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I did what you dream of. It's fun for 3-6 months. But it's only fun - not an existential cure. That could only be found in friends/loved ones.

In all software jobs I've had (small, medium, and big tech), there's been no question about my start time. This has allowed me to sleep until 9-10am, and start work at 11. Huge hel…

Actually I'd love to see this metric.

As an old user of thinkpads for years, on a Macbook the trackpad is as much under your thumb as the trackpoint is under your index finger and I find the trackpad far more accurate …

I subscribed 2 years ago and it took over 2 weeks to actually get my first paper at my door. I live in NYC.. Cancellation wasn't difficult though, and didn't require me to call any…

I loved this. And love when someone chats me up at the gym more than just "you using this?". See you around the gym, my guy.

I'm not applying at all! Happy employed and not looking. They're mailing me through linkedIn (i have a profile, and it's not set to looking and i'm completely inactive there), and …

Anyone else's inbox slammed with recruiters, more than it ever has been in the past? Feels like there's 10x the jobs available, but perhaps it's just that LLMs have automated a rec…

This advice was also given to me if I ever get caught in the rain while camping and soak my shoes. Bring some newspaper for both a firestarter and for leaving in your shoes overnig…

This has been my experience too. I feel freed up from the "manual labor" slice of software development and can focus on more interesting design problems and product alignment, whic…

Yes, if anything I think harder because I know it's on the frontier of whatever I'm building (so i'm more motivated and there's much more ROI)

Exactly my experience and how I leverage Claude where some of my coworkers remain unconvinced.

Same. I've resurrected side projects and done months of work on them overnight, getting to my true end goals. Creating software is fun. Wrangling a bunch of opinionated libraries a…

Why would I want to spend 1-2h researching humidifiers if I can spend that time in any other way, and still end up with a humidifier that fits my needs first try? This kind of task…

> Each Sonnet agent costs about $10.50/hour to run overnight. When expressed like that, I can't help but see it as a wage figure.

A cool solution using only cardboard and hot glue. Love this person's channel. https://youtu.be/fUyQEPzpkLk?si=cADJNQbbquJCUBKD

> e-bikes above a certain power level This is already true in NYC. It just another law that there aren't enough resources to be enforced IMO

Genuinely curious and debating the costs of other SOC2 platforms. But your tool doesn't load anything when I go to controls. > Error: Failed to fetch Not a good way to debut

North Americans (my exp only) value cheap goods and services so highly, they don't care how the sausage is made.

Yea placebo is probably the wrong word here. And I agree with you. Often just recognizing something removes it's power. I'm glad the commenter experienced the change they did. Just…

I was going to reply to the same post with similar. If just having a label to apply alleviates the negative emotion, isn't it a placebo? I think a far far greater number of people …

Purely selfish pursuits lose their allure when you have the ability to just do them (once the initial rush of being able to do them runs out). At least they did for me.

Unique experience. I've had mostly useless managers in my 15y career, downright toxic ones in my 3y AWS stint.

It smells like corporate communication training. "Affirm the customer. Express that you hear their concerns and empathize"

It's gorgeous. Impressive execution - looks like a polished product from Apple.