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With that for the rest of the day I won't get the Tragically Hip song "New Orleans is Sinking" out of my head. https://youtu.be/LAZUsCONjIQ?si=QIvXOppHk3X1UuQ0

But at least JS now has a built-in leftpad function ;) (called padStart).

I'm reminded of the Polish proverb that it's better to be rich & healthy than sick & poor.

What?!?! I was an IBM Systems Engineer in the late 1980s / early 1990s and that was nothing like my job description.

Yup, impossible to read. I was a paid APL coder in the early 80's. We called it WORN: Write Once, Read Never.

Lol, on my trip up Pikes Peak I was blissfully unaware that altitude sickness could be a thing. So I can't recall if I felt any different. I do recall the carburetor on my motorcycle was acting a little strange, however.

Finally, some deshitification news on HN!

Luge too :)

Brilliant. But be prepared for failure. Some days instead of the rejection you're expecting you'll be accepted instead!

It's not really a promised or conscious boycott. It's after weighing the pros and cons, many of them intangible, the feeling is visiting the US right now could result in unpleasantness ... and if there is anything Canadians are adverse to it is unpleasantness. Anecdata: a friend of ours crossing the US border, despite being a VP at a bank, for her first time ever had to surrender her phone for examination by US border agents. Who needs that!

Although the probability is closer to 0% than 100%, it is far enough away from 0% to have many Canadians concerned. As the midterm elections approach and things start looking like he's drowning, Trump will grasp for any convenient distraction, the bigger the better. Canada is uncomfortably on the short list.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/the-military-plans-for...

They could monitor the midterm elections /s

Lol, reminds me of a story: at his workplace my brother was invited to join a lottery ticket pool where each got to pick the numbers for a ticket. The numbers he picked were 1-2-3-4-5-6. Although the others, mostly fellow engineers, reluctantly agreed his numbers were as likely as the others, after a couple of weeks they neglected to invite him again.

Especially with template partials now in the core of Django 6.

By the end of Trump's third term the US will be isolated from almost all global trade anyways.

OOP is like alcohol: enjoyable in moderation but dangerous in excess.

In moderation, an object is a data structure with associated functions (methods) that acts as a kind of namespace. If your data structure and functions are separate, you might start having function name collisions.

Hopefully we won't see a prohibition against OOP.

Yup. And Toronto in Canada is closer to the equator than to the north Pole.

I've been doing IT for decades. Many times I've come across something that seems stupid yet also has a non-trivial number of supporters. When this happens (and it will many times), don't just continue to think it's stupid. Question if you are stuck on some paradigm or mindset that makes the thing seem stupid to you. That might call for a good head shake, a walk in the park, or a weekend-long bender to open your mind to new ideas. You don't have to jump on their bandwagon, but at least you'll increase your understanding and strengthen your position.

Lot's of comments here at the "micro" level: about the comfort of an individual pedestrian. There's also the "macro" view: how best to quickly and safely move a large number of pedestrians in a short window of time. The PATH mostly connects Toronto's financial district full of office towers and 9-5 workers with a transportation hub, Union Station, at its south end. Union Station gets around 300,000[0] passengers a day, most but not all are office commuters. Without the PATH, the sidewalks would be absolutely (and dangerously) jammed between 8-9am and 4:30-6pm.

[0]https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/venues-facilities-b...

There are those like me who eat meat, like the taste of meat, but think for health reasons they should be eating less meat.

,,, we're now on the cusp ...

Would that be the same cusp self-driving cars were on 5 years ago? I think the benefits of LLMs are farther in the future but the (massive) costs are here today. Folks, invest your retirement savings carefully.

Yup, lots of Y2K work shipped offshore in the 90s while onshore worked on the web boom. After Jan 1, 2000, mgmt thought, hey, how can I use these cheap guys elsewhere.

Be sure to clean the ceiling too if said guest was a bum gun noob.

Hot showers too! And 1-800 phone numbers. In my motorcycle touring days, at 3pm or so I'd figure out where I would be at 7-8pm, lookup the nearest KOA in the KOA directory booklet, and call the 1-800 to make a reservation. Often when I arrived, they were turning away unhappy would-be campers as all spots were already taken.

It's the Biden sell-off. /s

And the speakers set to 11?

This has me worried and slightly panicky as all this could hurt my family and I. I'm Canadian and a retired IT guy, less by choice and more by ageism in IT hiring. Seeing and knowing that forced early retirement could easily come in this industry, I saved throughout my career and am now comfortable. But my plans assumed having healthcare and investments in an economy that wasn't tariffed into the stone age in an attempt to force us to bend a knee.

Thank you for alpine-ajax! It's amazing as an HTMX-lite or HTMX-just-right in many many use cases.

30 hours and I still haven't left the province of Ontario (Canada).

Close. Pascal said “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” Twain said the other (longer) quote.