I think the equivalent in Canada would be an order-in-council, which is reserved for the GG rather than the PM (and therefore is normally never used). Technically, the US President's function in government is most similar to the GG's in Canada, but for historical reasons the duty of being the public face of Canada to outsiders has landed on the PM here even though the PM is not really our head of state.

Huh. I thought there were fewer romcoms than usual on this list. Then I went back and checked, and discovered that that's because there are fewer romcoms than usual airing this season.

All technically true, but how many man-hours would it take to calculate the set of holes necessary to print each layer of a non-trivial object (say, a Benchy) without electronic assistance? I'm sure it could be done, but most people couldn't do it in a practical timeframe. Taking presliced gcode and translating it via an automatic or even a manual system should be doable, but you still need a computer to slice the model into gcode.

Jacquard looms are a whole other crottle of greeps. Each warp position gets either raised or lowered, so it's in essence a binary model rather than full analog—conceptually much simpler than this printer, whose punch language is going to have to include slots for longer motor moves. I'd guess that, in the old days, Jacquard patterns were set up for manual punching by drawing up a diagram (which would look like a piece of black-and-white pixel art) and transferring the information one row at a time to the punch. That doesn't seem like it would work for this printer.

Maybe part of the job of these specific officers is outreach, and they think staging a silly photo contributes to that. Or they could be waiting for something/someone else, and thought this was more interesting than just standing around talking about the weather. Or maybe they were indeed doing this after or before work, or while not on the clock for other reasons. Truth is, you don't know any more than I do. And to be honest? Even if they had no excuse, how much pay do you really think they would have collected in the five minutes it took them to stage the shot?

(Sorry, but it annoys me when people expect perfect efficiency from others. Hardly anyone is actually doing work every single second when they're at work, and if you are, I'd advise you to ease off before you burn out. That applies to cops as well as everyone else.)

Since the total cost would be under $20 (for the snacks—everything else they would have had already or picked out of the trash), even at current ridiculously high grocery prices, I'm not overly concerned about that aspect.

Interesting, but not terribly useful unless you have a separate, likely electronics-driven, machine to punch plastic sheets for it (or have a pre-existing sheet defining something you want to replicate a bazillion of). It's an ingenious but very niche machine.

Hopefully everyone will be too busy with the creepiness here to notice that D has all but blown his cover . . .

We don't know how long it's been since Beryl and his father last fought. My bet is that the old man started refusing challenges at least a decade ago, if not more.

It's Complicated? It's possible that if a teen commits an offence heinous enough to be tried as an adult, they'd also be sent to an adult prison. There won't be under-twelves in a prison of any sort, since they can't be held criminally responsible for their actions under Canadian law. Teens guilty of sex crimes certainly do get thrown in with other teen criminals (and often aren't adequately monitored and reoffend while they're on the inside).

But in this case, I think whatever idiot posted the message meant "there might be kids in houses next door to the prison". Which begs the question: how many prisons and jails are actually in residential areas? I'd bet it's uncommon, but not unknown.

What % of its GDP does the Netherlands have to put into international aid to make seventh place?!

Did PP's wife (who is present in way too high a percentage of his publicity material) know about this in advance? 🤣

Not quite. 16% are in the government . . . or are lobbyists . . . or are among the wealthy whose interests are represented by lobbyists . . . or have spent their entire lives living in a cave.

Maybe not. Maybe every attempt to tamper with the timeline brought in unforeseen complications that made everything worse, and that's how we ended up where we are.

Based on his track record, Ford loves to pass laws that later get smacked down by the courts. (I voted orange. It didn't help.)

It seems like an interesting piece of kit. (Not $1500USD of interesting for me in the current economic climate, though, especially with no indication of Linux support.) Would be nice to know the cost of the consumables beyond the "starter ink bundle". Would also be nice to know more about how the prints are expected to hold up long-term, and what the "nearly" part of "nearly any surface" implies—are there common substances it won't print to?

Or a white box. Or a purple-and-pink gradient box. It was always the most reliable method anyway, since it ensures that there's no real information within the bounds of the box to be recovered. As far as I can see, the only reason for the popularity of the filters is that they look a bit less jarring.

Well, except the one who's taken over the dojo, but I doubt we'll see him very often.

The lab might also be sick as a dog. :rimshot:

If so, it's a fitting way for them to die.

test takers are [only] told which of four tiers they fall into, from highest to lowest — relative to other people taking the test at the same time

Which means that you could theoretically take the test twice, give exactly the same answers, and score in the highest tier one time and in the lowest tier the other. How is this a useful tool for evaluating anything?