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A bit flawed, but a technical marvel and shows how superhumanly virtuosic Snook is.

I live in NYC as well, and I find the post COVID Berlin-esque Bushwick only scene to be terrible. It's filled with the most dull repetitive music that AI can replicate with a god a…

Google beat OpenAI at their own game.

For certain knowledge work, the job market is much stronger and orders of magnitude better paying in the US. And nah, most if not all of my coworkers have taken two consecutive wee…

Yeah this is why I always take more than a month off between jobs. Besides parental leave and the very rare even for FAANG companies who offer month long sabbaticals once every fiv…

I lived in both for more than a decade. I only remember seeing a mouse sized rat once in Seattle. Never saw one in SF. I live in NYC now and see multiple on a daily basis. Exposure…

I’d argue that NYC hasn’t done enough with rats for this reason. And indoor roaches and mice too for that matter. As a New Yorker, it feels unsanitary at best, and psychologically …

OpenAI has no clear moat though. If they shut off training, everyone would just move over to a competitor.

$80 a month is a no brainer given the productivity multiplier.

Downsize and move closer to the office

In most of NYC that’s the case

OpenAPI is just pointless abstraction like GraphQL

The ones doing AI research would be working at more prestigious institutions.

I’m skeptical of the caliber of talent at Salesforce given the unusable state of their core product.

I agree. Despite high compensation and a hiring boom, or perhaps because of it, 2020-2022 was the worst time to work in tech. I knew interns in 2012 who could code circles around t…

React at its core is great. Redux is great too, as vanilla React becomes messy even for moderately complex single page apps. Whatever it’s evolved into now is a different monster.

Modern day Kubernetes and React feels like a make work program

The 4% rule accounts for inflation. The stock market on an average gives you 7% a year in returns adjusted for inflation. The 4% gives you enough cushion in case of economic turmoi…

At least in SF, tenants get pretty generous buyouts when the landlord decides to sell.

I find Japan’s IC card system notoriously confusing here with every line operating its own fare gate, the notion of a base fare and additional fare for a line, and entry gates that…

I loved the “luxury” techbro condos of Seattle. I’d take a cookie cutter glassbox any day over my disgusting Manhattan prewar.

If you’re at a FAANG, especially at a $300k+ total compensation, NYC is very livable. In unit washer/dryer might be a stretch, but you can comfortably get a 1BR luxury apartment wi…

I’d expect a pay raise if I had to accept WFH. I live a 5 minute walk from my office and I get catered lunches.

Kara Swisher is reputable… as far as tech journalists go.

I’m a cofounder at a two person currently bootstrapped startup here in NYC. Do y’all know of any good coworking spaces? No frills, just one where we can work together at odd hours …