Kate Gregory

Last week I visited Bulgaria, which was fabulous. The lovely people we met all asked that we tell our friends we liked it, they are keen for more tourists and lots of people don't think of it. People asked 'why are you going?' we said, because we've never been and it's pretty. A little 🧵

There's some questionable business practices, and then there's Norwegian Airlines randomly charging if you pay with your company card.

>Bulgaria has been both it's own place and part of much larger polities and empires for 1000s of years so there's a great variety of buildings monuments and archaeological sites. The landscape is varied with hot summers and snowy winters. People were really pleasant. Folks under 30 speak English >

YouTube video by CppNorth Michelle D'Souza - Gotta Cache 'Em All: Optimize Your C++ Code By Utilizing Your Cache!

Our next talk from CppNorth 2025 is now on YouTube! ⚡️

Watch Michelle Fae D'Souza: "Gotta Cache 'Em All!"

Learn to harness your cache, optimize access patterns & solve performance mysteries for blazing-fast code.

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#CppNorth #cpp #Performance

TOWNIE BAYMAN is a fun illustration celebrating two aspects of Newfoundland culture. All in good fun, this piece was not scientifically researched, none of the info is based on anything other than Jud Haynes' personal take on it all. It is not meant to appear as Townie “VS” Baymen, but more celebrates how much we're all the same. Most people feel they fall somewhere in the middle. Its good for a laugh, just something fun to hang on the wall.

Whenever I wear a hoodie with a flannel shirt, I think about this illustration I saw in Newfoundland showing the difference between a "Townie" (someone from St John's who wears the hoodie over the flannel) and a "Bayman" (someone from a small village who wears the flannel over the hoodie)

.999… is a repeating decimal that is an alternative way of writing the number 1.

It’s not "almost 1," or "quite nearly 1."

It’s exactly 1.

Here's another way to look at it ⬇️

1/9 = 0.111
2/9 = 0.222
3/9 = 0.333
…
8/9 =0.888
9/9 =1

Babies take a lesson from soldiers in the war against malaria Inspired by a military strategy to ward off disease-carrying mosquitoes, researchers see if the technique will help cut malaria infections in little ones.

Inspired by a military strategy to ward off disease-carrying mosquitoes, researchers see if the technique will help cut malaria infections in little ones. n.pr/3IwwWQc

Creditors circle as cull controversy shines light on B.C. ostrich farmers' unpaid bills | CBC News After years of chasing debts through the courts, creditors of a high-profile ostrich farm in southeastern B.C. have filed paperwork against the Canada Food Inspection Agency in the hopes of recouping hundreds of thousands of dollars in the event of a cull.

Creditors circle as cull controversy shines light on B.C. ostrich farmers' unpaid bills

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

Ford government vehicle recorded at stunt driving speeds on Ontario highways | Globalnews.ca At least one cabinet-assigned vehicle was recorded driving more than 50 km/h over the speed limit multiple times in the past three years, according to documents.

NEW: A vehicle assigned to a Ford cabinet minister has been recorded at stunt driving speeds 12 times.

The premier's office suggested it was the same driver each time, and implied they still work for the government. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1146702...

This whole thread is absolutely peak Bluesky. Dear Americans, not everything is about you.

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Long thread of excellent airport advice (look up for signs, wear a mask, this line will be shortest - just read the whole thing) but THIS omg THIS is true almost everywhere. Understanding "Nobody that you can yell at is a decision maker" is key to actually getting what you want.

The ISO C++ 2025-10 pre-Kona mailing is available: 6 N-papers (official ISO papers) and 69 P-papers (committee member papers).

www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg...

Easy reading for the next month. :-)

It’s never too late to start masking again.

It can be daunting to mask back up when no one else is bothering, but your health is worth it.

Every Covid infection is a dice roll with disability, and a good respirator like an N95 stops chains of transmission.

You’ll also get less colds & flus!

The EU parliament building, Brussels Belgium. Modernist, swooping, glassy

Visited the EU Parliament to extend my personal thanks for making Apple cave and adopt USB-C. A million couples traveling with a tangle of three different charging cable formats are forever in your debt

'We play for the city': Vladdy hungry for more after hitting Toronto's 1st postseason grand slam TORONTO -- Vladimir Guerrero Jr. owns this city. Now, he owns this series. Guerrero launched a grand slam in the Blue Jays’ 13-7 win over the Yankees on Sunday in Game 2 of the American League Divisio...

“The Blue Jays’ 23 runs are the most by any team through the first 2 games of the postseason in MLB history and at one point they scored 20 consecutive runs between Yankee runs -- the first time a team has done that in a postseason series.”

“We play for the city.”

And the country too.

Go Jays go.

YouTube video by CppNorth Sheena Yap Chan - Building Confidence to Foster Inclusive & Collaborative Tech Communities (Keynote)

Now on YouTube: A CppNorth 2025 Keynote! 🤝

Watch Sheena Yap Chan on "Building Confidence."

Learn actionable strategies to close the confidence gap, foster inclusivity, and build innovative teams.

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#CppNorth #cpp #DEI #Inclusion

Frankly I’d rather not have Carney go onto US soil at all as the US is rather unstable at the moment.

If you pass through Queen’s Park Station, take note of the fabrication dates on the exposed tunnel liners before they are tiled over. A cool detail that will soon be hidden once again.

Below:
20•10•60
24•1•61
8•2•61

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

NEW: Vehicles registered to Doug Ford's cabinet ministers have been caught by automated speed cameras more than 20 times.

In one case, they were driving 70 in a 40 zone. On average, they were 17 over the limit. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1146373...

A work of art

These Toronto Police officers could have used the adjacent parking spot, but instead are blocking a busy bike lane in rush hour.

A stream of cyclists bumping over the curb to get around the SUV.

Two officers watching this happen.

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

YouTube video by CppNorth Tony Van Eerd - Should I Check for Null Here?

Our next talk from CppNorth 2025 is now on YouTube! 🤔

Watch Tony Van Eerd (@tvaneerd.bsky.social): "Should I Check for Null Here?"

Learn how this simple question leads to a deep dive into error handling, bugs, and C++26 Contracts.

🔗 youtu.be/Ma0uHx-pP4Q
#CppNorth #cpp #Cpp26 #ItDepends

Get enough exercise, brush and floss, eat your vegetables, and wear sunblock.

Seriously, it will make such a huge difference to your quality of life when you are fifty or sixty, you have no idea.

enslavers also understood that slavery was bad. the founding fathers in particular compared their own relationship to britain as being as bad as being enslaved, which was so brazenly hypocritcal that the british made jokes about it

This is clearly a vicious personal attack against me.

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,