Quebec's housing tribunal rules no-pet clause in rental lease violates Charter rights | CBC News A recent ruling by Quebec’s housing tribunal has found the no-pet clause of a rental lease to be in violation of the province's Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.

Quebec's housing tribunal just ruled that all landlords must allow pets because not allowing pets is a violation of the Charter of Rights.

Y'all have a housing tribunal down there?

Dedra Meero in Andor...?

Street food festival on Broadway...

I keep running out of stomach room in New York.

Kudos to the team at Compulsion Games for the BAFTA! It was a long hard road David started us on eight years ago, but y'all brought it all home. Bravo!

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I love how Zohran's millionaire tax announcement has the Succession music, or what you get when you ask a composer for "as close to the Succession as we can get without a copyright violation." www.instagram.com/p/DXKlAiMkeAr/

Back when I was a comp sci major, we had to generate all the bugs ourselves.

You tell that to today's kids, they'll never believe you.

Today I used Claude to debug a serious problem in a remote voice recording session and propose alternate means of extending internet to a studio in the back of the yard. So far, pretty accurate and extremely useful.

Eventually we hope to automate the process entirely, and have ai create all the bugs and solve them without needing a human in the loop. That's where the real savings are.

Good news: Claude (ai) helped me figure out a huge problem running a remote voice recording session, where every time our actor got guttural, he disappeared. Bad news: the problem was also ai, where noise suppression software was interpreting throatiness as noise.

Goddess bless the Hungarian people, and yeah, even Goddess bless Orbán for quickly and graciously taking the L. Autocracy is apparently not on the march. Phew.

Ladder for saving people who have fallen through the ice in Central Park

Central Park has signs warning New Yorkers not to go out on the lake when it's frozen, and ladders because we know you, you're gonna go out on the goddamn ice anyway, aren't you.

Does seem unfair that the Artemis astronauts have been required to RTO.

I suspect in the long run, we won't need fewer programmers, we'll just have more complex software for the same price.

(But in the short run things will be scary for programmers.)

Assembly language was a way to automate machine language. Programming languages were a way to automate assembly language. Scripting (in various environments such as game engines) is a way to automate programming.

Technology has rarely reduced the amount of work. It has increased the productivity of that work. Since the arrival of personal computers, there aren't fewer people in offices, there are more. Programming itself has gone through multiple iterations of automation.

4. These are tiny stretches of code. I don't know how well Claude would handle a bigger coding project. But a programmer could use it to generate bits and pieces of code.

2. However, Claude does not get it right the 1st time. There was some debugging.

3. Claude's code is not elegant -- it does kludgy things like put a "goto" at the end of every branch of an if/elseif/else structure rather than just putting one goto after the structure. Yecch.

I've been messing around with vibe coding in Claude in Godot, Python and Javascript.

1. This is a fantastic resource for someone who hasn't really coded since RAM was measured in KB and cell phones were bricks you could defend yourself with in a street fight.

Good points! Also, figuring out how to minimax is part of the fun, for some of us. Complex games like the Paradox paint-the-map games are all about figuring out how to maximize returns.

That's pretty cool, thanks!

Some folks suggest that the OpenAI claim about theoretical physics is hyped up -- humans did the heavy lifting and the llm just did pattern matching. Where are you reading about this? Could you post a link? Thanks!

With the exception of Rochester, the grad employment rates are ... not good. I'm sad for those kids.

Is it possible to have an itty-bitty waist AND a round thing in your face? I submit to you, sir, that this is a pernicious and unnatural standard.

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Related: "You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place." - Jonathan Swift

"Orthodoxy is my doxy. Heterodoxy is another man's doxy."
-- William Warburton

I'm listening to Carl Orff's "Mars" segment from his "Planets Suite," and hooo boy did John Williams pillage^^^^^^ get a lot of inspiration there for his music for Star Wars.

Oh! Good to know. I only get the digital edition, and it's down in "More Top Stories" after all the war news and whatnot. Thank you for correcting my mistake!

Tea Party protests: hundreds of thousands. No Kings: millions. NYT, WaPo front page today: 🦗🦗🦗🦗. These are I Have A Dream, anti-Vietnam War march numbers.

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution.

There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.