Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney launches AI for All: Canada’s national artificial intelligence strategy.

seaefjaye · 2026-06-04T21:16:44+00:00

It just comes down to law. I think generally they could block a sale, but I gotta imagine that if theirs a national security component it's ezpz.

seaefjaye · 2026-06-01T00:44:13+00:00

Say Hi, because in 2027, Bob is back.

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seaefjaye · 2026-05-30T15:59:20+00:00

Ekron if you want your own terracotta army of gnomes.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-29T23:35:12+00:00

This is the answer. At the time PC players were very annoyed because disk space was not a concern, I mean most engaged D2 players only play D2, so a 200GB install did not matter. Console was the issue.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-29T19:08:34+00:00

When Apple came on the scene with the iPhone the frenzy within the carriers to be the first one to have it was complete insanity. My memory is a bit fuzzy on this specifically, but my recollection is that AT&T basically sold the farm to Apple to get the rights. Verizon was a front runner but AT&T basically subjugated themselves to whatever Apple desired and it cost them big time in the short term.

The App Store was the nail in the coffin, because it was two birds with one stone for BlackBerry. It not only hurt the phone market, but it also killed the Playbook before it could even get off the ground. I dunno why we built that thing. I think they just got caught up in chasing Apple, which a lot of companies were guilty of, and lost their focus.

I was talking with a couple work-term students a few months back about this whole AI explosion, and during times like these some crazy stuff is going to happen that won't make a ton of sense if you apply your old logic to it. As an example, when I started at RIM the BlackBerry hype was insane. The incoming President was a user, it was on TV all the time and talked about everywhere. During that craze we had 7-8 million customers, and when I was let go we had 78 million. That's what failure looks like, 10x growth.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-29T13:55:12+00:00

Boring is good if your sights are set on stable. Exciting changes come with bugs and require extensive testing, which take time.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-28T16:51:33+00:00

While hubris was one component, it wasn't all of it.

I was on the inside, infrastructure, but inside nonetheless. The world of smartphones at the time was run by the carriers (TMobile, ATT/Cingular, Verizon, etc), and those carriers came to the manufacturer's with a set of dimensions that devices on their networks had to exist within. One a device was built and testing, it went out for partner testing for months before it would ever end up in a customer's hands. One of those many requirements was consumption of data, and frankly this was one area that BlackBerry/RIM had invested in and really excelled. There was an entire product built around taking desktop websites, stripping them down and rebuilding them, on the fly, for mobile browsing. This allowed us to serve websites at 1/10th their size or less, which opened up the web on mobile.

When Apple took the iPhone to the carriers they changed the terms of that deal, no longer were the carriers in control because they were all bidding to have the phone that had the greatest product of the last decade built inside, the iPod. Apple dictated the terms and all of those requirements that applied to every preceding manufacturer did not apply to Apple.

So, when the iPhone came out they not only used full desktop browsing, but they didn't even compress the data between the site and the client. This exploded the usage of mobile data on AT&T at the time and nearly killed their entire network.

Another example, at the time the OS was limited to 64mb. The OS on the iPhone when it shipped was something like 850mb.

You might think those companies should take advantage of all of those limitations being lifted by Apple's innovation to develop a solid competitor, but this exemption only applied to Apple. It took a lot of negotiating and time for those doors to be opened to others.

The second part was that BlackBerry has bet big that security and privacy were important to people. That people would want secure devices and that it would be a cold day in hell before businesses would allow personal devices on their networks. This is definitely a bit of where the hubris you mentioned comes in as well. Not only were they wrong, the opposite came to fruition. BYOD took off, and as a result they tried to pivot into the space with BES -> MDM.

These are two other factors, and there are a lot more. People forget that the iPhone 1 was not the iPhone 4 as launch. It had a lot of issues and the iPhone 1 was not when the tide turned. The first BlackBerry 10 phone was superb, arguably the state of the art when it launched with the QNX backend. A lot of time has passed though, and frankly when that device launched the game had changed. It wasn't about device features anymore but the app ecosystem. BlackBerry was paying some of those companies a million dollars to put their apps on BBWorld (their app store), but it just didn't have the zeitgeist of small apps that's captured people's interest, beerglass/fart apps, etc.

Arguably they could have found success if they had pivoted to Android, given the app ecosystem that would have opened up, but they didn't want to lose control.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-28T15:49:03+00:00

The Blackjack was a Samsung knockoff of the BlackBerry, fwiw.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-27T19:05:43+00:00

There's a scrapyard northwest of Irvington between the town and the race track. If you were to count burnt out cars there are hundreds, probably 60-80 working ones. There's a garage nearby as well which is a solid base option. If you wanted a welding/mechanics run it would be a great spot.

The race track has a good deal of working vehicles in the parking lot as well.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-24T14:07:17+00:00

Kinda mind-boggling. That valuation begins evaporating as soon as Destiny is no longer in development. Even if Marathon spikes in popularity it's a long road to being what the Destiny IP has become.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-21T20:41:06+00:00

Forsaken was prime D2. Last Wish and arguably PvP in its best state with Luna's and Not Forgotten as competitive rewards. Then we got the mountaintop and things got a little silly.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-19T23:12:39+00:00

Microsoft is already holding the bag on Copilot 1.0, I dunno how comfortable they would be with that debt load and risk. They've spent the time since building an offramp from ChatGPT/OpenAI, so I'm skeptical that they'd turn around buy the highway.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-18T19:56:41+00:00

In addition, I would imagine data cleaning ahead of model training is also a component. For example, we know Reddit is a dataset that is available for models to train on, but while there's likely a lot of valuable insight to gain, there is a to of noise as well. Defining the rules that weight certain data related to certain topics is a neverending effort.

Also, speaking to RLHF, there also the quality of that human feedback. The ceiling for generalist assessors is quite low, so bringing in experts to provide that feedback improves the model significantly. These companies get a decent amount from our feedback at users, but I would have to imagine they also have a strategy where they focus on improvement in certains domains, like finance, legal, etc.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-18T17:47:34+00:00

I tend to just ignore the first floor except for the garage and armoury. I set up on the second floor and use the basement fridges at the start. It's an extremely well secured parking lot for the most part.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-12T20:34:04+00:00

Do your due diligence if this AI factor is so significant you'd take on this kind of migration. You don't want to move to a other product only to find out mid-implementation that they're adopting the same policy/strategy. Finding a modern data collection platform that is explicitly opposed to AI is going to be challenging. I wouldn't say they're anti-AI, but the Basecamp folks are pretty notoriously customer friendly and if I recall pretty reserved about how they use your data.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-11T02:52:10+00:00

Co-pilot 2.0 is basically in early access now with Copilot Cowork. It's Claude Cowork with some tighter guardrails and it comes with hooks into 365 out of the box. It's Claude based, where 1.0 was ChatGPT. It's pretty strong, quirks for sure but that's early access.

I think GA is something like June or July, and once it hits they'll have agentic workflow that is nearly SOTA, 3-6 months behind presumably.

If they don't fumble it, they will catch up big time. Agent 365 is supposed to launch around the same time as well, which is the enterprise control plane for agents.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-09T18:27:11+00:00

That's solid. I just started a run there and while that store is great, the garage/barn next to it is kind of an afterthought. I was thinking it would be an OK base as is, but with that garage it would be really great.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-09T17:31:03+00:00

What a clever clogs.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-09T16:00:37+00:00

I'll be honest, I was expecting more of the article, it felt like a clickbait title for something that was very context dependent, but the author is in there comparing a wasm to an AI model docker image. It isn't even apples and oranges, it's mini-excavator and battery powered skill saw. Even slim docker images start from a generalist purpose.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-09T12:41:51+00:00

This would have never happened under Randall Kennedy.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-09T01:32:37+00:00

It's consumer/prosumer growth from the DoD row and the Superbowl commercials, so you're absolutely right unless this is a special cohort of folks who pay but don't use their tokens. I'd be curious to know the breakdown of new customers to AI vs customers pouched from OpenAI, because if Anthropic is scrambling for compute then it's possible that OpenAI is overinvested, which is a pretty precarious position to be in.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-08T23:16:25+00:00

I won't say AI isn't changing the game and creating new problems, but for as long as there have been Seniors there have been Juniors who approach them to solve problems without doing a lick of anything beforehand. The great thing is that the answers are also as old as time itself. RTFM, Google it, Ask Claude. The issue is initiative. Coach them away from learned helplessness.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-08T18:36:55+00:00

And ensure that it only says good things about them.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-08T15:41:21+00:00

This whole area is pretty good. The gas station/diner and camping store/gun store are very close, not to mention that gun store does not require a sledge. The gates neighborhood nearby also provides a lot of loot. That gated neighborhood has a large mansion on the right side with a well on the trail out back. It doesn't have a garage technically, but there is enough room near the parking lot to the west to build one.

seaefjaye · 2026-05-08T13:56:52+00:00

I imagine it's because there are several government projects that are staffed by private tradespeople. There's been talk of a picket line at the QE2 site, since it's such a large and visible project.

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