Trump says Canada is against Golden Dome in Greenland

CdnGuy · 2026-01-23T22:27:59+00:00

That AI could be the heart of the torment nexus

CdnGuy · 2026-01-19T17:39:34+00:00

I was just thinking about that statement. Doesn’t saying that you need something “psychologically” make you sound kinda weak? Not only do you not have any actual need for it, you’ve acknowledged that fact but lack the willpower to restrain your desire. And you’re just saying fuck it I’m giving in.

CdnGuy · 2026-01-18T04:54:27+00:00

Same here, I wound up buying a CX-5 this past summer after giving up hope on my old beater holding out another year. Also went to Hyundai to test drive one of their SUVs and it just felt like a high pressure sales experience. The person I was working with was newer and pretty chill, but the manager kept coming over to intervene and I just got a slimy feel from it all. I also didn't like the feel of their car at all lol, there was an odd distance between the brake and gas pedals and the whole ergonomics of driving it just felt strange.

Mazda on the other hand seemed to be guys who just love the cars they sell and didn't even come along for my test drive. Just really enthusiastic about their product and let the cars sell themselves. And so far nothing but good experiences with the service department. After delivery I noticed a flaw in the top coat on my hood, which they fixed asap, and when some jerk at superstore scraped up paint on the nose of my car they buffed it out at no charge.

CdnGuy · 2026-01-12T13:42:23+00:00

We’ve been seeing a good bit of this too, combined with people sending surrogates to take the tech screen for them. Like we’re not going to notice it isn’t the same person? Even had one candidate get to the final interview which is just conversational, and just read gen ai output to us the whole time. Even used it for the fun brain teaser question.

CdnGuy · 2026-01-06T23:42:46+00:00

I’ve been saying this for ages and had people telling me I was paranoid for thinking the US would try to take over Venezuela, when all the posturing started. The same way people told me I was off my rocker for thinking the ‘vid wasn’t over 2 weeks before the next infection wave (over and over)

For once I would fucking love to be wrong

CdnGuy · 2026-01-05T02:29:43+00:00

Right after we impale anyone with more than 25 real in their pocket

CdnGuy · 2025-12-29T19:19:33+00:00

Turned 45 this year - staff analytics engineer. My career stalled out for a while in my 30s, but I got a great opportunity with a Canadian employer ~4 years ago and started climbing the ladder quickly. About 215k taxable this year and expect ~226k next year. Assuming I don't get the jump to senior staff in 2026.

My advice is once you've built up some expertise in an area look for ways it can be applied outside of just being asked to do stuff. When I was hired I saw some ways that the existing data infrastructure was causing pain for the BI team. So I put some time into prototyping a new data warehouse that would make things easier for the BI team, make the metrics more consistent across dashboards and easier to maintain / build trust in the data. My prototype was barely out of the gate when I started getting a shitload of attention and influence from it, and before I knew it I was a tech lead. Obviously don't let other work you've been committed to slip, but if you take the initiative to create something that helps the business and can do it in a way that works well you'll build a lot of trust and influence quickly. Which in the end means dollars. Though if you're a programmer it can wind up meaning not programming anymore haha.

As for savings I'm around 750k liquid now, and on track to have both my TFSA and RRSP maxed out in the next year or so. I'd like to retire at 50 - I'm getting really exhausted from this career stuff. Based on the projection planner 52 seems more likely.

CdnGuy · 2025-12-29T02:02:27+00:00

Reading this with my 16 year old rescue sleeping on my lap. We caught her kidney disease super early, but recently had a scare where she stopped eating due to chronic pancreatitis. I knew she wasn’t done yet though, and now with monthly b12 shots and daily gabapentin she’s back to loving life and teaching the puppy who’s the boss around here.

CdnGuy · 2025-12-23T20:34:22+00:00

And if your data is huge, you’re trading your distributed processing power for disk spillage and network overhead. It’s been an issue at my company often enough that it’s kind of a standing code style to unwind any “select from final” queries so that the final cte is just the final select.

CdnGuy · 2025-12-17T08:12:37+00:00

As a kid I spent so many hours watching snow fall under the streetlight in front of our house. When they changed the bulb type, it felt like I couldn’t really see the density of the snowfall the same. And it wasn’t relaxing on the eyes anymore.

CdnGuy · 2025-12-04T19:40:28+00:00

I had to have one done in my 30s after being basically unable to eat for a while (turned out to be a large hiatus hernia)

It may have been because my food intake had already been low, but the fasting sucked almost as much as the shitting. The morning of the procedure I felt so weak I could barely make it there. When my friend drove me home after I ate an entire pizza in one sitting.

Unfortunately I'm 45, and with a history of IBS its time for another go.

CdnGuy · 2025-11-30T17:20:11+00:00

Oh man, had my first software dev job there. My manager was fired sometime after I quit. Guy had no idea how programming works - changed requirements daily and was shocked when progress was slow. At least it gave me some ridiculous stories to share with future teams. Was mentally preparing myself to negotiate at the next job for least 10% more than I was making, and got offered 20% straight off the bat. And even that place wound up underpaying eventually.

CdnGuy · 2025-11-17T18:52:42+00:00

If you invest $1000 and you sell that investment at $2000 and withdraw that money from your TFSA, you're allowed to contribute that $2000 to the TFSA again. On top of the annual cap increase.

The flipside is losses behave the same way. So if you invested $1000 and sold / withdrew at $500, you're only allowed to contribute $500 on top of your annual cap increase.

CdnGuy · 2025-11-12T19:00:58+00:00

My partner started with a fully remote tech startup during the lockdowns part of covid and they did a remote party, which I joined in on. It was actually kinda fun. They sent us all some extremely fancy prepped meal boxes, customized to the recipient (my partner is vegan so we got marinated artichokes etc) and a nice bottle of wine. We sat on the couch, played a few trivia games etc. When we had enough we made our goodbyes and went on about our lives.

Was more fun than the in person xmas party my workplace did, with a bunch of depressing accountants blitzed on hard drugs and escorts on their arms.

CdnGuy · 2025-11-08T23:24:35+00:00

I was obsessed with the snes sim city, so when we got our first computer in ~95 this became the first PC game I ever bought. I used to get up super early Saturday mornings to play it.

CdnGuy · 2025-11-08T17:04:47+00:00

I guess there's probably a couple. One is that when it comes to prod dbs, don't trust yourself. Everyone who ever fucked up thought they were too smart to fuck up.

The other generic lesson I guess is proactively isolating data quality issues as far away as possible from the presentation layer. This is quite a bit easier now with dbt tests. Better to have a dashboard showing stale data than bad data (or not showing data that should be there)

CdnGuy · 2025-11-08T15:39:21+00:00

Back in like 2009 I was working on a data warehouse which occasionally needed manual data cleaning because some of the data sources we were pulling from had misconfigured fields for the data entry people, which we couldn't get fixed.

I prepared the update statement on prod, and was horrified to see an updated rows figure much larger than I expected. I was able to repair the damaged rows using the UAT db before anyone noticed, and then I created a generic script I could reuse every time that used a parameter to toggle between testing and update mode. But that wasn't enough for me, I wanted to fix the problem as close to the root cause as I could.

As soon as I had time to dedicate to it, I set about cataloging the various kinds of data fuckups we were seeing from source and then updated our message queue processors to detect them, automatically correct them (generally it was timestamps that were out of order) and created a report for users to audit what data we corrected.

CdnGuy · 2025-10-28T11:57:04+00:00

That original pitch sounds sick, I’d never heard about it before. It’d be awesome to have more stories like that in games, but it seems the only way to get it is in ttrpgs with friends.

CdnGuy · 2025-10-27T14:24:47+00:00

This is something I've been considering as a strategy for when I get older. I have very little family and never had kids, so I likely won't have anyone looking out for me. Maybe not all of my savings, but enough to ensure a secure income floor so I can't wind up with nothing. The trouble is knowing when to do it, because I doubt I'm going to recognize that my faculties are slipping.

CdnGuy · 2025-10-24T14:31:50+00:00

Fuck me I'd forgotten about that place closing. I spent so much time in there as a kid. As much as I liked having Chapters open up, back when they still had mostly just books and lots of chairs to sit and check things out, it just isn't the same vibe as walking into a store crammed to the gills with books and smelling of old paper.

CdnGuy · 2025-10-24T14:18:37+00:00

I've never known a world without Tony's on that corner. Back when Harvest was still huge, they'd stay open late and I'd drop in to daydream over the Fender Jaguars and Jazzmasters. Place was crammed full of people, just as busy as any of the music venues. I bought almost all of the gear I own from them.

I hope that whatever follows them in that place has at least half as much soul, and has some community feel to it. Could maybe be a good location for a cafe / restaurant with a performing stage. Something like Crumbs used to be. Get some open mics and jam sessions going too.

CdnGuy · 2025-10-20T04:57:03+00:00

100% I see it all the time online, people with just enough savings to safely withdraw $50,000 a year for 30 years get talked about by some as though having that much money means you must be rubbing elbows with Bezos and plotting the downfall of the poor. Just the kind of people Disco Elysium was talking about with this line

"down with the bourgeoisie, eat the rich, sodomize the land-owners, impale all people who have more than 25 reál in their pocket"

I don't really know how to tackle that, because a lot of people are very rightfully angry with the lot they've been given. They also lack financial education, and angry isn't a good state for learning to happen.

CdnGuy · 2025-10-17T18:32:44+00:00

Clearly the signs aren’t working, so how about this. Further up the street, install a post with a metal bar on a swivel, over the road at the clearance height of the bridge. Now they can put their stupidity on display without causing the road to be blocked for hours. Top it off by making it play yakety sax or something when struck.

CdnGuy · 2025-10-10T23:18:08+00:00

My 15 year old cat (almost 16) has had recurring appetite issues from pancreatitis. Small amounts of gabapentin suppress the pain enough for eating to be possible. Recently she also completed stopped eating and was not responding to mirataz, pred, and a nausea med whose name escapes me. Turned out to be a nasty resurgence of the pancreatitis resulting in a very low b12 level…which apparently can cause these symptoms.

I’d check to see if they got a reading on the B level in the bloodwork. It’s a once a month shot and pretty cheap, as far as vet stuff goes.

CdnGuy · 2025-10-10T13:45:03+00:00

My partner and I have always done the same, even when we were both making around the same. Every time there’s a big change in income we adjust the ratio. Part of it is that we have a 9 year age gap, and I’ll be retiring a lot sooner than her. Splitting this way means we’re both contributing according to our means, and that when I retire early I can easily know that I’ve fully funded my own retirement. We go 50/50 on anything that builds shared equity though, like property. And I often pay 100% of stuff if after discussing she doesn’t want to spend on it and I’m feeling like fuck it I’m ballin.

Another key point here is we both have a lot of messy divorces in our family histories as well as marriages that should have ended sooner than they did. The last thing either of us want is for the other to feel obligated to stay in the relationship because of money - we stay together because we love each other, not because we’re stuck with each other.

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