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by jbm 6mo ago
I still have 4 of these, even one of their bluetooth ones. They all work, except a 15 year old one whose USB cable got frayed and fell apart. (I bought a USB-C port to see if I could fix it, yet another incomplete project) I agree with op
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by jbm 6mo ago
Chronic absence numbers are misleading. We all know that they are just placeholder stats for other factors and we should focus on those. My 3rd grade daughter was unlucky with various illnesses and missed about 12 days this year (so far).
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by jbm 6mo ago
Dunno how it is in Germany but quite a few of my non white friends wound up in the Canadian Army. I don't know why immigration is brought up in this conversation at all.
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by jbm 6mo ago
> We make plenty of stuff at scale. We just haven’t designed any of military around it since WWII. When people claim that America is losing manufacturing jobs, you get the "Oh we produce high value products, mostly military". T
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Large-scale BTU study shows: solar panels last longer than previously thought(b-tu.de)
4 points by jbm 6mo ago|0 comments
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by jbm 6mo ago
Somewhat hilariously, the US adopted the same Wolf Warrior diplomacy. Maybe public diplomacy is simply adjacent to local politics to the US. I still think this will backfire spectacularly over the medium term.
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by jbm 6mo ago
It's not just the EU, you can see these organizations in Canada and in Japan. For example, I watch youtube channels ostensibly created to discuss Japanese Real Estate (I'm thinking about Rakumachi) which suddenly pivot to posting
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by jbm 6mo ago
I don't know. Using Reddit mode like that is often a waste of time for me. The LLM does pokes holes but often it is missing context, playing word games, or making a mountain out of a molehill. In a conversational chatbot setting it i
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by jbm 7mo ago
> 9 MiB I'm glad people still care about stuff like this. It drives me insane that the simplest form-based software that I build and compile ends up being 50-100 MiB; several times video games from the 80s that I grew up with that
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by jbm 7mo ago
Alberta is imposing a charge on EV registrations, and they increased it again this year. At some point I'm hoping courts curtail their attempt at imposing gas cars but given how Canadian courts are hamstrung at obvious human rights is
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by jbm 7mo ago
Cool cool they can pay more for gas then. As an Albertan I approve completely.
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by jbm 7mo ago
Side note - My 2019 Tesla Model 3 is worth 8000$. Canadian. A rich person does not drive a Tesla.
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by jbm 7mo ago
In this past year I've gotten 2 bills for more than 1500$ for my Tesla Model 3, a car whose trade-in value is between 5 and 9 thousand dollars. When I complained, I was told that the parts are only produced by Tesla and are patented (t
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Made-in-Canada Circuit Boards(reilindustrial.com)
5 points by jbm 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jbm 7mo ago
I mean I understand the argument that Europe is in decline economically (the argument is that the price of energy goes up therefore industrial production goes down). I don't understand anyone claiming European "culture" is i
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by jbm 7mo ago
I agree with you. I also need to shout at the clouds on this because the experts who make the argument for time changes drive me crazy. I live in Calgary. At a previous grade school my daughter went to, school started early enough that sh
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by jbm 7mo ago
> The EU is destroying itself both economically and *culturally* I understand the former. Can you clarify the details around the later? I hear this often, but the people I hear it from are not the most trustworthy or the most knowledga
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by jbm 7mo ago
Isn't this just the end result of larger and larger portions of budgets going to interest payments?
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by jbm 7mo ago
Replacing an iPhone phone battery is trivial cost-wise, why not?
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by jbm 8mo ago
As a side note, this is actually akin to my favourite Slashdot troll. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kadin2048/Slashdot_Trolli... > The Get Some PRIORITIES! troll began to appear after the September 11, 200
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by jbm 8mo ago
I previously deployed stuff to Salesforce when I ran a very large Asia-Pacific Salesforce org. The previous way (prior to SFDX which was clearly influenced by Heroku) was terrible. 12 hour long deploys that end when one unit test times out
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Heroku is not dead(nombiezinja.com)
58 points by jbm 8mo ago|56 comments
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by jbm 8mo ago
Underrated comment. Everyone commented on the battery life for my model 3 in winter (which is annoying but not a huge deal). The problems with the bushings, the easily cracked (2500$) roof glass, and the lack of spare parts (not as bad as R
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by jbm 8mo ago
These people are everywhere. Instagram serves me antisemetic content consistently with no way for me to downvote it. Likewise when it tries to rage bait me with islamophobic shit. I do not engage or upvote other than taking screenshots and
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by jbm 8mo ago
Building a workout Apple Watch app and a workout editor for the Mac. Just testing it on n=4 or 5 people right now and thinking about how to market it if I launched it. https://github.com/jmahmood/RED-STAR-WEIGHTLIFTING
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by jbm 8mo ago
I thought the price differential was not going to happen as there was a serious drop in the price of Lithium over the past year; but I looked it up and the lithium price drop is more a 5 year trend, with the last few months having a sudden
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by jbm 8mo ago
Yeah I agree. I saw someone say that they were not in KTLO mode, but this seems pretty bad, especially considering it happening at Salesforce.
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Why all the e-bike startups went bankrupt [video](youtube.com)
6 points by jbm 8mo ago|0 comments
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by jbm 8mo ago
As a fan of Area 88 I agree with this completely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_88
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by jbm 8mo ago
I sometimes have to build code for the apple watch. Getting it to pair with XCode is incredibly frustrating and is the opposite of what you would expect.

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