johnny_canuck

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by johnny_canuck 3y ago
I recall in the late 2000s Microsoft had some of the best mice and keyboards on the market, but you'd never know they existed unless you happened upon them.
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by johnny_canuck 3y ago
If you have a specific product that you are looking for and it is eligible for Prime then I have found this to be the experience. Where I have not found that is if I am browsing, e.g. today I wanted to look for an evaporative humidifier. Th
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by johnny_canuck 3y ago
I used to use this trick when I worked as a photographer of used cars. You'd get some 10-20 fobs and be expected to walk a lot of ~300+ cars and take images of them. Holding the fob up to your chin was the trick to finding the right ve
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by johnny_canuck 3y ago
Give Brave browser a shot - it blocks ads out of the box and the experience is just as described in your first point.
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
Oof, this hits home for me. I've got the same color blindness as the author. The camping system Ontario uses for booking camp sites has a problem similar to the Kayak diagram the author shows. When choosing a site on a virtual map, the
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
That is something I really dislike about the react-query docs, the examples are code sandboxes. Glad to see they didn't go that path here. I find they add a lot of friction when I am looking for a quick reference.
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
It does seem as though larger banks can only work with entities that fit inside their self-described personas. If you do not align exactly with one of their personas - good luck. At least that is what I have seen here in Canada, I imagine t
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
I was surprised to pop into the comments and read the same in the first few top posts. Now I want a follow-up article from the author, haha.
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
I love reading about 3dfx as their hardware had a great deal of impact on my preteen years (gaming night and day). I'm always amazed to read how small some of these 90s tech companies were.
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
This is great. I tried to spin up a small project over the Christmas break and got bogged down with so many options for buying an esp32 and then struggled working through the docs. I previously worked with an Arduino Uno years ago and that
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
Can you provide a source for this? I'm curious to read more
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
I'm curious if you have any recommended reading on the criticism of liberalism?
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
Agreed - everything slows down and it is absolutely wonderful. The world through a view camera is a beauty in itself. I never got a chance to use a 8x10 but I imagine it is even more incredible. I still have my Toyo 45AII tucked away. Last
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
Ah, survivorship bias? Very applicable in tech it seems
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
Are there specific Twitter accounts that are interesting to follow? As an outsider to crypto I am finding it hard to determine who is a trusted source
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
Where I am in Canada, if you wanted all that content for that price you'd also be stuck with a lot of content you did not want. If you wanted a la carte offerings then you'd pay a premium for going outside the packages they offere
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
Wow, I grew up during the mid-90s when the internet was just starting to consume the world. Diablo (Battle.net) and QuakeWorld were my jams at the time. After that came the MMORPGs of the late 90s, Ultima Online and Asheron's Call. Goo
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
This sort of sounds like what 103 Early Hints aims to resolve https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/103
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
What is the context here?
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
Interesting... I recently had to take in my 2021 MacBook Pro for a cracked screen repair. Mine had a reason mind you, but one that I'd never seen before... My cat bit into the screen while relaxing behind it. A very mild play bite. She
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
Ghosting really sucks. I don't understand the practice. Maybe someone here can fill me in on why it is considered OK from the recruiter perspective. Too many folks asking for feedback post-rejection? If that is the case - automate the
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
Another example that comes to mind is in Prince Edward county where affordable housing is so limited that some businesses are building places for (seasonal) employees to live: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto
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by johnny_canuck 4y ago
You might enjoy Japanese iced coffee. I find that cold brew tastes the same no matter the quality of coffee (therefore great for lower quality coffees) where as Japanese iced coffee retains the original notes of the coffee.
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by johnny_canuck 5y ago
The headline reminded me of the SNC-Lavalin affair in Canada https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-snc-lavalin-court-idUKKBN...
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by johnny_canuck 5y ago
I'm curious how many people will make the jump to preferring remote when they realize that the office culture they had prior to covid will no longer exist in the future. My gut tells me that a lot of people are expecting for things to
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by johnny_canuck 5y ago
Calgary (albeit Canada in this case, but [Canada is just as bad if not worse than the US with regards to housing]( https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crea-housing-december-1.631... ) is a great example of a city like
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by johnny_canuck 5y ago
Curious which OS you're using? I have found the user experience is much worse in windows than it is in macOS. Same browsers on both.
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by johnny_canuck 5y ago
I'm currently working at a growth-stage company, and I wonder if its the worst of the two worlds. We used to get things done quickly, and now we have all these bureaucratic layers inserted. But they are also immature in that folks are