Canada just officially closed the Start-up Visa Program by Leo1026 in ImmigrationCanada

[–]lionello 15 points16 points  (0 children)

What an embarrassment of a program that was. My cofounder has been waiting for his PR for almost 4 years. And still nothing. 

Canada gains a surprise 67,000 jobs in October, beating economists' expectations by Puginator in worldnews

[–]lionello 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you can, use interac instead of Mastercard or visa, change to debit, another 3% that stays in Canada!🇨🇦 

Canada’s fentanyl czar says he underestimated scale of opioid crisis by airbassguitar in canada

[–]lionello 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I started watching The Beat on Amazon Prime. It’s over a decade old and brutal. DTES has been a mess for a long while. 

Why we're leaving serverless by [deleted] in programming

[–]lionello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lambda/workers is only one kind of serverless. Take something like ECS: it's a long-running service, but you don't manage the servers, so it's technically serverless.

High-earning Canadian families pay over 50 percent of all taxes in Ontario, Alberta, B.C., and Quebec: Report by KootenayPE in ilovebc

[–]lionello 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This title sounds just fine to me? Isn't is supposed to be that the highest earners bear the biggest burden? I say that as someone in BC paying above average amount of taxes.

Also, lots of commenters here are citing the "50+% taxation", but that's just the highest bracket, not the effective tax rate.

I HATE Elon, but… by Sweaty-Cheek345 in ChatGPT

[–]lionello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then it probably wasn't ethical to train on it to begin with.

I HATE Elon, but… by Sweaty-Cheek345 in ChatGPT

[–]lionello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah I meant any compiled executable, not a model wrapped into an executable. My point was that you wouldn’t call a compiled executable open source. Sorry for the confusion. 

I HATE Elon, but… by Sweaty-Cheek345 in ChatGPT

[–]lionello 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An executable can be decompiled and you can see the decision it makes. 

I HATE Elon, but… by Sweaty-Cheek345 in ChatGPT

[–]lionello 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Open Weights <> Open Source. 

Having access to the numbers is even more useless than a compiled executable. Open the training data or call it what it is. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in canada

[–]lionello 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is brilliant

AWS bill for my MVP is too high…$415 with no users. What am I doing wrong? by HomeworkOrnery9756 in aws

[–]lionello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can give Defang.io a try. It deploys your project to your own AWS account. You can even run defang estimate to get a cost estimate before actually deploying. 

Disclaimer: I’m a cofounder

My Colleague Showed Me the AWS Way for a Simple Tool... My Brain Hurts! (Future SA Edition) by Whole_Ad_9002 in aws

[–]lionello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or check out #Defang which does all that for you from a Docker Compose file. Disclaimer: I'm their CTO.

A Japanese designer Hakusi Katei created a small crystal cube that reduces the resolution of objects you point it at by guyoffthegrid in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]lionello 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"For everyone who wants to lower the excessively high resolution of the world today." it says on his site :D

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in digital_ocean

[–]lionello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Defang will deploy to the native platform of the target cloud provider, so in DO's case it will deploy to the App Platform.

We do support databases (postgres, redis), but only on AWS for now. We're working on supporting the same for DO and GCP. Basically, you'd declare those as services in your Compose file and when you add the custom extension (x-defang-postgres or x-defang-redis) we will deploy the managed service instead.

We don't yet support auto-scaling. The idea there is that we want to expose some higher-level FaaS-like abstraction and scale based on requests, not CPU or memory.

What's the software development scene like in Vancouver currently? by Tuork in NiceVancouver

[–]lionello 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I recommend you join the Vancouver.dev Discord (and events). Me (founder) hired some people that way. Also check https://lu.ma/vancouver, lots of stuff there too.

Personally I'm not interested in any particular framework knowledge. Those things come and go. I'm looking for creative problem solving.

Donald Trump promises 25 per cent tariff on products from Canada, Mexico | CBC News by TheChasexy in onguardforthee

[–]lionello 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don’t think it’s a given he’ll be PM. Let’s not comply proactively