“The certification requirements of other jurisdictions may not be sufficient to meet the safety needs of Canadian road users due to Canada’s distinct driving environment,” wrote Sau Sau Liu, senior communications advisor for Transport Canada, adding that Canadian crash safety standards are tailored to the larger vehicles typically found on our roads.

We already have Vespas and Smart Fortwos. I think we’ll be okay.

Fuck the US coast guard and how they handled this, but the headline is pretty misleading.

The coordinates given by the coast guard are indeed on the US side of the border. He says he was on the Canadian side, but it sounds like it was probably ‘near the US border’ more than it was ‘near Venise-en-Québec’.

near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border

If I measure on google maps it’s 7.8km to the furthest point on the lake, which is past the town. How do you get that so wrong?

Edit: to be clear, I’m not defending the coast guard. I just think it’s worth noting that we’re reading an article that seems to get the basic facts wrong.

They need to ban it or control it to stop any more Zohrans from going viral.

Our Current State: Consolidated

Fucking everything in this country

I got ‘car dealership forecourt’, but that’s probably what he was going for.

It’s well worth reading the entire paper. It’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.

Or to copy something and modify it 30 times.

This seems like a very bad idea. I think we just need more lisp and less AI.

That’s crazy.

Since GPUs got into the TFLOP range I often think of this old magazine cover:

https://images.computerhistory.org/revonline/images/500004286-03-01.jpg?w=600

Zero chance this company replaced him with an AI that actually does anything useful.

I was a pretty experienced programmer when I first read SICP, but I still found it incredibly valuable. I’d recommend it to anyone.

Well to be fair it’s:

Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation; and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario

It’s still embarrassing to throw AI in there.

Really what we need is a Minister of (dis)Information to stop foreign tech companies from fucking us over so much.

It’s such a good idea. I can’t believe they didn’t think of it sooner.

Now I’m thinking about companies using footlongs to pull off shrinkflation.

Going to go rent a 14 footlong truck from uhaul.

This asshole is going to be the least bad option for President, isn’t he?

I thought I was on /c/gardening for a second.

It’s actually possible in a way:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SafetyNet

But you necessarily need to limit the devices and operating systems that are allowed. No custom ROMs, no root access, etc.

It’s bullshit and breaks open computing as a concept.

I don’t disagree exactly, but I’d argue that you’re contributing to the project even if you’re just reporting bugs or helping others with it on e.g. Lemmy.

I could see avoiding all of that pragmatically in order to use some obscure, critical software, but not something you use every day and for which there are reasonable alternatives.

No details were provided on how the tariff would be implemented.

Lol. How do you do this without just making it a sales tax on tickets?

50% of this country forms their view of the world from what Meta Platforms, Inc. wants them to see.

This is what I came here to say. This is a sovereignty issue they could solve with a miniscule portion of their defense budgets.