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Our LLMs were trained on the widespread theft of copyright content, with clearly defined and well tested law. But they made capitalists too much money so it became defacto legal.

Next you'll be telling me fairy tales like "laws are real".

It's been a while since I've done actual development, but determining tabindex ordering was a very big deal in the early 2000s when clerks/admins were moving from legacy systems to the web. They did most of their jobs with a keyboard, and if you set up tabindexing so that they can use a keyboard for 90% of their job then they would fly through tasks. If you didn't then you'd have some very angry clients at the end of the project ;)

So just echoing that this is not just an accessibility thing, but just a good user interface design thing. If your UX designer isn't taking keyboards into account (jettison mobile first development into the sun please) then they have no business building business applications.

Never forget that those Chinese tanks did a sick burnout on tank man's corpse and then t-bagged the remains.

Propaganda exists everywhere and it's your duty as a citizen in a democracy to inform yourself and properly evaluate bias in the media you consume, such as "Kill the boer" by South African mus

The slave aristocracy of the Confederate States of America, and members only Communist Party of China are both democracies.

What we consider democracy went through a LOT of iteration, and continues to this day. Representative first-past-the-post is a form of democracy that can have the unfortunate side effect of the minority of the electorate establishing a tyranny of the majority. There is a lot of scholarship on how to make democratic systems more democratic.

Former IT union leader. It really depends on the union because every contract is unique to the bargaining group and employer.

Traditional blue collar seniority, set wages, and hyper specific job roles simply won't work in knowledge work. So there tend to be higher severance payouts in lieu of seniority promotions, pay bands with equity review instead of pay steps, and very flexible job roles.

I think a lot of folks see unions from their youth working in construction or service work, which have a lot of corrupt "company unions" which mandate hour caps and shit benefits for part timers.

Realistically IT workers with leverage like ourselves need to think of unions as contract insurance. You already have a contract, the collective agreement can be as broad as possible to allow the flexibility to respect individual contributors, while the pooled dues are put towards eventual contract enforcement.

My first IT job gave me quite a surprise when they ripped up my contract and said "so sue us." That's the day I found out how much a labour lawyer hourly rate costs. 10 years later as a union leader I started signing the sizable cheques to our law firms, there's always a bad manager somewhere causing a lawsuit...

Yeah there's a reason our datacentres are in Kamloops, cheap housing and a big ass river right next to it. It even gets decently cold in the winter so you can save on cooling.

There's also tons of opportunity to build them out in former pulp mill towns on Vancouver Island that have big interconnects or dedicated generation.

You'd have to be an idiot to put a datacentre in Vancouver, or have fuck-off scale monopoly money, which is probably why Telus is doing it.

This is why I always scoff at people talking about the scarcity of landfill space. We have damn near unlimited space here. It might not look like it if you never leave a major city, but if you drive up north you will see nothing but trees forever.

The only hard part is ensuring your waste doesn't enter the water system, but that's just bog standard mining engineering.

Yeah this is pretty much the only thing protecting us from Records Retention Policy(tm). Because the legal office thinks discovery is toooooooo risky, we have to delete all of the information we used to develop long lived business processes.

When I wrote this god and I understood it, now god only knows.

Uh the driving assist is pretty bad for north american roads. I wonder if Germany has immaculately painted and well maintained roads?

My buzz loves trying to jerk the steering wheel when it can't figure out how the lanes work.

Net Promoter Scores is the only thing that the marketing department cares about. So fill out that customer satisfaction survey, give them a 1 out of 5, and say why. Passives (2-4) are not even considered lol.

I made my petition in April 2025. I was genuinely surprised that my riding was fooled by Liberal lies, but I'm not surprised about the result.

Liberal, Tory, same old story.

Audience is important. Devs should stick to the agile manifesto to communicate among themselves.

Decision makers want to see a wall of text in every project plan, decision document, and strategic plan. Not because they know anything about it, or even attempt to read it, but because they want to trust that you've thought about everything and provided a good recommendation.

AI is going to pull the wool over their eyes and they'll have no idea until it explodes in their face. I really think we're going to see a reversal of the 2000s high trust business environment, and as we move to a low trust environment, I hope you're all drinking buddies with your VP ;)

The title is going extinct but the work remains...