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  • . . . where the emergency departments are open at all. (Closures in Thessalon and Richard's Landing, along the north shore of Lake Superior, often make the news where I am.)

  • There's nothing wrong with ARM. Qualcomm, on the other hand . . .

  • Well, at least it's now been indicated that all the other-people's-relationship-issues stuff may not be completely irrelevant to how the world fell apart. Not quite sure where they're trying to go with this anymore.

  • That's funny, every survey I've seen that ranks real quality-of-life (or some subset of it) for the inhabitants of various countries puts Canada ahead of the US.

    So what's your country's excuse, Mr. Vance?

  • A quick search shows that squirrels have quite good vision at short to medium distances (up to ~10m) during daylight, with a wide field of view (common in prey animals) and excellent depth perception. Their colour vision isn't up to human standards, however, and their night vision isn't that great. So yeah, they'd have a clear concept of the distance and direction to the next tree branch or a nearby cat as long as the light was good.

  • In the worst case? On ebay, as a "For parts/not working" model with a reasonably intact exterior. Might take a bit of patience.

  • It allows the violation of certain individual clauses of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, not the entire Constitution, and its effect lapses after five years if whatever chucklefucks are in office at the provincial level at that time don't care enough to reconfirm the violation. Not that that's much better.

  • Sorry, Takeru, but you're not even the first person to have had a god(dess) join your isekai adventuring party. You and the MC from Konosuba can form a club, though, if you can stand to spend time with him.

  • It isn't just annoying, it often breaks for people on less-popular browsers. Plus, it requires you to run Cloudflare's Javascript. You think this outage was bad—what do you think would happen if someone slipped them a bit of malware?

  • I doubt most of them could stick with the Gentoo installation procedure for long enough to make it to a usable system.

  • Well, now that the dolphin has appeared, there should be only two more characters to introduce (assuming that all characters are present in the credits). If that's the case, and they're introduced together, we're most likely due two more iterations, and the last few episodes might settle down after that.

  • You can still compile a surprising number of modern programs and libraries without unicode support (that is, they provide an explicit compile flag to switch it off)—it's just that no general-purpose distro does it by default. I'm not sure you can set up an entire unicodeless system using current software versions, but I wouldn't bet against it, either. And glibc isn't the only game in town—musl is viable and modern (it's the default libc in Alpine Linux and an option for some other distros), and designed for resource-constrained environments. Those two things between them might bring down the size by considerable.

  • Thing is, most LLM submissions are low-quality as well as low-effort. If you forbid them, well-meaning numbskulls will hopefully not clutter your bug tracker by submitting them, and those who are more interested in adding a line to their resume than following the rules can be blacklisted immediately for breaking said rules. As for the odd undeclared one that's not low-quality and slips through without being spotted, no big deal. By my understanding, they're unicorns, though.

    Because the submissions are so low-quality overall, chances are that projects requiring that submitters admit there was an LLM involved in their submission will end up effectively shadow-banning most such submitters because it isn't worth wading through their tripe. That's just a different version of non-transparency.

    The endgame we want isn't blacklisting LLM submissions into perdition, it's the code version of xkcd 810. Currently, most LLM code submissions are about as useful and desirable as porn spam on a forum. Maybe in a few years, that'll be different. If it is, policies can be reviewed.

  • Actively offensive branding might turn me off, but I have a high tolerance for low-quality artwork and such, or I wouldn't be able to use FOSS at all. Honestly, most programmer-generated branding has never been very good—at best, you might get a witty project name, but it's often accompanied by a cheesy tagline and a cruddy icon that doesn't render well at small sizes and so is useless as an icon.

  • Seems awfully elaborate for something I can accomplish by backing up a few text files and directories of same. The only real issue I had with spinning up the new laptop this spring was due to an underdocumented and partially broken UEFI BIOS that I had to figure out how to work around. Once I got past that, transferring other packages and settings was trivial.

  • Conditions on freeways are usually more controlled than conditions on surface-level roads, and Waymo's accident record isn't bad, unlike Tesla's. I suspect that this isn't going to generate any post-debut news stories of much significance. (If something bad and avoidable does happen, though, Waymo is 100% accountable—no handwaving it away.)

  • All non-trivial software has bugs, and it's unsurprising that in a sudo implementation in any language, many of those bugs are security-related. This is still quite young software. Ubuntu was premature in making it their default, I think, but that just means it's immature, not that it's completely broken.

    Then again, I use su exclusively and don't even have sudo installed, so I've got no dog in this fight.

    (As for Rust itself, I am neither for nor against. It's a programming language. It has some issues that mostly seem to be related to how building and distribution is carried out in practice, rather than the core language design. I have never met a programming language without warts, and I've used several. If you're experienced with the language—whatever it is—you learn how to handle them.)