cranky908canuck

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by cranky908canuck 20d ago
I saw what you did there...
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by cranky908canuck 20d ago
TFH: > Their hiring is paid for through a Canadian government investment of more than > 500 million Canadian dollars (about $364 million) in research fields that are > strategically important, from global warming to artificial int
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by cranky908canuck 1mo ago
Can't speak to the rest, but lumber has had significant import tariffs to the US for decades. So it doesn't seem as if relative affordability of that commodity is an issue (at least for the last four decades). https://
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by cranky908canuck 1mo ago
https://archive.is/MY41u
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by cranky908canuck 2mo ago
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115814
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by cranky908canuck 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claque
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by cranky908canuck 2mo ago
I see a lot of posts to this site being 'dead'. I'm not even sure what 'dead' means (I assume it's more than "voted not interesting", which I find in itself interesting since I find a lot of the post
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by cranky908canuck 2mo ago
Hmm. From the footer of the post: >>> I'm Kyla Lee, a DUI lawyer in Vancouver. I spend my days fighting impaired driving charges, roadside prohibitions, and the ever-expanding powers police have at traffic stops. <<<
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by cranky908canuck 3mo ago
If you google "farmer name activist" the results light up like a christmas tree. (Where the actual name is substituted in, of course.) Regardless of the merits of the actual issue being protested, presenting this as "poor in
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by cranky908canuck 3mo ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784061 Not his first rodeo, it seems.
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by cranky908canuck 5mo ago
This popped up on a casual search: https://medium.com/@antonellosemeraro/technical-debt-is-not-... (paywalled, looks like a decent and recent writeup from what I can see of it, and the essence is above the fold). Not s
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by cranky908canuck 5mo ago
If you google "Darren Blanchard activist", the screen lights up, TV, newspapers, etc. So, not his first time on the dance floor. I'm not going to address whether what happened was completely right, or the merits of the under
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by cranky908canuck 5mo ago
https://archive.is/clyik
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by cranky908canuck 5mo ago
See my prior comment: IMO it's the caller's issue that (guaranteed) TCE is needed. The callee should not have to do anything. One of the things I forget to give thanks to the Rust designers for is the default of immutability. I
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by cranky908canuck 5mo ago
As a user of the feature, it's the caller that needs the guaranteed elimination (and, presumably, is willing to pay for it, in syntax / compile time / run time / cognitive load). The 'zero cost feature' (only
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by cranky908canuck 5mo ago
I won't argue with wikipedia, but assuming it's correct the 'standard nomenclature' seems sloppy to me. The whole point of the original post was taking advantage of the guarantee of TCE (elimination), vs TCO ("gi
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by cranky908canuck 5mo ago
Recent enough... also, since it's not yet in stable, it'll be 'recent'/'new' for a lot of people once it does get there.
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by cranky908canuck 6mo ago
Interesting.... Article does not seem to mention whether the bus pulls into the secured area (so that you don't have to go through the security stuff again). The smaller airport is a nice option (same security, but smaller so less con
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by cranky908canuck 6mo ago
Agreed, but: JRandomCustomer enters street-number, apt-number, city, state, code ... in that order. Also, many websites seem to have a negotiation with the browser, where, given: a street address, -> they can populate the other fields. D
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by cranky908canuck 7mo ago
Seems like the answer is: What will you pay me for a day of my time? At this point, they've already invested their resources (and also you, yours). If employed, then it's easy to point out that that's your cost in a vacation&
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by cranky908canuck 8mo ago
https://archive.is/IZcMy
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by cranky908canuck 9mo ago
I'm really disappointed in patio11 over this one (and I reckon he has a lot of good things to say). This is going back on other posts (in particular, this one: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-long-shadow
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by cranky908canuck 9mo ago
There's another comment that points out that a g-le search will pick up few false positives (disclaimer, have not tried myself). So the initial 'WTF' gives way to 'well, ok, I see what you are trying to do'.
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by cranky908canuck 9mo ago
Yep. Just did a reimage update to Fedora 43, got errors about 'ptyxis' in some shell scripts. Wat (wipes desk and keyboard)? Oh, it's the graphical terminal program (alternative to 'gnome-terminal'). Well, um, ok
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by cranky908canuck 11mo ago
Seems like extortion. The public display business has tanked (sorry), so now it's either send them to China, euthanize them, or ask the public purse to subsidize care of the animals (ie., the new business is 'take government mone
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
That doesn't solve the problem of where to put it in the long term.
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
>> But if you end up selling it off for what seems to you to be a trivial sum: that’s because your family was successful enough to not end up needing it. That's a lovely thought!
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
Seems like a compendium of devices and processes that violate the laws of thermodynamics. "Converting water to fuel" isn't hard, doing it without a source of energy seems not only hard but, um, "imaginative".
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
Fair enough. I have dealings with Gen(xyzqbvwhatever) that don't respond to the 'more considerate forms' in a timely fashion. So after a grace period, I jangle the bell. I get the other side of this. I get a ping for a mess
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
I do not see a link on the page for the creator of this. If they are about I have some thoughts about this. (over and above "why have you allowed me to waste so much time on this" --- wry grin)

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