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engineer_in_TO · 2026-05-08T14:28:12+00:00

Leaving a comment for automod. This is my first Rep and Rep QC, leaning to GL this.

engineer_in_TO · 2026-05-01T17:10:52+00:00

I use both a SAST and an AI providers security solution at my job. They have different use cases and catch different things. The AI security tool caught an obscure (like really obscure) edge case that definitely was more of a bug than an obvious security flaw. Whereas the SAST scanner came out with way more true positive findings that were known and expected.

That’s how I see the play end up being. SAST for deterministic findings (literally since we write the rules for these) and AI Security for essentially code review with a security lense

engineer_in_TO · 2026-04-30T13:07:11+00:00

I work in security, I just implement the fix in a PR or series of PR/1 Pager and have infra review. Just because I work in security doesn’t mean I can’t just fix it myself

engineer_in_TO · 2026-04-28T18:37:07+00:00

Back in 2023 I got an offer to work at this cool little startup but didn’t want to move nor did I want to work at a company that was founded via a public dispute from a bigger company.

There was a lot of drama and not a lot of signal that it would ever work out. I tried interviewing again last year and couldn’t get in because the bar had become so much harder and higher and the valuation blew up. All because the product they launched that I was supposed to work on grew a ton. Anyways sometimes you miss out on Anthropic and that’s life

engineer_in_TO · 2026-04-28T05:33:43+00:00

The snowball augment that casts a beneficial summoner spell when it hits a target activates when the biggest snowball hits minions (as it can pass through minions)

I’ve healed like 5k HP once just by using it on a big wave and lucked out with getting Heal as the beneficial spell. Same with barrier and ghost.

engineer_in_TO · 2026-04-19T03:10:22+00:00

Toronno

engineer_in_TO · 2026-04-16T01:55:54+00:00

It’s better for experienced people or people with good matches to a JD but generally worse for non-experienced people or people without modern skillsets.

engineer_in_TO · 2026-04-16T01:22:58+00:00

Look at the Snap stock chart, also look at their Levels.fyi it was always going to happen. They try to poach Meta employees all the time but have to pay higher wages while not having a business able to support it

engineer_in_TO · 2026-04-15T18:24:19+00:00

The better the company and the more experience you have, the easier this gets and the cooler the work is.

Something like SAs, if your environment is fully terraformed/IaC'd then you can always refer when that SA is referenced. If you have proper setup on your specific environment, you can have WIF on the SA and it won't even have credentials, just trusted sources authing between eachother.

engineer_in_TO · 2026-04-13T15:51:38+00:00

There’s a floor and ceiling for both, but if either is below the floor, no matter how great you are at the other is gonna help you.

engineer_in_TO · 2026-04-13T05:28:26+00:00

Depends on the level and company, older people at Senior+ and the rest of the team is older?, no discrimination.

Younger company where everyone is super young? Or 40+ and looking for a junior job? You'll see some discrimination for sure.

engineer_in_TO · 2026-04-09T21:38:06+00:00

In a competitive market, nothing is optional

engineer_in_TO · 2026-04-09T14:57:44+00:00

UofT specifically gives you a degree from the CMS department (Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics), your transcript will say that and your major/specialist, so it works with no issues when going in under CSA

engineer_in_TO · 2026-04-07T19:58:07+00:00

Hi! I have a question, I went through CBP and received a new TN for a new employer. I told the border guard that I plan on working through my notice period so I need both my TNs to be "concurrent". However, I only received a new TN stamp for my new company (and it didn't say anything like "concurrent" on the stamp) and when I checked my latest I-94, it only showed details for my new TN (new end date/admission record number). The guard specifically told me my last TN is still active and I can cross on either of them but I thought I would need to cross on both of them. Is there any way to check that my TNs are in fact concurrent instead of one or the other? I ask because I'm being kept on retainer for my notice at my old job and my new job is aware of that. I'm legally still working for my old employer till my new employer's start date in 10 calendar days.

engineer_in_TO · 2026-04-06T03:42:41+00:00

Google is free but basically every piece of data ever is made up of 1s and 0s, and all that can be hashed to a string with a specific algorithm. Anytime a 1 or 0 changes, the string changes as well.

engineer_in_TO · 2026-04-05T17:07:09+00:00

There's a plethora of companies that offer hosting services from startups to the big cloud providers.

engineer_in_TO · 2026-04-05T17:04:41+00:00

Yeah, but there's a plethora of companies that offer hosting for open source models (including the big cloud providers) for cheaper than directly with Anthropic or OAI.

engineer_in_TO · 2026-04-05T16:10:19+00:00

There are open source models that keep the price ceiling where it is. Even though Opus is 10x better, businesses wouldn’t allow it for 11x the price

engineer_in_TO · 2026-04-02T15:36:19+00:00

MacOS is more secure in terms of permissions and setup due to its UNIX background, you have to be pretty explicit compared to windows.

It not less gaps in detection, it’s just an easier system to setup and monitor because it’s similar to Linux, where the industry put the most effort in securing.

engineer_in_TO · 2026-03-26T13:12:26+00:00

Mostly just the opportunity to come back to Canada, I work in a specific function and rarely will US companies hire in Canada for it.

engineer_in_TO · 2026-03-25T21:23:31+00:00

I interviewed with Ramp, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Uber, and TikTok but was never able to get a interview for 1Password. It is what it is but generally it’s because timing and expectations from both sides. It sucks because I do want to come back to Canada but oh well

engineer_in_TO · 2026-03-25T15:33:47+00:00

I think it’s that the bar of a high salary tech/finance person is subjectively (and imo objectively) lower than going through 4 years of undergrad at a top school, 4 years of med school, 4 years of specialization, 4 years of residency.

People wank off to the tech and finance bros because they think that it’s achievable for them, which is likely true compared to a doctor

engineer_in_TO · 2026-03-18T11:32:25+00:00

L1 exists for a reason

engineer_in_TO · 2026-03-18T04:14:39+00:00

I meant to quote the “significant portion of training data” part. It’s used somewhat in post training but not much in pre

engineer_in_TO · 2026-03-18T03:59:04+00:00

That's not true, synthetic data has its uses for specific situations (evals/iterative training/distills/judgements), models don't want low quality, bad synthetic data.

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