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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I mean, it's a little bit of a funny example when "but child porn" is often the argument for removing all digital freedom.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 hours ago

So now you can be a cyberpunk black market tech peddler for real?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

There are devices now that have a SoC that's completely locked down at the factory, although maybe none are 3D printers. It deserves more attention as the massive threat to digital freedom that it is.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes. They should require a certain number of significant digits, as opposed to just the nearest integer. Although someone's saying that they actually let you round down from as many as 5 to 0, which is insane if true.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

WTF. Like, sure, if you say "no decimal calories needed" it would make sense at the time, and could lead to this by accident. But that's just silly.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 hours ago

They have some of the best accessibility regulations in the world.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Canada, at least, follows the US convention on this one. IIRC serving sizes are set by the government, though, if that's any different.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

The downside there is that if it's, like, Marmite, you'll never ever eat 100g in one sitting. So, you have to do a bunch of math to figure out how much salt is in the actual smear you're using.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm reminded of some of the XKCD Umwelts, where they point out this shit can go both ways at once.

It's cute when people on the west coast talk about... uhhh... history. Or really old geology, if you include Canada.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The fact fascism can come from within makes it extra hard to fight, yes.

Still, vs. Putin, Europe has a long way it would have to slide.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It legitimately was for them, if you're being serious.

Unfortunately, you make a publicly traded company, and it will always act like a publicly traded company, in the end. No pithy saying in the code of conduct will change that. It's like how every dictatorship tends to become a monarchy.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 days ago

2018, according to Wikipedia.

 

Don't fucking let "us" touch the courts, Canada.

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Not sure how to link the exact episode about a "possible" invasion of Venezuela. If somebody knows I'll edit.

We'll see how it plays out. I'm still not sure they're actually planning to send 200,000 troops, but Trump said they're going to "run it" somehow.

Edit: Moving to invidious.

Original Gem link: https://gem.cbc.ca/about-that-with-andrew-chang

 

Bluesky, which uses it, has been opened to federation now, and the standard basically just looks better than ActivityPub. Has anyone heard about a project to make a Lemmy-style "link aggregator" service on it?

 

It's a few months old, but in light of recent events I think it still checks out. Make sure to watch the walkaround!

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Last trip to the grocery store I couldn't find any non-US salad kits, and Silk NextMilk is made down there now, because I guess our plants were the listeria ones. Chip dip was surprisingly hard to find too, although I did it.

I'm very pleased with how many vegetables actually come from Mexico (definitely via the US though), and there's even a few things you can get from greenhouses, so that situation is less dire than I'd expected.

 

Refactoring gets really bad reviews, but from where I'm sitting as a hobby programmer in relative ignorance it seems like it should be easier, because you could potentially reuse a lot of code. Can someone break it down for me?

I'm thinking of a situation where the code is ugly but still legible here. I completely understand that actual reverse engineering is harder than coding on a blank slate.

 

This is one of those takes that's so controversial I'm afraid to post it, which is exactly why I have to.

I neither endorse nor disavow this, and no, I'm not in the picture.

 

I considered posting this elsewhere, but only Canadians are really going to get why it's funny. Regina being totally self aware about it's (lack of) reputation made it for me.

 

A link to the preprint. I'll do the actual math on how many transitions/second it works out to later and edit.

I've had an eye on this for like a decade, so I'm hyped.

Edit:

So, because of the structure of the crystal the atoms are in, it actually has 5 resonances. These were expected, although a couple other weak ones showed up as well. They give a what I understand to be a projected undisturbed value of 2,020,407,384,335.(2) KHz.

Then a possible redefinition of the second could be "The time taken for 2,020,407,384,335,200 peaks of the radiation produced by the first nuclear isomerism of an unperturbed ^229^Th nucleus to pass a fixed point in space."

 
 

People new to federation are wandering elsewhere. If the logged-in screen is anything like what I see as a guest, I'm not surprised. I found this through my own instance's search feature.

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