Brendan Samek

@ExnerPirot But co-ops don't fit the top-down control that the federal NDP wants over the economy.

Everyone needs to be reminded that a not-for-profit grocery chain exists in Canada: Co-op, and they’re across western Canada. Prices are comparable to for-profit chains. Also Saskatchewan has a publicly owned telecoms company, SaskTel. It is a competitive market and some people still choose for-profit providers. These are good options but not magical ones! They don’t solve poverty and hunger and they definitely aren’t 35% cheaper.

@ChrisSpoke @SteveSaretsky Do you have a timeline to expect changes in construction starts?

@SteveSaretsky Reduced development costs help projects pencil at lower rents.

Federal, Ontario governments to spend $8.8-billion to cut municipal development charges. The question now, is will developers willingly push projects through in an already oversupplied market? theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

@nateberkopec Also true

@brendan_samek developers mostly just don't like talking to other people

I'm switching to Dia today but not sure I can ever go back from no-URL-bar experience of Arc. Maybe time to go for Zen.

@nateberkopec Building community is hard

It freaks me out how many open source projects are just One Guy. The entire Zen commit history is literally just one dude. 4000+ commits vs the 2nd place guy who has like 80. People just don't want to build community. 🤷‍♂️

@MattSpoke @DenySully I don't love the phrasing that we used here. There are different regimes that are possible for paying for infrastructure (see Edmonton for an example). Subsidizing the existing regime without getting meaningful reform in return is silly.

Disappointing take from what is usually a very thoughtful group of people. Development charges are a very narrow tax that specifically hits homebuyers and renters. They are also front loaded to cover the full cost of overly expensive infrastructure, rather than spreading out the benefits of that infrastructure across a broader tax base and an appropriate time horizon.

@MattSpoke @realLiamGill Why is the right short term answer for the rest of Canada to subsidize the existing regime that got Ontario into this mess? Alberta does not have this problem because it did not allow it to exist.

@realLiamGill No argument here that municipalities have been hugely incompetent on this. But doesn’t change the fact that this is the right short term answer.

@garrytan How much is broken down between production/test/documentation? Is your code qualitatively similar to that which you would have written yourself before LLMs?

Absolutely insane week for agentic engineering 37K LOC per day across 5 projects Still speeding up

Alberta wants families to live here

@internetvin Only if you're a GPU manufacturer

There’s so much software. It’s endless. Is this utopia?

The conservatives on this platform trying to paint the federal NDP and the western NDP parties as the same are wrong 🙄 Partisans gonna partisan

Canada has a verified traveler program. This allows screened, vetted, travellers bypass additional security checks in airports. Both ways of getting status require Canadians to get approved by the American government even if traveling internally. Global Entry (administered entirely by the US) or NEXUS (jointly administered by the US and Canada but requiring travel to the US to get) Are we not competent enough to have our own internal system in addition to these ones that involve America?

It comes down to a political question on who benefits (and who should benefit) from growth. The current model in Toronto is that growth only benefits newcomers and therefore should be shouldered by those people. (An alternative, cynical, reading is that Toronto sees it's position as Canada's economic engine as an excuse to treat newcomers as a resource to brutally extract rather than an asset to invest in) In this model, taxes andutility rates should just pay for repairs and maintenance and anything "growth" should be funded by DCs. This isn't the only model! Alberta treats growth as an asset to invest in collectively. (Although I fear the consensus that drove this may be breaking down) Alberta benefits in many ways from growth and understands this. Despite being a disproportionate share of the Canadian economy, we don't have the votes to be influential in confederation so we have been working to increase it. See Danielle Smith's goal of 10M Albertans by 2050. This is in addition to the agglomeration effects of big cities. Alberta doesn't allow DCs to be used for all the random programs that Ontario does. Edmonton chooses not to use the powers that the province has given it to charge more. @missingmiddleca has a great article talking around it: missingmiddleinitiative.ca/p/halving-dcs-…

Why is it the age of the building that determines who pays for infrastructure? The New Yorker who buys a $10M Rosedale house pays no DCs pays nothing to upgrade ramsden park, but the Canadian kid renting a low end condo on Yonge does? Explain what I miss. Broad absorption of infrastructure costs seems more fair?

It’s worth noting that a 50% decrease in development charges in a city like Toronto still leaves them about 10x higher than they were at the turn of the century, adjusted for inflation, and around where they were in 2018.

@Jason By what mechanism will it create free/cheap energy?

Here’s the truth: we’ve already reached AGI — we just haven’t implemented it broadly. Millions of jobs are being lost as we speak. Entire careers will be retired. The rich and powerful investors and founders who implement AGI will get bizarrely rich beyond what makes sense. It will break people's brains on both sides. It’s gonna suck for a lot of our friends and family, who aren’t obsessed with their careers, because things are moving so fast they won’t have even left the starting gate by the time the awards are handed out. We’re gonna have to solve for a lot of second- and third-order effects, some of which will suck (job loss) and some of which will be awesome. AI will create free/cheap energy, free education, cheaper and better food, homes that build themselves and medicine that makes you as healthy as a 30-year-old when you’re 100. … change is hard, but humans are the most adaptable species nature has ever created. We can figure it out.

@ankrgyl The filesystem is an RBAC system if you use it properly. Not that anyone uses them this way. But one of the whole reasons unix and Linux exist is time slicing between multiple users in a safe way

is it just me or are none of the harness libraries/frameworks/etc designed for multi tenancy? all of the state seems filesystem oriented, no RBAC, etc

@ZoeCoombes yeah, exactly.

@brendan_samek So you are saying there were zoning laws but they were ignored in the past, rather than how Tobi phrased it- “there were no zoning laws.”

"What a lot of free-market thinkers don’t understand is that between the demand and eventual supply lies friction." Agree, @tobi. Now do building code for the number of people who would, in fact, like to live in Toronto.

It's such a waste of time, energy and money.

@ZoeCoombes @tobi The neighbourhood I lived in used to be a shanty town next to a clay quarry / brickyard. There were technically zoning regulations, but they were largely ignored for a long time.

@brendan_samek @tobi Can you elaborate?

@tobi @ZoeCoombes That's not fair, some of them also ignored the zoning laws

@ZoeCoombes all great neighborhoods on planet earth got built before zoning laws got invented.

@lucyhargreaves4 @as_maruf62783 @build_canada It is up at: buildcanada.com/bills Looking at the logs, it looks a bit flaky, I will take a look today at why it goes down

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@garrytan I really appreciate gstack, but in no world should gstack try to upgrade during `/ship` and it shouldn't have instructions to do a hard reset.