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davitocan | 1 year ago | on: British Columbia to recriminalize use of drugs in public spaces

How do you compel a prosecutor to bring a case forward, if they know the judge is likely to dismiss the case. It's a weird situation honestly where the laws exist, and police can enforce the law, but the judicial system turns a blind eye. It's a systemic issue starting at the federal level.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-bail-refo...

davitocan | 1 year ago | on: British Columbia to recriminalize use of drugs in public spaces

You must not get out often. The police roll down kits beach on ATVs looking to give out tickets for open alcohol throughout the summer.

davitocan | 1 year ago | on: British Columbia to recriminalize use of drugs in public spaces

The issue isn't that there's no laws covering these transgressions. It's the lack of prosecution that's the main issue. Even if you arrest someone for aggressively panhandling they'll be released without bail that same day. This eliminates the incentive for police to do anything since the core issue is unresolved and they still have to process the arrest.

davitocan | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: What's Rabbit R1 business model?

Arguably there's an energy cost to running that software as well that's wasted. Plus potential waste on cloud providers adding hardware to support it all.

davitocan | 1 year ago | on: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network

Home Depot search breaks for me when using Blocky, and is the only consistent issue I observe.

davitocan | 2 years ago | on: Why Has Figma Reinvented the Wheel with PostgreSQL?

I've done this before where we ran a schema per customer and it was fabulous. Once the customer was large enough we could justify allocating a separate DB for them. The application was written in such a way that it knew which data store to query based on the user.

davitocan | 2 years ago | on: Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey

Small nitpick but almost every car today still has brakes that work via direct force vs by wire.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake-by-wire

davitocan | 2 years ago | on: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API

https://paulwieland.github.io/ratgdo/ is a home assistant compatible board that emulates a garage door opener. It adds local control and is easy to setup.

davitocan | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you get out of a rut?

I usually either start a new hobby or go back to one I haven't worked on in a while. I find that eventually my interest in coding returns and I slowly ease back in. Doing this I find it preserves enough drive to still be good at my day job.

davitocan | 5 years ago | on: HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service”

I always put our printers on a separate vlan that only accepts connections from our primary vlan. No magic firmware updates anymore.