lobut

@ lobut @lemmy.ca

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lobut @lemmy.ca 1d ago
When George W Bush was president they told everyone to shut up and listen. When Obama came to office they went wild with every single little thing.
They have no principles.

2d ago

colours

I can't remember what show I saw but it was when I was a kid 1990s but I recall them saying the color black was hard to produce back in the day.

4d ago

Mark Zuckerberg gifted noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors because of the non-stop construction around his 11 homes

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lobut @lemmy.ca 4d ago

I always wonder about that because you need a lot of people to function in an "end of the world scenario". It just feels like the ones that are doing the real work are the ones with the power in that case.

6d ago

Group of U.S. distillers complains LCBO, other provinces favouring local alcohol

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lobut @lemmy.ca 6d ago

They're free to complain, just like they're free to go eat shit.

I remember when we first did this that the Americans were like: "Canada is just a small percentage". So fuck 'em.

I'm glad they're pushing the administration for back to zero tariffs, but the 51st state rhetoric needs to go too.

1w ago

Why do you personally hate Christmas?

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lobut @lemmy.ca 1w ago

I think that was the origins of it and can be celebrated that way.

However, I feel it has most certainly been hijacked by religion and capitalism since then in certain parts of the world.

I enjoy it due to having time off, so I'll take that :P

1w ago

Op doesn't have time for interviews

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lobut @lemmy.ca 1w ago

I think they're stupid too. Going into an interview is already stressful enough and these types of questions don't put me into "problem solving" mode. They put me into "brain teaser" mode which is a different type of thinking for me. You know how we nailed these questions when I was in uni? We traded them after our interviews between each other and you just had to pretend you've never heard it before. So the main thing people were testing was whether or not the question had made it to them.

For programming, there are so many better ways to test out of the box thinking to me ... I think the "what happens when you press a letter into a web browser address bar" or something is better and at least relevant. One that I like is, "there's an outage in production, how would you go about diagnosing it?" Then as an interviewer I'd reshape the scenario and see where they put their focus and where they give up.

1w ago

Boiling lobsters alive to be banned in UK animal cruelty crackdown

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lobut @lemmy.ca 1w ago

There's a theory that carbonara used to be a "war time" food.

1w ago

rule

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lobut @lemmy.ca 1w ago

I remember when there were ads for Firefox at the top of the search results. Many companies I've worked at clicked that link instead of the first result and they wound up with a German Firefox (we were in the UK).

That wasn't the main issue though. It wasn't till a lot of time/companies have passed until the latest IT department I worked for flagged that Firefox version as being spyware.

1w ago

Anthony Joshua is my fucking hero

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lobut @lemmy.ca 1w ago

A truly jaw dropping moment.

1w ago

Russia sentences 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after poetic anti-war protest

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lobut @lemmy.ca 1w ago

I mean, they grilled Hasan Piker for hours: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/hasan-piker-border-trump-gaza

"Relatively peacefully" for now, but you can tell they're going to keep pushing things.

1w ago

You nomster!

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lobut @lemmy.ca 1w ago

My manager once swapped my coworker's keyboard to say "FUMICHAL" or something like that on the keyboard.

It was many weeks before my manager had to point it out to him that he did that. Since my coworker was a touch typer he just never noticed. I think my boss thought that since he was Polish that maybe he'd look down once in a while, but nope.

I don't think he ever changed it back because he just never thought it was worthwhile to do so.

1w ago

FOSS Is Always One Maintainer From Collapsing

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lobut @lemmy.ca 1w ago

I want to be a maintainer and help out but I just know it'll be exhausting. I swap languages/projects all the time. I was on the DB (OLAP), architecture, GenAI and DevOps teams just this year alone. The context switching is really bad. I still would like to contribute but I'd want to pick a project that I used semi-regularly and it's hard to identify when I'm so scatter-brained :/

2w ago

Trust Me Bro 🔥🔥

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lobut @lemmy.ca 2w ago

I usually just assume people around me are left leaning and progressive.

I went to London to visit the satellite office and one of the top guys there was having a rant against vegans. I chimed in a bit and said, "well, you can say what you want but vegans are at least doing good for the environment".

The guy was like, "I don't believe that"

I thought he was joking, so I said, "haha what, you don't believe in climate change?"

I should have never said that. Ten minutes of him furiously ranting about nonsense.

I got great quotes such as: "you know what climate change is? it's when seasons change" and also "we should be eating more animals because it increases the carbon in the world and is good for us".

Fucking hell. When I got back to the Canadian office and told my coworkers about him, the others were telling me how much of a prick he was -- and they didn't know anything about the climate change denial shit he was into either.

2w ago

Reindeer Alternatives

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lobut @lemmy.ca 2w ago

Reminds me of David Mitchell's Rant Against Christmas (Christmasland Rant): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxeDQv4lE-o

2w ago

OnlyFans model accused of stabbing boyfriend in Miami high-rise gets new trial date

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lobut @lemmy.ca 2w ago

"fatally stabbing"

They're going with the battered wife syndrome in the defense but there's been evidence of her repeatedly abusing him and he even said that he was going to die if he stayed in this relationship given the abuse he suffered.

2w ago

Petition to implement proportional representation

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lobut @lemmy.ca 2w ago

Signed (email link and everything)! This is so important ... be good if we can get enough movement to push this into the mainstream discussion.

2w ago

For those of you that made new friendships this year

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lobut @lemmy.ca 2w ago

A few at work where we've met up afterwards.

Traveling abroad and saw a few people and we linked up and took pictures and shared WhatsApp contacts.

I met this girl at a wine tasting and after the first date she just wants to be friends, does that count?

2w ago

Simple

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lobut @lemmy.ca 2w ago

I've seen some YouTubers say that FAFO isn't going to get them to start voting Democrat.

I honestly don't think they ever will ... so at the very least I think they should feel the pain that they've caused. I don't give a fuck if I can change their minds at this point. I don't know how to reprogram a cult member and it's galling to put that on me anyways.

2w ago

How the Taylor Swift Eras Tour makes money

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lobut @lemmy.ca 2w ago

I like the visual, although I'm dubious about the taxes :P

2w ago

Canada's population drops as country caps immigration

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lobut @lemmy.ca 2w ago

I hate the short-sightedness we have by allowing this type of shit in the country. We do the immigrants no good because we're paying them shit wages in a country with an HCOL. These jobs can be also be done by the youth and others which we're stealing from them as well. All because these our coffee shops NEED to pay these execs big money. It's disgusting.