darrylb42

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by darrylb42 3y ago
I have all LG appliances. Washer & drier are 10+ years old, came with the house. Fridge, stove & dishwasher are newish (2 years old). So far they have been great. I really like the induction top on the stove, though having to ma
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by darrylb42 3y ago
I thought I wanted a new car, but all I really wanted was Android Auto. Added a new touch screen to my 10 year old car, wireless Android Auto is great. I do wish there were a few more app icons at the bottom of the screen. I tend to swi
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by darrylb42 3y ago
Facebook, all Meta properties no longer allow sharing anything considered news in Canada. If you put in a link to a news site it will be blocked. At one point they were event blocking news satire. People sharing news now will drop in an
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by darrylb42 3y ago
And doctors doing 24h shifts. At least in the NICU my kids were in.
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by darrylb42 3y ago
Pihole blocks stuff for everything on your network. No need to train your family or do anything to machines are devices. While it does not block everything, and sometimes too much. It does block a lot. By blocking too much, for one of th
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by darrylb42 3y ago
- CanadaLand - Behind the tech with Kevin Scott - Childish - Dev interrupted - Doug Loves Movies - Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - The HanselMinutes Podcast - Law Bytes - Maintainable - StackOverflow podcast - Midnight Local - Newcomer
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by darrylb42 3y ago
Last time I was shopping for a car ~4 years ago. Most prices were written on the windshield as weekly payments, over an unknown period. Getting the actual price required stopping and reading the small window sticker.
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by darrylb42 3y ago
Do you subscribe to anything? You may need some positive signals. I have premium so it may work different but suggested is mostly new stuff from channels I subscribe to or channels I have watched. Though mostly I just look for what is new
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by darrylb42 3y ago
Now with 20% more** ** than a box with 20%less no change in package size required. This was on a thing of Oldspice antiperspirants.
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by darrylb42 3y ago
Or in Canada, BC. Things like meat can be priced in $/lb or $/100g in the same cabinet. Makes the mental math tricky and you can think something is cheap when it is not.
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by darrylb42 3y ago
You mean FTE? Full Time Equivalent.
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by darrylb42 3y ago
The seats in the PHEV are nicer than the folding seats in the gas model and the pop out pretty easily. We have the passenger one out full time, easier to get to the kids in the back and allows for more storage when travelling.
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by darrylb42 3y ago
I worked at one place where if the estimate for any task was over 2 days it would not get approved. Some really required two days tasks could take months. If we didn't want to do it, high estimate. If the business really wanted it
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by darrylb42 3y ago
It should handle fractions I was trying to get the size of a quarter section. It rounds .25 to 1.
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by darrylb42 3y ago
Are you able to have all your normal keyboards as dvorak? I have thought about trying to switch. But I use a few different keyboards in my day and it would be a real problem for other people if the keycaps didn't match what was on th
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Shopify to lay off 20% of staff(cbc.ca)
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by darrylb42 4y ago
I only use the radio to listen to AM traffic reports. News 1130 traffic on the one. Most of the time I am listening to something from my phone.
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by darrylb42 4y ago
The daycare my kids go to reduced rates. Maybe it is big enough that the paper work is not a big deal. The new subsidized daycare made things cheaper for everyone I know.
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by darrylb42 4y ago
My websites PiHole Media Server Print server Sometimes a Minecraft Server
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by darrylb42 4y ago
Or you get a squatter toilette. Also you need to bring your own paper for a lot of public toilettes. Though it has been almost 20 years since I last visited. At the time I wondered why they handed out so many advertising Kleenex travel s
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by darrylb42 4y ago
Go into the office for enhanced collaboration they say. Everyone I work with is in different countries, so being in the office gains nothing. Being at home is much nicer.
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by darrylb42 4y ago
I visited Costa Rica this year and this is what the rental house had. Bit freaky.
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by darrylb42 4y ago
PiHole is interesting in the amount of ads it blocks, but also the ads it doesn't. Made most of the banners go away for the silly coloring applications my kids use, but the full screen video ads don't go away. The video ads rea
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by darrylb42 4y ago
I don't mind them, but sometimes you get random things the self checkout will not let you buy. Like anti-perspirant, had to stop and go over to a regular line for that.
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by darrylb42 4y ago
Google lies about music available on Youtube Music. Getting voice command to play stuff you know exists is next to impossible. I think voice command just sucks in general.
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by darrylb42 5y ago
$100 for a ACM membership $500 for O'Reilly. I can see why O'Reilly didn't want to renew. Learning materials are pretty slim with O'Reilly removed.
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by darrylb42 5y ago
How did you learn that keyboard exists? It is not on their keyboard page. Kinesis needs a better organized site. I got the Freestyle2 a few weeks ago, enjoying it, still have some issues finding the navigation keys, home, end etc. I real
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by darrylb42 5y ago
Our office is 100% hoteling now no fixed seats. No personal stuff unless you want to carry it in everyday you go in. Been a few months since I went in.
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by darrylb42 5y ago
or you have a customer that has strict validation on and adding a field breaks their ability to deserialize.
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by darrylb42 5y ago
Sounds like you have a glass top electric coil stove, not induction. Induction has a very stable fast heat, cooks like gas. Glass top electric are the one that turn on for 10 seconds off for 30, never the right temp. I replaced a glass

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