Chris McGee

Dad, Cynical Geek, Tech and Software Enthusiast. Building namespaces and cutting teeth on edge computing. My thoughts come from my own distorted brain.

[Chris McGee @seeteegee]

@potatoslav Only one Brit I ever met was able to distinguish my Canadian from American. Little did they know that I can turn on/off my Ottawa Valley twang at will.

[Chris McGee @seeteegee]

@progrium @ibuildthecloud Not sure, but there was an attempt in Go to make something called Shiny that might have led into 3D in some way if work continued on it.

https://t.co/qa4tkFqc2R

https://t.co/dechjsUgxf

[whimsy lohan (in NYC) @SexyLikeMeiosis]

@TonyJuniper I believe this issue is structural to the movement: https://t.co/0SIHVuYMVO

[Chris McGee @seeteegee]

@potatoslav Meanwhile Canadians like consensus building, right?

[Joe Harris @_joe_harris_]

single-purpose robots keep winning:

1. they pick one task and nail it
2. they don’t need a foundation model to be useful
3. every run generates data that makes the next one better
4. the operator ratio flips from 1:1 to 1:many
5. the customer forgets it’s a robot

this is happening across every major industry

[Chris McGee @seeteegee]

@progrium @ibuildthecloud I wonder how to represent it using file server and wire protocol.

[Chris McGee @seeteegee]

@progrium @ibuildthecloud Hi, are you thinking of doing 3D graphics pipelines with wanix, bridging to webgl?

[Chris McGee @seeteegee]

@progrium @ibuildthecloud I love how acme is a GUI app and IDE, but still text-based and cli oriented at the same time.

[Gregory L Little, Ed.D. @DrGregLittle2]

Here's where it gets weird: 3-6 thousand years ago the Amazon rainforest didn't exist as we know it. It was a dense, nearly impenetrable bamboo forest. Then a group of people entered and started burning it. They brought in and planted fruit and nut trees and various other tropicals and edibles. They created a massive, cultivated garden. They constructed towns and villages and made huge geometric earthworks virtually identical to the ones in North America. The towns were connected by leveled roadways. Nearly 1000 of these have now been found. The population of the Amazon in 1492 is now believed to have been 10 million people. Shortly after the first Spanish entered the area around 1500, the population dramatically declined from disease and it's thought that 99% of them were gone by 1550. The untended garden areas quickly became overgrown creating the rainforest. As the destruction of the rainforest continues due to clearing land for agriculture, more and more of these geometric earthworks are being uncovered. Sources: More than I can list, but the National Geographic has sponsored a lot of the ongoing research.

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

Could it be the sun? No: the sun's energy has been going down at the very time that the average temperature of the planet continues to rise. For more info, read: https://t.co/G6SgJpLlMM and no, even a Grand Minimum wouldn't save us. See: https://t.co/KwacEoHdij

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week.

As a climate scientist, let me fact-check that.

First, climate change is not a religion. No belief is required. It is about evidence.

And the evidence has been crystal clear for more than two decades: climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer, more frequent and more dangerous.

In fact, science has advanced far beyond saying climate change merely “played a role.” Today, we can quantify how much more likely and how much hotter climate change made a specific event.

Here's the bottom line:

Climate is changing. Humans are responsible. And we are experiencing the impacts now. That’s the bad news.

The good news is that solutions already exist, and the majority of people care - 89%, around the world!

But meaningful action depends on helping people understand not just what is happening: we need to know how it affects our lives (this heat wave being example A today) and what we can do about it.

That’s the opportunity this reporting missed.

https://t.co/vYfPDKcWWf

[Chris McGee @seeteegee]

@s4rah_dev @kingcutter420 @BeaverTails Oh, but there is a special popup bt business here in Ottawa with tons of variety, some involving nutella. Yummy

[Gary Bernhardt @garybernhardt]

Agents are tools but they're more like fire than a wrench. Have you ever really looked at a furnace? The job of 90% of that mass is to contain the fuel/fire, and to stop it when something goes wrong. Agents need so much containment.

[@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com on Bluesky @norootcause]

"Metaphor debt" is when all of your metaphors involve the concept of "debt" because you can't think of any other metaphors anymore.

[Chris Bataille @bataille_chris]

Forestry without access roads, using heavy lift drones

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

I care.

I’m a taxpayer, not media.

I want to see your cell phone records.

[Chris McGee @seeteegee]

@s4rah_dev @NYCMayor The French don’t mess around with blind spots, they call them death angles.

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

Markdown won.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Like the vast majority of Albertans, I’m both a proud Canadian, and a proud Albertan.

We are a smart, hard working, innovative and loyal people.

Those who went before us built one of the most prosperous and generous societies on Earth.

And we’re not going to let anyone tear apart our home, the true North strong and free.

It’s time to fight for our country.

Alberta: let’s lead, not leave.

https://t.co/nBNfVPjd80

[Chris McGee @seeteegee]

Why use an American design when we have the excellent CANDU?

[Cameco Corporation @cameconews]

Discover the AP1000 reactor, a Canadian nuclear energy solution.