Somewhere outside Israel.

Did they try calling the CIA? Or maybe this is the call.

I was gonna say that it sounds like we need a a stack of money from the US to do it. But then this would actually be a poison pill so no. 😂

The correlation between adoption AI and laying off software staff is just a correlation. Layoffs in this industry have happened before. There were plenty in the 2000s. That’s not to say that AI has no effects or I’m defending AI in any way. Rather that if you believe that AI is causing layoffs in software and the profits come from replacing workers with AI you’re getting the wrong picture and reaching the wrong conclusions. Companies can absolutely make more money by laying off staff in many conditions. For example laying off most of the team that built a system when only a fraction is needed to support it reduces costs and boosts profits. Another example and a more relevant one, is when a firm stops believing it’ll be able to sell more product in the future, laying off the workers it had hired to build that product reduces its costs and boosts its profits. None of this is new and the technology sector isn’t special. We’ve experienced a prolonged period of labour shortage in it which made it seem different but that’s always changing.

Wasn’t it Realtek who made 1GbE popular as well by making the cheap 8111 IC over two decades ago?

HARD DISK STORAGE 🪦

I really hope the new government does well for the workers. Siding with CP’s management isn’t good for anyone but CP’s management at this point. Workers are worse off, businesses workers fund are worse off, businesses served by these workers are worse off. But my hope isn’t high.

Now owned by US private equity according to wiki.

Strap them onto a scrap piece of wooden board for stability. You could then hang the board vertically to save space.

This sort of metal strapping works great:

Something tells me Maple Engineer doesn’t have PP’s best interest in mind.

Staff the stores and increase the quality of items you carry, and you’d be doing well. Not sure if they’re doing that or whether this is just the Buy Canadian effect.

Err, I bought a SuperCycle in 2005 which ended up unusable within two seasons worth of riding due to brake and rim deformations. I’ve also bought numerous spare bike parts, cables, tools prior to 2010. They were invariably of very poor quality. Cables rusted, tools ruined other parts due to poor tolerances and weak materials. Once you handle parts and tools made by the typical bike industry, the differences in quality and durability becomes obvious. I don’t know how they are today but this was a conscious choice to reduce costs and pad profits. It’s not like there were no better bikes on the low end of the spectrum. The first cheap non-CT bike I bought in 2011 second hand (Iron Horse made in 2006) and serviced with non-CT tools and parts is still in use today by a friend.

And Home Depot’s owner is Republican megadonor, so I avoid it whenever possible.

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I think at this point, the hasbara and apologia looks more and more out of touch with reality and it has the opposite effect of its intent. I think the more we see it, the less it works. Totally anecdotal assesment of the process, but the shift in opinions is factual.

That tracks.

Yes. And use tools they have to hold to account provincial politicians who engage in such misinformation.

Some of the most insidious forms of decentralization have occurred at the level of politics. Provincial governments routinely engage in buck-passing and blame avoidance, attempts to pin responsibility on the federal government for matters under their own jurisdiction.

This is a significant problem but it won’t be solved by centralization. People in any organization, public, private, engage in shifting the blame on fuckups. It doesn’t matter where the real responsibility lies, as long as the audience buys the blame.

(sorry for the long delay)

No prob whatsoever. I appreciate your time.

As for the computer, I have no idea and I’m not skilled enough to check. I ordered some push-pull quad channel buffers from TI and Nexperia, SOIC breakout board and decoupling caps. Unfortunately I made it work using a Trinket M0 with a trivial CircuitPython program before those arrived. Already tested it on a bike ride and just sitting powered on over 24 hours. No failure so far, so I conformally coated it and installed it. The fly was killed with a bazooka. 😂 And so I think I’m gonna keep it like that and will revisit the new buffer ICs I bought if it fails again, or if I need to build another adapter. Thank you for your help!

HRC