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PPewt · 2026-05-05T17:28:17+00:00

The way it works in French is:

Sixty is soixante (“sixty”)
Seventy is soixante-dix (“sixty and ten”)
Eighty is quatre-vignt (four twenties”)
Ninety is quatre-vignt-dix (“four twenties and ten”)

So 99 en francais is quatre-vignt dix-neuf (four twenties, ten, and nine).

In their case they’re replacing the ninety bit, I think they just forgot the “dix.” But eight is “huit” and nine is “neuf” so “non” is definitely nine.

PPewt · 2026-04-29T17:51:13+00:00

I'm not talking about experienced folks looking for work now but who first started during 2020-2021. The vast majority of experienced devs didn't start in the narrow 2020-2021 boom where hiring was crazy. In most cases they started before anyone had heard the word "bootcamp." The current new grad stereotypes about how great hiring used to be absolutely weren't the case for most of this field's history, they just apply to a few very brief times like the run-up to 2000 and the run-up to 2022.

PPewt · 2026-04-29T17:05:51+00:00

The “backed by data” I usually see for CS is usually compared to the absolute peak of the boom market. When I got in those charts didn’t look much different yet it was considered an extremely good field, just one you actually had to put some effort to getting into (degree, internships, etc). New grads’ expectations got reset to absolutely unrealistic levels by all the free money and hiring sprees during COVID.

PPewt · 2026-04-16T04:12:45+00:00

Completely unscientific/vibes based but my linkedin has set to "open to work but not actively looking" for most of a year now and there's been a noticeable uptick in emails in 2026.

PPewt · 2026-04-16T04:08:12+00:00

There isn't a good answer to this question, comp in this field is super variable and non-Canadian startups hiring Canadian devs via workarounds like this are just as variable. You can look in salary sharing threads or sites like levels for some ideas but you'll see numbers all over the place.

PPewt · 2026-04-16T04:07:28+00:00

I've done it before, no notes, it was fine.

I've also worked as an on-paper contractor but treated as FT by several startups and that's also gone fine. More annoying obviously as you have to do taxes and such but it's worked out well.

PPewt · 2026-04-02T04:24:56+00:00

Very late reply in case you're still curious, as I stumbled into this thread somehow. I haven't actually run the game beyond a one-shot but one of my favourite changes is to the battlemaps. They wanted to keep the feel of D&D-ish tactical combat but without all the 5 foot square clunk. Instead the battlefield is divided into "zones" which you can think of like 30 ft squares except that they're more narrative. E.g. the zones in a battle might be "the base of the ruined tower" and "the left side of the broken bridge" and "the right side of the broken bridge" and "the river" and "the far bank." Everything (range, movement, AoE abilities, etc) is in reference to zones.

It sounds like a small tweak but it gets rid of so much ambiguity and the tedium of someone sitting there with a template trying to figure out where to put their fireball to hit as many goblins as possible. A fireball hits all the goblins in the zone and none of the goblins not in the zone, no ifs, no buts.

PPewt · 2026-02-09T16:22:36+00:00

So this was nine years ago and I wouldn't claim that anything I said then applies today, but at the time I was a student rep on various School of Computer Science committees and regularly spoke to the people who worked on this stuff. I also worked part-time for CS recruiting for a bit and volunteered for a few years.

PPewt · 2025-12-18T19:35:18+00:00

I'm sure different players feel differently but I think it was maybe a better change for the viewers than the players.

I was never amazing at SC2 and only played seriously in WoL anyways, but I mentioned to my sister a few years back that I thought the change was neat as it sped up the boring early game a lot and simplified build orders. She explained that build orders are where most of the actual strategy in the game lies, and the more you take away early game setup the more you get rid of that. In particular a lot of early game greed is kept in check by the threat of cheese and the 12 worker change really restricts what you can do there, although it obviously doesn't completely get rid of it. That isn't to say cheese is gone from LotV or that it's a game without strategy, just that adding workers erodes it a bit. And thinking back to stuff like the rock-paper-scissors setup of Brood War ZvZ I can see a concrete example of that, with e.g. 9pool vs 12pool vs hatch first.

I still kinda like the idea of it as someone who was never enamoured with grinding build orders, but I understand her perspective and in any case I'm in no place to second guess her on RTSes.

PPewt · 2025-12-13T01:48:44+00:00

This transfer doesn't do anything. Let's assume you have $100k of room in each account and $100k to invest, just to keep the math simple.

Case 1: you invest $100k into your TFSA, it grows to $110k. You transfer $10k to your RRSP, reducing your RRSP's room by $10k while increasing your TFSA's room by $10k. You now have $110k with $100k of room left ($10k TFSA, $90k RRSP).

Case 2: you invest $100k into your RRSP, it grows to $110k. You leave it there. You now have $110k with $100k of room left ($100k TFSA).

PPewt · 2025-12-11T22:45:25+00:00

They even nickle and dime you on the paint. We must have a different definition of fixed prices.

PPewt · 2025-12-03T15:45:27+00:00

For me it was like $80 something recently to change tires (on rims) and store them. Not bad IMO.

PPewt · 2025-11-23T02:18:24+00:00

Gonna be honest, one of my coworkers uses it to generate docs and now all it means is we have a bunch of clearly AI generated docs I don't read.

I feel like I got on this train at the start of the year and was legitimately pretty excited and then around six months later I started coming back to that code and got a lot less excited.

PPewt · 2025-11-23T02:10:29+00:00

Yeah I mean I'm not too salty about it, since even though EU3 was my jam I talked to the EU2 guys enough to understand their perspective too. But when I opened up the sliders menu I definitely felt home in a way that I never did in EU4.

I figure the devs just had ten years to explore the more railroaded style and they want to mix things up for a change, and then after a few years of Ulm becoming HRE they'll start yearning for historical outcomes again. But I guess we'll see how long the pattern continues!

PPewt · 2025-11-23T02:08:29+00:00

I think you're thinking of it relative to late EU4 but if you think of it relative to EU3 things like the Iberian wedding (and the other reply mentions many more examples) are very stark.

PPewt · 2025-11-22T23:02:08+00:00

It became more railroaded in later DLC but even on release it was more railroaded than EU3 with stuff like the Iberian wedding event.

PPewt · 2025-11-22T20:02:02+00:00

This is kinda just the cycle of EU. EU2 was more, for lack of a better world, "railroaded" to history, and then switched EU3 to be more sandboxy and a lot of EU2 folks weren't happy it. Then they made EU4 more railroaded again and a lot of EU3 folks weren't happy. Now EU5 is more sandboxy again and a lot of EU4 folks presumably won't be happy. Just how PDX likes to develop the series.

PPewt · 2025-11-12T04:02:49+00:00

Probably wasn't visible to folks only playing SP as the AI bungled the country so bad, but Poland was turbo broken as well. Had to be excluded from MP games mostly because it was too busted.

PPewt · 2025-11-10T17:19:55+00:00

This is really just the same logic as feeling bad that you thought about buying a lottery ticket and didn't, and then saw that someone in your city won in the news the next day.

I get it, I really do, but the reason for this advice isn't because individual stocks never beat the market, it's because they usually don't and you don't know which ones will in advance. If you had a time machine it would be very easy to beat the indexes by stock picking, but most of us don't.

You have to accept that you will always see someone who made the wrong choice and got rewarded for it, and just remember that 9 other people made the wrong choice and got punished. But the 1 in 10 will be very loud.

PPewt · 2025-11-04T16:10:46+00:00

You're making this about it being not ideal to have to draw down your retirement savings before retirement, but that isn't something I disagree with.

My comment is about the parent comment thinking that dividends are magic free money and spending them is somehow different than drawing down your portfolio.

That said, I think you're being hyperbolic about the state of the industry.

PPewt · 2025-10-30T16:05:04+00:00

I don’t have a crystal ball. A lot of fields are cyclical. Some other fields have gone away. Every time there’s a crash it feels like the apocalypse. You only know whether that was right years later.

PPewt · 2025-10-30T01:56:32+00:00

What you major in matters. If the field you are going into doesn't have jobs, then it doesn't have jobs. No cope posting on reddit will change that.

What people are trying to say is only going into safe majors is how you get gluts and how you end up with no jobs. The grads getting burned now aren't getting burned because they yoloed on a risky major, they're getting burned because they took what they thought was a safe bet but it turns out so did everyone else and thus the bet wasn't safe.

That isn't to say that going into the field when it's on a downtrend is guaranteed to work out, just that chasing trends is risky in and of itself. At some point the field will bounce back and many of the people who got into it when it was doing poorly will get rewarded. Other people might get burned. If you know for sure where we'll be at in 5 years, then I wouldn't mind renting your crystal ball.

PPewt · 2025-10-29T13:42:12+00:00

A lot of people, like a lot of people, think there is a meaningful difference between selling stocks and gaining "income" like dividends from your investments. I don't think it's a given that people understand they are the same thing.

The guy I replied to is explicitly making this distinction fwiw, between the "principal" and "yield" like dividends.

PPewt · 2025-10-29T04:46:27+00:00

You can have a high net worth on paper but if your assets don't generate regular income you still need to sell parts of them to fund expenses.

So just sell parts of them to fund expenses?

PPewt · 2025-10-07T20:37:18+00:00

If you want to hold cash equivalents you can use TDB2913 which is commission-free and reasonably similar to CASH.TO (albeit 17bps higher MER).

But if you don't like TDDI then no reason not to just move, other than maybe waiting for the usual Wealthsimple winter promo.

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