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Just your friendly, neighborhood, geek who loves to crochet.

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Nice list, though do be careful with Shift (browser). It's Chromium based and so heavily dependent on Google's continued development.

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I use Aegis

Do you think my games should have optional calls to assembly functions for certain CPUs and GPUs if possible.

Hello my name is Daniel Hanrahan. Do you think my games should have optional calls to assembly functions for certain CPUs and GPUs in order to reach maximum possible performance and use parts/functions of the CPUs and GPUs that are not standard, but it's use for them would for tasks that is not perfect for the standard parts of...

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I would probably evaluate it based on what sort of gains could be expected and for how many people? If it's only going to be a couple of percentage points for a couple of people, then I would say don't bother. But if it could make a substantial difference, or impact a larger portion of people, then that starts to sway the decision.

Woman alarmed after being asked to leave Conservative town hall over T-shirt ( yukon-news.com )

Cowichan businesswoman Kristi Koons said she’s alarmed and concerned over the fact that she and another two women were asked to leave a town hall featuring federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on June 10 because of the T-shirts they were wearing....

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Depressing. Not surprising.

Also, I want that shirt now.

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Why not just let Firefox open the PDF? It will read them on its own. Is it missing a feature you need?

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There is no recall but the license was revoked due to not following proper food handling procedures, so it's still icky.

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I agree with the premise that each person does what they can, when they can.

However we can't forget to also put pressure on the giant conglomerates pumping out oil/gas emissions without consequence. No matter how vegan we go, it will never be enough if the big corpos keep getting away with being the worst outputters.

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The Interac debit system is Canadian. I would like to see it expanded to include a credit division that does credit cards like Visa/MasterCard, but since we are a much smaller market than the US, we wouldn't have nearly as big of a cushion if there were to be any sort of major fraud activity. But for me, local purchases are always debit. I only use my CC for purchases where my debit card isn't accepted (which is basically only online shopping).

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    I really don't think spelling is where we should be spending our energy. I'm all for sticking with the Elbows Up idea, but this seems like too small of a hill to die on.

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    I work for SaskTel so make of these statements what you will.

    SaskTel is not perfect. We do what we can to ensure good coverage for the people of Saskatchewan at decent prices. Unfortunately the SaskParty has been chipping away at us via underfunding and headcount mandates. This makes it much harder to keep services supported as well as they should be.

    SaskTel is under attack. Quietly. Stealthily. All in an attempt to prove that it would be better to sell to private interest. If anyone else is here from SK, please don't vote SaskParty. They are quietly killing our crown corps (SGI, SaskPower, and SaskEnergy too).

    NDP Candidate Avi Lewis Calls for 'Public Options' to Fight High Costs of Groceries, Housing, and Telecoms in Canada ( www.commondreams.org )

    He hopes his laser focus on corporate greed, which he says is driving Canada’s cost-of-living crisis, will help set him apart from other front-runners, including Edmonton Member of Parliament Heather McPherson and British Columbia union leader Rob Ashton....

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    There used to be public Telecom companies. They were called Crown Corporations. There is only 1 left in Canada (Saskatchewan's SaskTel). The other provinces that had them sold them off. No surprise prices went crazy.

    Should we have kept them? Yes. Are we going to get them back? No.

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    It hasn't been easy to keep. The SaskParty is dangerously underfunding it and is whittling it away. Privatization by stealth is in force hard.

    We also have SaskPower, SaskEnergy, and SGI all as Crown corps. So our utilities are all decently affordable. Which is very surprising, but one nice thing to living out here. Even if I am surrounded by crazy conservatives.

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    So these birds, that have clearly been exposed to and survived avian flu, which therefore have antibodies to said avian flu, are now being destroyed instead of studied for potential prevention measures? This seems absurd and wasteful. I agree that they should have been treated as study cases to help us find ways to vaccinate or otherwise alleviate avian flu instead of...as the cartoons so aptly showed ostriches doing...burying our heads.

    I understand why the decision was made. It just feels absurdly shortsighted.

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    Yes, this is true, but studying any antibodies at all is better than destroying them.

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    I don't hate all Albertans if it makes you feel any better.

    I think Danielle Smith and her UCP is the problem, but I know that when tensions get high, some overly broad generalizations get made because in order for Danielle to be in power there must have been at least enough people that agree with her to vote for her.

    I don't think ALL Albertans are a problem, just the ones that think like her.

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    Wouldn't it be slander? Since it was verbally spoken Slander would apply. Libel is regarding written statements.

    Either way, I agree with you. It was a disgraceful thing to say and should have consequences.

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    I haven't needed one since I somehow managed to uninstall the new one and downgraded it to the Windows 7 version of the photo viewer, but ImageGlass looks nice!

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    You can initiate a mail forward. It costs money (not much) but it would allow anything specifically addressed to your name at your old address to be forwarded to the new address. I'm not sure how long the strike would be, so the costs could add up over time, but hopefully it's not too onerous for you.

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    I think you can sign up for one online, so I think you still can.

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    It honestly makes more sense to have an "EV charge station" mandate. If people have access to chargers, the car purchases will follow. Currently I have no reason to buy an EV because I live in a rental (unable to install a charger) with the only nearby public charger being a Tesla supercharger (and I refuse to give that creep any of my money). So if I bought an EV, where would I charge it?

    Don't get me wrong, I'd like to make the switch, but having to rely on problematic public chargers that are not nearby or potentially nonfunctional makes it a dealbreaker.

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    My rental prohibits the connection of EV's to the standard outlets due to fears of fire.

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    The idea that the "best" product is one that we have to rely on another country to not only build, but to maintain, fix, update software/firmware...No thank you.

    The Gripens that come with the knowledge transfer (and jobs creation) of building, maintaining, and fixing them ourselves? That's a way higher value than anyone in government seems to realize.

    Why would we want to rely on the country that has threatened our sovereignty for our fighters?! Is our government really that dumb?

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    We also need to bolster our testing. Last I heard we only check for 2 strains of Lyme disease but there is a third that we need to add to our to testing to ensure we are adequately taking care of those who are infected.

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    It was only "forcing" in the same way we force people to not drink and drive.

    Both the vaccine restrictions and drunk driving laws are in place for the safety of everyone around you. You are free to choose to defy those restrictions, but that doesn't mean you are free from the consequence of that choice. Just like driving drunk could result in the loss of your license. No one was breaking down doors and literally forcing a vaccine into people. There was always a choice. But there are also consequences for choosing the option that endangers the rest of the society you are participating in.

    I am totally on board with there being consequences for stupid decisions that endanger others.

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    Your cousin's case is a legitimate medical reason for an exemption and is why the rest of us need to maintain herd immunity by getting vaccinated. A bunch of guys I work with were refusing to get vaccinated just because they didn't want to be told what to do. Guys like that are actively endangering the people who CAN'T get vaccinated, like your cousin. Herd immunity is critical in order to limit the spread of diseases and protect the people who can't get vaccinated or who have other medical complications that put them at high risk.

    Legitimate medical exemptions are fine. Deciding that you "just don't want to" should come with consequences. My partner's 87 year old mother could be killed by Covid. We have all maintained flu/Covid shots to protect her.

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    Yes, I understand that it didn't prevent us from catching it or spreading it. It did however, reduce the length of time we were sick. Which meant that since we were her primary carers, that she wasn't without us for as long. Since it DID reduce the length of time and severity of our illness.

    As far as all of the other gripes you seem to have around Covid, yes, I agree it wasn't handled perfectly, but since we were dealing with a completely unfamiliar disease, we were working with what information was available at the time.

    I don't deny that in hindsight things could have been done better. But we should be judging the actions based on the context of the information at the time. Can we learn from the past and do better in the future? Absolutely. But I'm not going to hold every single Liberal at fault for the decisions of Trudeau.

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    Ya, yikes indeed. Measles is no joke. It can also cause immune amnesia, which is terrifying too.

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    This. Setup a Paystation where I can tap my card or feed it cash. Sick of needing an app for every stupid little interaction.

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    From the other perspective it's not a great deal either. Gutting those decent jobs of the current posties and essentially turning them all into part time (poorer paid with less benefits) jobs isn't great either.

    We don't need to have Canada Post turn into the Amazon-equivalent "make them piss in bottles so they meet their quotas" to make this work. And if we do need to go that far, then it's the recipients that need to adjust their expectations of deliveries. It's not up to Canada Post to turn into a shit place to work to meet unrealistic delivery expectations.

    I refuse to order from Amazon due to how shit their delivery companies treat their employees. Sure the package gets to me a few days later ordering from others, but if it means the delivery folk are actually valued and compensated accordingly, then I'm fine with that. I am not OK treating delivery drivers like shit just so I get my Chinese junk a day or two faster.

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    I think (but I have not tested) that if you can use the DeDRM plugins to import your books into Calibre... You might be able to use Calibre's conversion function to make them all ePubs (which are Kobo friendly). I don't have a Kindle but I do use a Kobo and have had to run DeDRM and some conversions to make books compatible.

    Good luck!