vic-traill

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by vic-traill 2y ago
>Reminds me of the Gimli Glider This was a very Canadian accident, in that they ran out of fuel halfway through their cross-country flight because of (in the end) conversion errors in calculating the required fuel amount for the then-new
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by vic-traill 2y ago
Just a couple of warnings. /s
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Byelection fuels U.S. debate: Are Democrats in better shape than polls suggest?(cbc.ca)
1 points by vic-traill 3y ago|1 comments
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by vic-traill 3y ago
Biden's party has racked up a series of electoral wins in recent years
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Why some aging spies won't walk out of U.S. prisons, long after the Cold War(cbc.ca)
2 points by vic-traill 3y ago|1 comments
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by vic-traill 3y ago
Harshest punishments for those whose actions cost lives and badly jeopardized security, analysts say
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by vic-traill 3y ago
Airline's claim that online helper was responsible for its own actions was 'remarkable': small claims court
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Air Canada found liable for chatbot's bad advice on plane tickets(cbc.ca)
7 points by vic-traill 3y ago|4 comments
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by vic-traill 3y ago
General thought brought about by TFA, not commenting specifically on TFA. Lately I've been wondering about contemporary expressions of opinion. When I was much younger these was a oft-used chestnut 'Opinions are like assholes; ev
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by vic-traill 3y ago
> some indication that a vehicle is driving autonomously is useful information to everyone around them I'm genuinely curious - what are you thinking when you say this? I don't know what I'd do with that information. It sh
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by vic-traill 3y ago
>You were contacted after my intervention and a refund arrived along with a 20% voucher nearly three weeks after it was first promised. Voucher ? So you have to spend more money on HP products to claim a shitty 20% for HP having broken
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by vic-traill 3y ago
Alas, no, not so much. This is a very frequent flyer; you have to damn near tackle writers (literally and metaphorically) to stop them from using an apostrophe in the possessive form of the pronoun 'it'.
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by vic-traill 3y ago
Came to the comments to see if anything was known about him post-escape. My google-fu fails me in finding any info regarding capture. Maybe his is still at large? He apparently escaped on Oct 15 2020 [0], smack dab into the middle of the p
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by vic-traill 3y ago
was on track to run out of money in a matter of weeks (from TFA) != it ran out of money, it failed, there is nothing left (your comment) I appreciate you were focused on the exec compensation part of the dialogue. Just noting that the
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by vic-traill 3y ago
That article has an odd cadence to it. Makes it tougher to grok for me ....
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by vic-traill 3y ago
>It's a startup, it ran out of money, it failed, there is nothing left It may not be that clear cut ... From the article: The startup, valued by investors last year at $3.8 billion, had already whittled its staff down to about 500
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by vic-traill 3y ago
I was shooting for 1280 surnames, but the comment length limit fixed that. Which I am grateful for in general :-) Anyway, I surmised I would give away just about all my karma on the comment, but, hell, I just couldn't resist!
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by vic-traill 3y ago
It's obviously the result of Roll Call: SMITH Here! JOHNSON Here! WILLIAMS Here! BROWN Here! JONES Here! GARCIA Here! MILLER Here! DAVIS Here! RODRIGUEZ Here! MARTINEZ Here! HERNANDEZ Here! LOPEZ Here! GONZALEZ Here! WILSON Here! ANDER
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by vic-traill 3y ago
>Saying "I can eat glass, it does not hurt me", however, ensures that the speaker "will be viewed as an insane native, and treated with dignity and respect". Well, I'm not sure where Michel Lotito [0] (aka Monsie
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by vic-traill 3y ago
> Defendants don't have an absolute First Amendment right to free speech? Who'd have thought? I believe you're in on that joke, but nonetheless (in case someone isn't): no, they don't. When one is on bail then o
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by vic-traill 3y ago
Which brings to mind the old chestnut: The optimist believes the glass is half full. The pessimist believes the glass is half empty. The engineer says the glass is twice as large as it need be.
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by vic-traill 3y ago
Spelled 'Colour' correctly as the band would have it, too. w00t!
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by vic-traill 3y ago
Here's a shout out to David Harris, author of Pegasus Mail. IME, he's an engaged and responsive developer who gave folks enterprise e-mail when most enterprises didn't yet realise they needed it. And we purchased manuals (thi
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by vic-traill 3y ago
Shout out to Brave - my browser for a year now. The search results aren't great , but they're interesting .
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by vic-traill 3y ago
Wait until yesterday. Then you'll really get hammered. :)
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by vic-traill 3y ago
That, mon ami, gets a doubleplusgood[0] rating all day long. It's got understated irony that somehow tends to sarcasm at the same time. It's very hard to unpack yet delicious. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by vic-traill 3y ago
This link is the parents speaking, nonetheless another data point [0} I'm respiratorily at risk to particulate matter in the air (partially my own fault for cigarette smoking for many years, partially happenstance via a house fire&#x2F
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by vic-traill 3y ago
> ... the rocket you sent to the moon was built by a German Even an oblique reference deserves the Tom Lehrer reference [0] :-) [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio
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by vic-traill 3y ago
Okay, I hear you; however, I'm not sure that the idea that cats bear more responsibility for birds fatalities than humans passes my smell test, though. Food for thought [0] - 269 million bird deaths a year in Canada alone is asserted.
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by vic-traill 3y ago
>I'm not sure what computer you're logged on from, but to take that as an example, I'm pretty sure it's made by a company that would likely go under if it chose not to advertise TBH, I can't recall the last time

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