BXLE_1-1-BitIs1

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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1mo ago
My high school English teacher chose Baskerville for the yearbook. This was back in the days when letterpress was still hanging on. Offset was mostly for short print runs. Both processes produced very fine resolution. I remember when 300 dp
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1mo ago
You can do everything right and get taken out by an accident. So far I've dodged a loose trailer that came off next to me going the opposite direction, a rock dislodged by a marmot from the cliff above, two drunk drivers drifting towar
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3mo ago
A440 is higher than earlier tunings. Baroque is often A415 and A392 can be used for French harpsichord music. Equal temper results in each key being so many semitones above or below C Major. Other temperaments have a distribution of pure an
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3mo ago
Lots of rodents in Alberta. The neighbourhood cats keep the mice and hantavirus down. Aircraft are often infested with mice. We need more bullsnakes.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 4mo ago
Trump sanctions against ICC members and at least one human rights rapporteur has effectively debanked these people and made it very difficult for them to travel. Protecting Rule of International Law against Rule of Trump Ukazi has become ne
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 4mo ago
Back in the 50's tonsillectomies were a regular rite of passage for kids, especially in colder places where kids spent more time indoors exposed to smoke. A couple years after moving from Maiibu to Toronto, I had the surgery.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 4mo ago
So far not mentioned are a few Hebpew letters incorporated into Cyrillic (sh, ts, ch) somebody handier with Unicode can post them
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 5mo ago
File a small claims court action for each traffic stop demanding the maximum SCC amount. You can claim against the PD, who can join Focus or other provider as defendant. Don't forget to ask the officer(s) making the stop for their badg
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 5mo ago
Xerox in my time there skewed compensation to the salespeople while turning a blind eye to the software developers who made the sale possible.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 5mo ago
There's been the odd idiot wearing headphones mowed down on train tracks. The trains air horn didn't get the message through. The Air Zound is wonderful. You can get pedestrians' attention with light toots. I reserve the full
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 6mo ago
Here in Canada a Family Protection clause is common in insurance policies which covers you and your family in the case of hit and run, uninsured or under insured up to your liability limit.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 6mo ago
Assembler programs are written for different environments: Ordinary applications, Accessing OS facilities the compiler language can't access, extending the OS, Device control, enhancing boot process...
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 6mo ago
As an ancient mainframe Assembler programmer, I first learned Assembler from studying the code generated by the compiler. There are traps in compiler languages calling user written Assembler routines. The first one I encountered was a routi
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 7mo ago
Not yet discussed is that European countries have standards mandating lower hoods that are not as hazardous to pedestrians in a collision. Getting hit by a pickup or high profile SUV is much more likely to kill you than a compact. Adding bu
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 8mo ago
While many IBM products are beautifully designed, IBM also has a long tradition of dreadful implementations. JES3 and COLT (Canadian On-line Teller) come to mind. IBM had a tradition of not allowing customers to fall down. JES3 took down a
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 8mo ago
You need to keep your nose on the grindstone for years to progress to glider cross country flying. Then you end up as an instructor and have to finagle time in your own glider. There's a bunch of time upgrading and updating flight inst
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 8mo ago
A separated Alberta would become a de facto Puerto Rico in thrall to the US without any votes.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 8mo ago
The Forever Canadia https://www.forever-canadian.ca/ petition collected over 400,000 signatures from Alberta electors. Then Danielle moved the goalposts to make it easier for the Independence folks: Signature collection per
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 8mo ago
Arabic speakers are not necessarily Arabs. Indigenous populations became Arabic speakers during the spread of Islam. We saw the same in Latin America with Spanish and Catholicism.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 8mo ago
This will open a giant can of worms. Hobbyists, bad actors and military will be taking advantage.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 8mo ago
Once bacteria set up house deep inside a tooth, they are sheltered from the immune system while dispatching bacteria into the blood system. I've had infected tooth removed and found myself feeling a whole bunch better after. Infection
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 9mo ago
The locked cockpit door has been implicated in a number of pilot suicides: German Wings, Egypt Air, MH370 and possibly others. Then there's Helios that crashed near Athens. The pressurisation failed and the cockpit oxygen cylinder had
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 9mo ago
Nabokov writes so beautifully in English. Not mentioned is that Russian is well populated with loan words from other European languages (especially technology terms) , but about the only Slavic loan word in European languages I know of is &
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Prosecuted for threatening spoofed emails – cops failed to check headers(cbc.ca)
4 points by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 9mo ago|1 comments
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 9mo ago
During Petzold’s preliminary hearing on Oct. 1, 2023, the Crown called RCMP [supposed] digital forensic expert Const. Wilson Yee to explain his analysis of the email on Marguerite’s laptop. Petzold's defence lawyer Ian McKay then had a
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 9mo ago
The US could issue a notice of an Alert Area where military operations are in progress AND could coordinate with Dutch airspace authorities. US AWACS has the capability to identify civilian aircraft and route military traffic well clear of
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 9mo ago
I choose not to install any banking app and do my banking in incognito mode so that any malefactor who somehow gets into my device can't see where I bank. Of course that leaves security in the hands of the browser.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 10mo ago
Gyroscopic precession took the left engine to the right. In AA 191 the right engine departing to the right did not affect the center engine. Sadly the engine failure procedure at the time mandated slowing down to V2 which was below the stal
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 10mo ago
They have a lot in common with housecats, except that they are more clever. Decades ago we heard a crunch crunch sound from the rear mudroom. We looked and saw a raccoon reaching in and eating dry cat out of a box with the cat looking on en
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 10mo ago
There were times I took a dial up terminal home. Before that in university, we had to punch our own card decks. I didn't need to be at the office to write programs. All I need is a pad of paper (with maybe a few manuals) and a nice pla

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