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Darlington nuclear refurbishment finished ahead of schedule and under budget

https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/projects/2026/0...

How do they try to steal your phone number?

I've only contacted buyers/sellers in FB Marketplace via FB Messenger so they don't even have my number ..

Almost no one does

I've written a bunch of LMS integrations so I've had the opportunity to use all of the major LMSs. Basically, all LMS systems are rather user unfriendly and complicated with a ton of customization options hidden under layers of sub-menus/configuration settings. At their core they provide a grade book, student management tools, and some basic CMS type functionality for posting class messages/coursework/etc. They've all adopted a standard for interacting with external tools (LTI).

Canvas generally is the 'easiest' to use, and the 'cleanest' looking one although D2L Brightspace is pretty good too. Moodle out of the box is pretty confusing and ugly, but I've seen some heavily customized instances that look a lot better. Blackboard is the worst of the bunch IMO.

Facebook marketplace is an everything shop, though a bit more local in nature. Also, it's much easier for small businesses that ship to have an online store thanks to Shopify, etc.

The last few times I've used EBay is to get parts for old garden tractors, and even for that I've found cheaper options with small retailers that specialize in that stuff. Most ebay shipping pushes the cost up too much, and with the small retailers usually I can get a bunch of things I need at the same shipping price.

    Robot walks into a bar
    Orders a drink, lays down a bill
    Bartender says, "Hey, we don't serve robots"
    And the robot says, "Oh, but someday you will"

LiamTronix on Youtube has some videos (ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iEUp5Z1aNw) on converting a popular farm tractor (Massey Ferguson 65) to fulling electric.

Fun stuff!

It's a $60,000 four-door lifted luxobarge with leather interior and a short bed

It can be that but all the major manufacturers have a ton of trim levels and options. Personally I drive a f150 that doesn't even have power windows.

Most Cybertrucks I've seen in the wild are running at a low ground clearance, reminiscent of a 'coupe utility' vehicle like an El Camino.

Recently I've found myself wanting a tricorder type device.

That does not answer the question

Ok, now I'm even more confused. 40% of what code is machine written?

40% of code is now machine-written

How did you arrive at that number?

IMO LLMs make for a great rubber duck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

I found scrooge.

Bah, humbug!

Ah shit, here we go again

It has similar syntax, but adding explicit types and macros it's a very different language in practice.

IMO the two languages can be quite complimentary, I've been exploring using Crystal + MRuby to create apps, it's been fun so far.

It doesn't matter what you or I want. How much money do you think the Canadian government should put behind a domestic auto maker? 10s of billions? 100s of billions?

How much are 125k manufacturing jobs in Ontario worth? Are there no better economic sectors that we can build up?

Who would buy these EVs if we build them in Canada?

The Canadian market cannot support a car company without exporting the majority of production. The US is our largest natural market and does not want our auto exports. It's unclear why other markets would want our EVs either.

Artificial barriers to protect an industry where we don't have an advantage (autos) which results in tariffs on a sectors where we do (agricultural products, resources) isn't sustainable or desirable.

Developing an EV industry depended on US cooperation. That cooperation is gone since Trump was elected.

Trump says he wants every car sold in the United States to be made domestically.

The old integrated cross-border auto manufacturing system is over. Stellantis is already moving production of Jeep from Brampton to Illinois, and others are expected to follow.

There's rarely any slush on the streets before Christmas. Back when I lived in Toronto I used the PATH between January and March

Outages suck but for me this service has been rock solid. Much better uptime and more capable than the cellular broadband service that it replaced (Bell Canada) at a similar cost

The user was under the impression that production access is how it's supposed to work. https://xcancel.com/elchuchii/status/1946149142415196418#m

Don't look up!

And no, the US isn't "poised to withdraw from NATO". Nobody's even talking about that.

* https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/us/politics/trump-2025-na...

* https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/trump-may-withdraw-us-from-n...

* https://www.fairobserver.com/politics/its-time-for-the-us-to...

* https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/analytics/nato-under-trump-possib...

I don't know how close to withdrawing from NATO the US actually is, but people are talking about it. The aggressive stance the US President has towards two NATO members makes it seem like it could happen soon.

* https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-offshore-drilling-gul...

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-canada-nato-allies-1....

Same!

the alternative is it's the most unbelievable happy coincidence

It's not though.The NDP were faced with two choices:

1) Support the Liberals and get some of their policies pushed through 2) Support the Conservatives wish to call an early election in which the Conservative are sure to win a majority leaving the NDP powerless

The reason why the NDP choose this moment to pull their support is that it's an election year, so there's little chance any more NDP policy would be passed. One person's pension (a relatively wealthy person at that) is just a fun partisan talking point for Conservatives.

Tying NDP support to their leader's pension is silly/lazy.

As part of their deal with the Liberals, the NDP had some real power to implement legislation. If an election happened tomorrow the NDP would lose that power.

Unhitching from Trudeau at this moment is a good move for the NDP, they want to distance themselves from Trudeau's unpopularity before the next election. That Trudeau is now leaving benefits them even more, they could conceivably continue to support the government now that it's missing its most unpopular member, or they could pull the plug right away if they think they can steal away some Liberal votes during a snap election

It's important to note that some of the key people who were behind these protests were not truckers, but were involved in earlier attempts at mass protest in Ottawa as part of the 'yellow vests' group from 2019

Ok