tleb

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[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Steel and aluminum remain at 50%, and the EU has to invest in the US and buy military equipment from them. Sounds like a terrible deal and I hope we (Canada) don't make a similar one.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Polievre still doesn't understand how a blind trust works eh?

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This has been my gripe with the national insurance plan - I think we should've started a national dentist service (or a CHA equivalent where we fund provinces to run a service) and not just run an insurance plan for private providers. Either that or regulation and standardization of pricing and care delivery.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

I scored 17/28 on https://jsdate.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

Idk anything about Date but got pretty far with intuition of JS whackiness

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 weeks ago

Students generally don't have real-world problems that need solving. I think pretending they do makes a lot of assumptions about their life, hobbies, free time...

It's much much much more important to have a co-op program. Everything practical I learned in university was through my co-op work terms.

I am responsible for hiring some devs right now, and there's been a wide spectrum of competence from people who have "real projects". Especially with how prevalent AI is, people can literally just talk to an AI agent and get some kind of app/website spun up with 0 skill and effort. What I am always looking for is people who can work on a team in an existing codebase.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Political pressure? They're appointed for life, literally what consequences are there to pushing back? Honestly the senate is such a waste of money. They're trying to play both sides of this issue to the benefit of no one.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To me, this statement sounds like not condoning America's actions but still walking the line as to not sabotage trade talks. This has been Carney's MO with Trump from the start, appease just enough without bending the knee to get a deal done.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One character equals one byte of memory so my guess is they only allocated 16 bytes of space for the password.

This is true for storing text in general but passwords aren't supposed to be stored as text, they should be hashed. The size of the hash will depend on the hashing algorithm. In other words, if there's a database limitation for the size of a password, it probably means they're storing the password plaintext 💀

More likely than not it's just some poorly designed validation

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

What separation crisis? Alberta having a hissy fit over the election is hardly a crisis, and anyway, Quebec doesn't give a shit. Quebecers themselves do support a pipeline, so I don't think you can say the government will "push" anything through.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago

You have to miss two payments (of any kind, not just a credit card) within a 12-month period for it to affect your credit score.

Yes of course it would, why wouldn't it? If they couldn't recover/rebound from that, then their history is already iffy

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have seen too many credit scores ruined by a few missed payments and its very silly.

Very unlikely unless they already had a shaky credit history.

I closed my oldest credit card a bit ago, and it just dented my score by 30 for a few months before rebounding. I also missed a payment once (thought I had auto pay on, I didn't) and as far as I remember it didn't change my score.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this just a game of math so that they only need 2 MPs to cross the floor for a majority?

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