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by jwalton 5y ago
First dose Pfizer, second dose Moderna is quite common in Ontario. We had a ton of supply of Pfizer, so many got it as their first dose, but by the time second dose time came around, Pfizer was approved for teens and Moderna was not, so a
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by jwalton 5y ago
Re: Drag window: One of the only things I miss about the Sun Solaris workstation I used back in my embedded days was the "Front" key. Hover the mouse over a window, hit "Front", and that window would be moved to the top
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by jwalton 5y ago
If the prices here[0] are correct, then the inflation adjusted price of a Model T would be around $7000-$23000, according to this[1]. [0] https://www.fordmodelt.net/m/facts.htm [1] https://www.usinflationcal
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by jwalton 5y ago
> Even with an MIT license it is a copyright violation to copy the code without attribution. That was my take originally, but apparently this is not as cut and dry as you may think: https://www.technollama.co.uk/is-github
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by jwalton 5y ago
I do this too. :P Especially in a language like Go or C where you don't have exceptions, I think the "fast fail" at the start of the function is a reasonable "exception to the rule". Otherwise you can quickly end
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by jwalton 5y ago
> why return statements should be avoided in try-catch-finally blocks When I was a wee lad, learning basic and C, my father tried to impress upon me that a function should never have more than one `return` statement. Back in those days,
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by jwalton 5y ago
At that point, why would you not just have a mechanical latch? What’s the point of the button?
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by jwalton 5y ago
Note that beets hasn’t seen a release in two years, and the latest release has some dependency problems that break it. If you want to install it: pip3 install https://github.com/beetbox/beets/tarball/mas
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by jwalton 5y ago
Beets is also not really maintained anymore. It’s been about two years since the last release. If anyone is looking for a tutorial/HOWTO for Picard, I have one here: http://www.thedreaming.org/2020/11/22&#x2F
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by jwalton 5y ago
Our 2015 Leaf has a “charge indicator” and a “capacity indicator”, each with 12 segments. The “capacity indicator” just dropped one notch to 11, but this hasn’t had a huge impact on range - certainly it still gets us around the city, which
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by jwalton 5y ago
Rain is not as bad as you think it is. With a not-e-bike, I’m generally pretty warm from cycling, and a little cold rain is usually welcome. Fenders are required for a commuter bike if you want to bike in the rain, and you have to clean y
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by jwalton 5y ago
I’m an avid cyclist, but here in Ottawa for half the year it’s -20C and the roads are treacherous. I’d be willing to cycle on the roads when it’s warmish in the winter, when it’s just below zero, but I’m unwilling to have someone who forgo
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by jwalton 5y ago
Here in Ontario, we used to get ads for these from the power company regularly - at least here, they can modify your thermostat “by a few degrees” at peak load time, and you get a rebate on your bill. (I don’t have one, and I’ve never reall
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by jwalton 5y ago
> These corporations are the only ones to benefit from this. To give you a specific example, if I wanted to install a gameboy emulator on my iPhone, I wouldn’t be able to through the App Store as emulators are generally disallowed, but i
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by jwalton 5y ago
> How is a “rich idiot” smart enough to build a cutting edge drone but dumb enough to accidentally fly it over an Air Force base? I think a lot of people here are vastly overestimating what is required to build an RC plane that would out
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by jwalton 5y ago
Sounds like the worst day of your life must have been pretty unbelievably bad.
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by jwalton 5y ago
I know - it is complicated. The commercial rate here in Ontario for large consumers is based on the delta between expected load and actual load. If the expected load is much higher than actual, it can actually go into negative pricing (if
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by jwalton 5y ago
It definitely is. Heat is the most retrograde form of energy - the form with the most entropy. You can put 100W into a resistor, and you’ll get out 100W of heat. You can put 100W into a lightbulb, and it will generate less than 100W of li
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by jwalton 5y ago
Cooking, though, is an activity that puts demand on the grid for a short time. Mining BTC to heat your house is a constant and predictable load. There are plenty of houses in canada with electric furnaces - Last I checked Hydro Quebec woul
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by jwalton 5y ago
Fun story - as a kid in the 80s, I caught pneumonia, and a doctor misplaced the decimal point in my weight and computed a dosage for me that was literally a 10x overdose. Then two nurses both thought they were supposed to give me the shot
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by jwalton 5y ago
They're transmitting things like "This device showed a 'You have been exposed to COVID' alert". You can see the full list of events they send here: https://github.com/cds-snc/covid-alert-app&#x
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I found this a long time after it actually happened, and long after whatever logs from the actual event were gone. When I found it, all nodes claimed they were out of sync, and all of them were complaining that they wanted to sync the fold
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by jwalton 5y ago
Hopefully we can agree that automation is, on the whole, a good thing. If all work were automated, we could all live a life of idle luxury. If I were an employer running a factory with little automation, then I could spend some R&D mon
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by jwalton 5y ago
The thing is, we all know they want our email address so they can market to us, so there’s absolutely zero chance of me ever entering a real email address into that box.
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by jwalton 5y ago
I’ve lost data from SyncThing. I had a holder called “backgrounds” full of jpgs on my PC. I set it up to mirror the parent of that folder to my Linux machine and my Mac, and everything synced and was happy. I’m still not entirely sure wh
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by jwalton 5y ago
The Canadian version of the app recently added “secure anonymous usage statistics”, which aren’t particularly anonymous (since all we have is their word that they don’t log your IP), and that aren’t particu secure (messages are encrypted wi
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by jwalton 5y ago
I can listen to YouTube on my PC with the YouTube window in the background. I can listen to YouTube on my phone without looking at my phone. Why would you pay extra to listen to YouTube with your screen off? It might not make sense from
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by jwalton 5y ago
Google: Look, you can buy a device with less storage, and store all your MP3s in the cloud! Me: This sounds terrible… but ok, let’s give it a go. Google: Now that you have all your music in the cloud, wouldn’t it be nice if you paid us mont
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by jwalton 5y ago
> If you only include legal offerings, absolutely not. I have plenty of ebooks from Baen and Tor, and plenty of music I've bought from a variety of places, all in digital format, all without any DRM. It's not the "digital
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by jwalton 5y ago
Baen and Tor publish all their books without DRM, on whatever platform you care to buy them on. Baen has their own ebook shop where you can frequently get good deals on bundles. Music is easy to buy DRM free. Movies and TV shows... not so

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