> I’m afraid that relying on ChatGPT/copilot for _current best practices_ is probably where it works the worst
This matches my experience. When ChatGPT started going viral, I started getting a lot of PRs from juniors who where trying it out. Pretty much every single one was using depreciated API calls or best practices from 5-10 years ago. I'd ask why they chose to use an API that is scheduled to be removed in the next release of whatever library or system we are using.
ChatGPT does have it's place. But you need to understand the tools you're using. It can't be great for a first spike or just getting something working. But then you have to go and look at what it's doing and make sure you understand it.
The NDP is a centre-right party. Don't apply the USA's very very right-shifted political spectrum to Canada. The American Democrats and Republicans both would be parts of the Conservative Party. The Democrats are closest to the Red Tory wing and Republicans to the Blue Tory wing of the Conservative Party. It's just there is very little difference between the USA's two conservative parties.
It was the mouth piece of the Progressive Conservative Party before the merger. It's been a conservative newspaper since it's founding. Historically most of it's ownership has been directly involved, sometimes in a leadership capacity, of the current iteration of the conservatives. Yes, the National Post is now the mouth piece the current Conservatives, but it still has a very conservative byline by Canadian standard.
This is a bit wrong for Thailand as it doesn't mention nicknames. Or rules for using the given name vs. nicknames. Unless in very formal context it's normal to use nicknames not given names. In day to day life nicknames are by far more commonly used than given names.
Family names are almost never used expect in legal documents or formal setting. It's common for people who have been friends for years to not know each other's family names as they are so rarely used in day to day life.
It's also common also for friends/coworkers to not know each other's given names -- though less so than family names. Especially as you would never call someone you're friends with by their given name as it would be a bit rude. Usually in offices (unless very old fashioned) or with friends and family you'd use nicknames exclusively.
Since you know more about this subject, I have a question on this topic that I've wondered for over two decades.
In 2001, I did a month long exchange program to Thailand. A group of eight Canadians stayed with eight Thais, and the year before they stayed with us. Incredible program.
All the Thais, as you mention, had nicknames. But many of the nicknames were English words that weren't really used as names in the West. I lived with a guy named 'Knight'. Another guy was 'Farm'.
Were these names Anglicized versions of Thai nicknames? Or were the actual nicknames just sometimes pulled at random from an English dictionary?
They're the actual nicknames. Back some thirty years ago, people were still named using Thai words like "Daeng" (Red), "Kai" (Chicken), "Noi" (Small), "Nam" (Water), while a Thai-Chinese family may have their elder member in the family name their children with a Chinese word. (e.g., mine was named by my great-grandmother, and if I were to spell my nickname properly in Chinese it would likely be "Shen", though I've never cared enough to confirm)
However, the influence of western media in recent years caused this to slowly shift into English words in the past twenty or so years. So nowadays it's not uncommon to find someone named "Night", "Nick", "Note", "Buddy", etc. There was also a brief period where people named their kids based on a Korean star they like (though not as popular as English-sounding names).
(And yes, getting referred to by first name on a website is always very weird to me :)
If Thailand is like China, they were English names chosen by kids in English class. Not their real nicknames, just the names they use when speaking and writing English, and chosen with all the tact and creativity of a middle schooler without much knowledge about standard English names in the west. Also, since Chinese names often have meaning, they often go for English names with meaning as well (although unrelated to their Chinese name).
A famous English name in expat in China circles is Rainy.
Unfortunately people don’t have unlimited time/energy/money. It may not be that they don’t care, but rather they are expending their full effort on other tasks
Protected from what? This a legal action being brought by X, not by the ADL. X is not the defendant so it's not really about X's protection.
The ADL hasn't taken any legal action against X; it's just made some statements and maybe, if you believe Musk, lobbied advertisers. Which really doesn't have anything to do with section 230.
He means protected from the consequences that arise from the things he says, the things he does, and the things that he acquiesces to. It is the most important privilege one can have. He wants the benefit of the doubt.
What does that mean? It means that he wishes to require people to interpret his actions and words in the most advantageous way possible, instead of ... "duck typing" them. Because we have heard the very tiresome quacking of this particular kind of duck for almost a thousand years.
> I thought the primary cause was the demographics changes which is creating knock on effects
Not really. Yes, China is starting to experience demographic decline but it will be a long long time before it affects them economically. They could still absorb every North American job and still have people left over. That's just how big China's population is. Demographic decline will eventually bite them but they have a very long runway. China is very different from Japan's case.
As for policies, again, not really. It's more that about 10 years ago most low cost manufacturing shifted out of China because cheaper regions caught up and were able to provide better value. China has been been talking about this trend since before Xi and a big focus has be shifting to a service economy built on internal demand. This is the part where policies come into play. The shift has not gone as well as they hoped. And again, it's not really about Xi messing up Deng's work. The world, and China, is different from Deng's world. Deng's approach would not work in a world where low cost manufacturing has moved overseas. If anything, it's more of an issue that Xi has stuck to closely to Deng's approach and not adapted to the changing world.
> Deng's approach would not work in a world where low cost manufacturing has moved overseas.
no, but the next step, which is to mimick what japan did post lost-decade, is to move into higher value manufacturing, increase automation and increase domestic service industry.
However, the required tech, research cooperation and transfers that would've been needed is going to need deep trust and cooperation between the west and china - that entails giving up the full authoritarian control of the economy. This isn't something the CCP can entertain, unlike japan.
China still has ambitions of becoming a superpower that can dictate terms on the world stage. I think this is the difference between Xi and Deng. Xi cannot move past being second fiddle. And i think this is the real cause for china's downfall (if it were to happen).
I was under the impression that manufacturing moved to China for the bottom price first, but higher value manufacturing remained there because there's infrastructure symbiosis now.
If you're a absolute lowest-value-add manufacturer (think cereal box toys), yeah, you could put that anywhere plastic stock could be delivered. But as you start to make more sophisticated products, supply chains get way more relevant. If your cereal box toy acquires a blinking LED, a coin cell battery, and a screw to hold the battery box closed, it becomes compelling to manufacture the main casting in China because all the other parts are already made there and the logistics will be cheaper and more responsive.
This seems like the same play as early Silicon Valley, and Taiwan in the era of early PC clones.
> why have kitchens traditionally been separated from dining areas in the first place?
Smell. To keep the smells of cooking from overwhelming the rest of the house. In the process of building a new house and it will be a separate kitchen. Well, technically, a wet kitchen that is closed off and a small dry kitchen connected to the dining area for dealing with things that aren't strong smelling. This setup is pretty standard in here in Asia.
Having lived in multiple apartments and now back into a house I am amazed that US apartments (at least the ones where I lived) did not have a range hood that blew stuff to the outside. All they did was recirculate air through a grease filter. In other words, useless.
Now back in a house with a connection to the outside. Actually does something.
Although I try to cook outside, because cooking inside means I have to pay for more AC.
This matches my experience. When ChatGPT started going viral, I started getting a lot of PRs from juniors who where trying it out. Pretty much every single one was using depreciated API calls or best practices from 5-10 years ago. I'd ask why they chose to use an API that is scheduled to be removed in the next release of whatever library or system we are using.
ChatGPT does have it's place. But you need to understand the tools you're using. It can't be great for a first spike or just getting something working. But then you have to go and look at what it's doing and make sure you understand it.