Derek Kite

God, I thank you that I am not like other people—joggers with dogs, churchgoers, people who want to plant a garden—or even like this business person. I wash my hands twice an hour and stay home to work, and all I get is delivered to my door.

Examining the manifestos of lost and violent young men as if they are the writings of a sage is giving them their moment of significance. And pretty well guaranteeing a repeat performance.

@mattgurney I'm investing in the future when I buy Kraft dinner with my credit card.

I am also launching a sovereign wealth fund.

@Tablesalt13 The Canadian holodomor. Policy driven privation.

NEW - Calgary food bank reports they are now getting "3 to 4" THOUSAND visitors every Saturday ...as food inflation ravages Canada.

@globeandmail This coming from a place that defines itself as "not American".

Opinion: Alberta has no sense of nationhood, making its independence movement extremely strange theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Canada and the US have the same issue; for a generation economic vitality has happened somewhere else. For the same reasons; regulatory barriers, high costs. Trump wanted to change this, and won the election as a result. He controlled regulation and changed a long standing policy of few import barriers, a policy that has been the foundation of prosperity everywhere else in the world, but not so much in the US. Will it work? It seems to be doing something already. We have structured our economy, like much of the rest of the world, on open access to the US economy. We do very little here anymore, and could benefit from similar policies. But we have decided that Trump is the crazy one. And that approach is going to fail when it comes to the negotiations.

@Douga536_ @FoodProfessor @Lisabronagh @terftasticwoman Listen, so what if the legacy media prefers to blame Trump and has a crush on Carney? That can be true and we're still in a situation in which the US has gone rogue, hit us with severe tariffs and shows no signs of being capable of agreement. It's not TDS to see this.

CUSMA scoreboard. U.S. sets the terms, Mexico plays it smart, Canada postures. Winning: Mexico. Losing: Canada. The U.S.? Still in control.

@dkrushelniski @Glen_Evans_01 @FoodProfessor If these guys can't negotiate then get rid of them and get someone who can. This isn't some university where you can protest and shout down people you don't like.

@Glen_Evans_01 @FoodProfessor You solution is what? Just surrender to all the US demands?

"Canada’s instinct, increasingly, is to talk about diversification, reducing dependence on the United States. That is a sensible long-term goal. But it is not a short-term substitute. Geography still dictates trade flows. Logistics still favor proximity. And in food, proximity is everything."

By the way "we" are the Liberal handlers who are getting calls from very very angry people who are seeing their fortunes disappear as trade with the US falls apart. The economic miracle that this central banker dude was supposed to bring is not materialising and won't.

We are at the "we can't let him into Parliament" stage of Carney's Prime Ministerial journey. Keep him out of the country. Keep him out of Parliament. They are going to confiscate his video equipment next.

Maybe use this line as a pitch when you are negotiating with bondholders of Ontario debt.

@KirkLubimov He wants it applied to imports. That will be the rationale behind the collapse of the trade negotiations.

Holly shit❗️ Mark Carney thinks our effective carbon price is too low; "The effective carbon price in this country is actually quite low relative to the headline price,in the $20 to $30 range in most Canadian markets. And that's something we're working to rectify." The industrial carbon tax price increased to $110 this year, with a plan to increase it to a minimum of $130 and all the way to $170 around 2030. Do you understand how MASSIVE the increase to these levels will be to cost of things in Canada and how uncompetitive our industries will be!?

We are getting to the 'every business that depends on the US is calling their MP' stage of the trade negotiations. Carney is not taking it well. The carbon tax thing was a threat to Canadian businesses.

@engineers_feed 35+50

What happens in your head when you add 37+48?

@KatlynHarrison Sounds like what maple leaf fan would say when losing.

Evolution of the Carney's position on the US: 1️⃣April '25: We will strike a new economic & security partnership with the US. 2️⃣Summer '25: We have the best deal already. 3️⃣April '26: Our reliance on the US is a weakness. Time to stop diagnosing. Start fixing the mess. #cdnpoli

@KirkLubimov This is the intent.

This is really what it comes down to; Pierre Poilievre: "He (Mark Carney) has not removed a single Trudeau-era anti-development law, but he has stacked new laws on top of old ones. He's not removed a single government agency or bureaucracy, but he instead has created twelve new ones." Bureaucracy and red tape is what suffocating development and investment in/into Canada. Why is it so hard to understand?! You would think that after losing $1T in investment since 2015 the Liberals would get the point.

2,600,000 Canadian jobs depend on Canada-US trade Liberals think these jobs are a weakness

@TasonJorres @WebStormIDE I agree that it is tricky. Part of this whole thing is learning the best way to use a very powerful tool. It can't suggest something useful at times because it can't read my mind. So maybe I have to tell it. Which will have the added benefit of the code being well commented.

@derekkite @WebStormIDE The Angular + MCP feedback is great to hear! On the inline suggestions stuff, try, Settings > Editor > General > Inline Completion that lets you toggle it off entirely or per language if you want more control. The delete and resuggest behavior specifically is tricky.

AI and angular development works very well with a bit of setup. I use webstorm, set up the MCP server. Suddenly signals, angular material, the component and service structures just worked. I had a moderately complicated component where I needed a table where the rows were a series of check marks. Everything changeable, the columns depending on interval, the rows added from selecting something in a tree. All outputting a data structure collecting information from multiple sources. I have used ai quite a bit and found that asking it to do a specific function worked well, but without the MCP any angular stuff was dodgy to say the least. It created the component, and maybe four iterations fixing something, or filling out some detail I hadn't specified. Quite impressive. Not agent mode, it generated the code that I applied to the files. It reads enough context from existing code so it uses existing interface definitions for data, suggesting modifications if required. Using Claude, angular.dev/ai/mcp for MCP setup.

@WebStormIDE Using the webstorm release candidate

@WebStormIDE AI editing implementation is sometimes prescient, other times annoying. Consistently if I highlight and delete some code it will immediately show the code ready to paste in. Please no. Ctrl-z exists. It guesses property names or method names, getting in the way of the correct code completion. Sometimes it guesses the intent properly, but gets the names wrong. Tab tab. Go through and fix, or escape and write it out. The block code suggestions are confusing, or extremely useful. Obviously it doesn't know what to do most of the time. I'm going to try writing a comment describing what needs to be done to see if that improves. It is many things but not prescient.

I asked it to add a few form fields using signal forms. It created a reactive form. Maybe some experimental flag missing? Oddly it was generating quite useful ngrx store code as well.