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Compared to the USA, China seems a whole lot more peaceful.

I got news for you: iphone market share has been going up year over year in China.

I got even more news for you: 45% of Chinese oil imports are from middle east vassal states of the USA. And those imports are purchased in USD.

China needs the West and vice versa.

I don’t condone their arrests, but it was retaliatory for Canada arresting a huawei exec who had close ties to the party. One of those who was arrested alleged that the other was actively performing espionage in China. This was also confirmed by other unnamed sources.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-spavor-kovrig...

I don’t believe that. China’s economy and the west’s is very deeply interconnected and what is good for one is good for the other.

Also, the new generation of Chinese has grown up with western comforts and would not readily go back to pre-modernization so they are reliant on the west to trade for technology.

OK lets try doing this for the USA;

* I’m sure the vietnamese would disagree

* I’m sure the cubans would disagree

* I’m sure the iraqis would disagree

* I’m sure the afghanis would disagree

* I’m sure the venezuelans would disagree

* I’m sure the iranians would disagree

* I’m sure the palastinians would disagree

Should I go on? I didn’t mention all of the latin american countries the CIA fucked?

> There are zero Canadian automobile assemblers; they are Canadian subsidiaries of American

Toyota has massive assembly plants in Canada which net export vehicles to the USA. My rav4 hybrid was built in Woodstock Ontario.

As another Canadian, I wish we could stop treating China as a boogeyman. By and large China is not malicious and really just wants peace (there is a name for the Chinese policy which is basically “do nothing and win” but I forget it).

I also would like to see Canada stop negotiating with the USA. If Trump says “if you aren’t going to do X, we will do Y”, Canada should just say “so be it” and move towards other trade partners. If you want to trade with us in good faith we are completely open to it, but the bipolar level of instability in trade should not be tolerated.

Now, I’m curious. What side wears which sunglasses?

Don't forget jitter as well. Otherwise your clients will just coordinate their retries.

Most chromosome defects (trisomy) can be screened for now. NIPT is effective at 9 weeks pregnant and the technology is only going to get better.

Same in Canada. All assets acquired after common law or marriage are shared and split evenly in the divorce. Whoever makes more salary needs to pay alimony to the other.

> Quite frankly, I find your attitude to be annoying and downright stupid.

- Linus Torvalds

That bug report was a good read.

By the time these gigawatt datacenters are done being built the hardware will be so far behind state of the art they may be mostly useless.

Quite a number of the smartest people I know got scalped to work at OpenAI. I don’t know anyone who went to Anthropic. Something I think which is under emphasized is that OpenAI has the human capital in addition to the financial capital advantage over Anthropic.

Over the long term I think OpenAI will produce the better experience when it comes to model quality, harness quality, and availability. I have been using codex the past few months and never looked back.

Also they are using a home baked S3 compatible storage system and longhorn for block storage: https://docs.worktree.ca/updates/post-mortems/2026-07-20

I haven’t the slightest clue why they didn’t use rook/ceph (they run on k8s) for this which not only is a very reliable block storage system, but also offers a S3 compatible API, and is proven at other cloud providers like Digital Ocean.

I wish them the best but there is no way I would put my data into there.

Note, currently worktree is just wrapping OVH as their “sovereign cloud”: https://docs.worktree.ca/sovereignty/

I was wondering when reading their sovereignty docs why I wouldn’t just use OVH as it is a French company instead of a USA based company, and lo and behold they are just reselling OVH.

I have used OVH personally and it has pretty good prices, but over aggressive DoS protection. Some of my workloads were shut down because OVH internal tools decided that what I was doing must have been a DoS.

As a Canadian I welcome a Canadian owned cloud provider, but it is a huge endeavour to build that platform up from scratch.

It does seem kind of weird that they are building both a CI system and a cloud, seems like they should pick one.

The analogy I have heard is that LLMs are a force multiplier, so if you were a 2x engineer before you are now a 10x engineer, and if you were a -2x engineer you are now a -10x engineer.

I host a static site on S3 with cloudfront on top and my bill is usually a few dollars. It was $2.88 last month. The site could also probably handle many orders of magnitude more traffic than it currently does because cloudfront scales to that level without work needed on my side.

It has happened with tor exit nodes, so I imagine it is possible with shady unconsentual residential proxies.

Feds come to your door asking why you downloaded/distributed CSAM

Doesn’t help when the garbage starts proxying illegal traffic through your home ISP.

You forgot to drink a verification can

I have specific instructions in my AGENTS.md to always ask when adding comments. Same with tests, agents love to spew pages and pages of useless tests so I tell the agent to ask me about test cases.

My take is that it will be tmux as a service. You will have many different sessions which will have their data stored in some central system (read: raft/etcd) and an API built on top of that for create/list/attach to sessions.

Ghostty is the client side aspect of this (the binary that actually runs on your laptop), but there will be a large backend system that the binary talks to through an API. With the API you can then also start automating sessions, for example when a metrics value trips an alert start an agent to triage with a session you can then attach to for further interrogation.

What Im not sure of is if they are going to build on top of kubernetes or not, which already provides a lot of the features necessary (etcd store, API server, workload orchestration, tenant isolation, extendable API).

(This is all speculation)

The simpler option is to fly through a place with USA pre-clearance. At least in Canada you can revoke you application to enter the USA at any time when in pre-clearance, and there are very limited instances when you can be legally detained by CBP (mostly around being an immediate threat or the CBP officer has evidence that you broke a law such as attempted smuggling).

I currently fly to the USA through Canada and if CBP ever insists on seeing my phone I will revoke my application to enter and accept that Im most likely banned from entry for a while.

There is no good solution to revenge porn. It is impossible to enforce that only a single person has access to an image (physical or digital), and that the person doesn’t redistribute the image.

The only way I can see this working is that people in explicit images need to publicly declare their intent for who can see the images (maybe a hash of the image content and the name of the person who can see that content) and then when the courts prosecute revenge porn the intent can be referenced to see if it was meant to be shared or not. There are still issues in that there is no proof that the person being accused of revenge porn actually distributed the images vs the defendant actually sending the images to other, or the image was leaked by a hack.

I think the best thing we can do is try and educate teens on the dangers of revenge porn like we do on the consequences of having sex. We cannot stop teens from having sex or taking nudes, but we can at least try to educate them as best we can.

He had a special singlet designed and undoubtedly carbon shoes. Makes you wonder how much raw human potential has progressed vs just having better equipment and track surfaces?

My understanding is that LSD/DMT can “re-wire” your brain and give you an out of body experience that allows your psyche to realize what patterns are serving you and which ones are not (hence why LSD/DMT being very successful curing addicts). My theory is that early trauma and a somewhat explosive father has lead my nervous system to be on a hair trigger as a coping mechanism, if somehow I can convince my nervous system that this is no longer a necessary coping mechanism that would help.

This sounds similar to me. I get cortisol spikes throughout the day and that can interfere with my sleep.

Conventional recommendation is to go see a talk therapist, but I have never really bought into it. Other thing I have seen recommended is LSD/DMT which I would have tried by now if I wasn’t married, it seems like too bug of a risk that LSD/DMT will alter my psyche in such a way that ruins my marriage which is not fair to my partner.

Best I have found is detaching from society, back country camping, no technology. But I don’t want to become a hermit in the woods to just be able to sleep regularly.

Stress pays my mortgage unfortunately, and I don’t have a way to make money otherwise because all the jobs in my profession of over a decade are stressful.