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by mabbo 3y ago
This is an interesting notion, but I wonder if there would really be support for such laws. In Canada, you can't even call yourself an "Engineer" if you aren't an accredited P.Eng license holder. And a P.Eng who signs of
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by mabbo 3y ago
If there's such an easy biological mechanism to indicate "this one is fine", then I'm surprised it isn't being exploited by infectious agents already. Imagine a virus that causes cells to also produce proteins that
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by mabbo 3y ago
I think at this point, the real question is who in their right mind would ever build a game in Unity again? I'm sure this will make their company a short term gain in profits, but in very short order no more Unity games will be made .
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by mabbo 3y ago
> do jobs that require way more human interaction And all of these interactions are fully possible in remote work. You just need to use the tools that support it- like normalizing video calls (with video on!). The only reason we see so m
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by mabbo 3y ago
I got 9/10 (sorry Sussman!). In a previous version of this game on another site, Phil Wadler was one of the computer scientists and I was able to say "I've met that one! I hope he's not a serial killer..."
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by mabbo 3y ago
It's definitely not a super intuitive model, but it is a powerful one. As I see it, git is a distributed database of snapshots of a directory of files. Every commit is a new snapshot. It's designed the way it is to achieve that
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by mabbo 3y ago
I feel like large companies no longer have any excuse for not storing all text communications for a decade or longer. Text is small. Storage is cheap. The idea that you just can't keep all these text messages is absurd. A recent crimin
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by mabbo 3y ago
I doesn't need to be millions of dollars per day to be happening, and worthwhile for the gangs. Money laundering works best when you've got a lot of different streams of it, spread across many different economies. You want the dir
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by mabbo 3y ago
> Factories used to have bands and axels taking power from one central steam engine to all corners of the building. And then they got redesigned once electricity came in. Fascinating fact you might enjoy: many modern industrial facilitie
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by mabbo 3y ago
As others have said, the pages with the most ads are the ones Google wants you to go to. Their highest priority is making money. Sometimes, that means showing you the right, best content, but a lot of the time now that's not the case.
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by mabbo 3y ago
Seems like an interesting way to identify machines that are breaking down. If these devices can be built cheaply, just place them all over a factory, chirping their ID whenever they have enough power to do so. You map the IDs to locations a
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by mabbo 3y ago
When I lived in Scotland (exchange program year in University) I remember asking my roommates "what's blackcurrant?" And they looked at me like I had asked what an apple was. We actually had to go search online and figure out
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by mabbo 3y ago
Job postings is even an inaccurate way to measure. Often companies like Amazon will have one posting and hire K people- everyone who passed the bar- and all of them will be programming in Java, typically.
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by mabbo 3y ago
I came to say the same thing! There is a hidden economy of programmers who often don't realize they're programmers. They're hidden inside every industrial facility, maintaining machines that use ladder logic to control their
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by mabbo 3y ago
I think the difference is that lithium is being created into a reusable product while oil is mostly made into a consumable, used once. A good battery lasts years, maybe decades. And in theory it can then be recycled.
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by mabbo 3y ago
What's going to be interesting is the day that websites start to block users not providing data from this Topics API. "We need to make money to operate this service and we can't support users who won't help us do that&
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by mabbo 3y ago
There's a few companies offering good money, when hiring starts again. There's the typical Amazon, Google, Uber who pay decently (though Google is only in Waterloo and no remote). Shopify was paying well because they wanted to g
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by mabbo 3y ago
And yet... the Vancouver and Toronto offices are still pretty big- thousands of devs. And not just for visa reasons. Canadians want to be in Canada. That's why I moved back from Seattle, knowing it would affect my comp badly.
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by mabbo 3y ago
> The only meaningful way to realize that extra wealth is to sell. But then you’ve got to live somewhere Which is one of many reasons we're considering leaving Toronto
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by mabbo 3y ago
Huh, that low in Woodstock, eh? We're considering moving to London (ON) to be near family and friends, since we're both remote workers anyway. Interesting to hear the prices down there are falling.
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by mabbo 3y ago
No, this was all our money. But we're a double STEM couple with no kids (at the time). We're also the most boring people you'll ever meet, so our expenses are low. We saved up a 20% down payment after a few years together. An
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by mabbo 3y ago
It's lower, yes, but in Toronto and Vancouver it has definitely improved in the last decade. Amazon opened big offices in both cities (bias: I was one of the early Amazon people in Toronto) and quickly grew by outbidding other employer
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by mabbo 3y ago
I bought a condo in Toronto in 2015 for $592,000 CAD. I live here and quite like it. It's been my home for eight years. Similar units in the same building now sell for $1.2m. This means that my family's wealth has increased by $75
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by mabbo 3y ago
They don't own the no-CD crack. So technically, they are selling software they pirated.
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by mabbo 3y ago
I'm still hopeful about the promise of plant-based meat products. The rainforest is burning (or rather it's being burned ) so that the world can have more and more beef. We cannot sustain the entire world having a Western diet of
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by mabbo 3y ago
The one I recall was when Shia finally pointed it at the sky with no landmarks visible. So they tracked jets flying overhead, and combined that with what birds and bugs they could hear. And that got them the location.
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by mabbo 3y ago
My former manager at work posted a photo out of the window of his condo. I correctly identified his building, floor, apartment number, and which room he was in when he took it. He was impressed and slightly horrified. I'm no rainbolt,
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by mabbo 3y ago
I wonder what is possible in more common languages like Java or Python. Certainly, the language itself won't have liquid types in the compiler any time soon. But taking Ruby's Sorbet as inspiration, I wonder if you could annotate
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by mabbo 3y ago
For my birthday my wife got me "The Food Lab" and I'm dying to read it, but it's like 800 pages and we have a toddler to take care of. The time has not been made yet.
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by mabbo 3y ago
The absolute pinnacle of cooking video chefs today has to be J. Kenji Lopez-Alt[0], in large part because of his use of first person view. He straps a go-pro to this head and you see what he sees while he cooks. There's no cuts or reta

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