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by pards 5y ago
This x 100. My next car will probably have to be electric but I need it to be bare bones, serviceable and FOSS. DIY might be the only option
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by pards 5y ago
Most new plumbing is done with plastic pipes (blue for cold, red for hot) that can be snaked and fished less destructively than metal pipes. While these don't contain lead, they may contaminate the water in unknown ways.
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by pards 5y ago
The chat feature is hugely important for traders. I've seen traders use it to iron out the details of OTC deals prior to booking the trade. It was used so heavily for this purpose that I know one bank even used the data as part of the
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by pards 5y ago
This is the root cause of North America's broken telephony system. $30/month buys you a landline with unlimited outbound calls to both landlines and mobile phones. The system has no facility to meter outbound calls from a landline
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by pards 5y ago
Perhaps all of us in North America should sign up for the Indian DND list since that's where the majority of our spam calls originate! I signed up for the Canadian "do not call" lists when it came into effect and it only serv
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by pards 5y ago
SMS should be renamed to 2FA since that's the last remaining use for me, and only until the laggards upgrade to support Authenticator apps (I'm looking at you TD Canada Trust and PC Financial).
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by pards 5y ago
STIR/SHAKEN also covers Canada [1] but it's a neutered law with little impact since it only covers VOIP calls, not SMS or traditional landline calls. I guess I should drop my old skool Bell Canada landline in favour of a VOIP line
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by pards 5y ago
Here's a few things that I've found to work well 1. Onboarding docs - this is a working document on our wiki that describes the step-by-step process to getting a new laptop ready for development, including repos, tools, configs et
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by pards 5y ago
Or reducing/eliminating the $800 keyfob replacement cost on my 2018 Rav4. It's the worst case of vendor lock-in and customer fleecing.
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by pards 5y ago
The SEC report [0] on this incident reads like a handbook of what not to do. [0]: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2013/34-70694.pdf
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Job application forms are terrible(twitter.com)
23 points by pards 5y ago|1 comments
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by pards 5y ago
What The Forecast does the same thing. It is quite amusing, especially in the depths of a Canadian winter.
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by pards 5y ago
Light grey text on a white background? I was interested in the content but cannot force my eyes to endure the strain of reading the article due to its inaccessibility. Readability is dead.
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by pards 5y ago
Decision logs are incredibly valuable for documenting __why__ a particular decision was made. This can be in Jira, wiki, or whatever your team uses. When new people join and ask, "Why are we using X and not Y?" then you should hav
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by pards 5y ago
> just stay in your fucking lane This, a thousand times. It irks me when companies insist on fucking with a product that was good enough already. At that point, they should scale down, sell it to an income fund and move on. But no. The g
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by pards 5y ago
I misplaced the key/fob to 2018 Toyota Rav4 hybrid and it can only be replaced at the dealership .. for $850 CAD. It's an especially cruel form of vendor lock-in and has caused me to reevaluate the selection criteria for the next
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by pards 5y ago
"You can't out-run a bad diet" It's much easier to eat better than it is to try to burn those cookies off through exercise.
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by pards 5y ago
One of the simplest hacks is to consume a small amount of grapefruit juice with any meal that contains carbs. The naringenin in grapefruit keeps your blood-sugar (and therefore insulin) levels low. Do NOT do this if you are diabetic or on o
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by pards 5y ago
The hackers want the Galaxy source code so they can remove all the uninstall-able bloatware from their Samsung phones :)
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by pards 5y ago
I agree with the OP's point. If you work in tech then having your own domain tells me you understand at least a little of how the internet works. I notice email domains on resumes. You get bonus points if you list an email from a custo
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by pards 5y ago
I've been rocking a Nokia 7.2 for a few years. I bought it purely because it runs stock Android without bloatware (unlike my previous phone, aSamsung S8). It's been pretty solid with good battery life and regular updates/upgr
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by pards 5y ago
Watch "Don't look up"
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by pards 5y ago
The doctor rings true. I had 3 separate doctors on 3 separate occasions diagnose my 21 month old son with an ear infection, instead of the plum-sized malignant brain tumour that it was. From their point of view, pediatric brain tumours are
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by pards 5y ago
I use this service as a shredder for most of the correspondence/bills from the City of Toronto (utility bills etc). From their website: You will continue to receive your interim, final and/or supplementary/omitted property t
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Canada Post to discontinue epost service(canadapost-postescanada.ca)
1 points by pards 5y ago|1 comments
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by pards 5y ago
I found the light grey font on white background to be almost unreadable. I persisted in reading it only because the subject matter is compelling but authors should be aware that such typesetting errors can turn people away.
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by pards 5y ago
Another key feature missing from the list is: 4. Redelivery Are messages redelivered if there's a failure in the consumer? This is critical to many systems using older messaging platforms like MQ.
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by pards 5y ago
Like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29983959 Forced updates that remove or disable features people use.
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by pards 5y ago
In Toronto, Canada, freelancing or contracting is a way to pay senior engineers more than the company's standard fixed pay bands. The FTE pay brackets aren't great and we have a great public health care system so there's not
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by pards 5y ago
It talks about the drawbacks of having a single Go struct serve as both the schema for the database and the schema for the API. It recommends (correctly) that developers should avoid this, and write two Go structs, one for the API and one

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