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Do you mean a few cents plus $5 shipping? I think they still exist but often results are ranked by total cost now which is clearer.

It starts at admissions where learning is not a rewarded activity. You should be making impact in the community, doing some performative task that isn't useful for anything except making you different to your class mates who naively read the books and do the classwork honestly.

Did he connect to your wifi? That would give the exact property to go to instead of via gps.

I never understood this. Is this why the cubicles are always full in the office? WTF I go in there take a dump and leave while the people on each side are just silent the whole time. I can think of much better places to think.

I worked on an app that sent an internal email with stack trace whenever an unhandled exception occurred. Worked great until the day when there was an OOM in a tight loop on a box in Asia that sent a few hundred emails per second and saturated the company WAN backbone and mailboxes of the whole team. Good times.

Agreed. Combine with job rewards for "impact" over anything else and move fast break things its hardly a surprise.

Depends what you mean by Microsoft. Azure is its biggest division. OpenAI stake is its most important. I think xbox/gaming has more revenue than Windows now. Even LinkedIn is a huge part of the company.

Japanese and Chinese are very different buckets. What is the long term reliability of Chinese cars? Nobody knows.

That is ugly AF and there is no way I'd buy that over a Porsche.

Zeekr 001 is prettier outside but inside still is terrible. https://www.datocms-assets.com/143770/1728613060-rectangle-4...

> china makes cars better than most luxury brands

More like China makes cheaper cars which is enough for most people.

Its interesting that TV is regulated. You can't put certain content on there and I'm sure the governments can ultimately control things. Now todays eyeballs are controlled by Meta and TikTok and I dont really trust them at all - they have too much unchecked power.

> their centralised options become redundant

This is not the problem. The problem is that everyone moves to solar for most of the year not using or paying for the infrastructure, then in cold winter nights everyone expects the grid to be able to supply as normal.

Just did a funding round. In a sign of the times clickhouse used to be an interesting DB product, but is now a "database software that companies can use as they develop AI agents "

<i>Database technology startup ClickHouse Inc. has raised $400 million in a new funding round that values the company at $15 billion — more than double its valuation less than a year ago. </i>

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/clickhous...

Get started a corporate surplus mini pc on ebay. They super cheap - search for micro pc - if you get a recent CPU from Dell or Lenovo should be under $200, you can install Fedora or other Linux distribution. Ask Claude for everything else.

nice. I wish I could buy an address instead of renting from aws...

Yeah you're right, I was a pretty geeky teenager myself. Its a tough winner takes all world, maybe working your ass off in HS is a good strategy that I messed up.

I've been a Windows user since 3.0 came out. Windows the last 5 years has been annoying the ** out of me, even more than normal. I'll see what 12 looks like, but looks like I'll be Linux user in the future.

My kids go to a stem focused magnet school. I realize different cultures value different things but its depressing to me how many kids are pushed to dedicate their whole childhood to get into top Universities. We'd go to the beach and their friends couldn't come because they were doing extra APs or science fair or Math Olympics or similar. These kids got good grades but never went on a date, couldn't drive or go anywhere by themselves.

What happened to Devin? 2024 it was a leading contender now it isn't even included in the big list of coding agents.

The biggest threat to American software engineers is outsourcing, AI is just a distraction. I am an immigrant, I work at a prestigious financial corporation in NYC. Pretty much 95% of the staff were born and did undergraduate degree in other countries. We hire a few grads but they usually quit or get laid off after a few years - most new hires are H1Bs or contractors on H1Bs. Just about to open another big office in a developing country.

dotnet was always really good for this. There were a bunch of third party tools that have done this since the 90s like toolsack.

I think Java can run uncompiled text scripts now too

Works for me on firefox and chrome - all the content is on obsidian.md, maybe blocked for you?

https://publish-01.obsidian.md/access/2e00105552e45031d995a8...

> Also who uses MacOs beaides developers?

Students - all of them.

I think that is what you get used to. I've been using Android for over a decade and my wife's iPhone is super confusing to me.

Most school students these days never have to write anything.

I'm going through this now, a few years ago I heard that "research" with college professors was key - I ignored it because I thought it was performative and unlikely that any decent professor would want to waste their time. The kids that had their EDs accepted to Ivys at my daughter's school all did research with "professors" that were parents or friends of parents. It explains a lot of what I see of our graduates from "top" universities we hire from.

Today - if you give everyone $10 million dollars there isn't enough production for everyone to buy what they want - you just get inflation. Its probably worse for the economy as people stop working.

When the Cyberdyne Terminators come they'll be less grateful.

No, the size is a fraction of a text file, much faster to write and read. The only difference is you can't grep like text.

Work solidly at work for 8 hours and then go home, instead of sitting behind a computer for 12 hours and wasting a lot of time.