morkalork

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by morkalork 6mo ago
Well, the proper preventative step is to open up the constitution and make an amendment to the chart of rights and freedoms. All that is needed is 7 provinces representing at least 50% or more of the population being in agreement and not ta
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by morkalork 6mo ago
I like it because it highlights the stupidity going on. Bullshit doesn't deserve a respectible name.
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by morkalork 6mo ago
Is that an illustration of the Canadian museum of history made in Corel Draw I spy?
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by morkalork 6mo ago
The average value an individual software is lower but the volume is definitely higher, if github imploding regularly is any indication
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by morkalork 6mo ago
It's baked into the system on purpose. If city council doesn't want to raise police salaries too much, the union advocates for bylaws like ones requiring police officers doing traffic duty on large construction sites. Of course it
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by morkalork 6mo ago
Perhaps utilities should be state owned where any profits are used to offset the tax load on the citizens..
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by morkalork 6mo ago
Perhaps it will become like those cathedrals that took centuries and many generations of humans to build.
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by morkalork 6mo ago
I remember kids begging their parents to play Brick Breaker on their parents blackberries. Of course this was before young children having iPads was normalized
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by morkalork 6mo ago
https://archive.ph/MLJHu
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by morkalork 6mo ago
I too have witnessed a "add two numbers" service! Turns out you can be too extreme with rules for isolating out business logic..
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by morkalork 6mo ago
There's also a massive and constant brain drain down south
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by morkalork 6mo ago
I had a wild conversation with a co-worker who was here as a Ukrainian refugee where he was asking wtf was up with all the homeless people. He was legitimately baffled that they are poor and at war but still didn't have nearly the same
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by morkalork 6mo ago
The wildest one I remember is emails with different whitespace encoded characters that Id the recipient. No idea if true tho
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by morkalork 6mo ago
Smells like rat-fuckery
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by morkalork 6mo ago
The Mercor leak last week or so of ids paired with audio recordings did make for the perfect voiceprint db. I'm sure it won't be the last of its kind..
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by morkalork 6mo ago
Well they did call themselves the azure guy
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by morkalork 6mo ago
The largest exporter of pork and poultry from Canada ($9B in revenue!) is also a 100 year old co-op from Quebec.
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by morkalork 6mo ago
Co-ops don't exist at all, right?
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by morkalork 6mo ago
There's a well known theory on this exact concept! The Medium is the Message. Or, the very act of defacing a public building is meant to sledge-hammer the artist's work into the viewer's consciousness. Compared to say, some q
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by morkalork 6mo ago
It's always been about as subtle as a sledge hammer
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by morkalork 6mo ago
We will end up with what China, Russia and Iran have. The American right has come to grips with the fact that their ideas and beliefs will not will not win on merit alone so they're moving to restrict and eliminate alternatives.
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by morkalork 6mo ago
Isn't this level of price discrimination in a round about way just a worse form of communism? If the algo decides you can pay X% of your worth for an item, and X% of my worth for the same item even though the absolute dollar amounts ar
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by morkalork 6mo ago
Well, that's good news for all the developers working at companies with delusional management proclaiming "100% of code will be written by AI in 6 months"!
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by morkalork 6mo ago
I guess it's like patenents (when it's the same thing but comouter ) or piracy (but it's model training at a FAANG), where tech just gets a free pass.
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by morkalork 6mo ago
Fake Christians gifting other fake Christians is a classic.
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by morkalork 6mo ago
Also works for the Davos summit
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by morkalork 6mo ago
Just watched the X-Cops episode last night for the first time and it was hilarious. I didn't know I could nostalgic for absolute trash TV.
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by morkalork 6mo ago
So, classic dick-waving or pissing contest behaviour?
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by morkalork 6mo ago
Yeah, having one that's consistent across team members is 100% better than everyone having their own each with their own quirks
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by morkalork 6mo ago
Lots of nurses and EMTs swear by the amplified Bluetooth stethoscopes but unlike a Dr working in a nice quiet office, they're often in much noisier conditions.

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