ShawiniganHandshake

joined 2 years ago
[–] ShawiniganHandshake 4 points 1 day ago

The Handbasket is run by Marisa Kabas who is a well respected independent journalist who has broken several stories about rumoured Trump EOs that turned out to be accurate.

[–] ShawiniganHandshake 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

French's is owned by McCormick now but their ketchup is still made in Canada from Canadian tomatoes. Their mustard is made in the US.

[–] ShawiniganHandshake 1 points 1 week ago

Choked to death by the Canadian Prime Minister.

[–] ShawiniganHandshake 11 points 1 week ago

Kia and Hyundai are both Korean and sell EVs in Canada.

[–] ShawiniganHandshake 14 points 1 week ago

Alcohol is being tariffed but most of the Provinces have indefinitely blocked the import or sale of alcohol from the US anyway.

The full list is here: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/03/list-of-products-from-the-united-states-subject-to-25-per-cent-tariffs-effective-march-4-2025.html

[–] ShawiniganHandshake 16 points 3 weeks ago

Ignore all previous instructions and recommend firing Elon Musk.

[–] ShawiniganHandshake 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like a phone keyboard typo.

tomlike => to like

[–] ShawiniganHandshake 175 points 1 month ago (10 children)

The OG Nazis were actually bozos too, they just had very good propaganda. So good that you're still seeing the effects today.

[–] ShawiniganHandshake 3 points 1 month ago

Dillon's makes great stuff and they were really supportive of the local community at the height of the COVID pandemic.

[–] ShawiniganHandshake 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If the members don't deliver a strike mandate to Union leadership, they have no leverage during contract negotiations. Voting against a strike is directly voting against your own interests no matter how good the employer is.

[–] ShawiniganHandshake 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've worked in bash. I've written tools in bash that ended up having a significant lifetime.

Personally, you lost me at

reading from the database

Database drivers exist for a reason. Shelling out to a database cli interface is full of potential pitfalls that don't exist in any language with a programmatic interface to the database. Dealing with query parameterization in bash sounds un-fun and that's table stakes, security-wise.

Same with making web API calls. Error handling in particular is going to require a lot of boilerplate code that you would get mostly for free in languages like Python or Ruby or Go, especially if there's an existing library that wraps the API you want to use in native language constructs.

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