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A doctor talking about shifting the Overton window to the right? This does not inspire confidence.

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Anyways, now that I have the boilerplate for the mobile app I wanted to build, I think I'll go Old School, pick a tutorial and maybe read an O'Reilly book or watch videos. Cause this code is fucking atrocious, and slow. They really did train those agents on Stack Overflow.

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Maybe I'm just a cranky old dev, complaining since newbies starting getting fancy with async frameworks for single page apps. 20 years ago, every amazing dev I knew had a pet project or two. Now I suspect many have a dozen apps with 0 to 1 users.

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I remember building a non-trivial application before Rails hit 1.0, and being amazed at how much faster this was. With AI, I'm getting a lot of boilerplate (cool!), and ludicrous amounts of heinous code - untested spaghetti mixing 4 concerns in a single function. Is this what passes for progress?

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Boilerplate... that should be reduced to a maximum, and handled by a code generator, no? Refactoring... should be deterministic, in the IDE. Most algorithms? In the core libraries. I remember the days where we cared about DRY - don't repeat yourself! We used to believe that verbose code was bad.

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Every few months I try an AI coding agent as old peers tell me it's "really good now," and I still don't see it. There's one intuition I can't shake, though: that anything an AI can code well is because there are so many examples that it should be abstracted by now.

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I'm just hoping for a minority situation, and some minimal accountability.

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En effet. Je pense à la CAQ en ce moment, mais, c'est bien rendu un leitmotif.

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Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, so they put a woman in charge just before the collapse? How... unusual.

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If I got this kind of poll result for something I wanted to prevent, I would simply quit.

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Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A burst of hail. Even the weather is uneasy.

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Sylvain Ouellet @sylvainouellet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Une personne est décédée sur les rails du métro après une chute accidentelle www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/10/03/a... L'installation de portes palières et l'automatisation du métro est un "no-brainer"... mais il manque cruellement de fonds pour réparer et moderniser le métro! #polmtl #polqc

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Une personne est décédée sur les rails du métro après une chute accidentelle

Un appel a été logé au 911 peu avant 11h samedi concernant une personne qui serait tombée sur les rails du métro Lionel-Groulx et aurait été percutée.

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Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Republicans think minimum wage does X, Democrats think it does Y. Let's keep discussing, and never look at empirical facts to settle the debate!

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Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Est-ce qu'on a des dispositifs de veille de la pollution atmosphérique au Québec, et à Montréal? En particulier, je serais curieux de savoir ce qui sort du 5795 de Gaspé. Peut-être que si on créait un modèle ici, il pourrait aussi être utilisé à Rouyn-Noranda.

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A brief but harmless period of weightlessness @hughsheehy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Classic republican, can’t tell if someone is the wrong age to try to pick up

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Limón de Beauvoir @ottomanvampire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My gym suffered water damage due to a broken pipe upstairs from them last week. It is a nonprofit movement studio that welcomes queer/trans/bipoc/disabled people and is the home of Black Gxrl Sesh (BGS) and mask-mandatory movement classes Their insurance does not cover much. If you can donate

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Donate to help Studio ED + BGS studios through this crisis!

STUDIO ED + BGS STUDIOS NEEDS YOUR HELP!Over the weekend, Studio ED + BGS Studios suffered major water damage caused by a broken pipe leak coming from the…

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is what's going to kill ai, it's too expensive. It's replacing a line cook with a million dollar a year cooking robot.

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Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't know how much of this is due to rankings being absolute trash, and how much is due to reputations taking generations to reflect reality. They may also have some very weak departments, while I only hear about good work.

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Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My family held one local university in high esteem, so I always assumed they were among the best. Nowadays most of the pertinent public intellectuals in fields I read about, and most of the really hard deep tech is coming out of a smaller university that's usually ranked in the bottom decile. Hmm.

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Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pestilence, a ruinous war in Persia, mad kings... and now people asking the pope for an indulgence.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's hard to tell which is weirder: the fact that these guys seriously suggest that models like Claude have consciousness/sentience or that they actually invest time and money (weird!) trying to convince the Pope as well as theologians and legal scholars of this belief.

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 01/10/2026

Even if you've never been a union member, the attacks on unions have cost you money. The typical worker would be earning $5,000 more a year if unions were as strong today as they were five decades ago

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In short, happy “fuck them whales” and “fuck your grandkids” day to all those who celebrate (which is a scary number of Canadians, based on recent polls)

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Carney tells Canadians “we have to do this” (??) because there’s an energy crisis on three fronts. One of those fronts, he says, is climate change. Which is why we need………a new crude oil pipeline???????

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 01/10/2026

Images are once again borked on Bluesky, and once again you see why alt text has more than one use.

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Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What then? We call that machine learning. There's a deeply dishonest argument by AI proponents responding to anti-AI concerns: but what about all the medical breakthroughs? But those aren't LLMs and generative AI. We don't need IP theft and massive data centers to do image analysis.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I went to a startup incubator event tonight, hoping to see interesting companies. A few are bucking the AI trend and building real "deep tech", e.g. camera sensors doped to detect single photons, advanced metal recycling, etc. It made me more hopeful, tbh.

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So, Costco relayed that consumers complained about nail varnish aromas on Driscoll’s berries, back in 2025. Did... they not immediately send samples to the CFIA and/or independent labs? If consumers notice, the pickers have to be bathing in these pesticides. Wtf?

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This is mass psychosis. 4 billion revenue, 8 billion operating loss, 42 billion in net loss. Plans to spend 500 billion more on infrastructure. And this is going to be worth 2 trillion?

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That would be fantastic. Banff, then continue to BC? And/or Regina and Winnipeg. Basically if we have a team that proves they can build, we should keep them together as long as possible.

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I was dreading this infrastructure announcement, but this seems like a great idea. Ideally this is done with experience from Alto, so we get better at keeping costs down.

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J'ai l'impression que ces clowns vont gouverner, et tous les problèmes seront encore pire dans quelques années. Éventuellement, il va falloir de nouvelles structures politiques, loin de la joute favorisée par notre système médiatique, les partis et l'assemblée nationale.

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Still not over this returned cosine value being above 1. In a library that's been downloaded more than two hundred million times this month. Only 1 reviewer for this library. Easy to use, fast, 50% advertised accuracy according to one lone developer that decided to publish results. Sigh.

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"The cat sat on the hat" "The dog sat in the hat" "The cat shat in the hat" Adventures in testing language model embeddings for information retrieval are leading to some questionable test cases. And even worse results. Did anyone stress test this model and see that cos(x) can be larger than 1?

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Huang wore a different tie, Xi another suit. This is AI slop. See e.g. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

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What was on the menu at the White House state dinner?

Thank you for calling this out. Xi was also wearing a different suit, and in another report I saw Huang wearing a regular black (not bow-) tie. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

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Donald Trump gave Xi Jinping a red-carpet welcome during his visit to Washington.

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