Max Anderson

my9games: Pentiment, Disco Elysium, Starcraft Brood War, Diablo 2, Crusader Kings 2, Final Fantasy X, Pokemon Gold, Hades, TIE Fighter.

Almost like shutting down safe consumption sites and funneling money away from harm reduction and into abstinence grifting makes things less safe and increases harms. This is consistent with decades of data and was completely predictable.

No no, everyone knows that neighbourhood character refers solely to what is visible when facing eastward.

I feel like whole essays could be written about the cultural shift implied by the contrast between the Street Legal title credits and the Traders title credits.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

I love this. Does it use the art form to say something interesting about Stephen Harper, one of the most consequential rightwing prime ministers in Canadian history? No. But does it look like him? Also no.

Those aren’t independent discoveries though, it’s XP’s influence. The XP folks were involved with the Agile Manifesto from the start (e.g. Ron Jeffries), and some of the original DORA people (@jezhumble.net) were XP proponents.

The tribunal said the $750,000 will result in individual awards between around $4600 to $16667 per class member, according to the decision. It noted the purpose of the award is to compensate for the harms of discrimination rather than be punitive.

Is that true? The CBC article claims that the 750k is from a case at the BC human rights tribunal that has not gone to the Supreme Court, and is all damages to the injured parties.

Yes but it feels good to pour a drink into a cup sometimes. If you don’t get that, you shouldn’t be making games.

The shit like this and the White House post really does make it hard to stomach the Americans I follow shit-talking today.

No, in this case he’s not citing anyone other than his own experience, both with CC and previous development tools. If he were citing experienced developers then certainly, his lack of personal expertise would be a non-issue.

His critique of Claude Code is that it doesn't do anything impressive for coding, and he's using his own assessment to make that determination. Someone who does not know the difference between front-end and back-end dev does not have the knowledge to make that assessment.

Luckily Toronto sports fans have trained for exactly this scenario.

i dont say this to downplay it, if anything i think the opposite. this kind of misogyny is so omnipresent as to be like air to our culture, the big disruption that musk buying twitter really caused has mostly been to fuck with the norms that kept its most vulgar forms out of polite company

this kind of extreme misogyny and desperate need to fuck and control every single attractive woman they see is not new, has always been a foundational pillar of culture among men (not even right wing), the major thing that's changed is they made a 4chan that all the journalists are still on

I didn’t really grasp until reading some of the pieces about Jesse Jackson this week how many people are unaware that the rainbow coalition concept predates the 1984 campaign.

As someone who needed the character progression explained to me for the Avatar ones, it still worked better because they were all different colour identities. “Ah yes, the Bant Aang” is so much easier than “sorry which rarity of mono-red Raphael is that?”

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This is so blatantly reproducing the diagram from the original Git Flow blog post that it took me a minute to even notice it wasn’t the original.

As the child of an immigrant Scottish father, can confirm that here in Toronto it was considered, at a minimum, passively hostile since at least the 90s.

A great dudes rock IRL moment for every man is when they admit to another man that they also watch Gilmore Girls

“litRPG” was the term for this when it was contained to self published e-books on the kindle store, as I recall.

Trad Cath who’s equally mad about Bad Bunny doing the Super Bowl in Spanish and mass not being in Latin after Vatican II

You'd check that the space was up to code? Or you'd check that all modifications to the space had been compliant with the municipal permitting process at the time the modifications were made? Because one of those is a reasonable expectation, but it's not the one that would have caught this issue.

I can speak from recent personal experience that pre-purchase inspection do not verify that all modifications to the home were properly permitted, and sometimes it's only when you get people in to work on something new you discover the previous owners did un-permitted work.

I'll also note that the deficiency described, at least in this letter, isn't a failure to comply with the building code, it's that the work was done without pulling the proper permits from the city.

And if the question were about the building code that would be relevant. You posited "Isn't it standard to get this kind of thing inspected before you start having tenants?", to which the question of "did he start having tenants?" is entirely relevant.

Does it? We treat rental properties differently from owner-occupied ones, and "my son lives downstairs" is categorically more similar to the latter case than the former. Does it even have the adequate separation to qualify as a rental property? You seem to presume so, but that's not stated anywhere.

Is there any evidence that he has operated his basement as a rental property? He talks about his son living there, which seems more likely than not to be a non-commercial arrangement.