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Adélois comme toi, Québécois comme toi. Piéton, cycliste, et skieur. Ex-Albertain parfois en manque de Mes Rocheuses. Ex-conseiller municipal et heureux de l'être. Ex-Américain et très heureux de l'être (mais américain comme toi aussi).
Certains voient la décision de la Cour suprême concernant les demandeurs d’asile comme une ingérence du fédéral. Il me vient en tête une autre ingérence survenue en 89 lorsque la Cour suprême avait protégé les droits de Chantal Daigle, bafoués 2 fois au Québec par les cours supérieure et d'appel.
Traffic Engineering: 2026 Edition 📖
Layout analysis *model*, I obviously meant to say! This is one case where I don't really see the benefit of end-to-end processing with general-purpose models.
Ideally you should be able to automatically "upgrade" a PDF to a PDF/UA. This shouldn't be too hard to approximate if you have a tool (or, sure, a VLM) that can give you structured outputs with bounding boxes. Which is to say that you can probably do it with Docling :-)
You could ... also just use a layout analysis like Docling Heron to detect them ahead of time: huggingface.co/docling-proj...
Or in orienteering for that matter. Don't give them any ideas, I prefer Nazis who can't shoot straight or read maps.
Wow, Calgary politics is ... something else entirely.
Interesting! Yeah there is the problem of Ukraine's population being like 4x that of Finland and the Baltics combined, obviously...
Presumably Finland and the Baltics can help?
Nouvelle publication (enfin!) sur mon blogue politique... le mot en B: dhd6.ca/blog/b/
Oui blah blah blah mais la question qui tue: à quoi pense Marwah Rizqy dans cette photo?
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The downside is that high oil prices will make the tar sands profitable again. Alberta strong and free!
Little clarification because I Am Not An Urban Planner™ : even though there's always a non-zero minimum lateral setback, this doesn't matter in practice as long as "implantation contigue" is allowed, which it generally is.
Time to say it again!
Having lots of fun looking up my old apartments and noting all of the ways they are dérogatoire! If it isn't the height limit then it's *definitely* the lateral setbacks... spectrum.montreal.ca/connect/anal...?
Well, certainly allowed with a dérogation mineure (variance), so you know, wait 9 months and hope that the CCU doesn't find your building too out of neighbourhood character...
Historically, also, zero setbacks and 3-story buildings were allowed basically everywhere. Incredibly enough, this isn't the case anymore! Basically no existing building on the Plateau would be legal to build now. Which is why we have a housing crisis now too.
Douglas Todd: Jarring 18-storey tower on leafy Vancouver street a sign of the out-of-scale times About 10 steel-and-glass highrises, much like the one proposed for Yukon and 14th, are set to arise among character homes within the Broadway plan zone. https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-18-storey-tower-vancouver-out-scale-times
Douglas Todd: Hundreds of quiet east Vancouver side streets upzoned for six-storey apartment blocks Some residents in the vast Rupert and Renfrew area did not know their pleasant side streets had been upzoned for six- to eight-storey apartment blocks. It calls into question the city of Vancouver's murky "engagement strategy." https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-hundreds-of-quiet-east-vancouver-side-streets-upzoned-for-six-storey-apartment-blocks
'Monstrosities' or the evolution of housing? Multi-unit buildings on single-family lots gain traction in B.C. cities The number of multi-unit developments on single-family lots is increasing in B.C. neighbourhoods dominated by single-detached houses. Opinions vary over what these changes will mean for communities. https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/multiplex-feature
Anakin/Padme meme I oppose this building because it's too tall It's just this building, not all new housing? You are not against all new housing, right?
A storey in four acts as captured by local news media:
18 storeys is too high, we’d be fine with 4-6 storeys
6 storeys are too big, we'd be fine with multiplexes
Multiplexes are monstrosities, we are fine with existing post-Second World War bungalows
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confirmed that it absolutely does not
The alerts will also be delayed a minute or two depending on what network you're on... so my phone (on Koodo 5G) went off, then two minutes later my girlfriend's phone (on Koodo 4G, in the same room!) went off again. I guess we'll keep an eye out for that kid, in our sleep, 90km away...
The valiant defense of single-family zoning and neighbourhood character in the 70s led Canadian planners to put density only in places where nobody will complain about it. Montreal is less bad because it was built earlier and has always had mostly sensible zoning (e.g. zero setbacks)
obligatory repost of little myy content
Tout est là sauf qu'une ceinture verte efficace devrait obligatoirement se rendre jusqu'à Sainte-Adèle par l'A-15 et Rawdon par l'A-25
Do you have a PDF? Do you want to get stuff out of it, like images, fonts, metadata and maybe even some text? Do you like programmer-friendly Python interfaces without annoying boilerplate? Do you want it to run fast on all your CPUs? I have some packages for you: PLAYA-PDF and PAVÉS!
As-tu un PDF? Veux-tu fouiller dans ses entrailles pour extraire des images, des polices, des métadonnées et oui, peut-être même du texte? Aimes-tu les interfaces Python conviviales sans fla-fla? Veux-tu que ça roule vite et sur tous tes CPUs? Je vous présent PLAYA-PDF (et PAVÉS)!
Of course they do. Imagine the number of tokens in training discussing the use of nuclear weapons vs the two times they’ve been used as weapons for real
But emergent abilities blah blah blah handwave woo AGI woo agentic woo woo reasoning blah blah thinking argle bargle i am a stochastic parrot r u
Your daily reminder that J. G. Ballard's science fiction has a troubling track record of becoming reality: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dro...