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JamesCoyneon Statement Regarding the Zen Programming Language

Can someone please explain why Zen/Zip is focused on Japan? I feel I might be missing some context.

JamesCoyneon Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.

For a hobbyist, the free tier is amazing. 2 micro instances free forever.

Audio for a number of Damn Interesting articles can be found on their podcast feed.

JamesCoyneon ANSI Z535 Compliant Safety Sign Generator

I think the same thing happens with the "Random" button. Results are always at https://observatory.db.erau.edu/generators/signs/out3.png

JamesCoyneon SpaceX applies to offer high-speed internet service to Canadians

The application was made in May: (look for "Space Exploration Technologies Corp.")

https://services.crtc.gc.ca/pub/instances-proceedings/Defaul...

Western Canada only has one rural ISP of note: Xplorenet. Competition would be a welcome change here.

JamesCoyneon How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work?

Small editing issue:

I think the author missed adding a hyperlink in the summary at "You can check the source of an email to do this - here's a guide on how to do that. "

JamesCoyneon Folding-markdown: Adds header folding for Markdown files in Atom

According to this arbitrary comparison, December 2017 was a pivotal moment for editors

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

JamesCoyneon Howell Torpedo 1896 [video]

"Analog computing" is a great subject to get lost in on Wikipedia.

Some prime examples: Babbage's Analytical Engine, the Norden bombsight, the Mark 1 Fire Control Computer, etc.

JamesCoyneon As oil industry swoons, tar sands workers look to renewables for jobs

In Alberta, solar panels and other renewable sources of electricity, would compete with the price of natural gas [1], since that is what a new conventional generating station would likely use.

Natural gas and oil prices [2] are not tightly coupled [3].

[1] https://economicdashboard.alberta.ca/NaturalGasPrice [2] https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-cha... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_prices#/media/File...

JamesCoyneon Inside of a Tractor Cab [video]

Am I reading this correctly?

A five day old account has a video rocketing past 100k views already?

JamesCoyneon GitHub is now free for teams

Missed that announcement I guess

JamesCoyneon GitHub is now free for teams

Personally, I have been favoring Gitlab over Github because Gitlab allows private repos on the free tier.

JamesCoyneon The unexpected Google wide domain check bypass

Down for me too. Mirror. https://web.archive.org/web/20200309211517/https://bugs.xdav...

JamesCoyneon Solus 4.1 Fortitude

I'll give the sales pitch.

Solus calls itself a curated rolling release. You get a stable, pretty, desktop OS which is continuously updated.

Package manager (eopkg) does what it says on the tin, is not radical or interesting (in my opinion).

Budgie is snappy and clean with a slight Windows aftertaste.

Another plus for Solus is transparent development. Take a look around:

https://dev.getsol.us

JamesCoyneon Solus 4.1 Fortitude

Ubuntu Budgie updates are not driven by Solus updates. Ubuntu Budgie is independent and downstream from the Budgie project.

JamesCoyneon How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go players trespassing

Those last few paragraphs of the story are not meant as an apology to the reader. They are hinting at a broken system of accountability.

Journalist in Canada can face multi-year struggles to extract any information from Ottawa under the current system.

For further reading on this, please consider CJFE: https://www.cjfe.org/broken_promises_cripple_trudeau_s_acces...

JamesCoyneon Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear reactor technology

Manitoba Hydro's major export market is the US, with ~10x more transmission capacity compared to SK.

Transmission capacity to SK is a 150MW. See here: https://www.gov.mb.ca/sd/environment_and_biodiversity/energy...

Out west, the provinces are not heavily interconnected, all prefer to sell to the US. Alberta is easiest to look at. Here is their real-time supply/demand report:

http://ets.aeso.ca/ets_web/ip/Market/Reports/CSDReportServle...

Interchange is at right. Couldn't find a source for interchange capacity in Alberta as transmission is not outright owned by the government like in MB.

JamesCoyneon The Effect of Wrapping Neatness on Gift Attitudes

https://sci-hub.se/10.1002/jcpy.1140

JamesCoyneon The Effect of Wrapping Neatness on Gift Attitudes

Does HN allow Sci-Hub links?

JamesCoyneon How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268086

JamesCoyneon Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account

> Better make that all the popular non-ext4 filesystems...

Fair.

JamesCoyneon Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account

They announced they were dropping support for several less common filesystems used by Linux, then they decided that was a bad move and recanted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20498454

JamesCoyneon Redditor works out which generation of satellite took surveillance image of Iran

Or rather, "Redditor works out which generation of US spy satellite took pics..."

This twitter thread explains evidence for exactly which satellite took the picture.

https://twitter.com/cgbassa/status/1167578706379988992

JamesCoyneon Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targeting Kids

Read the complaint here: https://docdro.id/ODq2yNC

Count one is civil RICO. Make of that what you will.

Edit: Very similar to this: https://www.classaction.org/media/nessmith-v-juul-labs-et-al...

JamesCoyneon EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in mysterious outage

Yes. https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/cc3qnt/whats_...

JamesCoyneon A new book critiques medicine

If you are intrigued by the thesis of the book, EconTalk has an episode with the author.

https://www.econtalk.org/jacob-stegenga-on-medical-nihilism/

JamesCoyneon Hacking the Casio F-91W to Handle 1000 Psi

> I decided to switch to a reddish tint after my first failed attempt.

What happened with the first attempt?

JamesCoyneon Over $9T of Federal Debt Will Mature in the Next Four Years

Have they made that threat?

JamesCoyneon Man makes money from cold calls with his own higher-rate phone number (2013)

The USPS is not directly funded by taxes.

JamesCoyneon Associations of Cognitive Function with Carbon Dioxide and Ventilation (2016)

Probably right. Many clients view it only as an added expense for equipment. Beyond that, there is a certain type of client/owner who is skeptical of any automation beyond a bi-metallic thermostat.