YouTube is popular because it gives creators a way to get paid. So a new service would need to offer some of that.

Keeping the text secret is pretty wild.

It’s easier than alternatives. I already have it installed. The games I play are supported. My hardware generally works.

IMO it’s kind of silly. My wife almost missed an hour of a friend’s 50th birthday because a bus was cancelled. $5 wouldn’t make up for that. If someone is consistently late for work and loses their job, a few dollars back won’t make up for that.

I’d much rather see dramatic and public reductions in OC Transpo managers’ pay. That or city councilors.

That makes a lot of sense. Less funny tho.

The lede is buried:

For the companies considering becoming an EOT, time is of the essence. The federal government offers a tax break for owners who sell their businesses to employees, but the incentive runs out at the end of this year.

Without the tax incentive, the future of EOTs in Canada is uncertain.

This kind of ownership model sounds awesome. It’s too bad the feds are killing the incentive.

I found the grocery packers would pack as fast as the items were scanned. I don’t like packing, and I’m usually slower than the cashier, so I don’t go to cashiers anymore.

Since I have to pack my own shit, I go to the self checkouts where I can pick at whatever rate I feel like.

I had a similar experience.

That’s an incorrect opinion on Lemmy

Same thing in Canada. It sucks.

It looks like the LLMs weren’t trained for medical tasks. The study would be more interesting if it had been run on something built for the task.

I’ve been playing Cyberpunk RED for around a year. Backstory is a huge part of the character creation process and GMs are encouraged to use backstory as hooks whenever possible.

I don’t really like it.

Some players like playing along with the backstory. Other players disengage fairly quickly.

It’s just another source for hooks and set pieces. If players like it, I roll with it, if they don’t, I let those plot lines dribble out. But it doesn’t really change the GMing or creative process.

I’m here for the dirty Dennis content

That is interesting. I wonder if they’re making the data public as part of the study. 😬

Subjectively, a stop light or stop sign must feel like an eternity for this guy. Or conversations, for that matter.

tl;dr there’s a bunch of base64-encoded PDFs in the Epstein emails. Buddy had a hard time extracting them because the files are exported as images and the one and ell characters are almost indistinguishable.

Dude eventually managed to distinguish them. 🤷‍♂️

It didn’t work for me, either. Maybe it depends on the languages? I was trying French to English.

I agree with letting air out of the balloon slowly. That’s what rezoning and densification shoots to do.

My experience with densification was seeing 600k houses (that I could almost afford) be replaced with 2-4 1.1m houses (that I could not afford).

We should pursue densification and rezoning are positive for many reasons, but price isn’t one of them.

But limiting available capital (ie: competing for mortgages)? In what world does that make sense?

A world where prices are increasing faster than wages. We’ve had historically low interest rates since 2008, which has made borrowing large sums easier, meaning people can afford to pay more for houses.

That was great for people who got in early: they could get cheap money that wouldn’t reduce their quality of life. But it means they could bid up the price of houses. Folks coming after had to pay higher and higher prices, until they did start to see a quality of life hit.

I’ve always enjoyed Bizarro, but I didn’t know these were a thing. Thanks for the link.

I can’t speak for Vancouver, but in Ottawa, I’m in a suburb that has a tonne of empty nesters living in 4 bedroom houses. There are young families that could use that space, but the current residents have no incentive to move. Housing is so expensive that selling off and moving to a smaller place would be hard. It’s bizarre.