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A downtown Toronto walk along Queen Street West to Simcoe Street, then south down to a new (and disappointing) plaza at the Harbourfront Centre that replaced...

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Explaining Thruster, a new 37signals gem that speeds up your app (discuss.rubyonrails.org)

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Last month, 37Signals introduced Thruster, a “zero-config” gem that makes your web pages load faster by solving various problems that would otherwise require changes in multiple places in your infrastructure. This post explains what those problems are, how Thruster solves them, and why you might want to use it even if you have a CDN like Cloudflare in front of your app, which already implements all the features that Thruster offers. 1. Puma is a great application server, but a poor web server B...

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Ministers called to committee over illegal job sale scam to immigrants (www.theglobeandmail.com)

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Immigration consultants and lawyers say they fear the scams may get worse with international students searching for other ways to stay and work in Canada

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Toronto’s construction season traffic is ‘unacceptable.’ Is there a better way? | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)

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Toronto already has some of the worst traffic in the world, and with construction season here, delays will be even more “unacceptable.” What’s the solution?

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Father who lost baby, parents in Highway 401 crash releases statement: ‘We can never hold our child in our hands again’ (www.thestar.com)

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The six vehicle crash on April 29 is now the focus of police watchdog investigation.

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LOCAL grocery chains to go to instead of the Big Bads (lemmy.ca)

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I'm copied this from an other website to help spread awareness.

In light of the Loblaws boycott, I figured we could do another community list of small grocers in your neighborhoods. Convenience stores, markets, fruit stands all welcome, as long as they aren't owned by some giant company.

I'll start:

Lucky Moose (dundas and beverly)

Bloor Manning Fruit Market

P.A.T. (bloor and manning)

Rise Up Foods (formerly Fresh Fields)(dundas and Brock)

Pavao (dundas and gladstone)

A Lota Seafood (dundas and Brock)

Brazil Bakery (formerly brockton bakery) (dundas and brock)

Macs Cigars (Dundas and Brock)

Unboxed Market

Raise the Root

O Nosso Talho

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Downtown Toronto faces a crush of rising office vacancies that could threaten building valuations (www.theglobeandmail.com)

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With five million square feet of available space across 47 office towers, downtown Toronto is becoming a tenant’s paradise - and an investor’s potential nightmare

I'm Starting A Search Engine For The Fediverse in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yep

I'm Starting A Search Engine For The Fediverse in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The fediverse is a few thousand servers, from Mastodon, Lemmy, etc. Can't say the amount of posts but there are a lot.

So on the more technical side, I plan on using a light weight fast search engine called Sonic (It's written in rust). I have already used it in other projects and it can handle billions of messages / posts. But it has a cost it doesn't have faceted search, like for example if you want to exclude certain texts from the results. I think this is a fair trade off. The other solution would be to use something more mature like ElasticSearch but it'll be expensive (I'm assuming not much money will be made from this and I'm talking about donations)