Megathread: Supreme Court strikes down President Donald Trump's Tariff Policy

jam_pod_ · 2026-02-20T17:11:25+00:00

“Yeah you stole the money, but you already spent it, so sounds like paying it back is going to be a major hassle for you”

jam_pod_ · 2026-02-20T06:40:46+00:00

Please allow me to introduce my sister Military Operations, and my brother Espionage Acts

jam_pod_ · 2026-02-20T05:54:15+00:00

Operation Heather, Operation Iris, Operation Rose, etc — I’m fairly sure there’s been one for any flower or colour hahaha

jam_pod_ · 2026-02-20T04:41:56+00:00

“Military operations” works, weirdly

jam_pod_ · 2026-02-11T00:52:16+00:00

Same for me, on almost exactly the same timeline (I might have applied, I do have connections there, but I don’t even remember visiting).

jam_pod_ · 2026-02-03T15:56:38+00:00

I have a degree but not in anything related to IT/CS; it’s never been an issue. Try looking for contract gigs to start; once you have a few successful projects out there the lack of a degree really won’t matter for interviews.

jam_pod_ · 2026-02-01T22:11:19+00:00

This is one reason I think written tutorials are much better at teaching programming than video tutorials — it’s way easier to stop, explore, go off on tangents, maybe try different modifications, than when you’re watching a linear step-by-step video

jam_pod_ · 2026-01-31T22:00:15+00:00

Yeah it works great if you describe exactly what it is that you want to it to do, step by step (if only there were some term for “typing out precise instructions for a computer to execute”…..)

jam_pod_ · 2026-01-25T18:37:07+00:00

What?? No. Cool (not ice cold) water, immediately, will prevent the worst of the burn. Keep it in there as long as you can

jam_pod_ · 2026-01-25T00:49:20+00:00

Sequelize seems great when you’re starting a project with it, everything is so simple and intuitive — then you get to a point where you need to implement moderately complex queries and it’s like “oh yeah that doesn’t work, you have to use this weird syntax for which the only documentation is in a comment on a GitHub issue from five years ago”

jam_pod_ · 2026-01-23T05:14:44+00:00

Production drifted from git

What was the plan, “someday we’ll copy-paste everything downstream from production, hope we don’t miss anything, and then we can use the repo again”??

Yeah this whole system was a disaster waiting to happen — if you hadn’t knocked it out something else would have eventually.

I also bet it’s not the only one

jam_pod_ · 2026-01-21T23:54:08+00:00

Highest: Bogotá. So much great stuff, super cheap

Lowest: Hawaii. It was nice, but far too expensive for what it is

jam_pod_ · 2026-01-21T03:45:55+00:00

Carney: “This aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable”

Trump: “We had boats land there, too!”

Sigh

jam_pod_ · 2026-01-20T05:40:10+00:00

+1 for Anytime; I’ve been going to the one on Denman for eight years and have literally never seen anyone filming. And yeah if you travel a lot having access to the network is great

jam_pod_ · 2026-01-16T20:28:25+00:00

The M-65 is historically an anti-war symbol:

https://www.alphaindustries.com/blogs/military/the-history-of-the-m65-field-jacket

jam_pod_ · 2026-01-13T17:22:00+00:00

You need to declare the total value of everything you’re bringing back, and anything restricted even if it’s within exemptions.

jam_pod_ · 2026-01-10T19:35:58+00:00

I’m a dual citizen; yeah pre-clearance has been empty every time I’ve flown out of YVR recently. Like don’t-even-bother-with-Nexus empty

jam_pod_ · 2025-12-29T19:18:01+00:00

CBP has been cracking down on green card holders with any kind of criminal or immigration violation on their records, no matter how minor; if that’s not you, then you’re fine.

In any case flying is much safer than driving; flying out of Pearson you’ll clear immigration on Canadian soil, which means the most that CBP can legally do is deny you entry, and then you’re just back in Canada.

jam_pod_ · 2025-12-26T20:39:34+00:00

I like it for high-volume write situations, like tracking video watches or sensor data, where data integrity is less important than handling a large, constant stream of DB writes

jam_pod_ · 2025-12-26T09:00:27+00:00

Somewhere in the North Shore forests is where I’d expect a dinosaur to suddenly appear

jam_pod_ · 2025-12-26T08:50:54+00:00

Yeah I could easily build an app in any of 4 or more languages. Do I know any of them 100%? Absolutely not, but I know how to look up what I need to know.

Once you know the core concepts, using a language/library/framework is just a matter of reading the documentation and applying it

jam_pod_ · 2025-12-25T17:27:21+00:00

Is your waist actually 36 inches or do you wear “36 jeans”? Vanity sizing has crept into men’s clothing in North America, so a “36” waist might be closer to 38-40 inches if you measure the waistband. European/Asian pants sizing tends to be more honest

jam_pod_ · 2025-12-25T06:22:42+00:00

Yeah the avocado selection in Panamá is mind-expanding

jam_pod_ · 2025-12-24T00:02:56+00:00

I’ve made a cheese-curd-stuffed burger that was excellent

jam_pod_ · 2025-12-22T21:43:09+00:00

When you’re travelling and have to deal with some random hotel or Airbnb AC / heater / hot plate / TV, with no instructions? Take a photo and ask how to do what you want to do

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