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Yeah this is roughly the same. It’s just a smear of apps and no real assumption of anything sure to be shared.

But you can just add the space back in! It’s a strict format of six characters, alternating digits and letters, with a space. There is no deviation. You can easily write a parser and a formatter for it. It kills me how often this is a struggle on forms.

Fun fact: even the “send a free letter to santa” is compliant by making his postal code “H0H 0H0”

Canadian here.

I have a WhatsApp account and the app on my phone with zero contacts in it. Nobody here uses it. But every time I leave the country I need it for some service or business or who knows what. It seems like the rest of the world all agreed to use this app and Canada (and I think the US) just said “naw thanks…” and have no common app or method.

Unfortunately en-CA is not really supported as a locale and we have to choose between en-US and en-GB. I’ll usually choose the latter, because despite more differences in language, there is more alignment between Canada and British English in spelling, units, and style.

I really wish en-CA was as well supported as fr-CA honestly.

Whereas tens of thousands contract Lyme, often in life altering infections. Lyme is a big deal. But yes, I agree, we can both aim to reduce new disease without letting old vectors for disease back in.

I care about the Lyme more than the rats tbh. That is way more likely to fuck you up long term than anything a rat will bring in this day and age. We aren’t getting the black plague anymore.

I live in Ottawa and I watched a crow rip a dead brown rat apart in my front street this week. I don’t see them often but they’re here. (I swear I live in a nice neighbourhood)

It’s worth knowing the answer, but also the answer shouldn’t matter for most cases.

Regular users should only use these stations for road trips. Nearly all charging should be done with L2 chargers.

Manitoba is almost 100% powered by hydro, and exports something like 7TWh of power a year. You’re drawing your line in the wrong spot.

Wow! Two hours!

This is not correct, for me at least.

I want a very good washing machine with frills, but it want it to wash well and quietly without needing to be configured from my phone over wifi.

Used in production? Probably not yet. But likely tested in production on a small %. They’ve gotten practiced at using the Shopify Rails monolith as the biggest test suite and regression tests for Rails and Ruby.

Businesses and reviews mostly. Not navigation.

I participated actively in the Google Local Guides. I depend on the content from there to discover stuff geographically. But I’m also aware reviews and interactions and even images that look human can’t really be counted on anymore.

Yes, I am also hopelessly tied to Google Maps. Which I think is relatively distinct from web search, IMO.

My wife and I have a family account. I absolutely love it and have used it for a while. I’m a programmer and use it more for that kind of thing. She, however, does the purchasing and shopping and product hunting for our house. She keeps trying to use it but ends up with Google tabs open anyway. As as much as I’m a big Kagi fan, YMMV depending on your usage patterns.

Are these… real names? I can no longer tell if this is satire.

There is an excellent children’s book about their story. It’s hard to read to my kids without getting teary, tbh.

https://www.petermercurio.com/our-subway-baby/

The issue here is that Canada belongs to all Canadians. A portion of voters in one province can’t just vote to help themselves to the territory of Canada.

Unfortunately it wasn't my project so I can't speak to it with detail or authority. I was just observing.

It was things like: Where do log statements go? Via what path? Are we sure none of those routers are in the US? Can we spin up new instances of EVERYTHING in a `-ca` region? Can we force traffic for this shop to only use those instances? What about vendors? Can we disable US-only vendors of whatever? What about backups? What things are centralized (which were good to identify)? Can we region those too? Can we disable/bypass them?

And do that for every bit and packet for a very complex system. I think that it launched with a considerable number of features just disabled. Privacy trumped everything.

I have most often used it to be every amiibo that exists.

I worked at Shopify at the time this became legal and several provinces were launching on our platform. It was a monumental lift to get every single thing a transaction from these shops touches to only run on or through infrastructure on Canadian soil for this exact reason.

My brother in size Small-Tall, tell me where you shop!

This is a good one: https://tallslimtees.com/

I also do some made to order from Son of a Tailor and Proper Cloth, but it’s expensive and laborious and slow and risky.

Then that becomes an ongoing effort. The rewrite is once. (Good idea or not)

It isn’t exactly. They created a list of known extensions by their id and a file which is known to exist in that extension. The site iterates over each pair and tries to load that file, if it doesn’t error it knows the extension is installed. It’s a clever and difficult manual process, but it does bypass the security trying to prevent this kind of thing.

I read that their reasoning is it exists to block users that use known scraper extensions which bypass their terms of use. But don’t entirely buy that.

This is partially why search is doomed. Sure LLMs are overtaking search, because search has been enshitified to the point you need an LLM to even get thr answer you’re looking for.

I keep thinking how often LLMs are used to “solve” problems we created.

“Meeting starts at 3” gets fed into an LLM to turn it into a 3 paragraph email, only to be summarized by a different LLM on the other email client end as “Meeting starts at 3”. What a waste.

I clicked the link out of interest but am quite happy that the article had no image.

This removes a large portion of the magic of Ruby.

I completely understand how this game is brilliant and a perfect puzzle game. But it was so hard and frustrating I could not play it.

Maybe! It won’t change liability. But perception is important too.

I think it’s trying to demonstrate intent. “This is cool and hacking is fun” vs “Here is a tool to do bad things”. I don’t think it would much protect you from consequences, but it can change perception of the intent of the project.