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Comment · 17 days ago
Why do you ask? Are you planning to plan something?
Comment · 1 month ago
Resurrection is near the front of my reading queue. Tolstoy donated the proceeds of that book to help the Doukhobors emigrate from Russia to Canada in 1899. My dad was a Doukhobor. Thanks Leo!
Comment · 1 month ago
Wow, that activated a long dormant neuron. IIRC 3.11 main purpose was to make the 3.1 in OS/2 incompatible.
Comment · 2 months ago
Or HAGS (HTMX, AlpineJS, Go, SQLite).
Comment · 2 months ago
Canada needs to create an "Economic Reparations Fund" to help those workers and companies harmed by trump's tariffs. Its initial funding should come from selling $10B of US bonds (Canada is ~5th largest holder) and a 5% surcharge on oil exported to the US. US already extracts a 12-22% discount off world oil prices from Canada (who's taking advantage of who?) so 5% shouldn't be an issue. As needed to cover damages, more bonds could be sold and the oil surcharge could be raised.
Comment · 2 months ago
Interesting interpretation given the the 2nd Amendment gives the right to "a well regulated militia" and not to individuals including crazed yahoos and criminals. Sadly for millions of butchered Americans, US courts have agreed with your interpretation.
Comment · 3 months ago
My namesake, er, not quite ;).
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
But at least JS now has a built-in leftpad function ;) (called padStart).
Comment · 5 months ago
I'm reminded of the Polish proverb that it's better to be rich & healthy than sick & poor.
Comment · 5 months ago
What?!?! I was an IBM Systems Engineer in the late 1980s / early 1990s and that was nothing like my job description.
Comment · 6 months ago
Yup, impossible to read. I was a paid APL coder in the early 80's. We called it WORN: Write Once, Read Never.
Comment · 7 months ago
Lol, on my trip up Pikes Peak I was blissfully unaware that altitude sickness could be a thing. So I can't recall if I felt any different. I do recall the carburetor on my motorcycle was acting a little strange, however.

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