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Federal tax. Provincial tax. School tax. Sales tax. Federal sales tax. Tax on fuel. Tax on alcohol. Tax on tax on tax. Well... At least the infrastructure isn't falling apart and c…

Flying is among the most dreadful activities I do. The whole thing is unsettling from the moment I pull up to the airport. This is one of many absolutely ridiculous things the airl…

I miss Tom.

That honestly doesn't seem crazy. Tech leaders forget about the real world sometimes, and everybody thinks they are the hottest thing. I bet the development effort was small and ch…

Beyoncé Every single time I read that, my stupid brain swaps it out for Beyoncé

Off topic but am curious and hopefully some of the smart people here can enlighten me. Stock options.. Is this the same sort of thing? A friend of mine keeps telling me his options…

If it's just SSO, I have many good things to say about keycloak.

Every single time I hear millennial I think avocado toast. And every time I hear boomer I think of strong perfume. The words meaning sure hadn't changed, but I imagine the longer i…

If there is no opt out I have a slightly used Roku for sale.

I read about a child porn guy on the dark web once, he was an auzzie I think. He always said some strange greeting on every post. He would say hiyas. They found Facebook posts wher…

I'm not very political, but some of the random stuff I read online has triggers my contrarian nature. I often see popular statements that are factually incorrect, and have responde…

I pay for kagi search, it has some features that do this very well. Well not exactly the same but you can focus your search better where ads are less of an issue

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Anecdotally, I live in a slightly rural area close to a major city. Starlink is pretty slow. Using the roaming feature and taking that dish on a road trip, let me tell you, starlin…

I used CC for the same reason as many. Speech audio is of poor quality, back in the old days in my CRT television it wasn't a problem. Speech was clear. Now for whatever reason it'…

Oddly, I believe this is probably most correct. Depends how far, but a collision with a celestial object or a big volcano could and will eventually end a lot of progress. Like.. Im…

I prefer them to modern electron and SPA frameworks. The web really has become quite shitty

Opportunity, yes. Culturally I doubt it. In my city, as an example, Facebook only is dominated by businesses with no interest in technology, and it remains dominant in poor / econo…

Ever read "Daemon", I love the concept of d space

Fascinating. I hadn't considered this. Humans like central authority, and if dictators and monarchs were fair there would be no democracy. Extrapolating on this thought, could a de…

I hope in my lifetime, I will get to see a new cancer treatment that works well. I've watched too many people die such painful deaths. The chemo is bad. The radiation is bad. When …

Same, and I hold certain cultural biases too. Which is horrible, but also learned experience. Certain countries have stronger low level programmers, some cultures make for poor lea…

I started young with tech. Grinded my way through a tough systems career in my 20s. Spent every waking moment on call. Lucked out into a promotion, did some architecture and am now…

If you are ok with being an employee and not owning the company, learn devops and security. Max payoff Devs are expensive, sure, but I'm never hiring a dev who knows a single langu…