tunetardis

joined 2 years ago
[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of when I was up in Iqaluit (far north in Canada). The best way I could describe it is imagine Mos Eisley if it were on the planet Hoth.

[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 months ago (4 children)

If you didn't get a voter card, you can get an electronic one by downloading the app. I did that and it was pretty painless. You still need to go to the polling station with a piece of ID but the app generates a bar code they scan and you're in and out of there pretty quick.

[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Ah ok, thanks!

[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, it makes me feel relieved to hear I'm not the only one finding it a little overwhelming! Previously, I had been using chatgpt and the like where I would be hunting for the answer to a particularly esoteric programming question. I've had a fair amount of success with that, though occasionally I would catch it in the act of contradicting itself, so I've learned you have to follow up on it a bit.

[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I turned on copilot in VSCode for the first time this week. The results so far have been less than stellar. It's batting about .100 in terms of completing code the way I intended. Now, people tell me it needs to learn your ways, so I'm going to give it a chance. But one thing it has done is replaced the normal auto-completion which showed you what sort of arguments a function takes with something that is sometimes dead wrong. Like the code will not even compile with the suggested args.

It also has a knack for making me forget what I was trying to do. It will show me something like the left side picture with a nice rail stretching off into the distance when I had intended it to turn, and then I can't remember whether I wanted to go left or right? I guess it's just something you need to adjust to. Like you need to have a thought fairly firmly in your mind before you begin typing so that you can react to the AI code in a reasonable way? It may occasionally be better than what you have it mind, but you need to keep the original idea in your head for comparison purposes. I'm not good at that yet.

[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pride Toronto, the non-profit organization behind the annual 2SLGBTQI+ parade, did not disclose the names of the sponsors as it hopes to persuade them to continue their funding.

Well if they don't, please do drag their names through the mud.

[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What caused the jump in the first place? I only just opened an account myself because the folks who run my home instance lemmy.ca started up pixelfed.ca about a week ago and I decided to check it out.

[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

I downloaded it and have been playing around. Looks like it's Chromium-based?

[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. They have a browser as well. We do we know about it?

[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

I switched from Shoppers to Pharmasave, mainly because a branch opened up right down the street from me and was therefore closer than Shoppers. But I'm super happy I did so. I'm on a first name basis with the pharmacist and he's really good. I bring in an empty and he's got it refilled in like a minute and a half. And when I had problems with an insurance claim for a prescription, he actually called the company for me and sorted it out.

[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 months ago

I think Rob was the user and Doug was the dealer right? Or am I getting that mixed up?

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