cmrdporcupine

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by cmrdporcupine 3d ago
You don't speak for anybody outside of your borders, so please stop trying to. The majority of the world will refuse to be subject to American AI laws under the control of the US gov't, whether it pretends to be democratic or not.
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by cmrdporcupine 3d ago
Which government?
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by cmrdporcupine 3d ago
I had an extensive argument with someone on FB yesterday who was very much on the "I trust Dario most and I want him to be in charge" side. I find it hard to accord with this world view at all or understand how it can come about.
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by cmrdporcupine 3d ago
Canada is very vulnerable to this kind of destabilization campaign because it is an even more decentralized polity than the United States. We are a confederation, our provinces have strong powers, and have long lasting regional political&#x
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by cmrdporcupine 3d ago
This is also what I point out to my fellow Canadians who insist that Canada has political-economic "friends" in "blue states"; if you look at a map from the 2024 election even the "bluest" of states had walls o
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by cmrdporcupine 5d ago
What we're really speaking about here is software developers being thrown into the same automation/de-skilling downward escalator that every other trade has suffered through, and it was frankly amazing that we lasted this long wit
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by cmrdporcupine 5d ago
This is what I keep saying to my youngest, who wants to do games. Go to any bank or insurance company or web agency or to a FAANG company etc and you find rooms full of people who got into programming because they wanted to write games. And
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by cmrdporcupine 5d ago
I have been surfing the wave since the 80s and all I can say is as cool as things have been through all of micro-computing history, I have no desire to return to the brutal tooling we had back then. And while the LLM-wave is more of a step
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by cmrdporcupine 5d ago
tbh i'm not really finding I need to. It's seriously quite impressive.
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by cmrdporcupine 5d ago
Right now it's almost inverse of this though. I'm sitting here with DeepSeek 4.1 Flash, paying pennies to hammer out on projects that I have wanted to do for years but no employer would pay me to do. And should those pennies bec
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by cmrdporcupine 5d ago
The code is still there, you can still flow with it. And your ability to do so ( along with the LLM) will only produce superior results in the long run. It's just, yes, like all of us .. the temptation is there to not do that.
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by cmrdporcupine 5d ago
It's so amazing to watch people (presumably Americans) over and over make everything about American domestic politics. That the only way to explain Trump's behaviour is on the domestic terms that Americans know and are comfortable
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by cmrdporcupine 5d ago
We used Logo on Apple IIs quite a bit in the 80s but I don't have fond memories because Logo is one of those things that at the time when using it one had no idea (and neither did the teachers teaching it) that there was something of
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by cmrdporcupine 5d ago
I would encourage you to go back and read what was said at the time. Yes, a significant probably-majority really are against the use of LLMs for anything and the policy was evidently not about a deluge of vibe-slop on the site. Because
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by cmrdporcupine 5d ago
What the folks involved were actually saying, and what let slip multiple times through all those threads is: Any use of the tool is Wrong(tm). They never meant anything by the "majority" or "vibe-coded" or whatever
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by cmrdporcupine 5d ago
Many of the things we now do and valorize as part of our intellectual labours are going to become/seem increasingly vain, pointless, and cargo-cultish.
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by cmrdporcupine 5d ago
Regardless, neither HPC or HFT are "embedded"
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by cmrdporcupine 6d ago
That is actually entirely not what they were saying at the time of the vote and its aftermath. At all. Go back and read the threads. On this forum, or on mastodon, or on the vote. It was pretty vociferously ... shall we say ... "princi
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by cmrdporcupine 6d ago
> You are implying that just by allowing LLM contributions your product is free of bugs That... is not the implication of the comment you're replying to. You don't need to make it all fundamentalist.
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by cmrdporcupine 6d ago
Yep. 4.1 Flash is good enough for most routine coding things, but it also makes up for a lot of weakness by being so fast (and cheap of course). I'm willing to tolerate babysitting things a lot more if I know I'll get almost
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by cmrdporcupine 8d ago
Beats 90% of Canadian software engineer salaries. If I wasn't tied down with 2 border collies, a chicken, a cat, and, uh, wife and kids, I'd jump to that in an instant. German quality of life is still pretty good despite all their
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by cmrdporcupine 9d ago
Yes, my parents own a quarter section near Evansburg
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by cmrdporcupine 10d ago
Location: Southern Ontario / Greater Toronto, Canada Freelance or full time. Remote: Yes (... or in person in west end Toronto or Oakville, Burlington, Hamilton, or Kitchener-Waterloo) Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: Rust. System
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by cmrdporcupine 10d ago
Strangely, actual empty rural land in Alberta seems remarkably expensive per acre compared to Ontario (where I own 6 acres).
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by cmrdporcupine 10d ago
It's funny the housing angle that parent poster is playing, too. While Edmonton at least has made sensible decisions around its housing stock, the real reason why Alberta has "affordable housing" is that the absolutely brutal
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by cmrdporcupine 10d ago
I mean you're kinda leaving out the part where companies deliberately transfer assets then go out of business to avoid cleaning up their wells. That's often how they've become orphaned. Conventional oil is legacy at this po
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by cmrdporcupine 10d ago
Right, I submitted because in addition to being from Alberta (originally, not there now) and having my whole family out there I think there's actually a useful analysis where Alberta's right wing forces have been for sometime a &q
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by cmrdporcupine 10d ago
The most worrisome thing is that Smith has basically already said they'll reserve freedom to "interpret" the result of this "referendum" however want. So if they see a number above 25% I can guarantee you they'
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by cmrdporcupine 10d ago
Except that revenue doesn't go towards well cleanup. Not really. Also it goes up and down drastically. After Trump is finished making a mess in Hormuz, the number will go down again, and Alberta finance ministers will go back to rantin
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by cmrdporcupine 10d ago
She (Danielle Smith) is one of the shrewdest politicians in North America right now, actually. Not, like good shrewd, but very tactically smart and with a very capable public relations ability capable of keeping a notoriously hard-to-tame

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