Thanks! I’m content with ICE cars for the near term. Mazda MX-5, Nissan Z, Porsche Boxster, Mini Cooper, Civic Type R, Toyota FRS/Subaru BRZ, etc. all fit the bill.

On the electric side, the e Golf proved that it’s possible, and the electric Mini Cooper also fits firmly under 1500 kg. So there is more hope for the future!

Handling, acceleration, energy efficiency, pedestrian safety, and repair costs are all positively affected by lower curb weight. There’s also a strong correlation between better visibility and lower size.

And no, I definitely mean kg.

Ah, the old drive-through interception – a classic!

I do not require a combustion chamber in my sports car. I do however, prefer a curb weight under 1500 kg, which happens to exclude the vast majority of cars for sale in North America, even sporty ones, and EV sports cars under 1500 kg are very difficult to find indeed.

I can’t believe that image in the thumbnail came from official Meta marketing. I have to imagine that Jared the Subway guy didn’t make the cut because he didn’t look creepy enough.

CTRL + R for history search

Time to rewatch The Wire again…

And your opinion is that software is not a valid engineering discipline?

I am not familiar with the curriculum of every single accredited engineering program in Canada, and few people are. I am fairly confident that I do not know as little about them as you do, however.

You can see the CEAB accredited programs and decide for yourself if they meet your personal criteria – they all seem to include a substantial variety of advanced mathematics.

I’m sensing that you may be an engineer in another discipline who feels jealous that the horde of unregulated software engineers are diluting your title. It’s a valid concern in my opinion, and one that is shared by organizations like PEO who have and will take action on people using the term incorrectly, although their resources and jurisdiction are obviously limited. The key differentiation is between a licensed, professional software engineer with a stamp, and a software developer who was given “engineer” in their title at work.

CAEB accredites Canadian university programs, including civil engineering programs, electrical engineering programs, and yes, software engineering programs. In addition, provincial engineering organizations such as PEO require that all professiomal engineers are employed as engineers in training (EIT) for a period of time, have passed an ethics exam, and are in good professional standing.

TL;DR: yes, officially recognized software engineers are real engineers in Canada.

I’m not sure what you mean about hammers, but I mean build as in implementation, not build as in compile.

“Software Engineer” is a title that is licensed by professional engineering organizations in Canada. Would you acknowledge that it’s “a thing” in Canada?

A programmer builds the software. An engineer designs it.

It’s a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, I have much less time and patience for personal software projects. I prefer to do carpentry or sports as a change of pace. On the bright side though, the experience I’ve gained from working professionally makes the projects I do tackle go much more smoothly than when I was an amateur.

I too enjoy actually writing code. I feel fortunate that I was able to make a career out of something I enjoy so much. I am not sure that most people had that experience. Alas, it seems like the industry is paying me to set up guardrails and supervise AI agents. I am not sure how long this will last, but at least I know that I will always be able to enjoy programming as a hobby if nothing else.

You can pop out threads with a command click in Slack, but I don’t know if you can change that to the default behaviour.

In case anyone reading this didn’t know: direct sunlight can cause your VR headset lenses to act like a magnifying glass, burning your precious LCD in a moment, if the light hits it right.

Just say, “Thanks, a lot,” as enthusiastically as possible so that it’s uncomfortably enthusiastic. That’s what I used to do to make a mockery of the mandatory greetings policy back in my service industry days.

I’ve found that my local roasters are decent but not “specialty” per se. Locally, the best light roast, specialty shop imports beans from across Canada and around the world.