ramijames

Ya, I didn't mean Linux itself (which I like) but that I'd have to run it on sub-par laptop hardware. I travel a lot and there's no getting around the fact that macbooks are incredibly good from a hardware perspective. Solid keyboards. Amazing trackpads. Really good screens. I've yet to find a wintel equivalent, even with linux pre-installed, that didn't feel like a downgrade.

I find Microsoft user hostile. I find that Apple is interested in selling me a tool that mostly gets out of my way, provides me with some pretty cool features, mostly respects my privacy, and isn't shoehorning bullshit AI into everything. As a long-term Apple user, I feel respected. Beyond all of that, I like that I only have to buy a machine once a decade because their hardware lasts. I'm typing this on a 2020 M1 Macbook Pro that STILL feels modern, even six years later. I'll get AT LEAST another two or three years out of this machine if I don't do anything stupid like spill a drink on it (last computer died that way).

If the alternatives are clunky linux machines or awful microsoft machines, I'll stick with my Mac, thanks.

For anyone that didn't read that book, I can't recommend it highly enough.

I wish that I could upvote this twice.

:)

Thanks for letting me know. Will fix!

edit: found it. What a stupid mistake. Fixed.

Thanks!

I've been slowly building [MiserablyUnemployed.com](https://miserablyunemployed.com/) for the last four or five months.

It pulls jobs from tens of thousands of company HR pages, and only keeps them for seven days (unless it sees that the job has been filled). No reposts. Only fresh jobs.

Besides that it has a resume builder, matching system, application assistance via an extension, job tracking software, and an interview preparation helper. It turned into some fairly complex software that I ended up learning a lot from!

If any of you try it, let me know what you think.

I don't know about you guys, but I kept a stack of books in the bathroom. I managed to get through a lot of books two or three pages at a time. I don't even know why I stopped.

"Earning sick leave" is some dystopian bullshit. If you are sick, don't go into work. You don't need to earn it.

What is going on in the US is nothing short of shameful.

I'll never buy one of these systems because I want to be able to play my games in 20 or 30 years.

I just bought a Nintendo 64 and a Wii and it's great just being able to play my games with my kids and know that in five years nothing will change.

I'm still so angry about this. RSS was EVERYWHERE and then it just wasn't anymore. It was so useful and such a nice, advertising-free way, of using the internet.

This has been my take too. I think that the revenue requirements for making the industry profitable are likely never to be met, but that the US government sees AI as a strategic necessity and will ensure that the companies that are pushing the technology forward will be paid huge sums of money if they ever become insolvent. It's not ideal, but if banks are too big to fail, I'm guessing that OpenAI and Anthropic are too. This is doubly true since the defense sector is already integrating these solutions into their systems and actively using them in wartime activities.

When I was a kid software that would "double your RAM" was a thing. I remember thinking it was awesome, and at the same time feeling a huge sense of doubt that you could do that.

I'm sad that buttons are no longer interesting.

I also find that I'm constantly stressed that the plug is going to snap.

That being said, in ten plus years of using USB-c.. this has never happened to me or anyone that I know.

It's actually kind of impressive, all things considered.

I struggled with a dock and a MBP and connecting consistently to a monitor. It was a high-quality USB-C to HDMI cable. I was sure it wasn't that.

Turns out it was that.

Am I the only one who thinks that Google Analytics and its brethren are TERRIBLE in actually providing useful data for making decisions for marketing and sales purposes?

I've always played the game that tests are only as useful as you have resources to attribute to them. Mostly all modern development is a compromise between new features and stuff that supports those new features (tests included, but also reviews, code maintenance, docs, etc.).

If LLMs can be utilized to quickly make deep testing possible, I think that's probably a net-positive.

I'm curious. Do you attribute this to weak and/or incomplete tests? How granular should tests be to have complete coverage so that an AI won't create a converted codebase that "passes tests" but is still functionally inaccurate?

And configuring a bot for Telegram is incredibly easy.

Sounds like you are working on something naughty :)

What about cost?

We read to them from a very young age, and kept doing it. They are 13, 11, and 7 now and we still read books together every night for the littlest one, and most nights for the older two. My wife loves doing it and finds that it is solid bonding time.

We also instilled in them that it's a good thing for people to do on their own, and have slowly been providing them guidance on what "good literature" is by providing a constant stream of recommendations. We let them choose whatever they want, of course, and don't for anything on them. They are in total control.

Beyond that, we've taught them that the library is a nice place to just hang out. It's quiet, safe, and theirs as much as anybody else's. We are stuck living in a tiny apartment in a city in the US, and for them being able to just go to the library and have time to themselves is a positive for everyone.

Lastly, we've tried to give them a sense that language itself is fun and beautiful. Lots of word games. Lots of learning weird, esoteric words that nobody else seems to know. They get a kick out of it and so do we.

My kids are active, voracious readers. At least one book (500-700 pages) a week. It feels like one of the only things that I've really done right as a parent.

It's not just appetite. The market is crazy right now and people don't have money to drop $600-800 on a new console.

I guess that makes sense. Thanks for the answer and the trip down memory lane.

I miss the Amiga.

So what am I remembering that A/UX needed to boot from ROM?