No link? No screenshots? Are we expected to google this ourself? /s

Hadn't heard of it until I saw the parent message this morning. Went and downloaded it. About to start episode 3. I like it, very entertaining sci-fi.

Did I miss adding the URL to the story? https://arstechnica.com/gadget...

Oh my...! This made me LOL. I had completely forgotten about this! Thanks for the reminder.

> ...are stuck to the ground on parking spaces...

Obviously designed by people who have never visited an area with snow and snowplows in winter. I can see it now, the snowplow's blade running down the street, ripping out pebbles as it runs across each parking space, pushing dozens of these into a snowbank. Then automated self-driving cars bumping into each other the next day, clamouring to grab the next available parking spot in the pile of snow at the end of the parking lot.

Is this the official announcement of vcpkg? (Which, I must admit, is amazing when I have to do development work on Windows.) Or is this still yet another replacement for vcpkg? chocolatey? npackd? scoop? oneget?

There are too many of these for Windows, some of which like vcpkg are actually MS products, and no consensus as to which one we should concentrate our efforts into using+supporting.

(Note that Linux has similar issues, but the fragmentation is different -- along distros -- and the turnover rate is lower. So while someone generally knows if they should be using rpm over apt/dpkg, we do have situations on Ubuntu for example where there is some ambiguity over whether someone should be using apt vs snap.)

Another great open source one for linux missing from that list: Darknet. https://github.com/AlexeyAB/da... Home of YOLO ("you only look once") realtime object detection.

Also blocked in Canada. What a waste... 9 times out of 10, when something of interest gets posted on youtube, it is geolocked to be available only in the U.S.

has been moving East at an unusually fast pace, heading from the Canadian Arctic toward Russia.

This first had me confused, since moving East from Canada would typically make me think Greenland, and eventually Europe. But of course most of us grow up with the Mercator projection maps as the basic learning tool.

So instead I looked other projections often used for maps of the polar regions, such as Orthographic Projection.

Thing is, even with a map of the polar regions, I don't see how moving East from Canada gets you to Russia. Unfortunately I cannot RTFA because they don't allow ad blockers on the site.

Zoom in on the reflection. Enhance. Wait. Freeze it. Rotate 90 degrees. Reverse the image. Zoom in further. Enhance. There!

So...they found the bug.

You're inventing things! I never even mentioned Edmonton in my post. And when I wrote Toronto, I mentioned "lower cost of home ownership" compared to Vancouver, I didn't say it was cheap.

While I do have years of experience, and I've lived and worked in both the U.S. and Canada, I wasn't born in 1967. All my posts referenced recent experiences. (I sold my home in Vancouver just a few years ago.)

I know Americans are notoriously bad at geography, but take a look at a map and find Vancouver. You'll find that Canada is much larger than 1 medium-sized city. (Vancouver itself is only 600K people while Vancouver + lower mainland is 2.7 million.)

And the cost of housing is through the roof, while the tech salaries are the lowest of all the large Canadian cities. Unless you are born there and have ties that keep you there, the best thing you can do for your tech career is to move somewhere else. Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, and Montréal, all have better pay and lower cost of home ownership than Vancouver + suburbs.

If you're willing to look at smaller cities (Regina, Winterpeg, Guelph/Waterloo, etc) you can slash the cost of owning a home while keeping a mostly decent salary.

The only really great thing about Vancouver is the weather, which is much milder than the rest of Canada. As long as you can mentally deal with the 6 months of constant rain in winter.