gramie

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I have done pair programming with a junior partner, and I found it extremely beneficial. Taking the time to talk out my ideas and logic invariably helped make them clearer in my mind and realize pitfalls much sooner than I otherwise would have.

I had to explain things clearly and logically, and he was bright enough to ask good questions and point out typos as I was coding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

In Ontario, any organization that receives provincial money must reach a certain accessibility level on its website, or risk having its funding removed.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

The database app in LibreOffice, based on the Firebird database engine, can do all that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is actually inspired by a very famous Iron Man comic cover from the late 1970s, where Tony Stark confronts his alcoholism for the first time.

If you want to know where the writers of the Iron Man movies drew their inspiration, it was largely from the comics of this era.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

*Je does

"doivent" is third-person plural (they, not I)

Oh, and I didn't notice that autocorrect changed my French to English. Should be"dois" or, as you say, "devrais" for the conditional.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That's one of the nice things about the law in Quebec. Binding arbitration clauses are illegal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A drunk man on a commuter train in Japan was convinced that I was Mr Bean. I can see the confusion, we are both Caucasian with brown hair.

"Bean-san, Bean-san!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I use Brevo as well. Free tier: 300 emails per day.

Very happy with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Expanse TV show is superb. I'm halfway through the books now, and in some ways the TV show is much better, in other ways the books are better.

There's enough subtlety and complexity that I've watched the entire series twice, and I wouldn't be averse to watching it again.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I got one from Prime Cables that not only has a magnetic attachment to the computer, it has different tips so you can use it for USB Micro, C or Lightning. The cable itself has little magnets so it coils up almost automatically.

Edit: https://www.primecables.ca/p-390676-cab-m10-mltc-g2-cab-m10-mltc-g2#sku415474 About USD $10

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

A lot of his science fiction writing is available with a Creative Commons license, meaning that you can download and read it for free. I really enjoy his quirky, sardonic style.

https://craphound.com/tag/creative-commons/

Gets you to a page where you can download.

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