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Commuting in London is a headache by itself. I live/work in London but remotely. I earn less than what I used to, but I think I am happier.

same here. the product had a literal design error, not just a faulty individual item.

OMG. I thought that was a weird thing that I do :D I have a similar experience with ChatGPT.

I sometimes just think stuff in my head, conceptual stuff about life, science etc. anything that interests me.

Every now and then, I come up with a fruitful position, or a question.

ChatGPT helped me document these thoughts through a singular propositional in a dense sentence. ChatGPT breaks it down to simpler sentences that is more understandable If I read it in the future.

Basically. For me ChatGPT has been;

Zip(Thoughts) --(6-10 words)--(ChatGPT)--> ./Thoughts (50 words; more future proof)

Programming can be many things. I don't particularly appreciate finding or fixing bugs, or unit tests, incidence response. Very rare breed of programmers do these for a hobby. But you know what many more people program/code for a hobby? Games, graphics development. I love that shit.

This is the exact subject of the book; The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr. Airline industry avoids too much automation for this very reason.

Vigilance is hard to moderate when you start automating too much.

What does it mean to act as a ballast? What are some signs? Is there a general terminology for this? Are you talking about "meat-shield headcounts"

If you enjoy it, keep doing it.

If you don't enjoy it, seek solutions. I wrote this as a secondary alternative because your article is not seeking any solution but rather stating a fact and asking the resolution on why you may be doing this. Then it goes circular.

I have developed some solutions, personal traits to deal with this in my own personal life.

Learn to ignore useless facts, information and opinion pieces.

Learn to ignore other people's pet peeves. Let them handle it.

Learn to prioritise the information you can act upon.

Learn to stop it all and put the information to action.

> to be an expert

You should be able to offer solutions to problems impromptu. You should be dependeable in a wider-group meeting involving business or other competencies to represent what does the frontend say about it.

This means having knowledge and experience to offer solutions without googling.

Beyond that, you also need to be on top of the latest (not the newest) standards to follow. You need to stay up-to-date and filter through the waterfall of sh*t trends in the industry, to know what's actually relevant.

While doing all of that, you need to maintain your past/fundamental knowledge...nitty gritty details, to help your colleagues.

You need to do all of this while (most likely) being representative spokesperson/front for a frontend project at your day job.

I interviewed Full Stack Engineers many times. They usually cannot finish a coding challenge that is entirely frontend. The same challenge for me, it is all about how fast I can type. I can narrate the code and architecture I am writing as I code it

As with everything in life, full stack is a spectrum between backend and frontend leaning extremes. So, my point above is definitely a generalisation.

You might be super-sharp, a unicorn, or a frontend-leaning fullstack developer. It may not apply to you.

Taking this into consideration, there are worse examples of fullstackers too. Ones that don't know of spread operator, or can't type an object without googling first. that is around-or-below a junior-level competence in frontend.

Then there are those in the middle, who won't be up-to-date on how to use hooks, contexts, or be out-of-touch with concept of reducers or state management...but will work at the competence level of a mid-level frontender.

I was that guy for some 5-6 years in earlier years of my career. It doesn't pay well. Job security is non-existent. You won't get visa sponsorships. Your only way out is to build your own startup/product.

It is too far out of the regular career spectrum, and you face even open criticism in interviews for this sometimes.

So, I stopped. I am an expert Frontend Engineer now. I get senior roles without even a proper interview. I pass all interviews like it is small talk. My job security is much better.

Downside? I cannot make a full-fledged side project anymore. I just realized this recently when I started building one and realized how much I had to re-learn again.

no, not with that mindset. security is about creating obstacles. obstacles create friction and traces, even when they fail.

I am 30, and I already feel alien as a millennial. We did not become immortal, but the contents of our lives have already become bigger than what previous generations experienced in their lifetimes.

We are already there. We already face this challenge. We will overcome it before immortality. Immortality will be just the next step.

ahh... I forgot Turkey has a dysfunctional opposition party. I sometimes, wonder, perhaps with an opposition like that, this is what they deserve...

with you on that...

>> force the hand of the opposition to appoint the Istanbul mayor as presedential candidate.

how is this in favour of erdogan? mayor has better chance of winning than kemal.

They’re a tiny tiny minority if any, compared to what we are seeing here in comments.

I’m sure they would agree with what I said when they scroll through the comments.

I would not want to wander into HN comments section if I am doing any kind of divergent innovation, challenging the limits of what's technically possible. People here just parrot the status-quo as the absolute truth. If that was the case, humanity would have made zero progress.

Some nerd in some quiet corner, working hard in disbelief of the rest of the society, is the one changing the course of history. Not the ones, parroting established textual truths. There is GPT-3 for that.

I have been a HN user for a long time. Honestly, I disagree. Most HN users commenting here with smart stuff about fusion, just read it on another page a day or a week ago, from a bite-sized article or a reddit comment. Everyone, for the most part, parroting what they read on a short note somewhere else. Some more committed ones read the synopsis of a few papers before writing something smart.

Anything you read on the internet, explaining any advanced scientific concepts like fusion etc... take it with a huge grain of salt.

We are all parrots.

Welcome to armchair fusion engineering discussions of HN. Remember to wear your hard hat safety helmet.

I think what they're really asking is; why tech hasn't disrupted higher education economically, with VCs, startups posing as universities etc.

because in every other aspect tech disrupts culture and higher education continuously...

People's concerns start from food, housing and many other immediate pressing issues, before it gets to identity and purpose. (i.e. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs)

It is not very possible to buy a house with high interest rates. So, most of your earnings go to rental cost.

You shape your life with what you have left to spend.

>> The tax system and other incentives lead people to not really work their hardest and best, and this propagates all the way to the stock indexes

I used to be a believer in this. But I recently moved from Sweden to UK, from a very socialist country to a very capitalist one.

In capitalist societies people live in survival mode. This doesn't work well in every profession, especially managerial roles become very predatory. It does work well in tech/individual contributor roles though.

Some mundane tasks that are needed for tech development to go smoothly over long periods of time, is easier to manage in socialist Sweden. Whereas in UK, I suspect in US too, people tend to gloss over mundane managerial processes/goals like scrum, roadmap planning, business goals etc.

That's super interesting. When GPT-3 came out, I wrote an article inspired by it. That we could one day build an AI that acts like AGI, by a crazy vast amount of multimedia training data, collected by willing users to participate in ever improving AI interactions;

https://medium.com/swlh/bicameral-mind-humanoid-robot-with-g...

Ironically, Android's core UI elements are horrid in this regard.

I opened the page and immediately got paywalled... Maybe that's the intention, create such a terrible enemy that the thought piece becomes mute.

I just moved to UK from Sweden just 6 months ago. I was guessing, there would be a strong will to UnBrexit at this point with all the empirical evidence that Brexit failed

But quite surprisingly, this is not the case. I don't have enough information to say why, but I am definitely shocked on the lack of discourse on the matter.

There are some small movements, but it goes largely unreported by the mainstream media. There was a 10.000 people march recently in Westminster to UnBrexit and BBC didn't even report it.

everything is legal until it becomes "democratised".

you dont really need a satellite to picture any place on earth. there are many other cheaper methods.

they can't afford to make same mistakes they did in 2018 though. when you're as big as facebook, mistakes you make shape the regulations in the world.

this. really. I wouldn't want an envious manager.

Not only that, my place is not even fancy by any standards. It is actually a pretty old building with patches here and there.

If I wanted a nice newly built (newer than 15 years) place, I would have to pay around %70-90 of my salary.

London housing market is ,famously, a joke, literally. There is a whole trend of Tiktok videos making fun of housing ads in London.