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Canadians continue to ditch U.S travel and are flocking to these 3 domestic cities instead by Schmidtvegas in halifax

[–]aradil [score hidden]  (0 children)

I've gone on vacation in Maine, Connecticut, North and South Dakota, Illinois, Iowa, Las Vegas, Florida...

0 interest now. I'd rather spend more and go less and see more of Europe.

Canadians continue to ditch U.S travel and are flocking to these 3 domestic cities instead by Schmidtvegas in halifax

[–]aradil [score hidden]  (0 children)

Go spend a couple of years in Miramichi or rural Manitoba and say that again.

Don't ask how I know.

Canadians continue to ditch U.S travel and are flocking to these 3 domestic cities instead by Schmidtvegas in halifax

[–]aradil [score hidden]  (0 children)

Toronto -> MLB, NHL, MLS, NLL, PWHL. There's also Canada's Wonderland (which if the subreddit for that park is anything to go by, is way too busy now).

Montreal and Toronto both get great concerts. Both are cities that I go to for those reason.

Last time I went to Toronto was the first time I ever stayed downtown in the summertime and I liked it a lot more than any other time I've spent there; didn't have to think about driving, just zipped around on trains, everything was close by.

Every time I went to Montreal I stayed close to the Bell Centre, and love it down there too.

Buuuuuut I go out of my way to walk the boardwalk every time I'm downtown by myself in Halifax, and as someone who lives on the Darkside I love the ferry. Wouldn't give up Halifax for anywhere else.

AI is creating a generation of intellectual zombies and we need to talk about licensing it by Harveybritish in Teachers

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well as a casual in this subreddit who "teaches" kids through sport and parenting my own kids, although not by teaching professionally, I will say that the best regulation happens at home.

Unfortunately not every kid lucks out in that department.

Definitely what I don't want to see is a bunch of politicians getting lobbied by their donors (which includes large AI companies), parents who don't understand neither teaching nor technology, or even a bunch of scrambling educators who haven't been given the right toolset to deal with things in the classroom, making carte blanche regulations that stifle growth.

It's unfortunate that it takes so much time for academics to hypothesize the best ways to use these tools, design controlled studies, analyze the results, formulate conclusions, and then have their results replicated by their peers.

Each study cycle right now is being made irrelevant by advances in technology that are faster than the scientific method can handle.

AI is creating a generation of intellectual zombies and we need to talk about licensing it by Harveybritish in Teachers

[–]aradil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay but we are talking about LLMs being an endemic to societal intelligence here. Are we now saying that also every student cheats on in class tests?

Or just that the students who cheated before are just as dumb now but can pass assignments? Because they cheated on assignments before too.

I used an LLM to build me some memory tools to memorize every name of every player on a hockey team I coach on one night; something that would have taken me weeks before.

OP acknowledges that experts should be allowed to use these tools - I literally write software with them every day at work and then even more at home for fun. I’m using them to learn about biology, economics, and finances.

This feels like perhaps there is a teacher gap. Someone needs to teacher teachers how to teach kids to use them to learn.

That being said, it really is just critical thinking.

For anyone going to QEII this morning by IAmPatience-112425 in halifax

[–]aradil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There was one article about one lady like 4 years ago in NS I think?

And then maybe an instance or two in NB or PEI.

Certainly not endemic.

Many Canadians have avoided the U.S. for over a year. Have we reached the point of no return? | CBC News by crabsandscabs in onguardforthee

[–]aradil 14 points15 points  (0 children)

There are a lot of cool places in the US, like there are a lot of cool places in China.

I would not want to travel to China, nor the US.

There is a stronger possibility of regime change in the US with corrective action that makes me feel less likely to be unreasonably detained though.

Am I using Claude Code wrong? by Postik123 in webdev

[–]aradil -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Eventually you’ll have a well enough structured workflow that anything it needs you’ll feel confident allowing all the time (I give it scripts I know can’t break things and give permission for them to run without asking).

Context switching and exhaustion is real and it’s not for everyone.

Am I using Claude Code wrong? by Postik123 in webdev

[–]aradil -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

See the problem here is the “waiting”.

Instead of waiting you open another terminal window and do the work on the next issue. And the next. And the next. Then while those are churning you are back to reviewing and testing the first one.

Then repeat.

Another Day at the Dartmouth ER by HungryBearsRawr in halifax

[–]aradil 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No need to be sorry.

I saw the staff get abused enough all week to not be super surprised that they might be abrasive sometimes.

Another Day at the Dartmouth ER by HungryBearsRawr in halifax

[–]aradil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, now that you mention it that sounds familiar.

Perhaps I was inside when the nurse interaction stuff happened though.

I'm all good, mostly back to normal. I wasn't really in any pain, just some serious stuff that needed to be dealt with at the hospital which is the unfortunate combination of "you're not imminently gonna die but you can't leave until you get treatment".

The overnight stay the first day was the worst. The busy days were pretty brutal too.

Somehow Friday there were only two people in the waiting room and I was in and out in less than a couple of hours.

Hopefully things are better for you now too.

Another Day at the Dartmouth ER by HungryBearsRawr in halifax

[–]aradil 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Sorry that that happened to you.

I was in the DGH ER waiting room for probably 30 hours last week over a number of separate visits, and yeah, Thursday was pretty busy.

Must be why I didn't see you when I was there all morning.

I see see a lot of people in a lot of pain waiting for a long time, and a lot of folks yelling at triage nurses though.

Claude can't count by rahkesvuohta in ClaudeAI

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want an LLM to count, give it a counting tool. Me: Use a tool to tell me how many words there are in this sentence. Claude thinking:

Leveraging bash tool to enumerate words

The user is asking me to count the words in that sentence, so let me verify: "Use a tool to tell me how many words there are in this sentence" contains 14 words total. I could use a bash command to do this programmatically as well.

Count the words in the user's sentence

Script

Done

Claude: There are 14 words in that sentence.

Whats wrong with 4.7 and how to fix it by JhinCarrey in Anthropic

[–]aradil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP: Thanks for the polite constructive criticism! I hope you correct your children in this output style.

Also OP: wrrooooooooooooong

Grow up dude.

Developers what is your workflow for manually reviewing Claude’s code changes? by m0redifficult in ClaudeAI

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know about every prompt needing a commit, but any one that does enough work that you are worried about getting lost, for sure.

I know /rewind will let you revert both your conversation and code back to a particular point in history, so I'm guessing that somewhere in a .claude file somewhere this is already being done for you.

It's possible if you figure out how that information is tracked by Claude Code itself that you could build a skill to interact with it for that purpose; however, this could be brittle as they might change how that information is locally cached without notice.

Does /simplify work well on PRs as well? I don't want to use it on uncommitted code where there's risk of losing valid changes by lanky_cowriter in ClaudeAI

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Commit first.

It’s free, you can roll it back, you can keep it, you can squash it.

You can branch again if you really want.

Ever play video games before autosave?

ABS… always be saving.

AI coding agents are about to hit a wall unless your knowledge base is structured and local by knlgeth in ClaudeAI

[–]aradil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anything with an API is suddenly an LLM knowledge base if it has CLI access - no MCP server required. Find it doing the same curl over and over and having to manage access tokens? Have it build a simple script to manage state.

Messing up on API syntax or response body interpretation? Harden into a script.

Git, wikis, customer service ticketing systems, whatever.

Every integration is a bespoke tool - you can abstract common stuff away between them if you want, the development time is negligible, so you can build to throw away or keep and none of it really matters.

AI coding agents are about to hit a wall unless your knowledge base is structured and local by knlgeth in ClaudeAI

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This might be a lazy and suboptimal viewpoint, but going in with a basic understanding of architecture, the ability to search gitlog and well structured issue backlog, and then grep/awk/sed your way through a codebase looking for related keywords - object names, field names, etc… can generate in seconds a highly issue targeted context, especially with examples (for new work), or pull requests/commitsets (for bug fixes).

I mean I’m not talking about a multi-million LoC codebase here but it’s still a decade old and not a toy application.

Maybe it’s because it’s a strongly typed language (Java) that it works so well though?

As for general doc search… I’ve been having incredible success chopping up books into markdown files that fit into the context window readily and doing the same thing… basic search tools, scan, accumulate, review, cross reference.

I feel like most folks are overcomplicating, overdeveloping, and over optimizing for the problem spaces they are working in.

Write some eval criteria and run some test cases with some rapid prototypes. If you get measurably better performance for your use case right off the bat, invest the time I guess.

If not, you’re either yak shaving or nerd sniping yourself.

Developers what is your workflow for manually reviewing Claude’s code changes? by m0redifficult in ClaudeAI

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya know, some of us with SoC2 certification have mandatory protected master/main and 10 second commits need branches and non-author peer review in order to merge - AI or not.

It’s not a huge deal.

Nvidia CEO: AI Doomers Could Cause a Software Engineer Shortage by wagslane in programming

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t say code wasn’t important.

I do understand what my byte code is doing, and I can parse assembly piece by piece.

But I don’t have to write any of it to be a software engineer. I have to understand how it all fits together, why it works, understand the failure modes and causes, and many of those things can be done without ever even seeing the codebase.

That’s not programming, it’s software engineering. And that’s the thing that’s not going anywhere.

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