smnrchrds

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by smnrchrds 21d ago
I had a study permit at first. I renewed my permit, got a work permit, renewed my foreign passport and extended my work permit, got PR and got citizenship, getting visas to match my work and study permits, over a period of 10 years, without
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by smnrchrds 21d ago
In Canada you never have to leave to renew or change status; it's just sometimes faster to do so. It's always the applicant's choice. I went through the whole work permit to PR to citizenship pipeline without ever having to l
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by smnrchrds 28d ago
That's really egregious to do in Nova Scotia out of all places. Where there was a mass murderer on a 13-hour rampage, they just tweeted about it. This is what they use the emergency alert system for?
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by smnrchrds 2mo ago
St Louis Fed is really angling for that Beigie award.
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by smnrchrds 3mo ago
The lawyer they banned was not engaging in litigation against MSG. She was part of a large firm (with more than 1000 lawyers) where another lawyer was working on litigation against MSG. Like imagine if Google sued Live Nation and then anyon
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by smnrchrds 4mo ago
Imagine if you fall seriously ill and a charity hospital comes to you and admits you in, giving you medical care and shelter, at no cost to you. You are in dire need of urgent care, so you accept. There are round the clock nurses and doctor
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by smnrchrds 5mo ago
As a non-anglophone myself, I hate the fact that we have given one language so much power to dictate how every other country and language should name things. You will never find an American company changing the name of their product in the
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by smnrchrds 5mo ago
Australia already does something like this. I don't know if there were any engineers involved in designing it. https://www.afsa.gov.au/professionals/resource-hub/penalty-u...
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by smnrchrds 6mo ago
Same here in Canada. I have had three non-competes in my career, none of which were paid. All of them were probably unenforceable if it went to trial, but I would have never gotten that far in the hiring pipeline. I instead opted to switch
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by smnrchrds 6mo ago
Most non-competes are at least 6 months but usually more than a year, and I have never worked in a company that was open to hiring someone with a start date that far in the future. Plus, the clock wouldn't even start running until they
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by smnrchrds 6mo ago
You may not even get as far as an interview. More and more, I see job applications asking whether you are subject to non-competes, alongside asking about visa etc. I imagine answering yes will unceremoniously move your application to the re
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by smnrchrds 6mo ago
I disagree. Hexagons are the bestagons.
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by smnrchrds 6mo ago
According to the link posted above, the choice is up to the customer, not the retailer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366595
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by smnrchrds 6mo ago
According to the article, the law says B. If that makes for bad law, it's up to the legislature to change it, not up to the retailer to unilaterally decide to stop following the law.
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by smnrchrds 8mo ago
> From the site: Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November It's Calgary. The landscape will be a lot snowier anytime in November.
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by smnrchrds 8mo ago
Sure. But this post resonated with me even though we have universal healthcare in Canada.
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by smnrchrds 9mo ago
In my defense, I remember it because I expect Option key to modify the original character and Shift key to make it bigger, so remembering that Option plus Shift makes hyphen into a bigger alternate version of it, i.e. the em dash, is not di
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by smnrchrds 9mo ago
> Well the em dash remains difficult to type on a normal keyboard Not on Mac: hyphen/dash: - En-dash: ⌥- Em-dash: ⇧⌥-
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by smnrchrds 9mo ago
First of all, thank you for making this. I used it in my recent job search and it was fantastic. Second, if I may make a request, could you please follow SemVer? I tried rendering my resume again last week, only 3 or 4 months after having
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by smnrchrds 10mo ago
Thank you for writing this post. Your writing is insightful and thought-provoking. I would love to follow your blog to read your future posts as well, but I could not find an RSS feed or an email newsletter option. Is there any chance that
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by smnrchrds 10mo ago
I can see the logic. Layoffs are always terrible. But if I am getting laid off anyway, I would prefer to know about it before I spend a whole bunch of money during holidays.
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by smnrchrds 11mo ago
I see. Thanks for the explanation. So the system is slow to come up to the set temperature. Is it good at keeping the temperature though? After the house temp gets to 70, does it consistently stay at 70, or are there shortcomings in this as
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by smnrchrds 11mo ago
I have never had a heat pump, so I wasn't aware of this shortcoming. Could you please explain a bit more how different it is with heat pump compared to furnace?
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by smnrchrds 11mo ago
Also Canadian here. Have been closely following US-Canada trade for years. What you are saying is news to me. I am leaning towards believing you are simply mistaken, but if you have specific evidence about these two assertions, I would love
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by smnrchrds 11mo ago
I didn't know digital twin had an official definition. Could you please share a bit more on what makes a simulation a digital twin?
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by smnrchrds 1y ago
For example, in Arabic, nouns have three forms: singular, dual, and plural. Dual and plural are not interchangeable.
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by smnrchrds 1y ago
H1-Bs are indefinitely renewable as long as you keep your job.
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by smnrchrds 1y ago
The only effect of applying to jobs on jobs.now is that someone who is already working in the US on H1-B, and was gonna get green card if you hadn't applied, would instead stay on H1-B.
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by smnrchrds 1y ago
Indeed. If the LLM calls a chess engine tool behind the scenes, it would be able to play excellent chess as well.
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by smnrchrds 1y ago
OpenAI defines AGI as a "highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work" [0]. It may not be the most satisfying definition, but it is practical and a good goal to aim for if you are an AI compa

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