This will definitely run on my GTX1650 and my P1000 and I'm very interested to try it on some other sorts of structured data (yes, zoning by-laws, how did you guess)

This Is Just To Say We have desk-rejected the manuscript that you submitted and which you were probably hoping would be sent for peer-review Forgive us it represents an insufficient advance so incremental and so much better suited for a specialist journal

Reading this from Québec and thinking this is absolutely nuts, and wondering if our Civil Law with its quite straightforward rules on "murs mitoyen" has a lot to do with housing being slightly less unaffordable here than in the Rest of Canada?

« On oublie souvent que les mouvements fascistes ont émergé comme un ressac là où les sociétés avaient progressé le plus rapidement. »

Smaller cities have been getting bigger buildings which, how should we grow? Planning prof: market housing won't bring true affordability Missing middle developer: smaller buildings don't pencil NIMBYs: *frothing noises* Finance analyst subbing for reporters view: maybe we should sprawl again

Nonsense, everybody knows that the goal of public policy should be HIGH PROPERTY VALUES and LOW HOUSING COSTS at the same time (and promising this will always get you elected)

it is good to "NIMBY" data centers. I would not want them in my back yard either. And as far as I can tell, they do not need to be in anyone's back yard in particular. To the extent they need to exist, build them far away from where people's homes are!

L'armée va mal et c'est la faute de l'immigration, selon ce sympathique député conservateur.

Tout ça parce qu'on veut absolument éviter de construire dans l'existant par peur de perdre des élections, et parce qu'on est trop paresseux pour moderniser le code du bâtiment et les absurdités de zonage qui rendent les multilogements plus chers voir impossibles à construire...

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"Le premier magistrat de Prévost... ne se gêne pas pour critiquer le « déficit d’information » des élus québécois face aux enjeux environnementaux." Il a raison. Suivez 👉 @paulgermain.bsky.social www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e...

After a protected bike lane is installed, fewer people are killed and injured while biking, walking, and driving. In New York City, we've seen that traffic deaths and serious injuries decline by: 18% for everyone 29% for pedestrians 39% for senior pedestrians

très déçu qu'il n'y aura pas de TGV à St-Tite

Did Canada’s 10¢/L cut to gas tax really lower gas prices? Earlier in April, gas averaged 69¢/L more in 🇨🇦 than 🇺🇸. After the cut (April 20th), prices immediately dropped about 10¢ relative to 🇺🇸! But then started trending back up again. Prices today are only 3¢ lower than before the cut.

If people had observed the CAQ more before 2018, they wouldn’t have voted for them Everything that the CAQ has done in 8 years was fully predictable before their 2018 win

@calgaryclimatehub.ca ... this would be fantastic, yes? @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social

Planners only want one thing and it's disgusting.

Corn ethanol serves no purpose and is purely a handout to farmers. It costs more and emits more than normal petroleum. And it takes up half as much land area as all urban and suburban land in the US. If we replaced the land with solar, we'd get 3x as much power as the US uses.

We all have our own reasons for counting hundreds of turtles every year. They are all valid.

Je m'amuse beaucoup avec Forgejo et son CI/CD très convivial dernièrement! J'ai écrit une petite note là-dessus: ecolingui.ca/fr/blog/ce-s...

To understand how "AI" models and datacenters can be simultaneously super-efficient and incredibly wasteful, as well as their debatable imact on productivity, it's useful to undestand the concept of "futzing" inherent to the use of stochastic systems...

« Il ajoute que ces effets résultent de choix de conception délibérés, motivés par la recherche du profit. »

Je peux confirmer que ce genre de fausse conscience écologique est très répandu dans les petites villes de région comme Québec 😜. On peut couper autant d'arbres qu'on veut pour construire des maisons unifamiliales ou des autoroutes sans que personne déchire sa chemise...

Moore's Law is over. Scale matters. Rebound effects matter. Inference is only "cheap" and "efficient" on a per-token basis, and EVERY recent innovation in "AI" (reasoning, agentic workflows, etc) looks like a ploy to get the user to spend more on output tokens. No way this ends well.

L'avantage d'avoir ton conseiller spécial dans les médias, c'est que tu peux parler de complots fédéralistes une semaine et la semaine suivante, ton conseiller aborde le même sujet dans ses tribunes avec des sources mystérieuses et des "ils sont partout mais invisibles" 😂

39 countries cut energy taxes after the Iran war. Politically popular but self-defeating: untargeted subsidies blunt the price signals, lead to higher demand, cost the tax payer significantly more and provide less incentive to invest in alternatives.

Pierre Lavoie : «Sécuriser au maximum le périmètre de 1,5 km autour des écoles pour le transport actif» #Montréal #Ahuntsic #piétons #vélo #vélomtl #TransportActif www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...

Concernant sa dernière déclaration concernant Radio-Canada, Paul St-Pierre-Plamondon devrait aller s'expliquer à l'excellente émission Tous Les Camarades En Parlent.

Mais voyons donc... alors pour le PQ 3.0, Radio-Canada n'est plus «la télévision d'État» soupçonné de propagande fédéraliste mais un repaire de «marxistes»? Ça donne presque le goût de voter libéral...

If we're not careful, more mayors will be so corrupt that they [reads story] prioritize making bus service faster on a route they ride.

Sweden has been heavily invested in hard rock since at least the 1980s, so it doesn't surprise me!

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

Comme on dit dans la langue de Shakespeare, #wtf

#Finland opens world's longest car-free bridge, intended for bicycle riders, pedestrians and mobility device users, and transit riders. #Helsinki's Kruunuvuori Bridge is 1,191 metres long, and will soon be served by trams. newatlas.com/architecture...

These companies can, should and will, and I measure my words carefully, die in a fucking fire

Hâte d'essayer le tofu français 🤪

The mayor of New York City has spent 444 hours on a Citi Bike 👏

The fundamental difference is that in Europe you have sectorial collective bargaining. So unions represent, and negotiate on behalf of, all workers in their industry. In the US and Canada, with some exceptions, they only represent their members, so #IGMFY is their guiding principle...

Minneapolis is a great and improving city for cycling - photo thread of a recent trip heading from my house in south Minneapolis to Falling Knife brewery in NE. Just a quick jump over to the river trail. Mostly separate space for people walking and rolling - all separate from cars. 1/

Pas la première! Il y en a une à Val-David 😀

Local models! Let's run some local models! On a $20 corporate surplus PC with a $50 GPU! And you can too! ecolingui.ca/en/blog/obso...

Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers.

hey-ey-ey-ey OUGH

Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by Universal Basic Income, which they will violently oppose thebeaverton.com/2025/11/tech...

" As a driver, cyclist, transit rider, and pedestrian, I think about this legacy every day: how so much of our lives are shaped by the technology of personal automobiles, and the specific way the US uses them. I want you to think about “AI” in this sense."

This was already true when I moved to Montréal in 2011. Eventually, enough people with nice old leases (100$ la pièce) either tried to buy homes or became unable to trade their leases for other cheap ones (thanks PL31 🤬), and that's when everyone started talking about a housing crisis...

If you are wondering how you should do front-end web development in 2026, this is how you should do front-end web development in 2026: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/m...

Here's the wildest part. City staff explicitly stated that downzoning the city would drive up housing prices and hurt younger generations, AND THEY STILL RECOMMENDED IT BE DONE. Screw the next generation as policy is certainly something.

À propos of nothing: actuellement = "at present" sûrement = "probably" éventuellement = "in the event of" ponctuellement = "on demand" plus ou moins = "not really" you're welcome (bienvenue)

Fascinating and disturbing analysis of the debate around housing here in Calgary. Those screaming the loudest against multi-family housing redevelopments don't have any of those developments happening in their community at all. Stunning lack of leadership IMO. livewirecalgary.com/2026/04/09/p...