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by wlonkly 3y ago
The test I always use for this is Prince Edward Island -- 100% of their provincial electricity generation is wind, but it only makes up 3% of their usage, the rest being imported from New Brunswick. From that perspective the map must be at
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by wlonkly 3y ago
"The website formerly known as Twitter" has precedent.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
My understanding is that the channels, especially channelizing the LA River, were done to handle floodwater from further inland in the watershed, especially the mountains in spring. Having to handle both incoming floodwaters and record-se
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by wlonkly 3y ago
(Ward) Cunningham's Law. You might be thinking of the classic "Someone is wrong on the internet!" xkcd.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Technically true, but most software developers in Canada aren't P. Engs, and tons of Canadian software companies use a "Software Engineer" title with no repercussions, so I'm not sure you can point at that as a success.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
I would definitely prefer good cubicles over open assigned desks. (I mean, with open desks or cubicles, I would ask the other person to stop slurping loudly.) But "good" is the key there. I worked at an office in 2001 which had a
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by wlonkly 3y ago
I know it's easy to be an armchair quarterback, but I'm surprised that they were faced with considering sharding or rearchitecting into microservices before they'd set up a read replica.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
My understanding is that a _lot_ of the AWS provider was written by AWS developers on the clock. I think that pattern holds true for a lot of "official" providers. For that reason I don't expect to see BSL for providers.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
... on desktop. My kingdom for Youtube ad blocking on my TV.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Oh, for sure, and if you're a developer tooling/devopsy-stuff company that would give me pause (or convince me to plan a migration, or to use an alternative, etc.) But if you're, say, fashion retail, or something, then the ri
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by wlonkly 3y ago
I believe providers are still OSS-licensed.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
But the license prohibits competitive use, not commercial use, right? So using Vault in production is no problem if you're using it as part of the infrastructure of a company that isn't competing with Hashicorp. Using it as a ba
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by wlonkly 3y ago
It's mildly worse than that, because the US uses metric side-by-side with US customary units, which at least for volume use the same unit names as Imperial but are smaller. (Does the US use Imperial as well? My most common experience
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by wlonkly 3y ago
They have. Canada.ca is the "marketing site", basically, and all of the federal internal systems and departmental apps are in .gc.ca, usually on a cryptic subdomain which is the English and French acronyms for the department.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Note that this is now in Finder, not iTunes, as of.. some recent MacOS? 11?
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by wlonkly 3y ago
It is! But like New York City, if you live in the built-up urban area, a car is often more of a hindrance than a benefit. Ridiculous parking rates, a good transit system, a mostly-flat city with an okay cycling network, dealing with car own
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by wlonkly 3y ago
It's funny you mention that. The other day I was out on mine on a coastal highway here, waving at a bunch of other people doing the same thing, and thinking "If someone invented these today there's no way they'd let them
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by wlonkly 3y ago
One of the PEI exemptions is "manufactured 25 years ago or more", which sounds like the same situation as Pennsylvania, no? (I assume the "and" in the list on that page is the conversational meaning, not the legal meanin
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by wlonkly 3y ago
On one hand, I agree with you. On the other hand, it's common sense for a photography-and-video oriented social media site to support tablets, and yet there's still no iPad Instagram app! (Although there is a minimal browser versi
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Wow, that brings back memories. I had a link to this in my Usenet sig.. well, back in the era where one had a Usenet sig.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
People aren't going to _any_ URL, they're opening the app called "Threads".
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Lets them sell the Meta Oculus instead of the Facebook Oculus, and so on.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Do you know if that counts "retina"/"2x"/"HiDPI" resolutions as their real or displayed resolution? (i.e. would a "retina" 4k display be counted as 1920x1080, or as 3840x2160? I suspect the
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by wlonkly 3y ago
To be honest I'm not sure, I've stayed mostly away from core Mastodon development, happy to just be a user.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Sort of. You can move your list of follows, and you can automatically inform your followers that you've moved and most of the time, but not all of the time, their instance will automatically update their list of follows, but you can&#x
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by wlonkly 3y ago
And check the latest update of the IRC Sex Chart. Can't forget that!
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by wlonkly 3y ago
<ok, let's see..> @_ @_____ @________ <wow, this thing is long> _____________ <success!>
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by wlonkly 3y ago
The part you quoted was a rhetorical device, hence "start out". The poster went on to explain Jim Crow laws and other systemic discrimination against Black people up to at least 1971.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
The indicator with a picture of a battery is really about your alternator.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
There is also a CLI client for speedtest.net[1] and fast.com[2]! Not included with MacOS, of course, but nice to have around. [1] https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli [2] https://github.com/sindresorhus&#

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