A surprising amount of “US Culture” is at least partly created in Canada and has more global influence. Y’all need to be more subversive: build up the Vancouver film industry to take over from within. I’m sure my countrymen would be on their knees begging for it, if you toss a few coins their way
Depending on which oligarch you believe, we’re just about there. General purpose humanoid robots are almost ready to take over warehouse work
We can only wish teachers unions were as powerful as police unions. The world would be very different
That it only goes up to 2021
Finally, torrenting Linux distros becomes a thing, rather than a curiosity
$1.8 million in penalties against fabrication shop owners alleged to have violated the silica rule. Stop-work orders were issued to 26 shops where dry-cutting of artificial stone — a prohibited practice — or inadequate respiratory-protection measures
I don’t know enough to have a good opinion on a total ban but it seems like a good place to start is increase enforcement and fines big enough to remove the profit incentive for cheating
Fantastic that seeing consequences for some of their actions …. And there’s no presidential pardon keeping him above the law
Five years ago I splurged on a higher end laptop than I’ve ever had, and regretted it from the beginning. Even when new, the battery barely lasted an hour, and hyper-v was unable to do the VMs I wanted
But I needed Windows for two reasons: tax software and gaming with my kids. Well my tax software also supports Mac and my kids are in college, so there goes my reasons.
So I booted up the windows laptop to do my taxes. It started with not knowing my pin, my bad. But the alternate login was to use the mandated online account that I don’t use. That password change sent email to my ex: yikes. Then ad after ad after popup, so crazy how unusable it became
So yeah, laptop sucks and is showing its age, big waste of money, no more reason to be tied to windows, poor experience ……. Really selling me on a Mac for my next one
My NetGear router still has a uselessly incomplete implementation of VLANs after 5+ years of updates, I was ready to replace it out of frustration. Gen 6 wireless is getting old hat anyway
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I’m not sure it’s actually a good thing for electors to go against their voters but it’s a workaround that may make things better by ensuring the winner is the actual overall popular vote winner
One of my key takeaways is that it may have some value in aggregate, like this study, but does not tell an individual how smart they are
Look how white that hand is compared to his orange complexion: he’s wearing gloves
He was always dishonest, egocentric, always a conman …. But sane
Gas should be more expensive: look at typical prices in the rest of the world
I’m not buying this. Sure minimizing dependencies is a good practice, but not updating? That’s a recipe for disaster.
It’s important to note that you can’t predict supply chain attacks or vulnerabilities, and vulnerabilities are much more common. Also, while frequent updates might expose you to that supply chain attack more quickly, it also mitigates it more quickly. Frequent updates in combination with vulnerability scanning, and limiting downloads to reputable sources (that try to prevent supply chain attacks and discover them quickly) is a much better approach.
There also the maintainability argument, that I’m having right now with a couple of our legacy software teams. Not updating can lock you into the past, for entire ecosystems of dependencies. You cant update if you have to, you cant take advantage of new features anywhere in the ecosystem, and it’s now an expensive emergency when something stops being maintained or has an unresolved vulnerability. If you’re being continually kept up, then choices or features are easy
Then the goal is how do you automate your updates as smoothly as possible so they do not become noise, do not create extra work? Tools like dependabit and renovate bot have a lot of config options to help that