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by xav0989 3y ago
Many places, Canada included, have both a VAT-like sales tax and an income tax.
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by xav0989 3y ago
My university offered both a CS degree and a Software Engineering degree. While both open the door to tech jobs once in industry, the contents varied in the upper years. The software engineering one started with common engineering courses,
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by xav0989 3y ago
I don’t think that most (nearly all?) pro Palestine critics are saying that Hamas is in the right. All of the wording I’ve seen was focused on Israel’s and the IDFs response and actions. As you’ve mentioned, killing civilians is a war crime
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by xav0989 3y ago
Additionally, because the Social Security Administration only issues an SSN if you are eligible to pay into and eventually receive Social Security, there are some legal temporary residents of the US that are not eligible and do not get an S
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by xav0989 3y ago
I think it was more a comment on the fact that Outlook is the mail client, not the MTA.
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by xav0989 3y ago
You can also use nginx’s unit docker container, which hosts php’s interpreter in the nginx process. https://unit.nginx.org/installation/#installation-docker
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by xav0989 3y ago
They already do: https://docs.nvidia.com/dgx/dgx-os-6-user-guide/index.html
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by xav0989 3y ago
I have a similar-ish setup, but using nomad as my executor, and traefik running on a public machine doing the routing. Basically all the services on nomad listen on the tailnet, and traefik straddles the tailnet and the public internet. It
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by xav0989 3y ago
:() defines a new function called : { :|:& } is the body of the function, where we call the : function recursively, piping (|) its output to another call to :, then backgrounding the whole thing (&) ; indicate the end of a statement
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by xav0989 3y ago
McDonald's was notorious for that. The Cheeseburger/Double Cheeseburger was often cheaper or included in deals&promos, while the Hamburger/Double Hamburger wasn't. I was challenged once as to "why don't you
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by xav0989 4y ago
CIRA, Canada's Internet Registry, runs a number of public DNS servers[1]. The main attraction is that the service is provided by a non-profit and the data and control are held in Canada, subject to Canadian laws and regulation. They al
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by xav0989 4y ago
My brother laser printers have a setting on the web interface for what to do when the "replace toner" warning comes up: either continue printing or stop. They'll happily keep printing if configured to "continue".
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by xav0989 4y ago
NCSC is GCHQ
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by xav0989 4y ago
IIRC, there was a US Navy ship whose stations had physical buttons, knobs, and switches that were software controlled, as in they mapped to different function depending on if the operator selected the weapons, or navigation, or radar, etc.
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by xav0989 4y ago
Canada wants to maintain a domestic industry, in part to not be held to the whims of another country's governing body. When the people that control your information flow, your food production, etc. are not within your jurisdiction, you
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by xav0989 5y ago
You also had facebook pumping resources into PHP with HPHPc, HHVM, trying to compile a spec, etc. That definitely would have helped keep PHP alive through the period between PHP 5 and PHP 7. Additionally, PHP's releases of 5.3, 5.4, an
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by xav0989 5y ago
I believe that Shopify will change your job title from Engineer to Engineering Technician (or something of that nature) if you don't have your professional engineering certification.
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by xav0989 5y ago
I vowed to never buy a smart TV, but it's getting harder and harder. Luckily, I recently found that Sony's smart TVs have a mode called "Basic TV". It doesn't require internet and disables a bunch of the extra funct
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by xav0989 5y ago
Why would we need to include an exemption for natural immunity? Doing so would add additional work to the _already overworked_ health agencies, labs, etc. You'd need to test people to ensure that they have an adequate immune response (
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by xav0989 5y ago
The function was defined to either take a space separated list of names or a sequence of names. The docs seem pretty clear to me: > The field_names are a sequence of strings such as ['x', 'y']. Alternatively, field_na
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by xav0989 6y ago
Interestingly, (nearly) all of the Canadian government public servants are unionized. When you get hired, you can decide whether you wish to join the union or not, but the union will still collectively bargain on your behalf no matter what
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by xav0989 6y ago
Surpringly enough, crt.sh is pretty much all built in PLSQL and PLpgSQL.[1] I'm sure there are advantages to running it all from the database engine itself, but finding devs that can work on it must not be easy. [1]: https:/&#x2F
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by xav0989 6y ago
Ubuntu (a quite a few other distros) can be made to run entirely from RAM (that's how the LiveCDs actually work). It's probably not as easy to configure are Puppy or Tinycore, but it's possible.
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by xav0989 6y ago
Companies can't stop you from unionizing, but as Walmart has shown time and again, they will straight up close a store and lay-off every employee there if there are rumours of unionization. They would rather not have a store at all tha
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by xav0989 6y ago
IPsec isn't UDP though. It use UDP for the key exchange, but the actual IPsec traffic uses ESP or AH, which are IP protocols at the same level as TCP, UDP, or ICMP. (ignoring IPSec NAT-T)
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by xav0989 6y ago
Doesn't IPSec operate at the same level as TCP/UDP? TCP is protocol 6, UDP protocol 17; while IPsec uses protocol 50 for ESP (encrypted) and 51 for AH (authenticated).
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by xav0989 6y ago
That only works if you have and check your voicemail. Many people either don't have a voicemail or don't bother ever setting it up. When the carriers start charging you a lot of money to have a voicemail, plenty of people will for
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by xav0989 6y ago
I believe that is probably has something to do with what the state provides vs what the labor has to get for themselves. Cost of living is also expected to affect the rates that are charged.
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by xav0989 6y ago
(At least in Canada) commute to your "usual place of business" is explicitely excluded from write-off. Also, if your employer reimburses you for travel (mileage) you can't write it off at tax time.
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by xav0989 6y ago
Someone asked a very similar question on the apple stack exchange[1]. Apple also filed (at least) two patents on the technology[2][3]. [1]: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/301563/what-is-the... [2]: htt

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