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They aren't thinking that far ahead. It is just the immediate rate they are on. If it doesn't work out, they can always go back to Telus, etc at a way better rate than they had as …

I am not sure how to write this without it sounding like an ad for Starlink. It definitely isn't. Just trying to add an anecdote to the conversation. I live in Canada and there are…

Contesting or radiosport has been around for a long time in amateur radio. There are lots of contests throughout the year. Contests essentially involve making contacts with other a…

I was fortunate enough to do one small project with it back in the day. Really nice to work with.

I was a big SY fan in high school (early 90s). I would watch parts of "1991: The Year Punk Broke" almost every day after school. I have never been good at music but I tried to get …

Android Messages, the competitor to iMessage. The parent claimed that Google resists encrypting anything so they can mine your data. I was merely trying to ask for accuracy. I don'…

Isn't Messages E2E by default?

I don't see it that way. The main need for change detection in my opinion is to remove the need to update parts of the DOM in an imperative manner. It is fine to do that for smalle…

In the presentation today, Apple specifically mentioned connecting to your macOS device as a seamless experience. In my opinion, this will be another "content consumption" device l…

I completely agree. "Considered Harmful" is one of my biggest pet peeves. It irrationally irritates me.

My dad is a ham and also a weaver. He puts "May you be happy" in Morse Code in the dish towels he makes.

I thought Twin Peaks was the primary influence on the modern long form TV series.

I write React but don't look at the docs much so I am not familiar with all the changes there. The basic concepts of React haven't changed much over its history. Hooks are newer th…

In my circles it was mainly left leaning people against the HST. Part of it was a dislike of Gordon Campbell and part of it was that the HST changes were seen as pro-business.

Support matrix - https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support You can run a GUI but it would currently run on the CPU not GPU. Reports are that the UI is quite snappy ru…

Hasn't it been superseded by the Gervais Principle? https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

3a, 4a, and 5a have headphone jacks.

Hasn't the A series always had a headphone jack?

Yes. You can see the D700 in use here: https://youtu.be/h73EYcyszf8?t=679

What exactly are they claiming is 'world first'? There are already examples of previous electric delivery trucks in this thread. I will add one that I don't see listed - the Navist…

How do you try to make a 90s music canon without grunge/alternative? There are a plethora of other genres that developed or emerged into relative popularity in the 90s that were hu…

The International Telecommunication Union ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunicatio... the body that governs these things at the international level. Individua…

There are some good ideas in this thread. I spent a lot of lonely time in my 20s living alone and working from home. One thing is to live in a shared house. That is a way to have p…

Good question. As I said in the response to a comment on my initial, we thought it was the peak when we bought. That may seem crazy now but people have been saying Vancouver was at…