet like it's 1999"

nick__m — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:50:08 +0000

I had cable internet in 1997; it was wonderful in it's unmetered¹ symmetric 10Mbs glory.

1) wasn't supposed to be unlimited but the ISP didn't bother to mesure it until sometime in 2000

New comment by nick__m in "NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open"

nick__m — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:16:15 +0000

The concepts feature of Nim really looks like what your looking for https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#concepts

New comment by nick__m in "SpaceX files to go public"

nick__m — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:41:46 +0000

Thank you for posting that. I also read that on some less authoritative source I don't remember. It's truly scandalous. I wish ETFs will revolt and apply the old rule for inclusion, but I have no illusion it will happen.