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Having been there i have to respectfully disagree. Probably because, as far as i can tell, you are warping their intentions to be what your intentions would be if you did what they did.

It seems like different people? The early tech scene was defined by people who got into tech because they loved it, jobs were paying under six figures. Then it became a gold rush, and the tech scene became defined by the newcomers who were after cash first, tech second. It's not that the old timers gave up on their ideals (well, some did), they were simply supplanted by larger numbers of people following the money.

In my opinion there is no "slipping mask", merely a changing of the guard that always happens when massive piles of generational wealth are at stake.

I really don't think it's AGI. From living in the valley, it looks a whole lot more like giant piles of cash and "prestige".

It really depends where you live. Around here every home built since ~1970 has an HOA. The cities have demanded them, because they can push some of the work like re-paving streets onto the HOA as part of the founding documents.

Many of them do. My aunt bought a new car last year and was bragging about how big the screen was. She seemed confused that i thought a big screen was a downgrade.

I think the mistake you have is starting from the wrong premise. The premise, IMO, should be that OP has been harassed, demeaned, and otherwise been made to feel bad for 20+ years for using the units they were raised with. At least that's my experience as an American.

Most people don't seem to care about the units, what the haters care about (not you, but the general experience) is having an opportunity to proclaim how much better they are than other people, mostly over an accident of birth.

The performance is nice, but the advanced modding scene is non-existent. In java a mod author can do just about anything they can imagine and write code for. Somehow i doubt we will ever see dimensional doors as a bedrock mod.

Perhaps this varies by region? I don't know anyone that buys burgers in a packet. They buy ground beef and either make patties or balls (for smash burgers).

This is the law in California (https://www.sidley.com/en/insights/newsupdates/2024/11/calif...) as of January. Several games I use have recently changed their buttons from "buy" to "license" or similar as a result

The desire is relateively simply explained. Some people used to find HN interesting, but the modern set of things being upvoted isn't matching their interests anymore. They already ignore the content they don't like, the problem is the content they do like isn't there anymore. The assumption, I expect, is that if there was less LLM content the site would have more of the "older style" content they used to enjoy. I don't necessarily think that will happen, but that's my interpretation of the sentiment.

How about if they claim to be google chrome running on windows 11, from a residential IP address? Is that a human or an AI bot?

depends on who. For the average HN person? I imagine it's a wash, some yes and some no. For the average person? I think they see it as a benefit.

Personally? It annoys me a bit because I assume the AI is being done server side and is used to artificially differentiate products.

But that resignation was part of a larger deal. If the deal is thrown out, shouldn't the resignation be thrown out too?

My city has 30k people, although we are part of a larger metro. Store brand eggs are $9.50/dozen. Alternatively Costco is still selling 60 packs for $20, although they have had per customer limits recently and don't alway have stock. Works out to $4 per dozen. But thats a lot of eggs.

Honestly, it seems completely irrelevant that a simple reading of the commerce clause isn't that powerful. What matters is how things are applied, and what precedents have been established. As applied the commerce clause is immensly powerful. As layman we can whinge about how words have been twisted, but in terms of things i can personally influence it means exactly nothing.

The problem is this is what people are being told is happening. I've talked to laypeople that think chatgpt is a superintelligent thing they get 100% truthful answers from. I saw a podcast last week from a PhD (in an unrelated field) claiming AGI will be here in 2027. As long as there are people out there claiming AI is everything, there will be people that look at whats available and say no, it's not actually that (yet).

Maybe this is a physical development thing? Because i can't imagine a world in which my mouse is more accurate than my keyboard. The mouse requires two-way responsive action. I have to both move the mouse and observe the movement with my eyes to update the movement as necessary.

With the keyboard there is no such coordination, I simply think the thing i want to happen and press the appropriate keys.

Because the ending was pretty meh. All this excitement, and then Ding just flubs up an end game that most super gm's should be able to draw against stockfish.

The best finale's are often when two players at their best duke it out, and one comes out on top. This was simply not Ding's best.

depends on the market. The 5kw options i was quoted were Enphase 5p batteries, average price from multiple installers was $5k per battery installed.

with how pricing works here battery is basicaly a necessity. They will pay 3-8c /kwh during the day for extra production, and charge 50-65c/kwh when you don't have enough production. Well, maybe necessity is a bit strong. That's only a $5-$8/day swing on a 13kwh battery. But it adds up.

It's very real. I was recently quoted 30k-43k for 7kw of panels, 13.5kwh of battery, along with reworking some electrical panels. The one coming in at the top of the range were baking in a ton of profit and willing to negotiate down once shown the other quotes. In the end i completely passed, it just doesn't make sense to pay 30k to avoid 3k a year in electric bills.

I've also been at my current employer for a little more than a decade. I've been promoted to the 2nd highest level possible for an engineer without ever asking or doing specific actions to get those promotions. The last promotion would take actual direct effort, but I'm honestly not that interested. My salary is 2x-2.5x where it started as, and from a few brief stints interviewing at interesting places that reached out other people aren't willing to pay much more, and often less. We get a great work/life balance (wfh, 5 weeks vacation, 2 month paid sabbatical every 4 years).

I'm also very risk averse. I prefer being reasonably well known and trusted by the wider engineering staff here. I'm happy with where I am and have no intent of leaving. I mostly bring this up as a counterpoint to the people that say you can't have a good job by staying at the same place. Different places are different. Some of them are quite good. If you have a good thing, be willing to hold onto it.

With respect to not growing as an engineer, have you considered asking to switch teams or departments? I've shifted twice and each time led to a new set of challenges, but building upon my understanding of our systems.

but only see articles like this as resume fodder.

Not super important, but i think it's worth calling out. Some of us program because it's fun. We dig into problems like this because it scratches an itch. We share in the hopes of interacting with like-minded individuals. Not everything is about resumes.

While I don't necessarily agree, the argument is that the 1970 postal reorganization act required the postal office to be self funded, and that since they are not funded with any federal dollars they are somewhere between a government service and a private service. Some argue that because of this we have seen a significant degredation in the quality of mail, because the USPS explicitly and intentionally delivers the equivilent of spam mail to every address in the country. They do this as a form of generating revenue that wouldn't be required of a proper government service. This ties into the current post as it seems plausible the reason USPS shares customer data with Meta is due to their requirement of self funding.

That's wonderful, but it doesn't change the lived experience of warranty's.

Surprisingly the DeepSea Challenger was only $10M as well. Thats certainly a ton of money, but it's in the same ballpark as what ocean gate spent.

It's not a force, it's a choice. When we bought our home every home built in the area in the last 40 years had an HOA. The only non-HOA choices are basically taking a giant gamble on how terribly the previous owners updated it to modern standards, instead of buying something built with modern plumbing and electrics. So sure, the HOA was a choice. But it was forced.

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Over half of the stock market is held in the retirement accounts of everyday people. This is just a tax in a roundabout way. I don't have a solution, they all suck. But I'm not convinced this is any better.

It might not be "most situations", but its certainly mine. I've been filling out the sonic form yearly for at least 5 years now. I'll say i do appreciate that it stopped offering me verizon. It always felt like a bit of a con for the frontpage to advertise gigabit, ask for my address, then give me a "success" page that only offered verizon. Unfortunately i suspect that with verizon not being offered it means sonic has decided this area isn't worthwhile and has stopped accepting customers (not going to fully out myself, but we have a bart stop and are not end-of-line).