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This is my experience too, although probably not checked out enough to take a voluntary severance. Most people just want to chill and work at a steady pace. That kind of work ethic is fine for most industries, but not tech companies unfortunately.

It's this thing called golf course driven development

It's still terrible. Also, congrats on escaping the cancer.

I feel like there is also the "Nerd Factor" to consider which is this unrelenting passion to type away at a screen all day, whether that is yesterday's code or tomorrow's prompt. Few non-technical people have the attention span to suffer such monotony. (Even most devs don't have that to varying extents)

Interesting. I would like to know if central heating (gas) has similar effects.

N=2. My Inspiron 9300 Dell laptop from 2005 still works fine, although 32bit Windows 7 with 2GB of ram without an SSD makes it painfully slow by today's standards. In addition, I got a Lenovo Z710 from 2014 (replace my 9300) that still performs great, recently put Linux Mint on it and it feels like a new laptop.

I say that to say this isn't exclusive to Apple and I think your sentiment is mostly good marketing by them. No Apple hate here, enjoying my company-supplied MBP too.

I've done a lot of match aggregation in dota2 using stratz / opendota. It's a lot of fun and it will definitely make you a better programmer given how much data there is.

Would using Stable Diffusion Image to Image with a low noise ratio disable most steganographic techniques? I imagine the pixels would be scattered enough to erase most embeddings. I've never had to scrub images in my career, but that's what I would try.

Good movie, time to rewatch

Yeah, I wish the article had brought Vitamin K2 into the mix since that seems trendy to pair with your D3 these days.

I don't know much about gambling but is it not common to set for yourself max bets so your pool of cash doesn't deplete like you do when buying stocks or trading options so you can leverage up or down. I know it's a little different, but there is a similar principle.

Maybe only allow people to spend 1/5 their pool of cash per bet so it never reaches zero

Drone armies will prevent such things this time around though.

I use CC/Codex/Cursor.

CC is mostly my default for large tasks / features (ex. Plan > execute plan ) Biggest gripe with Claude Code is that it is painfully slow relative to the other two.

Cursor for small stuff like bug fixes since it has a lot of models to choose from. I love the review/ diff / checkpoint features. It's planning feature is on par with CC. I'd probably use Cursor as primary driver if it had better cost efficiency. Next version or two of Composer may fill that gap in cost/quality/speed.

Codex isn't allowed at my work, but I use it for personal projects. It has the best balance of quality / cost / speed even if it's planner is poor and quite frankly the codex harness needs to catch up with the other two.

CC for quality / cost. Cursor for quality / speed. Codex for balance of the 3.

Another N=1 here, a family friend in their late 60s died of a heart attack while biking.

I played it in Twilight Princess and I did not have fun and Link probably didn't either.

Having had my 2FA Facebook account banned 3 years ago because a bot signed up under my email for Instagram (which I did not have), I can confidently say the email verification issue has been a problem for a long time at Meta.

At least in America, most people do not like nuanced takes on issues / people, even if you are being playful.

I'm afraid you need to go fit inside one of the echo chambers and conform to a given narrative good sir.

Not a YEC, but you, the sentient being made in God's image, don't join a MineCraft world that is still a molten ball of lava/magma with no solid surface.

Indeed, although today I got on a plane at LaGuardia and they made me check my carry on at the gate even though there was plenty of space in the overhead bins ( 60% capacity flight, about half of us had to do this) so YMMV.

No idea why they made us do that, but I had to grab my bag at the luggage claim.

I do this kind of parallelism with a little merge request tool I slopped together. I spin up multiple small agents and assign them specific code review tasks (security, coding standards, etc.) and have it spit out a gitlab API draft json object with code examples for the MR I can deterministically validate against. If it fails to insert code examples (depending on the task) and the proper json object schema, I have "ask it to try again" logic in place.

Works fine, forcing LLMs to output parsable responses is a good workaround to get them to do what you want until they improve. It also allows you to use the fast models (ex. I spin up the Gemini 3.1 flash lite model for these tasks) to have these tasks done in seconds rather than minutes.

Indeed, how could it not have been more obvious than when Biden made it illegal for the railroad workers to strike in Dec. 2022. The sides are the same when it comes to an actual threat to the status quo.

I love a good cathartic rant

I don't recall Alaska being particularly bad when I went in July. The mosquitoes I did encounter were huge though.

n=1, been lifting weights for 25 years and lost 40 lbs on Zepbound and counting.

I can still do my routines easily with no issues. My muscles look slightly smaller I think, but maybe that's the fat around them that's been diminished.

We set time limits on tablet and rules like getting your homework done first, but my 9 year old specifically begs me to let him have Roblox, which I think he is too young to play.

I told him he can play it, but he has to beat Chrono Trigger (tablet version) first. He didn't even get to the county fair and gave up, saying it was too boring, the nerve!

Mounjaro/Zepbound is $450 a month without insurance (assuming you aren't on the starter dose through some third party, but ultimately LillyDirect.)

n=1, Insurance price is $25 a month (covered by my company if you have prediabetes+ or sleep apnea, otherwise $225 monthly subsidy if BMI is 25+ )

What's frustrating is that a lot of these keys were generated a long time ago with a small amount of GCP services that they could connect to. (Ex. Firebase remote config, firestore, etc.)

When Gemini came around, rather than that service being disabled by default for those keys, Gemini was enabled, allowing exploiters to easily utilize these keys (Ex. a "public" key stored in an APK file)

Is it wishful thinking for Microsoft to reflect on their Windows 11 UX mistakes and turn around like Chilis did?

I'm curious as to what your thought process is for suggesting "the app" (not sure what app you are referring to) as an alternative for someone who essentially rage quits when they see a cookie banner, given that apps on average are even more so an invasion of privacy and riddled with dark patterns.

I like the cookie banners since it is an immediate indication to me that I should leave the site. It's an innate reflex at this point.