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Wouldn’t this be a side effect of everyone buying only indexes funds or ETFs? Me and other millions of people are investing in our pensions every month and buying ETF (S&P500 or gl…

I tried that, but this completely removes the transparency, and some apps look even worse and harder to visualise as it’s not designed to not have the transparency on iOS 26. This …

The point 2 is an important one, I used RSS for years but had to stop using it as I was way too anxious trying to read everything. I started using again, but I have a few rules: al…

The lack of devs that understand the domain knowledge and the codebase will be the main issue. I would say that the current capabilities of genAI is like a junior dev, sometimes ev…

Minor annoyance, but just a few limitations and restrictions, after all you need a smartphone and internet connection. So.. when paying in a store, you need to open your banking ap…

When people say that Google Search is broken because the internet changed and it’s not google fault, I point them to YouTube search. With YouTube, Google has full control of the pl…

I don’t think this is the correct comparison. The iphone doesn’t just die after 5 years. I still have a 10 year iPhone 6 and a 8 years old iPhone 7 both still working just fine. Ap…

Great post. I was also raised by the internet. I have loving parents, but grew up poor in a developing country, surrounded by people that only care about football and soap opera. I…

I requested deletion of all my data to 23andme, but they said they keep “Genetic Information”. Does that mean 23andme still has my “SNPs”? (I’m based in Europe) Message I received …

The modern immigration is a lot different than in the past. Amsterdam, London or New York offered no support to immigrants, more like the opposite, where immigrants worked themselv…

> I personally have known several people. They are not narcissists. They are literally 100x talent. I guess this can varies per company. It’s not difficult to be a super star in a …

You can easily put money in your pension and avoid the tax. So if you’re making 125k and put 25k in your pension, you will only pay taxes on 100k. Take advantage of tax wrappers an…

> capable of running all games My solution for this is to have 2 computers. I have a macbook as main computer, with all my documents, study, etc. And I have a desktop computer with…

My comment was about entry level programming job. AI/automation will help more seniors developer to a point that most basic tasks can be done instantly and you don’t need to ask a …

> makes programming harder, not easier That’s exactly my point. The current scenario where someone can just go into a 3 months javascript bootcamp won’t be enough. In my team, ther…

> Most people I've worked with go home and watch football after 5pm. Unfortunately, the job market is getting more and more competitive. Software engineers had easy in the last 10 …

> Because if you do a solid good job that's a 2, but a couple 2s fairly quickly gets you on the RIF train to getting fired. This definitely seems bad, but it’s not common in every …

Why do you think you need to achieve 4 or 5? Or even 3? Salary in tech are so high that even with a mediocre bonus, it’s still a good life. For the last two years, I aimed for just…

This varies a lot depending on where you live and your routine. If you’re middle class, lives in a nice neighbourhood and go out into posh areas, the risk is really really low. Thi…

True, as a man, I want love, belonging, family, etc. But many women, specially in their early 20s, have completely unrealistic and entitled mentality. They don’t offer love and sup…

Latency nowadays isn’t bad or even noticeable. I worked for a company during Covid where I had to remotely connect to a Windows machine, and from there, connect to a Linux machine.…

This makes sense, but this should had ask the account password to confirm, which Jeff’s daughter may know and typed. IMO, The main issue in here is BigTech obsession with a single …

> I don't like all of it, but it gives one coherent top-to-bottom model. Completely agree. Bob Martin “Clean” has some really good recommendations, and some subjective advices. Nor…

> I call them “twitchy smart”, I call them “cowboy developers“, and product owners and non tech manager sometime call them “10x developers” because they can delivery anything quick…