I suspect the truth has more to do with money than wood fibre supply (I mean, you can truck wood chips in, if it’s profitable enough). These days, the single largest pulp and paper producer in the world is China. They’re difficult to compete with on product price.
Mirroring what happened in Ontario years ago. Used to be that northeastern Ontario had a bunch of mills. Now there’s only Kapuskasing left, and they’re not really viable—by my understanding, they’ve been hanging on by their fingernails due to being mostly employee-owned and so not having to do more than break even, but they’ve now had to approach the government for a bailout, and their future seems doubtful. The next-to-last was Espanola, which closed down a couple of years ago now.
If that’s the reason for things freezing up, the OOM reaper will come along and sort it out eventually, although it isn’t exactly quick on its feet.
Then they’ll complain about having nothing to complain about.
“Uttering threats” is an offence under the Criminal Code and, as I understand it, the requirements for it to be considered a crime are pretty steep—kids on schoolbusses wouldn’t qualify because their threats usually aren’t meant to be taken seriously. It’s more like “dude standing over you holding a knife threatens to stab you” stuff.
Nah, there’s plenty of variety. Keep in mind that not all distros ship with any graphical environment at all, and you’re not obliged to keep your distro’s default even if it did ship with one. Linux in general is just as happy with ratpoison as it is with KDE.
And this is why bribing foreign companies to set up shop here was a bad idea from the outset: they have no respect for us whatsoever.
Well, trees deserve protection too, but they’re unlikely to be on Snapchat in my experience. It just operates on the wrong timescale for them.
It might make a difference if it’s triggered right when he’s done something that’s caused his party’s popularity to dip.
It would look less suspicious if it hadn’t happened in Alberta.
. . . where the emergency departments are open at all. (Closures in Thessalon and Richard’s Landing, along the north shore of Lake Superior, often make the news where I am.)
That’s funny, every survey I’ve seen that ranks real quality-of-life (or some subset of it) for the inhabitants of various countries puts Canada ahead of the US.
So what’s your country’s excuse, Mr. Vance?
It allows the violation of certain individual clauses of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, not the entire Constitution, and its effect lapses after five years if whatever chucklefucks are in office at the provincial level at that time don’t care enough to reconfirm the violation. Not that that’s much better.
You can still compile a surprising number of modern programs and libraries without unicode support (that is, they provide an explicit compile flag to switch it off)—it’s just that no general-purpose distro does it by default. I’m not sure you can set up an entire unicodeless system using current software versions, but I wouldn’t bet against it, either. And glibc isn’t the only game in town—musl is viable and modern (it’s the default libc in Alpine Linux and an option for some other distros), and designed for resource-constrained environments. Those two things between them might bring down the size by considerable.
Thing is, most LLM submissions are low-quality as well as low-effort. If you forbid them, well-meaning numbskulls will hopefully not clutter your bug tracker by submitting them, and those who are more interested in adding a line to their resume than following the rules can be blacklisted immediately for breaking said rules. As for the odd undeclared one that’s not low-quality and slips through without being spotted, no big deal. By my understanding, they’re unicorns, though.
Because the submissions are so low-quality overall, chances are that projects requiring that submitters admit there was an LLM involved in their submission will end up effectively shadow-banning most such submitters because it isn’t worth wading through their tripe. That’s just a different version of non-transparency.
The endgame we want isn’t blacklisting LLM submissions into perdition, it’s the code version of xkcd 810. Currently, most LLM code submissions are about as useful and desirable as porn spam on a forum. Maybe in a few years, that’ll be different. If it is, policies can be reviewed.
Actively offensive branding might turn me off, but I have a high tolerance for low-quality artwork and such, or I wouldn’t be able to use FOSS at all. Honestly, most programmer-generated branding has never been very good—at best, you might get a witty project name, but it’s often accompanied by a cheesy tagline and a cruddy icon that doesn’t render well at small sizes and so is useless as an icon.
Seems awfully elaborate for something I can accomplish by backing up a few text files and directories of same. The only real issue I had with spinning up the new laptop this spring was due to an underdocumented and partially broken UEFI BIOS that I had to figure out how to work around. Once I got past that, transferring other packages and settings was trivial.
Nothing. The sole Windows key on my keyboard has never been intentionally pressed except by my cat.
You keep them out of public schools to reduce the chance of them exposing other people as much as possible. Their co-religionists aren’t likely to press charges, and many of these extreme religious groups don’t want their kids in mainstream schools anyway.
In other words, you can use government-funded schools or you can refuse vaccination (and pay for your kids to attend a private school that allows unvaccinated students, or homeschool them and do the work yourself). You can’t have both. That’s how school vaccine mandates are supposed to work in the first place. We’ve just gotten way too lax about upholding and enforcing them.
It seems unlikely that keeping this service would make a significant dent in their bottom line, so why?