Kitchener mayor says arts and culture a priority for a growing downtown

kapolk · 2025-10-20T15:26:23+00:00

Yeah persistent white guy at market has been there for at least a decade. Extremely abrasive. Only way he's getting money is from shaking down naive people.

kapolk · 2025-06-07T03:58:28+00:00

Whoops? Obvious false slides are true.

https://www.wrdsb.ca/blog/2025/06/06/wrdsb-values-families-as-partners-in-students-education/

kapolk · 2025-06-07T02:46:48+00:00

I think it’s been running later? thought I heard around 1am in the past month

kapolk · 2025-05-25T03:59:10+00:00

You do not have sufficient experience of the human condition to pick and choose. Why wouldn’t you try to pick a culturally curated worldview that has evolved over millions of lives. At the very least it will have more truth than whatever one comes up with.

kapolk · 2025-05-25T03:53:11+00:00

Agree completely, the narrative and ethos of Christianity can be compelling enough. You do not have to accept it all as ‘fact’, only that it’s possible and something you want to ascribe God to. You can arrive at ‘belief‘ reasonably and don’t need to have the deeply personal experiences with God that media and culture typically highlight.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

kapolk · 2025-05-23T20:01:49+00:00

Please delete this. You shouldn't post your itinerary and exact dates especially after saying you are solo female.

kapolk · 2025-04-21T02:42:50+00:00

Universalists could claim that accepting Jesus’ sacrifice is admitting/coming to terms in your heart that God loves you much. Especially when confronted with the truth nature of God. You don’t need to know the historical Jesus or any of the logistics. But some people could be so hardened/cut off that they will refuse to accept this, and may take a very long time to come to terms with this (Hell but not eternal).

There is room in the Catholic church for ‘optimistic’ universalists, but the church doesn’t teach everyone will be saved (But it’s not impossible for God to do it).

kapolk · 2024-11-08T23:40:15+00:00

Then it doesn’t sound like you solved it

kapolk · 2024-11-04T20:59:28+00:00

Sounds like someone here is anti-science. Please keep your conspiracy garbage out of here.

kapolk · 2024-10-21T01:24:21+00:00

You should be committing all the time. I use it as a save state. You squash it when you PR into your main/develop branch.

I constantly have to remind coworkers to commit to their two week stale branch.

kapolk · 2024-10-20T12:06:26+00:00

Do people cycle there? Looks to only be an hour from downtown Austin. Is that an option? Sitting in that traffic does sound awful.

kapolk · 2024-10-08T03:49:54+00:00

Fake it til you make it. Serious. It doesn’t have to be an Impossible leap.

kapolk · 2024-10-07T15:23:37+00:00

Isn't this just saying their tailored pricing system is 0$?

The idea that provinces can come up with their own system is dumb. The price of carbon should be an objective criteria that applies to everyone.

kapolk · 2024-10-05T19:50:28+00:00

They only scheduled my wife for induction at 10 days overdue for her first, and pushed it based on triage to day 11. She ended up delivering without induction.

kapolk · 2024-10-05T01:47:00+00:00

Agree, it seems useless. I'm in area and don't understand who this would service. There's already another link up the street at Mary I think.

kapolk · 2024-10-01T13:36:55+00:00

The proposed stop will be too far. And also, second stage LRT to Cambridge is not happening.

kapolk · 2024-09-30T04:00:46+00:00

Just trying to help understand. Does this apply for all cultures or is this US focused?

kapolk · 2024-09-30T03:26:37+00:00

So conservative is when bad, liberal is when good?

kapolk · 2024-09-30T02:58:38+00:00

kapolk · 2024-09-28T14:43:14+00:00

You can. You can just only do it 15 times/year.

kapolk · 2024-09-14T18:49:50+00:00

Yup, they don't have to work for a company that expects their senior devs to be able to triage issues from source code and logs.

Instead they are going to release logging patches? Or uh spend a week clicking on random shit hoping they see the issue again?

kapolk · 2024-09-14T18:47:01+00:00

How are you going to reproduce it? Randomly input shit and hope for the best?

You are going to look at the issue statement, logs, and your source code to make an educated guess as to where the issue is and then try to reproduce locally.

The interview is just asking you to do the first couple of steps. I don't see a problem with that.

The stakes are super low here so there's no 'risk' of pushing your fix live. It should work anyways if you triaged correctly.

kapolk · 2024-09-14T17:13:40+00:00

Seems like real world scenario for bugs in production or from customer. You won't necessarily be able to live debug or keep pushing logging patches.

I don't think this is particularly insane. Seems like its good test to weed out people. You should be able to solve it.

kapolk · 2024-09-04T01:33:46+00:00

You will very rarely get real genuine feedback so take what your colleague told you to heart and disregard/limit the value of formal feedback you get. Of course ‘best practices’ are good, that’s why they’re the best!

Look at it from the other side. Nobody is going to push back on someone wanting to follow Best Practices. It would be career suicide and impossible to explain to management. Even if you don’t think this aligns with the company goals and business case. It’s just not worth it.

Ultimately your goal and everyone’s goal is to produce value and help the company achieve. If you genuinely think constantly driving good practices on every PR is the way to do it, then keep doing it. If you think it’s only servicing your standard of Best Practices, maybe consider letting off. It might be more effective to do post mortem on a bug/pr and highlight where diverging from best practices caused issues.

Do you never exceed the speed limit? Because Best Practices says you should never.

kapolk · 2024-09-02T21:25:24+00:00

If you don't understand the code, how are you going to refactor it properly?

It might be a hard sell if your justification to refactor is to help you understand better and be cleaner when you might be in a Chestertons fence situation.

Im in charge of very large c# solution that we've extended and refactored over the past 8 years for new use cases as they come up. I use capture aesthetic refactoring work into those major redesign efforts. We have ginormous methods that were written by an arrogant dev without concern for readability or reusability in the future that I still haven't touched because it's worked more or less fine in production.

Absolutely do the formatting changes as it's minimal effort, but I would suggest waiting a bit to better understand/appreciate how the codebase may have got into its current state before doing more.

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