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by jperras 6y ago
Canadian here. This sounds like Interac eTransfer, which is available to any person sending/receiving money where the endpoints are Canadian banking institutions (all of them, I guess?). We've had this since 2003.
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by jperras 6y ago
I do believe it is the most well thought out porcelain to git that I have ever come across, in any editor that I've seen. The ability to integrate nearly all the various git CLI tools (not to mention forge, the magit plugin that integr
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by jperras 6y ago
Many things. It's great, but it doesn't hold a candle to magit. The README lists out several things that are missing that not only exist in magit, they aren't even notable features!
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by jperras 6y ago
Hi. Hardcore 10+ year vim zealot here. Magit on emacs is hands down the greatest interface to git that has ever been conceived. Vim + Fugitive doesn't even come close (sorry, tpope, I still love you). So much so that I started using em
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by jperras 6y ago
I've been using Dynaconf: https://github.com/rochacbruno/dynaconf for application configuration, and it's been quite pleasant. It has various options for cascading configuration sources, such that it makes it
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by jperras 7y ago
> One thing I have observed about software and organizations is that big, intractable problems in code are often rooted in big, intractable problems in the organization that produced it. You've paraphrased (intentionally or not) Co
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by jperras 7y ago
I mean, it's probably more complex than what I postulated. It was just the first thing that came to mind, since 270° is zero in a few trigonometric functions/identities.
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by jperras 7y ago
Is someone dividing by zero somewhere? "All six display units (DUs) blanked with a selected instrument approach to a runway with a 270-degree true heading, and all six DUs stayed blank until a different runway was selected." cos(2
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by jperras 7y ago
My spouse's father is a well known (Grammy nominated) mastering engineer. He hated the loudness wars. It was, often times, bands and labels insisting that the albums be "louder" than whatever other comparable album they were
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by jperras 7y ago
As I've linked to in previous replies, all the studies[1] I've seen are meta-analyses that compare kids in Quebec to kids in other provinces. I don't see anything that accounts (nor could they, really) for the huge variety of
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by jperras 7y ago
> It's a "nit pick" for sure, but in my understanding, something that "pays for itself" is not dependent on government subsidies. Quebec has some of the highest income taxes in the country - you pay for such serv
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by jperras 7y ago
I did read the article. It didn't link to the CityLab article that I posted, which I found to be a bit easier to read. If you read the meta-analysis paper that they link to that describes the "not so good for the well being of the
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by jperras 7y ago
And it was about as vague as could possibly be: > But young Canadians who were eligible for the program experienced, as teenagers, “a significant worsening in self-reported health and in life satisfaction” relative to Canadians from othe
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by jperras 7y ago
That's actually one of the not-so-great facets of this program. It demands a minimum of 80% participation, meaning that if you wanted to stay at home to take care of your children but use subsidized daycare 1-2 days a week to give your
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by jperras 7y ago
It doesn't have to be this way. Québec has had subsidized daycare for almost 25 years, and the program literally pays for itself (and more!) via increased income taxes from parents that would have otherwise chosen to stay at home. htt
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by jperras 7y ago
You must be new here :)
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by jperras 7y ago
> I was fine beyond my eyelids and nostrils crystalizing. As a fellow Canadian from Québec, this is how I explain the degrees of coldness to people whom have never experienced it. You know it's really cold out when your eyelids mo
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by jperras 7y ago
Considering that most ranking algorithms don't a priori give more weight to lower ratings, this is probably fine.
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by jperras 7y ago
> I think this points out the elephant in the room: why are so many people in supposedly high income cities not able to buy properties? I own & live in an apartment on the top floor of a 3 floor walk-up in a busy metropolitan city. T
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by jperras 7y ago
Block heaters in grocery stoer parking lots/apartment buildings in Toronto? Where?
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Everything you think you know about gentrification is wrong(cityobservatory.org)
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by jperras 7y ago
> Perhaps the quality of flavor of the kiwi is just affected by the climate and soil. That's almost certainly what is happening, unless they have some separate cultivar that was bred to better withstand the Italian climate where the
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by jperras 7y ago
Ha! I live a few blocks from that corner. Always wondered who set that up and for what reason. Nicely done. Hopefully the construction there will end soon, too.
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by jperras 7y ago
It is, but many services will (incorrectly) prevent an address with a `+` in it from ever making it to their database/whatever. So the fact that the MTA will route it is irrelevant if it never makes it to the MTA in the first place.
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by jperras 7y ago
> The other factor to consider is that people who are too cold can layer up but someone who’s too hot doesn’t have an option other than working from home. While true in the abstract, the real reason why most office buildings are "co
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by jperras 7y ago
It's relatively straightforward to map a materialized view to an ORM entity in SQLAlchemy, if that's what you want to do: http://www.jeffwidman.com/blog/847/using-sqlalchemy-to-creat... SQLAlchemy's
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by jperras 7y ago
It's sometimes difficult in Montreal due to how easy it is to get around in English; people will by default switch to English to help you out, and almost everyone is bilingual to some degree. Just stick to your guns of speaking in Fren
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by jperras 7y ago
Informal vs. formal and the gradient between them is always going to be an issue in any language, especially when comparing languages. French also has more built-in structures for formal address/politeness, though many of them are bein
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by jperras 7y ago
> An anecdote from a trip to Quebec city. My wife and I walked up to a hostess to inquire about getting a table for dinner. We greeted her in French. As soon as we started to ask about a table, she stopped us and said, "No no no no.
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by jperras 7y ago
The more idiomatic translation of "de rien" would be "think nothing of it". Source: lifelong bilingual in French & English.

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