NotSteve_

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[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

I’ve found it’s kind of a gamble on whether you have a cool manager or not. I have “unlimited” vacation and a chill manager and tend to take 5-7 weeks off a year which is quite high for a mid level programmer in Canada.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

IE was really bad for web compatibility in that it really did not properly support the specs.

Ignoring that, I’ve found any browser you don’t normally use is a lot snappier only because you don’t have any extensions installed

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

That entire statement sucks

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

1906 or earlier from what I can see from historical rental listings in our local newspaper

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

It’s been a while since I installed arch manually, but wouldn’t that only help you understand a bit on disk partitioning and some basic commands like copying files/chrooting? You generally learn that stuff the first time your install breaks on any distro

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It’s just straight up illegal for medical professionals to report drug use in Canada. The government doesn’t want people to die because they were afraid to go to the hospital

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah… I wasn’t actually learning a whole lot. I live right across the river from Quebec though so I’m hoping to move over there to immerse myself in French a lot more.

I’ve always been bitter because my whole Dad’s side of the family is Francophone but never bothered to speak the language with me :(

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

My celiac-ass should not have gotten excited about that sentence. For real though that doesn’t sound good

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

Ottawa desperately needs one of these. Centretown is completely owned by Loblaws

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I just gave up Duolingo at 1770 days for French which hurt to do. I was mostly just maintaining a streak at this point and with the news of them using AI to replace their employees (even if they retracted it), I decided to quit.

I’ve switched to Babbel now which has been really good so far

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago

I remember cutting my hand pretty good on one of the old metal beyblades as a kid. I loved those things

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Definitely not sourced but I think there was some assumption that was because the feds told him to hold off

 

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he's terminating all trade discussions with Canada effective immediately.

"We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period," Trump said in a social media post.

He says he's pulling back from the bilateral trade discussions because Canada plans to move ahead with its digital services tax (DST), which requires web giants pay a special tax.

Set to take effect on June 30, the DST requires U.S. companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb pay a three per cent levy on revenue from Canadian users — a policy enacted by former prime minister Justin Trudeau's government that the Parliamentary Budget Office projects will bring in billions of dollars in revenue.

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Nearly all my furniture I got for free off the street on garbage day or from family. The computer parts however

 

I swear every thread has the same 100 people in it so my upvote counter is pretty high for most people. Wondering what it’s at for other people on Lemmy. You tell me my vote count and I’ll tell you what I have for you :)

 

It's not for anything important but I host a stupid discord bot trained on my friend group's server chat history. It's pretty much just a lobotomized ChatGPT but it's a lot of fun. I'm looking to move off of OpenAI's infrastructure though to something that doesn't give money to the USA but it seems like everything is American.

Basically, I'm just looking for somewhere that I can finetune and run custom models. Does anyone know of such a place?

 

TORONTO — GameStop Canada says it has been acquired by French-Canadian entrepreneur Stephan Tetrault from the video game retailer’s struggling parent company.

Officially named Electronics Boutique Canada Inc., GameStop Canada says it will relaunch its 185 stores as EB Games Canada — a name associated with retail gaming from bygone decades.

Tetrault is the founder of Montreal-area-based toy manufacturer Imports Dragon and co-owner of American action figure-maker McFarlane Toys, and last month became a partner at Canadian chain Mastermind Toys.

U.S.-based GameStop Corp. said in February it was looking to sell its Canadian and French operations as it evaluates its international assets and doubles down on cost-cutting.

GameStop was one of the companies at the centre of the “meme stock” craze on Wall Street, which saw struggling brands’ share prices soar as retail investors made risky bets.

Its sales last year declined 27 per cent to $3.82 billion, though net income shot up to $131.3 million versus $6.7 million in 2023.

 

I have a bunch of domains on NameCheap but would like to move them to a non American company, preferably Canadian but just not American is good enough honestly.

What are you guys using?

 
 

A top White House official has threatened to redraw the Canadian border amid Donald Trump’s ambition to turn the country in America’s “51st state”.

Peter Navarro, one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, is pushing US negotiators to discuss reworking the border with their Canadian counterparts, The Telegraph can reveal.

“Navarro recommended revising the Canada-US border, which is just crazy and dangerous,” a source close to negotiations told The Telegraph.

 

I remember reading an article, I think on a substack site, about how the author expected (I think) the rise of facism in the US but not being lead by such pathetic losers?/nerds?/geeks?. I can't seem to find the article but it was funny and relatable and I really want to find the link again.

It might have also been an article on The Verge, 404media or maybe Vice too

 

Hi, I just created the community for my hometown on Lemmy.ca and noticed that within minutes it already has 35 subscribers. How does that work? The town is tiny, I'd be surprised if there were even 35 people from Renfrew on Lemmy at all, let alone eagerly waiting for the community to be created

 

Hi, I'm pretty sure my corydora has cotton wool disease on its top fin and I'm not really sure what to do. We've had him quarantined for nearly two weeks and are daily treating with PimaFix but it doesn't seem to be helping at all, rather it's growing worse.

The good news is that he seems completely oblivious to it all... he still swims around like normal and scrounges around for food.

Is there anything else I can do?

Edit: I've tested the water and all parameters seem to be fine. No nitrite, nitrate or ammonia and the pH seems average

Late update: after treating the tank with melafix for a couple weeks, his "wool" just fell off and what seems to be his wound seems to have just healed. I don't know if it was just luck or what but he's made a full recovery :)

 

I'm a Canadian working for an American company and I'm wondering how affected I'm going to be if (when) Trump goes all in on his tarrifs. My company does have a Canadian office and I believe is incorporated here as well as the USA (I'm a software dev, not a business major so idk how it works fully). Would I feel any of the effects of tarrifs, minus the cost of everything skyrocketing?

For reference, I'm remote and the office we have is on the other side of the country in Vancouver. Not sure that really adds anything to the question but felt compelled to add it

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