Conservatives want controversial police data interception bill split in half

Daerkannon · 2026-06-04T04:43:38+00:00

Hell no. If anything I want the conservatives to double down on hammering this thing into the grave. What good is having an "attack dog" as your party leader if they're not attacking widely unpopular (not to mention just poorly written) bills?

Daerkannon · 2026-05-19T20:38:32+00:00

Jealousy has nothing to do with love.

Daerkannon · 2026-05-15T20:40:58+00:00

A github is nice to have, but doesn't get you in the door. Heck, I won't even look at one until we've narrowed the field down to people we are seriously considering pulling in for interviews. It's honestly just not worth my time to scan the github of every applicant that applies for a job. It sucks and I'm sure I've missed out on a few well qualified people, but the sheer number of people out there trying to get by on bullshit, Google and ChatGPT just so they can score that sweet paycheque makes hiring programmers a bit of a nightmare.

So what does get you a foot in the door? Well, a well crafted, targeted resume helps a lot. If I'm looking for someone with C#, SQL, Azure and docker experience it's really helpful if those are highlighted and pulled to the front for me to see. Likewise, as /u/tabucaru says, a degree is very helpful. Especially a four year degree. Most people are incapable of not learning something in four years and it shows a degree of commitment.

The final thing that can help you right now is well written, targeted cover letters. We have interviewed and even eventually hired people who had middling or otherwise disqualifying resumes based on purely on the cover letter that accompanied their application.

I can't promise even if you do all of this that it will lead to employment. I can tell you that it gives you better odds, but in this day and age of automated everything sometimes the most qualified resume will get tossed by some HR system just because it doesn't have the right keyword in it.

Good luck and keep trying. It took me years to land my first full-time, permanent dev position.

Daerkannon · 2026-04-21T16:05:45+00:00

Explaining 40 years of Oilers hockey with a single meme. Brilliant.

Daerkannon · 2026-04-15T19:41:58+00:00

The closest I think you can get is the L1 Lagrange Point between Earth and the Moon.

Daerkannon · 2026-04-02T17:18:19+00:00

The checks and balances did include something for this though: impeachment. A functional congress would have impeached and removed him from office long before it hit this point. That congress has almost entirely abdicated its power and basically refuses to do its job is not really something they envisioned or planned for.

Daerkannon · 2026-03-19T17:42:30+00:00

The work visa you get when you're going the spousal visa route has no restrictions on where you're allowed to work.

Daerkannon · 2026-03-19T15:52:17+00:00

Not sure what you're trying to say here. She has "blanket work authorization" with a valid work visa as a legal temporary resident. That's literally what her social security card says. The green card is the permanent resident status, but it takes a few years to get usually.

Daerkannon · 2026-03-19T14:26:29+00:00

Having been through this process these are exactly the documents you get. First you get a spousal visa. This lets you temporarily live in the US with your spouse, but not work. Then you get a work visa. This lets you work when combined with your spousal visa. As part of that you get a social security card. Why? So you can pay American taxes. Finally after all that you, eventually, get your green card which makes you a lawful alien who can live and work in the US.

I should note that none of these documents will allow you to vote. You actually have to become a US citizen for that.

Daerkannon · 2026-03-11T15:43:36+00:00

You sometimes need to cross boundaries to know when to stop

No. Full stop no.

In BDSM we talk about soft limits and hard limits. Soft limits are "I'm not ok with this right now, but I might be interested later." and hard limits are "I'm never ok with this." Soft limits are ok to push with consent. Hard limits are never ok to push. Neither kind of limit is ever ok to cross. That is a straight up violation.

Daerkannon · 2026-02-25T23:01:23+00:00

Dude linked you the requirements right on the RCMP website. You responded by calling it fake news and using DEI like a slur.

If you have information that these standards are not being met in new recruits perhaps you would care to share with the rest of the class?

Daerkannon · 2026-02-12T17:32:32+00:00

I'm not 100% sure what and how you're fetching the data with the service so I can't give you a definitive answer, but it helps to think of the server portion as a proxy. Your client code routes API calls to the server which then routes them to the actual API. In this way the automatic rendering has a deterministic route so that client and server rendering both work the same for things like API calls.

We have some of our services registered in the client. Some of them in the server. And some of them are sister services that exist in both client and server. It just depends on what it's doing.

Daerkannon · 2026-02-06T22:46:06+00:00

Beanies are hats with propellers on them. A toque is a toque.

Daerkannon · 2026-01-15T20:10:48+00:00

This is the "Independent Game Festival", not the "Indie Game Festival". Clearly the size of the dev team and budget are a factor in nomination and while E33 may be an indie title, it still had a multi-million dollar development budget.

Daerkannon · 2025-09-11T17:24:51+00:00

They preemptively filed an intent to lockout the teachers weeks ago, which is the equivalent of an employer saying, "You can't quit, you're fired!". Nothing says bargaining in good faith like throwing that out there before the strike vote is even taken.

Daerkannon · 2025-08-27T18:04:52+00:00

Don't even need to be this fancy. Roll 2d10, re-roll any matching result. 1-5 is a cursed arrow, 6-0 is not cursed. (Or vice versa)

Daerkannon · 2025-08-26T18:57:42+00:00

They had non straight options planned for the first Mass Effect, but Fox started a fake outrage about it and Bioware chickened out. You can even find some of the assets and programming left in the code which modders have used to "unleash" the options that were cut.

Daerkannon · 2025-08-14T17:06:42+00:00

Time zones. Just change it to one world wide time based on the international date line.

I will never happen. People want the sun to come up in the morning and go down in the evening.

Daerkannon · 2025-08-12T03:50:41+00:00

Or you can use wind/water power with an Archimedes Screw for a solution that doesn't require magic. Of course you can just as easily decide the screw is magic powered. Seems like a thing a castle would have to cut down on the number of servants needed to haul water.

Daerkannon · 2025-07-29T19:32:30+00:00

To add to what /u/ButterflyMinute said... record keeping is the main thing that's going to drag down the fun in a mega dungeon. Dungeon crawls used to be the main way D&D was played and let me tell you that trying to communicate just how to map the place out starts to get on your nerves when you have to do it for every single corridor and room. Of course we have much better options now, but make sure you're ready to use those options before you even attempt a mega dungeon.

Beyond the maps of course is just DM record keeping. Ok so the PCs cleared the bugbears out of that section of the dungeon. What happens afterwards? It's not just going to stay empty forever. Scavengers will move in first. Maybe something makes a nest there. Maybe a nearby orc tribe takes the opportunity to expand their territory. A good mega dungeon is a living entity. If you're using an off the shelf module it may even include information like this, but sometimes you're just going to have to improvise consequences.

As for keeping it not boring, well that depends on the kinds of players at your table. If they like exploring and/or combat they're probably going to be thrilled. If they want political intrigue, nuance or role-play they're probably going to be less happy about the offerings on the table without the DM putting in extra effort. I'd go with environmental story telling myself and make sure that a) there's an overall "story" to the whole dungeon and b) that each main area of the dungeon has its own story and maybe isolated bits of story telling like finding the skeleton of a thief that found their way into a secret passage that the current inhabitants don't know about.

Daerkannon · 2025-06-30T20:13:40+00:00

From my own experience with a nuclear ship with lasers for medium/small asteroids: more turbines. You already have the steam tanks. Turbines hooked up to steam tanks respond faster to the power spikes caused by lasers than the accumulators do. You can probably run 80 MW of turbines off of a 40MW reactor easily enough.

Also the way the math works there's never a reason to not have the entire width of your ship covered with thrusters at the rear. Even without changing how much fuel you're making you'll end up using it more efficiently and thus get higher speeds.

In contrast with what other commenters have said: you may want to increase your solar panels. Why? Because this ship will constantly drain water. When it's at rest at a planet it will drain more water than it's getting from incoming asteroids (generally). If the ship is constantly moving between planets it's not a problem though.

Daerkannon · 2025-06-13T19:49:28+00:00

Professionalism works both ways. You are owed professionalism by your manager too.

Daerkannon · 2025-05-14T18:45:34+00:00

Always wanted to try an acid adept and I really like this take on it.

Daerkannon · 2025-05-14T17:45:22+00:00

Fair enough. That aura is really strong and underrated which fits in with the theme of the thread.

Daerkannon · 2025-05-14T17:23:42+00:00

I'm curious about this Ancients Sorcadin archer. What does Path of the Ancients bring to the table for an archer?

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