> Those days are long gone.
> Not that surprising coming from a long-time Democrat.
So repubblicans have not been about small government for a long time and Trump is not even a pure-blood repubblican so it was to be expected that he would do the thing that repubblicans have not been about for a long time...what in the circular reasoning? Oh and please name one repubblican president who successfully reduced spending or "made government smaller"
I'm skeptical of central bankers trying to sugarcoat the fact that we are in a "technical" recession. If you look at per-capita GDP it's lower than it was four years ago and if you talk to regular Canadians you'll come away feeling like we've been in a recession for years. I would say per-capita is a better metric because it better reflects what individuals are experiencing, whereas Canada's overall GDP has been bolstered by high immigration targets for years. Regardless, it meets the definition of a recession and matches with the experiences of many Canadians. I'm sure the beureocrats and central bankers aren't feeling that pain though.
Why did you casually jump to per capita GDP? Per capita GDP is finally going up after a long regression, and one of the reasons Canada slipped to a very small recession is that hundreds of thousands of migrants are leaving the country, their visas expired. When you remove a lot of people that were consuming housing and food and cell plans and delivery doordash, GDP drops.
You have two conflicting complaints simultaneously, and you should make up your mind. Were you happy when Canada's GDP was increasing courtesy of mass migration?
So are you happy with the changes? I'm super happy with it. I'm also quite pleased with how well Canada has weathered a criminal felon pedo that has tried his hardest to hurt us, many Americans blissfully oblivious.
And yup, the many tentacles are government are going to keep making laws and planning trains and doing pipeline projects and countless other programs -- they aren't restricted to whatever the imaginary pet is of a particular complainer -- and amazingly they can competently do all of this simultaneously! Not always in a way that everyone agrees with, though.
Per-capita GDP rose mainly because of what you said, declining immigration growth.
The issue is that our economy has been in decline for years, increasing the population dramatically masked that at, least in nominal GDP, and as population growth declines it reveals the weaknesses that were previously obscured. Simply reducing population growth is not enough to fix the last 10 years. Immigration was and is never the problem with our economy, a lack of real growth is.
So no, I wasn't happy when our GDP rose because of population growth, and I'm not happy today either because pulling a few levers on the immigration machine to change the numbers slightly doesn't fix anything. And it doesn't appear like the government is doing anything to fix it, instead focusing on the stuff we're talking about in this thread.
>The issue is that our economy has been in decline for years
Yup. We had a housing and immigration based economy.
>Simply reducing population growth is not enough to fix the last 10 years.
Ah, so damned if they do, damned if they don't. Yes, getting unchecked immigration under control was absolutely a problem that needed to be fixed (they still aren't there, and the TFW and "student" pipelines are a major remaining problem), and it was a contributor to our economy getting untethered.
>And it doesn't appear like the government is doing anything to fix it, instead focusing on the stuff we're talking about in this thread.
C-22 is a tiny, minor, law and justice bill that normal wouldn't get an iota of attention (it legitimately is a tiny, extremely simple bill). You think the government is "focusing" on this? Then you have zero idea how anything works. Pretending like the massive arms of government focused on this is necessary for your rhetoric though.
Further, saying they aren't doing anything else...yes, you are 100% a partisan. Nothing will please you. Everything is wrong. Everything is dire. But I'm sure only Saviour Party will fix things.
And it's funny that there are dipshits in here pretending like I'm the partisan. I hate this sort of dipshit politics on either side. When Harper was PM and the far left was apocalyptic about everything he did (doing the same incredibly stupid "everything is going to hell!" routine), it was just as profoundly stupid. I hate when both sides do this nonsense.
I’m not sure why you’re so eager to blame immigration for the economy doing poorly. Cutting immigration only makes the economy worse unless you offset that by creating growth elsewhere, which hasn’t seemed to happen in the last 10 years, nor the last ~350 days.
C-22 is not a tiny, minor thing. It has massive repercussions for people’s privacy and security, as well as for the economy. If it was some minor thing, why so much effort to push it through despite immense backlash? It’s clearly a top priority for the government for some reason.
The liberals were literally reelected on the basis that Mark Carney is a master economist and he is our only saviour against Trump.
>I’m not sure why you’re so eager to blame immigration for the economy doing poorly.
YOU complained about immigration. Immigration and housing allowed the government to basically ignore economic policies, productivity, and so on, for a lost decade. It allowed partisans (just like you) to declare that GDP went up so everything is great and nothing can be criticized, as Canadians got poorer and worse off. And yes, fixing a problem -- unsustainable, outrageously destructive mass immigration -- has consequences, but they're well worth it. YOU are the one who brought up per capita GDP.
>The liberals were literally reelected on the basis that Mark Carney is a master economist and he is our only saviour against Trump.
Eh, considering everything we're doing fantastic, and we're in a much better position for the next century. I hope that USMCA falls apart, personally, however much some small but extremely loud minority of my bootlicking, wanna-be-MAGA countrymen want to be a poor work colony of the US for eternity. Bowing to rapist bullying by a corrupt failing idiocracy is never a winning move.
This is a great point, previously the tradeoff was build in python in 2 weeks versus 2 months and even if your app performance is worse you built it faster and maintain it more easily. Now I am wondering, for all the devs who do not have experience in Rust, can they still maintain the code when the usage limits get hit? Since there is an automated test suite and easily verifiable results, this is a good area where you can be assured the compiler is working properly; however, if new features need to be added, I'm not sure how easy it will be for them.
It depends... about the hardest part for me to keep track of in Rust is complex lifetimes... you can do things and organize in ways to reduce this cognitive overhead, but it may result in slightly less performant code.
The real boost to AI, is it can do a lot of things pretty easily, that you might not on your own... really thorough test suites, or even standing up a demo application just to test a single complex component. The latter I've done a few times now.
Rust itself seems to be very well supported by the coding models and is a pretty sane language to use. I cannot really comment on Go, as I've been using a lot more Rust as I have been targeting stand alone and wasm targets respectively, the latter really isn't a good structure for Go. I can say that C# is a really mixed bag, and would assume Java is similar.
Dynamic languages like python or JS might be faster to build, but they’re certainly not easier to maintain. The type system still exists, it just changes at runtime (JS) and exists purely in your head (both of them). The value of static analysis, like reading code, goes down significantly.
As codebases grow it only gets worse, as more of your mind is filled with building a mental model of the type system.
That’s why you end up seeing crazy defensive coding practices in these languages. In PHP, I often see isset and instanceof spammed everywhere because nobody can garauntee that thing X is actually X all the time.
Honestly it is a moot point. The benefit of languages like Python compare to Rust still hold. Algorithmic complexity rules the roost. For the hot path, write a C extension that is rigorously tested. Python you can iterate much faster same as any scripting language.
The AI can iterate faster in Python too, guaranteed, because you don’t have any compile time.
Also, this is how AIs already get stuff done: they write SCRIPTS to perform tasks in a sandbox with tool calls. This is the future, dynamic languages, not using static languages.
Sure. Having billionaires allocate their own capital driven by profit motive and market feedback results in more efficient allocation than having some random bureaucrats do it. That's what it's really about. For example, Elon Musk probably doesn't personally consume much more than the average American. He perhaps consumes 10x or 100x more, whereas his net worth is actually 5,000,000x. There are likely millionaires who live more lavish lives than him. The bulk of his fortune is actually just resources allocated in the economy.
It feels like the pace of improvement for foundational models is already slowing down. The trajectory feels much more linear than a few years ago when we had massive, qualitative jumps like GPT-2 to GPT-3.
They didn’t give up, the average Google engineer was never on board and hasn’t even tried agenetic programming beyond what they were required to do not to get reprimanded.
At no point has Google engineering culture actually embraced this at the ground level. This isn’t a change, this is the existing disconnect between the workers and the managers.
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