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ande-mnoc commented on A Typology of Canadianisms dchp.arts.ubc.ca/how-to-u... · Posted by u/gnabgib

keoneflick · 6 months ago

I am well read on this case.

> She would have got the same treatment even if she spoke French.

This is simply untrue and I would be happy to hear a source for your position. It happens to allophones and white presenting anglophones:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/anglophone-accuses-fre...

Feel free to have the last word. My last word is leaving Quebec and never coming back.

ande-mnoc · 6 months ago

I mean, if you read the entire story and all the horrific incidents happening to Indigenous people across the country and still made it about yourself, not much I can say about it.

ande-mnoc commented on A Typology of Canadianisms dchp.arts.ubc.ca/how-to-u... · Posted by u/gnabgib

keoneflick · 6 months ago

She died because she didn't speak french and the staff laughed at her rather than try to communicate with her. If you think racism in Quebec doesn't have a connection with language, you are dangerously misinformed.

ande-mnoc · 6 months ago

Did you actually read the article? Because I did.

The case was well reported in media and they basically all agree that it’s a symptom of systemic racism against Indigenous people in Canada. The hospital staff thought she was on welfare based on her ethnicity in this case, or straight out “bet” on the patient’s blood level in another case in BC the same year. She would have got the same treatment even if she spoke French.

> If you think racism in Quebec doesn’t have a connection with language

Where have I said this? Not everything is about the language though.

ande-mnoc commented on A Typology of Canadianisms dchp.arts.ubc.ca/how-to-u... · Posted by u/gnabgib

keoneflick · 6 months ago

> By constrast, it is less and less easy to live only in French in Montréal, since it is not always possible to find someone that speaks French.

Sorry you went to a restaurant in chinatown that didn't speak french. I hope you can recover safely from that experience. Meanwhile, this is the truth of living in Quebec as an allophone: https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article505933.html

ande-mnoc · 6 months ago

If you read the article you posted, she faced discrimination because she was indigenous. Nowhere in the article was the language she spoke ever mentioned. It’s pretty disingenuous to use this to push a political viewpoint.

ande-mnoc commented on Wikipedia: Database Download en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wik... · Posted by u/doener

ande-mnoc · 8 months ago

A bit of warning to people who use the database download: the dumps don’t reflect a consistent state of the database and contain broken and missing data.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps/What_the_dumps_ar...

ande-mnoc commented on CSS Custom Functions are coming bram.us/2025/02/09/css-cu... · Posted by u/Fudgel

ande-mnoc · 10 months ago

Finally, the inverse of CSS-in-JS.

alexlur commented on China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns wsj.com/world/china/china... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

YZF · 10 months ago

Here's the sequence:

>> Why does the US still allow Chinese nationals to study at its universities and work at its companies? Seems like a big risk that cutting edge research and trade secrets will go to America’s main adversary. Industrial espionage by China has a long history, and China has more valuable things to steal from America than the other way.

> I have good news for you. DeepSeek openly bragged that none of its people have “overseas experience”. They are all local talents.

...

> My original comment was merely citing what they think

Fair enough. So my comment is towards what they think? What is your position?

EDIT: Do you feel that DeepSeek open bragging about none of its people having "overseas experience" is simply to say they have not been overseas or that the technology originates in China? I'll admit I'm not down to the nuance of how studies overseas are viewed in China.

alexlur · 10 months ago

I don’t have a position. I’m simply very curious how this will play out.

You don’t have to guess what they mean since the CEO did an interview about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845612

ande-mnoc commented on China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns wsj.com/world/china/china... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

YZF · 10 months ago

I know what overseas means and I realize Microsoft has teams all over the globe. But Microsoft is a US company and by working there as a researcher you are trained and have access to know-how that is technically American in origin.

The intent of the original "boast" is to somehow claim the know-how comes solely out of China. It's boasting about China's abilities to generate cutting edge technology without reliance on the west. This has nothing to do with where you physically reside.

The gp said:

> Industrial espionage by China has a long history, and China has more valuable things to steal from America than the other way.

And you were countering that by saying nonono, these guys learnt everything they know solely from some Chinese origin. They've never been overseas.

ande-mnoc · 10 months ago

> The intent of the original "boast" is to somehow claim the know-how comes solely out of China.

No, it isn’t. It’s likely they mean they haven’t studied aboard or have worked in the U.S., which has been long seen as a prerequisite to innovate in the tech industry there.

My original comment was merely citing what they think. It’s unfortunate that you cannot tell the difference between describing and endorsing.

ande-mnoc commented on China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns wsj.com/world/china/china... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

YZF · 10 months ago

And as we all know the Russians, oops the Chinese, invented LLMs and transformers.

Randomly picking the first author in the r1 paper, Daya Guo, he interned and was a researcher for Microsoft, a well known Chinese company. So I guess he didn't have any "overseas experience" whatsoever.

I'm sure China has plenty of talent. But an oppressive society is going to be self limiting.

ande-mnoc · 10 months ago

Your snarky tone aside, “overseas” usually means outside of one’s country. Microsoft has research teams all over the globe. You don’t have to be in the U.S. to work for Microsoft.

ande-mnoc commented on China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns wsj.com/world/china/china... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

blackeyeblitzar · 10 months ago

Why does the US still allow Chinese nationals to study at its universities and work at its companies? Seems like a big risk that cutting edge research and trade secrets will go to America’s main adversary. Industrial espionage by China has a long history, and China has more valuable things to steal from America than the other way.

ande-mnoc · 10 months ago

I have good news for you. DeepSeek openly bragged that none of its people have “overseas experience”. They are all local talents.

ande-mnoc commented on Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace github.com/material-theme... · Posted by u/Inityx

isidorn · 10 months ago

Hi - Isidor here from the VS Code team.

A member of the community did a deep security analysis of the extension and found multiple red flags that indicate malicious intent and reported this to us. Our security researchers at Microsoft confirmed this claims and found additional suspicious code.

We banned the publisher from the VS Marketplace and removed all of their extensions and uninstalled from all VS Code instances that have this extension running. For clarity - the removal had nothing to do about copyright/licenses, only about potential malicious intent.

Expect an announcement here with more details soon https://github.com/microsoft/vsmarketplace/

As a reminder, the VS Marketplace continuously invests in security. And more about extension runtime trust can be found in this article https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/extension-runtime-...

Thank you!

ande-mnoc · 10 months ago

Will Microsoft consider adding a permission model for extensions?