1. wmoxam Jan 5, 2026 parent

   That does not answer the question
2. wmoxam Jan 1, 2026 parent

   Ok, now I'm even more confused. 40% of what code is machine written?
3. wmoxam Jan 1, 2026 parent

   > 40% of code is now machine-written

   How did you arrive at that number?

4. wmoxam Dec 30, 2025 parent

   IMO LLMs make for a great rubber duck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
5. wmoxam Dec 25, 2025 parent

   I found scrooge.

   Bah, humbug!

6. wmoxam Dec 19, 2025 parent

   Ah shit, here we go again
7. wmoxam Nov 18, 2025 parent

   It has similar syntax, but adding explicit types and macros it's a very different language in practice.

   IMO the two languages can be quite complimentary, I've been exploring using Crystal + MRuby to create apps, it's been fun so far.

8. wmoxam Oct 27, 2025 parent

   It doesn't matter what you or I want. How much money do you think the Canadian government should put behind a domestic auto maker? 10s of billions? 100s of billions?

   How much are 125k manufacturing jobs in Ontario worth? Are there no better economic sectors that we can build up?

9. wmoxam Oct 27, 2025 parent

   Who would buy these EVs if we build them in Canada?

   The Canadian market cannot support a car company without exporting the majority of production. The US is our largest natural market and does not want our auto exports. It's unclear why other markets would want our EVs either.

   Artificial barriers to protect an industry where we don't have an advantage (autos) which results in tariffs on a sectors where we do (agricultural products, resources) isn't sustainable or desirable.

10. wmoxam Oct 27, 2025 parent

    Developing an EV industry depended on US cooperation. That cooperation is gone since Trump was elected.
11. wmoxam Oct 27, 2025 parent

    Trump says he wants every car sold in the United States to be made domestically.

    The old integrated cross-border auto manufacturing system is over. Stellantis is already moving production of Jeep from Brampton to Illinois, and others are expected to follow.

12. wmoxam Sep 2, 2025 parent

    There's rarely any slush on the streets before Christmas. Back when I lived in Toronto I used the PATH between January and March
13. wmoxam Jul 24, 2025 parent

    Outages suck but for me this service has been rock solid. Much better uptime and more capable than the cellular broadband service that it replaced (Bell Canada) at a similar cost
14. wmoxam Jul 22, 2025 parent

    The user was under the impression that production access is how it's supposed to work. https://xcancel.com/elchuchii/status/1946149142415196418#m
15. wmoxam Jul 2, 2025 parent

    Don't look up!
16. wmoxam Feb 17, 2025 parent

    > And no, the US isn't "poised to withdraw from NATO". Nobody's even talking about that.

    * https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/us/politics/trump-2025-na...

    * https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/trump-may-withdraw-us-from-n...

    * https://www.fairobserver.com/politics/its-time-for-the-us-to...

    * https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/analytics/nato-under-trump-possib...

    I don't know how close to withdrawing from NATO the US actually is, but people are talking about it. The aggressive stance the US President has towards two NATO members makes it seem like it could happen soon.

    * https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-offshore-drilling-gul...

    * https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-canada-nato-allies-1....

17. wmoxam Feb 10, 2025 parent

    Same!
18. wmoxam Jan 7, 2025 parent

    > the alternative is it's the most unbelievable happy coincidence

    It's not though.The NDP were faced with two choices:

    1) Support the Liberals and get some of their policies pushed through 2) Support the Conservatives wish to call an early election in which the Conservative are sure to win a majority leaving the NDP powerless

    The reason why the NDP choose this moment to pull their support is that it's an election year, so there's little chance any more NDP policy would be passed. One person's pension (a relatively wealthy person at that) is just a fun partisan talking point for Conservatives.

19. wmoxam Jan 6, 2025 parent

    Tying NDP support to their leader's pension is silly/lazy.

    As part of their deal with the Liberals, the NDP had some real power to implement legislation. If an election happened tomorrow the NDP would lose that power.

    Unhitching from Trudeau at this moment is a good move for the NDP, they want to distance themselves from Trudeau's unpopularity before the next election. That Trudeau is now leaving benefits them even more, they could conceivably continue to support the government now that it's missing its most unpopular member, or they could pull the plug right away if they think they can steal away some Liberal votes during a snap election

20. wmoxam Jan 6, 2025 parent

    It's important to note that some of the key people who were behind these protests were not truckers, but were involved in earlier attempts at mass protest in Ottawa as part of the 'yellow vests' group from 2019
21. wmoxam Jan 2, 2025 parent

    Ok
22. wmoxam Jan 2, 2025 parent

    All of that extra stuff can still use Python and integrate easily with an RoR app. Typically your astronomy/biology/ata science stuff isn't needed in the context of a request and is done asynchronously
23. wmoxam Dec 13, 2024 parent

    Your assuming a motive in that case when none is known of.
24. wmoxam Dec 5, 2024 parent

    How are they counting deactivation's?

    My account got nuked because I changed my birthday date for jokes and it locked me out for being 'too young' when I signed up way back in 2007. I would have needed to provide photos of government ID to re-activate so I let it go.

25. wmoxam Nov 14, 2024 parent

    It's a grifting method. Provoke outrage among the less informed and watch the money roll in
26. wmoxam Sep 27, 2024 parent

    Canada and the US have some disagreements about the arctic, particularly about the Northwest Passage: https://brownpoliticalreview.org/2020/04/the-u-s-canada-nort...

    That's got to be a factor here

27. wmoxam Sep 10, 2024 parent

    I’m a software developer and I barely care about the new features. I’m on a 13 and the only ‘recent’ change I’m interested in upgrading for is usb-c.
28. wmoxam Aug 20, 2024 parent

    > Shopify outsources their payment stuff to Stripe

    I thought they used active_merchant

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