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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.

I'm curious how the second screen experience will translate. Steam Deck emulators either hotkey the second screen or have a very tiny window on the side.

cough Reddit Mobile Web cough

Yup. In Ontario, it feels like something is broken. Most of Jan and Feb was above freezing. Usually there’s only a handful of days above freezing.

Totally. As a software engineer, I own an anvil. Smashing things with a hammer is very cathartic.

Only if you project our current system onto a world where people don't die from age related diseases.

Expect massive social change.

Phhhhtttt, next you'll tell me the $25K 4k TV I bought in 2012 can be bought by the masses for next to nothing.

Very curious to know if Venture + VM + Linux + Steam is a setup that'll work with the new VM support.

I kind of want to play some old school windows games, but I don't want to pay for parallels.

I used to love my nVidia shield.

First it was a Disney+ ad, then it was a Tim Hortons ad.

It's gotten so slow I'm planning to replace it in the near future, probably with something from Apple.

Another plausible explanation is that `100 Gigabytes of RAM` is more catchy than `100 Megabytes of RAM`

Yes, but you've got to be careful as there's plenty of fake NMN out there, and it's also not shelf stable according to David Sinclair (in a tweet).

The stuff I got was from Alive By Science, now Renue, and they claim theirs is shelf stable. https://renuebyscience.com/how-long-does-our-nmn-retain-its-...

Your NAD levels decrease as you age. Returning NAD+ levels to a more youthful state is one of the things researchers are experimenting with to reduce the effects of aging.

Quoted from https://www.nmn.com/precursors/what-is-nad

"NAD+ works as a shuttle bus, transferring electrons from one molecule to another within cells to carry out all sorts of reactions and processes. With its molecular counterpart, NADH, this vital molecule participates in various metabolic reactions that generate our cell’s energy."

Nice. More NMN studies are a good thing. I've been taking 250mg every morning and I feel like I have more energy, but I'm not convinced it's not a placebo effect.

You’re assuming the status quo will continue. How will a small group in the Supreme Court maintain power if there’s enough of a willing population to oust them?

Your example of King Jong Un doesn’t work either, because it’s still a dictatorship, and father and grandfather were both dictators, and they both died, so why does it matter?

The world is overflowing with detritus because the incentive structures are not there. If people lived much longer they might be more willing to spend the time to clean up.

The 5500 is less performant, therefore lower cost. It only exists to sell salvaged dies, and won't likely appear in large quantities (similar to how the 3300 / 3100 were impossible to find).

Most things go to the wealthy first, but usually it's worse quality and very rapidly becomes democratized and improved. Consider how great life was 100 years ago for the wealthy compared to the average person today. I would definitely prefer air travel and computers to being wealthy but stuck in the past. Almost every technology has gotten much better when it becomes mainstream.

If treatments become available, the pressure to make it available to everyone will be immense. Consider how much of a government budget goes to health care and how much productivity and resources are wasted on those who have exited the workforce due to age. It will be economic and political suicide not to ensure everyone gets access to anti-aging treatments.

As for a ruling class, the problem exists with or without anti-aging treatments. We're already moving to a world where more wealth is concentrated with fewer people. The solution to this is to demand taxation on wealth and enforce it globally.