Isn’t the girl from Québec in the movie? They go get her from a university in Montreal, if I remember correctly…

I’ve been a programmer for the last 15+ years, and the only constant over that time has been change. Every few years, there’s a new technology that “radically simplifies” programming, such that"business people will finally be able to write the code themselves". Without fail, what ends up happening is that we build more complex systems on top of it and we still need programmers to deal with it. AI is a radical shift, yes, but it still doesn’t liberate “business people” from the burden of clarifying their ideas. That is what I do, and the technology I’m using to achieve that doesn’t fundamentally change that fact.

That, and leaky abstractions. They always end up leaking, and you need someone who can understand what’s going on.

18 months is an eternity in terms of AI performance. Local models now are better than the frontiers models were at that moment.

In my experience, AI automates the boring part of programming (which is actually writing the code). It leaves me able to focus on user experience, architecture, the fun stuff. Am I more productive? Maybe a little, yeah. Is it magically going to replace my whole team? Only a fool would think so.

It’s been clear for a few years that Israel hold USA’s balls in a vise or something, on both sides of the political aisle. The main question is why? What do they have on the USA?

You vastly overestimate that. It’s not a fixed number of cycles, it’s a number before significant degradation. In other words, after you’ve spent ~8000 hours driving, you’ll have to recharge about 40 minutes earlier.

If you think your ICE car is still top shape after that long, go ahead man… But in all likelihood, it’s burning a little oil, it’s not as quick as it used to be, the transmission has a weird clunk in third, etc… nothing mechanical works forever, and yes that includes hydrogen.

Hydrogen, by the way, is the worst of both worlds… It solves a very minor issue (charging on road trips) while introducing a whole lot of new ones. The infrastructure for it is non-existent, it’s still a lot of mechanical parts (if you’re talking about the ICE version) or pretty niche technology (if you’re talking about fuel cells), it’s a nightmare to store, and it’s probably still produced from fossil fuels.

There’s a reason BEVs have caught on, and hydrogen hasn’t.

You know that fast chargers exist, right? In my car it usually takes less than 15 minutes before I’m good for another 4 hours. Charging for hours is only when I’m at home, but then I’m sleeping or something… By the time I need it again it’s full.

Batteries already last about 4 hours at highway speeds, what do you want more than that? Are you not stopping for a coffee/bite/wee/gas at some point? People say they only stop for 2 minutes to fill a gas tank, but they only count the time spent pumping gas… If you count the time spent paying, getting snacks, waiting for the bathroom to be available, etc you’re at much more than that. All that takes the same amount of time in an EV, but the car charges while you do that.

Most of these things are issues with all modern cars, not necessarily specific to EVs…

I think you’re right about there being entirely too much hype, and we’re definitely in a bubble right now, but I think this technology is here to stay. It definitely won’t have the current economic shape forever, but it’ll follow a similar trajectory to the “web 2.0”/social media tech. Is that a good thing? Probably not, but we may end up being surprised. I personally think running the models locally will end up being the best way to use AI.

Technically it’s more with their descendants that they’re in touch, no?

The AI fad is a lot more like the Internet fad than the crypto fad. I think once the bubble pops (like the .com bubble 25 years ago) some use-cases will definitely remain. But yeah, we definitely are in a bubble.

There’s a broader context here:

• Air Canada used to be part of the government of Canada (which has 2 official languages).
• It was privatized, but part of the agreement was that it continues being subject to the law on official languages (legally, it has to offer ALL its services in both official languages)
• That dude bragged about never learning French while living in Montreal for many years (this was the original scandal I alluded to)

This is the specific context around Air Canada, but within Canada as a whole, languages is a touchy subject. I won’t make you a history lesson, but us French Canadians take this VERY seriously.

And I’m pretty sure if one of your hispanophones colleagues died ON THE JOB, somebody would at least say one sentence to their family in their native language, even if badly-pronounced. That’s just basic decency. This guy couldn’t even be bothered.

It’s such an issue because that same guy was at the heart of a similar scandal a few years ago and vowed to do better and learn French. Evidently, he not only didn’t learn French, he didn’t learn how important it was to his job. Putting out an English-only message when one of the killed pilots was a francophone is very insensitive.

Funny, LLMs actually gave me the time and energy to move forward with a lot of my personal projects. It’s a lot more fun when I don’t have to lose time investigating why some component doesn’t work, or build oauth for the gazillionth time

For sure, we need to get landlords to install EV chargers in all parkings too. We’ll probably need legislation for this.

I kinda doubt the genuineness of the question given the comment about telemetry… I’ll be the first to admit that these things are a privacy nightmare, but that’s a problem with ALL modern cars, not just EVs. It just so happens that most EVs are modern cars, but they’re not necessarily worse than your random off-the-shelf 2026 Nissan Rogue.

Still, genuine answer: Haven’t done that many roadtrips where I’ve needed to charge more than once, actually. But my car can easily leave now and go 2-3 hours at highway speed without stopping. Make that 3-4 hours if I set it to charge at 100% the night before (in case of a planned roadtrip), as I usually only charge it to 80% to preserve battery life. Not sure how many miles that is as I’m to lazy to do the conversion, but this is why I use “hours at highway speed” as a metric.

A good resource to look at the various scenarios specific to your situation / area would be ABRP.

You misunderstand. The roadtrip planning, at least in my EV, is all handled by the car itself. I just punch in my destination and go. It figures out where I need to stop to charge, for how long, etc. When I’m stopped charging, the “time remaining until full enough” is prominently displayed in the car itself as well as in the app, and I get notified (in the car and in the app) that my car is ready to continue. All that time I also have a (very accurate) estimate of how much charge I’ll have remaining once I reach the next stop.

There’s no guesswork, the car figures it out on its own, and I can tweak it however I want.

Also, the actual experience refueling is horrible compared to charging: When fueling I have to stand outside in the cold, breathing noxious fumes while being blasted with loud adverts from the machine… Then I get inside to pay, and if I want to grab a snack, coffee or go to the bathroom, I know that I’m not making progress towards my destination during that time so I’m kind of in a hurry.

Charging, you just park, plug, and let the car do its thing. You know you have 10 minutes to kill anyway, so you do the same things knowing that your car is doing something productive in the meantime. The vast majority of the time, the car is done before me anyway. It’s just a lot more relaxing honestly.

But all this is something I do what, at most once a month with my car? Day-to-day is done with home charging, where I get home, plug in, and the car is full the next time I need it. No more stressing about running late but finding out you need to stop to refuel, etc.

All in all, I find my EV experience to be WAY less stressful / annoying than my gas car. Just yesterday, we did a small family trip about 2 hours away with the gas car (the EV doesn’t fit the whole family sadly), and on the way back we found out gas prices had jumped 15¢ / liter during the day, thanks to Trump’s war… With an EV the price stays a lot more stable over time.

Not to full, you never charge to full on a fast charger… You charge enough to continue with your trip, which, yes, takes about 10-15 minutes in my real-world experience. I’ve also timed my fueling stops in my gas car, and they also take at least 10 minutes if I have to pee, grab some coffee, etc.

I’m one of these people. Simple answer? It’s the documentation. I’ve given k8s an honest try, but it honestly feels like the “draw the rest of the fucking owl” meme, starts way basic then gets wayy too hard without explaining anything in between.

Meanwhile docker is 1 file, 1 command to get started.

Edit: I just realized you were talking about k3s, not k8s. Is that something different somehow? Google says it’s a “k8s” distribution? WTF would that be?

Even then, Claude can also be a woman’s name in some cultures.