Sean Hodgins

Filmmaker. Engineer. Not sure in what order. 🇨🇦 #SeanHodgins

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

Extremely Dangerous Holographic Christmas Tree of Death™
#MerryChristmas

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

@BreakingTaps It’s soo easy you’ll be kicking yourself for not doing it sooner.

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

The funniest part of this to me is, I would have assumed that ANY province to hit maybe 30-35% YES if they were to randomly do this vote, just by general online sentiment of the federal government, and yet the province who talks about it constantly couldn’t even break 25% 😂 😂

[Keean Bexte @TheRealKeean]

At least 1 in 4 Albertans just voted against staying in Canada. It is a huge win for Alberta. Why? Because this means that Ottawa has a gun to its head. If every Leave voter convinces one person to change their mind, Alberta could leave if it is ever deemed to need another vote.

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

@fgraffagnino No it’s not, but it’s probably some company requirement group thing. Usually People pay into it voluntarily to lower their taxable income and banks will invest it for you. When you take it back out you pay the tax on it then, usually when you’re retired and in a lower bracket.

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

You put $458 into your RRSP, why are you including it in your deductions? The Net including that is $3277. On top of that your RRSP contributions are likely giving you a tax return of around $5000. Your RRSP is still your money.

[Carlos Varela @cvarela]

To show everyone how much workers get taxed in Canada for our "free" stuff.

Gross earnings: $4800
Net earnings: $2819

Thats a big reason I left Canada. After expenses, there was nothing left at the end of the month. This was 2020 and I had a high paying job.

#CanadaIsBroken

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

If these numbers are real. A few things stand out:
1) Winnipeg is more expensive???
2) it’s ONLY an extra $500/mo to live in Montreal???
3) the extra $1000/mo to NOT live in Edmonton is worth it.

But also, 1250 * 2 ≠ 2250

[Sola 🇨🇦 @SolaTheAnalyst]

If Toronto rent is bleeding you dry, look what 1-bedrooms actually cost across Canada right now:

• Toronto: $2,250
• Ottawa: $1,850
• Montréal: $1,750
• Calgary: $1,650
• Winnipeg: $1,350
• Edmonton: $1,250

You can literally rent two full apartments in Edmonton for the price of one box in Toronto. 💀

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

@canadian_rust There’s nothing cozier than driving a 240 in the snow

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

My dryer decided to become a welder.

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

@realwillreil @RueNahcMohr Yep, You’re correct. There is also a silly loophole with robotics too, if a robot ships with zero firmware, and you write and program the robot here it can count as 51% and suddenly the robot is “made in Canada”

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

Could be a nice drive to St. Louis

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

I'm starting a homelab festival (you're invited): https://t.co/V1qWP5Jhy0

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

I'm starting a homelab festival (you're invited): https://t.co/V1qWP5Jhy0

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

I got the answer right but I’ve never heard of this word.. #wittyditty

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

@jakkuh_t You might need to load test the floors in the new studio.

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

Now how do I get my tools out? 😅

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

Sensor died on the @Tormach. Guess I’m manually changing tools today!

[BreakingTaps @BreakingTaps]

I made a microprocessor and want to tell you all about it!

Video covers at a high level HDL and programming, synthesis/layout and bringup

It was a lot of work, but really fun! 10/10, would recommend everyone tape out some custom silicon 😊

https://t.co/OJCLiwMqjW

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

This is the literal definition of being governed. They didn’t want their shed like this, but chose to spent time and money to follow the written rule and law of the government. 🤷‍♂️

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

Someone complained to the city that this guy's shed had a larger footprint than what is allowed....so he fixed it.

The neighbour was heard saying; "That's not what I had in mind".

Become ungovernable.

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

@KennyLauderdal3 Recently discovered a Price is Right channel on Plex that plays 70-80s episode and noticed a few episodes have had AI upscaling applied. Not every one but I’m guessing ones that had too much noise/damage from the original recording.

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

CCA was bullshit in the first place. You’re a small business, and you’re strapped for cash but you need that computer/equipment/tool, that tax write off is going to keep you going come tax season. A lot of things were accelerated CCA already but the rules are so damn convoluted.

[Canadian Tax Guy (Mohammed Al-khooly) @CanadaTaxGuy]

Canada announces 100% depreciation for more assets.

For context, if you buy $100 of equipment for your business, you generally cannot deduct the whole $100 right away. You write it off slowly:

Year 1: $30
Year 2: $14 (20% of the $70 left over)
Year 3: $11 ((20% of the $56 left over)
And so on, for years.

You’ve spent the money today, but the tax savings come over many years.

Canada is now announcing that you can now write off the full 100% in year 1 on many assets including equipment, furniture, software, computers, patents,pipelines, rail tracks, roads, etc.

A few things to keep in mind:

1) This is important because the U.S. already lets businesses do this. So it makes us more competitive.

2) One thing to watch out for is implementation. This is an announcement but not yet law. It’s possible CRA may disallow this until it actually becomes law.

https://t.co/HryYgdX7gs

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

@realwillreil I’m rooting for you

[Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev]

Isn’t this the one where he thought a sniper shot the rocket? 😂

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

Shout-out to everyone working at SpaceX a decade ago who woke up to some very, very bad news.