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I got hung up on this line:

This requires deterministic math with explicit rounding modes and precision, not the platform-dependent behavior you get with floats.

Aren't floats mostly standardized these days? The article even mentions that standard. Has anyone here seen platform-dependent float behaviour?

Not that this affects the article's main point, which is perfectly reasonable.

Started Into the Breach after getting it a few weeks ago in a Steam sale for less than $4. Excellent tactical gameplay with randomized encounters challenging enough that I haven't successfully completed a run yet.

Automatics also allow for engine braking. From a quick search, it sounds like a toss-up as to whether that triggers brake lights. Regardless, the article mentions the benefit is not only from cars slowing down, but also from indicating that a car is preparing to stop or "that a stationary vehicle might initiate movement". Neither of those can be done by an engine brake, so front brake lights would still have a benefit even with a driver that likes engine braking.

Oddly enough, that convention isn't universal. Top-to-bottom is typical in the US, UK, and Commonwealth, while bottom-to-top is common in continental Europe and non-anglophone Americas.

I know of an OpenSCAD alternative called CadQuery, but as the name suggests, it's still CAD focused. I wonder if scripting Blender itself would get you closer to what you're looking for.

I find this article confusing. It's about "measures to reduce our economic vulnerability to American antagonism", but I can't see how improving the legal system or adding platform doors to the TTC are related to that. Perhaps the author is confusing economic resilience with economic stimulus?

I feel like she's trying hard to distance herself from Trudeau, but after years being right beside him, I doubt she can shake it that easily.

Note the article is from two months ago, on October 10, but it's still relevant. I was confused when I saw Chrystia Freeland quoted.

Excuse me, that was Finn's right arm.

The comic was released the day after the election, by an author who lives in the United States. I suspect the comic is explicitly about American politics.

everyone should know how to read/write/type the capital omega because of electrical resistance

I've noticed that, if an equation calls for a number squared, they usually really mean a number multiplied by its complex conjugate.