jbeales

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Canadian judge says thumbs-up emoji amounts to contract acceptance(theglobeandmail.com)
48 points by jbeales 3y ago|66 comments
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by jbeales 3y ago
> It feels entirely like a thou doth protest too much situation. I can't disagree here. Of the labels described on the Twitter help page, "government-funded" fits the best. The CBC isn't funded by license fees of dona
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by jbeales 3y ago
Affiliated by name only ;) It's a private corporation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canadian_Press
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by jbeales 3y ago
Unfortunately, that "government-funded media" tag implies a lack of editorial independence: > Government-funded media is defined as outlets where the government provides some or all of the outlet’s funding and may have varying
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by jbeales 3y ago
From the Globe & Mail article[1] about the "government-funded media" label: > The Canadian Press e-mailed Twitter asking for an explanation of the added tag, and the company responded with a poop emoji. 1. https:/&#x2
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by jbeales 4y ago
The American Association of Private Railcar Owners has a page on their website listing cars available for charter: https://www.aaprco.com/travel/cars-for-charter/
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by jbeales 5y ago
> A breakthrough study by University of Alberta researchers has shown the fat cells that lie just beneath our skin shrink when exposed to the blue light emitted by the sun. I'm going to guess no. Blue light therapy maybe, if that&#x
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by jbeales 5y ago
I feel like there have to be actual hackers out there thinking "You think that's hacking? I'll show you hacking!"
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Shopify confirms significant investment in payment processor Stripe(theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by jbeales 5y ago|0 comments
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by jbeales 6y ago
My recovery plan: tarball & upload to Object Store. I'm going to check out exactly how much replication the OVH object store offers, and see about adding a second geographic location, and maybe even a second provider, tomorrow. (My
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by jbeales 6y ago
> If your production is in Strasbourg, we recommend to activate your Disaster Recovery Plan. Ouf.
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by jbeales 6y ago
ATC warning of a jetpack reported at 14:36 here: https://archive-server.liveatc.net/klax/KLAX-Final-Oct-14-20... Edit: The incoming report from the pilot is at 7:23 of this file: https://archive-server.livea
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Forrest Fenn Has Died(theguardian.com)
2 points by jbeales 6y ago|0 comments
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by jbeales 6y ago
Looks like it's only the cosmic bodies formerly known as "Eskimo Nebula" (NCG 2392 [1]) and "Siamese Twin Galaxies" (NCG 4567 [2] and NCG 4568 [2] that are changing right now, but if anything else comes up, or if th
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by jbeales 6y ago
Seems pretty big, I can't log in to my account and it seems like no email is being sent. Hopefully this isn't another Garmin.
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Major Incident at SendGrid(status.sendgrid.com)
7 points by jbeales 6y ago|1 comments
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by jbeales 6y ago
I would think so too, (that batteries may not have enough energy). On the other hand, it looks like some are about to be used in New Jersey: https://www.government-fleet.com/10122076/jersey-city-to-rec... I guess when
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by jbeales 6y ago
Vocational trucks, (think garbage trucks & dump trucks), are the ones that I'd love to electrify. Those can wake you up even if you're indoors.
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by jbeales 6y ago
Mixing with livestock isn't really new either. So long as the animal doesn't kill the trees orchards are pretty great places for animals. I think I've seen orchards that are also hay operations too. I guess if we get into som
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by jbeales 6y ago
So they rediscovered orchards?
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by jbeales 6y ago
A squirrel did the same thing and brought down the computer systems of a 3-year-old, CA$1.3B super hospital complex in one of Canada's biggest cities: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/how-a-squirre
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by jbeales 6y ago
Looks like Pi Hole on a larger scale. Maybe I'll test it out as the upstream provider for my Pi Hole.
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Canadian Shield Malware Protection (DNS Filtering from the CIRA)(cira.ca)
2 points by jbeales 6y ago|1 comments
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by jbeales 7y ago
PhpStorm = Big, Java-based IDE. It's not some simple text editor. PHP Dev often means some sort of local server running too.
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by jbeales 7y ago
> This is very misleading reporting. ... Slightly less than one-fifth were employed before but unemployed during the pilot (17%) From the article: > The report shows nearly three-quarters of respondents who were working when the pilot
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by jbeales 7y ago
Not really demographics, but from the article: > while some people did stop working, about half of them headed back to school in hopes of coming back to a better job.
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by jbeales 7y ago
People rob trucks all the time. It's actually a pretty big deal, especially in Canada for some reason. See https://globalnews.ca/news/6419141/cargo-crime-greater-toron... and https://www.todaystruc
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Nikola Motor Claims New Battery Has 2X Range, Half the Cost of Lithium-Ion(trucknews.com)
1 points by jbeales 7y ago|0 comments
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by jbeales 7y ago
We have trouble in our org with autofill on our New Customer forms. Depending on the browser it can be very difficult to remove the saved autocomplete values.
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by jbeales 7y ago
The article _does_ say that the guy is planning on examining the funding on the other side of the movement, so we should get to see the pie chart for the other side eventually.

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