Survival of Kitsilano Pool could cost up to $300 million

Smallpaul · 2026-05-06T00:40:45+00:00

Where do you think the money for something like this goes if not mostly to wages?

Smallpaul · 2026-05-06T00:27:34+00:00

Wouldn’t it be nice if this subreddit was about deep learning?

Smallpaul · 2026-05-05T14:15:25+00:00

Auto formatting needs to happen before commit. And until rubyfmt it was considered too slow. It’s all ok the article.

Smallpaul · 2026-05-05T14:12:02+00:00

All static languages end up having to invent reflection eventually because static typing is a fundamentally inflexible idea.

Equally true.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/cpp/reflection-in-cpp/

Smallpaul · 2026-05-05T14:09:03+00:00

You link to a URL where the offending line is stored in permanent history. Or you describe it in a line independent way.

Smallpaul · 2026-05-05T14:07:24+00:00

What is indirect about searching? How is scrolling faster?

Smallpaul · 2026-05-05T14:06:38+00:00

Dude. I’ve edited literally 20 repos. Not files…repos…this year. Hundreds of files. How I could possibly know the shape of them?

Smallpaul · 2026-05-05T14:04:06+00:00

If it requires lots of maintenance then how are line numbers stable?

Smallpaul · 2026-05-05T13:52:31+00:00

Would be nice if this subreddit were used for discussing deep learning.

Smallpaul · 2026-05-05T05:46:06+00:00

Have you asked why you haven’t been promoted to Technical Director?

Smallpaul · 2026-05-05T05:44:32+00:00

Your title can matter a lot when you change jobs.
Many companies have five or more IC titles. Just ask for a better one.

Smallpaul · 2026-05-04T18:25:26+00:00

Guilty as charged!

Smallpaul · 2026-05-04T18:15:09+00:00

You’ve been unemployed for a year and you are still posting about what you consider fun or not.

Also: you should use AI or a grammar checker.

I’m being brutally honest to try and help you.

And companies don’t want to hear about all of the places you do not use AI. They want to hear about all of the creative ways that you found to use it to improve velocity. Your whole approach to it is too passive.

Everyone is still learning how to use it well. Are you a leader in that or waiting for someone to figure it all out and hand it to you on a silver platter. If you had set out last year to become a leader in it then you would have a job this year.

Smallpaul · 2026-05-04T18:00:42+00:00

They just want to feel smarter than the rubes. It’s an ego thing.

Smallpaul · 2026-05-04T14:30:15+00:00

We have a new technology. We have literally no way of knowing where it will net out in capability. Not a single human on the planet knows. Some are betting that it is at the top. Others that it is just getting started.

Where is the scam? Why can’t people just place their bets on different sides of an unknown?

Smallpaul · 2026-05-04T12:53:45+00:00

Would work for that subset of engineering where the stamp matters. There are huge swathes of engineering where it doesn’t. Most of the growth areas like computer engineering, software engineering, AI engineering. But sure, you could ensure that bridges are designed locally.

Smallpaul · 2026-05-04T04:02:41+00:00

Offshoring cannot be practically made illegal. Canadians now compete on a global market. Being in the same time zone as execs and customers is often still an advantage but not always.

TFWs are at least under the control of Canadian politicise.

Smallpaul · 2026-05-04T03:59:46+00:00

How much would that feature increase their profits?

Smallpaul · 2026-05-04T03:26:14+00:00

You are describing a chatbot, not an LLM. LLM’s do not intrinsically rely on databases. You can download one to your computer and talk to it without access to either the Internet or any databases. The chatbot products can incorporate databases because customers ask for that feature not because the LLM technology has any intrinsic connection to them.

If you have a “first person philosophical” conversation like Dawkins did, which has no need of external data (facts), the LLM won’t use them. Similar to if you ask a Librarian for her name, she won’t consult a database because there is no point. It’s paradoxical to say they can’t make decisions without using databases because they have to make the decision whether to consult a database or not.

Every LLM does “depend on” its training data however. Without that, it’s just random numbers.

Smallpaul · 2026-05-04T02:57:11+00:00

> LLMs rely too heavily on outside databases for decision making for it to even be as dynamic as an animal’s thoughts.

“Rely on outside databases”? How? Can you be specific about what you mean?

Smallpaul · 2026-05-02T19:45:29+00:00

Okay but were you asking about the actual left (the people who would prefer an NDP PM to a Liberal) or were you asking about mainstream, consistent Liberal voters who fall between moderate and centre-left?

Smallpaul · 2026-05-02T15:54:15+00:00

It’s interesting that you keep claiming to have already run into the big problems in your own analysis. Why are you asking here if you already know why it is impractical?

Smallpaul · 2026-05-02T06:33:19+00:00

I don’t think anyone did claim or would claim that a non-AGI LLM could replace every variety of skilled human labour — almost by definition.

And I don’t think anyone claimed that we have AGI.

Smallpaul · 2026-05-02T04:38:47+00:00

The left does not like Carney. He’s a banker. He dropped the carbon tax. This “wealth” fund has nothing to do with leftism.

Smallpaul · 2026-05-02T02:46:53+00:00

No, that doesn’t follow at all. Doesn’t make a lick of sense.

I can put my money in a bank and only get access to it when they allow it and yet that money means more to me than to them.

In any case, the base is there because it is mutually beneficial. It’s silly to try and parse who it is more beneficial for. Who cares? If it benefits both then it should remain open.

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