The Canadian egg and dairy supply and pricing management system is fascinating to me… and I don’t know about you, but I’m not sure bringing “competition” and “innovation” will lead to anything good to the business of raising chickens.
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
Woah, 160,000 dead trees to cut down in Stanley Park… that’s a lot of dead trees. 😟
Shannon Appelcline has another book out from the broader “Designers & Dragons” series of #TTRPG history: “This is Free Trader Beowulf”! It looks at the history of #Traveller, and it might answer many of my questions such as… “why are there so many editions?” 😂 Looks great!
It’s interesting to see big companies experimenting with source control software: I recently learned about Facebook’s Mercurial fork Sapling, and Google’s Jujutsu which wraps around a Mercurial/Git/other repo storage format of your choice.
Cloud appreciation post
Chewing is good!
Hello Vancouver!
They said it wouldn’t happen but the local malls (Metrotown and Crystall Mall in Burnaby, BC) are back to pre-pandemic crowds. Possibly even more crowded…
I just realized that Affinity/Canva sent some “pledge” by email to all their customers (also available here), including a promise to keep the perpetual licenses to Affinity products. Do I trust this to hold for years? Absolutely not. But hey, at least it’s a good gesture, I suppose.
The news about Roku these past couple years have been increasingly terrible, and this one is quite something. When our current Roku breaks down I’ll probably move over to an Apple TV now that those come with a decent remote.