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egerlach

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  • Mozilla is now encouraging unattributed slop code in Firefox

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  • While I think that this isn't on target, I believe it to be mis-executed rather than misguided: I think they were trying to support their AI Coding Policy by removing any notion that Claude was responsible for the work (therefore leaving the human responsible). What it does in practice of course is just hide AI-generated code. Since the commit setting can be anything you want, I believe a disclaimer that the commit was assisted by Claude but that the committer is considered the author of the code would be a better choice (and I said so on the thread). I hope they improve their choice.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Drops Bombshell: Trump ‘Fought the Hardest’ to Bury Epstein Files, Warns MAGA It Was No Hoax

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  • That's the thing about authoritarians: they attract authoritarian followers (thought not exclusively). If the authoritarian at the top fails to recognize those of their followers that have the same traits and give them enough of a "fiefdom" to rule, then they betray. It's one of the things that makes fully authoritarian rule fragile (most long-term successful dictators ensure they give enough power to the right people under them).

  • so heckin wholesome

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  • Oh my god... Quebec and Texas together would be the worst pairing. Other than not wanting the federal government to control anything, they have almost nothing in common. e.g. Montreal is one of North America's most livable cities; Houston is one of the least.

  • Canada expected to scrap EV mandate in favor of new fuel efficiency system, CBC News reports

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  • Ugh. This is almost a good idea. I've been saying for years that there should not have been a tax benefit for ZEVs, it should have been a sliding benefit based on various efficiency measures, including both L/100km and Le/100km. That would encourage smaller cars in addition to electric ones.

    "But why give the discount to smaller, cheaper cars? They're already so cheap?"

    Because it provides that much more incentive against the large, heavy, inefficient cars that are unsafe and waste gas/electricity. Those cars cost society the most via injury, pollution, etc. They should get no benefit from the taxpayer.

  • so heckin wholesome

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  • Fortunately or unfortunately, Canada isn't ready to accept them. It would require a major change to our Constitution, and opening that can of worms for major revisions isn't going to happen (history with Quebec, they never signed on the first time and were forced into it, two attempts to renegotiate failed, they had three referenda on separating from Canada...)

  • Why is Debian always left out of the distro recommendations?

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  • It felt like a "Missed Connections" ad in a newspaper. (If you're under 40, you might have to look up what that is)

  • New York City killed outdoor dining and has stopped bus lanes in the name of saving street parking. Yet on Park Avenue, cars park for a week at a time without being used.

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  • Montreal has a ton of separated, two-way bike lanes.

    K-W is toying with them, but hasn't really committed yet.

    Now, painted bike gutters is what you get the most of, by far...

  • Why is Debian always left out of the distro recommendations?

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  • My FP right now:

  • so heckin wholesome

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  • Keanu's Canadian, so.... You could become the 11th province?

    (this is meant as light-hearted ribbing aimed at someone who clearly wants to see their country go in a better direction, I hope it's taken as such)

  • Saudi Arabia ditches its linear city dream to build an AI data center

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  • Not necessarily for cooling. Use a dual-loop system like CANDU nuclear reactors. Fresh water in the inner loop (that goes through the components), and transfer heat to an outer loop full of sea water.

  • 'Minnetoba'? Some Minnesotans want to join Canada as tensions flare with Trump administration

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  • Out of all the States, Minnesota is one of the few I'd have almost zero objection to welcoming in. "Minnesota Nice" and "Canadian Polite" are closely related (but somewhat different).

    Sadly, it will never happen. Adding a province requires re-opening the Constitution, and that's not going to happen. (If you're too young to remember, look up the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords)

  • Bears or no bears?

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  • It's still mind blowing, even if it is a coincidence.

  • Ubisoft Closes Halifax Studio Just After Employees Unionized [Updated]

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  • At least Canada has some precedent of courts ruling against this sort of thing. Most of the precedent I've found related to the Quebec Labour Code, so it might not be the same with Nova Scotia, but the jist of how the Supreme Court has ruled is: Employers have a right to cease operations, but if that happens in the "prohibited period" when union negotiations are ongoing, that violates the right of association, and the employees can be entitled to damages.

    I don't know how the facts of this case will line up with NS law, but I would think that given that there's a Charter right underpinning these ideas that they probably have some kind of case here. The burden of proof will possibly be on Ubisoft to show that it was a "normal" decision, based on my quick reading of some of the precedent.

  • Nepal is throwing out its decade-old scheme to clean Mount Everest

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  • +1

    15x the fine, and index it to the wealth total of the world's top 5% as per some org that tracks it.

    At least then the juice will be worth the squeeze.

  • Toronto man outruns newly-opened Finch LRT by 18 minutes

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  • Agree, and to add: That the Finch West LRT doesn't have signal priority is criminal. I live in K-W, and the iON is good because it has signal priority, and it still gets stopped by traffic signals relatively frequently.

  • Education is important.

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  • Alas that I have but one upvote to give.

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  • I work primarily in "classical" AI and have been working with it on-and-off for just under 30 years now. Programmed my first GAs and ANNs in the 90s. I survived Prolog. I've had prolonged battles getting entire corporate departments to use the terms "Machine Learning" and "Artificial Intelligence" correctly, understand what they mean, and how to start thinking about them to incorporate them correctly into their work.

    Thus why I chose the word "LLM" in my response, not "AI".

    I will admit that I assumed that by "AI" Jimmy Carr was referring to LLMs, as that's what most people mean these days. I read the TL;DW by @masterspace@lemmy.ca but didn't watch the original content. If I'm wrong in that assumption and he's referring to classical AI, not LLMs, I'll edit my original post.

  • 'You're going to die in Canada': U.S. suspect charged in cross-border extortion threats

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  • Subhead:

    Jasmeet Singh is charged in California with threatening someone in Canada for the Bishnoi gang

    I misread that as Jagmeet Singh. My mind was blown for about 0.38s.

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  • Ugh, I'm tired of point 2. Yes, LLMs have found a few patterns in large-scale study analyses that humans hadn't, but they weren't deep insights and there had been buried hypotheses around them from existing authors, IIRC (too lazy to source).