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A change in the direction of protobufs to reduce serialization and transfer costs of data exchange seems most likely the next trend.

Mostly the former, but occasionally it goes back and forth for awhile as alignment need ironing out. That's the other thing about engineering arguments: both people are aligned in …

I used to work in politics, where sadly, the goal is to change people's opinions. At this level I did succeed in changing many opinions. The most effective way to change an individ…

I "argue" constantly with my coworkers: they are savage in PR reviews identifying mistakes/improvements, and I give it back the same. It's collegial, not hostile or insulting. Yet …

But still, assuming California Pacific time, is that midnight, 9am, noon or ?

What time exactly tomorrow is Anthropic making Fable 5 available? (It's already July 1st in Australia!)

Oops my bad, HN won't let me edit the comment. Yes I meant eastern parts of British Columbia.

Because solar and wind are renewable, cheaper and cleaner than nuclear. They don't require destructive mining for enriched uranium or create the security implications of dealing wi…

Most electricity generation is handled by the government already, particularly in Canada. Worldwide approximately 88% of global electricity generation capacity is owned or controll…

Exciting development. I really wish somebody would nail a commercially viable Thorium reactor but it seems there are real engineering complications around scaling molten salt react…

Some storage can be had for cheap from existing capacity. Hydroelectric dams with reservoirs, abundant in Canada already, can function like a battery to cover times when solar/wind…

The East Kootenays still hasn't decided what timezone to align with. They used to align with Alberta (w/ daylight savings switching) as well. Then B.C. announced their change and t…

Lesser known is that western parts of British Columbia are still debating what timezone to adopt. E.g. the East Kootenays which used to align with Alberta's mountain time w/ daylig…

While you're not wrong the problem is they own the company or the board listens to them. They have power they can use to keep existing while you don't. This is why AI is so scary t…

Advice I would add: use a tire when splitting firewood to hold the logs together. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMv6-SYzv-Q Wood no longer goes flying. Much easier to chop q…

We have so many automated workflows and pipelines moving through Github Actions + other Github integrations it would be a giant headache to migrate. Not clear where we would go eit…

Apparently Github is experiencing a huge increase in usage due to LLMs and this is the cause for a lot of their instability as of late.

Sorry this screams LLM voice in the way it was written that it was off putting to read. You might be right though.

Feels so insane reading those kind of numbers as a Canadian.

Enrolment in computer science skyrocketed five-fold from 2009 to 2024. Dropped 15% since, for obvious reasons.

Work will even flag you for you using a VPN on your phone, e.g. if you check the company Slack.

This flexibility can exist for office jobs, but customer-facing roles typically need somebody present for the whole shift.

It won't close the skill gap bump, but the more an AI aimbot degrades itself to mimic a human to beat cheat detection the less advantage it will give to the players using it. It is…

Chess anti-cheat now relies on looking at your moves and spotting mistakes. Not even grandmasters play tactically perfect games so this works pretty well for finding cheaters. In t…

Feel the third so much with LLM's. But I get the sense younger generations aren't a fan of where it's moving the world either.