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[–] randy@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

one of the Kens asks to be on the Supreme Court, and Barbie says not until a woman in the real world gets that level of power.

I'm afraid your memory is a bit off. A Ken asks for a supreme court seat, President Barbie says "maybe one of the lower circuits", and shortly thereafter the narrator says something like "maybe one day the Kens will enjoy all the rights that women do in the real world". The movie certainly did not erase Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cunningham's law. And just to buck the trend, you didn't have to get it wrong to get the right answer ;).

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

You must be thinking of a different grant, or you're in a province where the carbon price is not federally run. The federal Climate Action Incentive payment is disbursed to everyone.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

If there's somethin' strange
Sleepin' in your bed
You might be Dr. Crusher.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago

Tell us more about what you're thinking of building/drawing. I like FreeCAD, but it's also quite complicated, depending on what your goals are.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah, I meant the film Aladdin, specifically the character Jasmine. You're right, the character Aladdin doesn't fit the concept.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Also bonus point if you can name my inspiration.

street rat

Aladdin, no doubt.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago

Fairphone is well supported by open-source Android distributions like Lineage and /e/OS. Not all Android is involved with Google.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here is their reasoning, basically summarized as "it's easier to get everything for games into a new language than bolting it onto an existing language". I also recall seeing a blog post where they said their initial implementation of GDScrip took fewer lines of code than embedding Lua did.

Note Godot does officially support C# and C++, and there is unofficial support for other languages too. But they commonly recommend GDScript for beginners.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

The Auditor General's report suggested the government re-evaluate the 14 parcels that were slated for removal from the Greenbelt. But they are "not pausing development on the 14 parcels"; they're re-evaluating all lands in the Greenbelt. So it sounds like Doug is doubling down on disregarding the AG's suggestion by instead looking for more to remove.

Seems like a cheap trick to act like they're listening to reason, while doing the exact opposite.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm an engineer, and I make it a point to teach young engineers that "a ton" can mean any one of three things:

  • Short ton = 2000 lb
  • Long ton = 2240 lb
  • Metric ton = 1000 kg = ~2204 lb

And which is being used is often not spelled out, but is just known from context, and usually should be clarified. I once nearly got in trouble by thinking a measurement was in short tons when it was actually metric tons.

So my own act of rebellion is to use "Mg" when I'm writing my personal notes.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 56 points 2 years ago (2 children)

From a quick search, a MATLAB student license is $50 (USD, probably), which is less than most textbooks but still not nothing. Whether piracy is justified or not, I just want to point out that this is how they get you. Microsoft gives cheap Office licenses to schools and Adobe turns a blind eye to amateur piracy of Photoshop because they know that getting you comfortable with their software early means you're more likely to pay to keep using it professionally later. I don't know if MathWorks had a hand in the MATLAB requirement (I would bet it was just a prof who wants to stick with what they know), but good on you for trying to push for alternatives and testing against Octave.

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