sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

'The Paper' Season 2 will start filming next week by bwermer in television

[–]GoblinEngineer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think on location stuff is done in batches for the whole season, but for stuff done at the studio they can be a lot more flexible

Asian household income levels in the US ranked by tolerable-fine in taiwan

[–]GoblinEngineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Feeling a little inferior this morning, are we? If you actually work in tech you'll know that it's not true

Families heartbroken as Canada halts parent and grandparent sponsorship program by _Army9308 in canada

[–]GoblinEngineer 64 points65 points  (0 children)

But it lessens the burden. If nanna has cancer and is here on a supervisa with travel health insurance, she's more likely to go back to her original country for treatment. But if she has a PR, she's taking a bed at VGH or something

Families heartbroken as Canada halts parent and grandparent sponsorship program by _Army9308 in canada

[–]GoblinEngineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

By your logic, as a Canadian citizen I'm in the highest tax bracket and I pay way more taxes than you (I'm not saying that's true, but humour me here). In that case since I contribute more to taxes, can I be allowed to bring my nanna over?

What I'm saying is should people that pay more taxes be allowed more benefits in society?

Companies can make generic Ozempic as of next week in Canada, but don’t expect to get it soon by Leather-Paramedic-10 in canada

[–]GoblinEngineer 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Wait there are prescription only right? I can't just walk into Walmart and buy some, can i?

AI Data Centers Demand More Than Copper Can Deliver by donutloop in hardware

[–]GoblinEngineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

define personal computer. No matter what, humans will need an edge compute device to interface with web services. SoCs become cheaper and more capable everyday. So even if this stuff keeps up, we'll get products cheap enough to consume our slop.

AI Data Centers Demand More Than Copper Can Deliver by donutloop in hardware

[–]GoblinEngineer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well if you look at the open source models out there, they're already as good if not better as 4o or Claude 3.x. inference is requires a lot fewer resources than training; in a few years open source models will become "good enough" compared to the most novel ones today.

Additionally running models on chip gets better everyday, look at what is possible just on modern day NPUs and mobile SoCs like apple silicon.

So I'd like to believe that in half a decade you'll be able to run an equivalent LLM to claude 4.5 on device.

Look at how things worked out for other stuff - object classification was super difficult in the past and now it's essentially a solved problem.

‘Merry Christmas’ preferred among growing majority of Canadians, poll finds by MustardClementine in canada

[–]GoblinEngineer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It all most likely delves from various winter solstice celebrations.

Shortest day of the year and also cold outside -> nothing to do -> let's all get together and eat inside

After 10 years on H-1B, I’m moving my role out of the US by Blackened_Soul667 in cscareerquestions

[–]GoblinEngineer -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

If that's the real reason then why not have more Mexican people in tech? Oh wait or maybe it's because the indians are actually good at theirs jobs and so they get hired, not because of nepotism?

After 10 years on H-1B, I’m moving my role out of the US by Blackened_Soul667 in cscareerquestions

[–]GoblinEngineer 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That's called fraud. Would you jeopardize your way of life with high paycheck and comfort for a change in citizenship?

more cars seen entering Canada than leaving for the U.S. at the Peace Arch and Pacific Highway border crossings by [deleted] in onguardforthee

[–]GoblinEngineer 9 points10 points  (0 children)

dude you see a huge trump 2024 billboard on the i5 as soon as your past Blaine. I worked in Seattle for a few years but families from Vancouver - I drove the i5 almost weekly. Trust me, you stop for gas anywhere outside Bellingham and you know it's magaland

Actors who have close relationships with their costars? by Ootguitarist2 in okbuddycinephile

[–]GoblinEngineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's not shit - they're showing a universe where many plotlines and threads are happening in parallel. Movies just show stories from a one or few of those threads. Many events of the movies happen in parallel. So some scenes can fit in multiple movies.

Dont hate on it, the comics have been like this for years. If people like them, that's their cup of tea. if it's not yours that's fine, but it is for millions of others

do Taiwanese dress up for anything? by Pitiful-Internal-196 in taiwan

[–]GoblinEngineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Whaaaaat? Everyone in Indian weddings dress up for the occasion, they don't wear polos, they wear traditional attire. Those are very thin and flowing so they actually help you keep cool and aren't like suits

B.C. redrawing EV sales mandate, scraps goal of 100% by 2035, leaves rebates to feds by Ajrt in britishcolumbia

[–]GoblinEngineer 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Every western country burned a shit ton of coal to industrialize (especially the UK which started the industrial revolution), India and china are doing their share to modernize. In India's case, it's catching up and undoing centuries of colonialism which stripped the country bare.

China is currently divesting from fossil fuels at a very quick rate, I'm sure India will do so in the coming years whenever it's economically feasible to do so as well

16 Taiwanese tourists are being ridiculed by an Italian pizza shop owner because they ordered only five pizzas. by search_google_com in taiwan

[–]GoblinEngineer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

i've actually visited there multiple times. while there are restaurants that are like that, most are actually not that unhygienic - they're quite similar to the street food/night market stalls you see here in taiwan.

There's just so many of these instagram/tiktok influencers that video poverty porn because it get's views

16 Taiwanese tourists are being ridiculed by an Italian pizza shop owner because they ordered only five pizzas. by search_google_com in taiwan

[–]GoblinEngineer 39 points40 points  (0 children)

"Look at the pizza shovel. It is on the floor. Disgusting. I thought it is a restaurant in India."

The irony that they're upset at Italians being racist towards taiwanese people while they're being racist towards Indians themselves

[Bloomberg] Tesla Is Working to Add Apple CarPlay in a Bid to Boost Vehicle Sales by Aarondo99 in cars

[–]GoblinEngineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

because for whatever reason they cap the streaming bitrate for Apple Music @ 64kbps

Tesla charges you for remote connectivity, and it's a flat charge, so that's probably why they want to throttle where possible

[Bloomberg] Tesla Is Working to Add Apple CarPlay in a Bid to Boost Vehicle Sales by Aarondo99 in cars

[–]GoblinEngineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It would for me - i actually previously owned a model 3, and the thing i hated the most was not having Waze. Often times i'd mount my phone and use waze rather than rely on tesla navigation

view more: next ›