@cperciva Also FWIW when I ask it about you, you’re still alive and enjoying various hobbies Fri Dec 09
@cperciva It mostly thinks I’m a Canadian (accurate) NHL player born in the 90s (not accurate). Never been dead yet… https://t.co/nnRipqDpyQ Fri Dec 09
RT @DavidZipper: Tired of waiting for safer streets, a growing number of urban residents are taking action themselves – by painting their o… Thu Dec 01
@StayCeeS @BirdRespecter @ABCSharkTank @mcuban Negg (not egg) is right there Thu Dec 01
RT @goodside: OpenAI's new ChatGPT writes a Seinfeld scene in which Jerry needs to learn the bubble sort algorithm: https://t.co/yjPlrA3OmE Thu Dec 01
RT @stop: For posterity, here’s a screenshot of Twitter’s home timeline after creating a brand new test account during my first week there… Sat Nov 19
RT @matt_levine: i hope someone will leak all the most effective lines of code at twitter Sat Nov 19
@akkabah don’t buy it! I will also not buy one Sat Nov 19
RT @jfruh: [twitter timeline]
me: [chanting] fail whale, fail whale-
other tweeters: fail whale, FAIL WHALE
ex twitter engineers: [pound… Fri Nov 18
RT @MNateShyamalan: im a proud tesla employee. do i work 13 hour days? yes. is my job to keep elon from biting wires? sure. do i have to br… Tue Nov 15
turns out I’m still here too though, watching this thing burn 🔥 Mon Nov 14
lol this is going to go great https://t.co/lErs9TTAKE Mon Nov 14
If you’re making the switch, you can import people you follow with this tool: https://t.co/cNatqDrPdf Wed Nov 09
Ok, I’m finally giving up on this hellsite. cole@hachyderm.io on Mastodon. Wed Nov 09
RT @molly0xFFF: imagine deciding which engineers to keep around based on lines of code and choosing to keep the ones who wrote the MOST Sat Nov 05
Me: wtf was this person thinking
GitLens:
https://t.co/P87ww9wlXB https://t.co/VFxcbDVS59 Tue Nov 01
somehow hit both https://t.co/GxHS00et7D Thu Oct 27
@j_mcelroy Creekside Community Centre pls Thu Oct 20
It’s finally happening, Vancouver! Get out there and vote for @christineeboyle & the @OneCityVan slate. Sat Oct 15
RT @BrentToderian: Whatever else I think about the choices for Vancouver mayor & council during this strange & concerning (yes, I’m concern… Mon Oct 03
RT @ImogenBits: when using git it's important to always pass the '-f' (short for friendly) flag so it'll be easier to clean something up sh… Tue Sep 13
Ah, the crisp, fresh air of September https://t.co/WzWHfFHG5e Sun Sep 11
Tabs…are good now? This is going to take me a while to process https://t.co/Ah5yk03cG6 Sat Aug 06
DALL-E seems to often generate people/figures that look good in a thumbnail view, but on close inspection are completely wrong Fri Aug 05
“Failing CI pipeline” by Hieronymus Bosch https://t.co/uXSKqZ4hsZ Fri Aug 05
@GlennF Had the same experience sending a parcel to Spain recently Sat Jul 30
(first and last tests are positive, just faint) Tue Jul 26
Took me (and most family) 10 days to clear the infection. Test out of quarantine! Our current 5 day policy is no bu… https://t.co/s9oCJRDYzc Tue Jul 26
@willmcgugan sleep master. it is warm in hot weather though Fri Jul 22
@a_longhurst Ugh, I’m sorry. Wishing you all a quick recovery. Tue Jul 19
@fasterthanlime For me (though I am rarely successful):
meditation is the best, but most difficult to actually do.… https://t.co/B5x5QNPJxA Fri Jun 10
@fabulavancouver Should be a decent chance, the earlier they arrive the better. I’d expect arriving 90 mins before… https://t.co/pZc22D8qQi Wed Jun 08
I have been trying to figure out what kind of trees are planted on the corner of Pendrell & Nicola are for ages now… https://t.co/nnTLk0gyNt Mon Jun 06
@SchmiegSophie false friends, immer ein Gift Sun Jun 05
If this is accurate, BC (~0.07% of world population) at around 6 deaths/day is accounting for 0.6% of daily world d… https://t.co/sIWox4rRyW Tue May 31
@matthew_d_green @mattblaze my experience is Meet is only reliable in Chrome. I use FF for nearly everything else. Fri May 20
@sushil_js Pretty much, I think. A friend was looking at one and I think how it works is you “own” the unit until t… https://t.co/hiA0bXroMO Sun May 15
@sushil_js there are a bunch of leaseholds with 20-50 years remaining Sun May 15
RT @OneCityVan: Speak up and show your support for more transit-oriented rental, social, and co-op housing along the Broadway Corridor, con… Sat May 14
when you forget to load test before launch https://t.co/WJp0bsfcrh Fri May 13
must be fake, no way he’d miss an opportunity for a 420 reference https://t.co/f25V6HIOwv https://t.co/0mdGEJXc3m Fri May 06
@phil_eaton @simonw Mentioned briefly here: https://t.co/yi1pJzTYpb
I think it’s a compatibility shim for old IE behaviour (`window.event`) Mon Apr 25
Yes, pressure the oil & gas companies. But also, stop buying and burning their product. We need both! Sun Apr 24
What that means in practice is if I fill up my gas tank at a Shell gas station, the Carbon Majors report assigns th… https://t.co/NpXlknCNhT Sun Apr 24
The report includes all product derived emissions (scope 3) in that total. Products are gas, coal, etc, and are bur… https://t.co/hI54XW7BGL Sun Apr 24
Saw the Carbon Majors report (“100 companies are responsible for 70% of emissions”) going around again as a reason… https://t.co/jC44xHD6e0 Sun Apr 24
RT @jbouie: jesus just authorize it already https://t.co/fbR7bOBZh9 Thu Apr 21
RT @ProfKHarrison: Hey Canada, we're #1! But that's not good.
We've committed to phasing out "inefficient" fossil fuels subsidies by 2023,… Wed Apr 20
TIL about tldr (the command line tool) https://t.co/1jqETslA2H https://t.co/Laiec1GNBQ Wed Apr 13
bought liftoff on launch and not only is the programming good, it’s WELL WRITTEN https://t.co/zF1yIDPOH6 Mon Apr 11
RT @SeaRyanC: "Do senior devs still have to look up stuff on StackOverflow?"
Gentle reader, I have gone to StackOverflow to read answers t… Sun Apr 10
RT @AnjaliApp: Good summary of the feds' climate plan released today: Tue Mar 29
on the plus side $110 spent on gas buys a mere 130kg of emitted CO2 in Metro Vancouver these days Fri Mar 25
love to have a “continent-leading climate plan” and pay everyone to burn fossil fuels Fri Mar 25
@akkabah get in touch and they’ll happily send you another package I bet Thu Feb 24
@akkabah was it vitacore? some packages were lost around then, I emailed and they sent replacements Thu Feb 24
RT @ClimateAdam: "Overpopulation" is when the red blames the blue. https://t.co/5gU97FvmKH Fri Feb 18
@bodil pretty sure that’s how they drink tea in Neuromancer Wed Feb 16
new Wordle just dropped https://t.co/XMjs9dLd29 Mon Feb 14
@foley_design yeah, our mental health won out. 🤞🏻for under-5 vaccines being approved soon Fri Feb 11
We sent her back today after almost 6 weeks of bouncing off the walls at home and everyone losing their shit consta… https://t.co/L3bBzEQXrc Fri Feb 11
I do it this way as well, makes sense for web projects. Also part of this cookie cutter template:… https://t.co/3pUOElc6Nc Thu Feb 10
4 year old, looking at a photo of Nadal: “What are those things on his stomach? Why don’t we have those?” Mon Jan 31
I knew “Why We Sleep” had some data problems, but it’s much worse than I thought: https://t.co/F2XznKnJKR Mon Jan 31
RT @Memesdotjpg: The perfect political compass doesn't exis https://t.co/H8w4Pj8eu8 Sun Jan 30
love to see BC Hydro rip on Fortis every time they get a chance https://t.co/IAgMHqWBHW Sat Jan 29
@diannaeanderson I guess e-transfer does count. Still got nothing on the UK though! Fri Jan 21
European banks have had easy bank to bank transfer for almost 10 years now. I don’t think US or Canadian banks will… https://t.co/RYUqQ8lVs0 Thu Jan 20
how could they do this to Carly Rae https://t.co/Kvna97r6Gx Wed Jan 19
2022 off to a good start as the toddler changes her mind and decides she wants cheerios after I’ve made waffles, wh… https://t.co/NZLll0JrnZ Sat Jan 01
@MarkAllerton everyone who bought the token agreed to the contract. are there any limits to that though? Fri Dec 31
RT @klts0: As a non-virologist, here are some things I have learned about covid that I would not have guessed before the pandemic. They are… Tue Dec 28
RT @pookleblinky: CDC exec: welp. So many people are about to be infected there's risk of a huge labor shortage. Let's brainstorm ideas.
S… Tue Dec 28
@a_longhurst choice of high likelihood of infection if we send the kid back to daycare in Jan (she’s gotten 4 non-c… https://t.co/UhZNOIhgTd Mon Dec 27
great time to have an unvaccinated kid at home and have the PHO say “we’re all going to get exposed 🤷♀️” https://t.co/tbpAPcvijZ Fri Dec 24
@a_longhurst “we follow the science” at great distance Thu Dec 23
RT @michaelmina_lab: IMPORTANT:
RAPID TESTS DO WORK WITH OMICRON
"But why are some people staying negative in the first days they have s… Sat Dec 18
RT @linseymarr: Outrageous! I'm getting on a bus in Canada and was told I need to remove my N95 and put on a loose surgical/medical mask in… Wed Dec 15
RT @michaelmina_lab: @cbcnewsbc The tests work extremely well to detect most people who are currently infectious. If you’re gathering - tha… Wed Dec 15
Missed most of it but I don’t think anyone said it Tue Dec 14
RT @SimranRoohi: I honestly don't understand what good it's going to do to tell people to rethink holiday gatherings in BC. I don't think m… Tue Dec 14
Bets on “we’re not seeing that here” for today’s press conference? Tue Dec 14
@kneath this is really interesting, I had pretty much written off all offset schemes Wed Dec 01
@rumon Fixie conversion with some leftover parts, apparently: https://t.co/jTFa8uQKLq Tue Nov 30
how is no one talking about how sick the bike is tho? https://t.co/qu0ZpnWMHC Tue Nov 30
(this increased the floor space, thus the rezoning, but still) Thu Nov 25
My favorite was when the Japanese Hall on Alexander had to be rezoned to accommodate the addition of an *internal*… https://t.co/7zSdsmw81p Thu Nov 25
RT @ty_olsen: In this seemingly worst-case scenario, all that red is water that is three metres deep or more. This could potentially be wor… Wed Nov 17
@pjvangarderen 1 over 2 if using 3.6 or newer (most projects now) as 2 gets long quickly
3 is likely a bit slower… https://t.co/4SgOwpC6nF Mon Nov 15
RT @thejuicemedia: The Government™ has made an ad about Net Zero by 2050, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
✨ Feat. @GretaThu… Sun Nov 07
Space (indoor, large but just the building HVAC for ventilation) is shared with COVID vax clinic, so we had to spen… https://t.co/5guvZ5VFVs Thu Nov 04
Just got our flu shots at a VCH clinic - they haven’t yet realized #COVIDisAirborne. Had to remove CAN99 masks for… https://t.co/jrVs6nRCFv Thu Nov 04
@MacleanKay Disagree here; we’re in the top 10 of world emitters by absolute numbers as well. Fri Oct 29
@MacleanKay @AJWVictoriaBC Curious what would qualify as climate action then at the municipal level? Fri Oct 29
@MacleanKay agreed on China impact, it’s just too often used to justify local inaction when we have our own work to do Fri Oct 29
@MacleanKay Canadians emit twice as much per capita currently, not even including greater historical emissions. Of… https://t.co/NHSOqHZ7J6 Fri Oct 29
@AJWVictoriaBC endorsing a plan that allows expansion of fossil fuel production while saying we must go “all in” is… https://t.co/gyC80iLrxG Thu Oct 28
Metaverse? Metaverse metaverse. Metaverse metaverse. Metaverse? METAVERSE! Thu Oct 28
RT @seldo: I don't think enough has been made of the discovery that Google's funding of AMP was an explicitly anti-competitive move designe… Thu Oct 28
RT @TheBeaverton: “I’m not going to get vaccinated just to comply with arbitrary public safety rules,” says cop who makes living writing sp… Wed Oct 27
I guess the climate change denial bots in the replies aren’t too familiar with the Mediterranean https://t.co/kqy5lHNKqv Wed Oct 27
@AJWVictoriaBC @notthatkhalid @jjhorgan clearly it was attainable at some point in the past Wed Oct 27
"This is not a made-up term.” […] she said, referring to a process called bombogenesis.
https://t.co/l7jPYpYJdy Mon Oct 25
Should’ve asked the AI https://t.co/CYnnGYfyRM Tue Oct 19
RT @1st1: Python without the GIL by Sam Gross: https://t.co/Ykpm20AESs definitely the most interesting read of 2021. 🤯 Thu Oct 14
@kennedystewart Incredibly disappointed in this decision Thu Oct 07
RT @christineeboyle: "One of the biggest challenges of facing the climate crisis is that everyone is waiting for someone else to lead." - @… Wed Oct 06
@mitsuhiko Omg same, it’s been a year 🤦🏼♂️ Sun Sep 26
@robsmallshire This is such a great project! Tue Sep 21
RT @NHSMillion: Fully vaccinated people account for just 1.2% of COVID deaths in England.
If you retweet one thing today, let this be it.… Sun Sep 19
RT @cperciva: As a sign of how close Canada's election is: My polling model says that @CPC_HQ is currently leading over @liberal_party by 0… Sat Sep 18
RT @OwainEvans_UK: Paper: New benchmark testing if models like GPT3 are truthful (= avoid generating false answers).
We find that models… Sat Sep 18
@a_longhurst It’s always this, just totally ignoring even the rest of Canada Wed Sep 15
RT @jljcolorado: Some really really really out-of-date scientists and public health experts in Canada's British Columbia https://t.co/smJds… Wed Sep 15
Seriously considering rejoining for this & private neighborhood groups. Don’t really miss anything else about FB. https://t.co/6uZFBEJ9Pe Mon Sep 13
Best thing about the leader’s debate: the amount of time dedicated to climate change
Worst thing: …pretty much everything else
#elxn44 Fri Sep 10
@AnthonyFloyd @toddnickel @Burgundavia Pretty sure this is the spec: https://t.co/d4gJDnSSa5 Tue Sep 07
@AnthonyFloyd @Burgundavia @toddnickel It should be standard so even something like https://t.co/a8yVQDdFYN can dec… https://t.co/Nw58nXJJUP Tue Sep 07
@AnthonyFloyd @toddnickel @Burgundavia It’s a JWT, looks like Tue Sep 07
RT @trishgreenhalgh: We did indeed. British Columbia MoH seems dangerously out of date. One more time: #covidisairborne https://t.co/QMH9uV… Mon Sep 06
@andrewgodwin 😮 https://t.co/InjfrbERU0 Fri Aug 27
RT @jljcolorado: 1/ AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION OF RESPIRATORY VIRUSES
A new peer-reviewed paper in @ScienceMagazine, reviewing the scientific l… Thu Aug 26
@Lucyincanada @j_mcelroy Someone asked about it: https://t.co/1m0mkXyF8J
Doesn't really sound good enough, basical… https://t.co/WH32MObNSH Tue Aug 24
@JM_Whiteside has been asked “why not mandatory” multiple times and has given answers that do not answer the question at all Tue Aug 24
Who is resisting mandatory vaccinations for staff then? PHO just doesn’t want to go there? https://t.co/cf9Nr3rMcD Tue Aug 24