emilecantin

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by emilecantin 2y ago
I think this is a case of the lawyer just trying anything for their client, but honestly it makes them look like giant assholes.
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by emilecantin 2y ago
I've done some snorkeling on coral reefs in the Bahamas, and it's crazy how far you can hear boats. Once you learn what sound they make (it's completely different underwater), you can hear one very clearly but when you pop yo
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by emilecantin 2y ago
> In my opinion you literally have about 5 seconds tops to get an idea across to most users on the internet In "Don't Make Me Think!" (great book about UI/UX), they compare designing websites to designing roadside bil
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by emilecantin 3y ago
Spotted the Pacifica driver ;-) And yeah the calculation varies, here in Québec it's about $1.20 CAD to charge it at home(10¢/kWh), and about twice that to charge it at a public L2 charger (1$/hour). I save about 4 liters of
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by emilecantin 3y ago
It's true that copyright violations are a concern for photographers, however some online photographer communities really need to take a chill pill regarding copyright. I've seen some photographers wanting to sue clients because th
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by emilecantin 3y ago
I'm a Nikon person™ because my Canon printer once refused to scan because it was out of yellow... When it came time to buy a DSLR I chose Nikon and honestly I haven't been disappointed.
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by emilecantin 3y ago
I might misremember the last time I had to pay duties, then. Still, 10$ is much more reasonable than UPS's 70$ plus taxes!
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by emilecantin 3y ago
Canada Post actually does something good here: you can pay from the tracking page. And they don't add any fees, you just pay the duties and taxes.
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by emilecantin 3y ago
I've started my adult life with a conscious decision that I'd start my travels by visiting things close to home; my own province and my own country. There's so much beauty in Québec that most people don't know about: whi
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by emilecantin 3y ago
My mom's last name is Saint-Pierre, but it's actually written as St-Pierre on her passport. She almost couldn't get on the plane in Atlanta last year because of that. You'd think such a simple abbreviation would be accep
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by emilecantin 3y ago
I've been called Â~™mile or similar a few too many times before discovering my name is actually spelled Emile on my birth certificate. I stopped even trying for Émile at that point. Also, to the original article's point, it looks
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by emilecantin 3y ago
This is addressed in the article: > If anyone reads this post I'm sure loads of people will tell me that my problems are all my own making and if only I invested in an iPhone all my problems would go away. Well you know what? APPLE
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by emilecantin 3y ago
I think that's where you're wrong. For a sufficiently advanced civilization, destroying another that's around our level would only entail destroying our planet. Hell, destroy the whole solar system to be sure. A "simple&
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by emilecantin 3y ago
Why doesn't it make sense?
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by emilecantin 3y ago
Well we have no idea of the values for most variables in the Drake equation, so of course there will be some assumptions. Dark Forest is an answer to the Fermi Paradox in the case where intelligent life isn't rare. If you read the book
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by emilecantin 3y ago
> hand wavy sci-fi speculation "The Dark Forest" by Liu Cixin is sci-fi, but I don't think it's too hand-wavy. It presents a pretty logical answer to the Fermi Paradox, based on a couple obvious axioms. Wikipedia arti
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by emilecantin 3y ago
It's been invented in Québec in the 90s[1] by our national utility company, they had demo cars and everything. Then it was all swept under the rug after some secret deals with car manufacturers... 1. https://fr.wikipedia.org
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by emilecantin 3y ago
I think a better payout structure for Spotify would be to go per-user. For example, for each subscriber a given amount from their subscription plan is earmarked for payouts. Let's say about 4$ per user. We divide that amount by the num
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by emilecantin 3y ago
To complete the answer, the only difference if you merge branch B into branch A is that A is advanced to the new commit instead.
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by emilecantin 3y ago
> Of course, possessing or distributing images of underage naked people can get you on a sex offender list, even if that naked person is you. I have a very hard time with this. These laws which are ostensibly there to protect the childre
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by emilecantin 3y ago
Having been impacted by something similar (company changing their cloud and breaking my HA integration), I think that when companies do this, the least they could do is offer refunds/buy-back to impacted customers. In my case, I bought
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by emilecantin 3y ago
Yes, but you have to open each integration page manually, you can't filter by this.
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by emilecantin 3y ago
Well, around 1/6th of families in Canada have 3 or more children[1]; that's not the majority but it's not "atypical" either. Add to that the number of stepfamilies, which can get pretty big, and I think you're
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by emilecantin 3y ago
I was driving my mother-in-law's Honda Civic. I couldn't wait 6 months, I needed a car NOW. I called up the dealership in the morning after seeing a Pacifica in stock on their website, and I was rolling off the lot with it that ve
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by emilecantin 3y ago
I bought a car recently (June), and ended up not getting an electric car. Why? My criteria are pretty simple: - Must seat 6 (I have 4 kids, I'm not going to start doing 2 trips) - Must be below 100k CAD (y'know, budget. I'm s
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by emilecantin 3y ago
I'm at the point where I vote with my wallet on something like this. I'm in the process of buying a heat pump / HVAC system, and I've been very clear with the salespeople that _local_ Home Assistant support is a must-hav
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by emilecantin 3y ago
I haven't really touched my YAML in a long while, especially not for anything release-related. Case in point: I just did the update that TFA mentions, and is was as simple as running `docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d
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by emilecantin 3y ago
Launch costs are absolutely an important factor that makes everything space-related extremely expensive. When it costs $1B to launch something, you have to make damn sure you're not launching a dud. That, in turn, makes building the th
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by emilecantin 3y ago
> “The very fact that people are viewing these images — which is exactly the intent of the Commission to try and overcome — is a form of abuse itself. So if we now take innocent pictures, which have been shared among consenting individua
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by emilecantin 3y ago
Yes, but any UI stuff in C++ is also going to be a major source of slowdowns. And C++ compiled to WASM will have the same slowdowns if it needs to touch the DOM.

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