tmacam · HackerTrans

Well, they don't _have_ to rent long-term but if the unit is kept unoccupied, then they will be hit with the Empty Homes Tax in Vancouver, for instance. So yeah, they are forcing the landlords hand here.

And yes, I agree the house problem is a supply-vs-demand issue. And this is not addressing the core problem. But in a place with extremely low rent vacancy [2], having units removed from the market for STR isn't helping.

[1]: https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/empty-homes-t... [2]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rent-prices-rose-in-2023-1....

tmacam

3년 전discuss

    " I fear the day that technology will surpass our human
    interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots."

While I loved this quote (because I aligns with my opinion), it doesn't look it is from Einstein. At least searching for it in google I've found quite a few pages precisely debunking this attribution.

tmacam

3년 전discuss

As an example of a different frontend, have you tried "jujutso" [1]? Every time I ended seeing a comment about git vs Hg usability I am reminded of it. It uses git in the backend but its workflow/frontend seems streamlined.

  Jujutsu is a Git-compatible DVCS. It combines features from Git (data model, speed), Mercurial (anonymous branching, simple CLI free from "the index", revsets, powerful history-rewriting), and Pijul/Darcs (first-class conflicts), with features not found in most of them (working-copy-as-a-commit, undo functionality, automatic rebase, safe replication via rsync, Dropbox, or distributed file system).

[1] https://github.com/martinvonz/jj

tmacam

3년 전discuss

For me the best part was the image comparing various letters that look alike in other fonts (and that are removed in Crockford's Base32 precisely due to this):

> q9g (C iI1lL 0Oo8

tmacam

4년 전discuss

I wonder how this will impact SimpleTax / WealthSimple Tax folks. I absolutely love that product - which is a strange feeling to have for a tax filling software ;)

BTW, there is another thread about the message sent by the CEO regarding those layoffs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31756507

tmacam

5년 전discuss

Sad thing is: for subscriptions I actually prefer having Apple as a middleman.

Want to cancel a subscription? Cool, just do it through iPhone’s Settings. No questions asked. There. Done. No “call our customer line/chat to cancel your subscription”. Want to renew it? Same place. Prices are clear and no “small print” non-sense.

tmacam

7년 전discuss

> - many letters are useless relics from the past, twisted, accentuated or silent. > - similar sounds can be made by so many different combinations: au(x), eaux, ot(s), o(s), ô, oh...

The same can be said about English "two", "write"?

I would say even more so: the amount of silent vowels, silent consonants in English is rather puzzling for someone coming from a Brazilian Portuguese background.

I still remember as a kid trying to get by the concept of not saying the S in "island" or just ignoring the K in "knight", "know" and "knowledge" or G in "align" and "design".

I studied English as a kid and then French, German and Spanish as a teenager and early 20s. In the "pronunciation from written form" department, Spanish is spectacular: an absurdly regular language in this department. German was unexpectedly regular and quite manageable to grasp in my experience. French coming in third place but yet shows some rather high degree of consistency — once you get the gist it coming with a close-enough pronunciation from the written form is doable for a new learner of the language.

I would not say the same applies to English, and the amount of loan words it takes from other languages doesn't make it any easier to someone learning it.

> And we don't even agree on how to say it, rose is not said the same way in Paris, Toulouse or Nice.

Again, dialects/accents variations are not a French exclusivity. I understand you are not comparing say inter-country variations (like Irish accent vs a Texan accent, Quebecois vs Parisian French ) but rather intra-country variations, but yet, Northern Germany German and its Souther variations are quite distinct.

> - rich and complex system to explain the chain of though or events. It's powerful to use, but it's surely hard to learn, and even harder to master. > - verbose. If you a used to go to the point, well...

Yeah. Romance languages are verbose :(

tmacam

7년 전discuss

As the other comments mention, I avoid the + sign on a e-mail - way too many systems (from form validators to other systems) freak out with dashes, dots and plus signs in e-mails.

The format I have settled is somewhat like prefixFixedSizeSuffix@domain, both prefix and suffix being plain alphanumeric characters. Yes, the suffix is rather dumb (it could be a smarter like a hash when I used procmail) but still better than a catchall with no filtering.

I could have opted to a whitelist. Not sure how automatable GSuite services are (I guess a bit) but this simple regex allows me to just come up with email address on demand with with minimal fuzz.

tmacam

7년 전discuss

I wish I could do something as sophisticated as this with GSuite.

I did manage to get something similar in spirit but waaay simpler using GSuite filtering+routing and regexes.