BossingAround

Honestly, my Thinkpad from 2015 was still used in my family until recently. The battery was pretty bad, same as on my 2015 MBP, but other than that, I put Fedora on it, and it was still really fast.

Longevity is not only a thing of MBPs. OTOH, IIRC, some 2017-2019 MBPs (before the Mx switch) were terrible for longevity, given their problematic keyboard.

Same. I don't like VSCode, but debugpy is, for me, a killer feature for which I'd pay if I had to.

Personally, I need support for remote debuggers, e.g. debugpy on Python. Would this feature help me debug code that's already running on a remote server and I just need to connect to it?

Personally, I'd consider this nothing to write home about. It's OK. Not great, not terrible.

If we're laying off 20% of the company, I'd expect the package to be somewhere in the 6-12 months range. To me, that would seem more fair, considering they are completely restructuring the whole company.

Really? 16 weeks of salary, or 4 months of pay. In my country, you get 3 months of pay as standard when you're fired from your job. Doesn't seem that great to me to be honest.

How about describing what exactly taking full responsibility means for them in that particular situation?

Saying e.g. what is the impact on the situation for those responsible might be nice - no bonuses for next year? A plan in place so that this doesn't happen again? Stepping down as a CEO?

I mean, if I take responsibility for e.g. wrong tax filing, I pay the fine penalty, and/or go to jail.

Saying "I take responsibility" some kind of failure while having no consequences for said failure is not taking responsibility.

At first, I thought it was like $35, and was almost ready to order it. Then, I realized, in my morning haze, that I'm not seeing the decimal point, and it is actually $340.

For that kind of cash, you might as well get the real Vita from a second-hand market. Better yet, for that kind of cash, get Steam Deck, unless you have some restrictions like OP (i.e. "SD is too big")

Yes... I think the trend of "raw dogging" a flight is a response to the constant need to do something - scroll through a phone, listen to a podcast, read the latest NYT story... Doing nothing, on the other hand, is pretty much what meditation is, which has been shown to provide a lot of amazing benefits for the brain.

Idleness is then just a religious (Protestant Christian?) spin on a perfectly normal thing, much like masturbation.

Just like we had with TVs and other screens. Interestingly enough though, when I look around in my office, the majority of people in my team wear glasses, so there's that...

I don't think that's what it means. Raw dogging a flight means staying awake while doing nothing.

I suppose most people that want to "raw dog" a flight will fall asleep eventually, so I guess there's that. But I think getting buzzed and just slipping into a bad nap for like 12 hours is a bit different, at least to my mind.

Oh, I had no idea. So it's similar to Lexus/Toyota. TIL, thank you.

Waymo works in specific areas only though. As soon as you get out of San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, or Austin, the car wouldn't have self-driving capabilities.

I suspect it'll be some kind of AI-powered assistant that will take self-driving vehicles to people, like [1]. You retrofit a device onto your car, which'll hook to the car's sensors (as well as bring it's own sensors, like camera) and get a better experience in self-driving. Still nowhere near reliable to just stop paying attention though.

Hopefully, they'll make reliable self-driving vehicles within the next 10 years or so...

[1] https://comma.ai/

Really? I thought it was mainly KIA who had security problems. Hyundai as well? Is there a car company that's known for good security practices?

Why do we need a "programmer's perspective"? Exercise has nothing to do with programming or engineering specifically. Exercise (ideally, some form of exercise that strengthens muscles that atrophy while sitting) should be a thing for everyone who sits behind for 40+ hours a week.

In the EU, IIRC, 2024 is the year that EU starts mandating a bunch of stuff in vehicles (most notably, speed limiter IIUIC).

Love the chat functionality :)) Very cool.

Nice. If only there was a mario theme song.

Well, it takes 30m the first time, when learning from scratch. When learning the arcane cron entry system, I'd guess it takes even longer than 30m, unless you have a simple time in mind (like "every minute" or something similar - "every second Monday" is definitely more complex to reason about in cron). Again, comparing not knowing systemd timer vs not knowing cron.

Which is much easier than fiddling around with crontab, in my experience.

Yes, you need a systemd service file and a systemd timer file. Creating both is a matter of ~30m. Then, you do `systemctl start` and you're good... As a great benefit, you can see the status of each timer, which is great for debugging quick problems, like permission issues/runtime errors/... when setting the timer up.

> Regardless what’s going on, have at least one day per week when I don’t work at all (usually Saturday) and never pull all-nighters (no work after midnight);

Why are you working during the weekend and after work hours?

I've never used Ubuntu, but on Fedora and openSUSE Tumbleweed, I've never run into this issue (and I've had like 50+ tabs open for weeks since i don't really reboot my work laptop unless I have to)

Given a million years, I'd say the human race ending is more likely than the human race figuring out how to run Bloodborne 4 on a Steam Deck, given that in a couple years, Steam Deck 2 will outperform the original SD.

Amazing. This made me want to play BB on my old PS4 that's gathering dust. Then, I remembered it's 30FPS locked, and has pretty bad loading times. I'll wait for the emulator, or a remaster, whatever comes first I guess :))

Some times, the writers don't want to repeat themselves because they were taught that it's "poor writing." And I'd agree, maybe, in (some) prose.

But in tech docs, please, repeat yourself instead of using "this", "that", "those", etc., even when perfectly non-ambiguous.

This should be preferred "The service is now ready. To check the service's status, ..." over this "The service is now ready. To check its status, ..."

And yet for every one "you", there are thousands of "them" who simply type out a few commands, load the firmware once, and then just play the games.

Maybe two decades ago, there was an article going around about a person who became a commercial pilot thanks to World of Warcraft (WoW improved his English through raids). That doesn't really mean that playing WoW is a good way to become a pilot though.

I suspect that in your case, even without the Gameboy, you'd end up where you are now.

ChatGPT can help with very simple problems that people have already solved online. That said, typically, you can search for the actual solution online without the ChatGPT's possible hallucinations.

A better use of LLM is to input your reasoning and ask if it is correct, but even then, you can't rely on the output. Probably the best is to ask on the math side of stack overflow and rely on the kindness of a stranger.

Honestly, this seems needlessly painful to me. Of course, you can be scanning each sentence for a proposition, then pause, and try to reason it out, thus spending 4 weeks on like 5 pages of a 10-page chapter. But is that the best use of your time?

The bigger problem is that not every thing that the author says is within your level of reasoning. Some very simple things can be exceedingly hard to prove, and you, as a learner, don't know which is which. That's why there are the problems at the end of the chapter, which are designed for the level that you should have attained by the end of the chapter. Without solutions though, you have no way to check your understanding, and you are forced to try and squeeze every little problem from the text.

Not having solutions is simply not suitable for a self-learner. It is sufficient for a class settings, where you can ask the professor if your solution is correct.

To me, a good compromise is to provide solutions to every odd- (or even-) numbered problem. Thus, the self learners have at least half of the problems within their reach, and t he teachers can assign the other half of the problems.

How do you deal with disputes? One's code is flagged even if the student in question didn't actually cheat. What then? Do you trust tools over the students' word?

In addition, do things like stack overflow and using LLM-generated code count as cheating? Because that is horrible in and of itself, though a separate concern.

> almost no individual at Google has the fire or drive in them to play to win

Yes, that's why you go to large megacorps. I wouldn't go to Oracle, IBM, Google, Facebook, MS, etc. etc. if I had a "huge fire or a drive to win". Honestly, I go there because I wanna work 5 hours a day (less if possible) and have a stable career.

If I want to work 9-12h a day, give me an upside. None of these huge megacorps will reward that.

If I'm the lead of a Goog project that becomes a hit, do I get $10M bonus? Of course not. I get a pat on the back and something to put in my packet for the next promotion interview.

So you're absolutely right, but the problem is not in people. It's in the way the system's designed.

That's the first thing that occurred to me too. It could also not be constant even at the same place, i.e. could it not be speeding up and slowing down as the universe expands?