More taxes, and use that money to create a publicly-owned competitor. If the private sector wants to compete, they’ll either have to be better or cheaper than the public option, or both.

Also, re-nationalize the infrastructure. In Canada, taxpayers paid for hydro and telecom construction, then all of that infra was included in the privatization of those sectors. Bell has been profiting for decades by charging people to use the copper that was installed on the public dime.

Could be Canadian, we call it a 60 here

I know several, they’re type that base their whole identity around their job, and the type to die very quickly after retirement. They also vote conservative.

Software updates can be deployed regionally either based on carrier or by product SKU. If there are different SKUs for North American vs EU phones, which is almost universally the case because of differing regional requirements such as radio technology, target price points and so on. That means that phone model ‘X (NA)’ could have a different update schedule than ‘X (EU)’.

Why? money, of course. There is a small cost to supporting a SKU for updates, even if it’s the same software that’s already being deployed to another SKU. That increases if the two SKUs have different processors (Samsung does this). On top of that, longer update schedules means people aren’t replacing their phones as often, which means theoretically less sales - though I find that claim dubious as many people replace their phones long before they lose software support.

So yes, while it’s possible that a company might honour a 7 year update schedule outside of EU, it would be by their choice to do so.

… I don’t think there’s any combination of those that are good. Best option still has you shitting blue.

From someone who does this for a living… vary your names and addresses. Less chance of collisions if your suite teardown fails to clean up properly. Depending on your needs, having a hard-coded unique name/address per test can be fine, or if you’re using Python, there’s a library called Faker that will generate ISO-valid test data. It’s also a bit easier to see where a teardown failed if maybe an exception got swallowed.

PS/Xbox controllers have more internal space, so their joystick modules are much, much larger than what goes in the joycon. That means they can have more material in the potentiometers, meaning less susceptible to wear and dust/dirt intrusions.

PS Dualsense joystick

Switch Joycon joystick

properly zipper merging sometimes requires concessions of the driver in the lane being merged to

Doesn’t need to be any design flaws, a few minutes with a welder and/or a truck load of concrete at the door once they’re in there would render the whole billionaire problem “solved”, Hotel California style.

We have that in Ontario, and as a kid my cub/scout troop would go around town and ask people to give us their empties as a fundraiser. We’d return them and use the money to buy camping supplies and stuff.

This can be generalized to say that programming has become such a diverse profession that you will find experts in one area that know very little about others. There’s simply too many things that are programmed in too many ways for anyone to know it all anymore. Hell, that was the case in the 70’s and 80’s too.

I’ve been using it to write unit tests, I still need to edit them to mock out some things and change a bit of logic here and there, but it saves me probably 50-75% of the time it used to take, just from not having to hand-write all that code.

It’s that old time rock and roll

yeah, that’s well beyond what a roofer will do. You need a general contractor and a HELOC, that’s going to be a VERY expensive job.

Post ads on craigslist/kijiji/facebook/etc. Have business cards printed with a catchy name, simple logo, brief list of services and contact info. Whenever he does a job, bring a handful of business cards, give a bunch to the customer, maybe drop a few in mailboxes in the neighbourhood. Having a simple website might help as well

He can retire on a full federal pension, the only way it would get higher would have been if his party won last night. He has not, and will not, need to acquaint himself with the real world.

Something like this is useful as well if you have a large item to convert since you can offload that processing to your server/NAS and not have it bog down your PC/phone/etc

I don’t know if it’s as likely as the G&M says, 338Canada is still giving him a 93% chance of winning his seat https://338canada.com/35020e.htm - It’s come down some, but I doubt there’s going to be some sort of red wave there to oust him

+1 on that, I started with my kids on a free cloud server, and now have a local instance running in a container on my NAS for us to use

Cannabis also causes impairment and, coincidentally, munchies. That being said, all of the potheads I have known absolutely do not drive after partaking, though I cannot say the same about friends who have drank more than legal limits…