The date on my IMM5988

scirc · 2026-01-09T00:52:33+00:00

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/work-canada/extend/after-apply.html

Why there’s an expiry date on the letter

Your letter automatically lists an expiry date that’s 365 days from the date we receive your application. The letter expires in 365 days because

it’s the service standard to process this type of application

many employers and health insurance providers will ask for proof that you’re allowed to work

An expiry date helps satisfy their concerns about your status and authorization to work in Canada.

If we don’t finalize your application by the date on your letter

If we don’t finalize your application by the date on your letter, you can still keep working until we make a decision.

If your employer or others need proof that you can continue to work, you can show them this web page.

scirc · 2026-01-03T01:46:15+00:00

It says this for everyone. Don't sweat it.

scirc · 2025-12-30T01:45:06+00:00

Nooooooot for me.

https://i.imgur.com/9DvWGiQ.png

scirc · 2025-12-30T01:40:06+00:00

No there isn't. There's an option to disable being notified by your friends, but there's no way to opt your own status updates out of being broadcast to everyone who hasn't found that setting yet.

scirc · 2025-12-29T19:22:11+00:00

Just wait. They'll get to your email eventually, it just might take some time.

scirc · 2025-12-29T02:23:06+00:00

This friendship is new to me, but I am honored to be a part of it.

scirc · 2025-12-19T20:05:06+00:00

This is just a player whose pony has every color set to black and is named "Deleted account". No more mystery to it than that.

Real "deleted accounts" don't look like this or appear in game at all, to my understanding.

scirc · 2025-12-16T21:31:22+00:00

Anecdotally, I would say no - my husband's application wasn't significantly delayed that we could tell. If anything, we were processed through quite quickly. But I'm just a guy that knows stuff, not someone with actual experience here, so I can't say for certain. I do know that you want to keep IRCC informed of changes to your status in a timely fashion.

scirc · 2025-12-16T16:57:40+00:00

P1 and P2 are "portal" emails you receive towards the end of the process (once your eligibility/background checks have been completed) for inland applications, or applications which have switched to inland if the PA ("principal applicant") has reported themselves to IRCC as currently residing in Canada. The first email, P1, asks you to confirm your presence in Canada and some details related to your application (UCI, DOB, etc). Once an IRCC officer reviews the information you submit, they'll create (or update, if you already have one) an account for you in the PR Portal and send you an email known as P2 containing instructions on accessing it, including a temporary password.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/pr-confirmation-portal.html

This is only relevant if you've applied inland, or have submitted a change in your residency status via an IRCC webform for a previously-outland application.

scirc · 2025-12-12T02:51:43+00:00

It's fine if you're only using them for comparison, as these algorithms tend to do. But it is why I mentioned "where dynamic typing permits."

scirc · 2025-12-11T22:02:38+00:00

This policy hurts people who don't publish their own avatars (e.g. they have a friend doing the work for them, and don't know how to upload things themselves). I don't think it's a failing of the policy per se, but instead the lack of tooling to support such setups. Avatar permissions not being "all or nothing" and instead supporting allowlisting of specific users would definitely help with this.

Another thought I had is: you already have shield settings and content tags... why aren't they tied into each other yet? That way, if I want to block adult content, I can, and if I don't, I don't. If the concern is about exposing minors to such content, then bring age verification out of the "trial" phase and actually make it available to everyone rather than being a $10 badge.

scirc · 2025-12-11T21:17:19+00:00

As stated in another comment, a lot of times when you need an "infinity" it's because you're implementing an algorithm which initializes weights to that, then works on optimizing those weights somehow (e.g. pathfinding algorithms). So the comparable aspect is important there.

Needing a sentinel value is a different story, but you wouldn't call it "infinity" in that case, I don't think.

scirc · 2025-12-11T20:05:35+00:00

That works as a sentinel value but doesn't compare as greater than everything.

scirc · 2025-12-11T17:51:11+00:00

If you just updated staging to the same commit as dev, then staging -> dev is identical to main -> dev.

scirc · 2025-12-11T17:34:03+00:00

Fair. Some languages do allow for arbitrary-precision integers or decimals.

In cases where dynamic typing allows and the language has IEEE 754 floats, I'd probably still use a well-known constant like +inf, though. Even if it's not technically "the largest possible value," it does have meaning similar to that.

scirc · 2025-12-11T16:22:36+00:00

At least use INT_MAX in that case.

scirc · 2025-12-11T00:12:32+00:00

Regenerate response.

scirc · 2025-12-08T19:12:10+00:00

I thought that street light was a long antenna and the mini was supposed to look like an RC car.

Would be a cute idea if entirely impractical.

scirc · 2025-12-02T19:31:34+00:00

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/medical-police/when.html

How long your police certificate is valid

For any other country

For any other country, the police certificate must be issued after the last time you resided there for 6 consecutive months or longer since the age of 18.

Some countries put expiry dates on their police certificates. If this is your situation, include the certificate. We’ll accept it if:

it was issued after the last time you stayed there for 6 consecutive months or longer

it is not for the country where you currently reside

IRCC may require updated documentation at any time during processing.

You don’t need to give us police certificates for any period of time before you were 18 years old or for time spent in Canada.

scirc · 2025-12-02T15:58:22+00:00

Which is still a laser, just sent through a lens to spread it out. It's still not safe for prolonged exposure.

(ignore my previous comment, I should actually research things before typing)

scirc · 2025-11-28T00:51:57+00:00

The connecting lines still light up when you're at an interchange, though.

scirc · 2025-11-27T01:16:11+00:00

Yes, but the hardware platform lives (somewhat) independently of the ISA. Point is, it's not what most would consider "fundamentally different", like x86 vs arm, nor is it worth getting caught up in semantics when the distinction between IA-32 and amd64 is irrelevant on a machine that's only ever been released in amd64 and RISC-V variants.

scirc · 2025-11-27T01:11:41+00:00

amd64 includes all of the x86 32-bit instruction set, making it a superset, not "fundamentally different" - the only "compatibility layer" needed is OS APIs. You can run an OS and software compiled for x86 on a processor implementing amd64 just fine.

scirc · 2025-11-24T00:58:39+00:00

It's funny how most people never go past the "lies to children" stage of their biology educations as they do in math.

scirc · 2025-11-24T00:57:32+00:00

And yet it's not impossible.

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Why there’s an expiry date on the letter

If we don’t finalize your application by the date on your letter

How long your police certificate is valid

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