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This isn't average:

> I have given up on hopes of learning. There is no such thing as learning after highschool.

This is refusing to learn at an industry where continually learning is one of the most important things you need to do. You're actively choosing to bad at your job.

Hybrid working and desk sharing is the worst option for getting any actual work done. I'll gladly commute to an office where I have a dedicated desk with good equipment (2 monitors, keyboard etc) but having to work from a laptop without any dedicated space is just horrible.

With a high enough rate of layoffs, everyone is affected, even the people who kept their jobs - everyone has lower job mobility and less negotiating power than they’ve had at any point in the past 10+ years.

> I would love to be financially independent and watch this with excitement

Even if you were, your money would be invested in something which is tied to the overall economy and if a huge proportion of knowledge jobs are at risk, you would still be exposed to it through whatever assets you own. Don't expect stocks (or currency, or property) to do great when unemployment is 30%+.

Chris Lattner seems like a great guy in interviews and has obviously mad multiple incredbile contributions to the field of software.

But I don't get the play here - a company CEO/cofounder bragging about the performance of a proprietary language which nobody can use right now? Who wants this?

Make the language and make it public and open; get large companies on board with development, start some useful real-world projects, involve the open-source community, show that it's actually good for something instead of giving investor presentations.

What’s the alternative - exponential growth which goes on forever? Seems unlikely. They stop releasing new devices every year? Doesn’t make sense from Apple’s point of view and as a consumer you can always skip a release - which people are already doing and Apple are still making money.

What would you do differently if you were running Apple?

You had already worked at Meta at that point, getting interviews from other similar companies as hard as it would be for someone in OP's position.

It's not enough because studying doesn't give you an interview.

I would personally like it for the money, and the name recognition which can provide other opportunities to make more money in the future.

I take issue with presenting this as “adopting the title” like it’s something that people do unilaterally - most of the time it’s the title used by their company and it would be plain stupid to turn down a promotion and higher pay.

i don't know, where I work 100% of resumes come from a third-party recruiter, same at my previous job. I've gotten my last 3 jobs either through third-party recruiters or direct applications, not referrals.

As a side note, I like how direct and casual these megacorp CEO emails are.

For a job - neither.

For personal interest - try both and see which one you like more.

Yes, all it takes is to make your own version of Python.

Nothing's gone wrong. Apple's phones are good but so are their phones from a couple of years ago. It's not sustainable to have a huge improvement or redesign every year.

It's not that anything drains me, I just can't get myself to pretend to care about strangers.

It stays with you until you need to change something and find yourself unable to make incremental changes.

And in many use cases people are throwing Rust (and especially async Rust) on problems solved just fine with GC languages so the safety argument doesn’t apply there.

> Yes, sometimes you can get stuck for a day, trying to express something within the ownership rules.

This is a big problem. Fast iteration time is very valuable.

And who likes doing this to themselves anyway? Isn't it a very frustrating experience? How is this the most loved language?

The lichess.org UI is snappy af especially in comparison to the chess.com one. No idea how anyone manages to play low time controls on chess.com.

The VSCode Remote SSH extension - the experience is almost identical to using VSCode locally.

Isn't this very very basic? I'm not seeing the "beyond" element, it's more like "How to level up to almost not zero".

> Train your LLM at scale on our infrastructure

Is it really their infrastructure or are they using a cloud provider and this wraps it up and provides convenience for a price?

> Frameworks popularity is in constant change.

React has been around for 10 years and it's been the most popular framework for a while now.

Isn't this solved by managed databases? Is there a problem with paying more and having AWS/Azure/GCP take care of the difficult parts for you?

I like the simplicity but there are some social problems with this. Let's say that I work on a team which has codebases with classes/dataclases and I add a new codebase that doesn't use them, or one that doesn't _underscore just about everything - the first thing that will come up in the code review is questions about why I'm doing things differently, and I wouldn't have a good reason apart from the fact that I find it more aesthetically pleasing.

> The 1+2+3+4+... = -1/12 video still seems a bit of a cheat, though!

Because in that video they do invalid operations.

Compare it to how 3blue1brown handles this - https://youtu.be/sD0NjbwqlYw?si=js8taa28UcevI0Jg&t=1166 - the video is on the Riemann zeta function and my timestamp is on his comment about -1/12 at the end. But trying to explain something in a nuanced way doesn't get the same views as dumbing it down and coming up with a clickbait title (not that 3blue1brown is struggling for views).

I understand that the two channels have somewhat different objectves and approaches but in this case one of them strikes me as much better. The top comment under the 3blue1brown video addresses this too - you don't need to additionally mystify math.

Pay the $20, 4.0 is better than 3.5.

The mysql CLI client?

I don't understand the leap from "it's difficult and there are many special circumstances" to "it's never going to happen". I don't get why you think that any of these problems are unsolvable given enough time.