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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 4h

Anything in the "it calls with" genre is purge-on-sight

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 6h

One of the "welcome to the Board" traditional conversations is when a new member says "don't they understand they're eating the seed corn?" and then senior staff or leadership decides who gets to explain "they don't care" this year.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 6h

This is not just an AI problem but a general tech/private equity management vibe problem we began to encounter when those guys moved into Hollywood due to either money or streaming dominance. Small top-heavy staffs who don't go to set don't make future show runners.

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 9h

Oh no, sometimes it's the only thing that explains wtf said model was doing

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 9h

I have a skill specifically for a post-implementation pass to remove slop comments and tautological tests

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 9h

And how to make sure it's doing that thing

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 17h

I would much rather have the cool undersea cables than the weird ammonia green hydrogen thing

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sport is inherently a communal activity, though - if there's no shared enjoyment, it's just a technical exercise. Ergo, if the community of something is so hostile, then I think the *sport* part of it is lost

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Most of the grumbling (eg my mother) focuses on snow clearing problems, because the city (supposedly) can't coordinate alternate street parking on full plow days

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 08/10/2026

Conservative government of Alberta is preempting Edmonton, requiring the city to: —Reverse the city's 2024 change allowing small-scale apartment buildings to be built citywide. Change resulted in a building boom: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... —Restore parking requirements, which city eliminated in 2020

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

More fodder for my pet solution: any city or metro area which has a population greater than or equal to Prince Edward Island may become a province by vote of simple majority of its residents

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If I were anywhere close to running things that's exactly the inventory I'd be asking for

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I would pay a fair amount of cash on the barrelhead to get off Microsoft

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I would, but I'm a certified Microsoft hater for thirty years running

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah that's pretty much what I got from the EG2 specs - kinda weird to me they didn't do whatever the Harrier team at MS did with the same base

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Speaking of Qwen finetunes, have you looked at Jina v5 omni? Frozen Qwen language backbone, plus the image and audio encoders, so text-only keeps the 0.6B perf but puts images and audio in the same embedding space

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yep, and there's apparently a version finetuning Qwen3.8-27B recently too (total overkill for embeddings but yanno)

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Harrier's smaller model is a finetune of EmbeddingGemma 300M, fwiw

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

utils/ is a perfectly cromulent submodule name

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He's leaving himself quite vulnerable on his left flank for giving into AB's pipeline demands (though some overlap with strategic options WRT export partners), and he can't actually articulate a strategy which might mollify the left because he has to keep up the kayfabe

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Carney's been *very* carefully offering AB things he suspects won't actually happen when all the numbers get run, and been *extremely* careful not to cast aspersions on the good faith of Danielle Smith, even though he probably *should* be casting some fucking aspersions

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It won't be taken that way in Alberta if it's led by a bunch of (what Albertans typically see as) the out of touch eastern elites so quick to dismiss AB's concerns No, it's not accurate, but it's how it'll be taken

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not sure I like our grimdark "price controls everywhere or the nazis win again" forever

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 04/10/2026

when the scritches are broadly acceptable

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I would really like a left-wing party that can speak to that genuine concern *without* demanding the rest of the world be held at bay as its opening bid

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's not easy to uproot your life, especially if you're pushed far enough out. I've moved across the country a couple times now, it's never been easy, and it's the one place I have a smidgen of sympathy for "I didn't change, everything else did"

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In all seriousness though, the *one* place I'll listen to arguments for things like the CAP is as a shock absorber - not a permanent discount, but something to slow down sudden changes in the market. Housing is fairly unique in often having tremendous human costs come with reacting to market changes

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think it can help as a delaying mechanism, because sometimes supply shocks can hit faster than supply can increase. The relevant comparison is more like EI, IMO

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think this is mostly people who are convinced the entire rental market is falsely inflated because it's controlled by three companies, and the "natural" rent is a fraction of current rates

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Surely then you'd try to kick the heroin habit, right?" AB premiers have lost power just for *suggesting* the province needed to be the tiniest bit responsible

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

January's not the point of comparison, November is

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh Winnipeg is the final boss of Canadian weather, no doubt In Edmonton the cold starts earlier, ends later, and is darker the whole time. It's an endurance question

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Montreal is a training course for Edmonton Weather

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wilson's extra dangerous because Hegseth's part of his church

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Hyperbolic Pair of Pants @corinnethespin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey #HaliSky, I was wondering about this & perhaps you were too: "The fall vaccine program [for NS] is expected to be announced soon, and will include flu and COVID vaccination for people aged 6 months and older. Details will be posted on this page at that time." www.nshealth.ca/public-healt...

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Seasonal Vaccines | Nova Scotia Health

The fall vaccine program is expected to be announced soon, and will include flu and COVID vaccination for people aged 6 months and older. Details will be posted on this page at that time. Seasonal vac...

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Finally got around to biking down to Hydrostone, was quite nice. Stopped by the butcher, the baker, and the...optometrist. (Not a candle guy.) Surprising no one, drivers have a hard time stopping before crosswalks

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some big highlights: -The US is both very interested and very involved in this, demonstrating deepening knowledge of the issue. -the Trump administration provided the software behind the data leak -key leaders of the movement have been working closely with the US government.

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The elephant in the room

Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Biggest split in Canadian politics right now is “we are actually under attack by a faction of Americans who want to destroy our country, and we need to take extraordinary measures to prevent that” (basically the Carney gov’t and a couple premiers) vs “lol situation normal” (literally everyone else).

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sharon I think we're gonna have to redact some people

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

who is ready for the Red Deer People's Republic post-referendum

A Globe and Mail investigation has found that Republican political operatives were on the ground in Alberta this year to assist the separatist campaign in its bid to leave Canada, while harbouring their own aspirations for the province to secede.

The Globe also found that when Alberta separatist leaders went to Washington to meet with the U.S. State Department, they offered up key assets from the province’s resource portfolio, including access to fresh water and royalties on crude oil, in exchange for help transitioning to independence.

Through interviews with The Globe on both sides of the border, people involved in politics, the corporate sector and Alberta’s pursuit of separatism have described persistent efforts by figures in the U.S. administration and conservative political establishment to support groups seeking American expansionism and independence for Alberta.

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If Mark Carney can show up with a coffee, your interviewee can too

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bonus points if it's something "frivolous" like a music player or an image editor, nothing high stakes or infra-related

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you're a programmer and need to touch grass - or if you already went for a hike and it didn't quiet the scratching voices - go pick an open source project you use and fix a papercut

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Does your mobo/chipset/bios even recognize ECC? I know some of the consumer Ryzens were supposed to, but last one I tried didn't actually recognize it *as ECC*

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Raymond Neilson @delta-vee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

First pass from this she sounds good

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