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by tekstar 5y ago
> Maybe the scales of some are different, but calling this a "foreign-founded occupation" is disingenuous. Weird since it was definitely foreign-funded and definitely an occupation, but okay
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by tekstar 5y ago
Yes. Exactly. They'd also put off fireworks at random hours of the night to add to it.
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by tekstar 5y ago
Let's flip it - can your neighbour block the end your driveway and lay on their car horn 24/7 for weeks straight if they say they're protesting the government? Bonus points for harassing you if you walk by
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by tekstar 5y ago
Noise is 100% absolutely definitely harassment, especially when it is over 100dB within people's homes, and every hour of the day for weeks on end. Why do you say it's not? It was loud enough to cause permanent damage and was
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by tekstar 5y ago
I don't hold that exact viewpoint, so I don't feel the need to defend it. There's varying levels of "uncomfortable", and a question of who is being made uncomfortable. If a protest is permanently damaging the hearin
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by tekstar 5y ago
I agree - this would not be international news if the police had managed the situation appropriately in the early days. What happened within OPS, nobody fully knows yet. But apparently by enacting the federal Emergencies Act, an in-depth
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by tekstar 5y ago
I think it's necessary to draw the distinction between this occupation, and other protests, because other protests do not greatly impact the ongoing lives of random unrelated citizens in the city who just happen to live in the area for
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by tekstar 5y ago
> Any protest of any respectable size will block the roads it chooses to march in, every climate change protest and every gay pride blocks the roads, never see people complaining about those. Ottawa gets protests for left- and right- win
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by tekstar 5y ago
> The police couldn't touch the protest for weeks not because of inaction but because your right to protest is a human right. They required the national emergency to remove our right to protest in order to label the protest illegal.
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by tekstar 5y ago
I live in Ottawa. This was not a protest, it was an 21 day occupation, blocking the city core and removing citizen's ability to sleep in their own homes due to the constant excessive noise, (often at ear-damaging levels) or leave with
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by tekstar 5y ago
I live far enough away to not be directly impacted by the horns, but from what I understand the best is active noise cancelling headphones, but when three 120db train horns are blaring from trucks parked in front of your apartment (as someo
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by tekstar 5y ago
I am not a fan of Trudeau, but I do live in Ottawa. These are not peaceful protests. It's an occupation backed by our extreme right wing and significantly funded by people in other countries (cough). It's been terrorizing local r
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by tekstar 5y ago
Can you set more than one cookie in the request and read more than one cookie in the response? Was shocked when I learnt that's not supported by the spec..
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by tekstar 5y ago
Wow, up until now I attributed it to incompetence when really it was a sales tactic. Wild. Thanks for corroborating.
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by tekstar 5y ago
That's what it felt like, yeah. Also that the tech wasn't able to prove itself so they kept it behind a curtain. Multiple times they'd book a technical meeting to get us on-boarded and when I got on the call it was all sales
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by tekstar 5y ago
I worked for a large e-commerce company. I wanted to investigate putting all our support data into Watson and see what sort of recommendations it could provide, maybe a sort of auto-suggestion to help our customers. Three really funny poi
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by tekstar 5y ago
Nice to see the super dimensional fortress is still chugging along <3
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by tekstar 5y ago
Your raw analysis ignores things like staff turnover and quality of work
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by tekstar 5y ago
It really depends on what you want to scaffold, but I took a minimal approach and use: https://github.com/boourns/scaffold - generates a SQL select/insert/update layer, currently specifically for SQLite. htt
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by tekstar 5y ago
Thought this was going to be about the movie series.
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by tekstar 5y ago
Do you use a password manager? You should.
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by tekstar 5y ago
Not saying this to disagree with you, but there are companies manufacturing new cartridge copies of old NES/SNES (probably GB but I never checked) games for a fraction of some of the more expensive games. A friend of a friend of mine
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by tekstar 5y ago
You can also look for "sound fonts".
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by tekstar 5y ago
If you have not, you should read The Idea Factory. https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovatio... We owe most of our "modern world" to the hard science done at Bell Labs in the 1900s, before the c
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by tekstar 5y ago
Not to say that I'm particularly good at it, but this too is a muscle that gets better with time. I recently started playing music again with my highschool band. The guitarist worked at songwriting for the past 15 years and can now w
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by tekstar 5y ago
> you do need to have a natural talent for "coming up with stuff" Where do you see that? Watching the documentary I see people who have been, for years, putting in the work. This is them going to work. Most people I know who
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by tekstar 5y ago
The book mentioned is really good if you haven't read it.
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by tekstar 5y ago
Maybe some PM realized: Worse search results -> more Google searches -> more ad views
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by tekstar 5y ago
Prolog is a declarative programming language. If you haven't tried it a bit already, you probably won't realize where it would be useful. I've seen that with friends on side projects, writing complicated rule resolver engin
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by tekstar 5y ago
Try Sonarworks headphones edition if you want to hear an awesome software update to improve the audio quality.

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