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  • Is browser preference a personality flaw? AI job interview evaluation raises questions— AI said applicant's 'habitual' Chrome use could indicate a 'lack of adaptability' after screening interview

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  • LLMs need to have the same warnings attached as the old psychic hotlines: "Must be 18. For entertainment only."

    That being said, I'm not sure that this is any more ridiculous than an ad asking for ten years' experience with a piece of software that's only existed for three. HR departments have never had much contact with reality.

  • [Episode] Gnosia - Episode 17 discussion

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  • I mean, it's possible that the identity of the engineer isn't restricted if there are no gnosia aboard, but the instant test result seems a lot more sketchy. Unless Levi is infected or otherwise problematic in the loops where gnosia are present, and this is how things are supposed to work. (Or maybe it's a genuine writer-screw-up plothole.)

  • [Episode] Kaya-chan Isn't Scary • Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai - Episode 5 discussion

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  • So it's now been confirmed that there is something really wrong with Kaya-chan herself, not just with the unborn baby.

  • 10 dead, including suspect, in mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

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  • Probably not a deliberate effort on the part of foreign actors or domestic terrorists, but I question whether this would have happened without examples from the US. Remember, the last school shooting of any sort in Canada was the Ecole Polytechnique—which took place before the likely perpetrator here was born.

  • ‘We feel kinda bad when a solo bird shows up’: Canada sees its first European robin – but how did it get there?

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  • Perhaps it was supposed to extend an invitation to join the EU, and got lost on the way to Ottawa.

  • Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond

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  • With the LLM pushers driving hardware prices through the roof, will any of us be able to afford these?

  • ML-LIB: Machine Learning Library Proposed For The Linux Kernel

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  • It isn't really so strange that they aren't used, if you think about it. Floating point is subject to fuzziness in the last several digits, and you can't guarantee that a given value is going to round the same way when you're dealing with multiple arches (or even multiple versions of what's nominally the same arch, since optimizations change over time). Undefined behaviour is nasty. Floating point is useful for many things, but I'd keep it out of a cross-platform system kernel unless I liked hard-to-diagnose bugs.

  • What Happened To WebAssembly

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  • Speaking based on my own PC in that era: it had 512MB RAM and the video card was capable of running FFVII PC version with hardware drivers, so there was some very modest and primitive 3D capability buried in there somewhere. I believe the CPU was a ~500 MHz P3, so I'll grant you that one, and the one about RAM speed. Well, I did only claim they were "somewhat similar".

  • Atikamekw leader denied access to Quebec constitution consultations over eagle staff

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  • I'd assumed that they were following some sort of extremely stupid weapons-related rule. At least that would have been kind of understandable. But no, the complaint was about "decorum"—in other words, someone thought it was impolite by whatever idiosyncratic and culturally specific standard they wanted to apply. This is shameful.

  • Wi-Fi 7 Marketing is Lying About it's Biggest Feature

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  • Wi-Fi 7 Marketing is Lying About it's Biggest Feature

    Truth in advertising is pretty much nonexistent these days. Assume they're lying until proven otherwise.

  • What Happened To WebAssembly

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  • Except that it isn't really the first iteration of any of those things. Java did most of 'em more than a quarter century ago: browser-embedable, multiple languages could target the JVM, and, yes, sandboxed—the only issue was startup (not runtime) performance. That wasm doesn't share those startup performance woes makes it useful, but not revolutionary.

    As for tiny environments, a typical desktop system from around 1999 is somewhat similar to a Pi Zero W in terms of ability.

  • ‘Alarming’ and unproven autism treatments abound on Facebook. Is it time for Canada to tighten regulations?

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  • Cracking down on this stuff on Facebook can reduce the number of instances of this kind of thing by reducing the scammers' reach (so still worth doing), but not make it vanish. Snake oil has a very long history, after all. It plays to a common element of human nature: the desire for a quick and easy fix where none exists. The only complete solution is to produce smarter humans, which, well, good luck.

  • Canadians support arrival of more Chinese electric vehicles, poll suggests

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  • The supply chain for most "local" vehicle manufacture in North America winds back and forth between Canada, the US, and Mexico. None of those countries can assemble a finished car without parts coming from both of the others. Trump hates this and has been doing his utmost to torpedo the system.

    The risk with Chinese cars has less to do with the cars themselves and more with getting too deeply enmeshed in, and dependant upon, trade with China. ~50000 cars a year isn't going to do that in Canada, though, since at the moment we're wary of putting too many eggs into any basket.

  • 'Canada, better the 28th EU member than the 51st US state'

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  • when there’s currently a tyrant in charge in the US, nobody’s doing anything.

    Because anyone who's realistic enough to want that guy out of office is also realistic enough to know that a gun, or even a few thousand guns, won't do much against rocket-armed aircraft and exploding drones, even if they were willing to escalate to violence. The last time a group of citizens with ordinary firearms had a real chance against an army was around 1880 (just before the invention of the automatic machine gun). It kinda-sorta-almost sometimes appears to work in spats in the developing world because the objective there is to get the army to decide holding the area isn't worth the resources and it should go home. That ain't gonna happen in a civil war in the States.

    Of course, the fact that the American "right to bear arms" is a joke just makes it all the more infuriating.

  • 9 Toronto police officers facing charges related to tow-truck violence: source | CBC News

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  • Unusually, though, these ones were being bastards even to other cops. So they might actually get punished.

  • Canada to Claim Stellantis, GM Owe Hundreds of Millions to Government

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  • Yeah, but he does that randomly anyway, so why even bother paying attention?

  • Here are the secret lists of banned books from Alberta's 2 largest school boards

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  • Besides just ignorance and Fear of the Different? In my experience, there's a tendency for small-c conservatives to have a high degree of emotional attachment to traditional gender roles (especially toxic masculinity). LGBTQ+ people don't adhere to those roles, and show kids that it's okay not to adhere to those roles. End result: conservatives blame LGBTQ+ people for eroding one of their beloved shibboleths, because the alternative is admitting that they're wrong.

  • BC’s Drug Response Isn’t Following the Evidence: Former Coroner | The Tyee

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  • The thing is, the science points toward harm reduction and related strategies as the most effective. But those strategies are not politically popular, so getting them implemented is an uphill battle. It's the same all over the country.

  • [Episode] Gnosia - Episode 16 discussion

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  • My question now is, how thoroughly does one of the Yuris have to be destroyed in order to prevent the universe from collapsing? Is erasure-by-gnosia the only acceptable method, or would it be sufficient, say, for bug-Yuri to throw themself into a sun before real-Yuri wakes from the healing pod?

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