If you’re planning to not work at all, $1 million is approx. $35,000 per year in salary.

At $5 million, we’re talking more $200k per year. I’d likely still work.

At $10 million, we’re seeing more like $400k.

At $40 million, you can can early at least $1 million/year. This kind of puts you in a new bracket for things you can blow money on.

If you quit working entirely, you will become not very employable so you need to consider that.

Collecting data is great.

But I see people start min-maxing these numbers as a replacement for big picture health goals.

From the outside, I see someone spending a lot of time focusing on numbers while they are actually regularly stressed, who doesn’t get good sleep, and has somewhat bare minimum exercise.

Collecting data is great but don’t sink so much effort into it until you have a problem.

If I’m not mistaken, it also doesn’t work with LaserDiscs… it works only with CEDs.

The title is a bit misleading. LaserDiscs are digital but CEDs are analog.

Very different technologies.

I was under the impression that laserdisc encoded the video signal in analog. Some (all?) audio tracks were digital/pcm, however.

LaserDiscs are not quite a digital medium. The video is an FM analog signal (composite). Digital PCM audio was introduced about half a decade into the format's life.

Declarative methods existed before Docker for years and they never caught on.

They sounded nice on paper but the work they replaced was somehow more annoying.

I moved over to Docker when it came out because it used shell.

Obviously PHP

Words don’t have precise meanings either.

“He has completed the task.”

versus

“He pulled it off.”

Their meanings are the same but their both have different subtext.

Emojis are simply additional levers for subtext. It’s like using a red hot colors versus cool colors for a poster — the text might be the same but the colors provide an additional way to signal subtext.

The more options, the better.

It is the precision of language that allows you to distinguish the subtext of those two sentences.

But by that line of thinking, it’s the same with emojis. There is a subtly to which ones you use and when.

You don’t just put the same laugh emoji every time it’s funny…

I think there is a difference: with emojis, only the sender knows the precise meaning. Words have agreed on definitions.

go tell that to genz who use :skullemoji: or koreans who dislike pinching hand emoji, or anyone who knows what a heart, dollar bills, sleepy face or whatever else means.

we make up words all the time, and they are in fact not all "agreed upon" because language changes, like how awesome used to mean "inspiring awe" and "literally" now means "figuratively" and how "google" and "tweet" are words.

emoji change meaning quicker than words, yes, but that's because the were born online and because they are easier to add semantic meaning to. they're pretty neat, to be honest.

even in a corporate setting we use emoji all the time to +1 things, to confirm something, or on video calls to give kudos, and more.

You didn’t find people because SREs don’t do that.

You wanted sysadmins / IT / data center technicians.

yeah homie is talking about DevSecOps and what he needs to hire is a cable monkey

no shortage of IT talent in 2026, the market is literally overflowing with resumes and wages are dropping. huge gluts of fairly generic online degree holders.

they can use AI to write basic Ansible just as well as my Seniors

Yeah but it’s super obvious when you pick it up so I don’t know if I would consider it lying.

An easily recognizable lie is still a lie.

This is like saying a dwarf planet is still a planet.

Photoshop and video editing. Until the M chips, the app options were slim, and now iPads get new M chips as they come out.

You might ask — doesn’t it suck to do either on an iPad? Yep, yet even on my iPhone, I use Photoshop all the time.

VMs are not very CPU demanding usually — usually more RAM demanding.

How do you do any productivity on it if getting files in and out is such a pain?

I had M4 iPad PRO and is just collecting dust. Too clunky to use.

If you're in the apple ecosystem, the "normal" way is to just literally drag and drop files between devices with your mouse, use airdrop, copy on one device then paste on another, etc. "Continuity" makes it stupidly easy, but not advertised well.

The Files app can connect to SMB locations.

You can attach a USB drive. The Pro models have Thunderbolt.

Yes but I consider that just a bug in the agents that use MCP servers.

It could just be fixed to compress the context or the protocol could be tweaked.

Switching to CLIs is like buying a new car because you need an oil change. Sure, in this case, the user doesn’t get to control if the oil change can be done, but the issue is not the car — it’s that no one will do the relatively trivial fix.

you know what you could do? You could write a skill that turns mcps on or off!