robear

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by robear 3mo ago
They aren't thinking that far ahead. It is just the immediate rate they are on. If it doesn't work out, they can always go back to Telus, etc at a way better rate than they had as an existing customer.
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by robear 3mo ago
I am not sure how to write this without it sounding like an ad for Starlink. It definitely isn't. Just trying to add an anecdote to the conversation. I live in Canada and there are a small number of people that I know that have give
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by robear 2y ago
Contesting or radiosport has been around for a long time in amateur radio. There are lots of contests throughout the year. Contests essentially involve making contacts with other amateurs. There is usually some sort of exchange that vali
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by robear 3y ago
I was fortunate enough to do one small project with it back in the day. Really nice to work with.
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by robear 3y ago
I was a big SY fan in high school (early 90s). I would watch parts of "1991: The Year Punk Broke" almost every day after school. I have never been good at music but I tried to get into guitar. Evidently, learning to play guitar
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by robear 3y ago
Android Messages, the competitor to iMessage. The parent claimed that Google resists encrypting anything so they can mine your data. I was merely trying to ask for accuracy. I don't know the technical aspects of every Google messagi
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by robear 3y ago
Isn't Messages E2E by default?
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by robear 3y ago
I don't see it that way. The main need for change detection in my opinion is to remove the need to update parts of the DOM in an imperative manner. It is fine to do that for smaller projects but when a project gets large, it becomes
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by robear 3y ago
In the presentation today, Apple specifically mentioned connecting to your macOS device as a seamless experience. In my opinion, this will be another "content consumption" device like an iPad that integrates with macOS devices an
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by robear 3y ago
I completely agree. "Considered Harmful" is one of my biggest pet peeves. It irrationally irritates me.
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by robear 3y ago
My dad is a ham and also a weaver. He puts "May you be happy" in Morse Code in the dish towels he makes.
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by robear 4y ago
I thought Twin Peaks was the primary influence on the modern long form TV series.
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by robear 4y ago
I write React but don't look at the docs much so I am not familiar with all the changes there. The basic concepts of React haven't changed much over its history. Hooks are newer than class components, etc but class components st
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by robear 4y ago
In my circles it was mainly left leaning people against the HST. Part of it was a dislike of Gordon Campbell and part of it was that the HST changes were seen as pro-business.
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by robear 4y ago
Support matrix - https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support You can run a GUI but it would currently run on the CPU not GPU. Reports are that the UI is quite snappy running on the CPU. The basi
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by robear 4y ago
Hasn't it been superseded by the Gervais Principle? https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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by robear 5y ago
3a, 4a, and 5a have headphone jacks.
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by robear 5y ago
Hasn't the A series always had a headphone jack?
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by robear 6y ago
Yes. You can see the D700 in use here: https://youtu.be/h73EYcyszf8?t=679
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by robear 6y ago
What exactly are they claiming is 'world first'? There are already examples of previous electric delivery trucks in this thread. I will add one that I don't see listed - the Navistar International eStar - https:/&#x2F
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by robear 6y ago
How do you try to make a 90s music canon without grunge/alternative? There are a plethora of other genres that developed or emerged into relative popularity in the 90s that were hugely influential on music going forward. Taking the mo
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by robear 7y ago
The International Telecommunication Union ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunicatio... the body that governs these things at the international level. Individual countries implement decisions taken a
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by robear 7y ago
There are some good ideas in this thread. I spent a lot of lonely time in my 20s living alone and working from home. One thing is to live in a shared house. That is a way to have people to live with. It worked for me to not be as lonely
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by robear 8y ago
Good question. As I said in the response to a comment on my initial, we thought it was the peak when we bought. That may seem crazy now but people have been saying Vancouver was at a peak since the mid 2000s. So it was conceivable that it
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by robear 8y ago
I get the tongue in cheekness of the comment with the ";D" but I think I qualified how lucky I feel several times and that it is an anecdote/sample size of one. When we bought people thought it was the peak of the market and
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by robear 8y ago
As an anecdote, my wife and I bought a place with friends because we couldn't afford on our own. People told us we were crazy. We basically bought the worst place in the city even with both families having good incomes (Vancouver).
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by robear 9y ago
There are 125mg and 250mg versions at those two price points.
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by robear 9y ago
Canadian TV has made some iconic shows. I don't think any country has has a show like Kids in the Hall. Degrassi Jr High, Mr Dressup, Today's Special, Road to Avonlea, Being Erica, Street Legal, Beachcombers, Wok With Yan!, Baba