Check back in with me next quarter, I’m busy.
Depends on the day, usually OR
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Math can’t be dumbed down because it is assembled from fundamental units of logic. Language and history can be biased or eliminated, but math doesn’t magically change because you can’t understand it.
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When they said ‘The Future Is Female’ I’m not sure this is exactly what most people meant.
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The people who have these ‘you will be bored’ beliefs about wealth are either projecting or can’t play an instrument.
0% of musicians would be bored with a multi million dollar exit.
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You could die in a fire.
This is the answer for 90% of the ‘why does American housing infra suck’ question. It’s almost all the restrictive fire codes from our history’s biggest fire disasters.
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At a Planet Fitness? Hardly anyone, they’re stare at you waiting to pull the Lunk Alarm.
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Another possible explanation is that this person destroyed the wallet key intentionally to ensure no one person has that much power over the system.
Your assessment is more likely, but this is still plausible.
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I’d rather taxes go to help my kids’ friends get free lunch than have their schools put up plaques of the Ten Commandments to make them feel intimidated, any day of the week.
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You guys know tape is cheap and effective for rarely-accessed long term storage, yeah?
Even now, in 2025.
Sounds like my tax dollars were spent rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, next time you can just come to my backyard and move the furniture there instead.
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This is not how you design a critical system, Ford. Crap like this is why I don’t trust American made automobiles…
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I think the real answer is far darker. Being mediocre at anything does not have a safe future, you’re going to have to be excellent to survive at something.
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How the hell am I supposed to play Duck Hunt on an LCD?
CRTs have a specific set of design constraints that make them very good for certain workloads. Zero lag because it’s just frame and an electron gun to fill it. Yes, there are disadvantages, but also pluses.
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Real pro tip: Claude Code Router (github.com/musistudio/claude…) lets you intercept Claude Code requests and override them with models of your choice, so you can use Ollama (or Ramalama or vLLM or whatever you use) and present a model for inquiries. Can use different models for background tasks and reasoning too.
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Oh look, Katy Perry and Raygun seem to have found each other, this looks like Olympic level choreography.
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Owning your music is for the type of drivers that value longevity… basically, Subaru and Lexus. They know exactly who they’re catering to.
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Legitimately surprised I have not seen ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ on this list yet. It has inspired an entire generation of wantrepreneuership and unethical business behavior.
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I have more of a problem with letting kids leave with bad math skills and no computational literacy than I do within getting free food. Free lunch is not the kind of issue I want to be spending my political compute cycles on.
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They just aren’t used to the idea that expertise is now centralized and no longer physically distributed. This is precisely what the Internet is for.
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Being a programmer is still cool, having a job is what’s not cool anymore.
Lots of people are starting businesses or going freelance as a reactionary activity. They feel like the industry and corporate life in general is no longer worth the trade off.
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Words have meanings, operating systems are a specific thing on your computer.
If this does not replace Linux or Windows or MacOS on bare hardware, this is a lie.
Don’t lie to me dude.
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Portland happened.
Specifically, every few years has a single city that represents that decade or half-decade, and it rotates. Miami had the early 80’s, Seattle the early 90’s, LA the late 90’s, etc…
When Portland got its turn everyone became metrosexual lumberjacks listening to stomp clap hey and obscure craft cocktails.
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Docker is overrated.
Some other company could have easily invented Docker, and the technology had been around for years. What made Docker, specifically, popular was the fact that it came from and served cool kid with MacBooks instead of uncool dorks with ThinkPads.
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This is like 95% show and 5% substance though. At least in good fine dining, there’s a balance between expert presentation and the quality of the ingredients that go into the dish. I don’t like this anymore than table side Caesar made from Sysco ingredients or other flash food.
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A guidance counselor telling me that my college major didn’t matter. It’s amazing how much faith kids put into adults for advice that they’re wholly unqualified to give.
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Imagine thinking your kid is a hacker because they’re learning infrastructure concepts used in every enterprise on earth.
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I was Cindy.
I didn’t get a single question wrong on a test or paper until I was in the 4th grade, and it was DEVASTATING.
I had an unrealistic view of how learning worked, and I honestly didn’t fix it until after I left college.
Many of us like this just simply fail.
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Do you think those machines just magically run themselves?
DevOps is basically sysadmin with version control, still around. We even use the name sometimes. There is nothing new under the sun.
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I grew up around this kind of environment. It’s awesome if you have already proven yourself and come here to unwind and get mental clarity. It’s much less awesome when you’re an ambitious person and everyone in this kind of environment discourages you from your dreams.
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If @McConaughey wants something custom, I’ll fly out to meet him and set up a private model for him to do this. Basically an open source LLM plus an open NotebookLM clone on a Mac Mini or Mac Studio. It’s what I use in my homelab.
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Normally I would not say this was a good move, but considering your employer’s current outlook AND your incredible skill and network, you’re gonna be more than fine.
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We get it, but for many of us our families are simply endless drains. I have a brother who just constantly takes and takes, providing little to no value for others in his life. He manages to do nothing for himself, and gets poor results in life because of it. Do I still help? Of course, but it’s different here when there’s no shared sense of filial obligation in the culture to make the effort seem worth it.
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People go through seasons too, especially if they have kids or have some other external event.
It’s possible to both be obsessed with building every day when you wake up and resigned to the fact that if you do, you’re ignoring all of the other parts of life that you value.
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I fail to see the problem, computers are tools, not toys, and now that we hav cell phones for the masses computers can go back to being the valuable compute devices for serious people they were always meant to be.
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I’ve known people who go to Apple, but then they ghost. Or, they have worked at Apple, and never want to talk about it. Current employees? More likely to have someone admit to working at Mindgeek than Apple.
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We had one of those in the basement and just left it there when we sold our house. It managed to survive a basement flooding during a hurricane, so we figured we might as well just let it survive whatever the new owners could do to it.
We slid it down the stairs on cardboard boxes to get it down there and it barely fit the stairwell. No idea how anyone got the thing out.
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I could drive an hour to those picture locations, but I get about 85% there on my side of Portland, and the schools are an order of magnitude better.
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This was the time period of goldfish swallowing as a TikTok… I mean collegiate trend, yeah?
So many parallels to the modern zeitgeist.
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Hmm, it’s almost as if injecting large amounts of capital arbitrarily has an effect after the fact.
If you think the state of the economy is 100% controlled by a president, I have a bridge in London to sell you.
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Kids like us who have extremely high aptitude but have school experience that refuses to push their boundaries end up in big trouble. It took me a VERY long time to actually learn how to find emotional fulfilment from challenge. As soon as things got hard, I set myself up for failure fast. It takes self-discipline and some source of motivation to get out of it.
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Microsoft did this poisoning the well with JavaScript and never looking back.
Things are so dysfunctionally pretty now.
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Technical presales. I’ve been at it for a few years and at a principal level, and my salary plus stock grant is right around 250. With my commission, in theory and capped out at 1 million but the 300 range is more realistic most years.
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Our texting infrastructure actually worked at a fair price before the rest of the world’s did. That’s the reason we only use WhatsApp for international conversations.
Plenty of us use it, but 95% of the time it’s to talk to people outside the US.
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All of the people who say this have one thing in common:
They are not artists.
Never have I ever met someone who exited a startup and had this kind of existential crisis when they had an artistic pursuit waiting in the wings.
Look at Tom from MySpace and his photography, this is EXACTLY what I mean.
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Alexis co-founded Reddit, I’m pretty sure spending your life on that platform is just as cognitively compromising.
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Maybe if the US stopped treating food like it was private equity, people of means would actually buy our US made food again.
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Those 4 things in the picture are: the Porsche, the suit, the watches, and the beard. Everything else is a red herring (well, maybe not the kid).
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It doesn’t matter how many good movies there are to try, my kids always want the same 10 ones.
My six year old’s favorite Cars movie is the second one, if that’s any indication of the kind of cinema I endure on Family Friday Movie Night.
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Clearly, you have never seen Altoona PA’s pizza abomination with the raw green pepper ring. It is literally like someone asked a 2023 era LLM to invent a pizza slice.
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I get 4PM check out and 11AM check in all the time… it’s not a scam, you gotta put in the reps. The system is intentionally built to reward brand loyalty and repeat business.
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If we lean too hard on these people at least TRYING to improve their vocabulary though, then we end up with everyone giving up and catering to the lowest common denominator all of the time to avoid shame.
Then we end up with a world that talks like the movie Idiocracy.
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India's best and brightest run all of the technical infrastructure required for you to make this comment. How out of touch do you have to be?
My Indian coworkers challenge me in terms of intelligence, work ethic, and performance, and I'm not at all afraid to say it.
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People need to do hard shit more.
That's really what it boils down to.
Get bored, get frustrated, lift heavy things, eat boring food, practice uncomfortably long eye contact.
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So confused, Marin County is the exact opposite of this description. Are you talking about Houston?
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They’re a legal firm masquerading as a database company. Still enemy number one in the open source community, a bigger cancer than Microsoft ever was.
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Honestly I think it makes better sense to just change the school or business hours to fit the local light conditions than it does to change the time at an arbitrary point in the year that suits nobody. Make it a local problem… because it is.
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Depends on your definition of winning. If it’s “land a cushy corporate job where you work 10 hours a week and hide behind a mountain of bureaucracy” then maybe the coffee chats and networking are worth it.
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Their parents made it, boomers were the first generation to benefit from the postwar abundance that came out of the ashes of global war.
Boomers set the template for how to be abundantly spoiled that later generations follow, but at least some of them grew the pie first.
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I worked in family owned Chinese restaurant and lived in a 2bdrm apartment with 6 Indians, I could be a solo founder with that kind of experience.
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Anyone with a hobby shooting 8K video or is in /r/datahoarder probably fits into this category too.
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Today, to rename my guest WiFi.
Still haven’t decided between ‘itHurtsWhenIP’ and ‘WuTangLAN’.
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It IS worse PowerPoint, but it’s part of my Google Docs and not owned by Microsoft so we use it.
Google’s office suite products are like 95% of the features of the Microsoft Office suite, and if you’re using the other 5% then you should be coding and not using an office suite anyway.
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It’s HOW you use the tutorial video. Treat it like a recorded lecture, take written notes, pause and go to a different tab to get a different perspective. Play around with the concept in the editor.
You’re not supposed to just watch the thing. Nobody learns like that.
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We have this, it’s called the terminal. Just get rid of GUIs completely and lock in. Browser just for media use like videos and documentation. Everything else should just be you and the command line.
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MPV is better, but I’m not gonna ask my three year old to use command line on her tablet, ok? I get that there are other players with MPV embeds, but the kids like knowing the traffic cone means a 4 hour rip of birthday cake videos.
For me it’s an entirely different ballgame.
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All I gotta say is poptart mascot better come back in another life as a better flavor than strawberry. Maybe chocolate fudge or s’mores.
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It's ok to do ANY job just for the money.
That money better be good enough to set aside some to fund what you really want to do, though.
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I never even questioned the assumption that Kevin’s dad was a commodities trader on the Mercantile floor. Chicago plus money, duh…
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The sentiment is actually incredibly common in the fortune 500. Do you honestly think they want to run the risk of sending their proprietary data to a vendor that could compete against them? The same reason why it took them so long to adopt a cloud.
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It’s not about intelligence, but about risk.
Hardware has a MUCH higher risk to reward ratio than software. Smart people are more capable of winning in this arena than not-smart people, but it’s far more difficult to get a win at all in hardware than in software. Even with AI.
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Because Linux is a modern clone of a tried and true operating system that was designed for business use first. Windows is a home computer OS that grew its way into office use, but had the enterprise grade features bolted on later instead of designed as an integral part.
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This wasn’t directed at you, it’s directed at cul de sac queens that think they need an F250 to haul bags of mulch from Home Depot.
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Every format is awful. The problem is that there are no ‘better’ formats, just different definitions of awful. Just take the markdown, YAML, JSON, or whatever format you have complaints about today and use it.
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lol at ‘Vegan Garlic’ to eat with pork and a Parmesan wheel. And what the hell is a salt boulder?
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This looks like what a dive bar that doesn’t serve salad does when someone comes in and asks for one.
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The right to have multiple jobs is not a socialist thing, if anything it’s anti-socialist. It’s owning the means of production by owning your time, how is that socialist? Honestly, technology jobs in particular should be paid based on requirements and not based on time.
Anyone who is any good gets paid by the job and not by the hour in the service business.
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God, I hate these things. They bend or break if you’re doing anything remotely physical, can’t write effectively half the time, and send a message that you’re cheap and don’t value the person you have the pen to.
If you like this pen, you have never worked FOH in a restaurant in your life.
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You laugh, but I got a paid C++ compiler for my birthday one year. Was one of the most expensive birthday presents I ever got, but paid itself back many times over the years.
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This is basically my philosophy on technology. If you build something you’re proud of and give it away, you get more in return than if you chase the money, and you still get paid if you put the right effort into it. The further you dive in, the better off you become.
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Most of this argument dodges the fact that quantity, quality, and context matter more than the actual source of the fat.
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Satisfying for whom? People who have accomplished nothing else other than picking places to park capital? If investments free your hours to do more than you can with a job, then not having anything worthwhile to do is a boring person’s problem.
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You have never been to a Southern liberal arts college, have you? This is what every NJ kid whose dad is in finance ends up wearing the whole time they’re in school, and at every Dave Matthews Band and Phish concert they attend in perpetuity.
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It’s not just Apple, literally any company in the Fortune 100 has the exact same presentation training for directors and above. It’s not always the same companies that deliver the training, but we all get the same tips and tactics. Sales and presales get it too.
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Unfortunately, this is a result of the mismatch of expectations between what the market has to offer and what buyers expect to be able to buy.
Everyone wants a 10, thinks they deserve a 10, believes they are a 10, but the world is not all 10s.
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Yeah, I am on team has to touch bare metal. Not gonna change my mind on this one.
If it can’t boot my box it isn’t an OS, end of discussion.
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This is HUGE. I always suspected that there would be a way to break up the architecture of a model to alleviate the GPU cost and availability bottleneck. Will play with this on LLaMa2, but highly anticipating Mistral-7B.
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