What does without mean (in the context of your comment)?

Oh my god waaaaa

It’s hard to imagine that it wouldn’t be cheaper and more reliable to do a massive solar project in Northern Africa.

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Don’t count on it becoming a Canadian company. Bringing foreign money and investment into Canada is a major priority of the Carney government

That’s an insane way to do something lol

Things always get lost in translation. A reader should at least be able to see the original so they can consult a different translator if necessary

Brain atrophy is only a risk if you don’t reallocate the time saved by applying AGI to an issue you would otherwise have to figure out yourself.

Use it on problems you can’t bear to manage and not on something for which you have a passion.

It could be incredible if society doesn’t collapse.

I’ll probably take shit for my comment, so preface: I use FOSS and self-host a lot of stuff at home, my Elbows are Up, and Fuck M$. Now then…

Yeah, the federal government could give up MS licenses for the public service and switch to OpenBSD or Linux and use LibreOffice. Excellent! Big savings.

Now then, how about all the ancient databases and applications used by the CRA and regulatory agencies. Will they keep working or will they need attention? Downtime is not an option.

Then there’s weird things like lab equipment and remote devices that provide earth sensing data for weather forecasts and probably tsunami warning for all I know.

Every one of those things needs, at least, thorough consideration and many will need specific attention from developers who are familiar with some pretty old tech. The public service does not have that capacity on hand. Contracting (expensive) private sector companies is a given.

I haven’t even mentioned the requirements for handling protected data or liability. Who does the government sue for damages if there’s an unpatched exploit in OpenBSD?

Anyway, all the above can be addressed. Nothing’s impossible. But the estimated cost-savings are not realistic. Like, at all.

You may now tear me to shreds.