It’s a good way to create martyrs.

For people in Canada, Pix is like Interac with automatic deposit activated.

Quebec was a French colony, they lost a big war, they hate the monarchy and dream of independence from Britain and the English part of Canada.

They try everything so people keep speaking in French. They force kids to go to French schools and reduced the places in English schools. They’ve had teachers and monitors forcing kids to speak in French even during recess. Of course it doesn’t work and kids will speak in whatever language they want, mainly English.

It wouldn’t be a big loss. That painting is ugly as hell.

I have a little bit of experience in this. Brazilian living in Quebec. So, my friends almost always spoke in Portuguese with their children, school and TV were in French. After some time, school starts also to teach English and they chose the language of the TV. Now the kids are almost always speaking in English, although the are fluent in Portuguese and, of course, French.

Now, my wife and I hated the TV in French, so we kept it in English. So, my kids had to deal with three languages from the start. They mixed everything up and we screwed up by saying words in all three languages. We speak mainly Portuguese but we would use words that they learned in other languages in those languages instead of in Portuguese. In the end, my kids mix all three languages in a single sentence, which is weird as hell. They’re slowly separating the languages and we too. Now, every sentence we speak is in a single language. Their friends help in a way, because they also speak French in class but English outside (and Quebec’s government hates that).

So, if both of you are Portuguese speakers, I’d only speak Portuguese with them and let the TV and school teach English. They’ll know how to keep things separated.

MSX, some version of MS-DOS, DR-DOS, Windows 3.0, 3.11, Slackware 3.0, Windows 95,98,NT,XP,7, CentOS, and now, MacOS.

At work, Windows XP,7 and 10, and several versions and flavors of RHEL.

Catapult??? Please… everybody knows the trebuchet is better.

Now it’s a Sycamore Grave

Brazil did this years ago. We see in the package “new weight, from X to Y, reduction of N%”. And nothing actually came out of it. Everyone does, we have to buy it, shit stays the same.

And that’s why we can’t have nice things.

Hey, I heard Boeing is hiring assassins. It’s in high demand!

Strictly talking about statistics, it depends on the context. From everyone who bought the game, 39% started it. From everyone one who played the game (so started it) 79% completed the first level.

It’s not panic. We already have direct connects to AWS and Azure. It’s something we’ve been working on for five years now.

My job estimated our VMware cost will be 10 times more expensive. We’re moving to the cloud as soon as possible.

Hey! Friday I went to a place in Montreal that has a working Dr Who table. Montreal Pinball Arcade

It’s actually a store that sells and rents the tables. Some days they open up to everyone, you pay a few bucks for unlimited play.

That feels like the hotel from John Wick series.

The pen is mightier than the sword or something like that.

So, let me tell a little story from a couple of months ago. We were migrating a big system and we discovered that it was still sending fax to some destinations. We still have a fax server running. The way it works is that we send an email to <faxnumber>@fax.mycompany.com and it will send the fax to that number.

So, we contacted the destinations and some declared that they didn’t even had faxes anymore. BUT, a few others still had them and, what a surprise, it was a fax server that would receive the fax… and transform it in an email!

Of course, we changed those services and retired the fax server.

I’m not talking about autopilot. It’s your job, as it is today, to reduce your speed BEFORE the limit change.