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Posts by Ken Buchanan

Amazon re-enabled conditional UI a little while ago and it has been working well for me. Immediate mode ships to Chrome stable next month and we will see how that goes also.

2 days ago 0 0 0 0

The first question imo is a really hard but important problem. Most users don't really even have a concept of password manager or passkey provider. This leads to cases of people wanting to sign in and the passkey isn't there and they don't know why.

2 days ago 0 0 0 0

In 2012 there was a big scandal when a few Canadian senators were outed for playing a bit too loose with expense reporting rules. It was covered extensively for a couple of years.

That's all anyone needs to know about the level of excitement in Canadian politics during that era.

5 days ago 3 0 0 0
Wordlebot analysis saying skill at solving this puzzle was 358 out of 99.

Wordlebot analysis saying skill at solving this puzzle was 358 out of 99.

I was Very Skilled at Wordle today.

1 week ago 1 0 0 0

The OS doesn't have a built-in passkey provider so you have to use a password manager. If you use Chrome then Google's PWM will work. On Firefox or other browsers I believe you'd need a third-party like 1Password or Bitwarden.

1 week ago 3 0 0 0

We are of similar age then. I can understand that perspective, but in Canada there were some legal quirks that prevented the RIAA from using those scare tactics at the time, so we were insulated. iTunes came to dominate the digital music market here just the same.

3 weeks ago 1 0 1 0

I don't think it was relevant at all. The $0 option had a learning curve to actually use, had unreliable audio quality, and occasionally came with malware attached. Causation was the opposite: the illegal market for digital music grew because there wasn't a legal one.

3 weeks ago 5 0 1 0
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The thing that stopped the growth of file sharing systems was Apple selling songs for $1. Napster and torrenting were always a lousy user experience. Having a good, convenient source of quality music that is cheap but not free won the marketplace.

3 weeks ago 8 0 1 0

A lot of stuff on the web works on the model that a large community can contribute work and a smaller group can verify the integrity and quality of the output. AI has caused the contributions to scale by orders of magnitude and overwhelm the maintainers. Bug bounty programs also feeling this pain.

3 weeks ago 0 0 0 0

Everything about his style shouts "I'm in a low-budget action movie".

3 weeks ago 0 0 0 0
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a woman wearing glasses and a tie says " no capes " Alt: Edna Mode strenuously objecting to the use of capes.
4 weeks ago 2 0 0 0

You are disrespecting the milk cartel.

1 month ago 2 0 0 0

Well my Gen Z kids often reply to my texts with that emoji and I've always assumed (a) but now I have to ask them something.

1 month ago 6 0 0 0
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x86CSS x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. No JavaScript required!

Where are your "CSS is not a programming language" gods now?!?!? muwahaha. muwahaha.

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1 month ago 33 12 0 1

Having thought about this a bit more, my best guess is that if an MP believes floor crossing is in the best interests of their constituents, then doing so correctly prioritizes their representational responsibilities over their loyalty to the party.

4 months ago 1 0 1 0
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It's obvious that he is wrong. But the 'arguably more' is not obvious.

Would you mind sharing that argument?

4 months ago 2 0 1 0

It's been a while since I've seen it but I recall at least one joke involving a deliberate mistranslation.

"Il a l'Ontario dans le cul."

It's probably funnier if you understand French but the subtitles convey it adequately.

4 months ago 2 0 0 0

Gerson: "What I thought was interesting about that column, is that at no point did you stop to consider whether America is a country worth joining."

Douthat: "That's true. I did not."

The 63-minute podcast should really have been condensed to that 20-second exchange.

4 months ago 2 0 0 0

It was like in his first term and he noticed that the justice system can be draconian to people accused of crimes, as Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn and others were indicted. Someone described his interventions as "Artisan bespoke criminal justice reform, one friend of Trump's at a time."

5 months ago 8 0 0 0

I can't think of another team that ha had such a huge chasm between starting pitching quality and relief pitching quality.

5 months ago 0 0 0 0

If 'Lax-allowing-unsafe' refers to the mitigation to not break SSO, then yes it appears to still be in place:
source.chromium.org/chromium/chr...

6 months ago 4 0 1 0

All true. We use the establishment of the federal government as the most important event, but also the Statute of Westminster in 1931 meant that we could finally have an independent foreign policy, which is a key feature of statehood.

6 months ago 2 0 0 0

I see.

The thing we call Canada didn't exist until 1876.

You're saying there were no monarch visits to Canada, or colonial territories that would eventually be incorporated into Canada, until 1939, which is true. But 1786 has no relevance as a starting point.

6 months ago 0 0 2 0
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The reality is that we don't *dislike* him enough to bother with changing our whole constitutional system.

We have... more pressing things to worry about.

6 months ago 11 0 1 0

I feel it important to nitpick here: You mean 1876, not 1786.

6 months ago 2 0 1 0

It's like a vehicular equivalent of NIMBYism. "I want safer roads as long as it doesn't affect me or the way I drive."

6 months ago 5 0 1 0

Aside from the self-contradictory ruling on the review, that ball wasn't out of the park if the fan hadn't snagged it. Lukes still had a shot at catching it, and if he missed then it would have been off the fence.

7 months ago 1 0 1 0

The US did not request that Article 5 be invoked in 2001. The North Atlantic Council did so anyway.

I'm not saying the conditions for it to be invoked have been met. Just pointing out it doesn't depend on Poland.

7 months ago 2 0 1 0

Thinking of submitting a DEFCON talk complaining that passkeys don't *really* keep me safe because I still have to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle.

7 months ago 2 0 0 0

Isn't this the law everywhere? The ability to consent to someone beating the crap out of you is why professional hockey players are almost never charged with assault.

7 months ago 0 0 1 0