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I was a resident of downtown Ottawa during this period. It was bad. We had a young kid and didn't feel even safe walking her to a park, because the route crossed over convoy lines and there were all sorts of stories of harassment and assaults. We didn't even experience the worst of it; lots of people dealt with truck horns blaring 24/7, but at least our street at least was kept clear as an emergency route.

We put up with the occupation for about two weeks, but we saw a steady escalation and decided to leave town. We stayed with family for two weeks until the convoy was cleared.

I'm very proud of the residents who were brave enough to put up a resistance (the so-called "Battle of Billings Bridge"), and I'm appalled by the response by the local police and the province. I absolutely believe the federal government made the correct choice, and this was proven out in the public hearing after the fact on the use of the Emergency Act.

In this day and age, an organization on the scale of the US Army should have software development as in-house competency, rather than something they outsource and procure.

It should be like combat engineering where it’s a set of technical skills they train and develop to solve the problems they encounter. They don’t hire an engineering firm when they need to cross a river.

According the opponent process model of colour perception you need three axes to represent all colours: luminosity [L+M+S+rods], red-green [L-M] and blue-yellow [S - (L+M)].

I'll agree with you that the Polievre / Conservative Party's anti-Trudeau astroturfing campaign has been extremely successful. You can see evidence of it all over the comments here.

They've used it well as a lever for pushing through their agenda on pharmacare and dental coverage. Overall it's been a success for the NDP.

As I said:

> especially if as the article says there's not much in the way of compelling new features to drive an upgrade cycle

This should be expected in times of increased inflation: prices for goods are increasing faster than wages, so most people have less disposable income.

They'll respond by cutting back on or deferring unnecessary expenses (like upgrading an existing working phone), or choosing cheaper goods (like replacing a broken phone with a cheaper one), especially if as the article says there's not much in the way of compelling new features to drive an upgrade cycle.

I've used Dvorak essentially full-time for the last 20 years and I can still type in QWERTY. In fact, I just switched to QWERTY just now to type this and it feels a bit awkward and I make some typos, but it's perfectly usable.

The hardest part of switching is punctuation and shortcut keys, not the letters themselves. But I can use other people's computers and usually most people don't know that anything's odd.

You're assuming it was the author who made that decision.

They were banned in Ontario in 2021, with only a couple exceptions for executive roles or after acquisitions.

https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standa...

The Moon will win because it has the high ground.

My point is that the quantities that are consumed per serving are small and so it's the absolute costs that are more important than the relative difference.

In order to make that argument you have to assume that someone eats pancakes every day. I assure you we did not.

According to one random source online, a typical serving of syrup would be about 15mL per pancake, so perhaps 50mL for an average breakfast serving of three pancakes for an adult.

My local grocery store sells maple syrup for $1.90/100mL and table syrup for $0.60/100mL. This means that a serving of maple syrup would cost $0.95 and table syrup would cost $0.30, or a difference of $0.65 per person per meal.

As 'luxuries' go, we're not talking about large amounts of money here, even for a low income family, to afford. I grew up in a low income family, and we still used actual maple syrup growing up because the difference in quality is worth it.

The way I would have gone would be to define the standard to support both, such that the two sets of codes MUST be considered semantically equivalent, but that generation tools SHOULD prefer to generate the control codes for new files.

This way people can initially use the visible glyphs while editors don't support the format, and this will always be supported. But, as editors add support and start to generate the files via tools or manually in tabular interfaces where the codes themselves disappear, usage will automatically transition over to the control codes.

The entry point can be anywhere in the .text section, and often won't be at the beginning of the section.

Technically the name _start is not special either. The binary lists its entry point address in a header and that’s where the OS starts execution from. That symbol is just called _start by convention by C and other languages, which is what the linker uses to set the entry point when writing the ELF headers, but if you’re writing your own linker scripts you could call the entry point whatever you want.

It's not about physical distance but social distance, i.e who talks to whom, and how many degrees of separation there is there between who's making the decisions and who's doing the company's core work (for Boeing that's building & designing planes).

In a company with offices, social networks will mirror the physical layout because people will tend to talk to people nearby them in the building and not people in different buildings. By moving management further away physically, they also moved them further away socially.

But in a fully remote company it's not so clear, and more about the org chart and who's in the same Slack/Teams rooms or meetings.

Mandatory naming systems are pretty common around the world. Many countries, for example, have a list of permitted given names, and requirements around what family name can be used (e.g father's name, if father is known).

I've walked on the ones at Toronto Pearson before. I was a bit surprised the first time that it wasn't moving at full speed like I expected when I stepped on, but after that the second time I knew what to expect and it worked well.

I actually found it better when disembarking because it gives a better transition to the stationary surface when stepping off.

Except that these are “actual Nazis” who have shown up. We’re talking about publications that, in some cases, use terms like “national socialist” and “reich” in their name and/or bio.

Sure, but without going too deep into hypotheticals, think of a group of neo-Nazis talking in the middle of a restaurant dining room or at the bar, sufficiently loud enough to be overheard by staff and patrons.

That’s why I said “publicly”, as in you’ve called attention to yourself in some way, enough for the staff to be aware and to see that the other patrons are also generally aware of you and what you’re saying.

That’s not what we’re talking about here. We’re talking about newsletters that are explicitly pro-Nazi in nature.

If you went into most restaurants or bars or similar spaces, and you started talking publicly about pro-Nazi stuff, you’d have the owner of the establishment come over and ask you to leave. I don’t see how anyone can think this is unusual or new or not expected.

This is an amazing resource I’ve used for at least a decade whenever I’ve dabbled with OS development.

You shouldn't be able to simultaneously be a network operator providing wholesale connectivity for retail ISPs, as well as a retail ISP yourself. I'm looking at you, Bell Canada and Rogers.

It's more the other way around. There's a defined band plan, because historically cable TV was just transmitting radio signals over coaxial cable instead of radio, so it inherited the broadcast TV band plan. Then digital TV inherited the analogue cable band plan and added higher-frequency channels.

To answer your question, cable TV uses frequencies between about 55MHz to 1GHz, but mostly starting at about 500MHz for digital cable. So if I wanted to transmit Ethernet over cable, I'd use a 2GHz band or something to avoid interference.

It's a poor version of the comm badges in Star Trek Discovery when they go to the 32nd century. Those one can project holograms in front of them.

The fact that it's written in C++ doesn't make it 'bad'. It just means it's not suited to your use, which is your problem not the library's problem.