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Re:British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres on Monday June 22, 2026 @11:48PM (#48640025)
Also from BC: we get up in the dark in the winter either way. May as well have it light when I get off work.
Duopoly is bad. We should work to fix that. A monopoly is worse.
Isn't that what all freedom is? Every restriction on freedom is for the benefit of society. At least according to those making those restrictions. Even the soviets thought that the reason suppression was necessary was so that those at the top could fix the country and make it better for everyone.
Re:Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates on Saturday December 20, 2025 @05:35PM (#46340298)
Verilator is very good. It's faster than anything else, and it is free. The downsides are it won't stimulate encrypted IP blocks. And it doesn't do mixed language sim, so vhdl is no bueno.
Re:Meta Segment Anything Model 3 on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @01:38PM (#46049102)
For a long time I've wanted to use something like this to remove advertisements from hockey games.The moving ads on the boards are really annoying. Maybe I'll get around to actually doing that one of these days.
Re:ASML, Mistral AI enter strategic partnership on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @12:03AM (#45193104)
What would have to change for you to consider it a country? It has a government, there has been talk of a European Army. It has a sovereign currency. If it is the squabbling between constituent states: hello from Canada! Check out our politics.
Re:Netflix Documentaries Are Hits. Scientists Hate Them on Saturday January 20, 2024 @02:01PM (#39071038)
Treating something as entertainment does not prevent you from learning from it, or taking what it says as fact. I learned a lot about the structure of the US government from reading Tom Clancy.

No one is mistaking that as a documentary but he is still able to insert a lot of his biases into it.

Re:FreeTaxUSA on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @06:15PM (#38944935)
SimpleTax, got bought by WealthSimple a year or two ago, but its still good.
Re:ARM releases free Cortex-M processor cores for FPGAs on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @04:57PM (#18125650)
Yeah the newer zynq-MP have a 4 core A53 as well as two realtime class cores on there.
It's kinda like Alexander Graham Bell, claimed by the Scots (in England they call him British) the Canadians and the Americans.
Perhaps unions?
Re:Suicides, Drug Addiction and High School Football on Sunday March 11, 2018 @04:12PM (#16564543)
When I was in highschool and having a rough time (nothing like these kids are going through) then I really liked hockey because for 60 mins only the game mattered, none of the other bull shit. I don't think I could get that at a robotics club, maybe you could.
Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @03:41PM (#16486666)
But how do you remember when to use $^ and $<
Re:How and Why Athletes Go Broke (2009) on Friday February 09, 2018 @03:58PM (#16343775)
That criticism seems to conflate culture with skin. The NHL has a culture where bring the spotlight on individuals is frowned upon (For a long time having a high number on you sweater was considered showboaty). The article wants to call this "white culture" that is unwelcoming to people of colour. That seems wrong to me.
Re:How and Why Athletes Go Broke (2009) on Friday February 09, 2018 @03:48PM (#16343697)
Ice is more expensive than fields, but there is probably a feedback loop as well.
Carpool lanes, different tolls for commercial vs personal. I think these are essentially doing that.
Arbitration and multiplexing
Note, this was not some winding two-lane so typical of BC interior (Though this is getting better). This is a good road that was recently upgraded for the 2010 Olympics.
Is that legal? In Canada I'm not sure your allowed to sell unpasteurised milk.
Re:The Unforgiving Math That Stops Epidemics on Thursday October 26, 2017 @08:42PM (#15564609)
Pretty sure they are only free for at risk people/ health care workers. At least that is true in BC. http://immunizebc.ca/diseases-vaccinations/influenza

Healthcare is a provincial responsibility in Canada

Re:Thruster for Mars mission breaks records on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @11:51AM (#15551127)
Usually immeasurably means infinite, I'm guessing that's not what you meant?
Re:BOOM v2: an open-source out-of-order RISC-V core on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:40PM (#15343943)
Nvidia had a presentation at the risc-v workshop a few years back. I think they are building chips with it. Nothing the regular programmer sees though I don't think
Re:BOOM v2: an open-source out-of-order RISC-V core on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @07:15PM (#15343479)
Yeah there are a few out there. At Vectorblox we have ORCA that we use as a cross-platform replacement for nios/microbaze.

I don't know of anyone who has built anything as sophisticated as BOOM though.

Re:Ford disguised a man as a car seat to research self-driving on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:26PM (#15242853)
Those are daytime running lights. I wish headlights were mandatory, that would eliminate people driving in rainy twilight without lights on.
Personally I wouldn't try smuggling from across, taking beer and smokes across without declaration is significantly less of a risc than taking banned substances. I say this as a Canadian a few minutes from the Washington border.
Re:A Solution of the P versus NP Problem? on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:10PM (#15011685)
I'm pretty far out of my area of expertise, so I'll take your word for it. Could an an algorithm be correct, but not proven correct, or is it defined as a heuristic at that point?
Re:A Solution of the P versus NP Problem? on Monday August 14, 2017 @02:55PM (#15011480)
I think it's even less useful, even if P = NP it is possible that no one finds an algorithm. Creating a (useful) algorithm is independent of proving the theorem. Also interesting is that someone could create an algorithm that solves NP complete in polynomial time without proving P=NP. They would be unable to prove the algorithm correct though.
Re:Exa, a modern replacement for ls on Thursday August 03, 2017 @06:06PM (#14924377)
I'm pretty sure ls does this as well. At least for images and archives
Re:An FPGA-friendly 32-bit RISC-V CPU implementation on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @08:46PM (#14809240)
How do you manage cached and uncached memory accesses? There has been some discussion lately on the mailing lists about this
Really? I've never referred to myself as American. North American perhaps, but never American.

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