jamie_ca

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by jamie_ca 5y ago
Canadian - I haven't seen any evidence of party affiliation by candidates for City Council/School Board level, in either BC or Ontario.
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
I've been using a Freestyle 2 for a year+ now, 10" split, mouse sits in the middle. While typing it keeps my arms on the chair's armrests with my hands just extending forward, and the current armrest height keeps my wrists an
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
High-availability relational data store.
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
I think it's windows only (at least for now).
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
I picked up a Kinesis Freestyle 2 last year, with the longer (20" I think) cable, and it's been wonderful. Standard QWERTY, and the cable is long enough that I'm in a comfortable typing position leaning fully back into my cha
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
It's less a disclaimer of being an official response, I think, and more a case of pointing out a potential bias.
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
iOS Firefox is actually quite nice, I've been using it as my default for a year now. Biggest win for me is tab sync, so it's pretty easy to open a tab I had loaded on my phone in my desktop browser. Sure, it's using Safari as
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
The catch is that they only show up in the channel list if you've "joined" the thread. They're otherwise just hidden behind the button up top (or you need to hit the backscroll).
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
Yes custom investment types! Up in Canada I have access to a registered retirement fund (tax-deferred, like a 401k but not as closely tied to employer) and a tax-free savings account (for untaxed growth), and I couldn’t figure out how to mo
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
Seaside http://seaside.st/ is a web framework in Smalltalk that will run on Pharo (and a number of other smalltalk systems). Also they have a GUI system ready so you can develop desktop apps (I'm not sure what the depl
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
Well, he's also GitHub's CEO so it's probably just fine.
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
> if your money can do better in another investment, I feel you're better off renting and making money in other ways. This can be true, but the math is complicated - it depends on the differential between a mortgage payment and what
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
The biggest benefit in my mind of rspec-given is that it allows you to combine the speed benefits of running the test setup once (When) with the clarity of granular assertions that report failures independently (Then).
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
They had what I understand to be a fairly generous profit-sharing arrangement once you hit a few years tenure.
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
The usual "pomodoro" schedule I see also includes a half-hour break every 4 or so focus sessions. The 5 minute break is more to remind you to stand up and get a few stretches - and also to give your brain the prospect of the break
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
I've had my series 3 a little over seven months, it gets a day and a half easily - if I fully charge before bed, it's good two overnights and usually at around 20% the second morning. No comment as yet on longer-term battery degra
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
Yeah, it can tie in really nicely with a static site generator. I use Notable rather than Obsidian, but it works the same (folder of .md files). My blog builds with Bridgetown, and I wrote a little bit of extra code to handle the wikilink f
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by jamie_ca 5y ago
Well to be fair, the $800 also moves the entire desktop into the screen's bottom bezel. More interesting to me is comparing the MBP with the iMac, same price but trading portability for a larger screen.
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by jamie_ca 6y ago
Oh, shades of my favorite bug ever, doing commercial product QA two decades ago. The product had an external license file you'd need to drop alongside, and on boot if your licence key didn't match for your name + connection settin
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by jamie_ca 6y ago
Another advantage to outputting 8601 dates is it's easy to mechanically parse - you can probably find some JS to rewrite the 8601 dates coming from the server into whatever the user's current locale is. Bonus points: if your times
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by jamie_ca 6y ago
I agree that there are distinctions. I grew up delivering newspapers 6 days a week from age 12 or so, walkable distances from my home, 30-90 minute routes depending on my age. I didn't _have_ to, and the money I got from it was availab
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by jamie_ca 6y ago
Agreed, there's a difference in degree between randos with no reach rage-tweeting into the void, and Trump being read by millions. That said, if they're going to say Trump's tweets are finally a problem, there's definite
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by jamie_ca 6y ago
Ads based on the subject matter isn't the problem. "Targeted algorithmic advertising" in this context is building a profile of the viewer, and running ads based on that profile. At its simplest, it's the ad network decid
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by jamie_ca 6y ago
Arrested in 2019 when his Ecuadorian asylum was revoked, charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, maximum 5y sentence. Was changed a month later to be the Espionage Act charges. Those all stem from the US though, I think he&#x2
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by jamie_ca 6y ago
I think day-trading stocks. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/butterflyspread.asp
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by jamie_ca 6y ago
Yeah, I think this is indicative of a feature lock during the RC period, and once the release is cut that opened up a bunch of PRs that were just waiting in the wings.
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by jamie_ca 6y ago
Cynical take: 30% bonus is there for retention. If you don't stick around for the year to hit the bonus, that's salary they don't need to pay you.
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by jamie_ca 6y ago
Do you mistrust the unsigned emails from 10+ years ago because they were sent prior to DKIM? As for authenticity, you could contact him, or his correspondents?
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by jamie_ca 6y ago
FWIW, this is often how I interact with open-source projects. Fork my own copy on Github, clone that locally, and spin up a branch for changes/PR. But then also `git remote add upstream <them>` so that I can keep my own code up t
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by jamie_ca 6y ago
It's a Javascript problem. Integer caps out at 9007199254740991 (2 53-1), and after that it's treated as a BigInt. As long as you're working with BigInt literals, it'll be accurate, but when you convert back and forth y

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