nosecreek

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Full stack developer in Calgary, AB, Canada.

https://dustin.lammiman.ca/

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Comment · 3 months ago
In addition, in some places (where I live) the air quality is extremely poor for much of the summer due to wildfire smoke. So even if you do get a cool night, if you don't have AC you have to choose between maintaining some level of air quality indoors or cooling your house.
Comment · 1 year ago
Can confirm it is called acetaminophen in Canada
Comment · 1 year ago
> It's an excellent hobby. I can explain more why if people are interested.

I'm interested in your why. It's something I've considered for a while but haven't actually started on yet.

Comment · 1 year ago
Related question: what is everyone using to run a local LLM? I'm using Jan.ai and it's been okay. I also see OpenWebUI mentioned quite often.
Comment · 1 year ago
Shameless plug for my own project (https://grocerytracker.ca/) since you're in Canada. Eventually I'd love for it to do what you're suggesting, but for now the closest thing you can do is create a basket for each store with the same items and then check each week to see which is the cheapest.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I’d be curious to hear more from OP on this as well. I’ve got my own price tracking site for Canadian groceries (http://grocerytracker.ca/) but my primary goal has been to get information in the hands of average Canadians so they can make informed buying decisions.
Comment · 2 years ago
I’ve got a site with the price history aspect for Canadian groceries (http://grocerytracker.ca/), but the community groups/public lists idea is interesting. I definitely feel like there is a lot of potential in this space.
Comment · 2 years ago
Love the idea, very creative and well executed!
Comment · 2 years ago
In Canada I think they are legally required to, but sometimes it can be frustrating if they don’t always compare like units - one product will be price per gram or 100 grams, and another price per kg. I’ve found with online shopping, the unit prices don’t take into account discounts and sale prices, which makes it harder to shop sales (in store seems to be better for this).
Comment · 2 years ago
For sure, just replace the first dot in the url from my profile with an @
Comment · 2 years ago
Absolutely! It’s made it difficult to implement some of the cross-retailer comparison features I would like to add. For my charts I’ve just manually selected some products, but I’ve also been trying to get a “good enough but not perfect” string comparison algorithm working.
Comment · 2 years ago

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