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by mgbmtl 7y ago
Yep, if you're not familiar with the store, it's kind of like a Walmart, but there's one in my neighbourhood and they provide decent value, especially for tools and outdoors stuff.
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
Naive question from a guy who doesn't shop often: what kind of stores are replacing Sears for general "house" stuff for an average price, average quality? More specialized shops in boxstores? (I don't like driving and th
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
A colleague from a previous job once told me: "when a developer gives you an estimate, always double and add one of that unit" (estimate = 2n+1). He told me this after a while, because he would often nag me to clarify if I meant 7
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
It does not allow notes, only login/password. I use it to sync passwords with my phone. I like that I can use a fingerprint to unlock the file on my phone (instead of passphrase). I used to put silly passwords on sites I didn't ca
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
I'm all for progress, I dislike driving (and I do own a car), but that sounds like streets that would have no pedestrians or cyclists. I don't think it would work well in cities.
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
On a project I contribute to, we ask people to register on our main website, which has a pretty good anti-spam. We do that in part to get to know our contributors more and better engage (after all, we develop a FOSS CRM). Gitlab uses that a
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
What about merino wool? It is said to be much less of an issue with allergies, and we see it everywhere these days.
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
Or if you have kids in school/college, family/friends/colleagues burdened by the health system, stuck in immigration limbo, who can't afford housing, kids who want to live above 40 or not get shot at in school, etc :) It
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
We have over 700 users on https://lab.civicrm.org (a FOSS CRM for non-profits). While bits of the project still rely on Jenkins and Github, having most of our community on Gitlab really changes the dynamics of the project. At fi
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
We usually work in pairs, and invoice 90% to the coop of the amount that was invoiced to the client. That way everyone manages their own risk, but we can still rely on others if we get stuck, share common practices, etc.
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
I don't know from within China, but from outside China, you can link it to a VoIP account.
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
I use VoIP numbers for that, although I understand it's not an option for all countries.
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
This is very anecdotal, and it's not what the research is saying. They also published a website which summarizes their findings https://geneticsexbehavior.info/what-we-found/ However we probably agree on two things
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
In Canada, or at least where I am, cremation is a much more common method of disposal. We do ceremonies in a funeral parlor, sometimes there is an urn, sometimes not. There isn't attachment to the corpse. I don't see why compostin
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
As a Canadian, I'm always somewhat amused how fire code is strictly enforced at events in the US. I've often seen inspections during conferences. US and UK have a much stronger fire code safety culture than elsewhere (although, as
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
In some provinces, the government is also the sole purchaser of some drugs and controls their distribution, as is the case for alcohol imports and cannabis (iirc, ex: Quebec).
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
I also had an early accidental contact with HyperCard, and sort of learned the basics without knowing it. I was looking for something equivalent to show my 12 year old, who is into Minecraft and generally open minded about learning geeky st
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
It means, at a minimum, to support two versions.
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
Old version support has a cost for the company supporting it. I guess it shows to the maturity of the company when they do. It's not easy to pull off. As a dev on a mid-size project, I'd say that those UI changes often have two si
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
Yep. I was a bit annoyed that Scandinavian countries go cashless, but I was caught a few times in restaurants in Germany that didn't accept credit cards. On short trips, I never bother carrying cash.
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
Agreed. In some Canadian provinces, tipping is taxed. There is even a "minimum assumed tip" by the government, so restaurants can't declare having received $0. It's draconian, but it's a sector that has been caught
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
I don't know much about this, but anecdotal info: my apartment (comparable to a 1-floor bungalow with lots of windows) has argon-filled windows, and it cost me around USD$1600 for the window themselves (I didn't change the frames,
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
Perhaps, but it's still really cheap to take a weekend flight, and alternatives are available. Seems like a valid issue to tackle.
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
They say it will "help support the environment", which could mean through funding of greener initiatives, R&D or level the playing field (although the tax is really low/symbolic, in my opinion). It makes sense to tax flig
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
That's why I like Adblock Plus, even if many find their position to be highly controversial. i.e. to charge advertisers to be whitelisted as "acceptable ads" if they respect certain criteria. When left unchecked, advertisers
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
I guess I'm in a MySQL shop, but when it comes to Gitlab, I just want it to run its regular upgrades without me having to do anything (and it does! I love Gitlab). I never considered running Gitlab on MySQL. We rarely have to fiddle in
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
Why do you suspect she acted in bad faith, and assume that the state is acting in good faith? It seemed rather strongly arguable that 1) she takes cases she is passionate about 2) she seems to deal with cases where the state was abusive.
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
That would become a technical debt, especially considering we do very little to reduce our use of plastics, which seems like the obvious thing to do before any other change.
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YC leads $50M Series B in Mattermost as open source Slack alternative(mattermost.com)
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by mgbmtl 7y ago
Unpopular opinion, but we could tax fuel at a higher rate than we do now (or stop subsidizing pollution, depending on how you view it).

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