sj_zero

And they say nobody wins in war.

I don't know if it's true, but it's said that before a German engineer is licensed, they must first work in the field for quite some time as a technician to help them understand that the stuff they'll be designing isn't just lines on a page, someone will have to make those lines actually work. I suspect that isn't actually true, but it's one of those things that contains truth despite not necessarily being factually true. Definitely a both/and situation. All trade skill no theory, or all theory no trade skill, but the ideal is to have the theory and the trade skill so you can break out big O analysis when something needs to go fast or different memory allocation schemes that aren't immediately intuitive, but you know enough to build a program that ships too.

Other than the fact that some of the actual license carrying engineers I've worked with are so immensely incompetent that they should commit sudoku lest they dishonour their entire bloodline with their continued existence, the idea of saying "no you can't just call yourself an engineer" that Canada enforces is a good one.

There's a saying that has changed a lot over the years due to inflation, but only in becoming more and more true: "It's possible to become a millionaire through honesty and hard work. But not a billionaire." When that was first said, a millionaire was worth the equivalent of 19 million dollars today. Today, someone working a fairly normal job and saving consistently will become a millionaire in their lifetimes.

playing with postmarketos on a Motorola G4 Play.

I went with phosh, and I'm actually impressed. Compared to my first time using real linux on a phone with my pinephone, this is actually surprisingly smooth, and a lot of it seems pretty intuitive. I think the browser it ships with is a desktop browser, and I have every reason to believe it could work with other desktop browsers.

Of course, the CPU is lacking, it only has 2GB of RAM (and only 8GB of flash), and I don't think it has any 3d acceleration so it's hardly a daily driver, but I only installed postmarketos on it because I wanted an aarch64 device running linux to complete a future project, but it really was shocking how snappy it was and how intuitive phosh is.

I'm expecting to get my hands on something considerably more modern in the near future, I'll have to give it a shot again once I do.

I never even thought about it until you mentioned it, but this is true. Voting has always been fairly easy in Canada. To vote I just show up at the place to vote. I obviously need to bring photo id, we're not a backwater third world banana Republic like the United states, but even as just an 18 year old it was really easy to vote. You walk in, you check the box, you go on with your day.

Neither is correct. 440m underground is deep enough that you're well under the cold temperatures immediately underground, but not so deep it's painfully hot. It's probably a super stable temperature year round, and you could probably spend all day every day at 440m and the worst you'd have is it's pretty stuffy being surrounded by rock. Ventilation is key in something like that, because it'd be humid and without getting fresh air it gets stale and eventually could get quite dangerous as well.

RSS is great. For podcasts, but also for updates from websites. I've got my news app in nextcloud, and it's just become where I get my news because it brings a bunch of totally different news sources together. Friendica has a really cool feature where you can subscribe to RSS feeds and they just show up on your feed. I ended up migrating to another platform, but that's one big feature I miss from that platform.

After 10 years of every news outlet being pretending the world ended because a couple elections went the wrong way, it probably looks like that to people who just feel like that was normal. Honestly, I'm happy to see a bit of balance returning. I don't want the pendulum to swing the other way in the same way, I think it'd be exhausting.