You are correct - it does conflict, and that's my fault - it's 1 month of severance per full year of service -- My brain was not braining when I typed that post. The labour relations act says 1 week/year. Common law precedence in Canada is 4 weeks/1 month per year of service.

100% true. If you come back saying "give me 8 weeks and you'll never see me again" they'll probably come back and you'll settle on 6. As always - get a good employment lawyer to read over the severance agreement. But never sign the first offer. (Unless it's 4 months pay and you've been there under 2 years - but even then - get a lawyer to read over it - it's a contract - we (engineers) no relatively nothing of the intricacies of employment law). If you've been ther for 15 years - you should be getting 15 months of severance.

Let me expand a little bit;

A: GTFO with 4 months severance pay, or
B: GTFO with 2 months of micromanaged hell and no severance pay at the end of those 2 months.

And those 4 months pay are negotiable - especially if you've been there for over 4 years. If you've been there for 2 years, take the money and don't look back.

In Canada the usual severance (common law precedence - not what is written in the Labour relations Act is what really matters) is 4 weeks pay for each full year of service. So if you have been there for 5 full years, you should get 5 weeks of severance (with full pay & benefits during those 5 weeks) - this can be larger if you're older or have other factors that may make it more difficult to get another job (disabilities etc). Always consult a good and experienced employment lawyer (not just some random lawyer) when getting laid off or fired. The initial offer from the company is just that - an initial offer. They will try to pressure you to sign on the spot, or imply that it is not negotiable - take the written document and go to a lawyer - if they don't give you enough time to consult counsel, they will get burned hard.

If you're in Ontario and need an employment lawyer - I have a couple of good friends in the field - I can hook you up.

The Internet is a potato.

In my experience it takes (on average) somwehere between 10 and 20 thousand (USD) to get a patent applied for and issued (They always come up with some bogus reason for it to not be issued, and you have to go back and forth with the examiner a few times making inconsequential changes before they will issue the patent. Can take anywhere between 5 to 10 years from application to issue.

The fees paid to the patent office are tiny compared to the other costs.

Just give me the google search of 5 years ago. What they have now is way less useful than it used to be.

AND - No PornHub - the horror! :-)

Don't all theories begin as speculation? Some have more or less observations to support them, some even amass significant bodies of evidence - others do not.

One persons theory is another's speculation.

Are your pink unicorns invisible by chance? (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FInvisible_Pink_Unicorn) :-)

And then it's a sport! :-)

These are Department of Energy (The ones who hold all the nuke secrets) drones searching for a smuggled nuclear device that terrorists are intending to set off. They are very advanced drones with secret tech that the DOE doesn't want to admit to but given the nature and pressing severity of a nuclear terrorist threat, they are using them anyway.

Just a theory.

Iâ(TM)d love for it to be customizable - locked for more than x hours without being unlocked - reboot. No cell service for y hours, reboot. No wifi for z hours, reboot. No GPS signal⦠You get the idea⦠Good for making stolen devices less valuable to thieves. The fact that cops are difficult to tell apart from thieves in this context â" oh well. They already have exponential time back-off for incorrect unlock codes and a wipe after 10, so thatâ(TM)s good.

Most of what LLMs generate feels like an over-achieving grade 12 writing an essay on a topic they know little about.

The sentences are cogent and it feels like it makes sense, but if you read closely, there's no there there. It's mostly hand-wavy sorta plausible nothings.

Hmm... I just noticed that that applies to marketing literature and political speeches.

I guess I better look forward to our new AI overlords.

There's an extremely valuable skillset in knowing how to navigate the bureaucracy in a particular company (one I've never managed to acquire), and I'm often in awe of those in my company that appear to possess it. They are, indeed, very valuable to the company, especially if they're in management positions. It's sad that often this skill isn't acknowledged above, but that would be admitting that the bureaucracy may be necessary, but it's a big productivity drag.

(I'm fine understanding why we have costly insurance. I'm not fine with "because we've chosen to buy insurance, we must pretend it's not costly".)

I'll believe we're in a post-scarcity world when we in the developed world would seriously consider accepting a mean household income of $12,235 (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zippia.com%2Fadvice%2Faverage-income-worldwide%2F)