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BlackAura

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  • Bike lanes on Richmond-San Rafael Bridge are contributing to pollution, drivers say

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  • Talking with cyclists it's actually the opposite. It works in the sense that if someone is turning right they will get into the right lane and essentially self block a bicycle from pulling past them on the right side (if a cyclist did that they have a high likelyhood of getting hit as they are pulling into the cars blind spot... Then traffic starts moving and the right turning car just goes and suddenly there could be a bike there).

  • WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages

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  • I love that my global settings has a whole section labelled Privacy, but I can't disable this globally for all chats my account joins.

    Instead I have to disable it for each chat individually.

    What awful design WhatsApp (obviously on purpose so I'll forget with new chats).

    Well maybe this is the push that those friends will need to move to Signal...

  • Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun!

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  • There's a rather long documentary on it. I want to say by NoClip but not totally sure.

    Short version is they came up with the idea in the 90s I want to say, playing tabletop with a friend group. Two main designers. Helped set up a company to make a computer RPG version and designed and built the game with a team. Outsider investing came in and bought up some amount of the company.

    Once game was built and shipped and they were looking into what to do next they were effectively ousted from the company. So the two original designers of the game now get nothing and lost control of their passion project.

    Edit: while. NoClip is making one, the one I'm thinking of was done by People Make Games. At least I think it's this one? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JGIGA8taN-M

  • Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun!

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  • I actually looked up the source for this and couldn't find it.

    That being said I agree with the sentiment.

  • Canadian citizen dies while in U.S. ICE custody in Florida

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  • My parents used to go down to Arizona. They sold their trailer back in 2018 (so just before Covid which was very lucky). They've done the odd trip down to the US (they sold because they wanted to go to different places) but plan to go out to Vancouver Island and other places more often now.

    Family friends with a house in Palm Desert sold their place after Trump joked about Canada being the 51st state and plan to never go back down again. At least for as long as he is president.

  • Boston Dynamics robots dance to 'Don't Stop Me Now' for 'America's Got Talent' audition

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  • This seems like something that was pre-programmed, in particular if they had five robots all doing a choreographed routine.

    How is this AI related?

  • 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened

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  • With a built in game pad. And saying a game is SteamDeck supported means it supports SteamInput which means it supports the gamepad natively.

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  • Friend recently asked me something similar as he's finalizing a divorce and has started dating again, though he's a bit younger than you (and the girl is a bit younger than your example).

    I forget exact ages but the half your age plus 7 rule was met. Say 42 and 29?

    She worked in our industry and specifically the same role he did, but at a more junior level I have to assume.

    Distilled down a but I essentially said if they like each other and they are together because of that, then it's fine. They are both adults and can have fun together as much as they want. They need to keep that balance though. If it becomes a mentorship kind of situation then they probably both need to take a step back and reflect on what that means.

  • Recall issued over ineffective radon detectors sold online: Health Canada - National | Globalnews.ca

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  • Actually yes. Only Poland is higher than many parts of Canada per this site, and Czech, Finland, and Romania are roughly the same depending on where in Canada you look:

    https://evictradon.org/radon/radon-in-canada/

    That is crazy, wow.

  • Can someone get through college on GNU Linux?

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  • Software engineering in Canada in the 2000s. Most of the labs in my university ran Linux, at least in the engineering, math, and science areas of campus.

    Personally I ran, depending on the year, LFS (Linux from Scratch), Slackware, or Gentoo (which still lives on that laptop today but also it hasn't been booted or connected to a network in like 10 years).

    I think there was only one lab with Windows. We also had a lab of Solaris machines but I bet those are gone now.

    No idea what Law, Nursing, and other faculties in the other side of campus used.

  • Shametendo - Nintendo's controversies documented

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  • From the company that put root kits on music CDs...

  • The sharp edges and lack of crumble zones do additional damage

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  • Not sure if typo or honest mistake in your title but just in case:

    Cookies crumble (break into smaller pieces).

    Sheet metal and/or aluminum foil crumples (crushes / becomes creased).

  • Recall issued over ineffective radon detectors sold online: Health Canada - National | Globalnews.ca

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  • My friends mom died from the (or one of the few) lung cancer you can get even if you were never a smoker. Her sewing room was in the basement and they think it may have been due to above average radon levels.

    1 in a million chance or something, but apparently more likely with exposure to some things, including radon.

  • US to ban Canadians from entering border friendship library

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  • This is just going to be Berlin all over again isn't it?

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  • Oh absolutely having an aggressive manager and skip will help you with bonuses and promotions. But they don't force managers to give people low scores anymore.

    While the management tool had a weird slider and score system (you could give a number between 0 and 1000 IIRC), the general terminology was you could get between 0 and 200, indicative of how you compared to the average person at your level. 100 meaning you did average per-say or completed about 100% of the work an average person could complete.

    While not unheard of it was basically impossible to get 200% (required at least your skip/M2 and maybe your M3 to agree).

    Last I heard (keep in mind this was 2023 or so) managers got around 105% or 110% of their bonus allocated for their team. Generally that meant you could give everyone "100" if you wanted, but practically it never worked out that way.

    Also there were strict rules you couldn't take from a more junior budget to give a more senior person a higher bonus. You could however take from a more senior budget and give it to a junior.

    I. E. I couldn't give two SWE1s 80 to give a SWE2 a 120. The reverse was allowed though.

    Layoffs are generally done algorithmically. I'm not kidding. They don't want to be sued. They follow all the legal rules otherwise (can't layoff a US citizen without laying off a Visa employee first, etc).

    Source: I worked there for 11 years, I was an IC but have many friends who are managers who would tell me how the system works, and have been laid off twice. The first time I found another position within MSFT but the most recent time, in December, I opted to take some time off and find something else.

    Edit/addendum: when the managers get in the room for people discussions a lot of that is around promotions. Very little is bonuses. Bonuses are determined by your manager, then go up the chain. So your manager sets and signs off on your score. Then your M2 checks it and either sends it back if they don't agree or signs off and sends it up. Then your M3. At the M3 and higher levels I suspect they don't look too close but just make sure everything makes sense and the budgets balance.

  • We need spies. Canada is the only G7 countries without a foreign intelligence agency. It's completely foolish to trust the americans.

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  • Also: Country?

    Or "Canada is the only one of the G7 countries... "

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  • Microsoft got rid of that in 2014 or so, when Nadella took over.

  • James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis

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  • Oh neat my Total Wine and More has this. I'll have to get some next time I go.

  • Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot

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  • Depending on what I needed I remember using AltaVista, AskJeeves, Dogpile, and I feel like later on MetaCrawler or something like that (would search multiple search engines for you and ordered them scored based on platform and relevancy iirc?)