That's so intriguing... Why municipal police and not private security personnel?

If paid for by Loblaws, then we're letting for-profit corporations have a stake and interest in our armed police force.

If funded by tax payers, we're subsidizing a billion $ corp that has the ability to afford their own security personnel, and helping contribute to the police budget bloat. 2/2

Oh yeah whoa don't know why I didn't think of the voice assistant but yeah you're right!

Wait, do you have examples?

Most of the ones I can think of are people's family names

Meanwhile the police department gets 10x budgets and all the shiny new toys. And I'd argue the average firefighter risks their lives more than the average police-person.

In this talk, I go through my own winding journey, what breaking into big tech actually entails, and actionable tips and considerations for each parts of the process (preparing, applying, and interviewing). 🌱

I plan on making a video recording and my slides available some time later in the year. 📚

I keep hearing the excuse that hosting KubeCon is logistically difficult because it requires a massive show floor and multiple dozens of rooms for talks and breakouts.

As it comic-cons haven't solved that logistical difficulty decades ago.

FAN EXPO hosts 150,000+ attendees to Toronto every year.

Seriously. Don't tell me that Mexico City (the #1 most populated NA city) and Toronto (the #4 most populated NA city) can't accommodate KubeCon.

If Toronto can host TIFF and FAN EXPO yearly without a hitch, it certainly can host KubeCon's 10,000 attendees and logistics.

I'm so exhausted.

I love abstracts that has a byline with assumptions. "Attendees should be expected to have familiarity with X, Y, Z" helps a lot! And it allows me to pick the talks I want to go to that matches my level of expertise better.

Agreed that if I think >5% of my audience has not heard of something, I would be better off explaining it. Good intents.

But I think it's also understandable to assume the audience at a 201 KubeCon talk knows what a container is, or a 201 GopherCon talk knows how conditionals in Go work, right?

There's some nuance here-- Implicitly or not, there's always some baseline level of expectations at talks, no? Whether from the conference, the track, or the abstract ("this talk assumes familiarity with X, Y, Z").

Else every talk would start with "so a computer is..." 😄

Agreed. Ideally they'd strike by continuing service but refusing to take fares.

Ohh gotcha! What's your strategy for running e.g. shell scripts?

Do you have access to WSL? I'm honestly still quite pleased with how well it works!

My stance is still that increases access and service of public transit is a more sustainable alternative to everyone moving around in their own metal boxes.

But there's definitely still room for those last-mile trips that transit can't reliably cover, and safe autonomous vehicles might be it.

Oh gotcha! It probably sees "word1/word2" as a complete word then (imho it shouldn't, I don't know of any word that has a slash in the middle).

Does Bluesky block words based on the string of letters, or on complete words?

e.g. if you block the word "start" would it also block posts with the word "starting"?

Turns out you had a vision of the unreleased sequel, Quest 65!