Canada wouldn't put up much of an armed defence. They'd take out some invading aircraft and take norad systems offline. There would be some resistance, but officially Canada would surrender quickly. Then there'd be decades of sabotage (eg electrical distribution, poisoned water supplies) plus assassinations throughout the states - and no centralized target for the U.S. to fight back.

Time to give Greenland nukes.

That must be hard. Bigger companies have an HR dept, or recruiters they use will require a degree before a real engineer even sees your resume. Small companies can't afford to take a chance on an unknown.

Shouldn't cut the umbilical cord either without consent from the baby.

Didn't work on me.

How could you know either way?
I don't know how it feels to never have my hair cut. It's only cultural to get one's hair cut regularly; but most people do as they feel it helps them look and feel better.

Not robotics, really - where did u get that from? But I tend to call a spade a spade. Most of my customers seem to like my straightforwardness and lack of bs. My company isn't so conventional - more like a group of engineers I've put together that make cool stuff and sometimes sell it to keep the place in business. It always amazes me how the revenue keeps flowing considering how little effort we put into the marketing side of things.

Don't worry, I'm sure you couldn't afford our products. And I bet engineers at my company have contributed over 10x what you'll ever contribute to useful open source libraries! But we can't all live in mom and dad's basement pretending we know what we're talking about, can we?

Not inconvenient, but impossible really. I get that most people don't really understand embedded systems, but it's a shame when innovation is blocked because of it.

he yearns

Both things can be true.
One step at a time.

And he never calls them. Like never.