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The Fractured Promise: AI Through the Lens of Belizean (Global South) 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

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On August 7, 2021, Breaking Belize News published an article titled Cholesterol drug could reduce COVID-19 infection by up to 70 per cent says study. I will use this article to illustrate some lazy and, at best, misleading journalism in Belize.

The first thing that jumped at me because of its absence was no reference to the data source. The best we get is according to a study carried out by researchers in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Denmark. The research published on Friday, August 6, in Frontiers in Pharmacology, was led by the University of Birmingham and Keele University in the UK and the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Italy. The University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the University of Liverpool in the UK also collaborated with the research., but the author does not provide a link to the actual source he read, nor the name of the research paper. It makes

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
fmtcount=`git ls-files | grep '.go$' | xargs gofmt -l 2>&1 | wc -l`
if [ $fmtcount -gt 0 ]; then
echo "Some files aren't formatted, please run 'go fmt ./...' to format your source code before committing"
exit 1
fi
vetcount=`go vet ./... 2>&1  | wc -l`
if [ $vetcount -gt 0 ]; then
echo "Some files aren't passing vet heuristics, please run 'go vet ./...' to see the errors it flags and correct your source code before committing"
exit 1

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Resources:
  GatewayResponseDefault4XX:
    Type: 'AWS::ApiGateway::GatewayResponse'
    Properties:
      ResponseParameters:
        gatewayresponse.header.Access-Control-Allow-Origin: "'*'"
        gatewayresponse.header.Access-Control-Allow-Headers: "'*'"
      ResponseType: DEFAULT_4XX
      RestApiId:
        Ref: 'ApiGatewayRestApi'

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service: fileStorageServices
custom:
  accountId: <your acc id>
  bucketName: <your bucket name>
  HostedZoneId: <hosted zone id>
  authFunctionName: <auth fn name>
provider:
  name: aws
  runtime: dotnetcore1.0
  stage: ${opt:stage} #read from console input

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```
 (ImageIO/write cropped "jpg" (clojure.java.io/file "a/dir" "Screenshot.jpg"))
 
``` 

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def app-routes
  (routes
    #service-routes
    (wrap-routes #'restricted-service-routes middleware/wrap-auth)
    (wrap-routes #'home-routes middleware/wrap-csrf)
    (route/not-found
      (:body
        (error-page {:status 404
                     :title "page not found"})))))

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Force a user to have a default schema other than public:

ALTER USER <user> SET search_path=<schema>;

Grant permissions to a schema for a user:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON SCHEMA <schema> to <user>;

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(ns foo.auth.google
  (:require [clojure.string :as str]
            [clojure.java.io :as io]
            [clojure.data.json :as json]
            [clojure.logging :refer :all]
            [friend-oauth2.util :refer [format-config-uri]]
            [friend-oauth2.workflow :as oauth2])
  (:import [java.security.cert CertificateFactory]
           [org.apache.commons.codec.binary Base64]))

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(defun helm-headlines (headline buffer-name good-regex exception-regex)
  "Display headlines for the current file.

   Displays lines where good-regex matches, except for those
   which also match exception-regex."
  ;; Fixes bug where the current buffer sometimes isn't used
  (setq helm-current-buffer (current-buffer))
  
  ;; https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/emacs-helm/YwqsyRRHjY4
  (jit-lock-fontify-now)