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mig39
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Luso-Canadian Big time nerd in Fort McMurray, AB.

https://miguel.click for my YouTube channel.


  1. At this point, isn't Tesla another example of Chinese companies taking a product and making a better, cheaper version?

    A lot of Chinese EVs are much better and cheaper than the Cybertruck.

  2. Doesn't reddit block VPNs as well?
  3. If you're ever in the Netherlands, check out FEBO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEBO -- same kind of thing.
  4. Looking at the video, the cable looks ... fragile. Would a large bird landing on it do the same amount of damage?

    Shouldn't it be thick, armoured cable, attached to a strong wire or something?

  5. To me, it looks a lot like Uncanny Valley macOS. Yes, it's macOS, but something's just not right. Maybe the fonts don't look right, or the spacing of the icons on the dock?
  6. I take attendance (the old-fashioned way) in my college classes for a couple of reasons:

    - Some students are "sponsored" by scholarships or organizations that request attendance data. - I want to know the attendance record for a student who is asking for an extension, or extra-credit work, or some other informal accommodation. - I like to draw fancy graphs correlating attendance and final grades.

    But other than that, I don't care if students are in class or not. They're adults. Learning is their responsibility.

  7. It's a good sales job. Someone sold them a "high tech" solution for a problem that's already been solved. We had attendance rolls long before we had computers.
  8. This also works in quicklook. Highlight the photos (command-A for all of them), and press the spacebar. Then there's a "tile icon" that will show you all of them.
  9. Isn't that what they do now? They describe a lot of the IP-based transmission stuff in the link.
  10. > No roads on those maps. This includes some quite obscure ones like the railway between Labrador and Sept-Iles, Quebec.

    I guess the maps are old, because they show the Newfoundland Railway, which was removed in the 80s.

  11. I used to travel to the USA at least twice a year. These days I'm off to Europe instead.
  12. Vaccinated Albertan here.

    The link states most of the outbreaks are linked to a gathering in New Brunswick, and then Southern Ontario, before eventually making its way to Alberta.

  13. > None of this is relevant because the US does not want to own Canada.

    Why does your president keep saying the opposite?

  14. I don't know if you've been paying attention, but the head of the USA has threatened on numerous occasions to invade Canada.
  15. Both Rollercoaster Tycoon and Transport Tycoon Deluxe (which lives on in openTTD) are by the same author, and use the same engine :-)
  16. TIL, the Goddard Institute is in the same building at the Seinfeld diner.
  17. > The background here is that Scots is not really a language.

    This is supremely ignorant. Scots is its own language. It's a 'brother' or 'sister' of English, with both English and Scots being descendants of West Germanic languages.

    The fact that many (all?) Scots speakers also speak English doesn't mean Scots not a language on its own.

    You could make your exact same arguments that Irish isn't a language because you could ask a Cork taxi driver whether he knows any English.

    Scots = a language with some of the same ancestors as English.

    Scottish English = a dialect (and accent) of English

    Scots Gaelic = another language, with the same ancestors as Irish and Manx.

  18. > I wonder if civil forfeiture will work against Trump once he's out of office.

    He's only out of office if he dies. There's no way he's leaving voluntarily.

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