At most, PoW makes it a bit annoying to scale: you need to add some form of RPC that delegates solving to a beefy+cheap Hetzner server. If you're really scaling and it's getting expensive, you can rent a GPU to do batch solves.
Same. I got a crazy old Ubuntu desktop when I was 9 or something. It couldn’t run any games and that’s why I learned Python. I wouldn’t be who I am today if I had a machine capable of running Minecraft at the time…
Recently, what have been working for me is to take a day off just to explore stuff that interests me related to programming. I've been learning sleep states and working on the Rust track on Exercism.
The productivity boost that you get from Claude Code should be reinvested into learning your subject area deeper, rather than just churning out more superficial code.
It makes me happier this way. Experiencing flow is the best way for me to feel happy, and programming was the most reliable way to achieve that before Claude Code / Codex.
Exactly. Big GPUs are the #1 reason battery doesn’t last on Linux laptops.
Power management is not done well with the GPU drivers in Linux. If they are not used, they still draw a lot of power, while that’s not really the case on Windows, from what I heard.
I think the best is to get a good Linux laptop, but with an integrated GPU. If you really want to do anything beefy, you can always use an eGPU :)!
Obviously this will never come close in terms of convenience as having an actual M series MacBook…
I am sure some people can. I got pretty far in the interview process at xAI, but couldn't get anyone at other AI labs to even reply my emails, though...
(I dropped out at the end because there were issues with HR not wanting to hire in certain geos, and me not wanting to relocate to the USA or London)