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by vic-traill 3y ago
2005 Honda Civic LX w/ under 100,000 KM on it. In Canada, but first (and only previous) owner spent winter in Arizona and there has been no previous winter driving. Car is a champ. I can adjust everything via tactile controls. Senso
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by vic-traill 3y ago
>A bit like the guy who sells much of the remaining new-old-stock of floppies Kind of like Slide Rule Universe: https://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/sruniverse.html
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by vic-traill 3y ago
I have a copy of VisiCalc on a 5¼" floppy that I can boot on a IBM 5155 'luggable'. It is surprisingly 1-2-3 like. You can see that Lotus directly ripped off Dan conceptually. I don't have enough background to know if
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by vic-traill 3y ago
>has a precedent in post-Weimar Germany That's an effective end-run on Godwin's law. Well played, sir.
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by vic-traill 3y ago
I can say I'm not sure what to think about this; I don't understand possible motivations nor psyop sufficiently to comment on the veracity/lack thereof. Anecdotally, I'll note that this has sent folks I am acquainted wi
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by vic-traill 4y ago
Don't forget Man on the Moon and the atom bomb. The 20th century was one helluva inventive time, for better and worse.
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by vic-traill 4y ago
A bit of backstory: Ian Scott, former chairperson of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), allegedly held solo/ex parte meetings with Incumbents while a review of a 2019 CRTC decision that reduced fees
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by vic-traill 4y ago
> Culture is defined by people, not some sacred thing that needs to be preserved A counter to this is the Académie Française [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_Fran%C3%A7aise
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by vic-traill 4y ago
Lots of mixed opinions on Brave in these comments, very interesting. I came to use Brave via https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ . Their results on my brave browser instance are very good. I'll admit I'm imbuing the E
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There’s a wild theory that the price of Bitcoin is being propped up [ ](finance.yahoo.com)
7 points by vic-traill 4y ago|2 comments
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by vic-traill 4y ago
In The Wire, Lester sells Bernard tapped burners. It's the only way they could get up on the burners before they were thrown away. There are a tonne of reddit links on this one so I'll leave it to the Interested Reader.
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by vic-traill 4y ago
> two very talented devs I know that took $11/hr CAD jobs personally When was this? Note that $11/hr CAD is below the current minimum wage of every Canadian province and territory as of June 1 2022 [0] As an aside - what leads
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by vic-traill 4y ago
'Adobe acquires Figma for $20B using revenue from years of price increases e.g. [0] [0] 'Adobe has more than doubled the price of Creative Cloud in Australia since 2014 (2017)' https://www.lifehacker.com.au/20
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by vic-traill 4y ago
The parents are responsible for what their child reads. To me, that doesn't translate to defining what other parent's children get to read. If some folks think fart/butt books are not appropriate for their children, that&#x
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by vic-traill 4y ago
> I was surprised that I kept getting good results from Brave Agreed. I'm expecting the Brave Index to let me down almost every time I use it, however it does a pretty good job. I don't find the same results, but I see good
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by vic-traill 4y ago
>My guess is that the people who used slide rules in their professions and were willing to pay over $50 to re-experience the nostalgia of playing with one again are now all dead. The Slide Rule Universe begs to differ! https:/&#x2F
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In 1972, Hockey’s Cold War Boiled over (2012)(nytimes.com)
1 points by vic-traill 4y ago|0 comments
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Russians pay respects to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Putin snubs(cbc.ca)
5 points by vic-traill 4y ago|0 comments
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The 'spooky' abandoned train tunnel of Blue Bell, N.B(cbc.ca)
2 points by vic-traill 4y ago|0 comments
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Amazon loses NLRB bid to reject warehouse workers' historic union in NYC(upi.com)
6 points by vic-traill 4y ago|0 comments
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The E-bike Is a Monstrosity(theatlantic.com)
25 points by vic-traill 4y ago|83 comments
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As Britain awaits a new prime minister, its cost-of-living crisis mounts(cbc.ca)
34 points by vic-traill 4y ago|105 comments
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Amazon Closes, Abandons Plans for Dozens of US Warehouses(bloomberg.com)
25 points by vic-traill 4y ago|8 comments
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by vic-traill 4y ago
Yes, I agree. 'Could' led to too many characters for the submission URL, so I did the best I could w/ it. Apologies for any confusion or misstatement.
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Floods,droughts,storms to cost Canadian economy $139B in next 30 years – report(cbc.ca)
5 points by vic-traill 4y ago|3 comments
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NASA is hours from launching a new chapter in human space exploration to moon(cbc.ca)
1 points by vic-traill 4y ago|0 comments
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by vic-traill 4y ago
Indeed I do. Bought a copy at my university and used it for Economics assignments. It was a fair amount on work - I certainly could have hand-written answers more quickly. But I think I got a bump because profs liked not having to deciphe
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Can 'green banks' bring clean energy to the masses? The US is betting $27B on it(cbc.ca)
4 points by vic-traill 4y ago|1 comments
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by vic-traill 4y ago
Obligatory BillyG Review story from Joel on Software: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev... It provides a glimpse into the complexity and backwards compatibility (to Lotus 1-2-3 no l
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Invasive reptiles, amphibians have cost global economy billions study suggests(cbc.ca)
1 points by vic-traill 4y ago|0 comments

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