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I've had this experience too. I like doing the work. Claude is good and I do find it useful for brainstorming and some other things, but... I still like doing the work.

I'll add my own anecdata here. My older kids are in their late 20s and one has bought a home and the other is buying a new build home this year. My youngest is 18, the greatest con…

Then Arthur Clarke wrote "The Ghost from the Grand Banks" in 1990 (after Ballard discovered it was in pieces) with a slightly more plausible approach to raising the bow. The wreck …

I had a 4 tens option at a previous job. We could have Monday or Friday off. I especially liked it late in the day when the 5 eights people left and it was quiet and there weren't …

One of my kids' high school teachers does something similar - not limited to a single falsehood per class period and bonus points given on the spot for students piping up and corre…

https://based.cooking/chocolate-chip-cookies.html Servings: 4 That's about my level of self-control with chocolate chip cookies.

>Investing once into something that feels good to use every day is worth it totally. My mechanical keyboard makes me happy. Does it matter if that's some kind of placebo effect or …

Agreed. On daylight time or off - just stop changing the clocks twice a year please.

I try to use words that hit the Wheel of Fortune RSTLNE letters - BEAST, RUSTY, ROAST. It's served me pretty well. I haven't had to go beyond the 5th guess yet and commonly solve i…

I bought a Gryphon router to deal with this. It conditionally blocks VPN access by device/user. It's generally been really good, but I've had to back down some of the settings occa…

That was my first thought. I haven't seen The Expanse, but in any case, Heinlein preceded The Expanse by decades.

I've had that happen. I have my own domain, but some of my family just have it set to forward to gmail and they've had mail service disabled intermittently because of spam coming f…

I've had to change things up a few times over the years mostly related to the mouse. Dude, are you left-handed? No, switched hands with the mouse because my right elbow hurts. List…

I hadn't thought about it that way. I was good at algebra, but can't get through calculus to save my life. I've mostly found that coding is more about logic than math. When math ha…

FizzBuzz != leetcode. You are correct - easy problems are a good filter. After starting with one company I started sitting in on phone screens and candidate interviews and I was sh…

I'm also self taught with over 20 YOE and pretty lost with leetcode problems. But I get the job done and have a really good eye for user and business domain concerns. My last two j…

After the usual government ID requests were satisfied and the automated e-mails started saying "we're done here," I just googled it and found a few anecdotal cases where someone ha…

I'm no genius. Just good search engine skills. Geek dad jumped in an started looking for answers and found reports where others had done this.

This happened to my daughter. I got a notification that she'd changed her profile picture and it was changed to text that looked Arabic to me. Between the time I said something to …

> But also in retrospect, stretching the budget to afford the computer was well worth it since it gave you and your brother valuable skills worth more than money. I bought my Atari…

Scan to searchable PDF. Dump in folders named for the year the document is relevant/scanned. I never need 99% of it, but when I do need something, search usually finds it or gets m…

Something that I've noticed as a remote employee (before and after the pandemic) is that the usual interpersonal interactions that happen organically in the office have to be done …

Could we start with better quality stuff to buy? I own 2 washing machines. The nice one I paid more for is so unreliable, I bought a cheap one to use while I wait for the nice one …

I completely agree. The robot novels would be much easier stories to adapt with little deviation from the novels. It's been decades since I've read the whole canon of Asimov robot …

I've threatened off and on for years to get out of software work and go drive trucks. I love to drive and go places and I enjoy handling large vehicles. I understand the realities …