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by xav0989 3mo ago
They’ve now had nomad-native services without consul for a while, including health checks!
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by xav0989 6mo ago
While I sympathize with the issue and have experienced similar problems with classical music, I found the listing of composers and the holier-than-thou attitude (because “pop is bad”) grating and soured the rest of the post.
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by xav0989 7mo ago
In the Canadian university lingo, co-op refers to a (usually paid) internship that you complete as part of your degree. You usually have a couple co-op terms/semesters along with your traditional terms. For example, you may start your
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by xav0989 7mo ago
If not using something like bind, but willing to run a dedicated dns server for acme challenges, acmedns offers something similar. When you generate a new account, it gets given a unique subdomain. You then cname the challenge domain to the
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by xav0989 9mo ago
Curl always requires -L to follow redirects.
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by xav0989 1y ago
I’ve seen them in stores in Canada, but they’re usually more expensive than the 454g blocks. Expensive enough that it’s usually better to buy the block and portion it as needed.
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by xav0989 1y ago
Some people I know are building a similar system, watching for the printers that parking attendants carry to issue tickets. When they see one of those nearby, it starts the clock so that they move their car before the time expires.
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by xav0989 1y ago
Anything that ends in .gov is related to a government entity in the US. Other countries don’t get access to that TLD.
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by xav0989 1y ago
Where it’s the law for the lodging provides to have a copy of ID, you either consent to have them make a copy of your ID or you don’t get a place to stay. You don’t get to not consent and also get a place to stay.
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by xav0989 1y ago
Canadian numbers too (and potentially anything in the NANP).
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by xav0989 2y ago
Parcels are not mail. Parcels are the boxes of stuff that people order. While spam funds a lot of the postal service, it allows it to price mail lower than the true cost of delivering mail across the country.
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by xav0989 2y ago
Wasn’t there a study that identified that college educated individuals are more likely to be Democrats? Most US government jobs require a college degree (or higher), so it wouldn’t be surprising to see that population match the findings in
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by xav0989 2y ago
But naming your kids to positions of power because they’re your kids is nepotism.
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by xav0989 2y ago
They also partner with transit agencies where the transit agencies pays them to upgrade everyone in the region/system to the premium offering, and the transit app becomes the official app for that transit agency.
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by xav0989 2y ago
Likely the second one, things like “take that container and drop it off on that truck, but don’t log it”
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by xav0989 2y ago
I’ve experienced the situation where my partner gets lower rates than I do on nearly all ride sharing apps. We’ll open the app at the same time, from the same place, heading to the same destination, and mine will be at least 10% higher. We
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by xav0989 2y ago
There’s a burger chain called The Works that accepts (or at least used to) Canadian Tire money for one of their burgers. The burger is called the Crappy Tire, which is a nickname for Canadian Tire.
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by xav0989 2y ago
Proxmox puts the VM configuration information in a SQLite database and exposes it through a FUSE file system. It even gets replicated across the cluster using their replication algorithm. It’s a bespoke implementation, but it’s a SQLite-bac
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by xav0989 2y ago
There’s actually a ton of interference in the 2.4 GHz space, especially at venues like outdoor festivals. However your solution does work. I work at a festival that provides a WiFi network and an Ethernet drop for the ticket scanners. We ha
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by xav0989 2y ago
I switched my home lab to nomad, which I find much easier to wrangle, but we’ll see what happens with the IBM acquisition.
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by xav0989 2y ago
Another hypothetical: your isp zero rates the news sites with a given political leaning, but not yours. Reading the news that they want you to costs nothing, whereas reading the news that you want, or getting an alternative perspective on a
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by xav0989 2y ago
Mostly to have a hazmat route around the city (HAZMAT trucks aren’t allowed in the tunnels) and because bridges are cheaper than tunnels. They needed a third crossing because the traffic warranted it.
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by xav0989 3y ago
Many Logitech peripherals have Turing-complete chips (ARM processors), but no one is claiming that my mouse is a general purpose computing devices. Apple is selling a system made of a combination of hardware they make and the software runni
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by xav0989 3y ago
It has a live migration feature so I’m going to go with yes.
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by xav0989 3y ago
Some things like car insurance are a legally mandated purchase from a private business.
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by xav0989 3y ago
Heinz US also does a “simply” ketchup with sugar instead of HGCS and no artificial dyes, and when you compare ingredient lists, that same “specialty” ketchup is the one that’s sold as regular ketchup in Canada.
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by xav0989 3y ago
I wonder what additives are currently in good that we’ll discover to be harmful in the future. Also interesting that Heinz’s ketchup (in be the US) is now full of high fructose corn syrup and artificial food dyes, when (from the article) it
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by xav0989 3y ago
My office switched to a cloud-hosted network proxy appliance for our internet access. We now get "access blocked" from dozens of websites, including from reddit, simply because the "edge" ip address is technically from a
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by xav0989 3y ago
I think that all employers are now required to input the T4/remuneration information in a way that CRA can machine-process it, which allows them to make it available to third-party systems like TurboTax or SimpleTax. But yeah, for the
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by xav0989 3y ago
The whole point of the equalization payments is to level the playing field regarding the budget of provinces. The formula has to do with the amount of provincial taxation that a province charges its residents versus the rest of Canada. Give

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