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There are definitely downsides to office work, but this post really implies to me that you don't actually personally know anyone who works in the trades. The amount of body pain/da…

Am I crazy if for something like an online purchase, I kind of expect it to take a second or two to process the payment, so I would assume something went wrong if it was 200ms?

What about the fact that "What is the weird band from the early 2000s in Michigan who wore colored ties?" could be a bar trivia question (challenging enough to recall to be fun), w…

I overall agree with this article. I was mostly raised in the US but spent time from ages 7-9 in Finland, where I took the metro to school alone, so I see myself reflected in this …

I looked through and found one rejected video from Montreal. It's crazy to me, to reject someone with a French accent. It's how people talk here! Many consider themselves perfectly…

Can you explain to me what it means to try to get the traffic light to change on Bush street? I tried searching for it but couldn't find anything.

I disagree, Greta Thunberg's whole thing started in 2018, leading to larger and larger climate protests and action globally... ..until about 2020, with COVID/russia-ukraine/Oct 7/t…

I'm not so sure I agree. To me it's somewhat magical that I can write even this amount of code and have this stuff just magically work on pretty much every platform via docker, the…

I agree with your comment. While reading the article, I had sympathy for the author, but also unintendedly pictured them as a mix of all of the "wizard" seniors I have worked with …

I might be able to shine a little light on this. I came from embedded, where I wasn't able to use agents very effectively for anything other than quick round trip iterative stuff. …

Dear author, I suggest trying out a job in a niche part of the field like firmware/embedded. Bonus if it's a company with a bunch of legacy devices to maintain. AI just hasn't quit…

I think you misunderstood GP's point, that it's now the _influencers_ and social media stars who are shaping culture. Not Hollywood or its stars.

this became extremely apparent for me watching Adam Curtis's "Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone" series. The series documents what it was like to live in the USSR during the fall of com…

I found an interesting bug: https://webpiano.jcurcioconsulting.com/play/fvT2WvzCT1SybhNp... If I'm playing a quick pattern like this and holding down some bass note, depending on w…

I'm a much more auditory/visual learner, so these videos work really great for me. I'm glad that reading works for you!

yeah I'm not gonna open some paid trail map or buy a paper map so I can walk across my local city park and give my friends a pin to find me...

Yes, people can and do recreationally take GHB quite often. (also commonly used in date rape cases) The same can be said for MDMA, and others

Well.. deer, for one. It's much easier to spot animals crossing the road with bright headlights than without. I still also agree headlights are too bright, by the way, but I'm just…

That would be 300 micrograms

The author lives in quite a bubble if he thinks people would be excited to fund this kind of research. People want to be able to afford the cost of living, not fund extraterrestria…

I found it incredibly confusing to read the following: > Once the federal government gets into the business of allowing free speech, it can define what’s allowable free speech. And…

I know this is super late and nobody will likely see it, but the population of Quebec + Ottawa together is 18% of the population of Montreal + Toronto. And the amount of track to c…

this is actually exactly what has been happening over the past few decades, and with the current proposal, for HSR from Toronto to Montreal, two of the largest cities in terms of b…

This is because the T is not a "real" transit system in the way that it's simply not designed to move enough people fast enough to compete with cars.

The game truly doesn't function without stakes. With no bets, the only stakes are losing your entire stack and not being able to play, so it pushes the game very early on into all-…