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The source of the Seine is in Burgundy. Not a European, so wondering what the relationship between the Seine and EU regulations is.

Location: Montreal, QC Canada / Vancouver, BC Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: - Typescript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, Pupeteer - Python, Pydantic, uv, Fas…

Location: Vancouver, BC Canada / Montreal, QC Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: - Typescript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, Pupeteer - Python, Pydantic, uv, Fas…

Good overview and history of the Darien Gap migrant issue: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/10/how-treacherous-darien-g... Also, see the work of journalist Michael Yon. https://you…

For me it’s mostly battery life. Most bike light batteries are tiny and would require more regular charging if put in solid mode.

I don’t think fish like CO2. It makes the water more acidic.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-recycling-p... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/enquete-recycling-pl... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/recycling-gl…

Or, "Public has head in sand about plastic recycling." In my city it's public knowledge (even if not well known) that nearly all plastics that get collected on recycling day end up…

Very likely no money was saved by Boeing, composites are almost always more expensive. Maybe someone with aviation industry knowledge can reply, but my guess is adding a trivial ti…

? That’s nearly one 737 Max worth of fatalities per year in your small country, granted buses are probably safer than cars.

Cowlings are now composite (ie plastic) instead of aluminum. They are limited to 5 minutes of use in dry air to prevent the cowling from melting, flying apart, or getting into the …

I used to run 10km per day, and 20km twice a week, which is about 56 miles a week, or 2900 miles a year (with no days off). Definitely doable. Now I’m lucky if I run 10km a week.

Didn’t read the article, but Musk mentioned in an interview yesterday they are specifically not using CAN and are using Ethernet. He didn’t explicitly say, but it seems likely they…

If I just needed a GPU for learning purposes, is 2xGPUs necessary? Would a single 24GB GPU significantly bottleneck training with any publicly available datasets? Just need somethi…

I know multiple software devs that play hockey 3 times a week during the work day. They could easily be working 2 full time jobs at the same time, but why would you, if you didn’t …

And a typical US 53ft trailer can carry 22 tons.

That’s not how it works. Applying for CanCon status confers certain tax and subsidy incentives. You can forgo the onerous application process and operate as a normal business.

Totally okay with that. I would rather follow independent Canadian media that doesn't qualify as CanCon anyways. Canadian media regulation only benefit existing large media institu…