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Sometimes the novelty lives in a different part of the problem. (e.g. a service that does basic bog standard web forms, but for some novel purpose)

Canadian legislators don't have a history of setting arbitrary restrictions on what counts as voter ID, whereas American politicians seem absurdly fixated on it for ~some reason~.

You can look up the Canadian list of accepted identification documents if you want the full thing, but it includes library cards, public transit cards, correspondence from educational institutions, student IDs, blood donor cards, letters of confirmation of residence from shelters and soup kitchens, residential leases or utility bills, and personal cheques.

You can also vote without ID in Canada by having a guarantor with ID vouch for you.

Contrast the proposed SAVE act, which accepts... passports, birth certificates, naturalization documents, and "REAL ID-compliant documents that also indicate citizenship", which is a fun one.

>you don’t need to be an aviation expert to trust the plane will fly.

...because when I get on the plane, I can look out the window and see that it's in the air.

With paper ballots, the systems are very interpretable - you can sign up to audit the ballot counting process and watch it happen, etc.

But you can't do that with electrons in a computer - it's really just pure trust. That's what you lose.

The point of the rule isn't enforcement, it's setting standards for good-faith contributors.

Your assumption that all rules must be about enforcement is incorrect. Your assumption that only that which can be measured matters is incorrect. I don't know where this belief system comes from, but it strikes me as profoundly toxic.

By this logic, we obviously shouldn't ban drinking and driving - there's no way to test every driver every time, and presumably those most skilled at drunk driving would be undetectable, so it's really just religious moralism.

"Good drivers don't drink and drive even if they think they can get away with it" is just a no-true-scotsman argument, and thus we should actually encourage people to drink and drive so that they get better at it. Nobody should ever have any standards that can't be automatically enforced by a linter, after all.

And look: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079

Unenforceable rules might just be the backbone of society, if you think about it.

Arguing that "doesn't secretly, sneakily break project rules" is an essential component of a quality contributor isn't a "no true scotsman" argument, it's a statement about qualifications

I find the "compression" argument not very strong, both because copyright still applies to (very) lossy codecs (e.g. your 16kbps Opus file of Thriller infringes, even if the original 192khz/32bit wav file was 12,000kbps), and because copyright still applies to transformed derivative works (a tiny midi file of Thriller might still be enough for the Jackson's label to get you)

Offering to add it to the workflow doesn't mean they think it can replace the whole product for all users - if they stop shipping the rest of the features, then that'd be Adobe "disagreeing with me on that".

"Adobe Creative Suite not running on Linux can be worked around easily" is something that people have been getting wrong for decades, but injecting AI into the premise is a new frontier of funny.

What's the AI workaround for Illustrator/After Effects/etc.? You're not suggesting generating vector art or video assets via LLM replaces these, surely?

There is value in familiar tools for familiar work. Someone typing letters to send to family is not intrinsically going be interested in, or see any benefit from, some paradigm shift to hypermedia-first document creation.

"pornography habits"

Putting onanism in the same sentence as drug abuse really weakens your argument.

>Rooting is only a bad idea if there is an alternative.

An alternative to accomplish what?

>to provide me, the physical owner of the device with control over the device

Control over what properties or behaviours of the device, exactly?

No offense, but these complaints feel more like aesthetic ("I want to log into a user named root") than practical ("I want to be able to do things that could only be done under root")

Fun fact: all advertiser chat support agents at Meta used to (still might) have full super-read on FB. When you read "workers" in this headline, don't think "devs", think "legions of contracted-out T1 support staff"

You can die under law, too.

Human beings all and each have the agency to make this choice for themselves.

The problem with the difference between good and bad things is, of course, that one's perspective has an impact.

Americans generally think vandalism is wrong, but also that the Boston Tea Party was a good thing - yadda yadda yadda...

I don't understand how you inferred that from the post above you, given the zero mentions of immigration.

A lot of Republican supporters would have, and still might, insist that the US's current purge is focused on "criminals" despite the quota-driven shitfest it's become. People say a lot of things, and they rarely line up with policies in practice.

Pinhole cameras ain't for that

This would be about as trivial as it'd be for YouTube to block yt-dlp.

This would imply that AI data centers are somehow separate, and not just a further increment to the wastefulness of human existence, which is obvious nonsense.

He really goes out of his way to seem like a hack - you'd think he could get some coaching from his synthetic buddy or whatever.

Depending on the transpiler and mode of operation, `var` is sometimes emitted.

For example, esbuild will emit var when targeting ESM, for performance and minification reasons. Because ESM has its own inherent scope barrier, this is fine, but it won't apply the same optimizations when targeting (e.g.) IIFE, because it's not fine in that context.

https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/1301

I was really surprised by how many games still end up feeling playable on a cross-continent Moonlight session. With ~70ms ping, there's still a lot of "realtime" games that feel fine.

Platformers tend to be a-ok, although anything with mouselook aiming tends to be really rough, since you rely so much harder on a tighter visual feedback loop for constant adjustments to aim.

You don't have to do 2FA, but there's liability in being vulnerable to credential-stuffing, and 2FA is one of many ways to mitigate that.

The assumption being made, and which you're still making here, is the jump from "there are benefits to registering with a disability" -> "differences in registration rates are due to fraud".

Certainly one possible explanation, but "obviously people would abuse that, thus this is abuse" is still an assumption, not an evidenced claim.

Interesting that the assumption in the replies so far is fraud (vs. greater access to diagnosis, etc.)

Spending money on (poorly-trained, case-bungling) cops instead of courts and judges and support services and (etc) has exactly this effect.

Cases run too long and get dropped; cases have evidentiary issues and get dropped; etc.

By this logic, you can cure alcoholism by simply not buying alcohol, surely.

I'm not the person you think you're replying to.

However, since you're here: etymological arguments are really not the win you should be chasing.

If commercial incentives were enough, we'd have heaven on earth already.

First they came for the "residents", and I said nothing, because there were important distinctions to be made...