For the record, it’s Altoona’s pig department testifying here.

Excuse me while I flip through the racist dogwhistle rolodex…

So, Trump cares about MAGA farmers about “three-fifths” as much as Argentina’s president.

There is a “throw money/time” way to reduce bike theft as part of cycling infrastructure. Have a “bike valet” near major office areas and special events so that bike lockups and returns are properly vetted.

It is no secret that our DND likes the F35 a lot more for its capabilities…

But do we want to tie our air force to another American digital subscription?

Classic conservative mindset of “I don’t care about ruining the environment unless it’s my local environment”.

But you know, sometimes you’ll have to take the allies you can get in this fight.

Whether they agree or not, every Lemmy user needs to read and consider this.

For debugging there is the Google antigravity method: there can’t be bugs if it wipes the whole drive containing your project (taps head)

I did see someone write a post about Chat Oriented Programming, to me that appeared successful, but not without cost and extra care. Original Link, Discussion Thread

Successful in that it wrote code faster and its output stuck to conventions better than the author would. But they had to watch it like a hawk and with the discipline of a senior developer putting full attention over a junior, stop and swear at it every time it ignored the rules that they give at the beginning of each session, terminate the session when it starts doing a autocompactification routine that wastes your money and makes Claude forget everything. And you try to dump what it has completed each time. One of the costs seem to be the sanity of the developer, so I really question if it’s a sustainable way of doing things from both the model side and from developers. To be actually successful you need to know what you’re doing otherwise it’s easy to fall in a trap like the CTO, trusting the AI’s assertions that everything is hunky-dory.

He says irruptions tend to happen in years when lemmings — an important food for snowy owls — are abundant in the Arctic.

We did it Lemmy (/s)

Ask for a year’s salary upfront before you open a single case.

I watched it yesterday and only a couple things I have to add.

First is that the bipartisan CHIPS act basically shovelled taxpayer money into Micron’s pockets to increase their manufacturing, but they are reducing their consumer output anyway, so Steve’s point is consumers are not getting anything out of the subsidy they made.

Second is, since any potential increase in production is to cater to their largest data centre customers only, Steve is suggesting that this could be part of a push to move people to subscription-based cloud computing by making personal computing tha you buy and own unaffordable.

Pretty easy if you don’t care that you’re arresting innocents, or the Constitution.

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

FACT-CHECKING IS CENSORSHIP

He didn’t even negotiate this with the BC premier on this, so I don’t expect this to go anywhere.

The Trump crypto value has nothing to do with any economic outlook. It’s the bribe gratuity funnel for the Trump family.

I wonder if the party is splitting into two, to be named BC Owning The Liberals and BC Disunited?

Oh boy, here I go, killing free expression again!

This is one area of many where I think Manitoba’s Kinew led provincial NDP shines, his inclusion of the rights of French language Manitobans along with the rights of Indigenous.

The language itself I think is not a big deal, Carney fumbled through French 101 again in a matter of months to become Prime Minister. But I do think if the NDP wants to make inroads with Québec’s Bloc and Liberal voters they need to be more in touch with Québec culture.

I think the federal NDP still has more work to do in self-reflection. I hope they make use of this opportunity. Even if you don’t like BC’s NDP, hopefully you can appreciate that Eby is listening to genuine internal criticism from unions and labour activists, BCFN and environmental supporters within his party during the review.

That whole BC ostrich debacle really highlights how much of a frenzy people get up over it. CFIA would need to have a media budget of millions if they’d want to handle interviews like that.

I will start by saying I’m no expert in Indigenous affairs or law, but I know it’s especially messy in BC due to the multitude of co-habitating tribes that have lived in the area before, during and after the colonial period.

I get the sense the author is using the findings and jumping to worst case scenario conclusions. Landholders automatically lose all rights and owners interest because Crown title is subordinate and defective, gg no re (despite citing a settled/negotiated case where Crown land was given over and fee-simple landowners retained their interest). And BC’s legal losses come out of Canada’s budget so our tax money goes to First Nations, and so therefore you’re supposed to get angry about it according to the author.

But I don’t think most reasonable people in Canada nor the Indigenous see it as the necessary conclusion. Things are in limbo because there’s still a lot to be worked out and negotiated.

Something that is on my mind for this case, is that the Cowichan are not the only First Nation claiming historic ownership/usage rights over that area (the Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen of White Rock and Delta or the Musqueam of Vancouver as a few examples). If that area of Richmond is awarded by BC/Canada’s courts exclusively to the Cowichan, then other First Nations have their rights and claims effectively abridged as well. Perhaps the author thinks that is irrelevant since all those will be worked out however will fully supersede the current resident rights. I’d disagree, ultimately I expect a conclusion that not everyone is happy about, but at least everyone’s modern and historical injuries are considered and recompensed at least partially. I think most Canadians recognize that as a nation we did generational harm to the Indigenous people whose historic lands we live on, but the exact way to recognize, repay and move forward is still far from decided. The author is, in my opinion, getting ahead of themselves assuming the conclusions.