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Alpha Male v0.00003
just tag yourself as "early-access" and suddenly everyone will forgive your flaws.
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Alpha Male v0.00003
just tag yourself as "early-access" and suddenly everyone will forgive your flaws.
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This message in the developer tools panel on the Instagram site
Hacker: That's ok, we don't want you to paste stuff in there, we just want you to send us your cookies. It's not like you're eating them anyway…
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PHP is dead?
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The dude trying to push Django in 2003
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Of course
As a bytecode tinkerer, I'd say considering NOP to be global knowledge is a slippery slope.
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Canadians visiting Europe will soon need a permit — not a visa. What to know
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The EU is basically slapping Canadians with a reciprocal policy. Canada has the eTA (electronic travel authorization) which they have to file and pay 7$ to visit, even if they don't need a visa. This is the same in reverse.
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Large majority of Albertans oppose separation
A better title: Alberta on par with QC and SK in opposing separation.
As much as I would love to deride this minority on their position, I'd rather prefer we
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counting
Someone is confusing indices and cardinality.
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Report: Canada saw over 30,000 tech workers immigrate while losing nearly 1,700 to the US
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You might be surprised how inefficient banks can be when it comes to tech. As years go by I see an increase of tech workers but a decrease of experienced or competent ones. My view is those competent tech workers tend to be more expensive than Canadian companies are willing to pay, thus end up hiring 10x the staff. The banks simply have more money to waste that way and thus are doing so by hiring a lot of tech workers.
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Damn Linux Users
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As a developer, I really don't like how Wayland has fractured the ecosystem. Competing immature protocols are still all over the place while the immobility of x11 has spoiled us for years. It's getting better, but in the meantime I can still write an x11 app which will work mostly everywhere (thanks to xwayland), whereas a wayland app may not work everywhere (not on X11, and not on compositors which don't implement the right combinations of protocols).
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Want better bike lanes? Make room for wheelchairs and mobility scooters
Honestly, I'd like everyone to take back the road. Enforce lower speeds in streets AND in bike lanes. I don't mind bikes in the streets and runners in bike lanes, so long as we limit speeding on both so they can safely coexist.
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Everybody was kung-fu fighting
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not the way I would have done it
It could be a legitimate criticism. Sticking to a codebase style and to the language idioms improves clarity and thus maintainability. But then, that means the way to do it should already be clear.
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Canada excluded from Google's expansion of AI chatbot Bard
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This! I see the hype around AI and it's like everyone has lost their mind. You wouldn't accept a statistical study without sampling info (dataset size, origin, selection, filtering, bias, reproductibility, etc). Why would we not ask the same with LLM or generative AI? It's like everyone got so excited about models built on large datasets that they forgot we already had procedures for handling data.
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Bloc Québécois won’t support Pierre Poilievre’s non-confidence motion
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I don't have confidence in any majority government. The elected party doing as they want and ignoring part of the electorate is a failure of democracy. Every motion should be evaluated on its merit, not through agreements of party support. In that sense, the likelihood of a majority Conservative after an election would be a bad thing.
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CPC policy hypotheticals: Canadians see a balanced budget, longer jail time as ‘good’; defunding CBC as ‘bad’ -
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Sadly, longer jail time is purely placebo. Plenty of studies show jail time has no incidence on crime rate. Sure, locking people for longer would delay recidivism, but we could do better than that.
It's not about logic though. Longer jail time proponents do lean on the emotional argument of a few anecdotal cases or recidivism. This tend to make flashy headlines and stick with the population.
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Bash Script to compile a single rust script, execute the binary and delete the binary
Allow me to retort with an all-in-one self build script, along with pass-through args and exitcode.
#!/bin/sh
out=$(mktemp)
sed -e '0,/^#SELFBUILD$/d' "$0" | rustc --o "$out" - && "$out" "$@"
status=$?
rm -f "$out"
exit "$status"
#SELFBUILD
fn main() {
dbg!(std::env::args());
println!("hello rust");
std::process::exit(2);
}
P.S. I have no idea why you'd want that, as it's a terribly inefficient way to ship code, but it's a fascinating glimpse at how we used to do self-extract archives decades ago.
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Trump won't impose tariffs on Canada, other countries right away: reports
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This is fascinating! I couldn't find much info on that and actually, what I found implies that there were some on Canadian bases not just in Canada, but around the world. That is, from if old letters from the Diefenbaker Center are representative of history.
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Which Party Has the Best Blueprint for Fixing the Housing Crisis?
Well, I'm not sure who has the worst plan for housing between PP which wants to cut sales taxes [1] and Blanchet which doesn't seem to understand you don't get more supply by simply letting people pay more [2].
Sorry, but I mostly remember those infuriating quotes from the french debate. They appeared a bit more careful the next day.
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Floating-point arithmetic
Consider IEEE754 arithmetic as monadic, simple!
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How do people without a phone sign into CRA? It requires a phone number now
It seems like they also have a "password grid" multi-factor option that you can print. I hate seeing custom authentication schemes (or insecure ones like SMS) instead of standards like OATH-TOTP, but I do applaud having accessibility options.
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Punch cards ftw
You also can't make star ships out of an sdcard