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I think you're vastly overestimating Anthropic.

After they switched tooling from Microsoft to Anthropic at work, I switched to Gemma 4 and Opencode. I've been in this industry for two decades now, I think I understand the risk of putting career level importance on their tooling.

have only an enthusiast's understanding of rockets and physics, so I'm genuinely open-minded to the possibility.

I used to be open minded too but lost all sense of credibility in anything Elon Musk touches when he called nanotechnology a pseudoscience. Since then it's only been downhill. One does not have to be subject matter expert, even China is vertically landing rockets now.

This.

If I didn't pirate movies and games and Windows and apps when I was young, I probably wouldn't be in a position to pay for multiple streaming and Xbox subscription now.

It's such a shame.

OnePlus have been developer-unfriendly for a while and alienated their most loyal customers.

I still think their phones provide best bang for the buck performance- even at $700-800 considering the current smartphone market. My last three phones were OnePlus 7T, 8, and 12R. I was looking forward to 15R, but got a Razr Ultra instead since they a made the announcement.

I have used click/typer packages to build some python-based CLI programs. It's easy and user-friendly way to build, but the amount of time it takes for python to start the environment followed by the actual program to do anything is annoying.

I think flying apache helicopters to salute a musician at his home or beachgoers on 4th of July counts as waste, and are not really important to anybody. So are the remodeling of reflecting pool and ballroom construction.

Thanks to Facebook I am finding out that those people I grew up with and had connections have become assholes and would behave like one in public forums, even at the matured age of 40+. No thank you.

I went to our pediatric ophthalmologist's office yesterday. There was another young person in the room, and our doctor asked if we mind if she's scribing.

When leaving I commented that I like that the doctor is using a human scribe and not an AI. Both of them were beaming.

Few weeks ago at a casual office gathering we were discussing given the choice do we hire an intern or get more AI credits. It was clear that hiring an intern is the right move for the industry, even if it results in an abandoned repo or two at the end of Summer. Especially now that AI shovel sellers have realized small teams are willing to spend on AI credits instead of $5000 a month on an intern, and are adjusting the prices accordingly.

All of these are more humane experiences we should not lose out on.

For deriving work/energy, yes. Once you factor in time rate, you're deriving power.

W=F.s

This. And it's not just the Russian oligarchs.

In 2024 a corrupt government was toppled in Bangladesh. In subsequent investigations it was revealed that just one member of the cabinet had bought more than 200 luxury properties across US, UK, and UAE.

The fact that the West welcomes black money from anybody and everybody causes both inflation to go up in the West and exploitation to prevail in less developed countries of the world.

Original comment is correct, it's not momentum. Work (hence, energy) is integral of force over distance, momentum is integral over time. There's not "sorta" about high school physics.

Is this why you're in the minority?

Unrelated but the animated photo of the magician performing a shuffle really shows how advanced, efficient, and deliberate our limbs are.

I randomly came across a 1979 bbc documentary on "Word Processors" on YouTube yesterday. Even though I wrangle terabytes of data using AI agents everyday now, it still felt like magic to imagine myself seeing the documentary for the first time in 1979.

Indeed, according to Cursor leaderboard there were folks committing 200k-300k lines of code every month. And here I am intentionally slowing myself down manually approving every AI generated code change and terminal command.

I work at a 20k-employee company with footprint in tech. A couple of weeks ago a decision was made to not renew Cursor license. This week it was made public and has been greeted with groans. Some employees have been publicly saying how ineffective and unproductive they are going to become due to this decision- which actually strikes me as really naive.

Personally I like to use a stable IDE. I used Cursor for a couple of days and then went back to VS Code, largely due to Cursor pushing agentic first approach with V3 update.

Mainly they admitted that they lost substantial amount of subscribers when they hiked game pass prices last year.

They also gave away free Xbox consoles to attendees at Xbox fanfest.

I didn't create an Apple ID. The MacBook is from work and I use AD account to access it.

I have used a Windows OS almost every day of my life since 1999 or so. Last December I had a choice and switched to MacOS for work laptop. Since then I seldom use Windows and I don't really regret.

I still use an Xbox almost every day so there's that. In the last couple of weeks there's been some good news coming through for Xbox so we'll see.

For me, investing in hardware seems to be the way to go.

I learned coding nearly 24 years ago and still learning new stuff all the time. At no point in time I had to rely on a subscription model to learn and do new stuff.

If LLM and agents are the default tools for coding and building software, at least for next few years, it seems like a no-brainer to invest $2000-3000 on hardware, like a Halo Strix PC.

150k-200k base offered to a fresh grad for some python and low-level, data intensive work. Really shocking.

I did not post the full job description word for word to not doxx myself. But the job description explicitly mentioned that anyone with the right aptitude should apply, don't have to qualify for every requirement. We hired a recent graduate with relevant research experience.

The original article is about a federal judge blocking H1B fee because there is a teacher shortage in Alaska. Can you believe that?

The reason US is in this mess is because in the 50s and 60s there was a liberal arts education boom in the US, and STEM education boom in India/China.

I have replied to another comment - we ended up hiring a fresh graduate with relevant research experience who is being trained for the role.

I responded to the point someone made- there's an excess of workers in America. Firstly, when there's an excess, wages are supposed to lower, even for Americans. Secondly, even if there is an excess, there was no evidence of that in my experience. In addition to the full time role we also interviewed interns in fall, and in my experience they were all either immigrant or children of immigrants.

Yes we hired a fresh graduate with relevant research experience who is being trained.

I have added compensation information in another reply.

What requirements did the role have and what’s the salary range?

4+ years in product development. Python/R + a low-level language. Terabyte-scale data stream and batch processing. HPC knowledge (vectorization, memory access, distributed computing) to build efficient algorithms. Degree in a quantitative field (Math, Stats, Physics, CS, or Engineering).

Upper limit on compensation was 200k.

Although saying that I know first hand low starting salaries have pushed students towards mechanical engineering or CS if inclined.

You answered your own question. The American engineering pool consists mostly of high school diplomas who can't pass PE exam at multiple trials.

Edit: coincidentally, my wife was offered a state civil engineering job in Bay area. Didn't take up because the salary offered was below 100k, even with 5 years of experience.

No such issues. It's actually not a solo business, it's a civil/geological engineering consultancy firm with a mix of state/local government and private clients.