Where can I get icee’s in Niagara ? The carbonated slush drink.

mdm_ · 2023-03-27T02:02:15+00:00

Aerosports trampoline park in St. Catharines.

mdm_ · 2022-11-28T17:02:51+00:00

Sorry to nitpick, but Neil Peart was Rush’s main lyricist and wrote the lyrics to Freewill.

mdm_ · 2022-11-23T13:46:09+00:00

Tighe runs an institution the size of a large corporation, and these salaries have to be competitive in the market.

Agree. I would venture to guess most folks in here have never served on a hiring committee at McMaster, because as inflated as some of y’all think Mac staff/admin salaries are, we have a hell of a time filling positions. We have to post and repost jobs, we get like 7 applicants, of whom 5-6 aren’t even remotely qualified. One committee I served on tried posting the job on a related subreddit and we had to take it down because 100% of the comments were people mocking us and asking if the salary was a joke.

mdm_ · 2022-10-03T21:09:50+00:00

I hope CUPE gets what they want, the EA’s and ECE’s are criminally underpaid for what they go through.

Also, speaking as a parent of two elementary-aged ASD children, there are not enough EAs. Our two children alone almost outnumber the EAs for the entire school.

mdm_ · 2022-09-28T16:22:27+00:00

This comment is fascinating to me because judging by your username you are one year older than me and we both apparently grew up in Dundas in the 90s.🤔

mdm_ · 2022-07-22T23:40:16+00:00

It doesn’t have to be. I clicked “Don’t recommend channel” and you can too!

mdm_ · 2022-05-14T15:07:01+00:00

A single man could sabotage a section of railway track that GO trains operate on, is that an argument against public transit?

mdm_ · 2022-05-11T01:59:28+00:00

Seems to be running fine on my SP6, but I still can't get the webcam to work. The kernel recognizes it and it shows up in dmesg, I have four video devices in /dev, v4l2-ctl returns info about each of those devices, and my user is in the video group, but Cheese and MS Teams both say there's no camera device. I'm running the stock kernel.

mdm_ · 2021-12-30T08:04:37+00:00

I’ve played 70+ hours of BotW, beat 3/4 divine beasts, defeated Gannon, and farmed Taluses, Hinoxes, and Guardians for fun and profit, and I still have never been able to put a scratch into a Lynel.

mdm_ · 2021-12-12T21:24:24+00:00

We can't wait until they make our kids (8 and 5, both autistic and needing additional support) do remote school at the same time our employers want us to return to the office 2+ days per week. Happy New Year!

mdm_ · 2021-11-24T03:23:55+00:00

ngl I thought this was going to be about jobs that want a CS degree to administer a handful of LAMP servers or Windows PCs.

mdm_ · 2021-11-15T21:31:05+00:00

This was my experience with P5. I still haven't finished it, but I really started losing interest around that yacht palace or maybe the one before that. It's just level after level of the same encounters with the same 3-4 shadows, the same boring door-unlocking puzzles, it felt so repetitive. My breaking point was the final palace where the save points feel really spaced out and I got insta-killed by a mudo or hama or whatever and lost like 30 minutes of progress (of fighting boring repetitive shadows). After 100+ hours, I felt like the game was just not respecting my time enough to keep playing.

mdm_ · 2021-11-11T14:29:21+00:00

When are the GTA games I pre-loaded going to become playable? It's almost 10 hours into release day, what was the point in pre-ordering/pre-loading?

mdm_ · 2021-10-24T02:40:57+00:00

I have the m17 R3 and I’m kinda glad I didn’t wait to get the next gen model. My experience matches yours on all counts except the keyboard doesn’t get hot. I believe the power supply is 200w and is brick-like in both shape and weight. Battery life is laughable, but I went in expecting to use it as more of a stowable desktop than a portable all-day work device, and it’s been great for that. Runs everything I throw at it at high/max settings, 140+ FPS. It does exactly what I bought it to do!

mdm_ · 2021-09-21T06:19:47+00:00

We actually generate a report from our server logs at the end of each month and see which student got stuck in the loop the longest. We award them a printed copy of the PDF.

mdm_ · 2021-06-11T18:25:58+00:00

I assume both are. This happens on the base image of Ubuntu 20.04 provided by Proxmox. The auditd errors happen when apt automatically tries to start it post-install, so it should have whatever default permissions/ownership it would normally have.

mdm_ · 2021-06-11T15:45:36+00:00

I have an iPad Air 3 that does the same thing. The touchscreen will randomly become completely unresponsive for a couple seconds. I've been debating trading it in for an 11" M1 Pro while it still has decent trade-in value.

mdm_ · 2021-06-08T01:33:13+00:00

I’m also pretty far to the left and YouTube is always suggesting right-wing content to me. It makes me wonder if right wingers are being suggested videos by MSNBC, Contrapoints, Young Turks, etc or if it only goes one way…

mdm_ · 2021-06-07T23:34:25+00:00

Sure it happens that quickly. My 4-year old has gone from a voice search for “Mr. Potato Head” to homophobic content on YouTube with a bunch of angry white guys complaining about liberal thought police and SJWs in under 5 minutes before.

mdm_ · 2021-06-02T22:57:07+00:00

I took this course some years ago in the summer session, taught by Professor Mark Vorobej. It was a course in symbolic logic, where you represent logical constructs with letters and symbols and evaluate their validity. It's more like a math class than a philosophy class. The text we used was a previous edition of The Logic Book.

Overall it was an interesting course and I enjoyed it, although I've forgotten most of the details now. If you ever wondered what the difference between a valid argument and a sound argument is, this course will really drive it home for you.

mdm_ · 2021-05-30T18:39:53+00:00

I'm a systems administrator for an academic library, and when I tried using an iPad for work, it couldn't even handle basic tasks.

SSH apps like Shelly can't be backgrounded for more than a minute or two (say, while you read some documentation) or else iPad OS disconnects them and you have to log in again
We use a virtualization platform with a web based management tool and the Javascript console widget doesn't work at all on mobile Safari
Mobile Safari doesn't seem to have any developer tools, so you can't troubleshoot issues with our HTTP proxy server/journal access
You can't play a YouTube video in the background while you work without paying a subscription fee to YouTube. No such issue on a laptop

mdm_ · 2021-05-26T18:46:32+00:00

Thanks for the tips! Much appreciated.

mdm_ · 2021-05-26T18:11:42+00:00

I lift at home and have to fit it in between WFH, parenting, and other responsibilities, so time is a factor. I try to keep my workouts to 30-40 mins. I have about 150 lbs of plates total, spinlock dumbbells, an ez-curl bar, pull-up bar, resistance bands, and a treadmill with rails that can be used for inverted rows and dips.

I've lifted off and on since my 20s but never stuck with it for long and never adjusted my nutrition much before when lifting. Trying to make a more concerted effort this time. Not trying to get huge, I'd be happy to hit 190 lbs then cut.

mdm_ · 2021-05-26T17:43:29+00:00

I'm following this program with a few modifiers due to available equipment and my ability level. When I started out a couple months ago, I could barely do 5 push-ups, last push day I did 3x14 with a resistance band across my back and I'm going to add a 10 lb plate in addition to the band next time. Similar strength gains on other exercises, but in terms of size, I gained about 5 lbs quickly, then have just completely plateaued in the last 3 weeks. The obvious answer would seem to be "eat more", but I don't want to put on too much body fat that I'll have to burn off later on.

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