pupbiru

well then even funnier if it were australia - literally as far away as possible - now that we’ve been tariffed too!

"inflationary pressures" that are causing things like after school programs to be cut, are the union's negotiated salary increases.

if you can’t afford to pay people a fair wage to deliver a service, that service is too expensive… this isn’t the fault of people asking for fair compensation

The wage increases that they negotiate, are also way higher than most of the increases I've seen / heard of in the private sector.

okay but that is an argument that the private sector should be unionised though

union workers still get their ~20% increase over 3-4 years or whatnot.

that 20% is pretty peanuts since it covers the last however many years of unmet CPI increases, as well as the next 3-4 years and probably accounts for another 5 years or more of unmet CPI increases after that

CPI is on average around 2%ish, so that’s 10 years of CPI adjustment total - that leaves 6-7 years, so really only 3 years before and after the time… strikes don’t happen right away - people have been unhappy about their wages for years before

This creates animosity towards what's essentially a privileged worker class

perhaps, but the capitalist class has done a great marketing job then: it’s not unions that’s the problem, it’s the capitalists that aren’t paying people!

(australian, so i’m sure there are canadian specifics with this case but the general concepts don’t differ at all)

australia has them as well, so i’d assume general international

the word “continent” is very ill-defined in this case, and actually has nothing at all to do with plate tectonics

without cannons, how will they fight?!?

right?! gawwwwwwd we’re so fucking captured

yall do the whole “global revenue” things great! perhaps that similar thinking should also apply to country of origin: country of most profit or something

liiiike an iphone should probably label both china and US (and not ireland… maybe)

that’s exactly how PayID works in australia: in every bank interface you can “pay to” email addresses, phone numbers, ABN (australian business number) and a whole range of things, and it’s implemented as essentially a DNS of those things to our version of IBAN - it works great! and some banks automatically give you an @ (up bank for example has [email protected]) associated with your account, orrrr services to pay bills sometimes have @

i was just in europe and did some bank transfers and received - both with european bank accounts - and was pleasantly surprised that it was instant!

these 2 things combined in australia means we don’t have these shit middle-men and it’s all insured etc the same as any old money transfer (because it is) and you’re not relying on some “totally not a bank so we don’t follow banking regulations”

python in general tends toward readability over performance optimisation… you’re right they’re an advanced concept, and i’d say if you ever use bitwise operators in python they should be wrapped in some descriptive and very minimal function: treat it like a black box, because the next person that comes along likely won’t understand what’s happening without a pretty good description

a bit field is just not a descriptive data structure, so manipulate it directly as little as possible

i’d also say that most peoples use of bitwise operators is when unpacking external data formats (network traffic, operating system primitives, files formats, etc) and they’re usually wrapped in data structures that make those things more pythonic

unless you know you need bitwise operators, you probably don’t need bitwise operators

it will truly be a great day for humanity when our smart microwave can display accurate time derived from literally differences in things travelling the speed of light and atomic decay with redundant backups and systems designed to withstand nuclear war

a great day indeed

competition is healthy but fuck i wish they didn’t compete on catalogue - i wish they competed on features, or maybe “premium offerings” or something

as an aussie, i’m supporting canadian and european products, services, and foundations

i think that globally we get through this by cooperating rather than being protectionist… we’re stronger together, and that cooperation is what we need to beat the bully