soperj

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by soperj 5mo ago
It wasn't. Those were bumper stickers in the 80s referencing the National Energy Program. Very in line with the "What does Petro-Canada stand for?" - Pierre Elliot Trudeau Rips Off Canada.
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by soperj 5mo ago
The Leafs were in the West. LA beat them in the '93 conference finals after the infamous Gretzky high stick, they would have played the Canadiens in the finals that year. They lost in the '94 conference finals to the Canucks.
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by soperj 5mo ago
We used to have bumper stickers that said "Let those eastern bastards freeze in the dark". Funny to mention this on an article referencing the PET.
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by soperj 5mo ago
This is dumb. If he knew Canada at all, he'd know that Toronto is actually the only city in the Universe.
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by soperj 5mo ago
Conspiratorial sure, conservative though not sure how it gets labelled that. It's not a deeply ingrained philosophy of conservatism, and crazy is broad spectrum.
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by soperj 5mo ago
Coal also produces radioactive byproducts. They just release them into the air.
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by soperj 5mo ago
scariest thing for American School children and their teachers is the way that the second amendment is administered.
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by soperj 5mo ago
hate to tell you this, but there's a whole contingent of "granola moms" who won't vax their children. They're the same people that subscribe to those teething stones that are really only a strangulation risk.
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by soperj 5mo ago
> has a Unix OS that lets you run standard compilers, docker containers, vms whatnot 99% of users don't give a damn about that. This is a play for kids in schools, so they get used to their operating system.
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by soperj 5mo ago
That's the terminology I was looking for. Didn't know whether to tune up or down without changing frets, could tell when it was right though.
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by soperj 5mo ago
I read a paper that basically said that the spot itself didn't matter so much, that part was voodoo, but the needling produced a response from your body that helped.
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by soperj 5mo ago
oddly, this is how I learned to tune my guitar. I'm pretty tone deaf, but can feel the difference between the reference string and the string I'm trying to tune through the guitar.
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by soperj 5mo ago
The problem is that an actual person is submitting this code, and that we have to review it. They don't seem to know how to compile, or run a local version of our framework on docker to deploy it to.
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by soperj 5mo ago
They used to just kill those things with upgrades until they were forced not to.
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by soperj 5mo ago
> a lot of _human_ written code was/is less-than-fine. At least at my work place this is often the case whenever we bring in contractors who will never be tasked with maintaining their code. Middle management rarely ever gives us th
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by soperj 5mo ago
Where outside the US? You might be fine with just a bike and transit.
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by soperj 5mo ago
> Imagine if everyone in the United States lived in just 1/3 of the United States Take a 100 mile strip down the east coast and the west coast. Add Chicago. That's pretty much everyone.
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by soperj 5mo ago
Reggie Dunlop, Charlestown Cheifs, they won the Federal League and it's hard to argue it wasn't all down to his coaching.
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by soperj 5mo ago
How does this work with VPNing into work?
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by soperj 5mo ago
> I will compliment servers and cashiers and receptionist just because it makes everyone friendlier and we all enjoy our brief interaction more than we would otherwise. It's been my experience that many of these people hate that, a
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by soperj 5mo ago
It feels different. I did say red flag and not "People that give compliments are terrible people". Random strangers that I never see again I wouldn't really hold on to flags for.
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by soperj 5mo ago
That's with the latest iphone, not the equivalent iphone from when this was released.
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by soperj 5mo ago
Aww, that's nice. People must genuinely enjoy your humour. Thanks for engaging in such a shitty way.
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by soperj 5mo ago
I guess I should edit it to just compliments are my biggest red flag, and it's born out of experience. These people are looking for something either now or in the future, and this bullshit false niceness is simply their way of cultivat
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by soperj 5mo ago
Unwarranted compliments is my biggest red flag.
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by soperj 5mo ago
Post it on here. We'll all help you out.
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by soperj 6mo ago
Their script is over active. Not sure why people are harvesting HN likes.
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by soperj 6mo ago
I thought they rolled it as well?
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by soperj 6mo ago
Indefinite detention without charges. Sounds exactly the same.
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by soperj 6mo ago
> Gone forever I mean, just shut your phone off. You're likely just missing text messages anyway.

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