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Except starting this week, Qwant has started blocking me for using an adblocker. I’ve had to block Javascript to get around it.

I feel like the title should really indicate that it is Canadians’ perception on Canada’s international reputation a bit better. Interesting to poll Canadians on how non Canadians perceive Canada and title it this way.

Well it’ll still take then time to lock down the loopholes so Apple will get to milk the cow a bit longer.

I dont see the problem

Great read. Even in STEM research as a grad student I’m very tired of every saying “let’s try machine learning on this problem” to get something that works marginally better than some conventional models but requiring huge amounts of computation and data.

I’m sure most users will just agree and there won’t be much ewaste…

Go Canada, but I think this might show how much more of a depressing state the rest of the world is in

While not a full-scale overhaul of the federal voting system as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau once promised, within the two-party confidence-and-supply agreement are a series of electoral reform proposals aimed at expanding “the ability for people to vote.”

Specifically, the Liberals and New Democrats agreed to explore:

• Allowing an “expanded” three-day voting period during general elections;
• Allowing voters to cast their ballots at any polling place within their riding; and
• Improving the mail-in ballot process with both accessibility and maintaining integrity in mind.

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Expanding the amount of days Canadians have to cast their ballot may be the most significant proposal currently under negotiation.

Overall not super interesting. These are good proposals of course, but not exactly the kind of electoral reform that I think most of us are looking for. Maybe that will change but I’m not feeling particularly hopeful.

Finally. Hopefully removed from Civ V as well.

Cool that average FPS is better but:

The impressive FPS deltas aside, it should be mentioned that, with the exception of Arch Linux, average frame times (measured as 1% lows, in this case) on Linux were generally behind what Windows managed by up to 20%

I feel like worse 1% lows makes this title misleading. Hopefully with time this gap will close.