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its actually not that weird if you consider that those shopify engineers are probably not even exceeding 150,000 usd on average salary wise

canadian dollar is very cheap so you'd likely see 40~50% more headcounts for the same burn rates you get in USA

i definitely dont think those shopify engineers are going to be retained long term however

not sure why you are being downvoted, but that has been my experience with 3.7 flash and sol/fable comparisons

i think luna-max has the best cost value offer when it comes to coding, but i note the multi modality of gemini flash as a win

i might consider 3.8 flash for simple side hobby projects or quick scaffolding but would not trust it for long agentic tasks, that really is the realm of sol/fable

agy cli still has a lot of issues not sure if its due to the underlying model hallucinating or the harness or both

thats not just the context growing issue, hallucinations is a thing

i find deepswe not very reliable for instance it puts grok 4.6 xhigh over sol medium

i discount people who lean too heavily into benchmark as the authoritative truth when it comes to evaluation of coding capability of these models.

experience tells me that those people simply have not used models for a long period of time specifically on coding and have run their own comparisons

to someone who uses all vendors, the differences are very palpable and drives purchase decisions.

also keep in mind Gemini and other labs have repeatedly done benchmaxxing, you must have your own benchmarks to evaluate these models.

not really getting the excitement over this, its at opus 5 medium level, and opus 5 is not really the go to model , claude purists hate it

so its fast sure and decent at non coding usage but for developers nothing can really top sol or fable.

even grok 4.6 is so so and i would not choose 3.8 flash over it.

Contrary to some confusion about whether firefox will keep mv2:

Yes they will. Also I predict that MV2 is going to be a major boon for firefox.

It has taken a long time to prove the value of firefox to the masses and I believe mv2 extensions in particular ublock origin will be what keeps people coming back to it

I've not touched chrome in decades. Firefox stands strong. I would donate but in EU that comes with tax issues.

this is potentially useful for me do you know if this can fully handle callkit?

a spammer is motivated by self-enrichment

AI agents are grounded on the user provided direction. If it doesn't work well then it naturally loses trust.

All the American companies you mentioned still follow American law and regulation. Skirting that blatantly has big consequences.

Chinese companies do not follow American laws and there are absolutely no consequences for violating it.

Moreover, the average American is not even aware of exactly what the legal/judicial environment is like in China. If your code and data is stolen, you can't fly to China and demand justice in the courts.

Looked this up and yikes, Gander's CTO Jeff Wood did work at Pornhub.

> they collect no PII

this is false.. Gander's own privacy policy says it collects account info including name/email/DOB IP, device ID and physical location. While Canada post may seemingly offer isolation, Bill c-22 famously makes such segregation moot, as there is no formal legal process to obtaining your posts and content viewed. Just having an IP address from your Canadian ISP would be enough and total.

> you can't post hate speech or threats of violence

is a pretty misleading summary of Canadian speech law, it prohibits public statements likely to expose protected groups to hatred or contempt, and covers public incitement and wilful promotion of hatred.

but critically the speakers intent is actually irrelevant under this law. it could be someone trolling or just saying something casual without much harm intended. no clear border Canadians can know in advance, something you thought was harmless can be complained (recently they were encouraging reporting "harmful content" on X) and judged later based on its supposed effect. thats exactly where the chilling effect comes from.

Even more disturbing is that Gander itself has literally published an article pushing Canadian hate speech laws should be expanded and enforced on social platforms.

> Also not a thing. American platforms practice widespread self-censorship and have no protection under the law except from the state.

1st aendment generally protects a user from government censorship, not from a private website deciding what it wants to host thats very different from American platforms having no protection.

I understand that you might view these laws and moderation policies are good but dismissing the concerns while mispresenting basic facts about the service and while promoting a social network seemingly started by a CTO from pornhub pushing for more censorship and broad application of Canadian hate speech, to say the least very disturbing and not a wise PR move.

same here, my videos and posts would hover close to a million on average. I covered europe mostly where I'm from and the happenings there.

After Nikita took over I found X to be significantly worse. They also realized paying people to repost viral videos wasn't drawing advertisers.

In fact one fo the reasons I think their algorithm is so bad now is because they lack advertisers (conversion on X remains the lowest out of all social media platforms) and have to rely on people paying for X premium who naturally wants to be seen and engage in echo chambers.

The real deal breaker for me is when X did not honor their freedom of speech philosophy and did not offer me protection when a certain European country got involved and became very aggressive that I had to leave.

> Once a large enough majority move to Bluesky, I'll start browsing that app more

The problem is a network effect. Lot of people rage quit X and then they return to it because they realize the reach isn't there on Bluesky, and whenever that happens it just sends strong signals

I don't really like X either, I feel like the feed algorithm isn't very good and just shows the same thing repeated by multiple accounts.

I'm trying to objectively view the two platforms without the partisan rhetorics. There isn't that many places besides Threads.

I personally like the old php forums which had a real presence.

I don't think any of them are better, I especially do not want to be on bluesky. on X you could still do your own thing and not be tied to the political extremism but its not the case with bluesky, people automatically perceive you to support the founder's political views and it has nowhere the same reach as X which is why I think the negative connotations are stronger on bluesky than X

X is used internationally, especially big in Japan and has lot of adoption among working professionals. Just my two cents and I personally don't really like X much either. Threads also isn't that great either.

intersting take, I'm not Canadian but wasn't there some pretty draconian bills that were passed where you could be reported for voicing or sharing your opinions on some things ?

That already seems like a hard barrier for any sort of Canadian social network especially when you require your users to dox themselves and open themselves to all sorts of scrutiny.

The problem with all of this is that it creates a sterilized politically correct environment that won't have the same pull as a public square that upholds freedom of speech like American ones.

Again the trope Russia did it is as ridiculous as Trump claiming China rigged US elections. There's simply no real hard evidence that can be examined without partisan bias.

I don't doubt the existence of troll farms either its just that the idea that you can influence online discourse in the manner claimed by both Democrats and Republicans and beyond in a left vs right rivalry is greatly exaggerated and carry their biases.

At the end of the day, you really can't change whatever beliefs that the crowd has had for ages. You can't astroturf Palestinians into changing their view against Israelis and you can't astroturf Israelis into changing their position towards Palestinians.

where did you get the 3d map assets? also if one was serious about turning this into a game how would you go about it

No, there was already a steady complaints against Anti-EU regulation from within Europe around the time Eurozone debt crisis introduced sweeping changes that ultimately centralized regulatory enforcement over sovereign interests of EU member states. I think anybody from Europe would know this is the focal point when anti-EU sentiments really ticked up.

There really isn't much of astro-turfing in non-EU parts of the world that would make little sense, your narrative might make more sense if there were any actual evidence or credibility behind the claims that non-EU states are engaged in anti-EU discourse that doesn't apply to them.

The complaints against EU is a lagging effect and what you see today is cumulative, one that all federated organization eventually face. LLMs have little to do with it and its just more visible as it is quite literally in global discourse

I think i read Japan does this to CCTVs sold in China

Public Security Intelligence Agency (公安調査庁) apparently is sitting on a massive amount of data from China which imported their tech

My advice as someone working at staff engineer role for 3 different employers remotely and the "let problems accumulate" resonates but different context:

- don't be too proactive in solving issues that signals you are not busy to your employers.

- you are not hired to sit around 9-5, what you ship and how it impacts the business bottom line is far more important.

Especially true when I have to juggle 3 different employers. I will be in a long standup meeting with company A while I am answering slack messages from company B or company C has a deadline that overlaps with another and I'd have to work on at the same time.

Previously without LLMs this was very difficult but now its manageable, especially with openclaw and hermes doing a lot of lifting. This let me discover a lot of what's discussed in the article naturally.

it prevents certain innovations to be derived from it but with LLMs I do think these licensing are pretty much moot.

i still think it could've benefited by Apache 2.0 which more or less gets you to your goals

If you view this life as a simulation and that this is the only possible one you will inhibit, it all looks absurd for the very thing you mentioned, the snapshot of it alone suggests chaos stochastic properties with seemingly no order but this isn't your fault as much of Western perspective has judeo-christian roots reject the Eastern philosophy that have preceded it for several milllenias thus I'd argue would be more grounded and accurate seeing that geographically isolated and separated cultures who have never come into contact with other have discovered the same conclusions.

The new wave movement in the West frame it as a simulation hypothesis perspective, your DNA is the passport through many simulations you've experienced and it carries the merit, effort and capabilities gained over time.

We just call it Buddhism outside san francisco.

interesting you used AGPL 3 licensing, are you planning a hosted version?

would've been great with a more liberal license

I want code that is efficient, secure and cheap to produce. There is no way a human can compete with a network of agents doing that. Whatever edge you think exists is on a downward trend. Look at where we were in the days of GPT 4o vs now in terms of coding capability. Look at the marketplace for overseas contractors and the impact AI has had.

To ship what I do now would've cost a few million dollars per year in terms of the team needed to maintain it now its 1000x cheaper

My point isn't that what you are doing is pointless or that you shouldn't enjoy what you do but that it ultimately holds very little economic value especially as someone in charge of hiring developers, their experience is more valuable in the sphere of architectural design than expertise over syntax.

LLMs compile english to whatever code you want and it can write it better, faster and more efficiently than a human can over the long run. You might have an edge in shorter sprints but that gap is quickly reduced when LLMs simply learn and apply whatever optimization they find and it can continue to output without any diminishing returns and at fraction of what it takes to pay a human to do it.

Sure but how many devs can sustain that level of efficiency around the clock and how much thought do you think their employers will give when the LLM tokens pay 1/100~1/1000th of the wage paid

> Being a code artisan is not gatekeeping. It means if you're used to being close to the metal and often know better than the compiler, Zig is for you. If you're not, use Rust.

You are saying that if you are not a code artisan (who by definition can't use LLM) likeyou then they should not use Zig. Honestly, I don't care. I'm not a code artisan, if Zig can help me ship faster and better with LLMs, my job is done and that's what I get paid for.

> Codex CLI taking over 15 minutes to recompile on my fairly high-end machine. Zig's incremental compilation optimizations are amazing, giving near-instant recompiles measured in ms instead of minutes.

So there is a benefit here mentioned by the non-arisans which is what I wanted to know but you wouldn't know if you don't use ai assisted delivery.

Rust is quite slow but that is an interesting benefit but still not sure what the trade offs are, Rust has a huge mature ecosystem and there are lot of jobs for it.

Are you able to ship faster with Zig vs Rust? How did you arrive at the 4x figure?

I'm really puzzled why people are so angry over using ai assistance with Zig. LLMs are always going to be able to write better code faster and better than anyone who calls themselves code artisans in this day and age.

I think this comment posted a while back someone who worked on Zig is pretty telling:

> The key problem with Zig nowadays is how much of its community and adoption is driven by anti-Rust sentiment. As a result, while Rust puts beginner onboarding and documentation at the center of its culture, as opposed to the “C neckbeard”'s culture, Zig is going the other way around.

And ultimately this didn't stop people from using AI generating Zig code as much of the users in the thread are already using it to ship quality faster.

Happy to use the work the community outputs and culture is largely irrelevant when prompting LLMs outputs code that doesn't really require any intimate knowledge with the syntaxes

with LLMs? syntax doesn't really matter anymore exactly because of what you mentioned in your last sentence.