SapientLasagna

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[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What about the unlabelled grey "dread zone" between the pacific and midwest areas? That's accurate, right?

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Postal banking is a thing in many countries. Canada Post did banking from its inception until 1968. The major benefits are that there is a post office in every community, even really tiny ones, and that a Canada Post bank system can offer basic banking services to people who otherwise wouldn't be able to.

This is an advocacy piece, but it includes the history of postal banking in Canada: https://lindsayadvocate.ca/corporate-pressure-ended-postal-banking-in-1968-its-time-to-bring-it-back/

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 days ago

Guy tried to enlist the boss's brother in law to falsify work. "We don't have to walk all the way up the mountainside to do the work, the client will never check it". Then he went home, leaving said brother in law to do all the work by himself.

A week after getting fired, he called the boss about the performance bonus that was promised at the start of the contract.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh, that's easy. The BoC overnight rate is only one of the factors that go into the Prime Rate, which is determined by the banks themselves. The Prime Rate is also down by about half a percent.

Credit card rates on the other hand, are set by the banks based on how much they want to rip you off. The only government involvement there is that the card has to stay under the criminal interest rate, or 48% APR.

The current Government has proposed to reduce that rate to 35% APR, but we'll see.

In short, your MP won't be able to help with your credit card, because cards are issued by the banks, not the Government. Personally, I'd love to see Canada Post get into personal banking, but it's a bit of a pipe dream.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

The degens from upcountry.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Depends on the games you like. It won't perform well at 4k, or with newer FPS titles. Most games should be playable at low-medium quality settings.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

My first vehicle was a 1971 Ford 3/4 ton. It was extremely reliable and tough. Having sat for most of the previous 30 years in a barn, it even looked good.

But it had all of the safety features of 1971. Power brakes the would lock up and throw you off the road if you more than thought about braking. Lap belts and a solid steel steering wheel to smash your teeth on. If you somehow hit the steering wheel hard enough to break it, you'd be impaled on the steel pipe steering column. Speaking of the steering, it didn't have power steering, so if you hit a rut on a rough road, the steering wheel would spin out of control. You had to just let go of it until it stopped spinning lest it break your thumbs. Also, the gas tank was inside the cab behind the seat for extra car crash fun.

It was a beautiful death trap. I kinda wish I could have put it back into a barn for another 30 years instead of selling it.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Or maybe 13,500 miles. But what's a few zeros between friends?

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

Well that's just lying be omission. Lots of people were disabled or disfigured too.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

/sbin is like /bin, but for system administrative type commands. /usr holds all the other software that isn't critical to get the system up and running.

A device file is a special file that's like a pointer to a piece of actual hardware, like a serial port or a hard drive. /dev also has some non-hardware special files like /dev/zero. When you read from that one, you get an endless stream of zeros. Or /dev/null, that discards any data that's written to it.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Also, unless you're one of those people who legitimately doesn't care if food tastes good or not, learn to cook. You don't have to be good a cooking everything, but develop a repertoire of food that is healthy and you like to eat.

The age where you could depend on a wife to be a good cook for you are long past.

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