Jason Pickens

Dad, Developer, Gamer, Kiwi

[Jason Pickens @steinybot]

@TechCrunch Wake me up when you can fly over the Tasman Sea. Preferably by the sound of my package arriving on my doorstep.

[Jason Pickens @steinybot]

@JamesWard It's obviously a hyperbole but the reasons to use it are dwindling fast. Standards are for interoperability but that's unnecessary with LLMs. That'd be like a human creating a SOAP message to order an Uber. Way better to have deterministic code on both sides (LLM->CLI->API->SRVR)

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@warwick512 @dbseymour Have you read the bill?

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@NZPoetry @dbseymour Well... they have a conflict of interest so their comments should be taken with that in mind

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@codeslubber @odersky Huh!? Why? What should it be titled?

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@CathKakariki @dbseymour This isn't about changing history. For someone who comments a lot, you clearly don't understand what the Principles Bill is about

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@GooseyGander12 @dbseymour @Maori_Party What are these words meant to say? The Treaty isn't being changed. Nor is Maori culture. Te Pati Maori are not the great defenders of Maori that they make out to be. Don't be fooled just because of their name. They are bad news for all and need to be called out.

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@TuiMark8 @GooseyGander12 @dbseymour @Maori_Party No they haven't. No one can change it except the two parties if they agree to do so. Read the Treaty of Waitangi Act section 5(2). The Tribunal can interpret the Treaty however they want. Disputes go to court just like any other contractual agreement.

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@loosewheelnz @dbseymour @Maori_Party Nice try but that was a fail. Voting and engaging it political debate are different things, there is no hypocrisy there. Seymour sending legitimate replies is questionable at worst. Those other charges are serious and should be dealt with but it says nothing about Seymour.

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@yankintimaru @dbseymour Whoever can cry the hardest would be better criteria than race

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@MediaNeedYa @dbseymour Exactly. Ditch the stupid Treaty Princples Bill that isn't going to do a single thing and get back to the Regulatory Responsibility Act which would help get rid of laws that enable this behaviour and prevent future ones. Ok it won't fix AUT but neither will Treaty Principles

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@DaveTetro @dbseymour Happy supporting race based policy? So he's a racist then?

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@SoosforPeace @saywhatwhonow @dbseymour So no compassion with the end of life bill? No compassion getting Pseudoephedrine back? No compassion for the victims of reverse uplifts of children? If anything lacks insight it is your comments

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@mcgasss @dbseymour Then why read his tweets?

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@char_kiwi @dbseymour You were the one who read his feed. Sound like a masochist if this is how you truly feel.

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@PontyIrene @dbseymour That metaphor is stupid. The real metaphor for this situation would have one race being able to see over the fence while another can't. All Seymour is saying it should be based on criteria other than race, i.e. give the boxes to the shortest, which ironically is the equity scene.

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@KiwiCraig74 @dbseymour Having autonomy doesn't mean you should do whatever you like. AUT has an objectively bad policy and deserves to be called out on it. Maybe lookup the definition of facism before calling some who wants to stop race based favouritism. You don't have to like him but debate ideas.

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@warwick512 @dbseymour So you think certain races need more than others? I'll give you the benefit of doubt and assume no, but then you clearly missed the point. It should be a needs based policy which has nothing to do with race.

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@vin_acct Both are useful. I generally go to println first but a debugger can do far more than println. A printpoint after all is just one type of breakpoint. They can be conditional, have dependencies, filter callers, match call counts, be grouped and toggled all without changing the code

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@ChShersh True but which is easier to read and not get off by 1 errors?