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Canada is so lucky to have someone like Michael Geist. He's been reporting on and doing in depth investigations on privacy invasions for about 2 decades now.

Looking forward to cranking one out.

I actually really miss all the research being done on having (reinforcement learning) AIs beat Atari games and the like. Or the one that stopped at a TV playing random images inste…

Amusingly I found the colour (Whaddaya at? Are you from the cold or wet, eh?) bleed the most interesting part for potential artistic effect.

Or more likely consumers aren't paid enough to buy quality.

Hacker News is a court of law now?

Quinozyme

I had it make a simple HTML/JS canvas game (think flappy bird) and while it did some things mildly better (and others noticeably worse) it still fell into the exact same traps as e…

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I think there's someone that wrote about what is to be done, but I can't remember who. /s

We can't say for sure that the current feedback loops will be identical to those that did or did not exist in the past. Differences in the initial state could result in different o…

The problem with (3D) CAD I've heard is that the Open CASCADE CAD kernel is a huge mess. So as much as they update and fix FreeCAD (and they've made a lot of good progress, but it'…

And then by the time they do get around to fixing the UI it seems the codebase is horribly bloated and littered with tech debt and now updating the UI would basically require a who…

Other open source projects should take note. It seems like UX is a complete afterthought for most and any suggestions for QoL improvements are met with hostility by the small ferve…

It usually means rich people care about stirring up pointless outrage and/or getting clicks from people making a stir about the frivolity of it.

Everyone should use Canadian spelling as it's the intermediary between both British and USA spelling it makes the most sense for the Americans and Brits to adopt it.

Maybe we should take the definition from the mouth of an expert on fascism, Mussolini, "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and cor…

I've been waiting for someone to make this since about 2019 it seemed pretty self-evident. It will be interesting when they get to mixed heterogeneous architecture networks with a …

The stochastic part is who is doing it (random people being incited) vs an organized cell who has members engaging in random acts of violence

When a corporation extracts surplus value from a laborer so the company gets its dues (so the execs can get a yacht) it's good When a union extracts some dues from laborers to be a…

Pretty nice so far. I enjoy the very visible categories (as in the "astronomy" label in the Science category, not the science, technology, etc ones) that make it easy to see if an …

"There's a Canada outside of Toronto?" - Torontonians (all in good jest)

The rise of autocrats and tyrants is often bulwarked by people saying everyone else is engaging in hyperbole and that it won't be that bad and that there's always been people like …