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mechatrocityon US to ban Canadian dairy, alcohol, motor vehicle imports on September 29

You'll need to cite a more reputable source

mechatrocityon Dutch spy services have restricted intelligence-sharing with the United States

Certainly not peacefully.

mechatrocityon Boeing 737 MAX Incident a By-Product of Its Financial Mindset

Working at an aerospace tier 1 contactor, I saw the Airbus NEO series announced and begin, then Boeing MAX begin in reaction, and fully "complete" to try and get to market first before NEO... "Agile Hardware Development" is not a thing for a reason

mechatrocityon Lobsters – Hacker News

Me too please

mechatrocityon Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted

https://archive.ph/KRU47

mechatrocityon Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks (2019)

Article from 2019.

https://archive.li/2022.03.08-114925/https://www.nytimes.com...

mechatrocityon P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945)

Ive been apart of that project but it's been dead for years, seems like it's unmaintained now :(

mechatrocityon Montreal is what North America could be

Aerospace and Video Games seem like 2 massive industries for the city?

mechatrocityon Ask HN: How to progress in career as a Software Developer with ADHD?

In the ADHD communities I'm on, and my own experience, the consensus seems to point more to ADHD's ability provide the gift of hyper-focus -- if you are enamored with the subject matter

mechatrocityon Ask HN: What old or deprecated software do you wish was still updated?

Winamp

mechatrocityon Art students learn to critique the work of others. Engineers don't, and it shows

I agree it's frustrating. I'm a Software Safety PEng that does alot of compliance and standards work, and safety validation. My company is good about delineating between engineering and developers... But very few orgs outside of safety critical industries care at all

mechatrocityon People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

BlackBerrys been doing alot in the software space these days, i don't think they've been "keeping it alive" with these stock shenanigans

mechatrocityon Belarusian Officials Shut Down Internet with Technology Made by U.S. Firm

Weird seeing Sandvine declared a "U.S. Firm", as a Waterloo resident

mechatrocityon The young centre of the Earth (2016)

Centre is the standard for all English countries except the US, no? We use centre in Canada

mechatrocityon How the Soviet Union Led and Lost 'The Space Race'

I thought by most definitions they won the Space Race, by being the first to have a habitable space station

mechatrocityon Ask HN: Consultants in Montreal willing to let me shadow them?

Did you have a bad experience in QC or something?

mechatrocityon Dutch Startup Converts Heat into Cold via a Stirling Engine

www.soundenergy.nl/theac-25

They should have thought harder on that name, it's one missing R away from the infamous Therac-25

mechatrocityon Going blind and learning to love audiobooks

A shout out to my favourite audiobook website, https://librivox.org . All free and open.

mechatrocityon Fearless concurrency in your microcontroller

> The RTFM language was created ... to develop real time systems for which FreeRTOS didn’t fit the bill.

I'm curious how they determined FreeRTOS wasn't appropriate for their use cases?