Under the Influence is Terry O’Reilly’s show and he’s usually really good about sourcing things. Pretty disappointing, honestly.

I did some research on this when I was hunting for stainless cookware and I would stick with three ply.

Three ply stainless pans have an aluminum core with stainless steel cladding. At least for the brands I was looking at, five ply stainless pans are alternating layers of stainless and aluminium, where each of the two aluminum layers is half as thick as the aluminum core in the three ply pan.

In the course of my research, I learned that stainless cladding is great for ease of cleaning, durability, etc. but for actual cooking performance, it’s the aluminum core that’s doing the heavy lifting. The stainless steel layer in between the two aluminum layers makes the pan more complex to manufacture (and therefore more expensive) and doesn’t help (or actually harms) the pan’s performance.

I’m not sure if this is universally true but I’ve never seen a fully electric vehicle that uses motor oil. Hybrid vehicles with an internal combustion engine and an electric drive train would still need it, of course.

Not having to take my car for oil changes is bliss.

I’ve heard several horror stories from friends about bringing cars to Canadian Tire.

They forgot to put oil in the car after an oil change.

They somehow managed to put a wheel bearing in backwards.

They claimed the lock nut key for the tires was missing when it was in plain view in the glove compartment and they had been told where to find it. They wanted to charge to cut off the lock nuts, which is a common garage scam.

It was GitLab Duo.

We definitely have better tools for things like syntax checking and a linter step in the CI/CD pipeline has the advantage of not burning down a whole forest to do its job.

I made a contribution to a project that is using AI generated reviews and the AI bot gave me something like five or six suggestions, every one of which was wrong in some way or another. Only one of the suggestions was worth considering and the code that it generated to implement that suggestion was bad to the point of being baffling.

Last I heard, they were planning to hand responsibility for the renovation or replacement of 24 Sussex to the National Capital Commission, which should make the issue less of a political hot potato.

The OG Nazis were actually bozos too, they just had very good propaganda. So good that you’re still seeing the effects today.