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by lstamour 4y ago
Here’s a fun one - import duties. If we ignore sales taxes for a minute, the real problem with duties isn’t calculating a number, it’s knowing which classification applies. You often have a giant table or spreadsheet of product codes and du
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Oh the hostility is definitely still present despite (perhaps because of) the CRTC’s regulations. For example, Bell successfully lobbied the CRTC to mandate that you can only buy TV from your ISP if watching on a home ISP cable package. Thi
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Actually you can get Rick and Morty legally in Canada via StackTV on Amazon channels for $12.99/month if you’re an Amazon Prime member.[1] You can also watch episodes in the Global TV app, but you do have to have a subscription to Glob
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Another suggestion re gathering data or threads from Slack: using Message Shortcuts for greater visibility/discoverability? https://api.slack.com/interactivity/shortcuts Might need to combine this with Slack modal
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It’s documented at some gas stations near the border, also common on some forums. If padding with 00 doesn’t work, try 01, 02, etc. If filling in an online order form, it’s best to write in as much of your real address as possible, but zip
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by lstamour 4y ago
Not always. Almost not ever. https://endoflife.date/iphone I’m impressed Apple supports iPhones for 7 years from when they went on sale, but 5 years from when they stopped selling them varies by product line. On the Watch,
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Vehicle manufacturers don’t actually make all the spare parts, other firms find it worth it to do so for them. Similarly, I could buy some common parts for the 2014 Mac mini that was easy to service on Amazon, without waiting for Apple to r
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What if the stolen iPhone was your only way to access your email/iCloud? You might not be able to confirm it as stolen then. I do agree that e-waste can be a problem, but unlocking the iPhone seems trivially easy, and as noted in this
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And do it soon, or the 7 year “legacy” period might kick in. Apple has a cut-off past which they will not service or support their products. It’s usually 5-7 years from when they were first or last sold. (Actually, it’s a bit arbitrary if y
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Sure. As long as you don’t need Fonts, iCloud, NFC, VPN, Push Notifications, Sign in with Apple, Sign in with browser credentials in-app (useful to avoid typing your passwords in multiple times), time-sensitive notifications, Siri or Low La
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Except with a free account (“ADP” according to Apple) there are limitations: https://help.apple.com/developer-account/#/dev21218dfd6 On top of that, apps installed this way expire after a number of days, possibly
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Informally, a senior banker once told me that Interac E-transfer reduces bank transfer costs to less than a penny each. The $1-1.50 fee is pure profit, hence the availability of unlimited transaction plans. For comparison, Square, which usu
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If it's only been 10 days, can you return it? That seems extreme, yet maybe expected if something didn't quite pass QA, it might show up that early. I can confirm that at a real Apple Store I've had genius bar folks take phot
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Stop using any passwords that get checked in. Set expiry dates for access tokens. Set up git commit hooks that scan for password or API key prefixes and block the commit. Set up appropriate .gitignore files, you can place them in subfolders
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I can say that price _increases_ happened for a few AWS products in specific regions/countries without blog posts. Often AWS simply emails affected customers 1-3 months in advance and after making the change. That said, I imagine price
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I would think the best workaround (until carriers/handsets fix this) is to change your cell network - which you can also do if you have poor signal in an area: On iPhone, go to Settings > Cellular > eSIM name > Network Selecti
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What you’re supposed to click on is an animated bat signal light that rotates and lights up yellow. It’s in the upper-right corner of the image carousel in the search results. If you click an image, it’ll take you to the image preview, but
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https://www.bluezones.com/books/
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Amazing. If there’s a flaw, it’s that there’s a bit too much smoking indoors. If you like this, you’ll probably also like Rowan Atkinson Live: https://youtu.be/uw8dW9Hyno0
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It’s not built-in, but you can get Google Translate browser extensions, and these are promoted on Firefox marketing pages. Also, there’s an offline translate extension being worked on in open source: https://blog.mozilla.org&#x2F
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by lstamour 4y ago
Ontario suggests their rails are designed for 30C to -30C: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/headlines/metrolinx-... (2016)
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True? But I wouldn’t call creating new data from non-anonymous data “making data anonymous”. Instead, that’s new random data whose values are constrained or based on real-world data. I’d call that newly generated data, not anonymized data.
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The answer is always “it depends,” but I think if a date time is a UTC timestamp, such as a record of when an event happened, then with random sampling, it shouldn’t matter? It’s just a timestamp. The amount of information it contains might
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Probably https://www.biogaia.com/product/biogaia-gastrus/ ?
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I’m seeing a density of 2,419 per sq km for SF urban core at https://www.newgeography.com/content/007367-toronto-solidifi... and that beats New York at 2,054 people per sq km. Probably has something to do with how the
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by lstamour 4y ago
Half right. Yes, TD has a lot of divisions, each separate: https://www.td.com/about-tdbfg/corporate-information/corpora... But it’s also true that over the years, TD has had to merge systems and make changes. They
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The joke being that the Toblerone bar has a mountain based on the Matterhorn as it’s logo. Either that, or someone very dedicated to Toblerone chocolate created the world’s largest advertisement in the Alps. That would be quite the story. I
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Such a dependency isn’t dissimilar from the assertion that some views are stateful, though. I’d much rather have a somewhat pure view (React) than have to deal with syncing or updating state in three different places myself (OOP). I persona
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The links are appreciated, but the rest of the post is too negative. Try to correct in a kind way, next time. Also, since it’s beta, it’s possible the API isn’t working correctly yet or that data is available in some regions but not yet ava
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Interesting. The notice doesn’t appear within the Dark Sky app at all. But the Weather app does have a lot of improvements, I think. Perhaps under iOS 16 we’ll just see the Dark Sky app disappear and get replaced by the Apple Weather app.

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