Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@jefftk Where did you get the estimate of 5-10% of Americans qualifying? The population of Canada is ~12% of the US population, so that would increase the population of Canada by ~1.5-2x, though I imagine practically speaking the vast majority of eligible people will not do anything with this.

I have nothing but a gut feeling to go by, but I suspect legal barriers to immigration are not the major reason preventing US citizens from doing whatever it is that Canadian citizenship allows them to do (work in Canada, vote in Canadian elections, etc).

@jefftk You have to apply for it, right?

@jay Even that I wouldn't want because I just have one queue of (non-music) audio, I need it all in one app. I wrote a whole program just to make my audiobooks into podcasts just to make them more "first class" citizens in my podcast app. https://github.com/pganssle/audio-feeder/

@jay Like do people just sit in front of a TV or computer and watch people talking into microphones? Do people not find this extremely boring?

I usually listen to them at 4x speed and only while doing other things like exercising or chores or driving.

@jay I am mostly upset by the dilution of the term "podcast", since I want to find things that are actually podcasts, but also I've been listening to podcasts for like 20 years now and I find it very hard to imagine wanting to consume them as YouTube videos.

@jay I think there is an RSS feed, just you have to search the podcast name on your player to find it.

@bernat I think what they are kind of saying is that AI is not being used as a wholesale replacement for engineers but rather as a force multiplier but it has also obsoleted all our existing skills so people are more interchangeable.

It is a coherent thing to think, though I disagree with it.

@feoh @simon I feel like it might not be that. When I feel like AI has intensified my workload it isn't because I'm stuck cleaning up a bunch of tech debt, it's because I have a lot more leverage. The AIs work really fast and can do a lot of work so it's easy to get into situations where the process is blocked on you. Reviewing the work, scoping out the next work, etc.

@kevin lol I forgot to put the link: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/292449/incorrect-grammar-vs-dialect-when-whenever

@kevin Yeah I looked this up a whole back because I was shocked when I read some quote from Simone Biles where she said. "Whenever I was younger I used to..."

This post calls it the "punctual whenever" and attributes it to Western Pennsylvania, but I think Simone Biles is from Houston and the article I was reading was about her connection to Belize, so it must have spread further than that.

@ehmatthes @carlton @ghickman As far as I know I have never heard "header" to describe any part of a function. I wouldn't know what you were referring to if you called it that.

@cammerman Might be the kind of thing this talk is for: https://pyvideo.org/pycon-us-2025/processing-large-json-files-without-running-out-of-memory.html

@jefftk Missing the snowstorm but coming back for the aftermath (wet boots, icy sidewalks) would be a serious bummer!