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lol yeah I'm not a poet.

Their business model is more like make a lot of noise about high tech, then hire h1bs to do routine IT work their corporate customers do.

I have Opus 4.7 at work at 15x. Burns through tokens like water. It feels like one of these new mega datacenters is just for me. I'd love to know what the bill is, but we're just encouraged to do as much AI as possible.

One reason I like Go is the fast compile. Rust really slows you down. Esp in days of AI when agents are building/testing in cycles.

As someone working on a Sunday on a rainy memorial day weekend. Bring back the 5 day week!

Agreed, the biggest boom towns have been in the South where restrictions are low and profits high, leaving some really ugly suburbs.

There are millions of homes that are super cheap and no one wants to live there. I think we missed a real opportunity for WFH to allow people to move where things are more affordable, rather than having everyone live in mega cities and complain of high prices.

I have 3 laptops, a PC and a PC at work and 2 phones. Passkeys still confuse me and I'm not 60 yet.

I quite like the new trend where you can login just by entering the 2fa on SMS or email. Skip the whole username/password.

I still remember those $3 uber rides.

I'm still on 23H2, windows update fails every time I try. This summer I'm switching to Linux.

I work in big financials. Everything used to be built on Excel. A lot still is but Python/Jupyterhub or custom applications has taken over a lot of the complex stuff. Excel isn't really essential any more.

I switched from C++ to Java/Python 20 years ago. I never really fit in, I just dont understand when people talk about the complicated frameworks to avoid multithreading/mutexes etc when basic C++ multi threading is much simpler than rxjava or async/await or whatever is flavor of the month.

But C++ projects are usually really boring. I want to go back but glad I left. Has anyone found a place where C++ style programming is in fashion but isn't quite C++? I hope that makes sense.

Me too, I figured I spent more time on the computer than taking pics. Now I shoot jpg and if I have some spare time I go out and shoot. If I take a good pic I share it with basic editing if any instead of waiting to get it "perfect".

Yeah I started with that. Eventually did an electronics engineering degree. Now I just write python and CI config.

Still having your own hardware seems so much cheaper. Maybe even just for dev/uat environments?

Every big corporate I have worked at has lower cost of capital than Amazon, and yet they want to move to AWS. I just dont understand it.

Nice, I didn't think of that. I love the fanless trend in Apple macbook airs.

Back then I didn't foresee the 22GB image our jupyter/ML is in 2026. There must be a better way.

The first Xeon looks to be released 1998, so sounds about right

I still remember my first CPU with a heatsink. It seemed like a temporary dumb hack.

The LG Gram is incredible, 17 inch thin light and powerful. However it has one of the worst keyboards I've ever used.

I think they're dumb but my wife loves them. The video quality is surprisingly good.

Wasn't Windows 95 just a copy of Windows NT, which was the real product.

Can we talk about how much copilot sucks in vscode? I have to use for work, buggy as hell for the premier product of a trillion dollar company.

BTW the study was from September 2024 to 2025, so its the very earliest of adopters.

Incidentally I saw the Wes McKinney podcast who said that Go was the perfect language now because of the fast compile-run cycle with strong types and built in multi thread safety was perfect for Coding Agents. Gave me a whole new interest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VfzDXeQRhU

I'm now in my 50s. I tried management but prefer working as an IC. I think I'm good but I know most companies would never hire me. One thing I do now is try to look after all the youngest grads and new joiners. Its so cutthroat now it seems no one has time to help anyone else, so I like helping people get up and running and encouraging them to enjoy their work while being productive and getting their skills up. No one else seems to care.

Somewhere its in my list of things to try one day. Maybe an ai agent can help make this happen.

As someone who interviews students for internships and grad programs I mostly agree, however I think you should listen to the best, hardest working students to hear if they're getting picked OK. I suspect the students with the best jobs are the ones who do the minimum classwork and spend their time doing leetcode and applying for jobs - I would think that is sub optimal for everyone including yourself.

Right? I was hoping webassembly would bring back some proper gui tools like this to avoid the whole JS/DOM but no luck so far.