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Tinder to ban web developers who use 'engineer' in their bio
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Reality in Canada.
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Tinder to ban web developers who use 'engineer' in their bio
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Reality in Canada.
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Conservatives want to bring back the smoking rooms in Tim Hortons ultimately, and fuck the planet.
From the blogto article linked by op:
He says that "After a couple of sips, it became soggy and started to stain. Thereafter, I could taste a few small lid pieces in the drink, which was like 'yuck.'"
Yep sounds like terrible design and Tim's cheapen out in the material. I've had non plastic caps that were much better than that.
You know what would bring us back to the good old days? A real ceramic mug you can use to sit down, drink it slowly and enjoy. But I haven't been to a Tim's in a while where the server would ask if I wanted a mug or to go. Maybe the lady would call that woke too?
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Firefox 119 released
Really excited about the new PDF editing features!
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Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
The cost of these registration services for verifying phone numbers when people first install Signal, or when they re-register on a new device, currently averages around $6 million dollars per year.
That's pretty crazy. Wonder which third party providers they are using. Maybe the identity verification methods we have today is due for some significant changes?
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California teenager who passed bar exam at 17 is now practicing attorney
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He will probably become partner by 30.
Because of his skills? Probably not; he didn't graduate from a T6, didn't have a bachelor from an ivy league, didn't intern at a V10. Maybe his parents have connections, idk, but without connections it's hard for him to "make it".
But it doesn't really matter for any law firm. Just being able to say "youngest partner in the history of the firm/US" is a good enough marketing tactic, especially to recruit younger associates with the hope that they, too, can "make it" while still young.
In his 30s, he will be able to work with other "genius" clients with a background in tech, biotech, finance, etc. people who successfully built billion-$ startups by their 30s. If we think about it, no law firm would pair a 65-yo partner with Mark (for any reason he would need a law firm) when Facebook just IPO'd. He would be the perfect person for that, especially with the whole "genius kid from SoCal" label he will be able to carry around.
So whichever law firm that hires him have an interest in retaining him (and avoid burning him out like they'd do for the average associate that didn't go to HYSCCN).
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Half of all Canadians say there are too many immigrants: poll
The real story:
Just 10 per cent of Canadians who think there is too much immigration say their concern is that Canadians will become “a minority” in their own country. Only eight per cent say new immigrants don’t adhere to Canadian values and just four per cent believe that immigration is bringing criminals to the country. Eighteen per cent worry that immigrants are taking jobs from Canadians.
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Alabama Mayor Kills Self After Right-Wing Blog Outs His Cross-Dressing
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The blog reported that Copeland, a Republican, confirmed that the accounts were run by him, saying they were a “hobby” he used for “getting rid of stress.” 1819 News reported that Copeland asked them to not out him, but they did so anyway, even though it does not appear he had taken any public positions against LGBTQ issues that could be construed as hypocritical.
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Less than a month after joining work on the Sands of Time remake, Ubisoft Toronto lays off 33 employees 'to ensure it can deliver on its ambitious roadmap'
Fire to improve productivity???
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Is this a Nut?
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First search result brings you to this answer.
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The Netherlands generates way more solar power than Canada. Here's how they do it - Global investment in solar power now tops all other energy generation technologies combined, says IEA
I don't think it's fair to look at Canada as a monolith. Quebec is generating most of its energy from hydro, whereas Ontario relies on a well established nuclear energy infrastructure. Provinces that need to change are Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta.
Edit: Manitoba actually relies on hydro for 97% of their usage. So correction: only Alberta and Saskatchewan!
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Step aside graphics cards, you can now run ray tracing on a CPU [ 1fps (one frame per second) with 34% CPU and 0% GPU utilisation]
Nice, now we just need 80 CPUs and we won't need a GPU anymore!
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Meta is breaking up the love between Instagram and Facebook Messenger chats
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Meta hasn’t provided any clear reason as to why it’s now changing course three years later. However, it’s likely the reversal could be to avoid regulatory consequences of the EU’s Digital Markets Act, which aims to keep companies from holding monopoly power by favoring their own services. It also includes requirements for large companies to include compatibility between messaging platforms.
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Hacker spins up 1 million virtual servers to illegally mine crypto
By using the computing resources of others' servers to mine cryptocurrency, the cybercriminals can profit at the expense of the compromised organizations, whose CPU and GPU performance is degraded by the mining.
Oh boy, where do I start...
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Hey, I'm new to GitHub!
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Why is this executable web UI distributed as a python script?
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Trudeau says housing needs to retain its value
The fundamental issue with housing as an investment is that it is a monolithic and non-fluid vehicle, which makes it worse when leverage comes into play. Whereas stocks can be purchased/sold at any time in an instant and have fractional costs (sometimes as cheap as 10$ per stock), houses are not, and fast fluctuations in prices could heavily impact your ability to realize your gains. So it is, on that aspect, a terrible investment.
For large companies owning thousands of units, this is not an issue since they are spreading the risks across the units (by buying diversely located units of all types). They can also quickly execute purchases and sales since they are in that exact business.
So the argument that houses are ways to pass down wealth is misguided: they are terrible ways to pass down wealth, and parents should leave a trust fund or safe investments rather than a house if their goal is to build generational wealth - housing should be passed down for personal reasons.
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Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year
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Phone numbers will still be required to sign up, you only won't need it to add a contact.
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Canada Post selling off logistics business as part of effort to 'transform' Crown corp
If a company agrees to buy the business, then it means it has value for them. If that's the case, why can Canada Post not derive value from SCI, but Metro can? Also, what will they do with the money they earned - will they reinvest it in growing services that are highly in demand?
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Conservatives want to bring back the smoking rooms in Tim Hortons ultimately, and fuck the planet.
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Honestly I'm really not surprised. Tim is known for choosing the lowest bidder.
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Nextcloud or Syncthing - which one do you suggest?
Having setup both, ive found syncthing to be much simpler. I would probably not go through the headache of setting up https and databases for next cloud again...
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Could nurse practitioners fill the primary care gap?
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Oh there's so many people who want to be doctors! No shortage of that.
What ends up is the extremely difficult admission process, poor mentorship/training structure, long work hours, and low salary; at the end you are rewarded with high salary and prestige, but very few makes it that far.