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1979, 14 years old, my dad brought home a TRS-80 Model 1. I started to learn BASIC by typing in code listings from Byte magazine. Then I started coming up with my own projects. Loved it so much I knew what I wanted to to do for a living and what college program I wanted to get into.

Nearly 40 years post college, I still play with coding and system design on my time and TBH, much more satisfaction and happiness from that than my day job.

As more and more things we might consider "platform" move to the cloud, I think it also matters what the service provider means by saying it's up. Just because the servers are alive and responding doesn't mean the platform is really functional.

One vendor in particular we deal with has a powerful feature which we use to a large extent. Unfortunately, that particular feature is all too often not working. The servers are up and the rest of the platform is working, but we need that feature, so if it's down, it doesn't help much that the rest of the platform is up.

And very hard to re-assemble after you have done that. They are not in the book binding business.

I think the problem will be that there was only so much we could do wrong while we were learning 15+ years ago and our mentors had a reasonable scope to watch around us as we learned. People learning now can get a coding agent to build the entire system for them and it is much harder for the mentor to review that work.

My concern is how much damage could be done by someone learning 15+ years ago vs someone learning now.

I must have missed the press release when Two Sigma open-sourced their algorithmic trading models so that the rest of us could make the best stock investments for our retirements.

If they don't contribute equally, why should they be paid equally, especially when the individuals desire to be paid per their contribution. Some rest on their years and degree while others go above and beyond to deliver a difference. The union doesn't allow the employer to recognize that.

I think there are jobs where those distinctions don't matter as much, but creative jobs and other areas where the ability of an employee to deliver quality is very personal don't seem to work well with unions in my view.

I would have loved to pay that teacher more because he did so much more and had a huge positive influence on his students, but the union would never have allowed that.

Unions tend to use otherwise arbitrary criteria to determine a members value. Not all people with the same number of years of experience, the same job title or the same degree provide equal value to the company.

As a school board member, I had to deal with the situation of a nationally recognized(awarded) teacher who got paid the same as every other teacher with the same degree and years in district. When asked why we wouldn't pay him what he is worth, the answer was simple, your union won't let us. Not every job type/environment make sense to have a union.

I think apps like this are the real risk. Who is going to get in trouble because vim* has a bug from AI generated code? Errors in your accounting software can get you into audit/compliance trouble.

Looking around my home area, I found HS football bleachers showing up as buildings and an outdoor basketball court showing up as a building. Looking at the coloring of those features on Google maps, I can see how the mistakes might have been made. But still feels like it needs tuning.

To be fair, I checked my boyhood home in very rural Maine and it was correct for the size and shape of the multiple farm buildings.

I live in Central NJ, which is pretty densely populated and surrounded by tech firms. The nearest MicroCenter to me is 35 miles away in Brooklyn.

I think Apple would be better served by re-introducing a line of smaller phones. Whether it is for physical or functional reasons, not everybody wants to outdo the size of the previous model. Bigger isn't always better. People with smaller hands, young teens or smaller stature adults, would love an appropriate sized phone.

I have repurposed retired laptops for my tech lab at home. They no longer keep up with the current software bloat for wife and kids usage, but make reasonable linux servers. Currently serving up 3 databases on one, kafka and networking on another and services/applications on a third. They take up very little space under my desk.

Also, My friend accidentally drank a bottle of invisible ink... she's at the hospital now, waiting to be seen.

"Waiting to be seen" having slightly different meaning with respect to hospitals and invisible ink.

That's a big pet peeve of mine, although to be fair I've seen much worse than this one. It can make the deltas look more meaningful than they actually are.

Right up until those below average HR people break the law or allow managers to break the law and the company gets in trouble and no scientists or other R&D people want to work there.

I would hope that when it comes to OpSec, SecDef, DoD, NSA, etc, don't act "Just like any human would."

Love this movie, it turned me into an avid reader of Clancy.

At the time of this movie, I was working as a software engineer for a defense contractor building combat control systems for submarines. When it was released, the company took the entire department, including former Navy submarine officers now project/program managers to a private viewing. There were definitely groans when some things on the sub were inaccurate, but given the level of hands-on knowledge and expertise in the audience, it was very well received.

This begs the question, how many of the newer generation of developers/engineers "know what a well architected piece of code is supposed to look like"?

I also think there is a chunk of the audience that would like to develop on the same distro they would be deploying to. There is a fair amount of RHEL in production environments. Larger operations may be running Windows for business purposes and being able to work with WSL/RHEL on the same (or upgraded for developers) machine makes some business sense.

I suspect people in the US have amore positive feeling about their plumber than the state of government/politics in the country

Perhaps it's more apathy. Outside of hot-button issues, it feels like many people don't care to pay attention to their local government

Depends n your definition of dangerous objects. For example, sheets?

This is pure gold. Loved the sheep in the field.

I am very happy with my Remarkable 2 but I think that can depend on individual needs and expectations. My desk was perpetually covered with stacks of paper with notes from meetings. As I handled each note, I had to keep each piece of paper until the last note on it was handled. When I tried a paper notebook, I found that there would always be unhandled notes several pages back from my current page.

For me the RM 2 is an infinite persistent (editable) notepad. I can organize my notes by project/task and can easily cleanup things that have been taken care of. Most importantly, like OP, I didn't want yet another device that does it all. I don't need to add to desktop PC, laptop PC, IPad, IPhone and then forget where everything is.

This story really hits home. I started a little earlier but rural Maine was just as isolated. My first computer at home was a TRS-80 Model 1 we got in 1979. It had a cassette deck for storing programs. I spent many hours hand entering game and utility source code from Byte magazine.

I got my first IBM compatible while in college around 1985, 640 K and DUAL floppies. It was from a startup PC maker named PCs Limited, started by a college drop out named Michael Dell. Two floppy disks provided infinite opportunities. A 300 baud modem connected me to the campus mainframe.

Years later for work I remember having a 28.8K (then 56K) modem to connect to work on nights and weekends to do support work and access the companies T-1 line.

Strangely enough, by the time cable was run to my parents home in that rural Maine town it was more cost effective to run fiber than copper, so my parents got fiber to the house.

Given the ridiculously small percentage of student basketball players who will ever be paid to play basketball, it would be good idea to study more than that

Growth, both educational and occupational, is greatly enhanced by meaningful regularly spaced feedback. Delaying that feedback to the very end of a long process can lower the likelihood of success.

We can debate the merits of different models of assessment, but totally skipping assessment robs the participants of useful feedback.

From the deeper dataset documentation, it looks like this free dataset is a field subset of their paid product.

But if the restaurant still controls the chef's work during that time, that isn't gig work. If the "employer" is required to pay by time not work, then it is now the employer's time, not the workers flexible time:

- ability to assign tasks, not leaving the worker the option to say I don't want that task

- ability to control how many workers can log in at a time, forcing Uber to pay a 1000 drivers who all logged in from 2:00 AM to 5:00AM when there aren't enough rides to be taken, isn't right

Where I choose to live, and therefore the length of my commute, is at the behest of me, not me employer.