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Large majority of Albertans oppose separation

A better title: Alberta on par with QC and SK in opposing separation.

As much as I would love to deride this minority on their position, I'd rather prefer we

  1. try to understand if there is anything they see that the rest doesn't
  2. inform them about the fallacy of separation, its cost, how it impacts the international leverage, etc.
  3. every province would build their own equivalent of the Bloc, to defend provincial interests, and to be better at being a federation of provinces.
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Report: Canada saw over 30,000 tech workers immigrate while losing nearly 1,700 to the US

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You might be surprised how inefficient banks can be when it comes to tech. As years go by I see an increase of tech workers but a decrease of experienced or competent ones. My view is those competent tech workers tend to be more expensive than Canadian companies are willing to pay, thus end up hiring 10x the staff. The banks simply have more money to waste that way and thus are doing so by hiring a lot of tech workers.

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Damn Linux Users

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As a developer, I really don't like how Wayland has fractured the ecosystem. Competing immature protocols are still all over the place while the immobility of x11 has spoiled us for years. It's getting better, but in the meantime I can still write an x11 app which will work mostly everywhere (thanks to xwayland), whereas a wayland app may not work everywhere (not on X11, and not on compositors which don't implement the right combinations of protocols).

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Canada excluded from Google's expansion of AI chatbot Bard

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This! I see the hype around AI and it's like everyone has lost their mind. You wouldn't accept a statistical study without sampling info (dataset size, origin, selection, filtering, bias, reproductibility, etc). Why would we not ask the same with LLM or generative AI? It's like everyone got so excited about models built on large datasets that they forgot we already had procedures for handling data.

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CPC policy hypotheticals: Canadians see a balanced budget, longer jail time as ‘good’; defunding CBC as ‘bad’ -

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Sadly, longer jail time is purely placebo. Plenty of studies show jail time has no incidence on crime rate. Sure, locking people for longer would delay recidivism, but we could do better than that.

It's not about logic though. Longer jail time proponents do lean on the emotional argument of a few anecdotal cases or recidivism. This tend to make flashy headlines and stick with the population.

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Bash Script to compile a single rust script, execute the binary and delete the binary

Allow me to retort with an all-in-one self build script, along with pass-through args and exitcode.

#!/bin/sh
out=$(mktemp)
sed -e '0,/^#SELFBUILD$/d' "$0" | rustc --o "$out" - && "$out" "$@"
status=$?
rm -f "$out"
exit "$status"
#SELFBUILD

fn main() {
    dbg!(std::env::args());
    println!("hello rust");
    std::process::exit(2);
}

P.S. I have no idea why you'd want that, as it's a terribly inefficient way to ship code, but it's a fascinating glimpse at how we used to do self-extract archives decades ago.

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Which Party Has the Best Blueprint for Fixing the Housing Crisis?

Well, I'm not sure who has the worst plan for housing between PP which wants to cut sales taxes [1] and Blanchet which doesn't seem to understand you don't get more supply by simply letting people pay more [2].

Sorry, but I mostly remember those infuriating quotes from the french debate. They appeared a bit more careful the next day.