I can taste the various flavor variations between various kinds of tea (english black, earl grey, etc etc). Many times I can identify the brand of tea being served in restaurants now.
Agreed. I currently drink tea daily, and with no sweetener. Why? I find sugar masks the subtler flavors, which can be really enjoyable, especially in oolongs and the greens.
The rental vacancy rate in Canada's major cities is approximately zero, and what little is available is extremely expensive. Buying a place is even more expensive and is incompatible with a visa anyway, i.e. do your thing then go home. Everybody wants to live in Vancouver or Toronto. I guess they can live in a van or something, because that's all they'll be able to afford.
A number of well-known high-tech companies already have facilities in Canada so they can bring in cheap overseas workers in excess of available H1-B visas.
How many Canadian high-tech people are un- or underemployed?
...laura, employed high-tech Canadian
My first thought on this was how much of this is real and how much is historical revisionism. A gross injustice to Ms Norwood and her contributions, but that's how things are reported these days.
Some technical detail would have been nice. I'm familiar with the AVHRR scanning systems on NOAA weather satellites, for example.
...laura
I've worked remotely to various extents since 2008, moving from a vestigial office to a shared office space to working from home. Since head office is in Texas and I'm in Canada, moving closer is unlikely. I moved from a major city (Vancouver) to a regional centre (Kamloops) just before the bottom fell out of everything. The move had been in the works for a while and I was settling in nicely when all hell broke loose.
Now? They can keep Vancouver. Not only is it a dump now, the rents have skyrocketed since I left and I refuse to pay that much to live there.
...laura
I bought an IBM PS/2-25 in 1987. A cute little box that served me well. I disposed of it in 1998 when I moved across the country.
Long after it had ceased to be my main computer I kept it for programming microcontrollers (PIC, Basic Stamp).
...laura
I just ported an app I've been developing at work from
We're using MAUI - a can of worms in its own right - so I'm not concerned with Linux compatibility. Just Android and iOS. The closest I came to having to do any real work was porting code that used MessagingCenter to use WeakReferenceManager instead.
...laura
That was a question a former colleague of mine used to ask new hires. The answers ranged from confusion to a detailed analysis of the merits of each.
...laura
To screw up a country with as much potential as South Africa that badly takes real talent. A quick check of my usual reference says that the bulk of South Africa's electricity comes from fossil fuels. With South Africa's enormous reserves of just about everything this shouldn't be an issue.
...laura
I signed up for Disney Plus, binged the latest season of The Orville, saw little else of interest on the channel, cancelled my subscription. I did the same thing with Netflix: signed up, caught up on a few things, pulled the plug.
I'm not going to pay for a service that lacks compelling content.
...laura
They just pushed Android 13 to my Samsung tablet. My phone (also Samsung, newer hardware) is still on Android 12.
I'm currently doing some Android development at work and the main OS dependency I'm dealing with is how they changed notifications a few versions back. Notification channels and all that.
...laura
When did you ask your landlord whether they'd let you install a charger if you got an EV?
I'm going to bet on "never". Most are actually amenable...
Wrong. I asked, both before I moved in 2019 and where I live now. The answer was a flat no in both cases. My pre-2019 parking was a secure underground parkade. Now I park in a parking lot behind the building.
New construction here (British Columbia) must have EV infrastructure. There is no legal requirement to retrofit existing buildings.
...laura
If you can plug one in at home an EV is a fine second car or around-town runabout. As a primary car they are, at best, marginal. As they become more popular they will lose their running cost advantages. The authorities will start to tax them for their electricity usage/lost gas tax revenue and how hard they are on the roads because they're so heavy.
Since I live in an apartment and have nowhere to plug one in, an EV doesn't work for me and won't any time soon.
...laura
When I started with my current employers we were a Sun shop, big servers in the back room, most people (including me) had an Ultra 5 on their desk. High tech for the time.
With changing markets and technology the company was no longer viable and as part of the implosion/downsizing we got rid of a lot of hardware. We literally couldn't give away several pallets of SparcStations. We did better with a pile of Ultra 5s. I took one home, put more memory in it (Sun had weird ideas about what constituted standard memory), installed Debian Linux and played with it. It used a lot of PC peripherals, which made it easier to live with than the SparcStations. I even put a PCI USB card in it, long before Sun started shipping servers with USB.
As time went on the headcount continued downwards, as did the Sun hardware count. Eventually we were down to one Sun box and my boss asked if I could port what we did with it to Linux. I did. The era was over...
...laura
Back in the day one of my demos was the Towers of Hanoi in PostScript. Feed a file to the printer that ends in something like "4 (s) (i) (d) Hanoi showpage", it thinks for a few seconds, then prints a page with the moves on it.
...laura
Quantity is no substitute for quality, but its the only one we've got.
