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This whole narrative around AI taking programmers' jobs is any of: a) A bad hire, and the bad hire accusing their last company for replacing them with AI, and posting about it on LinkedIn. b) A bad hire, but the company framing the resulting firing as them replacing the employee with AI, and […]

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With papers being shown to have been faked, I am now at the stage where I just laugh at "quantum computers". Let me tell you what you are working with. The math you do is correct, except for the timings. The math is just ordinary signal processing stuff, if you write it as, say, Grover did […]

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I love Anjunadeep. Best record label ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2w4thab6N0

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Untested code because it's "easy to read" is still untested code.

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This is eargasmic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2w4thab6N0

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I've noticed that the vast majority of my discussions with ChatGPT revolved around the semantics of what I have going on in my mind.

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Requiring CW for all politics only works for people who have life that is not marked as "political"

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Fedicon in Vancouver is going to be the best Fediverse-related event to have happened in a long time. Definitely check it out! I will most certainly be there! https://fedicon.ca/ #Fediverse #Fedicon #Vancouver #VancouverBC #VancouverBCCanada #VancouverBritishColumbia […]

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One of the most common feedback that I got from past employers is that I lacked boldness. I lacked the courage to push out utter garbage. Is this the likely reason why LLMs are increasingly being touted to replace programmers?

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Google (search): "I can't find the thing given your search query, but here are a bunch of irrelevant content, that I hope you can draw some inspiration from (good luck with that!)" ChatGPT: "here's some facts" (that are all made up)

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This whole "directionality" that LLMs take on given the initial message of the conversation reminds me of the distinction between "mean tone" temperament and "equal tone" temperament. The former provides no flexibility when jumping to chord-to-chord or key-to-key; once you tuned it there, it […]

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The thing about LLM-powered chatbots (such as ChatGPT) is that even starting from the first message, the whole thread takes on a whole direction, that is difficult to pivot from. This is one of the reasons why my bias (but not a heuristic) is to err on the side of starting a new thread for […]

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I get annoyed at the narrative that all the awareness and work on climate change hasn't done anything. Yes, global CO₂ emissions indeed continue to climb, but we don't know the counterfactual. When I was in grad school, we were on track for 5°C of warming. Now […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

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I hope I'm among the majority of Canadians on this; that is among those just living their lives, and never saying anything, while a vocal minority keeps beating the drum that I disagree with, but… PLEASE, no more retaliatory tariffs. Reddit is full of weirdos who think retaliatory tariffs […]

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Every single time when I realize that I'm the problem, as long as I couple that with self-forgiveness, several months down the road, life is gets so much better.

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A while ago, I saw a post about a new set of elliptic curve parameters published by someone named Víctor Duarte, and boosted by Professor Bill Buchanan, known for his expertise in cryptography. So I went ahead and wrote a Go implementation for it. The parameters have been given the name […]

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One of the most foolish thoughts that I used to have in is being terrified of feedback.

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With the GENIUS Act of 2025 possibly getting the greenlight, I could imagine the inception of some "capital reserve agreement" being signed that allows people—who otherwise would lack the capital reserve—to start their own stablecoin. (This post is NOT endorsing the act; I'm just making an […]

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Apple as a company is based af for rebuffing AI.

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"The president of Iran’s nuclear energy agency said officials in that country have signed an agreement with Russia for construction of at least eight nuclear power plants in Iran." https://www.powermag.com/russia-has-deal-to-build-eight-nuclear-power-plants-in-iran/

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Hm. A "proof of concept" pull request that adds "preliminary ActivityPub support" to Bluesky. https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/pull/3943 Screenshots via https://bsky.app/profile/distraction.engineer/post/3lql7jiqaac2a #bluesky #fediverse #SocialMedia

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I was expecting this article to be been tone deaf and vague, but I am pleasantly surprised as to how thoughtful this article was. https://vantechjournal.com/p/web-summit-vancouver-a-catalyst-for-bc-s-tech-ecosystem

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We are taking back “MAGA” from fascism.

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Very important news from #Wordpress: “Our goal for this year is to finalize the full ActivityPub experience — so that WordPress can be used as a first-class citizen of the Fediverse. This means enabling not only publishing to the network, but also following, reading, interacting, and moderating […]

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We just shared our monthly engineering update from May - some big under-the-covers updates as we got ready to ship the first beta of Mastodon 4.4. Plus, a selection of links to cool projects from our community members. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/trunk-tidbits-may-2025/

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ABC: Always Be job searChing

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I am currently navigating around all sorts of negotiation efforts, in my life. Which then immediately reminded me of this video that I saw a while back that featured a talk by Steven Pinker on why humans speak in subtleties and other indirect languages. It's an interesting talk […]

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A lot of businesses have management demand that subordinates come up with data to support their hypothesis, but managers just go "do as I say, or you're fired", without providing any context whatsoever.

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Word censorship and evasion https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/tiktok-language What you get is a different and quickly evolving language while the old language is being unalived.

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Hot take: being anti-static-typing is just elitism. I am pretty comfortable writing in JavaScript, but a junior will engage in numerous careless mistake because they don't know any better. TypeScript stops them right in their tracks, and can learn quickly, rather than be faced with an error […]

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If I were a tyrannical leader of Canada, I'd: - ban municipalities from collecting improvements taxes, and have them be forced to rely exclusively on land tax - make it unconstitutional for the median Canadian to have more than 30% of their take-home pay go towards shelter cost (mortgage and/or […]

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Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo is happening in New Westminster on June 14th. https://www.vancouvergamingexpo.com/ #NewWestminster #NewWest #NewWestminsterBC #NewWestminsterBCCanada #NewWestminsterBritishColumbiaCanada #NewWestminsterBritishColumbia #BC #BritishColumbia #BCCanada […]

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After attending both #FediForum and #ATmosphereConf in the first six months of this year, I can say with full confidence that the open social web is full-steam ahead 🚀

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Just found this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0WFbXUteLCo

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It's only been 5 years, but I am still going to ask: who remembers this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGeeT88F2oI

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ActivityPub is to SMTP what IMAP is to HTTP

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fedidiot (noun) /ˈfɛdɪdiˌət/ A chronically online regressive leftist who treats the Fediverse like a sacred commune and any deviation from their ideological purity as heresy. Characterized by performative political outrage, allegiance to self-appointed high priests of decentralized social […]

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What actually sucks about the GENIUS Act: stablecoin holders get first dibs if the stablecoin issuer defaults. Who can be issuers? Federally insured banks and subsidiaries. If these banks commingle deposits with reserves, then this will force banks to dip into deposits, if reserve alone fails […]

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"Say no to GENIUS ACT; say yes to End Crypto Corruption Act". Why not say yes to both?

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🌐 The Fediverse is meeting IRL! FediCon — August 1 & 2 in Vancouver 🇨🇦 Want in? Join the early bird list: https://fedicon.ca/ See you there? #FediCon #Fediverse #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #SocialWeb #DeSo #FeSo #LoSo

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Whenever I have a personal problem, and I am seeking validation from an LLM, I always prefix it with a preamble that encourages to tell the LLM to call me out on my bullshit. Helped me avoid doing stupid shit.

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Jonathan Joss was murdered, defending his husband, by a homophobe who had instigated a two year campaign of hate against them, including burning down their house and murdering their dogs […]

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