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I really enjoyed visiting Warsaw, I went there for work a few years ago and didn't really know what to expect.

If you ever have the chance, I highly recommend the Warsaw Uprising Museum.

Re:Regent's Ground-Effect Vehicle Reimagines Coastal Travel on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @06:32PM (#50281883)
https://www.youtube.com/user/RCtestflight

RCtestflight has a bunch of cool ground effect videos.

Re:Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:16PM (#50277053)
Claude Code - no, although sometimes Chinese characters leak in when the context gets bug.

Gemini - very often when doing web searches.

Re:World Wars I and II Military Aviation Museum Collection on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:49PM (#50250732)
One of my grandfathers flew Hawker Typhoons. They weren't even nice to fly by WWII standards.
I do a 5 day trip in the alpine for SOTA every year. Getting to 6+ point summits in BC is tough to do.
Re:Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:19PM (#50011565)
I read the article as well because I know some people that sailed around the world with their kids, and they turned out to be well-adjusted adults that enjoyed their time sailing.

The parents in the article were something else. I agree with you 100%. Abandoning minors in a foreign country and leaving them to deal with immigration, etc. is abusive.

Re:Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:35PM (#50009006)
TIL! Apologies if I was too harsh.

Canadian media doesn't highlight her dual citizenship :)

Re:Telnet BBS Guide on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:49PM (#50008242)
I spent a lot of time playing Barren Realms Elite and Legend of the Red Dragon when I was a teen.
Re:Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:13PM (#50007672)
Is this an AI comment? Anne Carson is Canadian.
Re:The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:58AM (#50007447)
> I’ve done all the searching in the world for the lyrics I remember and have never found the band

Post the lyrics here, let's get this figured out.

Rabies has a pretty much 100% fatality rate and it's still around.
Re:Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:34PM (#49936223)
https://www.youtube.com/@alexjh47/podcasts

I publish CBC and BBC News Feeds in Morse Code in various speeds if you're looking for another way to learn Morse Code.

Re:Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004) on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:40PM (#49884795)
Another classic of his, Mother Earth, Mother Board: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
Going to be super pedantic here - in ham radio you don't broadcast, you transmit.
Depends on your jurisdiction. In Canada it's allowed if you publish your keys.

https://www.rac.ca/encryption/

Re:Adventures in Microcontroller Circuit Debugging on Saturday September 19, 2026 @08:11PM (#49771280)
Oh this reminds me of when I was working on embedded Linux devices for vehicles.

We had a new batch of hardware come in that had a failure rate of about 50%. Normally it was on the order of < 1%. Our CM was very good at troubleshooting.

Nothing had changed in the BOM so we were left scratching our heads.

Hooked up the JTAG debugger to see where it was failing to start, and the CPU wasn't even coming up. Power rails looked good, but the CPU just wasn't booting.

Eventually we discovered that the supplier had given us a batch of crystals that were slightly more sensitive to the capacitance, and our design was just on the margin of working.

Lowering the caps to the proper values according to the xtal's datasheet got everything working again.

Re:AirPods 5 on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:57PM (#49633251)
I'm saying that many people do it wrong in other cases, and stick an 's' on the end (or worse, also add an apostrophe). Like surgeon generals, attorney generals, court martials, etc. I'm impressed that people aren't doing it in the case of airpods.
Re:AirPods 5 on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:00PM (#49630663)
I can't get over how Apple is getting everyone to refer to them with proper pluralization, ie AirPods 5 vs AirPod 5's.
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board on Friday September 04, 2026 @01:36PM (#49567697)
This reminds me of how kids were bypassing school rules around social media:

https://www.bark.us/blog/google-maps-safety/ https://www.mcafee.com/blogs/family-safety/social-undergroun...

Re:Fish Bad, Sugar Good and Other Medieval Ideas About Food on Thursday September 03, 2026 @05:44PM (#49557538)
"Pickling" things in vinegar is a relatively modern invention.
There's a really good book about a homesteader that did something similar to this in the 1930's in British Columbia, "Three Against The Wilderness". Basically he restored the dams that had been dynamited by the ranchers, and that restored all of the wetlands in the area.

Later on, the government brought him some beavers from elsewhere, and they flourished.

Re:I Don't Have a Smartphone on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:22PM (#49540293)
> they couldn’t call me on WhatsApp

Some might consider that a benefit.

Re:Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong? on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:05PM (#49540056)
They're still on my bucket list to find. Lots of false morels around here. :(
Re:Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong? on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:36PM (#49539638)
Considering that some mushrooms need a spore print to tell them apart, I'd say that you can't ever trust an LLM.
Re:Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong? on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:34PM (#49539623)
Some mushrooms like chanterelles can't be reliably farmed, and are quite tasty! I love being able to spend a day hiking and coming back with a meal.
I think purposely spoiling your ballot is a better signal to the parties that none of them are acceptable. Is that possible in your elections? Around here, a spoiled ballot is scrutinized by the party observers, so your message would definitely be heard.

I'd love to see a ballot with ranked choice voting that includes a none of the above option.

IMO if you don't vote, you're tacitly agreeing with whoever gets voted into office.

(Although US voter suppression weakens this argument)

Re:“I just chose words carefully” on Monday August 31, 2026 @11:40AM (#49511082)
Is this not common outside of Japan? I've often seen this used here in Canada.

Sometimes as NFG after a particularly bad day.

Re:The Twelve-Factor App on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:46PM (#49482757)
That drives me crazy. The RBC app does this although it eventually times out and gives me the number.

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