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The Fractured Promise: AI Through the Lens of Belizean Reality

As a software engineer contracting for American companies while rooted in Belize, my perspective on the AI revolution is necessarily bifurcated. While colleagues in the West enthusiastically adopt AI-powered coding assistants, my own experiences with these tools have been underwhelming. Yet, this technical friction pales in comparison to the deeper, systemic apprehensions I harbor, anxieties born directly from the unique vantage point of living and working in a developing nation navigating the turbulent currents of global technology.

The most immediate concern is one of access and precarious dependency. My professional livelihood hinges on tools hosted and controlled by entities far removed from my reality. Belize, like many nations, exists under the shadow of potential geopolitical shifts, including American sanctions. The chilling prospect of losing access to essential AI platforms overnight due to forces entirely beyond my con

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apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: Workflow
metadata:
  generateName: cuda-vector-add-
spec:
  entrypoint: main
  templates:
  - name: main
    # requires this pod to be run on an nvidia.com/gpu labeled node
    nodeSelector:

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fresh: clean chart

chart: instance_ages
	@echo "AWS EC2 Instance Age Report"
	@echo "---------------------------"
	@echo "Days\\tCount"
	@cat instance_ages | ./chart.py -n

clean:
	rm -f instance*

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{
  "id": "/app",
  "container": {
    "type": "DOCKER",
    "docker": {
      "network": "HOST",
      "image": "registry.spantree.net/app:#{BUILD_ID}",
      "privileged": true,
      "forcePullImage": true,
      "parameters": [

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# chronos
#
# This upstart job configuration is managed by Puppet.
# Do not edit this file. Your changes will be lost.

description "Chronos"
version     "2.3.2"

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]

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diff --git i/Vagrantfile w/Vagrantfile
index 3cdca40..abc1e80 100644
--- i/Vagrantfile
+++ w/Vagrantfile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 require 'yaml'
-require './vagrant/lib/gen_node_infos'
+require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'vagrant/lib/gen_node_infos')
 
 PROJECT_ROOT='/usr/local/src/Platform'

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class kafka_broker(
  $zookeeper_connect = 'localhost:2181'
) {
  class { 'kafka':
    version       => '0.8.2.0',
    scala_version => '2.9.2',
    install_java  => false
  }

  class { 'kafka::broker':

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import json
import sys
from pprint import pprint

files = sys.argv[1:]
if not files:
    files = ["/dev/stdin"]

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upstream elasticsearch {

  server     localhost:9200  fail_timeout=10s;
}