lol, yeah, that felt very appropriate 😛

Thank you for your kind words, my friend. It is an honor to be welcomed to your home, this beautiful land. I hope tomorrow brings more unity and kindness, and I will do my best to do my part to make that happen.

Happy Canada Day! Thank you for this beautiful post, it made me tear up a bit. I’ve made Canada my adopted home 14 years ago, and not a day goes by when I don’t thank my fucking stars.

But was $application.old_final the one to rollback to, or $application.old-final2?!

Sure, grandpa/grandma, time for your medicine.

Not to mention the benefits of versioning and being able to rollback! There’s something so satisfying about a well set-up CI/CD pipeline.

I’ve done this every time I’ve looked for a job. If it’s the kind of company that would snoop on my browsing history and cause issues, it would just have motivated me to look harder 🙃

I’m speaking from my 20+ years of experience in tech, so this advice might not apply anywhere, but I’ve found the fastest way to keep increasing your salary is to switch jobs every couple of years. I usually got bored of a job in a couple of years anyway, so this also helped prevent burnout. Additionally, switching jobs at leisure like this meant I could negotiate new salaries harder at the new place and didn’t need to try and change jobs during an economic downturn or a bad job market.

Oh, and I’ve always regretted staying on in a company too long once I get the itch so I’d recommend starting a hunt as soon as you think a change might be good instead of waiting till you start hating your job!

I thought this joke was hilarious 😂

This is interesting, and I’ve never heard about this before. That’s really disappointing, but from a game-theoretic sense it makes sense it played out like that. If Trudeau did in fact opted for a popular vote instead of using his majority power, I can respect that, even if it blew up in all our faces.

Like everything these days, I realize it’s too difficult for me to understand and keep up with the complexities of modern life 😩

I thought the cons wanted to abolish the CBC?

Going back on representational voting is what made me decide never to vote for the Liberals while Trudeau was in power again. I’m still pissed about that.

I’m only an beginner-intermediate lifter, so take all of what I’m saying with a grain of salt.

Ultimately your gains will depend on Time under tension, assuming you’re getting enough rest and nutrition, especially protein. You don’t necessarily have to keep adding weights since there’s other variables you can adjust like rest time, reps, speed (slower), etc. I can’t stress rest and nutrition enough, any time I plateau it’s usually because I’m not getting enough protein. Also make sure not to overwork your muscles, they need rest to recover and grow.

If you’re focusing on strength (and not hypertrophy or endurance), then you could add other exercises which work your biceps. For instance, deadlifts put a lot of load on your biceps and will shoot up your strength much more when used alongside your curls. To put it bluntly, with an example you’re often going to get more bicep gains from a 200lb deadlift than a 30lb curl (MASSIVELY oversimplifying here!). Of course, this only applies if you have already trained extensively on these lifts, they can lead to injury otherwise.

Additionally, there are often bottlenecks to a particular muscle’s growth if its supporting muscles, tendons, etc. aren’t strong enough. Focusing on the supporting muscles around your biceps should help unlock some gains too.

Another thing to consider is the principle of progressive adaptation. If you’re consistently going to the gym and focusing on perfect form, you should always progressively increase your load to prevent your muscles from hitting a wall. This does not mean you have to keep increasing weights, rather adding different movements, playing with rest time in between sets, etc. If you hit a hard wall, don’t shy away from reducing your weights and starting a ramp up again, this lets your overworked tendons rest, any weak spots to catch up and builds momentum.

Hope this helps!

Interesting that he chose to randomly name drop Tutanota as a compromised encrypted service provider.

Oh, flat-tery! I was puzzled for the longest time

You’re tripping, I’ve donated :)

It’s silly to use Sweden as a reference, they are a silly people in a silly country. Unlike Denmark which contrary to what many believe is a way way different and superior not at all alike Scandinavian country.

😂

TIL. I’ll remember from this point on that the Swedes are silly geese

Fascinating. NATO, or specifically the US, does seem quite obsessed with battlefield domination, which I guess it can afford thanks to its present infinite money and oil. Thanks for the insights!

I haven’t, but I did read the offensive was slow. I don’t know enough about the topic to know whether it’s NATO doctrine to blame or not.

Can you expand on this? I thought Russia was doing quite poorly in Ukraine, and in big part thanks to NATO supplies being sent to Ukraine?

Sorry, I am using the wrong word, “offensive” here, when I meant a defensive force. Basically, enough tanks, planes, or whatever we need for the defense you’ve mentioned. If we have enough already, great :)

In the situation our rival is the US, I really have trouble us building enough of a defense to do anything but buy time!