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  • It's a feature, not a bug

  • What is/was your distrohopping journey?
  • Windows 98 -> Slackware dual boot (with big ol' red grub screen) -> windows up to win 10 -> debian(laptop) win10 (pc)

    Gonna try getting a new m.2 drive and dual booting soon to test playing the games I like on Linux. If all goes well, I'll be moving away from windows

  • Can we try something? Upvote the best captain! Not necessarily the one you liked the best.
  • Emergency Command Hologram aka EMH Mark 1

  • I can only hope people continue to love the truly old ones for a long time.
  • But if you are 39 now, you were 10 when it aired.

  • Describe an episode in the worst possible way
  • Man visits childhood home to reconcile with himself after being forced to harm coworkers.

  • Trying to ditch windows
  • (theres a mac version but isn’t the same)

    There was a mac version. But it is hitting EOL in August

  • Dislike Copilot's responses? Make better prompts, says Microsoft
  • After using AI chat stuff like this and chatgpt, ive come to the conclusion that building prompts is akin to building search queries for search engines. Wherein using the right terms leads to better results.

  • Blue Jays-Rays Opening Day starting pitchers: Berríos vs. Eflin
    www.mlb.com Blue Jays-Rays Opening Day starting pitchers: Berríos vs. Eflin

    ST. PETERSBURG -- Last October, they started their teams’ final games of the postseason. Now, José Berríos and Zach Eflin will set the tone for a new year. Berríos will start for the Blue Jays on Opening Day, and Eflin will take the mound for the Rays as they host

    Blue Jays-Rays Opening Day starting pitchers: Berríos vs. Eflin

    > Berríos will start for the Blue Jays on Opening Day, and Eflin will take the mound for the Rays as they host Toronto at 4:10 p.m. ET on March 28 at Tropicana Field. It will be the fourth Opening Day start for Berríos and the first for Eflin.

    March 28th, I'm pumped, are you pumped?

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    Intel awarded $20 billion by US government, advanced CPUs incoming
  • Without any legal penalties.

    But doing so, would surely risk intels reputation and future contracts with the government. The government could also impose other restriction or penalties on intel for non compliance.

    But like you say, if intel does come up short, likely nothing will happen (unless some form of negligence is discovered)

  • War. What is it good for?
  • We know its you
  • I also though it was kind of weird that when they find the Founders they all have the same style of face like Odo. But I guess they didn't have a face in their garden 🤷‍♂️

  • 'Freedom Convoy' organizer from Sask. suing federal government for using Emergencies Act to freeze accounts
  • Ok, now I'm confused, the article you linked says:

    1. Federal government was justified in using the Emergencies Act

    But in this (OP) article, it says:

    Federal Court Judge Richard Mosley ruled it was unreasonable for the federal government to use the Emergencies Act to quell the protests.

    And then this article says:

    Ottawa has filed to appeal a Federal Court decision that found its invocation of the Emergencies Act in response to the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests was unjustified.

    Anyone out there want to loop me in?

  • CRA now allows 2FA apps
  • why is it 30 seconds instead of 60 seconds? I’m pretty sure every other TOTP I’ve seen is 60 seconds. My jaded take: the blind pursuit of “better security” even though… what does this even imply? Someone has 30 fewer seconds to read the code over your shoulder and log in on their device?

    30 seconds is the default for TOTP implementations.

    I’m curious to know what CRA does, but I’m away from my PC right now.

    Yes, you can stop getting SMS messages.

    edit: formatting

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  • Unpopular opinion? More like controversial opinion amiright? At the time of my comment, almost as many people agree with you (downvotes), as disagree with you (upvotes).

    All I can say on the subject is that if you choose to speak about your views, you should do it with respect to others. You wont change anyones view point by shitting on their beliefs, athiest or otherwise.

  • Neovim - White Space on demand in Visual Block mode?
  • command! -range -nargs=1 PadColumns call PadColumns(<line1>, <line2>, <args>)
    
    function! PadColumns(start, end, columns)
        execute a:start.','.a:end.'s/\(.*\)\zs\s*$/\='.'repeat(" ", a:columns - len(submatch(1)))'
    endfunction
    

    Use by typing in Normal mode :PadColumns 20. This will add spaces after the line or selected lines to the column you specify (in this case, 20).

    You could probably improve this by getting the length of the longest line and so you dont need to specify the specific column to add spaces to (20), and instead just add say 5 spaces after longest line for all lines.

  • Neovim - White Space on demand in Visual Block mode?
  • I do not think that this is an existing feature in neovim, however this seems to work :%s/\(.*\)\zs\s*$/\=repeat(' ', 15 - len(submatch(1)))

    Change 15 to the column desired. You could probably create a function where you pass the column number you want so that you dont have to type this string all the time.

  • Grieving parents said they were told to pay $200 to meet Quebec minister
  • During a legislature hearing on Thursday, Antoine Bittar said he had been advocating for tougher drinking and driving legislation when the CAQ offered an opportunity for him and his partner, Élizabeth Rivera, to meet minister Geneviève Guilbault at an October 2023 fundraising cocktail.

    Bittar said he and Rivera each paid $100 — the maximum annual political donation — because he felt it was a chance to press their cause and keep it from stagnating. The couple said they were offered four minutes with the minister, two minutes per person.

  • What improved your life so much, you wished you did sooner?
  • Cleaning up after myself at home by:

    • reducing the amount of things i have which i dont use (i had like 30 plates, 15 cups, etc at one time, now i have 4 of each type)
    • house cleaning weekly and tidying up here and there in between (so things dont pile up)
    • cooking my own meals instead of having take out all the time (this improved my overall health)
  • Saw this neat guy at the hobby store today

    Met a couple of really neat dudes at the store looking for parts for this guy. I really liked the uniqueness of it.

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    Salvaging Bill C-18: Government Upends Legislation To Bring Google Onside the Online News Act
    www.michaelgeist.ca Salvaging Bill C-18: Government Upends Legislation To Bring Google Onside the Online News Act - Michael Geist

    The government has announced that it has reached agreement with Google on deal that will ensure that news links are not blocked on the search engine and that the company pays $100 million to support the news sector in Canada. To be clear, this is good news for all given that the alternative was bad ...

    Salvaging Bill C-18: Government Upends Legislation To Bring Google Onside the Online News Act - Michael Geist

    > The government has announced that it has reached agreement with Google on deal that will ensure that news links are not blocked on the search engine and that the company pays $100 million to support the news sector in Canada.

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    Bill C-18 Bailout: Government Announces Plans to Pay For 35% of Journalist Costs for News Outlets as It More Than Doubles Tax Credit Per Employee
    www.michaelgeist.ca Bill C-18 Bailout: Government Announces Plans to Pay For 35% of Journalist Costs for News Outlets as It More Than Doubles Tax Credit Per Employee - Michael Geist

    The government has taken the first step to creating a bailout for its disastrous Bill C-18 by agreeing to News Media Canada demands to increase the support under the Labour Journalism Tax Credit. While the current system covers 25% of the journalist costs up to $55,000 per employee (or $13,750), the...

    Bill C-18 Bailout: Government Announces Plans to Pay For 35% of Journalist Costs for News Outlets as It More Than Doubles Tax Credit Per Employee - Michael Geist

    Of course they would, what a crapshoot.

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