This makes me glad that I got into tech later in life after being in the trades.
I don’t know how to explain it quite yet but I feel like Geo is experiencing something I’ve seen with a lot of my counterparts who were computer nerds from their childhood into adult life. It’s like they haven’t considered much outside of that realm and can’t figure out how to.
Don’t get me wrong, I find my field fascinating and work on it all the time. But it’s still just a field and I can’t apply myself just as well to anything else.
This is when I wish Jobs was still in charge of Apple. I never quite liked him, but I like Altman way less. And Jobs would CRUCIFY the whole openAI team for this. It would be beautiful to watch.
You’re ignoring the fact that provinces can’t fund technology that the federal government hasn’t reviewed and negotiated a price for.
So yes there may be differences between provinces in terms of when they fund what restrictions are put on it, the overall trend across Canada is pretty consistent.
And as I said Canadians don’t get the same care as Americans so concluding the higher cost is entirely higher prices for the same thing is false.
Your comment is somewhat emotionally charged, but I choose to respond to the overall point as a mathematician. I think it could be true that utility is correlated with difficulty but it is certainly not defined by it.
In pure mathematics, we reason about a world of abstract objects which are considered interesting ab initio. It may be because they arise directly or often from extremely basic operations, they are connected to many other interesting objects, or that they present special and surprising properties. The importance is basically, there is some surprising, interesting, phenomena which occurs in our world which we don't understand and which we seek to understand. Like science but in the non-physical world.
I think if you create a simple to describe system/construction with a property which is extremely difficult to prove. You are creating an object in our world which is basic but have properties which we don't understand (because we can't prove this property). So indeed I believe it would be an interesting thing to study and be of value. I don't see any problems/issues with this. I don't think the only valuable pursuit of humans is to improve the welfare of other humans. I think understanding the world is also valuable.
A bunch of outlaw militiamen living in some camp somewhere probably don't have access to a capable computer, but they can probably log onto chatgpt.com easily enough.
Same could be said about any of the many mass extinction events in earth history. Not that I’m in favor of setting the planet on fire, but if you zoom out far enough it’s clear earth would bounce back from even a nuclear war coupled with climate change and microplastics.
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I build software with hardware memory limits in mind instead of assuming abstractions are free:
- UltimateBufferQueue — lock-free MPSC/MPMC/SPSC buffer in Rust (nightly), using manual atomic orderings instead of Mutex, plus a heapless zero-allocation variant for fully predictable memory under load.
- S3CacheProxy — local caching proxy that cuts AWS S3 egress costs via memory-mapped storage instead of repeat network hops.
- TelemetryParser — real-time log/metrics parser using raw Linux mmap/mremap for zero-copy ingestion.
No corporate background — but I reason through ownership, thread safety, and memory layout the way this work demands, and I'd rather show it in code than claim it in a bullet point.
When I go on the main page, the things displayed in "Rate These" are all things I've never heard of, and it seems like random noname companies might just be using this as an SEO mill. It might be good to show like, the things with the most ratings or even hard code things you know people actually care about, because when the 6 things I see as the representative sample are "Hoka One One Bondi" and "Secondary School No.2", it kind of makes it seem like I'm going to have to wade through shit to find value.
Or like the "vote now" thing, what's better in Home Services, a webapp I've never heard of or a vacuum cleaner. These aren't like, meaningful things to compare. I would have thought it would be like, what's the best camera under $1K, what's the best bottled water, etc. It seems like the categories might be too broad to be useful.
Using the APIs, can I send and recieve data simultaneously and know for instance the exact recieve sample correlated with my desired transmit sample? If yes, can you point me to any docs on that?
Government should represents and advocate for the best interests of the entire population. It should legislate for both people and companies to behave fairly towards each other.
Consider the gym membership. You join and sign a one year contract. The terms are that you can cancel after that period, but if the gym hides or dark-patterns the cancel procedure, are they really offering you the contractually agreed upon ability to cancel? They are not.
We all know what fair is. Just because companies (and sometimes individual people) have outsized power against their customers, it does not give them the moral right to abuse that power.
So, I believe in this case Mamdani is engaging in both good and well-functioning governance. And that to me is morally legitimate.
I agree (from semi-relevant experience). Also, any “poor” country that’s inexpensive enough to fit this requirements probably isn’t one you’d voluntarily live in.
Side note for the original commenter: It would be kinder and more accurate to state “lower cost of living countries” than “poor countries”. There are numerous lower COL countries that offer a higher quality of life a than that of the US but they aren’t “poor” (I moved to one).
I don’t know how to explain it quite yet but I feel like Geo is experiencing something I’ve seen with a lot of my counterparts who were computer nerds from their childhood into adult life. It’s like they haven’t considered much outside of that realm and can’t figure out how to.
Don’t get me wrong, I find my field fascinating and work on it all the time. But it’s still just a field and I can’t apply myself just as well to anything else.