Well damn, this gives a whole new meaning to the Whitest Kids You Know skit about going on a whiskey diet:

https://youtu.be/uOyjzE1vcD4?si=6sejNKCk-VkIzwGo

Also RIP Trevor Moore, another tragedy.

In the coming years? It pretty much already is

I’ve replaced my Make usage mostly with taskfile.dev and/or Warp workflows/notebooks

My employer submitted all my T4 information to the CRA. My investment services submitted all my tax forms to the CRA.

UFile downloaded everything for me, autofilled my return, submitted it online back to the CRA and charged me $30 for the privilege. LMAO

That's why I use one of the free options. Both GenuTax and WealthsimpleTax are free to use and user-friendly, albeit in different ways. What extra thing does UFile do to justify its price?

At the time it was just the convenience of getting it done and moving on since I’ve been using it for over a decade. Next year I will probably just use WealthSimple, since I have fair amount of investments with WS anyway.

Linters/static analysis should be in “the pile” regardless if you’re using LLM-generated code or not.

This seems like something that static analysis that is android aware should be able to find?

One of the notes in the postmortem was that if it were Kotlin, it would've been caught by the nullability checker.

It wasn't, though, and much of the core Android code won't compile with nullability checks because it was written before @Nullable/@NotNull annotations were a thing. Pre-2010 Java code basically has to assume everything is nullable. My point is that LLM-generated code often doesn't, because it's trained on StackOverflow code where the author either doesn't care or had implicit knowledge about which variables could be null and which couldn't. Hence it generates code that is valid in most situations but can lead to a crash when used in situations where its data dependencies may be null or uninitialized. Exactly the stuff of security nightmares.

Or, put in another way, a job guarantee program LOL.

The government doesn’t care that TikTok is collecting your data. They only care they can’t control it like other American tech giants.

Well, yes basically. What else would they do?

exactly

I had to get married fast because my travel agent failed to get our wedding license to Jamaica fast enough for our destination wedding to be legal in Canada. So we got married a few days before leaving to Jamaica and had the pastor on the resort “officiate” for the family experience even if we were already married (nobody knew except us). The “two weddings” were only a few days apart. My pastor at home dropped everything to marry us the afternoon we called him with our dilemma.

Unpopular opinion but Warrior Within is my favourite, followed by the cell shaded Reboot and Sands of Time being about equal for me.

Warrior Within had such great gameplay, just some slightly cringe choices of tone, which particularly unfortunately, were especially apparent in the first half-hour of the game. It generated a load of negative talk for a really good game.

For me the tone is big part of why I love it. It’s such a perfect distillation of what it was like being an angsty teenager at that moment in cultural time. Even looking back I still think it is just cool AF.

The closest comparison I can think of how I see it is like Brandon Lee’s The Crow, which is also still one of the most badass films ever made.

"I am the architect of my own destruction" spoke so much to the teenager in me back in the days. Hands down the best Prince of Persia.

I think it really depends which stage of your life your played those games at - beeing a very dark and brooding 15-year old who was into all kinds of "edgy" teenage media at the time, the metal soundtrack and darker themes of Warrior Within made it seem like the coolest videogame of all time.

Maybe it’s rose tinted glasses but WW holds up much better today as well, in my opinion. The combat in that game is just absolutely wonderful.

Sounds like nu metal lyrics, so it tracks.

Those two are my favorites as well.

Super Mario? Wouldn’t Mega Man be a better video game analogy?