Footage of the meteor that lit up the sky tonight - caught by live cameras in Deep Cove. Sonic boom a couple of minutes later, strong enough to shake homes across the Lower Mainland.
Wow! π€―
A thing you can do in Vancouver (I could not but I know a guy who did) is the Costco Marathon where you run the five costcos and eat a hotdog at each one
I really enjoyed talking about Haskell, OCaml and programming language communities on Day Two Devops.
Give it a listen if you're curious!
youtu.be/fylVXiYDcT4?...
Gleamβs Design and Compiler https://lobste.rs/s/ddpboi #video #plt #gleam
Two ravens on Dog Mountain with a view of Vancouver
A raven in a snowy tree
A raven in the foggy snow
Ravens on Seymour on the way to Dog Mountain
we need to teach the normies rss
Fantasque Sans Mono?
day 8 of sharing FUN OCaml 2025 talks:
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The 5.4 update of OCaml is out! Check out our blog for an overview of the biggest new features and fixesπ« tarides.com/blog/2025-10...
TV conspiracies: weβve hacked their computers but theyβve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
day 7 of posting FUN OCaml 2025 talks:
youtu.be/exR5eWSQ_8o?...
Yes, digital sovereignty for all things in Canada is a good idea.
That doesnβt mean insulating us from the world: open collaboration with others still fits with this.
Buying from a vendor with nothing of our own (especially from an American vendor) is not the way.
day 4 of posting FUN OCaml 2025 talk recordings:
https://youtu.be/iQc5fHW5SZA?si=vo6TjToRdXe67doV
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Researchers at the Citizen Lab and director @rondeibert.bsky.social sign open letter to the Canadian Minister of AI and Minister of Industry rejecting the βNational Sprintβ on AI strategy.
Read it here: bccla.org/policy-submi...
day 3 of posting FUN OCaml 2025 talk recordings!
https://youtu.be/UfrryqltZUQ?si=btHKGf_3OoGC-xmX
C is for βCarnival of Soulsβ in my #folkhorroralphabet released in 1962 and directed by Herk Harvey. Itβs a low budget cult classic, unsettling period Americana that inspired directors like David Lynch and George Romero.
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https://youtube.com/@FUNOCaml
posting one FUN OCaml 2025 talk recording per day, starting today with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfGlQZ2pkss
Hah, thanks! (Caught your comment via a brid.gy notification)
The palm was an accident, but it's not like the pic was already cluttered with hair. ;)
I was in the audience, and I loved this talk! Although it did lead to late night conversations about why we're allocating external memory in the first place in OCaml, instead of going full zero-copy. My thoughts here: anil.recoil.org/notes/icfp25...
Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The BΓΆcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
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A fun talk about...hacking OCaml. Basically, what you get when you supercollide a systems-y OCaml developer and a CTF.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV9V...
I saw it on Mastodon, found you over here. The language might be harsh, as you say, but I thought it was excellent!
Thanks Don! Yeah, am kinda here too, not sure how to reply via brid.gy.
This is just some of the stupidest shit we've seen from a group of people who are excelling at stupid stuff. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian, where a number of women are wearing fake beards so that they can participate in a stoning.
The most incredibly fun part of this Nature comment on evidence synthesis we published today is that the cartoonist (David Parkins) also did Beano and Dennis the Menace (!) A true legend. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
