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It ends with a chop and the protagonist cashes out and walks away. Not exciting from a poker perspective but the protagonist develops as a person between the last bet and the reveal.

My wife decided the climax of her book would be a poker game and I was like “If you do this, DO NOT use the royal flush takes all trope. It is a tired cliché.”

She did something a little different and I’m very pleased with how she subverted that trope.

Own people. Simple as.

My MIL’s dog sometimes farts, then growls at her own ass.

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No Christmas bonus here but my company did give everyone almost two weeks paid vacation covering all of Christmas and through the new year.

Some friends moved to Canada from abroad and their first Christmas here, we did every Christmas tradition we could think of with them, even ones we didn’t normally partake in ourselves. Introducing them to Christmas really brought back the joy of it for me.

There are only two ways I can think of to lose money running a casino - baffling levels of incompetence or money laundering.

Night Shift. A DOS game where you keep a factory cranking out toys and it gradually ramps up the difficulty by de-automating the machines that manage colour, materials, etc.

They got stuck at intersections where the traffic lights were out. The fourth paragraph of the article:

Without working traffic lights, the driverless cars were seemingly left confused, with many halting in their tracks and causing major traffic jams.

As someone whose first “real” programming language was C, I recommend against writing anything new in C.

There are plenty of C projects you could consider contributing to as a way to learn the language (and if you want a long and prosperous career, knowing C can only help you) but language design has come a long way since the 70s and something like Golang or Zig or Rust would get you many of the advantages of C with many fewer pitfalls.

I would like this to be on by default. I have lost track of the number of times I have accidentally swiped back too many times.

I guess Roko’s Basilisk was inside us all along.

Here are things I sometimes add to my instant ramen:

While cooking:

• Frozen peas or frozen corn
• Fresh seasonal veggies
• Dried mushrooms (rinse them first)

Before serving:

• Deli meat
• Sliced fish cake. Our local Asian store sells fresh and frozen and they both last a long time unopened.
• Chili crisp
• Nori

I also make pork belly specifically for ramen. I rub it with salt and sugar, roast it, slice it into strips and freeze it in small packs so I have it handy. It cooks up pretty quickly in a frying pan. You can put it in while cooking the noodles if you don’t want to get a pan dirty but it’s not quite as tasty.

Yes

Kinda depends what part of the city you’re moving to. The West End is different from downtown is different from the Mountain is different from East Hamilton.

There are lots of nice areas in the city but also some not-so-nice ones. I’d recommend checking out whatever area you might be moving to during the day and again at night.

Been a while since I’ve lived in the city, so I don’t think I’m comfortable giving specific advice. In general, I always felt safer West or South of downtown than East or North of downtown but there’s also been a bunch of gentrification in the neighborhoods closer to the lake, so maybe it’s different now. I still know some people in the area so if you have specific questions, I could pass them along.

I remember reading a comment a long time ago that Tron: Legacy is a 125 minute Daft Punk music video and I find it hard to disagree.

Yeah, just let Sam Altman scan your eyeballs with an orb and he’ll certify you’re human. Nothing dystopian about that and certainly no potential for abuse.

He fronted a bunch of the money to make it, apparently.