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New comment by willhslade in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

willhslade — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:22:25 +0000

Soil is generally garbage though. Just saying.

New comment by willhslade in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

willhslade — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:13:04 +0000

It's going to be hard for Toronto, home of our banking and stock exchange, to differ materially in operating hours from NYC.

New comment by willhslade in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

willhslade — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:29:45 +0000

What in Office has been a degradation? Just curious. I mostly agree about Windows.

New comment by willhslade in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

willhslade — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:05:33 +0000

Carney isn't a billionaire, right? He's been a bureaucrat, not a plutocrat.

New comment by willhslade in "Company as Code"

willhslade — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:06:20 +0000

Harvard Business Review's Office Politics. Or any intro Industrial Psychology textbook.

New comment by willhslade in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

willhslade — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:33:13 +0000

Greece? How did it go after the crisis?

New comment by willhslade in "Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in"

willhslade — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:53:02 +0000

Just want to post my favourite business interview of all time: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/wind-mobile-backer-regrets-...

New comment by willhslade in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

willhslade — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:28:08 +0000

Wasn't Carter a peanut farmer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter

New comment by willhslade in "Canada"

willhslade — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:17:42 +0000

In 2023, the median Canadian income was roughly $44K CAD. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=111000...

Looks like the USA in 2024 was $51K USD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...

I know we need to adjust for health care, but I think the median income in the USA is higher.

New comment by willhslade in "Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US"

willhslade — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:47:16 +0000

We're wildly aware. Currently 80+% of our trade is with the good old USA. We're basically an economic colony. But when the ambassador to Canada and Trump himself note that they don't need Canada (both statements happened in the last 2 weeks) we don't really have a choice but to attempt to diversify. We don't want to do it, we were reasonably happy with the existing arrangement, but it's not up to us to decide what the US does. It's up to us to decide what we do.

New comment by willhslade in "Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland"

willhslade — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:36:36 +0000

Careless People (the book about Facebook from a rogue insider) has literally a through line about all of this. Zuck is responsible and knew, both times.

New comment by willhslade in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

willhslade — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:33:51 +0000

Doesn't every personal computing device on the planet have a browser and thus Javascript? Aren't there more mobile devices than laptops and desktops? I'm an Excel dev and I'm pretty sure that Javascript is the largest development language in the world.

New comment by willhslade in "Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills"

willhslade — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 22:46:03 +0000

Not OP, but I did work for a boss once that was technically very strong, but not as strong in terms of planning and scheduling work. It was a very difficult process, because I couldn't deliver what they wanted, as what they wanted changed both during and after delivery. Most things I delivered, which were what we agreed upon before delivery, were rewritten as they did not envision or plan work in advance. Technical skills are not a panacea; professionalism is a multidimensional skill matrix.

New comment by willhslade in "Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling"

willhslade — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:34:16 +0000

Harbour. Centre. https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/canadian-english-vs-ameri...

New comment by willhslade in "US tariff negotiations with Canada terminated over advertisement"

willhslade — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 23:17:23 +0000

What's a great overview of this phenomena in book form? I'm intensely curious about this.

New comment by willhslade in "Pharma is a small component of US health care spending"

willhslade — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:55:20 +0000

Hey! You got it right!

New comment by willhslade in "Postal traffic to US down by over 80% amid tariffs, UN says"

willhslade — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 02:46:54 +0000

I think you don't understand what has happened here. OP's wife has a DUI in the USA. Canada does not normally allow people with a DUI into Canada. In exchange for $250, they allowed her in. This is both a surprise and a nuisance for OP.

New comment by willhslade in "Anthropic raises $13B Series F"

willhslade — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:30:24 +0000

Rogue

New comment by willhslade in "Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated"

willhslade — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 18:42:47 +0000

I know this is late to the party but I think, given that this topic comes up.every day, we should start including statistics in our posts to get a better sense of how AI is working or not for us. I imagine a years of experience / primary language used / tool used / AI positive or negative as a percentile estimate.

Personally for me it's 20 years of experience / Python / Copilot / 85% positive experience.

New comment by willhslade in "US Intel"

willhslade — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:09:55 +0000

So current management, who had proven incapable of running a business, will be trusted to ignore past political games and just retain talent? That's certainly a take