I can't figure out why anyone would need to detect the file type at all. Surely there should be some way for that to be passed into cups (and forwarded on, as necessary) out of band, by the program that created or opened the file and knows what its type is.

I don't think Canada was ever really going to break up, and certainly wouldn't in the near future without the foreign money poured into it.

> A nice "brown" bookcase or dresser is made of solid wood and will last your entire life. The alternative these days is either insanely priced and still of questionable quality or cheap, badly constructed particleboard that [...] needs to be replaced every few years.

It is truly baffling that most modern book cases have shelves that seemingly can't hold up to the weight of books – the very thing they were made to hold.

Me too. My understanding is that clothing manufacturing is basically impossible to automate with our current level of technology, due to the difficulty of manipulating fabric.

I think T-shirts are automated, that's why they're so cheap. Because it's a very simple construction.

They are a simple construction, but I'm not sure I've seen any evidence that their construction is automated.

I'm sure they can't automate shirts because the super cheap ones somehow always are Made in Bangladesh. If they could use less human labor they would make them somewhere else.

I believe socks can be fully automated and are mostly made in china.

There is a startup called Unspun that wants to make many types of clothing production fully automated by weaving the complete end product in place. Similar to how socks are woven today.

The current way to make a "finished" clothing product is called "whole garment knitting". Only two companies make machines that can do this; designing the garments is a pain with the current software stack. Most clothing is "cut and sew" -- you make a simple sheet of knitted material and cut and sew a garment out of that sheet. It is wasteful and heavily reliant on cheap labor.

I mean, it seems pretty obvious to me that flock should be flagging this as a partial match in a very prominent way, so hopefully the police officers take a closer look and don't act recklessly. It is shoking to me that this wasn't included from the start.

No province pays equalization payments. They come out of the federal government's general revenues.

The UCP are trying to prolong this whole affair and, I think, trying to pander to separatists without actually risking that Alberta separate.

ETA: There is definitely a significant pro-separatist faction within the UCP, but I don't think the current party leadership is really willing to commit to separating, even if they are buddy-buddy with key figures in the current US regime.

Also note that this referendum does not require that the question be clear (per the Clarity Act), which will allow them to confuse voters and garner apparently higher support, that they can use to coerce the federal government into giving them what they want.

This is my experience as well, as someone who grew up in Alberta and has spent a fair bit of time in other provinces. This narrative that the rest of Canada is anti-Alberta or anti-Quebec (or that the federal government is seeking to undermine those provinces) seems to be invented and pushed by those provinces' governments to drive votes and avoid culpability for their role in their province's problems. It does not seem to be reflective of the opinions of people (or governments) from other provinces.

44oz? That's huge. I couldn't imagine drinking one of those a day.

> It is not surprising the the properties would not be called the same.

It is a bit surprising that xdg-desktop-portal has two very similar APIs that differ in non-obvious and seemingly-arbitrary ways. I was also a bit confused about how the two APIs correspond (or don’t) when I first read their documentation.