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FartinMowler
·2 months ago·discuss
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
FartinMowler
·2 months ago·discuss
But at least JS now has a built-in leftpad function ;) (called padStart).
FartinMowler
·2 months ago·discuss
I'm reminded of the Polish proverb that it's better to be rich & healthy than sick & poor.
FartinMowler
·2 months ago·discuss
What?!?! I was an IBM Systems Engineer in the late 1980s / early 1990s and that was nothing like my job description.
FartinMowler
·2 months ago·discuss
Yup, impossible to read. I was a paid APL coder in the early 80's. We called it WORN: Write Once, Read Never.
FartinMowler
·3 months ago·discuss
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.
FartinMowler
·3 months ago·discuss
Finally, some deshitification news on HN!
FartinMowler
·4 months ago·discuss
Luge too :)
FartinMowler
·4 months ago·discuss
Brilliant. But be prepared for failure. Some days instead of the rejection you're expecting you'll be accepted instead!
FartinMowler
·5 months ago·discuss
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!
FartinMowler
·6 months ago·discuss
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...
FartinMowler
·6 months ago·discuss
They could monitor the midterm elections /s
FartinMowler
·7 months ago·discuss
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.
FartinMowler
·7 months ago·discuss
Especially with template partials now in the core of Django 6.
FartinMowler
·8 months ago·discuss
By the end of Trump's third term the US will be isolated from almost all global trade anyways.
FartinMowler
·8 months ago·discuss
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.
FartinMowler
·8 months ago·discuss
Yup. And Toronto in Canada is closer to the equator than to the north Pole.
FartinMowler
·10 months ago·discuss
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.
FartinMowler
·10 months ago·discuss
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...