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by dleslie 5y ago
You don't need the full value to finance a $3M project; the author mentioned a mortgage.
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by dleslie 5y ago
... Yuuup. I knew a person who tried to put in triple-glaze, in New Westminster, BC, and it took a special lien on the property along with special approval from the Province because they weren't allowed by the building codes at the tim
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by dleslie 5y ago
If you bought a house _anywhere_ in Metro Vancouver and held it for ten years, you could likely finance this project if you sold it now.
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by dleslie 5y ago
We recently moved from Vancouver to the Island; and made a similar calculus about locations at which to live. I have a friend who ended up with 160+ acres in the interior, whereas I've settled on a quarter acre on the central island. T
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by dleslie 5y ago
In Pemberton, no less. An outdoor pool, _very_ large windows, open/not-enclosed outdoor patios, etc etc. They've basically planned to heat the outdoors when it is below 0C a few months out of the year; and most of the year it&#x27
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by dleslie 5y ago
Gnome 3 is so bad that it drove my family members, who I had managed to switch to Linux painlessly over ten years ago, back to using Windows. It's just an awful, painfully dim UX. The Tyranny of the Designer is on full display. With Hi
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by dleslie 5y ago
Oil and gas stocks.
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by dleslie 5y ago
The cities didn't have much choice when those stores were built outside of city limits or in a neighboring town. Lay the blame where the responsibility resides: with the consumers who chose bulk over local.
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by dleslie 5y ago
The creator just isn't interested; but they've given the go-ahead to several other folks to sell it.
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by dleslie 5y ago
It's really not a serious modification, since the Bios sits in a socket and isn't soldered on. And besides, very few functioning MVS systems haven't had some form of modification; at the very least, the timebomb-of-doom batte
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by dleslie 5y ago
I have a V4 in my MVS-4-25. Paired with the 161-in-1, it's an absolute game-changer for the NeoGeo experience. Cheats, better attract mode, even a music player.
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by dleslie 5y ago
> this is sadly utterly terrifying and i have no idea what to do about it. IMHO, accounts need to have non-trivial value, to all users. Social pressure will do much of the rest. The problem with Gab, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, even HN an
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by dleslie 5y ago
Here's their statement[0], and this is the meat of it: > F-Droid as a project soon celebrates its 9th birthday. In these 9 years, F-Droid’s mission was and is to create a place where people could download software they can trust – m
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by dleslie 5y ago
So long as fraud and theft remain crimes, then Governments will still exert control over currency; fiat or not.
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by dleslie 5y ago
If the USA is anything like Canada, and I don't know if it is, then there there was a "missing middle" in terms of pandemic support. Here in Canada, if you qualified for CERB, or had social spending (or other luxury spending)
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by dleslie 5y ago
If they know the documentation exists, then either they should RTFM or explain how they did and didn't find the answer. Ie, "I looked in the docs and couldn't find how to..."
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by dleslie 5y ago
What's wrong with telling someone to seek the answers in the documentation that provides those answers?
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by dleslie 5y ago
When I was much younger I once wrote some random person, whose email I found in newsgroups, about my troubles getting Linux to compile. They responded politely and quickly, with a fix. That person was Linus. I've found my share of trol
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by dleslie 5y ago
Yup, it would have been better as an officially-maintained extension.
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by dleslie 5y ago
It needs to be said because some folks are blinded by their belief in the virtuousness of themselves or their in-group. I may agree with the goals, but that doesn't mean I should blindly trust them to execute them, right?
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by dleslie 5y ago
Pocket is a weird thing. It integrates with my Kobo, and that makes it useful for reading long-form articles on my e-reader. But it should have been opt-in.
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by dleslie 5y ago
It plays out with Amazon absolutely crushing Google when it tried to be a consumer marketplace, and even trouncing Google at providing web infrastructure services. If, somehow, an antitrust ruling split ads from the rest of Google the non-a
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by dleslie 5y ago
In no way is air travel necessary for anyone to find enjoyment in their life or to seek new opportunities, even overseas.
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by dleslie 5y ago
It can fix the context menu! Oh hell yes. That was the worst change in Win11.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Dogfooding your own product isn't arrogance or complacency, it's common sense. If it's not good enough for you not to prefer a competitor, then it's not good enough to ship. Arrogance is not doing any or ongoing competit
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by dleslie 5y ago
We should be discouraging all air travel. All of it.
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by dleslie 5y ago
> Nobody gains anything from an activity that fundamentally requires exposure to tobacco smoke. Except smokers, of course. Smoking isn't just addictive and deadly, like alcohol, it has its own appeal to users.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Amazon Fire devices can install Apple TV.
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by dleslie 5y ago
I'm unfamiliar with one of the language logos in the meme graph at the bottom: what's the red swooshy thing beside zig?
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by dleslie 5y ago
When I do this, with sources, I find some power user has reverted the change within minutes or hours without so much as a meaningful comment. Not sure when it happened, but Wikipedia has long been a collection of fiefdoms, jealously guarded

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