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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.

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 given up faster, cheaper internet from Telus/cable/etc for Starlink. I think what it comes down to is people are tried of the two year contracts and having to negotiate a better rate and never being able to get the same deal as a new customer. Loyalty is punished.

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 validates that a contact has been made. Different contests have different scoring. Amateur radio has a lot of aspects to it and some people love the contesting aspect. Some aren't into it at all.

Summits-on-the-Air, Parks-on-the-Air, and others involve going out and operating a portable station (the activator). The reason why parks are a good place to operate is that they have open spaces, trees, etc that are good for deploying antennas. You also don't generally need permission like you would with a school field for instance. Operating portable is great for people that live in an apartment or condo where they can't put up an antenna.

The emergency aspect is having the gear and practice for operating portable like one might have to do in an emergency.

In the end, it is about fun and using your equipment and skills in different ways.

I was fortunate enough to do one small project with it back in the day. Really nice to work with.

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 by trying to play with SY guitar tunings doesn't make it any easier. SY was a huge influence on my formative years.

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 messaging app but as the other responses in the thread confirm, Messages is end to end encrypted by default for non-SMS messages.

Isn't Messages E2E by default?

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 difficult to reason about the myriad of changes happening without a system to handle that. I find any one of the examples in the linked post way more easy to reason about than manual DOM updates.

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 and is not a replacement for them.

I completely agree. "Considered Harmful" is one of my biggest pet peeves. It irrationally irritates me.

My dad is a ham and also a weaver. He puts "May you be happy" in Morse Code in the dish towels he makes.

I thought Twin Peaks was the primary influence on the modern long form TV series.

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 still work. Hooks have been out since 2019 so they aren't exactly new (and they were in the old documentation). React itself has been quite backwards compatible.

The Javascript ecosystem tends to have lots of flux with new libraries and ways of doing things coming out all the time. I have found React to be one of the most stable libraries around. I can update versions of React and my code continues to work as before. Libraries that I depend on tend to have more issues with this and version updates can mean changes in the API for the library or a newer version of React not being supported.

My suggestion for someone learning React would be to start with the simplest way of getting started and learn React before learning concepts brought in with frameworks, etc. If I were to start learning React today, I would start with Vite.

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.

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 basic Asahi install is Arch with KDE. Linus apparently put Fedora on his travel laptop. What Linus was complaining about is Chrome support, which is coming or maybe is already available - https://twitter.com/asahilinux/status/1507263017146552326?la...

Hasn't it been superseded by the Gervais Principle? https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

3a, 4a, and 5a have headphone jacks.

Hasn't the A series always had a headphone jack?

Yes. You can see the D700 in use here: https://youtu.be/h73EYcyszf8?t=679

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navistar_International#eStar_e...

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 most popular songs at the time is not a recipe for finding the best songs/songs that will be remembered in the future. A good percentage of the songs listed were crap then and not worth remembering now.

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 at the ITU through laws and policy. Individual countries take care of enforcement. For instance, in the USA, that would be the FCC.

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 at times in my adulthood.

The other thing is to get involved with social physical activity, clubs, or volunteering. I played hockey and went to a group fitness gym. I made long term friends there. I am into ham radio and the club where I live is pretty good. I used to volunteer at a kids camp and that was great for making friends with the staff members and doing social things outside of camp.

To me, find where your interests align with social/community activity. Currently, I am trying to get the ham radio club to be more out in the community. We are doing radio communications for a running race this weekend. It is exciting.

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 could have gone down. We knew it was a possibility.

It is hard to say though. You don't really know someone until you go through hardship together. My sense from knowing my friends would be yes we would be friends but I just can't say. We did go through some things in that time on personal fronts but it wasn't financial. Financial things can be different than others.

Our main focus was having a place of our own. We had the five year plan but as I said, I liked living where we were and with our friends. If it turned into a ten year plan or more, that would have been fine with me.

I think if we all kept our jobs, etc, things would be fine. If someone couldn't pay their side of the mortgage or something, that would have been more detrimental. Or if we had some sort of fight and were mid-renovation and had to try to finish the renovation not getting along or try to sell a half renovated house. Those things would have been pretty detrimental.

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 that is part of the people telling us it was crazy. We had no thoughts of the market continuing to go up when we bought. Our main focus was possibly making a bit on the renovations.

Even if the the market had gone down or sideways, and we didn't sell, I would have been fine with it. If we had lived there for the rest of our lives, I would have been fine with it. I liked the location and with the renovations, it was a great house.

It wasn't a get rich quick "scheme". Buying with friends was a way to buy a home. We were constantly being renovicted. We didn't have a place we felt was home. That house was home and buying with fiends was the only way it was possible.

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). We had a five year plan to renovate the house and sell it. My wife and I didn't have a kitchen for a year. We cooked on a hot plate and washed dishes in the tub. Every time one of the houses around us was torn down, the mice would flee to our house until we plugged all the holes. Weekends and evenings were spent working on the house. We were lucky that the market continued to go up and that both couples were on the same page about everything. The house turned out quite nice. We have since gone our separate ways and each have our own place.

I love where we are now but I could have continued to live in the situation we were in longer. It was like family. We did lots of things together socially and we supported each other. Financially, it was the best thing both couples have done in their lives (again lucky the market continued to go up).

That's my sample size of one.

There are 125mg and 250mg versions at those two price points.

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!, Babar, Trailer Park Boys, Edison Twins, The Tudors, Just Like Mom, North of 60, ENG, Flashpoint, Friendly Giant, My Secret Identity, Da Vinci’s Inquest, The Newsroom, You Can’t Do That on Television, Danger Bay, Traders, Fraggle Rock, Catwalk, Dear Aunt Agnes, Hammy the Hamster, The Littlest Hobo, Passe Partout, Polka Dot Door, The Green Forrest, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Corner Gas, Arctic Air. Show me something derivative in that list.