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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • The biblical explanation:

    The first pope was the apostle Simon, Jesus personally renamed him to Peter, meaning rock, because he was being reborn to become the foundation/rock of the new church. Subsequent popes rename themselves to signify their rebirth.

    The historical explanation:

    in 533 John II decided it would be inappropriate for a Pope to be named after a pagan god (Mercurius, his birth name), by the 10th century popes were largely from France and Germany but wanted to sound like their italian predecessors and so began renaming themselves. This happened enough to just become a tradition, with the last pope not getting renamed being in 1555 (Marceullus II)



  • My experience is that while it’s useful for creating code from scratch it’s pretty alright if you give it a script and ask it to modify it to do something else.

    For instance I have a cron job that runs every 15min and attempts to extract .rar files in a folder and email me if it fails to extract. Problem is if something does go wrong it emails me every 15minutes until I fix it. This is especially annoying if its stuck copying a rar at 99%.

    I asked deepseek to store failed file names in a file and have the script ignore those files for an increasing amount of time for each failure. It did a pretty good job, although it changed the name of a variable halfway through (easy fix) and added a comment saying it fixed a typo despite changing nothing about that line. I probably probably would have written almost identical code but it definitely saved me time and effort


  • A huge chunk of FreeBSD and Linux development is done by salaried workers who want specific functionality. Microsoft is the biggest contributor to the Linux kernel for instance. I don’t think there is much apetite for that in web browsers. Linux is an industry leader in the server space, adding features to it that complement whatever you make for profit is a good move. Firefox is unfortunately barely relavent in the browser space, if your product relies on Firefox exclusive features it isn’t going to go well for you.




  • A lot of good things happened for the CPC under PP (unfortunately for the rest of us). Trudeau had to step down, the carbon tax is gone, the CPC gained seats and secured a record number of votes and the “far left” has been wrecked. While the liberal narrative is that PP fumbled a huge lead, I think cons see it more as carney resetting all the work PP did to discredit Trudeau, as trump interfering with the election (for his own gain, they think Carney is weak and will fold to trump) and they see the polls tightening as the election got closer (and him out preforming them) as a sign of PP’s success. They think Carney will show his true colours soon enough and become as unpopular as Trudeau, allowing PP to win.

    O’toole didn’t acomplish much of anything during his time, the CPC mainly stayed the same or slightly declined despite liberals being steeped in controversy.

    Sheer one his leadership race by a very small margin while the CPC (and right wing politics in general) was having an identity crisis, while they gained ground under him they did not make the strides they expected. Sheer also had that financial scandal.

    I think PPs perceived performance is much closer to Harpers first loss. but even that isn’t a great comparison IMO we are in new territory, exciting times and all that.

    Disclaimer: I voted green, when I talk about good or bad here I’m putting myself in the shoes of a conservative voter, and I’m talking about perception as the right wing sees it, not necessarily fact. Their feelings don’t care about your facts :D


  • Houses are expensive even in bumfuck no where and the point of modular buildings and wartime measures is that it drops a large amount of the bureaucracy without compromising on quality like deregulating would.

    I agree zoning and sprawl are problems though, there isn’t as much the feds can do about it as it’s more a provincial and municipal concern. The planned high speed rail (a Trudeau thing not a carney thing tbf) along the toronto-montreal corridor should help somewhat reduce the sprawl. As someone who lives an hour east of Toronto, I do wish it was planned to extend to me.








  • A coalition is not the same as a minority government, there has only ever been 2 canadian coalitions. It’s pretty unlikely that will happen.

    I think a minority supported by BQ will be good for the environment, significant tightening on immigration, probably liberal agenda otherwise. the BQ is much more closely aligned with Libs than CPC, as I think Blanchet made clear in the english debate. A LIB+NDP+Green isn’t totally out of the question right now, probably also good for the environment.