The Economy Forecast Agency is independent from any banks, funds and other market players. -- money

CDIC protects deposits in some Canadian institutions up to $100,000 per category, per bank. If you had an RRSP, a TFSA and a savings account, each with $100,000 cash-equivalent, your deposits would be fully insured. CIPF protects investments (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, etfs) held on your behalf by some Canadian institutions. CIPF protection covers up to $1-million of RRSP accounts, plus $1-million worth of RESP accounts, plus $1-million worth of other accounts, per person per investment dealer. -- money

The yield can change at any time but the $10/unit price is protected up to the $100,000 CDIC coverage. The 100k CDIC protection is multiplied by each CAD$ savings account offered by a different entity, so each of [TDB8150, TDB8155, TDB8157, TDB8159] will be protected up to 100k. -- money

Fund-based savings accounts are offered by discount brokerages as alernatives to money-market mutual funds. They are bought and sold as mutual fund units, usually of $1 or $10 value, but actually represent a CDIC-insured savings account (if denominated in Canadian dollars). These accounts can be used to store free cash in brokerage or registered accounts. They are often more convenient than Guaranteed Investment Certificates or Treasury bills. -- money

The DM3 Reader plugin allows ImageJ to open files produced by Gatan's Digital Micrograph software. -- software

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Replaced my zipper. Offers tailoring, repairs, alterations, and custom work. Focused on making things that will last for life. Based in Ottawa, Canada -- fixit

This url shortener points to the microsoft page where you can configure 2nd-factor auth for your account. -- service

Signal looks like a promising "non-tracking" messing app. But iMessage is probably good enough. -- service

I interpret the following to mean that when you're logged in and view a photo at a url, that url has a short lifespan. But if you right-click and copy the image url (and perhaps if its in a public album) then the url is marked to live forever. This article says that the photo isn't placed at that URL until you ask for it. Google Photos normally pulls its images through a more complex back-end system, but when a user right-clicks on one of their own images, Photos responds by placing the image at the designated public URL. "There are enough combinations that it's considered unguessable," says Aravind Krishnaswamy, an engineering lead on Google Photos. You can give it to a friend or pull it through an automated scraper, and it will load just the same. For Google, that's a feature. "The value of URLs is that they're universal," says Vincent Mo, another lead engineer on Photos. -- web

Lots of people claim that these direct links will expire. That's never been my experience. Maybe that's because all my images come from shared albums. -- web

There is no way around the expiration of the baseUrl. You need to save the mediaItem.id as it is a permanent, stable ID used to identify the object. Then you can fetch the GET https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/mediaItems/{mediaItemId} when you need the baseUrl. -- web

All shared Google Photos are open to the public, even if they were only shared with specific people. This is different from Google Drive. -- web

Lists know variants of the s400 postfix. -- web

The problem is what they call the DTMF level which is the technical name for the tone generated pressing a key on a telephone. The level is too low for the other end to pick it up. If you use those keywords in a chat they'll ask you to unplug the unit while the level is updated and then ask you to reconnect and test the change. -- gear

Professional sculptor at 1375 Rte 366, Val-des-Monts, QC, J8N 5B5 -- art

Free online tool to compare PDF files. Shows differences of two PDFs files quickly. Easy to use. No installation. No registration. -- tool

The 63rd HPS meeting in Cleveland discussed, among other things, how much we are spending trying to adhere to absurdly-low radiation limits fostered upon society by the LNT, trying to save one theoretical life while not saving millions of real lives for the same amount of money. -- health

In his Nobel Prize Lecture of December 12, 1946, Hermann J. Muller argued that the dose–response for radiation-induced germ cell mutations was linear and that there was ‘‘no escape from the conclusion that there is no threshold’’. However, assessment of correspondence between Muller and Curt Stern 1 month prior to his Nobel Prize Lecture reveals that Muller knew the results and implications of a recently completed study at the University of Rochester under the direction of Stern, which directly contradicted his Nobel Prize Lecture. This finding is of historical importance since Muller’s Nobel Lecture gained considerable international attention and is a turning point in the acceptance of the linearity model in risk assessment for germ cell mutations and carcinogens. -- health

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