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nosecreek
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About nosecreek
https://dustin.lammiman.ca/
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Comment #49074319
In addition, in some places (where I live) the air quality is extremely poor for much of the summer due to wildfire smoke. So even if you do get a cool night, if you don't have AC …
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Comment #44388779
Can confirm it is called acetaminophen in Canada
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Comment #44137085
> It's an excellent hobby. I can explain more why if people are interested. I'm interested in your why. It's something I've considered for a while but haven't actually started on y…
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Comment #44137017
Related question: what is everyone using to run a local LLM? I'm using Jan.ai and it's been okay. I also see OpenWebUI mentioned quite often.
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Comment #43835549
Shameless plug for my own project ( https://grocerytracker.ca/ ) since you're in Canada. Eventually I'd love for it to do what you're suggesting, but for now the closest thing you …
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Comment #43162194
I’ve been scraping and tracking Canadian grocery prices for a few years, lots of ideas on how to do more with it if I had more time… http://grocerytracker.ca/
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Comment #41500965
I’d be curious to hear more from OP on this as well. I’ve got my own price tracking site for Canadian groceries ( http://grocerytracker.ca/ ) but my primary goal has been to get in…
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Comment #41500940
I’ve got a site with the price history aspect for Canadian groceries ( http://grocerytracker.ca/ ), but the community groups/public lists idea is interesting. I definitely feel lik…
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Comment #41339060
Love the idea, very creative and well executed!
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Comment #41177293
In Canada I think they are legally required to, but sometimes it can be frustrating if they don’t always compare like units - one product will be price per gram or 100 grams, and a…
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Comment #41177273
For sure, just replace the first dot in the url from my profile with an @
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Comment #41174365
Absolutely! It’s made it difficult to implement some of the cross-retailer comparison features I would like to add. For my charts I’ve just manually selected some products, but I’v…
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Comment #41174148
Very cool! I did something similar in Canada ( https://grocerytracker.ca/ )
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Comment #40512824
Interesting. I suspect I may have the same thing. I also have poor vision without glasses, and I’ve always found that when I go swimming (and can’t wear my glasses) my hearing also…
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Comment #40070061
Are there specific laws that deal with rate limits? Honest question - I get that something too fast could be considered DDoS, but so long as it’s below a certain threshold wouldn’t…
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Comment #39444809
I know it doesn’t solve the problem for everyone, but many public libraries offer free access to Consumer Reports.
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Comment #39399113
My favorite YNAB alternative is Buckets - https://www.budgetwithbuckets.com/ although especially if you don’t need auto-sync
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Comment #38994402
Agreed on the stores. Cities/locations should be sorted by distance from your location.
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Comment #38994397
No, but I’ll admit that is my biggest hesitation in promoting it beyond what I already do. Walmart has the most aggressive blocking (in general, I don’t think specifically directed…
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Comment #38994376
If I had unlimited time I would love to. Unfortunately I can’t see it expanding beyond Canada anytime soon though.
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Comment #38982885
Not for Big Macs, but if you’re interested I’ve been collecting Canadian grocery price data over the past couple of years here: https://grocerytracker.ca/
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Comment #37574683
He was a Canadian citizen: https://globalnews.ca/news/9969537/who-is-hardeep-singh-nijj...
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Comment #37331011
Love it! I built a site to track grocery prices/inflation in Canada - http://grocerytracker.ca/