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The law is suspended for now. Quote: The sections that deal with the private right of action, meant to come into force in July 2017, have been suspended
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Oh I love it.
Quote: The Government of Canada is suspending the implementation of certain provisions
So I get to spend my day working out which provisions and then rolling back the bits of the code that dealt with this so the rest of my adopted home's recipients can actually get the newsletters they asked for.
[Edit: A quick skim seems to show suspension is against the part that would allow people to sue on the basis of a claim to be "affected" by any act or omission that violated CASL. This was essentially an opening for litigation trolls to go to town on anyone and everyone who sends emails.
Even so, "there is no indication that the CRTC will lighten up its enforcement against those who try to comply with the spirit of the legislation, but can’t get the technical details right.". Awesome. So: do your very, very best to implement a loosely drafted law aimed at making the government look good instead of actually making a difference. No matter how hard you try, if you slip up we'll still get you.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Quote: No matter how hard you try, if you slip up we'll still get you.
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Chris Maunder wrote: The purpose of all of this? To make a point that the government of Canada is cracking down hard on spammers. Except it hasn't actually made a dent in the amount of spam we get in Canada. It's our version of the "this site uses cookies" warning silliness.
And except that it's probably going to catch a lot more businesses by surprise and generate fine revenue for your govt. The cookie warning stupidity was major tech news, and was sufficiently obnoxious that anyone using the web would've seen it and be able to go "why?!?!" and find out about the stupid new law. OTOH the newsletter checkbox change isn't going to be in anyone's face; meaning lots of people won't know about it until the enforcement process begins.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Clickety
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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I'll believe it when I see it. 
-NP
Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user
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Jim Jannard tends to do what he says he's going to do, so...
Not that I'll ever have the extra money for a cool phone.
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Whether it's for computer games, motion analysis in sports, or even medical examinations, many applications require that people and their movements are captured digitally in 3D in real-time. Until now, this was possible only with expensive systems of several cameras, or by having people wear special suits. Computer scientists have now developed a system that requires only a single video camera. It can even estimate the 3D pose of a person acting in a pre-recorded video, for instance a YouTube video. Where's my tape? I'm covering that thing now.
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YES!!! No more need for depth-cams?!?!? Brilliant!
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Qualcomm basically wants to make it impossible to sell the "infringing" phones in the US. "He's got high apple pie, in the sky hopes"
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They're still in business?
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Apple or Qualcomm? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I still remember my first look at C# in the early 2000s. Microsoft had released the first major version of the language. I recall thinking that it was Java, except that Microsoft made it, called it something else, and put it into Visual Studio. They grow up so fast
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Nice summary! I'm going to have to brush up on some of those features.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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It's worth mentioning C# Operators[^] too. (??, ?., etc)
Wonde Tadesse
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?. is the null propagator operator (v6).
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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It's also called null conditional member access. 
Wonde Tadesse
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I thought I knew pretty much all the C# language features but I somehow completely missed using static. That's an awesome feature I'm going to put to use next time I have to deal with extension methods 
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Looks like that might be a reasonable case for it, ditto for importing enums baked into a class. I'm a bit nervous about the general case with arbitrary methods though; seems ripe to letting stupid messes in and trying to program C# like a procedural language instead of an OO one.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Developers typically start sketching components and dependencies on a whiteboard before coding, so Luna’s creators argue that it doesn’t make sense to then implement that logic only in text Because development on a whiteboard is totally like the real process
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That’s why Luna features both visual and textual representations.
It's nice to see someone getting behind that idea, but they still don't have a cool acronym like V.A.P.O.R. 
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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FAT disks are no longer supported—more surprisingly, nor is the new ReFS file system. It's a feature?
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So does this mean I don't have to uninstall it every week?
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I don't get the import of this for a OneDrive user. How does OneDrive's storage media matter to someone saving a file on a "black box" cloud filesystem?
Or, on second thought, is it a case of it not running the desktop client and sync on FAT systems?
Immanentize the Eschaton!
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I suspect it has to do with the fall creators update, where to fake remote files being present it needs to become a low level file system driver. As a file system rooted in the early 80's ExFAT presumably just doesn't have the needed features to do this. ReFS might have the same problem (it doesn't have all of what were edge case features in NTFS). Alternately for one or both it might just be a time to market issue; writing 3 low level file system muddles is 3x the work of writing 1.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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