garyrichardson

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by garyrichardson 9y ago
I thought it was a story about cars and tech when I first started reading it. It wasn't until the article talks about dents and such that I realized this wasn't the focus.
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by garyrichardson 9y ago
Articles like this are the cyclist equivalent of pro vegan propoganda. It's all doom and gloom and tilted towards a very extremist view with no room for other views or ways of life. Cycle only or you're killing the planet. Eat onl
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by garyrichardson 9y ago
> Your investment plan should be aimed, first and foremost, at preserving what you have—preserving it from investment loss, government intervention, or mismanagement. The advice is decent and normal, but I really love how regular advice
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by garyrichardson 9y ago
> Relocating offices or asking employees to move can sometimes be read as layoffs in disguise, since a certain percentage of workers won’t be able to relocate. I think this is definitely true. I also expected this was the case for Yahoo.
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by garyrichardson 9y ago
The Apple Sage are the only ones I don't like, but I'm definitely in the minority. The Chipolte ones are an acquired taste, but amazing on a hotdog bun with some mozza while camping.
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by garyrichardson 9y ago
Field Roast Vegan Sausages ( https://fieldroast.com/product-family/sausages/ ) were temporarily banned a couple of years ago ( http://fieldroast.com/blog/field-roast-coming-back-canada/ ). I
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by garyrichardson 9y ago
For me, Slashdot was the first big internet community. I wasn't materially involved in news groups before that. It's a little weird to think I wasn't 20 when I started using /. I was also a little surprised to see there&
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by garyrichardson 9y ago
Dear world, Please stop writing articles that argue laws need to be changed to make cycling safer so that more people ride bikes. It immediately signals to me that the article is strongly biased towards cyclists. Cyclists do need to be prot
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by garyrichardson 9y ago
Does anyone have links to similar things for North American solitary bees? These houses seem to be UK specific?
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by garyrichardson 10y ago
I read this book in 2007 when it came out and loosely followed its advice. It changed my life. I dropped 30 pounds, 2 shirt sizes and several inches off of my waist. His "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." mantra is about the
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by garyrichardson 10y ago
My biggest complaint about C : SQL-like interface. These seems like a terrible decision to me. If you are used to relational databases and SQL, it's a real struggle to get your head in the right place. Some of the gotchas: Cell level
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by garyrichardson 10y ago
What if the device opens up some random port via UPnP? What then? Do you turn off UPnP? If you did, why did you even buy this camera?
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by garyrichardson 10y ago
That's the nature of 4wd -- take a modern jeep, but it in 4wd on dry pavement and feel it lurch and moan because it can't slip. Put it in 4lo and on dry pavement and it'll lurch so hard your face will go through the windshiel
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by garyrichardson 10y ago
I suspect it's legacy from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_sovereignty_over_H... -- as a Vancouver native there was a massive influx of people from Hong Kong into Vancouver all through the early to mid n
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by garyrichardson 10y ago
I thought this was going to be about the space where a parallel port used to be on the back of your computer. Was I disappointed.
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by garyrichardson 11y ago
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by garyrichardson 11y ago
Adjustable standing desk is more than a desk -- it's a multi-use work surface. I can push my monitors out of the way and move it all the way up to have the right height for taking computers apart. I can then move it to writing height a
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by garyrichardson 11y ago
The desk is constantly going up and down. Depends on what I'm working on, how my back is feeling (dealing with a herniated disc). I actually spend a lot of time pacing on the phone right now, so I may have it up for an hour phone call
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by garyrichardson 11y ago
Yeah, it's easy to say that, but you're assumptions are wrong. Spending time and breaking flow waiting for a desk to go up/down is a waste. I can keep typing and focusing while the desk goes up and down. Also, I don't st
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by garyrichardson 11y ago
I have a relatively expensive Uplift desk. I've had it for about 4 months now and have 0 complaints on the $1200-ish I spent. Here's my protips: * Get one with a motor in it. Hand cranking sounds awful. * Get one with presets. Hav
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by garyrichardson 11y ago
Link to the documentation? I thought this was changed over a year ago to not requiring pre warming?
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by garyrichardson 11y ago
Put this in the column of "Stuff I can't own because my small children would destroy it."
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by garyrichardson 11y ago
Also not available in Canada. Boo-urns.
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by garyrichardson 11y ago
RE: muzzled scientist issue being overblown. I'm Canadian. I have scientist friends. I can say this was not overblown. Funding was cut. Programs that were decades old were shut down. Data that contradicted the government was buried.
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by garyrichardson 11y ago
I also live in the Pacific Northwest. I live on the edge of a watershed. Black bears, cougars and coyotes live within 300m of my house (you should see our heavily armoured and locked garbage cans). It's a suburb of Vancouver, so no one
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by garyrichardson 11y ago
"640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates, 1981 I can't wait to spin up a 64 node cluster of these new X1's.
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by garyrichardson 11y ago
Also, in what world are people casually priming a new rolex? I see it as either: - a stretch luxury purchase for the average person -- I'm going to expect white glove service from a high end jeweller. Or possibly a shady Craigslist dea
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by garyrichardson 11y ago
I miss my E30 328i cab. It felt like the pinnacle of what a car should be. With the manual transmission I've never felt more part of the car. I loved every second of driving it, even though the clutch felt like pushing two cinder block
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by garyrichardson 11y ago
I think this is the most important/accurate analysis in this comment thread. Vancouver had a large AAA game industry for a decade or so. It was very much driven by exits -- all the small/medium studios got bought by Microsoft&#x2F
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by garyrichardson 11y ago
Vancouver has the West Coast Express, which is a passenger train that runs east from Downtown out to the valley. The furthest stop is about 75km away and the longest journey is about 70 minutes. We also have light rail called Skytrain that

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