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by rdevilla 7mo ago
> Which is why 80-90% of CS students at the University of Waterloo immediately move to the USA after graduation. I am familiar with this statistic. It explains a lot about the Toronto tech community, especially versus Waterloo's.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
I dunno. Leave? The economics increasingly don't make sense here relative to other places in the world. It is a bizarre spin on the situation here but the executive summary from the World Happiness Report does indeed put "social m
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
I can't help but imagine that this is how some people felt about doctors once webmd came out. It's some nice rhetoric, but you're not actually saying much.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Not necessarily. I was intending it as a thought experiment illustrating why some kind of formal language (whether that mean technical jargon, unambiguous syntax, unambiguous semantics, conlangs, specification languages, or some combination
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
I mean, I have had people unironically declare they had written compilers or exploits, which were actually just javascript or golang wrappers around the real payload, or all of the irrelevant lexer/parser/typechecker/optimize
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
I think it's only a matter of time before people start trying to optimize model performance and token usage by creating their own more technical dialect of English (LLMSpeak or something). It will reduce both ambiguity and token usage
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
The techcrunch article is my favorite piece on Spotify, and proves that LLMs will not save you from your own stupidity. For years now the Spotify release team has been rotating their package signing key on every release. [0] This complete
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Well fucking said. JavaScript was a fucking scourge upon the web as it convinced everybody that you need to know how to write an "app" to share text and jpegs, which we have been doing with the Document Object Model for literally
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Correct.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Haha. This will accomplish nothing, because the surveillance dragnet is built and used by the people themselves, who deliberately (ab)use the very technologies that enable this breach of privacy at scale. Can't have your cake and eat
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
> Imagine people you disagree with, politically and ideologically, have come into power and they intend to abuse this new capability to harm you directly. I don't need to imagine, it's already the case; Toronto is a neo-Stasi c
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
I don't actually see a problem with this bill. Law enforcement should have access to as many tools as possible to improve their solve rates. In Canada, the police can walk you to the shipping containers confirmed to contain your stolen
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
> It’s the asymmetric expectations—that one person can spew slop but the other must go full-effort—that for me personally feels disrespectful. This has always been the case. Have some junior shit out a few thousand lines of code, leave,
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
"It's not a bug, it's a feature." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion
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Julian Assange speaks at The Council of Europe (2024) [video](youtube.com)
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
> Something the Palestinians and the Arab countries have been unwilling to accept. Seems to be a common trait amongst Palestinians: fighting losing wars and blowing up shit in the process because they are unable to accept reality. The en
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Apparently, whoever society calls a Nazi. Something of a self fulfilling prophecy, that.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
"Claude, lift these weights for me."
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Boy, I sure wish I had the opportunity to review codebases before inheriting them for maintenance...
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Doesn't matter when devs just slop out 400 lines of SQL and bypass the ORM. Frameworks and structure will save you from neither stupidity nor ignorance.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Bingo. I have oft opined that the switch to an audiovisual culture was (bandwidth and compute gains notwithstanding) simply due to the piss poor ergonomics of the touch screen. IRC was a literate culture, owing to its roots in the physical
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
It's more just selection for sociopathy and backstabbing. Don't even get me started on technical ability; the engineering standards at even the highest echelons are at times apppalling.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Tearing down gatekeeping (i.e. "high standards") in pursuit of maximal inclusivity is just another way of saying "regression to the mean." The gate has been removed from the signal chain, and now the noise floor is at in
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
> a private repo on Github Delete your github repos and operate your own gitolite instance. Feed vibecode to GitHub so the LLMs coprophagically train on their own slop.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
It's so we can definitively identify this person as a Nazi, as persona non grata, so we can feel better about ourselves while we break quarantine and contravene public health orders to get clandestine haircuts and attend illegal cros
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
The west is lost.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
It's by design. Pedonazis have been used as the justification for the surveillance apparatus for decades now. [0] "Cypherpunks Uncut." https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xt3hpb
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Just go back to pouring my beers, please. I'll take a Labatt 50.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
You should work on your reading comprehension skills. Everything you have written is a complete non sequitur. It's useless to copy/paste words from an LLM when you barely understand what they mean, and you are fooling nobody wit
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
You will be better served investigating alternative definitions of God, such as the pantheistic god; the panentheistic god (encompassing not just the physical universe but the intellectual one as well); or simply the Aristotelian "firs

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