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Life has been nicer without Reddit. The last few days opened my eyes. I could actually just enjoy SF without having /r/sanfrancisco convince me that I don't live in the pleasant place I see out my window, but rather a mad max style dystopian hell hole that is worse than most war torn nations.

The detox has been nice. I think many others may feel the same.

Fair enough, I did not consider this angle.

I often see the police at my local library here in SF. They now have a large security guard there full time. More often than not the library is reasonably calm, but I would say once a week we have someone screaming and freaking out. Overall though, I love the library and go a few days a week when I need to get out of my apartment to get some work done.

If libraries did not exist already, I couldn't even imagine them being funded now a days. A free place!? Where people can read books for free!?!?!?

What does it mean that guys like this and SadlyItsBradley were not invited to try the Vision Pro? Interesting to note that the experts in the state of the field were not given a chance to try it.

I'd be curious to know if these heart attacks happen equally in those that have to work from home vs those who have to commute to an office.

I wonder if we will be able to connect this to a PC for use with steam VR. All of the best things in VR happen in the PC realm where you don't have to jump through hoops to get your experiments out to others.

It's so hard to convey the experience this stuff without actually using it. Sure it looks awesome in these fake renders of what passthrough looks like, but IRL how does it look?

The bundle would be too hard to pull off IMO. How is my 100k of debt going to cover all these administrative employees, the new climbing wall AND some books?

Sites like reddit and discord will have trouble surviving eventually I think. The communities that rely on it may as well just host their own alternative at this point. It will allow them to have more control. However, I do admit that maybe doing such a thing is a bit much for many non technical communities.

I moved here because of the location, not the jobs. I could care less about standing about in an open office with noise canceling headphones all day. If you want a walkable place to live that is near some of the most wonderful cycling in the entire world, it is hard to beat.

I don't think this is true. Imagine a piece of software you have been using 15 years. Sure it has its problems, and there may be ways to work around those problems, but you are familiar with those problems. Switching to something new may fix those problems, but bring an entirely new set of their own.

Does it run on the cloud? Or does it run locally on your computer? I wonder if there is work being done on giving GIMP this ability?

That's OK. You are mostly only in it quick enough to make your quick buck and exit.

I agree, their shopping experience was insanely terrible. Tons of models with slight differences in model numbers that all seem like 99% the same laptop. Finally find one that suits my needs and it's more expensive than a new MacBook Pro anyway so why bother.

Additionally, the chance your new $2000+ laptop will be $500 a few months later lightly used on Ebay is really high. So I just wait. My current personal laptop is a nice Thinkpad with an i7 I picked up for $300 on craigslist. Sure the screen feels like it's from the 90s, but it mostly stays plugged into a monitor.

Which ones?

A few friends of mine are also trying to do something similar here in SF. We want somewhere else to work other than our cramped apartments, but don't necessarily want to go into a real office.

We are always trying to solve this problem while avoiding the elephant in the room, the current state of society is not very healthy for most people.

I think that if you have FAANG on your resume and you showed that you attempted to build an entire software company/product that you will be fine.

I can see it. The other day a self driving Cruise car was extremely aggressive with me, almost feeling aggressive as I tried to cross an intersection on foot. It was stop/starting quickly towards me to try and get me to walk faster it feels like.

I think that these self driving cars need some kind of feedback system for pedestrians and cyclists. Even an emoji face that shows facial expressions would help. When I see a real driver at an intersection, I feel like we come to some agreement about what is going to happen next based on our facial expressions. Or I can at least guess what may happen and take an action. With the self driving car there is 0 feed back. It's just an empty car that may or may not run me over.

Additionally, I also almost got run over by a dude head down driving in the Mission the other day, typing on his phone with both hands as his he just felt comfy having his Tesla do all the work.

At the moment all of this feels so sketchy. I hate my life being used for beta testing software lol.

Almost every single software engineer I know dreams about leaving software engineering. Be it to go live in a cabin in the middle of nowhere or become a humble food truck / cart person.

I switched to fastmail.com a few years ago. It's not expensive and so far seems to work quite well for me.

As far as journaling I like to use Obsidian. It provides me with a lot of flexibility with the data.

This tech could lead to is all living more wonderful and thoughtful lives with the extra time it would gift us.

But no. We will most likely fight over the few remaining jobs as the owners of the AI take the rewards.

Sad. But hopefully it does not happen.

I also play this table tennis game to just chill out mentally. For some reason it brings me peace to hit a ball back and forth.

In my case I took about 7 months off to work on side projects, ride my bicycle and day dream. I had to recharge after the lay off.

The real teams are not trying to make the best experience. They are actively trying to not do so for the sake of advertising probably. But that is just a guess.

They should pick a barista to be CEO for one day a month.

Why not form them before the bad stuff starts happening so you are ready for it?

Maybe we all start hosting this stuff via torrent or something?

Socialized healthcare could possibly help destroy the beliefs you mention. Public policy will certainly change in terms of what "food" is even legal to sell in this country if bad decisions don't mean profit for private health care companies, but instead mean losses for the public.