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This is not just Europe. I've worked in both Hong Kong and Singapore, and in both cases I had a 3 month notice after the probation period. Mind you, in both case this is symetrical: the employer can get rid of me, provided they give me a 3 months notice, or pay for it (more likely), just like I can leave after a 3 months notice period or pay for it. However in most cases, when leaving, you can negotiate to leave early, because no company wants to retain and pay someone who doesn't care anymore: they'll just get you to do some handover and let you go.

On the other hand, I find the North-American way brutal: if my employer wants to get rid of me, I'm revenue-less in 2 weeks. That's not a lot of time for me to find a new job.

I don't get the hate for Teams. Working from home, it's the best tool I can think of:

- because the app is so slow, our IT suggested to use the web version instead, as such it can't detect the away/available status properly, meaning no one can see if you're in front of your computer working on some other windows, or actually away from your computer - the web app keeps getting disconnected, and fails to deliver messages and notification in time. It also fails to indicate that it's failing. It's therfore customary for message to take several hours to be sent to/received by the other party. It's the perfect excuse for ignoring your colleagues for hours, and be like "Oops. Teams, am I right?", wether you were actually around, or again, doing something else entirely.

> Another one?

It's about the 2012 case.

I have the same experience... writing SQL code. When I'm programming, say in Python, I still see, in my mind, some manipulation of abstract concepts.

When I write SQL, it feels like the code pops in my consciousness magicallyfor me to lay down. This also means that I can very much explain and justify why I wrote Python code the way I wrote it, but I can't do that for SQL, I can just show that it works.

I am experienced in both, and I feel I write both with the same ease, I don't think it's due to me struggling with programming.

I'll be there. Thanks for organizing!

We created a Telegram group for Toronto HNers.

t.me slash +IAT_zueOKigwY2Y9

(trying to prevent bots invasion!).

me!

This is spot on. Although I disagree with the removal of AML/KYC regulation, this is indeed the reason why it's so complicated. HSBC was fined heavily and only came out of judiciaral control recently because they didn't care enough about money laundering. All the banks are scared to shit to be pinned by the regulator now, so that's what you get.

I was literally searching for tech / dev meetups in Toronto earlier today, as I moved here a couple months ago. The results were a bit disappointing. Most group are either dead or online only.

That's a way to say: YES, if that happens, count me in.

I'd be curious to understand where you get that information from.

Fat that stays solid at room temperature is generally high in saturated fat (except for margarin, but let's keep it out). Fat that stays liquid is generally vegetable oil (e.g.: canola).

I don't think there is strong evidence that vegetable oil is good for you whereas saturated fat is not. If so, I'd really like to read about it.

This is fascinating, my experience is quite the opposite. The coming up is a very uncomfortable experience, both physically and mentally, but the coming down is the best thing ever: everything is at piece, in its right place, the world has a beautiful glistening aspect to it. I truly bite the bullet of the up phase to bask in the comfort of the coming down phase.

Definitely agree with the "cooking 6 steaks for guests". This is my secret trick at barbecues: I pre-cook a bunch of steaks that I keep warn in an ice-chest (with no ice, obviously), then as guest comes and goes, I sear them, which takes a few minutes only. Every group of arriving guest gets to eat a nice perfectly cooked steak, straight out of the fire.

My other secret trick is to sous-vide chicken wings, so I don't have to fear about contamination of my tools, people being like "is it cooked enough? It looks pink". After sous-viding, I leave them on a cold side of the barbecue until they turn golden brown: the meat is soft, moist and almost candied. It's fool proof as they'll never really have a chance to burn and they always come up perfect.

This is exactly why I really like functional programming / OCaml. It feels like piping modules to let data flow through, which is an abstraction I seem to be most comfortable with. Unlike OOP, which is nothing like this and offer a much more "realistic" abstraction (e.g.: the typical Vehicle > Car analogy), that in my head crumbles a lot quicker when faced with programming problems.

I'd really like to be pointed to someone seriously denying the thermodynamic explanation. I've heard that argument time and time over, it's a strawman.

This is actually a great analogy. I believe what the article is (more or less succesfully) explaining is that the problem is with your thermostat, which drives you to eat too much, and that over-eating carbs screws up said thermostat.

I'll reuse this.

Yes! When you look at the price per square meters for housing in Paris, it's madness to allow people to leave their car overnight to sleep for free in the street!

Paris has parks too.

edit: the Bois de Vincenne is roughly three times the size of Central Park (10km^2 vs. 3.4km^2).

My family (and everyone I know who remotely does any sort of home canning in France) always re-used store bought jam jars. I don't ever recall buying a jar for the sake of a jar.

The only things we ever purchased are canning kits (some wrap, rubber bands, some kind of wax).

That is one thing that I find concerning about Asia (having lived both in Singapore and Hong Kong). Messages from various government agencies are written and illustrated like kid books. It makes me uncomfortable that either 1. grown-ups are so infantilized that they need to be addressed like that or 2. that governments feel their grown-ups are too stupide to be talked to normally.

I agree, but it forces the player to do something about it.

After a few hours in a game, I typically develop an autonomous train network with various train stations. I build one for my own personal train (which gets loaded with all the stuff I might need for an outpost). I can call that train to my location, provided I'm near a train track, by setting a temporary station and manually asking my train to pick me up there.

I must admit, navigating my world in a high speed train (eventually, my train gets fuelled from nuclear cells) is exhilarating.

They are counted in France, albeit not on a daily basis, which explains the irregular bump on data such as https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/

The official government stats publishes both numbers (death at hospital / death in care facilities).

Yeah.

Or doing a PhD.

After that, any non-academic job is super easy.

I'd pay some seriously good money for some information about how to efficiently meditate with ADD. From my experience, it is a poor tool to improve one's condition, and ADD makes it nigh impossible to efficiently meditate anyway. I have done some googling on that topic and only find lame "meditation for wellbeing" BS all around, but nothing clearly targeted for ADD.

Hong Kong consumes very large amounts of Ketamine, MDMA and Cocaine. Admittedly, not so much meth or crack.

That last thing about the effect of salt is something that has been bugging me for a bit. My understanding (at this stage, due to my lack of knowledge, it's more of an opinion, really) of this is that salt consumption slightly and temporarily raise blood pressure, but in no common measure to what an actual high tension is. But I have no real way to experiment with it.

(isn't philosophy, literally, love for wisdom?)

There are many comments complaining about exactly that product, you probably ought to spend a bit more time on that thread.

The most obvious culprit is the lack of sleep, since feeding can only be done at night.

Looking into it, it may seem wonky (it does to me). A friend of mine, very pragmatic and Cartesian enough gave it a shot and told me the same thing about how his life was transformed. Maybe I should look into it more closely.

The article mentions they are about to release their third book (last paragraph).