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8 days agodiscuss

From what I've read, very few people who buy ortho split keyboards, even people who love and swear by them, ever recover their WPM. I could never get comfortable on my Ergodox. The Glove80 seems more promising, but I can't afford the productivity hit at work, particularly when communicating on Slack. But the Kinesis Freestyle2 with the tenting kit quickly became my daily driver & basically solved my wrist and thumb pain.

11 days agodiscuss

It was enough for a single person in a good studio or middling 1BR with no kids, probably no car, and no desire to own property.

11 days agodiscuss

High CoL jurisdictions like having the offices there, they just prefer that the employees and their families be someone else's problem. I couldn't imagine anything short of a federal right to remote work really doing much.

24 days agodiscuss

If you personally are being rotated out of FAANG, sure. If FAANG isn't hiring, good luck.

24 days agodiscuss

In other words, do not buy a house or start a family within 2 hours of any of their supported work locations.

25 days agodiscuss

>Now, since it's impossible to code review the tens of thousands of lines of code that AI produces

I would simply not ask the AI to write me more code until I'm satisfied with the code it's already written! But it is true there's more of an opportunity to let the thing rip if you can give the harness the ability to meaningfully verify its own work.

27 days agodiscuss

Name, address, and phone number served plenty of critical functions when they were published in the White Pages. Cell phones not being listed there was kind of an accident of history. It was common to call a listed landline and be given or forwarded to a cell number. Only after most people stopped having landlines altogether did a phone number come to be considered sensitive information (unless you were a celebrity or something).

Ironically Facebook is responsible for much of this, as friending someone on Facebook became a lower stakes, less intimate alternative to exchanging phone numbers.

27 days agodiscuss

>Around $400 a month of plans buys roughly $2800 of API usage at list prices, which is a real bargain right up until you hit the ceiling. The plans are metered, and any large AI native workflow will chew through the included tokens fast

I don't think that's true at all. I'm doing 8-12 PRs a week at work, all primarily Claude Code, and the usage at API billing has never broken $500/mo.

last monthdiscuss

Pretty much anything coming out of middle management or "org leadership" is performative. Line managers and their reports are generally actually building products and keeping the lights on.

last monthdiscuss

Many companies, including in their software development functions, are oral cultures rather than literate cultures.

last monthdiscuss

There is a tier just outside of FAANG that pays similarly or better, prominent examples being Uber, Airbnb, Stripe, Block, Databricks, Datadog, Pinterest, Snowflake, etc.

last monthdiscuss

You get Social Security and Medicare. Which are cheaper now than they will ever be, as the population is only getting older.

last monthdiscuss

Apple does this.

last monthdiscuss

What happened to onshore development in Silicon Valley in 2022 happened to corporate America’s IT departments in the early 2000s.

last monthdiscuss

It is too bad that so many companies have built these huge microservices beasts where you cannot run much more than unit tests locally, and you pretty much have to guess at the impact of your change until you have merged it, deployed it, and turned on the feature flag for your own account / test account. This loop is slow, which is perhaps a cost they are willing to pay, but it is also not safe for agents, which will be a massive setback.

last monthdiscuss

The narrative "we don't need as many staff because of AI" is a labor disciplining device whether or not it is true. Remaining engineers, loaded up with more projects under the threat of layoffs and with no outside opportunities, work nights and weekends to get them done. Then it is literally true that we accomplished more with less. And in a sense it is even "because of AI." But not in the way that you're supposed to think they mean it.

last monthdiscuss

Which is why junior and senior talent alike are forced back into the office. Except that tenured senior and staff employees from the boom times are in the San Francisco office, but all the new grad hires from the last 2-4 years are in various third world offices. And neither of them can get conference rooms, so everybody's on Zoom at their desk all day, trying to be heard over their neighbors.

2 months agodiscuss

Illustratively, living in the house is worth about $15,000/month and everything else combined is maybe $2,000.

2 months agodiscuss

Is this situation so uncommon? Almost everyone who lives in a house in California, for example, is living primarily off the unrealized gains on their home equity. Very few have the wage income to qualify for a mortgage on what their lifestyle is worth now.

California contains a lot of houses!

2 months agodiscuss

Average American workers provide in-person services that don't scale and can't get much leverage from technology. Retail, hospitality, construction, care work, etc. They have not seen the kind of wage growth that accrued to the laptop class, but for the same reasons they are not as vulnerable. Probably we will end up alongside them. Plenty of demand growth coming in the elder-care sector.