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I had some fun history with this OS.

First, we had ICON computers in my elementary school, we'd all try to spin the trackball as quickly as it would go. Not sure if we ever broke one.

The second is when I worked at BlackBerry. I was building a feature that allowed you to use your QNX BlackBerry as a Bluetooth HID device. You could connect it to any device and use the trackpad + physical keyboard to remotely control a computer. It was fantastic. You could hook your laptop up to a project and control slides from your BlackBerry.

Then some product manager with questionable decision making told me to lock it down so it would only work with Blackberry Playbooks for "business purposes", rendering it effectively useless (since Playbooks are all ewaste). I distinctly remember that meeting where Dan Dodge argued that since it's a standard, it should not be locked down.

I respect Dan Dodge for that, I don't think I'd work with that PM again.

Yup.

On startup, it runs cpuid and assigns each operation the most optimal function pointer for that architecture.

In addition to things like ‘supports avx’ or ‘supports sse4’ some operations even have more explicit checks like ‘is a fifth generation celeron’. The level of optimization in that case was optimizing around the cache architecture on the cpu iirc.

Source: I did some dirty things with chromes native client and ffmpeg 10 years ago.

I like the way you think. As a Canadian, I’m disgusted that we educate our youth and then send them to the US to take jobs from Americans and pay taxes to the Americans. We should be putting them to work in Canada instead so we can build companies and industries in Canada instead of America.

/s, but not really.

Don’t forget sonarr for tv shows

Every once in a while I try to become an Amazon seller through FBA. I sell quality goods without a huge markup.

My latest attempt resulted in 1/3 of the goods being returned because they could be sourced cheaper elsewhere (eg AliExpress) after they were tested, or they were swapped by the buyer with defective goods purchase elsewhere returned (they had heavy wear). In the case where the goods were still functional, the packaging was damaged and I had to pay for the returns.

My conclusion is that amazons liberal return policies only allow something to be sold profitably at a 2-3x markup. Hence everything being garbage.

I won’t attempt it again.

Assuming these mortgages are insured through CMHC, would HSBC be on the hook or the insurance system when some of these mortgages fail?

Canadians are certainly paying for social services used by folks who earn income abroad and pay little to no income tax in Canada, and folks who want to buy their first house are harmed by inflated housing prices.

My currently overseas landlord for some reason needed to travel to Canada to give birth, and was very eager to get their health card / banking documents sent to our rental despite it being rented out for several years prior to us arriving...

The March rate cuts are not guaranteed. The markets can stay irrational longer than you (the companies in question) can remain solvent.

I have two usb-c ports on my desktop. I’ve never used them.

Almost everything that has a usb-c connection can easily be connected with a c to a connector.

My laptop, on the other end, everything I use is usb-c, and everything that’s not is usb-c though a multi-port adapter.

I'd love to, but I need to finish my Space Exploration run first! 200h in and I'm not done with the four sciences (and I'm still using bots in space for the majority of them).

Lots of those nodes are not unique - especially if you're from breeding ground with more constraints (e.g. Iceland).

I do work for an American company but with Canadian branches. I doubled my salary over Canadian tech companies but still only make 50-60% what my American peers make.

Just like our GDP per capita.

As a Canadian tech worker, fuck this. I get paid 'market rate' which is substantially less than my American peers.

Does it really matter what status folks come over with? That's still net +1 million folks that need to be housed and fed in a calendar year.

1.5 million over 5 years are a rookie numbers. We did 1 million just last year. And our housing minister of housing in Canada just bought his second rental property.