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I wrote a lil memento to my Fuji x pro awhile back along similar lines as this. Minimal post-processing and much more convenient than the film I was shooting, especially after moving to a town that didn’t have a local lab.

https://staydecent.ca/blog/my-digital-film-camera/

Not really a side project but:

I've been using linux for a few years now as my main/only OS, but have mainly just used Linux Mint as a sorta plug-and-play distro.

Looking to revive my 15 year old ThinkPad (1st laptop ever!) by building up from a base Void linux install. As I'm doing it I'm writing install-scripts and getting my dotfiles in order (after never really doing so for 17+ years as a programmer lol), so I can repeat the process in the future on other machines, or when I want to do a fresh re-install.

https://github.com/staydecent/void-setup

My foray into not just running Linux on desktop fulltime but also building my first PC.

Google speaks out against Bill C-11.

Wasn't the ambassador bridge cleared before the emergency was declared?

To your second point.. I've watched mainstream media in Canada and watched livestreams coming out of Ottawa, and have no heard of this _at all_. Is there actual evidence of this?

I was able to find ICU capacity and occupations for Alabama[1].

Interesting to note, that last time that COVID patients were occupying the peak 700-800 bed range, was Jan 2021. Only, back then, there was ~150 more total capacity. Why has total capacity dropped since the start of the year?

No doubt, COVID hospitalizations are spiking, but total beds available are dipping at the same time. Not a good recipe!

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/hospitalization-7-day-trend...

"Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) [..] allocated $12 million in federal funding this month to bring travel nurses to Alabama hospitals experiencing staffing shortages, such as the ones that DeMonia’s family encountered."

We are seeing nurse shortages in Canada as well. Mostly due to poor working conditions (long hours, no paid sick-leave in some jurisdictions). Some low staffing even attributed to evading forest fire smoke (anecdotal).

It's very hard to find the info in Canada. But, it would be interesting to see historical fluctuations in ICU capacity, how much spare capacity is maintained, and how much capacity is taken up by COVID patients.

A 2015 study found that critical-care capacity varied across Canada and should be addressed to avoid regional disruptions for spikes in need[1].

Healthcare systems were perhaps already stressed, and requiring adjustment and improvements, and COVID pushed them over the edge.

[1] https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-01...

the cost of these vaccines is largely hidden, no? Each country made deals behind closed doors AFAIK. I've seen some estimates of $12-$30 a shot, but have no idea the validity of this.

How much do the treatments cost? Is it vastly different?

> No long term side effects.

How do you know? I thought the only study/data from Pfizer covered 6 months. That's not very long term? https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261159v...

I don't think we need to replace vaccines, but large swathes of the population still don't have access. It seems very likely that a multi-modal approach would allow us to treat more people, faster.

Even Pfizer sees vaccination as well as treatment as the path forward: https://www.pfizer.com/science/coronavirus/antiviral-efforts

http://www.cravetv.ca/ has a bunch of HBO.

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

This just may be my imagined takeaway. But..

There's a theme around creativity existing on, let's call it a plane, and this plane is accessible to anyone. I've yet to think much on if this plane (or, perhaps way of thinking) is the same for everyone or actually shared in some way.

This idea massively shaped my understanding, or feelings towards, the brain, and the immense ability for our own brains to limit or enhance our potential.

This was a very literary way for me to form the advice that could be boiled down to: "think positively"

Todd Motto did a bit of an analysis of the client-side, angular performance: https://mobile.twitter.com/toddmotto/status/7427897282573557...

"Google Fonts is doing some amazing work on performance, no ng-repeats - superfast DOM rendering. "

This sort of repurposing is how I got the most use out of my Firefox phone (Geeksphone Peak). There's a fork of FirefoxOS called JanOS[1] intended for powering IoTs, which I came across before FirefoxOS pivoted.

I ended up keeping a footbag[2] ontop of the proximity sensor and when it was removed, it would notify my office-mates (via slack) that it was time to stop working and come play some footbag :) Source is on GitHub[3]

[1] http://janos.io/about.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footbag

[3] https://github.com/staydecent/footbag-os

> He is not struggling for words, or thinking hard, as even bright, articulate whistleblowers under stress will do. Rather he appears to be transmitting whole paragraphs smoothly, without stumbling.

When I watched this, the assumption I made was that he was carefully prepared to take on this massive endeavour – better to be prepared for the consequences and media than to foil the effort.

But, really, we have no fucking idea.

I am so confused as to how you came to all these conclusions. To me, it seemed pretty clear that he wants to develop things, and to program as his job, rather than run a business.

"without doing much of the kind of work I actually enjoy."

Definitely interesting, but would love to see some results other than leafy greens and basil. From what I know (farmed in Vancouver, BC) neither have much disease pressure, nor require much manual attention.

If an initial goal is to increase local produce for winter months in cooler climates (than California) then seeing tomatoes, summer squash, and fruits seems necessary. I think berries could be confined to the small space, but what about fruit trees? I personally store (preserve or freeze) berries and peaches to have in winter.

Kale and other leafy's can be over-wintered with much cheaper (to build and operate) green or hoop houses – at least in the pacific northwest.

I understand they are in the MVP kinda stage, but to me, to see any potential value I would need to know if fruit, tomatoes, summer squash can be done in winter, as those require more heat, more sun, and have higher disease pressure.

Typescript is a superset of JavaScript, while Dart separate language that comes with a dart2js compiler. Not really the same.

More so, Dart has it's own VM.

For any Extension developers, there are some workarounds to avoid asking for the "tabs" permission.

If you just need to know when a tab is visible for your content scripts to do things, use the Page Visibility API[1].

If you want your Extensions background scripts to notify all content scripts of something, you can rely on `chrome.storage.onChanged` event. The storage API does not warn users about permissions[2]

If anyone's interested in code samples, I could through some snippets in a gist.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-page-visibility-20110602/#sec-p... [2] http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/permission_warnings.h...

Apple really is leading the way with accessibility. A family member, also sided with an iPhone over a visually-impaired-targeted phone.

Moreover, they prefer OSX's built-in accessibility features over JAWS and similar software available for Windows.

for the "uncultured": Blame Canada! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOzG7bBylRo

A little related: If anyone is interested I've been working on a WYSI-Markdown editor. http://draftbin.com/c3993540679e0a1af4e5704a208b60ceb46d20dc...

Haven't gotten around to a github repo or fixing some pretty annoying bugs. But, there it is.

I agree that Windows lacks a good shell. But Git is easy under Windows7 and Powershell. It's the one of the few tools that was easily installed and usable under Windows. (Though Rails and Node have joined the ranks recently).

It may be of interest to some: As food costs have come down in US so have some important nutrients in fruit & veggies.

Eating Your Veggies: Not As Good For You? http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1880145,00.ht...

And,

Changes in USDA Food Composition Data for 43 Garden Crops, 1950 to 1999 http://www.jacn.org/content/23/6/669.full

Which concludes: "We suggest that any real declines are generally most easily explained by changes in cultivated varieties between 1950 and 1999, in which there may be trade-offs between yield and nutrient content."