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Good to hear, I've honestly been wondering how US folks would be received moving to Canada.

Various estimates do put me at nearly a 50% pay cut. Which, if the CoL doesn't scale down at least a little bit, could actually put me in a bit of a bind when supporting my wife as well.

That's if I could actually convince her to consider it, though.

A friend of mine at Tufts was telling me about their ML/comp sco programs falling apart. She's doing her PhD and was handed a project previously led by a green card holder who fucked off (because yeah why would you stay in a place that clearly doesn't want you??). Now she's left managing expectations for a project she didn't write the codebase for.

And that was BEFORE the recent disappearing of a Tufts student earlier this week.

I'm a productive SWE at a big tech firm and I'm looking pretty seriously at offices in Canada. Better than hoping I don't get abducted because my voter registration has (D) on it.

Really excited to see Dems loose next election because this is going to happen again.

Man I remember the last time I successfully played spy as a kid, with the, "turn left/right 170 degrees and backstab" commands you input right as you pass by someone.

Doable by hand, but now I have a cat on my desk at all times and the range of motion requires to whip around that fast isn't gonna happen.

Note to self to watch later.

Tagline reminds me of Tataru FFXIV, though I don't think she ever actually fights.

Mind boggling. I've been in the inside of big tech. Idk if my company was better, or the systems were better exposed to me than others within the company, or something else entirely. But this would've gotten me fired, and a review of the processes in place to ensure that information like that isn't recorded, and is discarded otherwise.

I'm not saying they're great. I'm saying they're great at convincing themselves that they do respect privacy (in no small part out of fear of regulation IMO). Something like accidentally recording and exposing intimate moments like this is just too on the nose for the people who want to believe they're the good guys.

Wait like as opposed to before today? Today's release is moving 4.3 from experimental branch to the long-term stable branch (or whatever they call it)

I mean in this case it was their company at the start. Like they get (or got) money from it in a way that the usual developer doesn't. And in this case it's because of a shitty, greedy action we have a pretty easy solution to. That being piracy.

Nobody is answering the prompt lol. Everyone says all of this shit all the time.

You live long enough to never feel at home. Sure the loneliness sucks or whatever, but who do you root for at the football game?

Having to buy new shoes for the rest of eternity. You know how much work I've literally just put into finding shoes that 1) don't suck and 2) aren't made with slave labor? It's impossible. Drives me insane. I'd found my own shoe company once I become immortal rich just to fix that problem alone. Maybe other stuff too we'll get there

I suppose on that note: it seems like a really bad idea to become a public figure after a while. Like you obviously don't want your immortality found out. You have to have like illuminati power before that point though, but it could happen at any time. Like if something happens and you become a news item (i.e. helping someone out and a video goes viral online). Not saying everyone is all that close to going viral, but over a sufficiently long lifespan you're effectively rolling that dice a lot.

I think the saving grace of the Internet is in the small holes that arent populated enough for these big actors to care about. If you're influencing a nation, you probably aren't going to inject your AI slop into a tiny proboards or like the forum on Gaia Online.

first I've heard of this show, so forgive me if you've heard this before. But. Aren't all LOTR stories generic, because "generic fantasy" (as we know it today) was defined by LOTR in the first place?

At least, any LOTR story that would blend with the original texts/movie. Peter Jackson's even on the poster, though IDK what his relationship with this work will be. I'm sure you could make an out-there story set in middle-earth, but I'm skeptical that it would be recognizably LOTR.

Depends on if you want it to be recognizably LOTR ofc