RegBarclay

I've had this experience too. I like doing the work. Claude is good and I do find it useful for brainstorming and some other things, but... I still like doing the work.

I'll add my own anecdata here. My older kids are in their late 20s and one has bought a home and the other is buying a new build home this year.

My youngest is 18, the greatest consumer of social media of my 4 children, and she's convinced she won't be able to buy a home like her under-30 siblings are doing right now.

Sounds very much like a YMMV situation, but it feels like social media has influenced my youngest to believe otherwise.

Then Arthur Clarke wrote "The Ghost from the Grand Banks" in 1990 (after Ballard discovered it was in pieces) with a slightly more plausible approach to raising the bow. The wreck has deteriorated now to the point where raising it would probably destroy more than what would be recovered.

I had a 4 tens option at a previous job. We could have Monday or Friday off. I especially liked it late in the day when the 5 eights people left and it was quiet and there weren't any meetings.

One of my kids' high school teachers does something similar - not limited to a single falsehood per class period and bonus points given on the spot for students piping up and correcting. High schoolers aren't always very forthcoming with details about their classroom experiences, so this one teacher does stand out simply because they get talked about positively at home, so I'd say mission accomplished on student engagement.

>Investing once into something that feels good to use every day is worth it totally.

My mechanical keyboard makes me happy. Does it matter if that's some kind of placebo effect or confirmation bias? Nope.

Agreed. On daylight time or off - just stop changing the clocks twice a year please.

I try to use words that hit the Wheel of Fortune RSTLNE letters - BEAST, RUSTY, ROAST. It's served me pretty well. I haven't had to go beyond the 5th guess yet and commonly solve it in 4.

I bought a Gryphon router to deal with this. It conditionally blocks VPN access by device/user. It's generally been really good, but I've had to back down some of the settings occasionally because school assignments/sites were blocked.

That was my first thought. I haven't seen The Expanse, but in any case, Heinlein preceded The Expanse by decades.

I've had that happen. I have my own domain, but some of my family just have it set to forward to gmail and they've had mail service disabled intermittently because of spam coming from the domain account.

I've had to change things up a few times over the years mostly related to the mouse. Dude, are you left-handed? No, switched hands with the mouse because my right elbow hurts. Listen to your body. Adapt.

I hadn't thought about it that way. I was good at algebra, but can't get through calculus to save my life. I've mostly found that coding is more about logic than math. When math has come up in my work, it's generally a formula or calculation that's already defined and I just have to code it into a system, which has never been a problem for me.

FizzBuzz != leetcode. You are correct - easy problems are a good filter. After starting with one company I started sitting in on phone screens and candidate interviews and I was shocked at what a lot of applicants didn't know. Actually helped me with my imposter syndrome. I walked away from several interviews feeling like maybe I did know a thing or two!