Darren Kirby
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Darren Kirby
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Rural Canadian. Formerly urban Canadian. Stuck in a pothole at the intersection of writing, photography, birds, bees, computer programming, and data science.
Added you. Have fun!
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
All the self-awareness of a dog licking its own asshole.
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Not everyone likes it, but it's worth a try, I suppose. Just take care not to ingest any of the seeds.
November 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Nice! The rose hips are not poisonous, but they do taste awful and may cause some...uhm, complications. Some folks like to make tea with them. Full of vitamin C.
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Streetlights? They most definitely have a photostat on the top that turns them on and off according to seasonal light levels. Even particularly nasty midday storms might trigger them.
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
He's implied absolutely nothing about 'complexity'. He's stated they have more DNA than humans, which is a demonstrable fact. So what are you even talking about?
November 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
You missed a fact. It was Ontario Premier Doug Ford that ran the ad, not PM Mark Carney.
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Literally go fuck yourselves, fascist enablers.
October 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The context I've seen this used in photography is to denote manufacturing batches of a lens of the same model. The manufacturers produce the product in batches, and a subsequent run can introduce or fix a flaw that wasn't/was in an earlier batch.

So 'my copy' of a lens denotes which run it's from.
October 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Yep. Not sure about further south, but up here the ponderosas have a very narrow elevation range, I think ~200-450M above sea level, and they do not tolerate deep snow pack. So because BC is so mountainous, our mature stands are very fragmented geographically, and only exist in the driest valleys.
October 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I've never seen one. Essentially extirpated from BC. I think the last confirmed sighting was 20+ years ago 😐
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
In addition to your point, posting images of nothing but text is lazy and outright hostile to disabled people. Even if we concede that he's done this because of the character limit, failing to include the text content as alt-text makes the entire post inaccessible to those who use screen readers.
October 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The majority of humans on this planet live lives composed of only the smallest fraction of their potential because they've been hobbled by capitalist oligarchs with unending thirst for blood and money.

I'm getting fucking RADICALIZED y'all...

How long will we actually toterate this bullshit?
October 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Oh, I'd have thought UVic had one.
October 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

We humans had our time in the sun, and we blew it. Time to go extinct.
October 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Best of luck!

I have 11 months, and I'm certain I'll fail. I think I'm fine with that. I checked off a couple of big ones...
October 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The real shame is that much like VHS vs. Betamax, the world has standardized on inferior technology that is not fit for purpose.

But hey, maybe write some sternly-worded letters to CompuServe about tacking on metadata. Maybe they'll put some lipstick on that pig.
October 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
It shouldn't be necessary to coerce all media types to use EXIF. Every media container (except GIF, apparently) has an analogous metadata field that can be used for a description. It's up to the app creators to check and use these fields for the media types they support. It's trivial to implement.
October 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
EXIF data already has a built-in field for 'description' that you can use for this.

The hard part is convincing authors of every app that exists to check if this field has a value and, if so, use it.

Actually kind of remarkable that they don't...
October 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM