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subarctic commented on Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling   bbc.com/news/articles/cj6... · Posted by u/haunter
BeaverGoose · 2 months ago
Why is this on hacker news exactly?
subarctic · 2 months ago
Probably because there's a bunch of English speakers on here from Canada, the US and the UK. TBH I think it made it to the front page because of interesting discussion in the comments, not because of the content of the article itself
subarctic commented on Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling   bbc.com/news/articles/cj6... · Posted by u/haunter
retrac · 2 months ago
It's not a line that's crossed. It's just the standard in Canada.

In Britain, aeroplanes are made of aluminium and they have tyres. The Ministry of Defence sends them out on manoeuvres in theatres of combat, where the pilots have generally excelled due to regular practice.

In America, airplanes are made of aluminum and they have tires. The Department of Defense sends them out on maneuvers in theaters of combat, where the pilots have generally exceled due to regular practise.

In Canada, airplanes are made of aluminum and they have tires. The Department of National Defence sends them out on manoeuvres in theatres of combat, where the pilots have generally excelled due to regular practice.

subarctic · 2 months ago
Funny I'm Canadian and I thought it was aluminium and maneuvers
subarctic commented on Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months   pcpartpicker.com/trends/p... · Posted by u/zekrioca
khaki54 · 2 months ago
The actual headline here is sort of misleading -- the 4x price increase is over the past 3 months!
subarctic · 2 months ago
I mean I wouldn't say it's misleading, it just says what the graph contains. It's important that it shows 18 months so you can see how flat it was before
subarctic commented on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy   cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-d... · Posted by u/randycupertino
Group_B · 3 months ago
This is simply a rage bait article. They know what they’re doing publishing this. We don’t need stuff like this on HN.
subarctic · 3 months ago
"Figure out an opinion that no one has that you could conceivably argue for that will piss off the most people"

I know some people that like to do this for their own entertainment in real life, i guess they could get a job writing for cnbc

subarctic commented on Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break   urlahmed.com/2025/11/05/w... · Posted by u/linkregister
trentnix · 3 months ago
Warning, rant ahead. Not sure if it’s the wisdom of a few decades of experience or if I’m just jaded in the latter half of my career. It’s probably some of both.

My heart breaks for new grads. You’ve been dealt a raw deal by an industry that looked at you as an opportunity for financial and ideological exploitation and not a mind to guide and develop. They lowered expectations and made grander and grander promises. But the reality you face is an awful job market without the skills and maturity (which isn’t the same as knowledge) of previous generations.

Even still, that shouldn’t matter. With AI tools, new grads are better equipped to be productive and provide value early in their career ever before. LLMs have enabled productivity in areas where learning curves and complexity would have traditionally been insurmountable.

You should see companies putting the accelerator down on building and trying new things and entering new markets. But no, it’s layoffs and reductions and reorganizations. Everyone is reading from the same script.

Few in the C-suite wax philosophically anymore about how their people are the lifeblood of their companies. Instead, it’s en vogue to plot how to get rid of people. They think making aoftware is just an assembly line. They treat software professionals like bodies to throw at generic problems.

Every business plan is some sort of hand-waiving of “AI” or a strategy that treats customers like blood bags, harvesting value via dark patterns and addiction.

The result is that most software is anti-user garbage. Product teams emphasis strategies to ensure “lock-in”, not delivery of value. So many things feel broken and I struggle to make sense of how we got here.

I want to build software for people. I want to use software built for people. That used to be the recipe for success and employment opportunity. Now, employment as a software professional feels more like a game of musical chairs than an evaluation of one’s value and capability.

subarctic · 3 months ago
This rant is inspiring, it makes me want to find, or be, that company that is putting the accelerator down and building things instead of focusing on limiting costs and replacing people with AI.
subarctic commented on Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta   mullvad.net/en/blog/shutt... · Posted by u/holysoles
geokon · 3 months ago
a bit tangential but has anyone noticed a serious degredation in quality with duckduckgo? its become completely unusable and ive had to switch to Bing :(

My guess is search's days are numbered and companies are "pivoting" away to other projects

a shutdown is preferable to silent bitrot

subarctic · 3 months ago
I switched to brave search a year or two ago and found it to be an improvement
subarctic commented on Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time   coffee.link/vodafone-germ... · Posted by u/PhilKunz
hylaride · 3 months ago
Bell Canada also has had a long-standing policy of refusing to peer with internet exchanges. They'll only truly peer with other direct backbone providers and a handful of one-off peer with other large networks (google, cloud flare, etc), but their historical position as Canada's base backbone (not so much anymore, but it was definitely a thing pre-2005) has meant their policy is most people should pay them to peer. I'm not sure if it's still the case, but IIRC for awhile they also refused to peer with any other domestic backbone providers.

The result has been some funny routes sometimes. I live in Toronto and have seen trace routes bounce over to Chicago to connect to stuff colocated here in Toronto.

It's frustrating as their fibre is my only real high speed option; also their lack of IPv6 on anything but their mobile network is annoying.

subarctic · 3 months ago
It's annoying how they're the only big ISP offering fiber everywhere when they're also the ones that don't support ipv6 and have the shitty peering policy. I've heard you can use another isp though (teksavvy maybe?) that uses Bell's fibre and supports ipv6
subarctic commented on Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time   coffee.link/vodafone-germ... · Posted by u/PhilKunz
1over137 · 3 months ago
it’s also insane because probably no Canadian wants their traffic going through the US unnecessarily, since all the 51st state takeover crap.
subarctic · 3 months ago
Maybe that's a way to give them bad PR and convince then to change policies? Unfortunately most people probably don't understand this well enough and they have a pretty well oiled PR machine with all their control over tv and radio stations, etc
subarctic commented on Apple reports fourth quarter results   apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
1123581321 · 3 months ago
A higher corporate tax rate leaves less available to issue to shareholders from net income.
subarctic · 3 months ago
Exactly
subarctic commented on I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars   rameerez.com/send-this-ar... · Posted by u/sebnun
subarctic · 3 months ago
Having my own server in a datacenter would be cool, buy it's hard to imagine having side projects that I'm willingly spending $1400 US/month on AWS for. Right now I'm still using the free tier on most platforms, plus a $14/month database on digital ocean that I'm not even using

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