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by ttul 1y ago
The GOP under Trump has considerably changed from the GOP under Bush. There is no longer a political home for Reagan/Bush-style conservatives. Perhaps a shift might be coming with the next economic downturn, which seems inevitable give
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by ttul 1y ago
Not at all.
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And when the machine arrives back in the States, it even has a fresh CPC ROM soldered onto the back of the SOC!
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by ttul 1y ago
Okay, well... if your CEO is too lazy to use JIRA etc.. to save 60% of development costs then I don't see much of a future for the company...
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by ttul 1y ago
Honestly, this is a not true. If you work with a decent accounting firm like KPMG’s Vancouver practice, and maintain a decent dev task management system like JIRA, you will be fine to hand over your payroll register and a CSV dump every Jan
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by ttul 1y ago
“Vast majority” is literally only one company I have ever heard of in Canada. Slack didn’t bother because they could not claim at the 35% and Andreesen showered them with so much cash it simply wasn’t worth the hassle. But every other softw
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by ttul 1y ago
I suppose it takes living in both countries to really just whether Canada is “much” more socialist. The US has a lot of socialism in the form of generous disability income replacement programs, Medicare and Medicaid, SNAP, and the like. Can
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by ttul 1y ago
This is a naive perspective. In reality, most of the software development that a typical growth company does is eligible. As one of CRA’s auditors once told me, “The general arc of your development has to meet the criteria of being technica
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by ttul 1y ago
It’s not terrible in comparison to the scale of the benefit. Just outsource the report writing to KPMG or another capable and reputable accounting firm and you’ll survive audits and it won’t kill your team. I would say over the years, SRED
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by ttul 1y ago
They just added capital expenditures as well at a 40% rate (compared with 35% for salaries). So this is no longer a concern.
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by ttul 1y ago
Meanwhile, in Canada, not only can you expense R&D, but there is a cashable tax refund that will give you back about 60% of your developers’ salaries…
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by ttul 1y ago
Are you by any chance a lawyer? I’m asking because I’m genuinely curious whether lawyers are starting to use the SOTA LLMs in day-to-day drafting and review work. I use the LLMs as a CEO as a poor substitute for my in-house counsel when I j
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by ttul 1y ago
I run a mature software company that is being driven for profit (we are out of the fantastic future phase and solidly in the “make money” phase). Even with all the pressure to cut costs and increase automation, the most valuable use of LLMs
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by ttul 1y ago
If you make your machine look like a malware execution sandbox, a lot of malware will terminate to avoid being analyzed. This is just part of the cat and mouse game.
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by ttul 1y ago
TailScale is wonderful but they do need competition. I imagine an IPO is on the horizon, and as soon as they enter that phase, nasty price increases are sure to follow unless someone else is nipping hard at their heels.
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by ttul 1y ago
I can throw a pile of NDAs at it and it neatly pulls out relevant stuff from them within a few seconds. The huge context window and excellent needle in a haystack performance is great for this kind of task.
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by ttul 1y ago
I find o3’s coding output is just wonderful. It’s tidy, thoughtful, well commented. But if I need to grok an entire repo to ask a complex question, I paste it all into Gemini 2.5 Pro. Simply wonderful.
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by ttul 1y ago
I had kids when I was pretty young and, in parallel with that, also spent two years earning nothing at all to start a company. I spend a very long time feeling quite poor, since it took a while for the company to be big enough to pay me a r
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by ttul 1y ago
We were reviewing our SaaS spending recently and I noticed that Tailscale is now our biggest spend. Their approach is apparently working.
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by ttul 1y ago
GPT-4.1 is a capable model, especially for structured outputs and tool calling. I’ve been using LLMs for my day to day grunt work for two years now and this is my goto as a great combination of cheap and capable.
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by ttul 1y ago
Lots of hyperbolic language in this post, but little substance.
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by ttul 1y ago
I started my career as a developer in the 1990s and cut my teeth in C++, moving on to Python, Perl, Java, etc. in the early-2000s. Then I did management roles for about 20 years and was no longer working at the “coal face” despite having le
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by ttul 1y ago
One of the fascinating things about middle English for modern readers is that spelling was somewhat arbitrary. I suppose the literacy rate so low back then that the community of people blessed with the skill of reading and writing got to ma
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by ttul 1y ago
I feel the same way about these models as you conclude. Gemini 2.5 is where I paste whole projects for major refactoring efforts or building big new bits of functionality. Claude 3.7 is great for most day to day edits. And 4.1 okay for smal
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by ttul 2y ago
I think the setup is different than what could be explained by assuming “blind trust” is being placed in the Trump administration. Individual Republican lawmakers in Congress who might otherwise try to stop Trump by proposing legislation or
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by ttul 2y ago
Nothing in my comment implies that what Clinton did was any more lawful. But since you raised the point, I’ll just note that it is quite interesting that Clinton’s circumstance was thoroughly investigated by the FBI, whereas in the Signal d
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by ttul 2y ago
“… after he mistakenly saved his number months before under the contact of someone else he intended to add.” This is precisely why the government has its own very inconvenient devices and network, which cannot possibly fall victim to the sa
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by ttul 2y ago
Just going off the blog post, this seems like a multimodal LLM that uses thinking tokens. That’s pretty cool. Is this the first of its kind?
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by ttul 2y ago
I remember sitting in front of WordPerfect for many, many hours as a teenager, writing essays and whatnot for school. We were fortunate to have an HP LaserJet at home that my dad used for work. The output looked great and WordPefect’s inter
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by ttul 2y ago
Send the whole repo to AI Studio using my vibe coded tool `llm_globber` and let Gemini chew on it. You can get this done in a few hours.

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