And once you do have the mortgage the relationship with the bank is really weird. They’re on the deed, you’re forbidden from renting any portion of the “condo”, and all sorts of weird stuff like that.

My whole life has become this meme.

Having been through this recently I wouldn’t say mortgages are impossible. In a way it’s a lot weirder. Only two banks will do them (Desjardins and Banque National), and if any part of the unit is already with one of them that’s your only option.

Thank god for Patreon notifications

No idea if this is just perception, let alone related, but my YouTube algorithm has been reallly weird today.

The usual stuff is suddenly mixed in with poker videos, drama videos, award show videos…

Every thing has a bloody whiteboard and Google Docs/Notion clone now... Please, just let me take my little video calls or manage my tasks in peace!

Congrats! (Also: sick shirt 🔥)

If you're interested in how this is *supposed* to work, might I humbly suggest aia.guide.

(Soon to be updated for recent revisions!)

Always very telling what gets called “spending” and what’s “an investment.” If we spend less of frivolous things like a social safety net we can invest more in shipping our wealth overseas!

I think it's useful to tease out what's really new with AI (persistant chatbots, the ubiquity and near-simultaneous rollout of AI features across the industry) and what's AI (once again) building on the groundwork laid by past hype cycles and the constant push for growth.

The Acrobat screenshot does make me wonder how much more agressive this push for AI has been than the pushes for other features. Adobe and plenty of others have been using pushy "new feature" pop-ups long before they were hawking AI.

I started using Kagi a few months ago and haven’t looked back. As my friend put it, “Kagi is basically paying $10 a month to get Google from 2007 back.”

I was curious if there was any research to back this up. There seems to be some, but not much yet. The few studies that have been done seem be finding decreased brake time in high-urgency scenarios but not this specific problem of pedal confusion.

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Very cool, and especially cool to be keeping the banner of the vanilla web flying high.

Terrible puns aside, thanks for building and sharing!

Also kinda fascinated to see how the new era of pop might force change. It seems to me that the ‘00s and ‘10s produced a lot of acts whose music/personas lent themselves to mega tours. Even if the bubble somehow doesn’t pop there are only so many Katy Perry nostalgia tours you can produce.

Pretty sure we grew up in similar concert-going eras and I’m never sure what’s actually changed vs what’s just me getting older and grumpier. Absolute banger video though—I think you hit the nail on the head with the feedback loop between rising prices and rising expectations.

Absolute legend. (And actually a Franco-Ontarian!)