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Yes, although if one is buying used, then you're likely already avoiding digital purchases through this online service.

So just keep buying used. Pretty easy workaround.

Article says you can still play those, just not re-download on the same system it seems.

Your examples disagree with your initial statement actually. How did you get the log? How did you carve the figure? Both of these require energy consumption, as we aren't at the stage where we are magically planting trees and teleporting them into our workspaces for carving/burning.

Just to be clear, this isn't brick on a whim, this is disabling access to online services on a whim.

Seems a lot of commenters are getting that confused due to not opening the link.

Alberta does not pay for the welfare of Canadians in other provinces, it has never paid towards any equalization systems. It has taken billions in debt though, including during COVID when oil flatlined.

The reason Danielle et al were cozying up to US politicians at private events, pushing narratives like embracing America's new direction, isn't for independence or a new federal plan - it's to become the 51st state.

That's not at all similar. We know exactly how many voted for Bernie.

The only actual test of separatism in albert has been support for the pension plan and that has been so abysmal they've put the entire push on hold.

I mean if you don't pay attention to foreign affairs, of course nothing seems consequential?

You can begin here:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/19/how-has-bri...

There is no Alberta Pension Plan that exists today. All provinces also already run their own police forces. So there has been no movement on this in Alberta.

I heavily disagree with this one. On first glance what you say feels true, but there are so many mega popular people now that you will never know of despite even being from the same country. People with dozens of millions of fans, selling out arenas doing multinational tours and you won’t know them at all.

But everyone knows Britney Spears, even if you were never in her target demographic. This sort of global fame now requires so much more to reach because of how many are really locked into hyper personalized online experiences. I used to be able to reference the latest big movie or show and people would know, now that’s mostly turned into an explanation that the movie or show even came out and exists.

I'm surprised you made the switch to liquid and not to powder. It's so much cheaper and not as fussy as liquid. That plus a tiny bottle of rinse aid that lasts forever winds up giving me the cleanest dishes.

There is no research that states such. Most online articles are referencing a study done on professional dishwashers, in which they complete their task within 2 minutes and some rinse aid was still found on the dishes.

Home dishwashers, the ones that take 4 hours on average, are not going to result in the same thing. Claiming such would be like claiming you won't use dish soap since technically it can still be left on your dishes when quickly washed.

That's exactly how a digital ID system would work, and yet people argue against those all the time as well.

Additionally, the corner shop does not have far lower data privacy risks - actually it's quite worse. They have you on camera and have a witness who can corroborate you are that person on camera, alongside a paper trail for your order. There is no privacy there, only the illusion of such.

Do you feel this way when you enter credit card information when making a purchase online?

For their pricing and subscription practices alone, they deserve far more backlash than they get.

There is a cost burden to not being 100% correct when it comes to programming. You simply have chosen to ignore that burden, but it still exists for others. Whether it's for example a percent of your users now getting stalled pages due to the webgl shader, or your lunch scraper ddosing local restaurants. They aren't actually forgiving regarding correctness.

Which is fine for actual testing you're doing internally, since that cost burden is then remedied by you fixing those issues. However, no feature is as free as you're making it sound, not even the "nice to have" additions that seem so insignificant.

Your use case is in fact in the top whatever percentile for AI usefulness. Short simple scripting that won't have to be relied on due to never being widely deployed. No large codebase it has to comb through, no need for thorough maintenance and update management, no need for efficient (and potentially rare) solutions.

The only use case that would beat yours is the type of office worker that cannot write professional sounding emails but has to send them out regularly manually.

I wouldn’t go that far to say that they have fantastic interfaces. Tolerable? Better than what free options existed at the time? Either way, there is a lot of room for improvement but it’s also an extremely challenging environment to get interfaces right.

We are still in what is effectively the skeuomorphism for the music production industry phase (where everyone is just replicating real life tooling because that’s the expectation and with that comes a lot of unchecked baggage — except for Maya, Blender, etc it’s mostly about making assumptions based on past tooling and polishing that a tiny bit), eventually there will be a Logic to change those bad habits!

More like having a series of fake doors and rooms built out in front of your home, with most of them leading back outside and not into the home.

Are there any reputable anonymous micropayment services?

Each one of those “independent” points that can potentially fail is just added dependencies that increases inefficiency due do increased oversight, adds more red tape, and slows down production.

VIA can't do much for INTRA city travel.

For Ontario it's on Metrolinx and for Toronto TTC. Just in November TTC got roughly $750m in fed funding for subway cars especially for Line 2 cars that are reaching EOL, but also for the expansion lines in Scarborough and Yonge North.

Actually this very rail has been in discussion since 2016, started under VIA HFR.

You can view a timeline of it here https://altotrain.ca/en/key-milestones/

Very specific rules that minimize the use of negations is more applicable. This is also kind of why chain of thought in LLMs can be useful, in that you can more explicitly see the steps and take note when negation demands aren't being as helpful as you would think.

Not just negation demands, but also generally other tricks we use for thinking and communication shorthands. "Unethical behavior" here for example, we know what that means since the context is clear, but to LLMs that context can be unclear in which the unethical behavior can mean well... anything.

I'm not finding any of those proposals on the whatwg html repo, mind linking them?

Physiognomy is a pseudoscience that often makes big waves in pop science, but its studies are lacking substantially even evolutionary psychologists don't take it seriously.

On the bright side, when your mini dies, there will likely be better flips out there. The Z Flip 6 isn't that bad currently, and I really did enjoy how much pocket space it saved, but if you're stuck to Apple it's another 2 years before they release their attempt.

I have no clue why anyone would choose to write a single line of JavaScript in this day and age, but each to their own.

You should already have a clue, you have to write a lot of JavaScript in order to get Svelte doing what you'd expect outside of very simple components. See these actions as an example, and check out the JS file! https://svelte.dev/tutorial/svelte/actions

Svelte makes more sense if you enjoy the JavaScriptisms. In which it provides enough "magic" for most things, but still lets you enjoy JavaScript.

Due to the restrictions (short term at least) when it comes to training data and availability of documentation, I believe coding in a new language or framework becomes an even bigger mountain than usual due to chatGPT providing misleading information.

This is made worse if there are breaking changes in a new release that you are using. Even when the thing is popular, like Svelte, it was giving me outdated information before the introduction of Runes that often led to deadend packages or solutions that resulted in odd performance.

I'm sure eventually it'll be resolved, but ultimately I would only recommend people sticking to more traditional languages and frameworks that have been around for many years now and are relatively unchanging in order to benefit from chatGPT. Basically, the more projects you find using that thing on github, the better your outcome is going to be with current LLMs.

Events still important enough for Google to maintain "sustainably": Columbus Day.

It's been interesting to see the largest constitutional crisis the US has seen in 50+ years intersecting with massive social media operations. Turns out, all Richard Nixon had to do was call the constitution "woke".