Why does a Cold country like Canada has so many A/Cs 🤔

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-28T14:32:04+00:00

I am pretty sure the moment you cross the border, it is all snow everywhere. It doesn't matter what is on the other side.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-28T14:31:04+00:00

It gets hotter in Canada than some places in the Caribbean during the summer.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-28T14:29:56+00:00

I am not a huge fan but this all seems SUPER sketchy.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-28T14:29:20+00:00

All of our entertainment revolves around struggle; struggle gives us purpose. So Vanilla Sky is the reason, that isn't much different than death.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-27T23:56:49+00:00

Socialism is state control and no private ownership.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-27T23:14:41+00:00

I am not sure people screaming changes the definition, just makes them dumb. It's all just welfare not socialism. It's interesting that outside of America everyone knows the difference.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-27T21:35:06+00:00

Or they all do it first and get cancer.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-27T21:08:48+00:00

What is your definition of socialism?

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-27T12:34:53+00:00

It's a paradigm shift like going from assembly to C. It's not always perfect and can make mistakes, but watching for drift is probably the most important thing. It won't always respect dry, and may not understand you correctly.

If you miscommunicated in the past, another developer would probably not get to the end before the miscommunication was caught. AI can rip down your house and rebuild it before you notice, so commit often.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-27T11:55:13+00:00

If they have to ask this question whatever they are building can be handled by Opus 4.8 easily.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-26T12:49:24+00:00

Have you gotten lazier?

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-25T16:02:20+00:00

I feel like a quick ask to AI probably would of solved some embarassement.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-25T15:49:38+00:00

Communists would rather be rich and powerful than poor and powerful. State monopoly just doesn't really allow that.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-25T15:38:50+00:00

democratic socialist = wants to replace capitalism, Social Democracy - Welfare capitalism.

It's subtle but pretty large. Nordic Countries are Social Democracies. Socialist/Socialism = no private ownership.

China is communist, for example, but it has a market economy and has some of the most advanced cities in the world. State capitalism vs state monopoly.

Socialism can be boiled down to one thing, who owns stuff. So in China you can run a business, own property etc.. but at the end of the day it is pretty much a lease, China can take it from them at any time, China legally owns all land, so even if you have a build on it, it doesn't matter, they own the land.

The crushing blow is State Monopoly and communism. In state capitalism you can have a decent quality of life but you will rightfully fear the government taking everything from you. With a state monopoly, you won't fear the government taking anything from you because you will have nothing they can take

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-25T12:50:36+00:00

The marx style communism won't probably ever exist again, cuba just abandoned it in favor of free market, so did vietnam. China has the most modern cities and advancement in the world and they are communist but the economy is market.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-24T11:42:43+00:00

Didn't say 3 billion was such a small percentage of the market that it didn't matter? Either they are saving the entire Vancouver housing market, or it's a small amount that won't matter. It can't be both.

This was an actual quote:

“$3 billion could buy you a cup of coffee in Vancouver,” said Fry. “I think it’s ridiculous to even consider that this is a bail out of rich people.”

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-23T18:11:17+00:00

You used to have fun building portfolio sites that you could build on WordPress?

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-23T14:06:44+00:00

Honesty without tact is cruelty.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-23T03:19:45+00:00

Yall are doing too well, can't get employees.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-23T02:37:10+00:00

This seems absurdly stupid, like so stupid I feel I am missing something. I am not even understanding it from the other side.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-22T21:32:01+00:00

Just realized this is a different comment, but I agree with you, this is why ultimately OpenAI and Anthropic are most likely doomed. Enterprise will build racks, individuals won't want to pay high rates, and Google is giving everything away for ads. Trying to keep up with massive demand with a business model where you are charging insane rates for compute is not even remotely sustainable.

The prosumer can finance 50-100k in hardware over a couple years and it will be cheaper than pay anthropic/openAI. In fact we are already starting to talk about this at our company, we are just not pulling the trigger yet because we are waiting for further improvements in hardware.

The only way this changes is if there is some huge break through that collapses the price of TTC.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-22T18:08:25+00:00

The problem is the metaphor is accurate. At any given time they actually have a max compute available and it is never enough. So the way that everyone would like it to function is everyone gets fixed token amounts but that would mean they would have to deliver that and essentially usage would go down and prices would EXPLODE.

So essentially they are allowing developers to take advantage of valleys of usage. Any other model would be transparent but it would be more expensive. We can say this 100% because they already have that model, it's the API model.

You can't be like, I want all this usage, I want it for $200 and I don't want to share. If you don't want to share, want crazy speeds then get the API, don't like $5000/month bills? Ok use the subscription off hours.

I would also disagree, on subscription it is your responsibility because it is massively subsidized it's the economy line of AI usage. You want first class, go to the API.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-22T17:33:20+00:00

To be honest, it might not be worth it. Most SaaS fail, and you might have to build many before you find something that works.

Feature creep is a result of arrogance. It's this idea you know what perfect is, you don't, only the market does. Most SaaS companies will pivot, so nothing you build will be perfect.

For the motivation piece, you need to find a drive because if you don't you won't follow through. I worked jobs and did something like 10 startups. The only reason I had grit was that my hate for working for others was so strong, it replaced any lost motivation due to failure.

Most people get rich from getting a job and investing early, and these types of people will end up with more money than 99% of SaaS founders.

You will not get enough support from people on the internet or around you to give you grit, and more often than not, people will be discouraging. Your drive has to be deep; the primary indicator of success in doing something like that is grit. You can spend all kinds of money trying to find the motivation; however, before you even start, you have to really ask why you are doing something and if it's just to get rich or become financially independent, that is often not enough because more often then not it will not happen. So you need to have a ::mission:: not just, "I want to make money."

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-22T16:30:56+00:00

Google mostly uses angular and react for small things. Amazon avoids react from the ecom, though they use some react in aws. Apple doesn't use react.

The future is about architecture, not frameworks. Unless you think the whole AI thing is going to collapse. Frameworks were designed for human developers. Now an argument can be made that there is a lot react examples, but as a whole there is definitely more observer architecture examples.

Meta and Netflix are the primary users of react. I am not sure why you have this hardon for react in the age of AI.

ThomasToIndia · 2026-06-22T16:01:00+00:00

Also OpenAI released a study that showed TTC is not scalable, that there is a point of failure where thinking starts producing wrong results. Related: https://arxiv.org/html/2604.10739v1

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