d_runs_far

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by d_runs_far 22d ago
Had I done that as well, then maybe I wouldn't have gotten intrigued by HyperCard, then Director/Authorware, then Flash, then HTML, then...
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by d_runs_far 3mo ago
I spent the first half of my life in Alberta; had never seen a rat nor a cockroach. I moved further east in the country, cockroaches in my first apartment the first week there... and then discovered rats near the waterfront within the month
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by d_runs_far 3mo ago
As a public service employee within the GOC, I feel the pain expressed by the author. I sat through a meeting today where somebody with no domain knowledge puffed up their chest to show off their gpt created master lesson plan for a four ye
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by d_runs_far 7mo ago
two searches gave me absolute ridiculous results: chair, laptop. Back to re-learning fusion for me :-)
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by d_runs_far 7mo ago
Although it has been a couple decades since I've worked on construction sites, the underlying factor is that of the culture - this was northern Alberta - you had to be 'tough' and that meant eating steak, drinking hard and ig
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by d_runs_far 8mo ago
That exporting an svg from Illustrator and dropping into Fusion as a sketch is not a very wise approach - the scale is completely off! DXF is the way to go, keep your units in mm across the workflow. I've not used any CAD tools in a si
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by d_runs_far 8mo ago
Maybe I'm old skool... but for the last 30+ years I've been using a combination of photoshop, illustrator, FCP, after effects (back when it was CoSA...), some audio editing and mixing in quite a bit of code as well. While others o
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by d_runs_far 2y ago
I would suggest Loonshots - fascinating dive into both the technology and the conditions that allowed people to really make stuff happen (or not) https://www.bahcall.com/book/
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by d_runs_far 3y ago
I live in the Canadian Prairies, run outdoors year round. One thing I've experienced a few times is my contact lenses feeling much more rigid, which I've attributed to them starting to freeze up in extreme situations. Typically ne
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by d_runs_far 3y ago
While we're ranting about the 'infotainment' systems on cars, how about the apps? The Kia Connect enrages me every time I have to use it for my wife's car. It makes the in-car system seem snappy and awesome. The fact tha
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by d_runs_far 3y ago
My nine year old has been using Minecraft education edition, Swift Playgrounds and Lego Boost to figure out programming. In Swift, he figures out structure and concepts, in Boost it is the interactions with the sensors and in Minecraft he p
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by d_runs_far 4y ago
Here's my realm: We have a react based "framework" that in the end is zipped up and delivered as a SCORM package to be embedded in a Learning Management System. We use React Router to manage navigation. After a quick scan of
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by d_runs_far 4y ago
These guys seem to have a niche: hauling logs off of mountains. Regenerative braking on the way down when heavy; using a Diesel engine as a generator in the truck's engine bay. https://www.edisonmotors.ca/trucks
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by d_runs_far 4y ago
First winter with a Kia Soul EV here - and at -20° C this past week, after about 10 minutes with just heated seats/steering wheel on and no fan/forced air heating, it starts fogging up and my feet (even in decent winter boots) sta
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by d_runs_far 4y ago
Or a standard feature if you're living on the Canadian prairies. In the mid 70's my uncle left Edmonton to do his doctorate in the Bay Area, and had his classmates at Berkeley convinced that his big Dodge Charger was electric beca
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by d_runs_far 4y ago
As I am preparing to update a 10 year old project done in backbone/coffeescript this whole thread hits hard. Likewise a react prototype done in 2018 that is all class based that is going to be next to revive. Maybe I should just write
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by d_runs_far 4y ago
As others have mentioned, the absolute nonsense of needing two or three streaming subscriptions to watch all 82 games of a team's season is infuriating. Particular with the garbage streams on TSN - some games were a full 20% of pixelat
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by d_runs_far 4y ago
All this and more. I'm fortunate enough that while I could afford to hire trades to do all the things I've done in and outside of our house in the last couple years (gutted/rebuilt kitchen & bathrooms, built phase one of
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by d_runs_far 4y ago
Two within 1200 metres of another on Fermor too :-) Lagmodiere and Westmount.
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by d_runs_far 5y ago
My perspective on this is a bit different. I used to be a race director for ultra-marathons. I ended up having a serial cheater show up to a couple of my events, and end up winning. The biggest scam was that I comped him a free entry for wi
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by d_runs_far 5y ago
Rapid Viz by Kurt Hanks is a great book. It was a textbook when I was doing industrial design courses a long time ago. I think I have the first edition, but it looks like the third is available on Amazon.
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by d_runs_far 5y ago
Lots of chatter about the tech side, my experience is quite vintage that came back to be relevant over two decades later. In the mid 1990's, while a grad student, I was approached by a fellow student to help build 'secure image li
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by d_runs_far 5y ago
I run and then mix it up with TRX, kettlebells and a pull up bar. We have a pretty decent home gym from about 10 years worth of slowly adding to it, but those are the three most common bits I use, although I have started doing more on the r
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by d_runs_far 5y ago
I lucked out, in a completely arbitrary move, I did a quick renovation project in December 2019 that gave me a decently set up office space in our house. Fast forward to March when we were sent to work from home for 'two weeks'. S
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by d_runs_far 5y ago
Your shock assumes there is leadership at the top that sees the big picture with respect to enabling technology. While not in the US, I have seen the inner workings of other nations armed forces, and there is an overwhelming urge to farm ev
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by d_runs_far 5y ago
Tips on how to enforce those boundaries with kids? I have been WFH since March 2020 (and occasional remote work prior), my wife a part of that too. We both have home offices. But in any instances where the school is closed, or they are doin
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by d_runs_far 5y ago
Once they are below the frost line, and levelled, there should not be any need to re-level them. For a small structure, lay in 4x4 beams, then build a simple frame over top of that and you'll be golden.
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by d_runs_far 5y ago
As many have already commented, I am part of the crowd that likes to have a direct, tangible end result compared to on going code projects that never seem to end with scope creep and changing priorities. Some of my work projects are still s
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by d_runs_far 5y ago
I'm in the middle of Canada, these hand twist in screw piles are awesome. Used them for phase one of a 900 sq. foot deck this past year. Pylex Adjustable 50 Inch Foundation Screw - my seven year old kid helped me twist them in with a 2
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by d_runs_far 5y ago
That's almost FSWEP money :-)

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