Arghblarg

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[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
My Momma don' told me
da-dun-a-du-dun
Pharaoh's at it agaaaain
da-dun-a-du-dun
Calling' all of us young men
da-dun-a-du-dun
To cut rocks and drag themmmmm ...

Ooooh, I got them Egyptian Blues,
and my back still aches soo baddddd... (back still aches soo bad) ...
Don't know if I can take another year
Of draggin' rocks in the sand!

Oh wait, never mind.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago

If your business cannot be profitable paying a living wage to your employees without tips or govt assistance,, then perhaps the business model itself is unsustainable.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 108 points 3 weeks ago

Data analytics firm doesn't like ... data on itself being analyzed. huh.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I had the Magnavox 8CM515 which was basically the same, and the front power switch burnt out -- repair guy just shorted it, saying it was next to impossible to find a replacement... used that monitor on a CoCo-III, Atari STfm and an MM/1, wonderful RGB monitor for its time.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Add a removable battery, make sure it has a headphone jack and can be fully unlocked/rooted and I'll buy 3 right bloody now.

Document it well enough to run real Linux and I'll shout about it from the street like a crazy person for free advertising.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

You know, ten bucks is ten bucks.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you for the info.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Paywalled, can't read it.

Does this mean I would pay taxes just for holding US securities (eg., stocks in US companies)? Or only when selling? Does it make any difference which brokers are used?

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

Agreed. I got to see him speak once years ago, wonderful lecture on the nature of creativity, lateral thinking, and just... stuff. Hard to describe, but just excellent.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I heard the owner of a local cafe a few years ago complaining about how "he couldn't find any good workers" ... I asked the girl across the counter later if she was willing to state how much she was paid. Minimum wage. Approximately half of what the local government officially acknowledges what a living wage is here to afford a one-bedroom apartment.

If your business can't afford to pay your employees enough to feed, clothe and house themselves with a full-time position, then your business isn't viable. Period.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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Best book for learning the ins and outs of MIDI I've ever encountered. Relatively obscure, but an invaluable reference book for anyone wanting to dig into the details of how MIDI works.

 

A wire broke off the ignitor element in our Harman unit. I have ordered a replacement and it looks simple enough to fix myself. But before sourcing the part I had called about 5 different fireplace companies in the area, and it seems everyone has dropped all support for pellet stoves in recent years! Not only does no one sell them any more (other than Canadian Tire), but they all outright refused to even consider sending a repairperson to help.

It's a bit infuriating. I am calling them, literally saying "please come take my money at your standard hourly rate". One would think "struggling businesses" would be more willing to take on what should be profitable work.

Is it such a liability issue for them that they're actually afraid to take on the work?

What if something bigger fails someday on my pellet stove? Why is no one on the island now willing to work on one?

If you know of someone who does still service wood pellet stoves on the island (Courtenay/Comox), please reply here or DM me. Thanks.

EDIT: formatting

 

What does this mean? New levels of ass-covering for bank malfeasance, or just the regular sort of opacity?

Also see the original 'interim' declaration: https://www.osc.ca/en/securities-law/instruments-rules-policies/5/52-502/ontario-instrument-52-502-exemption-national-instrument-52-112-non-gaap-and-other-financial

and

https://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/Eng/osfi-bsif/rep-rap/blueprint-plan-directeur/Pages/supervision-surveillance-let.aspx

Thanks to re⊃⊃it user JackTheTranscoder for links.

 

Good video by Richard Newton updating the whole GME story from the start up to today.

 

This occurred today when I tried updating/deleting old comments via the Redact tool, on the old super-stonk sub.

Guess they're afraid of losing their captive Apes!

 

See linked posting. I've commented there with a link to a CLI tool in Python that allows downloading of IA collections. I've submitted a patch to enable specifying start and end points so that it's easier to resume downloading a huge collection, or to allow multiple people to split up the work.

https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

https://archive.org/details/78rpm_bowling_green

F*ck the RIAA and absurdly long copyright.


EDIT: There is more than one collection of 78s on IA, so I updated the title.


The issue with these collections are that they're absolutely HUGE. And yes, IA offers torrents for them, but as a separate torrent for every. single. album. And the torrents have all data in them -- FLAC, fixed-rate MP3, VBR MP3, PDF liner notes, etc. etc... there may be some extremely hardcore data-hoarders out there who want everything, but IMHO as these are scratchy old 78 records, FLAC is overkill to just save the audio in a listenable format. The George Blood collection, just the VBR MP3s, is looking to be about 6TB. With ALL data it might be over 40TB! I can't afford that many hard drives :)


So, my approach at the moment is to save just the VBR MP3s (they seem to be done at up to 320kbps VBR) and the JPEG album cover. If I have a chance and any storage left afterwards, I can make a separate pass to get the album liner PDFs...


Tool used: https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive


Patch to allow setting start and end item indices for downloads: https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive/pull/605


Example usage to grab just the VBR MP3 and record label JPG for each (note the --start-idx and --end-idx arguments):

#ia download --start-idx=4001 --end-idx=8000 -a -i --format="VBR MP3" --format="JPEG" --search collection:georgeblood

I'm going to concentrate on the George Blood collection for now.. I'm starting at item 1. It would be great if others started at index 50,000, 100,000, 150,000, ... and others started at the end and worked backwards in similarly-sized chunks, so that it's assured someone gets each of them.

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