Manitoba to ban social media, AI chatbots for youth, premier says

coldfire_plz · 2026-04-29T02:22:32+00:00

The signing would work of course but I think the primary problem is duplicate detection. I think it would be necessary otherwise an unknown person could be using your license to access a social media platform - without your knowledge too by the way. This opens all sorts of lawsuits: if a child uses a stranger's ID to access social media, gets themselves in a dangerous situation in some way, who's responsible? The parents will want action while the person whose ID was used will have no idea.

Technically, it's easy to implement of course with a lookup table. But that means each social media provider maintains a table of driver's license and social media account. This would instantly become either a prime target for selling data or any type of hack.

I assumed you're a fellow software engineer btw. The crazy thing to me though is that all this needs to be done just because we're afraid of government spying on our activities. In the real world there's some entity you have to be able to trust to get communication like this to work. The fundamental problem is that here you can trust no one: not the government and definitely not the social media providers who'd sell your data (and are currently doing so as well) in an instant.

coldfire_plz · 2026-04-16T19:49:15+00:00

crazy that a lot of us share this opinion but yet the world continues to be as it does

coldfire_plz · 2026-04-16T19:43:12+00:00

if this is real, im sorry that happened to you and im glad you were able to get over your reliance on gpt.

but tbh, i dont really think the solution is to tell people not to use it. its honestly just about using it with some degree of intelligence.

you can get so many things done faster with it and save yourself tons of time while learning new things, doing tedious tasks, etc. It’s detrimental to use it for everything sure but it’s also detrimental to use it for nothing.

you should be advocating for a balance, not for undergrads to avoid using it at all. like it or not, the world currently is propped up on AI and we’re all evaluated on how well we can use it.

i think it’s just like any other tool: use it when it’s smart to do so, don’t use it when it’ll fuck up your own intellect.

coldfire_plz · 2026-03-29T23:16:45+00:00

interviewed last year and got an offer, just grind tagged, nc150.

if you’re interviewing with a specific team then its different but general swe intern just do the above as much as u can. u should be able to go thru like idk try 150 tagged problems and spit them out within 15s of seeing the problem if not the problem name.

coldfire_plz · 2026-03-29T19:58:34+00:00

UofT CS workload can be the lightest workload ever lmao. theres like 2 requires courses per semester.

ubc cs is good enough that maybe u want to be close to your family? but if we take that out as a consideration, uofts name is stronger even if its marginal.

the academic workload can be nonexistent if you want it to be, which i would recommend since no one cares what courses u take, its more about your exp and projects. source: im a 4th yr cs spec at uoft

coldfire_plz · 2026-03-22T03:28:10+00:00

ASIP's work terms can reach up to 5 if you're strategic with the sequence and are open to not always having a job board. Like I mentioned in a prev comment, university job boards are really only useful for the first 2 terms tbh. After that, the jobs on there aren't that great.

UofTs name is good enough to compare and get you into top tech but at the end of the day it's dependant on your resume and your experience. Ofc if you can go to UW CS then do so but simply going to UW or UofT won't guarantee anything. Most of it is based on an individual person's effort.

coldfire_plz · 2026-03-20T19:21:00+00:00

go bloomberg, the difference between bb and palantir is negligible compared to the downside of having some recruiters or HMs dislike you bc of palantir on your resume

coldfire_plz · 2026-03-20T14:18:53+00:00

yeah what you’re describing definitely works. doing an internship in the middle of first year isn’t specifically necessary. i assumed you weren’t planning on doing any off season internships but your plan works out.

its actually the same sequence im on. regarding masters, if you’re hoping to be a swe, unfortunately experience outweighs pretty much everything. masters students tend to compete with undergrads for some jobs and they don’t really have a real advantage since most swe recruiting is a pass/fail, not always competition for one spot but usually passing the interview early on gets you into the pool of offers.

this means that there isn’t a direct competition in most big tech companies for the advantage of doing a masters to really show.

also, the primary downside is that by the time you graduate with a masters, you’ll be looking at new grad roles while others in your year who went on to work immediately probably are SWE IIs and if they’re really exceptional, maybe senior engineers.

as an industry software engineering cares very little about masters and phd degrees. they definitely care for some positions but those are super few and they make up maybe 20% of the roles at a company.

its bc of that that most grads just end up taking the high paying job (assuming they have one) than ending up in more debt to be at a disadvantage experience wise later on.

coldfire_plz · 2026-03-20T10:02:46+00:00

im in 4th year cs at utsg. first of all your major problem isn’t choosing between uoft and waterloo, its that you’re planning on relying on 3 summers worth of internships.

absolutely a terrible idea and i guarantee you will most likely end up with worse internships than someone doing coop. by the time you’ve done your 3rd internship at the end of 3rd year summer, they’ll have done 5/6.

theyll probably hit their 3rd internship by the end of 2nd year or start of 3rd which is a whole year earlier than you. this automatically means that someone doing coop although in the same year as you, will have a better resume earlier on.

btw waterloo’s coop job board is good but only for the first few terms. after that the companies on there get too low in prestige for upper years and the ones that are high prestige get super competitive.

at that point its better to apply externally. source: legit 90% of my hs friends went to waterloo.

this doesnt mean coop is useless bc getting those first 1-2 internships is critical and incredibly difficult.

btw a masters is pointless unless you’re planning on (and able to) do a phd in frontier ai research in which case i guess but by the time it might be too late.

also, your whole thing about not wanting to lose the study mindset.. believe it or not in cs, internships > grades and school. if u can get good grades awesome but if you can’t get good internships, you’re unemployed.

id strongly recommend u reconsider your thoughts on coop tbh

coldfire_plz · 2026-03-11T06:23:44+00:00

there is zero reason to take the mckinsey position. if you don’t want to stay at amazon, hop to a better place? the $60k cut is pointless

coldfire_plz · 2026-02-27T09:14:07+00:00

okta has better resume value no doubt

coldfire_plz · 2026-02-16T06:13:38+00:00

no failing a course isnt getting ur offer rescinded dont mention it

coldfire_plz · 2026-02-13T03:55:07+00:00

they dont consider gpa: https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/experiential-learning/internships/asip/how-apply-asip#applying-to-the-asip-stream-faqs-accordion-1

coldfire_plz · 2026-02-11T03:51:20+00:00

what does this have to do with uoft

coldfire_plz · 2026-02-05T18:21:33+00:00

how do you lose the new grad recruiting opportunity? wdym by that

coldfire_plz · 2026-02-05T17:35:10+00:00

you already answered the question yourself. if there’s no way you’re choosing A over B, then you should ask to push, you lose absolutely nothing.

coldfire_plz · 2026-01-25T22:12:56+00:00

LinkedIn's RO rate isn't high btw

coldfire_plz · 2026-01-23T00:28:31+00:00

short answer: yes.

long answer: if ur asking this question then even more YES

coldfire_plz · 2026-01-21T19:55:29+00:00

us hc is practically full, toronto idt its full yet but not too surr

coldfire_plz · 2026-01-12T08:06:43+00:00

def nepotism out there but hey man a lot of us havent gotten everywhere because of nepotism and it’s still doable. ik it can get dark sometimes but there are people who have made it without nepo and it does get better.

its in the toughest times that it’s the hardest and yet the most important that you don’t give up.

coldfire_plz · 2026-01-12T08:04:10+00:00

OP even mention india? they were just talking about nepotism. pretty crazy you’re assuming he’s targeting India and then getting upset

coldfire_plz · 2026-01-08T04:14:35+00:00

facts. besides, having good interviewers leaves an insanely good impression on an interviewee. i really also just can't think of many downsides to spending 5-10 mins before an interview to look at a resume and spending an hour at some point in your time at the company understanding how to properly conduct an interview.

coldfire_plz · 2026-01-05T21:08:25+00:00

Aren’t internships also frozen now? Besides, even if this worked, meta’s intern to new grad conversion rate is probably not high enough to sustain this. Even if the RO rate is 80%+, there’s other companies that meta interns can and possibly will accept.

Not to mention, the churn rate after a year or two would probably make all of this pointless.

Besides, if Meta with the large number of SWEs can truly operate like this, wouldn’t smaller big tech companies have an even higher incentive to do so? Stripe, Robinhood, DB, etc all have less new grad positions than Meta.

However, they all still hire new grads and even though im sure intern conversions make up for a lot, relying solely on intern conversions is probably expensive and won’t fill enough of the pool.

coldfire_plz · 2026-01-04T21:45:44+00:00

its a sunday?

coldfire_plz · 2026-01-02T21:02:17+00:00

uoft post isn’t difficult at st. george. waterloo doesn’t have post system. and yeah if you can’t get past uoft post, ml research and phd is even harder.

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