Can’t wait for Chapter 1917 bankruptcy to drop.

With all due respect to you and the user above as people, fuck the defeatist attitudes. We’re going to make and keep this little part of the Internet fun, no matter what corporations say. I’ve had a great 3.5 years on Lemmy despite the occasional dramatic event. And I’m counting on myself and every one of us to continue to make it so.

Entropy is also inevitable, but that doesn’t mean we can’t keep a small space of less entropy than average while we’re here.

Sweet, welcome, I’m glad you could make it!

I would suggest “Infamous Australian Clown Menace Eyes Nunavut” as descriptions of Ms. Rineheart to Breach media.

I’ll be honest, somehow this sounds to me like more evidence the USA is preparing yet another attack…

Fine, whatever, C$1.6B isn’t that much to the federal government in the grand scheme of things, it keeps a piece of emerging tech infrastructure local. If we have to write it off after a bubble collapse I won’t cry over it.

There is a real amount of university research, public benefit, commercial and defence applications for the tech, that by having it publicly owned we can ensure it doesn’t get bought out by the highest (American) bidder as soon as we have something promising. We really should be doing it for chipmaking and components too, but this is a start.

It would be a total boondoggle scam if he was talking about it as a speculative investment like how he’s selling the pipelines on Alberta’s behalf or the sovereign wealth private-sector-giveaways fund (betting on the future remaining as the status quo is still speculation). But as a measured investment to retain local talent, knowledge and expertise in Canada, it’s a valuable piece to have, and there’s a potential chance $1.6B will seem a cheap price for that in hindsight.

MRW I see Canada doing the bare minimum for international justice…

À l’aide!! I’m being oppressed!!!

You are right… though I will point out that is the speed of a delivering product which is what AI is good at and what managers want, speed of writing lines of code was never a good metric. Other than that programs have always been judged by their quality, function and performance, which perhaps AI can still improve and get better than the average programmer. Most tech companies have in the last decade prioritizing shipping fast over shipping quality, so that’s why many companies see AI as something that fit right in with their production philosophy.

Nonetheless, the point is whether coding without AI is impossible as Molyneux said depends on your definition, Pandora’s box is opened and it’s in almost every tool, but creating new code or documentation with AI or not is still your own choice.

If you take a very broad definition of “using AI” as ever having used a Google search where an AI summary came up, or having used a Linux or Microsoft kernel, IDE or software component version where AI was used for coding or checking/verifying the code in any way, then yes, it’s almost impossible, as you will have to revert your tooling completely to a 2022 or earlier toolchain.

However, your decision to use an LLM (AI) to generate new code is fully your decision as a programmer to make, always will be and I don’t think that’s anywhere close to impossible.

I definitely find it hilarious how intensely the EU and Canada are diplomatically flirting with each other. I’m all for it, but let’s hurry up and set up some more dates and maybe start some more conversation of our future.

Trump’s senile rambling is one thing we’re well aware of, but what’s weirder is where the audience claps. In the clip, it’s quiet until he says, “Norway sucks” then kind of paused for a light polite applause.

I betcha Chuck and Hakeem are going to be on their way out as legislature leaders following the election, if not this year then in 2028. But they can only pass the torch to a Democratic Majority Leader of the respective house if the USA can go out and get that majority elected first.

What I found was good framing is that algorithms push good and shitty content on you because that was shown to hijack your neural pathways like a Skinner Box experiments. If it was only good stuff every time, then you’d watch what you feel like then stop. Because it mixes it up with a random chance of something good coming up, you get addicted to the scrolling in the hopes to find the good video in a pile of shit. The mice did the same, when food came out all the time they’d only push button for food enough to be full, when it was random they spammed the button and ate way more than they needed to.

If you want to watch a 10m video on it, or just the method to slowly recognize and kick the habit if you couldn’t stop cold turkey.

The essence of it is, set a timer for 5 minutes, scroll, then when the timer goes off, stop, put the phone down, ask yourself if you enjoyed your time doing it or not, if there’s anything else you’d rather get up and do. If you feel it was worth it to calm down or you got something out of it and actually want to keep going, set another 5 minute timer and do it again. Just the pause to consciously slow down and ask yourself that will help you limit your scrolling time, and as you brainstorm other ways to spend your time you may find you need to be scrolling less.

My personal method is to try to seek out what I want instead of having an algorithm determine what information I want to seek, and frequently question why something is being recommended to me.

I don’t want a copy of Reddit’s culture on Lemmy, but I think Lemmy’s culture will be similar because of the interaction format and because a sizable number of Lemmings I presume use Reddit and Lemmy both regularly. So it will be up to how close the viewer looks to determine if they seem the same or distinct.

I think one thing I don’t see much on Lemmy are the very tired 3+ nested comment chains that don’t add conversational value, like “and my axe!”. I’ve only seen it very occasionally, and usually in good joking taste, for example the trope “[term OP used] means this, you probably were thinking of [also incorrect word]”.

100%

No I’m not. I saw the diagram in this post:

https://mastodon.social/@GarrickWinter/117502400402320684

A first order estimation, take 275k ndp voters that chose not to vote, subtract 23k new green voters that could have moved from ndp (so excluding them from blame), it’s around 250k people that sat it out for the ndp I’m blaming for this the most giving the Conservatives the win.

Green splitting is a reality, particularly on Vancouver island but it’s the same as every FPTP election. It’s not the fact people voted for greens that I blame them for. It’s the promotion of the idea that BCNDP and Conservatives are no different, which helps depress turnout, rather than a yes/and. We’re about to see very clearly what the difference is. I tried to get the vote out but to no avail it seems.

Also shoutout to @Sunshine@piefed.ca you did your part, I can tell you were a Greens supporter but I won’t blame you or be snarky because you recognized the difference and helped try to turn things around despite the BCNDP’s bad snap election decision.

The last sentence was 100% sarcasm but you can find opinions that effectively say the stuff above that, within this thread and in the BritishColumbia lemmy community here and there over the last months.

Nope, many would-be supporters (I’m not just talking greens, I’m talking NDP too) said the BCNDP wasn’t good enough, super liberal, destroying the environment because they compromised on a southern pipeline expansion to avoid a northern lng project and somehow fighting against indigenous rights on behalf of the Musqueam in the Cowichan case. So, here we are, welcome to the government of BC’s dreams, principles and conscience.

Hmmm, while they do their job investigating Trump, I’m wondering why don’t Democrats just give him gaudy looking prizes and call him the best president ever, make AI Trump Jesus healing leper style paintings and a little money on the side to pass Medicare for All and other priorities? He is attracted to flattery, vanity projects and faux gold trinkets, he has no inner morals, so his signature on a bill might not be as hard to get as some might think…