jpambrun

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by jpambrun 7y ago
"it's just rational business" yes and that's why we need gouvernement to step in and change the cost-benefit equation so that it becomes "just rational business" re-value these items.
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by jpambrun 7y ago
Food is already regulated. This is not about regulating "the internet", it's about applying existing rules to a retailer that just happens to operate mostly online. The argument that Amazon's suppliers are "retailer
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by jpambrun 7y ago
In my jurisdiction the manufacturer is responsible. The seller's liability is only 30 days.
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by jpambrun 7y ago
You can play around with ML on your laptop, but serious work is typically done in the cloud. I use powerful Nvidia GPUs from my MacBook every day.
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by jpambrun 7y ago
Handheld devices cannot be reasonably expected to last 10 years. However consumer goods must be fit for purpose for a reasonable time. The case of the insecure router after 5-10 years was probably not brought to court, but I hope the court
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by jpambrun 7y ago
I am with you on this. The story on the Canadian food truck being withheld money from Square Canada because JP Morgan asserted that the coffee came from Cuba comes to mind. From my perspective, outside of the US and China, both are overreac
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by jpambrun 7y ago
In my jurisdiction, consumer device must have "reasonable lifetime" by law. This lifetime of course is not to be determined by the manufacturer, but by the courts in the event of a disagreement. Ten years is bit long, but it'
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by jpambrun 7y ago
Montreal did the same thing during student protests in 2012 [1]. It came along with another special law enacted to restrict protests[2]. Both were later contested and dropped. In my opinion that was extremely unproductive. It galvanized pro
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by jpambrun 7y ago
How much work does cutting a 14,000$ check requires? It been going on since August. For a foot truck operations 14,000$ must be a significant toll on cash flow. It's inexcusable.
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by jpambrun 7y ago
You could have one GDPR compliant site in the EU and a different international one.. or just block EU. Nobody is infringing on someone else's sovereignty in that case.
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by jpambrun 7y ago
I don't and shouldn't have to care who the supplier is or what kind of agreement they have with the store; I am conducting business with the store. My contractual interactions are with the store. It process the orders, handle paym
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by jpambrun 7y ago
The US already in an economic dispute with many allies (including Canada) citing national security threats. At this rate, the US might have no close allies left by the end of life of the F35s.
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by jpambrun 7y ago
Sadly (and weirdly) it's not symmetrical. The law specifies a minimum termination notice of only two weeks from the employer. Most people assume the two weeks notice applies both ways (and it's generally fine), but it's not a
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by jpambrun 7y ago
That's interesting. Up here the employer still have to prove damage in court. I can understand the reasoning. If are a the only highly specialized engineer in a small shop, quitting unexpectedly could jeopardize the whole operation and
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by jpambrun 7y ago
I don't know US laws, but in Canada you have to give an appropriate notice that can extend far beyond 2 weeks. Your loyalty obligations also extent after the employment period. For instance, a dentist who gave the usual 2 weeks had to
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by jpambrun 8y ago
I was wanted to have a good gaming experience, but also wanted the extra memory for machine learning. However, I didn't end up doing much ML with it.
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by jpambrun 8y ago
Vulkan is an open API. Sure it's not Ubuntu on commodity hardware, but it's closer than Windows.
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by jpambrun 8y ago
I knew someone would mention those.. I have two since they launched. However, they don't do 4k or HDR and I still need the 95%-of-the-time idle 1,500$ graphics card.
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by jpambrun 8y ago
I am a "gamer", I have a 2080Ti and I hope it's the last 1500$ gaming equipment I ever have to buy. It sits idle 95%+ of the time and it is tied to only one of the all the screens in my house. I want this to work.
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by jpambrun 8y ago
And the games will run on Linux using Vulkan. I find that pretty awesome.
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by jpambrun 8y ago
The browser traps many keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl+w would close the chrome tab, not the vscode tab for instance. As a result, many shortcuts won't work. I think you can reclaim some by running in full screen, but it's not great.
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by jpambrun 8y ago
Until recently I was stuck on a very locked down Windows machine (no vm, no docker, no admin rights..) while we target Linux on the cloud. The only way I could be productive is through remote development. We got macs and I still just develo
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by jpambrun 8y ago
I tried that in the past and it's unusable over typical internet latency.
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by jpambrun 8y ago
You are asking people, possibly non-technical people, to do thorough background check on each prospective associates and past associates of prospective associates. The not feasible nor reasonable.
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by jpambrun 8y ago
Scoop is about the only thing that works on my stupidly locked work laptop. Unfortunately, McAfee AV just started deleting scoop scripts randomly. God I hate windows.
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by jpambrun 8y ago
I am from Quebec, so this what I know. The link says you can't and ask media to stop doing it. It also says that the train engineer union could keep his name because it existed before the law.
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by jpambrun 8y ago
Something public safety can be at risk in the software world. Medical devices immediately comes to mind (look up Therac-25). Some software acts are reserved. Most of my friends are registered software engineers.
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by jpambrun 8y ago
Canada, specifically Quebec (I am not sure about other provinces). I find it slightly annoying too. However, my degrees are in engineering and it makes sense to me that the engineer term is reserved.
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by jpambrun 8y ago
If you are performing reserved acts from Ontario you are infringing regardless of how you call yourself.
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by jpambrun 8y ago
No. https://www.oiq.qc.ca/en/media/pressReleases/Pages/default.a...

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