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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 a…

No province pays equalization payments. They come out of the federal government's general revenues.

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…

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…

44oz? That's huge. I couldn't imagine drinking one of those a day.

> 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 seem…

> 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 …

What direction is that?

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.

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 significan…

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…

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 ch…

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 parti…

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 leade…

It's a contract with NASA. Taxpayers already are footing the bill.

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 m…

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.

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, beco…

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 rare…

Support for the other two may vary based on hardware, but sound seems to have mostly been solved by pipewire.

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 reas…

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 circulator…

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…

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 itsel…

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 Fut…