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> There are only three places where I hold letter-spacing of any kind to be acceptable: Three more that I'm aware of: 4. For emphasis in Fraktur text [0]. 5. In very small amounts …

The original link works here in Canada at least.

> What happened to "one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it"? There arguably still is—just use f-strings for everything, unless you need to support ancient Python, in …

I have a Pixel 7a on the latest version (Android 17, July 2026 build), and I'm able to turn this off. If you want to find it the long way, then tap through the following screens: S…

I think that they typically use lots of other atomic clocks [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time

> What is possible by pushing past that incredibly narrow margin of 1s in 13b years? What dreamy capabilities do we get that we don’t enjoy today? You can measure speed (via specia…

> The real story here is how a corporation can just pack up and leave it's mess for the government to clean up. With public money. This is unfortunately a common issue in Canada :(…

> I bought all new Philip hue bulbs going on 7 or 8 years ago now and not a single one has gone bad. I had a bulb go bad once (out of almost 50 bulbs), but I called their support n…

> That's a double edged sword because bots will eventually get through too, and unlike humans, their time is dirt cheap. Yeah, I really have no idea why Anubis works right now: res…

> And if you're getting a turnstile challenge it's unclear how it's different than an anubis challenge. You are guaranteed to pass an Anubis challenge eventually [0], whereas it's …

Reuters is Canadian, so the OP is already Canada-side coverage (but the additional links are still appreciated)

I'm on Fedora too, so I probably should have said "getting hardware decoding to work in Firefox is no harder than getting it to work with any other Fedora program" rather than clai…

Interesting, I've personally had the exact opposite experience: Chromium hardware decoding was always half-broken for me and nearly impossible to get working, whereas in Firefox, I…

Was it BaKoMa TeX [0] perhaps? [0]: https://bakoma-tex.daniel-aldrich.ca/home

The author said that Ti k Z works correctly in a message during their presentation [0]: > 3:27:36 @lodepublishing : I have tested tikz but not yet tcolorbox. TikZ works, with some …

> There doesn't seem to be any reason functionality like this couldn't also be added to Typst though. Correct, and the paper author even suggested that they could add that in their…

This is (surprisingly) intentional; see my other comment [0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966387

You can't tell from the URL, but this link is to a preprint [0], and the bad boxes there are intentional, since we compile all the preprints in draft mode [1]. The final article wi…

This was presented earlier today, and you can view the recorded video at [0]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/live/6riWbnT0grs?si=zIePpHrC6TEZpc_I... (starts at 2:52:46) [1] [1]: Once…

When was the last time that you used FreeCAD? Even 18 months ago, I would agree with you that it was a buggy mess, but I tried it a few weeks ago and it was super stable. The UI is…

In Europe, even rural areas tend to be fairly close to cities, whereas in North America, lots of farms are really remote. This map from NASA [0] should give you an idea of how remo…

> Tracking which devices still send lots of data when no one else is using the network? That's what I personally do at least: I have nlbwmon [0] installed on my OpenWRT router to t…

> The Bluetooth spec is horrendous The Bluetooth Classic spec is indeed fairly awful, but the Bluetooth LE spec is not too bad. Plus, the entire specification is available free-of-…

You are 100% correct, but this is still mostly fine: without SGX, you need to completely trust Signal, since it could trivially modify the server-side code. But with SGX, you only …

- Spoofing SafetyNet used to be trivial, and not many apps depended on it; whereas these days, it's between hard and impossible to spoof Play Integrity, and it feels like much more…