Sprocklem

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by Sprocklem 1mo ago
They are a simple construction, but I'm not sure I've seen any evidence that their construction is automated.
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by Sprocklem 1mo ago
Me too. My understanding is that clothing manufacturing is basically impossible to automate with our current level of technology, due to the difficulty of manipulating fabric.
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by Sprocklem 2mo ago
I mean, it seems pretty obvious to me that flock should be flagging this as a partial match in a very prominent way, so hopefully the police officers take a closer look and don't act recklessly. It is shoking to me that this wasn'
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by Sprocklem 4mo ago
No province pays equalization payments. They come out of the federal government's general revenues.
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by Sprocklem 4mo ago
The UCP are trying to prolong this whole affair and, I think, trying to pander to separatists without actually risking that Alberta separate. ETA: There is definitely a significant pro-separatist faction within the UCP, but I don't thi
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by Sprocklem 5mo ago
This is my experience as well, as someone who grew up in Alberta and has spent a fair bit of time in other provinces. This narrative that the rest of Canada is anti-Alberta or anti-Quebec (or that the federal government is seeking to underm
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by Sprocklem 5mo ago
44oz? That's huge. I couldn't imagine drinking one of those a day.
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by Sprocklem 9mo ago
> It is not surprising the the properties would not be called the same. It is a bit surprising that xdg-desktop-portal has two very similar APIs that differ in non-obvious and seemingly-arbitrary ways. I was also a bit confused about how
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by Sprocklem 10mo ago
> My uneducated guess at why Wayland failed to succeed is that it went for extreme modularity and refused to say (back in like 2009) "Here's the security mechanism everyone has to use to take screenshots, etc. If this breaks yo
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by Sprocklem 10mo ago
What direction is that?
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by Sprocklem 1y ago
Canada doesn't. It puts Canadian monarchs on its coins. The fact that they are physically the same person as the British monarch is incidental.
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by Sprocklem 1y ago
I think a more generous reading of their comment would be: do people with Down's syndrome vary significantly in terms of their Down's syndrome symptoms? Or: do they vary significantly in how they experience their symptoms? I don&#
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by Sprocklem 1y ago
Curriculum-setting neither limits anyones free speech nor does it restrict their access to the free speech of others. Teachers are generally allowed to expand on the curriculum and students are given access to literature with information be
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by Sprocklem 1y ago
This is a strange framing. These laws are neither about what is taught in schools nor what books schools are required to stock, but rather restrictions on what books schools may chose to make available to the children. The government is not
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by Sprocklem 1y ago
As an Albertan, I agree, but it is the inevitable result if Alberta were to separate. Fortunately, separation remains a minority position (for now, at least), despite certain parties fanning the flames.
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by Sprocklem 1y ago
The Alberta NDP under Notley was a centrist party and its policies were far more aligned with the federal liberals than the federal NDP. Obviously, there has been a change in leadership, but I don't see any reason to believe that the A
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by Sprocklem 2y ago
It's a contract with NASA. Taxpayers already are footing the bill.
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by Sprocklem 2y ago
I can't speak for GP, but I personally find it kind of fucked up that we selectively breed a lot of dogs for certain asthetic traits at the expense of their health. I assume they meant this brand of artificial selection rather than let
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by Sprocklem 2y ago
I have successfully signed up to a google group with a non-gmail account, although I had some difficulty finding the instructions for doing so.
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
IIRC, this was one of the explanations proposed when the existence of a red shift was first noted: that the light is somehow slowly losing its energy over very long distances, becoming “redder” as it did so. It ultimately lost out to the da
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
tar isn't a POSIX command, and retains its argument format from before the POSIX CLI guidelines were standardized (as does the POSIX ar command). pax, the POSIX-specified (but rarely implemented/used) equivalent of tar does follow
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
Support for the other two may vary based on hardware, but sound seems to have mostly been solved by pipewire.
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
Crucially, however, the commit message is not documentation of the code, which would need to be changed and updated. Instead, it is documentation of the change, describing the reason for the change, what the code does to achieve that, and
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
I'm not sure how exactly the circulatory system developed in our ancestors, but I will add that simpler circulatory systems do exist in animals today, including the open circulatory systems that are found in, e.g., arthropods. In these
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
My understanding is that that was not true of clothing of that era. That being said, the description of the pocket is unclear and it may have been a normal pocket, which would have been built into the folds of the dress so as not to be over
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
The strings in environ is only contiguous at program start. In every libc I'm aware of, both putenv and setenv replace only the specified key-value pair (and possibly environ itself, if it needs to be larger) and should not affect the
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
They are in some languages, but Rust instead implemented them with a pollable Future trait. The async keyword, then, causes the block to desugar into a new type that implements Future. In order to emulate a coroutine, the generated poll fun
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
We also have no surviving Egyptian accounts of Atlantis. It was not uncommon, however, for Greeks to attribute fictional and fabricated information to the Egyptians due to how relatively ancient – and therefore, wise – they were believed to
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
> Granted, a lot of this boils down to whether AI learns or copys/remixes; [...] I mean, it certainly isn't learning in the same way humans learn. Human learning involves some degree of understanding , which is wholly absent i
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
There is also ongoing work to add a `try_collect` method specifically for collecting into `Result`, etc. Hopefully, when this lands it will make this pattern more intuitive/obvious and eliminate some inconveniences in its use.

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