Professional I.T. guy, union actor, hobby comedian and closet rap-battler.

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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I saw one out front of our business, on Front St Toronto, and several lined up along the edge of one of our downtown parks.

    The information on the home and from the guy talking to by-standers is that there’s a bicycle on the front of it - so it’s apparently allowed to stop “anywhere” because “it’s a bike”. No opinion on that, just repeating what I heard.

    Our owner had a chat with parking enforcement because it was during summer - CafeTO - and was taking up one of the few parking spaces nearby. Parking said (at the time) that they couldn’t do anything/don’t know what to do.

    No opinion here, just answering the previous two comments.



  • Yeah that sounds like a good path!

    I used to love advanced math, physics and game coding, so I’ve revisited the 'Landers several times over the years (a day here and there in the middle of life/emigrating/careers).

    If you also Google for solutions to the 'Landers you’ll find people have done hardcore analysis and genetic algorithms!

    (cough like this)

    Next mission: somehow hack UE5 into CodinGame and let it sort it out.



  • To add to the list, Codingame.com

    It wouldn’t be the first thing to try. Get the basics down on your own machine/environment. Try this for something additional.

    CodinGame gives you the IDE and build environment in your browser, so it’s for learning/practicing/testing coding knowledge without building/deploying locally, or worrying about UI/persistence/networking etc.

    It’s filled with coding puzzles and competitions. I started where they give you animated scenarios (to look like part of a game or engine), and you contribute a small, missing unit of code to complete the challenge.

    You can choose from 25 languages, they encourage unit-testing, and there are global coding competitions and company outreach to top coders. I don’t wanna say they gamified it… but they did.

    But once you’re comfortable with those, CodinGame lets you practice different concepts & algorithms without having to come up with the bigger systems around them.

    I’ve loved it for getting back to coding after a while, tinkering with certain concepts, or trying other languages.

    I’m not affiliated with it. Just loved the idea & execution. Except for Mars Lander III challenge. That can get @#$&ed.