apprehensively_human @ apprehensively_human @lemmy.ca

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It's those right hooks that are the most likely to happen. Drivers either not paying attention or thinking they can quickly squeeze in a turn just end up cutting me off.

Daily reminder that Chris Sawyer coded Rollercoaster Tycoon by himself in x86 assembly. In a cave, with a box of scraps.

I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion, but I much prefer the original N64 models and textures over the 3DS.

Maybe it's just nostalgia but I feel like the 3DS graphics have aged much worse since it released.

For the sake of anonymity, I'll let it slip that I'm also in Manitoba although outside Winnipeg.

Would you be able to speak more on what it takes to be involved with a coop? Like I guess that once the building is finished and all the residents are settled, the board is more focused on budgeting and maintenance projects?

I'm a solo homeowner but I'd gladly give up the absolute control over my own decisions to have more security in a collective.

Last year, I think it was on the War on Cars podcast, their guest was a disillusioned traffic engineer that called his entire field "a fraud discipline." Like they put absolutely no critical thought into their designs as long as they are built to the exacting code.

Edit: Found it, it was an episode from a few years ago.

I was getting it mixed up with this other episode.

I'm curious to see if Build Canada Homes is going to include any kind of support for non-market or co-operative housing. I looked it up last year to see what the requirements are to secure funding from CMHC, and I found that unless you're an established developer, and/or have considerable pockets, and/or already own significant areas of empty land, it just isn't feasible to start a new housing co-op from scratch. The barrier to entry is too large.

It should be made easier for smaller co-operatives to get started with buildings under 10 units to better fit as urban infill instead of the current requirement of 32+ units which would need to get pushed to the outskirts of the city where land is cheaper and more available.

There's sort of a strange juxtaposition seeing a modern car on film. Like my brain doesn't know what to make of it.

This is a fledgling bird. After it leaves the nest it will be some time before its flight feathers are fully grown in, so it will rely on its parents for food and protection. After a baby bird leaves the nest, it will not return.

This is why we do not pre-order.

In hell you have to use a TV remote while checking the password manager app on your phone to input 32 random characters, many of which are numbers and symbols that don't appear on the main keyboard, and there's no button to unhide what you've typed so you can never get it correct on the first attempt.

It seems hit or miss. Most of my vinyl is 180 gram, I guess because it isn't the primary means of consumption for music these days, people expect to pay a little more for better quality. But I definitely have a lot of cheaper, thinner records that I bought brand new in the last few years.

Specifically, any one party shouldn't be able to take advantage of a momentary shift in power due to an assassination of a member in the other party.

Many Avro engineers went south to work at NASA for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.

Had Avro Canada not folded and we didn't have the brain drain to the US, who knows what kind of aerospace powerhouse we would be right now.

Trying to get across any intersection diagonally on foot is super annoying when you need to wait for the signal in both directions.

Do you guys remember driving down the highway in the 90's and having your car absolutely covered in the mangled corpses of insects? To the point where wiper fluid is called bug wash?

I don't know if this is the same everywhere, but my car stays pretty clean these days.

Obligatory dishwasher explanation video from everybody's favourite fan of latent heat.

https://youtu.be/jHP942Livy0

All roads lead to Debian

Next you're going to say #AllLivesMatter

Whenever my mother is coming over I suddenly find the motivation to panic-clean and then she gets here and says "how can you live like this" and grabs the broom.

Isn't it just a tad disingenuous to say that anybody outside of Nepean voted for Carney at all?