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See https://archive.is/twft6 for context. The diagram is a bit lower on the page.

Any recommendation for a prettifier / SQL linter?

+1, strongly. Anybody selling meditation as a silver bullet is deluded or selling something.

I unplugged my AirGradient a couple days ago. It's quite the useless piece.

The CO2 sensor does not read CO2 levels, and recalibrates automagically. I have completely wacky readings from it, from 200ppm to 2000ppm.

The VOC sensor also apparently does not read VOC levels, see discussion here: https://forum.airgradient.com/t/measurement-values-for-the-a....

All in all, I'm frustrated I fell for the regular free advertising they get on HN.

What's with the weird 'i' in "tıtle"?

edit: none of this seem to be true, big-ass pickup trucks are just not popular in Europe.

Isn't it for Australia only? Are those models even sold there? I know F150 are not sold in Europe because (I think) they're not road legal, because they're monstrous killing machine.

From alcohol, I love:

- drinking it: I really enjoy the feeling of just ingesting beer, wine or spirits, especially with friends or family

- having a nice buzz from it.

However, those two things are, for me, incompatible. If I start drinking a little bit, I usually don't stop until I'm way beyond the "nice buzz". As the joke goes, "one beer is not enough, two beers are just enough, three beers really aren't enough".

Having something that would allow me to keep drinking without jeopardizing my body, my mind, and the day after would be a huge game changer.

Workday may be bad, but it has nothing on Taleo.

I personally love teams. I don't particularly like my job, and Teams is so buggy that I can blame it for all the miscommunication.

Example: I've not responded to a message. Is it because I was away for 2 hours, or is because Teams shat the bed again? You'll never know!

It also makes my severely limited, monitored and controlled work laptop even more sluggish to the point that it takes a whole minute to simply start a shell, and 10 seconds to run any command on it (before the command actually runs). When coding, any keystroke takes a second to register. Is my productivity shit because I hate my job, or because my laptop is a dumpster fire in large part because of Teams? You'll never know!

A bit late, but maybe someone will read this. I live in Toronto and installed a heat pump this year. We've been through the worst of Winter, I believe, and although the cost ramps up on the coldest days, the heat pump worked perfectly at -15C (it claims a COP of 2 at that temperature). I watch the auxiliary circuit, that is triggered if the heat pump fails to heat to the required temperature, and it never ran for the whole season. Yes, Winter can still get a lot worse and a lot cooler, but my house also has insulation and there is no scenario where I will freeze to death.

In terms of cost, it's a lot cheaper than gas + electricity (it evens-out on the coolest days, and is cheaper otherwise). It will not amortize the cost of the heat pump itself for a while, but that's a cost I'm happy to eat right now.

Why not consider non-intellectual work? Woodworking is a humbling and gratifying experience when it comes to "working harder for things and making incremental progress".

Working in France, I remember having to provide a "Scan of an original of Bank Account information slip" (approximate translation). It's just a number! That I could have copy/pasted in an email to make sure the secretary won't fuck it up, or I could download the document from my bank and email it, but no, HR insisted it had to be an original.

I eventually downloaded one from my bank, converted it to JPEG, added a light coffee stain with Gimp and sent that, to pretend it was an actual scan of an actual document actually printed by the bank.

Late reply, sorry.

They do, but it's nothing compared to what they make loaning money, which is their (and any banks) core business.

I sold a few piece of furniture on Marketplace, and had so many occurrences of "My employer is relocating me and I need to furnish my new place, I'll send movers to pick up the piece". Looking at the seller profile, it's often an account that has seen no activity for a while, and the job rarely matches the type of position that would get an envelope for relocation (e.g.: Amazon warehouse workers surely don't get a package to move to a new location).

The infuriating part is how easy it apparently is to highjack dead people / inactive accounts, and use them for fraud.

Case in point, I never use FB except for the marketplace every now and then. I naturally forgot my login/password, hit the "Forgot password" option, put my phone number and... got given access to someone else's account, that they've not used in years. They likely had my number before, I guess, passing away.

I contacted FB and did my best to try to lose access to the account, starting with login out, but I kept receiving notifications through text messages, and was permanently given the option to "switch account" with no authentication whatsoever. Out of option, I ultimately deactivated the account in question, but that pisses me off because I really really did not want to alter it in any way.

Long story short, it's not a surprise Facebook is riddled with shit like that.

RBC probably indulges in this as well. HSBC just has way more ties to Hong Kong and China than RBC does.

That's because they are one of the most global bank, therefore a prime choice when it comes to moving money from countries to countries. Most bank have a much smaller global footprint and can't be used as such.

Banks don't benefit from their customer laundering money just like landlords don't benefit from drug trafficking in their building: it's a hindrance and it costs a lot to do anything about it.

Source: I work on AML in a global bank.

See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Countries_Study

He's not exactly new to the domain, now.

One thing I appreciate with Taubes (having read his early books, not the more recent ones -- I really liked The case against sugar), is that he has an epistemologically correct approach to the problem. He looks at it through the eyes of a rigorous scientist, unlike most people in nutrition science.

For the most part, he was very cautious in his claim and spent most of his time discussing why claims accepted as correct are completely full of shit. It's likely that, through time, he built a corpus of knowledge and understanding that allow him to be a bit more assertive today (again, I've not read his recent work), but really, his early books are, in my opinion, remarkable for their thoroughness and intellectual honesty.

From all the diabetic I know, in France, Asia or North America, you're the only one I ever heard of with such recommendation. A friend of mine in France was actively advised _against_ a low-carb diet to control her diabetes. She did it anyway and saw incredible results. Nevertheless, and despite improvement on all indicators in her blood test, her doctor advised her to return to a normal diet and control it with insulin and "complex" carbs. That was in 2019.

I work in Fraud detection for a very large bank and deal with exactly that. Mind sharing which bank it is?

I feel Canadians get particularly shafted: lower wage, higher cost of life on essentials, stupid high rent in first tier city (where the jobs are!).

On the wages only, I wonder what justifies that Canadians make so little in comparison to their American peers living just an hour away across the border. Taxes alone don't seem enough to justify that gap. My take is that Canadians just... accepted it.

This reads like a disguised ad for AirGradient, which pops up here every now and then. I fell for it because it claimed to be "open". Well, although it is definitely more "open" than most, it feels like an afterthought.

See for example this: https://forum.airgradient.com/t/airgradient-diy-pro-pcb-3-7-..., linked to a Github issue opened in June.

Somehow, the source code for the new version has been overwritten by an older (CC-BY-NC) version, yet the issue has been left to rot, both on the support forum and on Github, letting me to think that the "openness" is mostly a posture to lure the HN crowd. Additionally, the -NC clause is definitely a deal breaker, and I should have investigated further before giving them my money.

(it sucks to air it out in public here, but apparently the AirGradient folks don't care much about issues raised on their own forum).

Something like that actually happened to me: FedEx will not listen to you, not care, not even give you a way to raise such a request. If you persist in not paying, this will be sent to debt collection. If you persist in not paying, your credit score will be affected.

There is simply no part of FedEx customer service that would deal with it, or if there is, it's well hidden. Yes you could probably go to court over this, but this is almost certainly not worth the time and money.

Source: spent countless hours dealing with this problem in 2023.

I benefited from a similar program a year ago, and although I have no regret, I feel that some honesty might help other.

First and foremost, the Canadian tech scene is nothing like the US, Europe, or Asia where I'm coming from. Tech jobs are rare. The flagship tech employer is Shopify and they just recently downsized.

Second, salaries are garbage, especially for migrants. There is a term for this situation called "Canadian Experience": employers claim that because one does not have experience working in Canada, they deserve a crappy salary while they acquire it. This is of course bullshit. It got so bad that it's actually been addressed by the government and made illegal, at least in Ontario[0].

Finally, the cost of life is absurd, with respect to income. In Vancouver or Toronto, rents are completely out of control, and buying is out of the question unless you have some serious funds, especially with the recent hike in mortgage rate. Price of food surged dramatically in the past months as well, and although I have a decent job (in terms of distance from the median salary), I don't go out nearly as much as I would want because it's too damn expensive.

Now, Canada is a great place for normal humans to live in, especially with a family, and again I have no regret. But right now, it's not a good place to make it in tech.

[0] https://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/policy-removing-%E2%80%9Ccanadian-...

Hong Kong uses grey water for flushing toilets, and I never had a problem. Each building has its own tank (I believe, to pump the water and maintain a correct water pressure) that needs to be washed every now and then, but that's the same with fresh water.

2 weeks ago I met a Chinese chef, the kind that cooks with a wok on those extremely noisy burners. He thinks induction is better than anything.

Quite diverse. Fairly young people mix with 40+ like me.

I've been attending this for a few month, and it is properly excellent. Very much an opportunity to geek out with other nerds around some food and beverage, that I am looking forward to every Mondays.

Reading the article, I thought that it was not relevant to compare carbon footprint per unit of mass, and I was pleased to see it was addressed in the last section. However, the way it's addressed feels even more disingenuous: they removed all the non protein-rich food from the chart. Naturally, mostly animal products remain at the top.

Based on the assumption that humans need protein[0], it seems only fair to compare everything we eat on a carbon-cost / protein-value basis without cherry-picking the data points. It's here:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-per-protein-poore?tab...

A few observations: - coffee and chocolate are very high up. To be fair, nobody assumes that those have any kind of nutritional value, and that's not why they are consumed. - beef and lamb are very high. It implies that, even in the most charitable light, lamb and beef are bad in terms of carbon emission[1]. - among non-animal products, tomatoes, cassava and bananas are surprisingly high up. Higher than a lot of animal products. Now that is relevant, because those are consumed for their actual nutritional value. Rice, a staple all around the world, is worse than farmed fish, or eggs! - wheat and nuts have an amazing carbon-cost/nutritional value ratio.

[0] and fat, there are no essentials carbs. [1] and that makes me sad because I love both.