I have the same experience. Getting hired with this background is weird. I don’t know how confident I should or shouldn’t be. And I wasn’t in consulting until recently. I like to put the focus on understanding the end to end workflows more than spending time worrying about my solution being the absolute best that would make HN drool over though

My room gets pretty bright in the afternoon and my screen sucks in that environment. I’ve been using the quest 3 and while I don’t think it’s perfect from a software point of view (like why do the windows snap at x distances? Why can’t I pick?) it’s pretty good. It lets me have a smallish display on my desk and when I need it, I have 3 displays in VR. Compared to the cost of the apple device, you can upgrade 3 times before you get to the cost of the apple vision.

By the time something breaks, you’re so far behind in tech that you’re not buying parts for it anymore. I used to be in the “must be able to fix/upgrade” and then realized in practice it never happens.

Of the four frameworks I bought to test. I’ve repaired components from two, a screen and a touchpad both from damage.

But, two other frameworks were totally unacceptable for users, so it wasn’t really a great experiment.

Of the 6 MacBooks that have circled through my house since 2018 I’ve had to do repairs on 0 of them. 5 are still active

Let me guess, no upgrades either.

Didnt really need any. I’m still using my M1 Pro from when it was released. My mom using the oldest Air now.

I've upgraded my desktops more with GPUs and power supplies accordingly, but old laptop SSDs make fine backup enclosure drives (no I haven't seen them lose data when unplugged) and upgrading RAM for larger models on a AMD Zen 2 laptop worked pretty great for me. None of these were needed, they were just nice to be able to do mostly before the higher RAM prices started.

A few*. I have 4 at home and none smell

AI is like cheap void calories. Writing by hand is calories from a good home cooked meal with all the nutrients and love, AI code (unless maybe you worked on putting together an AI system and the harness is your build), feels like calories from a Sprite.

Also I’ve been thinking that ai code is like cheap amazon furniture and hand crafted is well… hand crafted.

Your analogy is apt. The challenge is that most of the world runs on cheap calories and cheap furniture and that seems to be growing more and more.

Will there be a point where hand crafted does end you somewhere like the Toaster Project [1]

[1]https://www.thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/

Wr are already there, in a sense: the amount of basic software in a box that is required to produce more software is already huge. And so is the supply chains behind it.

The idea of having all of those steps generated so unreliably is haunting.

I’m no expert but if LLMs are token prediction machines, and you tell it to not build an explanation before the answer, isn’t it less likely that the token prediction for the final answer will have less raw material before it to build a grounded response?

In other words: no explanation > no foundation for prediction of the answer tokens?

Reminds me of an arcade mechanical game where you tossed balls into a panel with holes and depending on where it landed it would push your designated horse faster. It was a massive thing with room for an announcer in the middle like 20 seats at least around him in a horseshoe shape.

Look, I’m an immigrant. You know the risks you take when you come to the US on a non immigrant visa. We all choose to play the game and nothing is guaranteed. I would’ve considered reckless to have a kid in the US knowing that my status is not stable without having an alternative plan. We need to face the facts and stop acting like we immigrants were victims of some bait and switch and must be protected from any fallout of this process. The rules of the game are transparent.

But Republicans also don’t believe in abortion and have made it illegal in half the country.

So what’s a pregnant immigrant to do ?

Condoms are often up to the male partner to use correctly.

Personally I have no problem giving people at a minimum permanent status if they decide to add to our declining population. I like to imagine when I'm old and weak someone there to provide my medical care.

I'm not picky on where their parents are from.

This is a completely different discussion. One can be responsible, if you’re not, there are consequences. It’s not just this. Zone out a bit driving and go too fast? Ticket. Left weed in your jacket by accident and went to the airport to fly internationally? Well… Everything has consequences, all I’m trying to say is that people know what those are and we shouldn’t be “aw but what if they don’t read the rules?” Uncertainty is clear from the start.

Elon Musk was arguably working here on a student visa.

So it's only ok when rich people need special treatment ?

Immigration laws are racist to an absurd degree, the 7% rule unfairly makes it significantly easier for European nationals to get Greencards for example.

Recently it's been cranked up a notch, only White South African refugees are being approved now.

Honestly the problem is going to solve itself. Without being able to brain drain the rest of the world , America will start to fall behind economically.

Less people will want to come here.

Which brings me a certain sadness, my friends growing up were largely immigrants. The future of America without immigration frankly sucks.

With bland food too.

Ok? What does that have to do with what I was talking about?

Does it have a torrent client like Opera did? I really miss that browser

Unfortunately that is one feature they haven't added back. That died with Opera 10 (or 11? idr)

Honestly the best thing that worked for me, even if the hardware is not for everyone, is a Logitech MX Keys that supports 3 devices paired with another Logitech mouse that supports 3 devices, then flip the monitor through the inputs, super reliable. I could even have 2 devices side by side on the same screen (Dell utlrawide) and toggle between them.