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Comment · 15 days ago
This tool belongs to somebody (capitalist!) else and in a new world better tools will always win, not individuals anymore. And it feels like to go from being Rembrandt to CVS employee who takes passport pictures - result much better quality and cheaper but no skill and glory.

Interestingly, the dynamics strongly resembles the industrial revolution when from highly skilled manufactures society moved to factories with power machines. And it all came down who owns means of production. Now AI is a new means of production for all white collars jobs and if the industrial revolution taught is the way to go, nothing good will come out of it.

Comment · 2 months ago
counted six.
Comment · 3 months ago
Combines AI agents, tmux, git worktrees and containers into very coherent UX.
Comment · 8 months ago
Nest on wheels. Not my cup of espresso.
Comment · 8 months ago
not really. it is 300B of market value disappeared. very small sum of cash exchange would be needed.

but it can and will leak into real world as if somebody borrowed cash with saas shares as collateral. now lenders are in deep shit. somebody is missing a lot of money on their balance sheets.

Comment · 9 months ago
imho, CT is horribly looking car with absolute disregard to any aesthetics. everything else is secondary. it has vibes of Aztec. one of the worst selling car ever.
Comment · 10 months ago
>A glass of wine with dinner is unlikely to significantly disrupt your sleep

it will and it does. anybody who owns a smart watch with heart rate monitor can observe it. the proverbial glass is very visible as a spike of resting heart rate and especially horrible on HRV.

besides, there are "glasses" which can take full 750ml bottle. may be most people don't go such extreme but still very good to fool themselves about alcohol volume consumption

Comment · 1 year ago
I would guess this is the same reason why one can't change git repo history without affecting people working with the repo. Merkle tree all over the store.
Comment · 1 year ago
Those poor cows would have to glow in a dark to emit such level of radiation.
Comment · 1 year ago
It wasn't restricted per se. Just it didn't exist or produced as a civil appliance, so you won't be able to buy it. But civil defense kits usually had the counter, so if you really wanted one you probably could get it. My dad got one right after Chernobyl disaster.
Comment · 1 year ago
A bit unorthodox advice, start lifting weights. Heavy. Aim to build strength, not muscles or look. 40s is a great age to do this, better than 50s for sure. For men, physical strength gives more confidence, and problems which you perceive hard will look less so when you are able to deadlift 500lb. And yeah, don't quit your current job without getting new one. Bad idea. And don't give away anything for free to your employer.If they want to fire you, make them sweat (in some places it is not easy process).

ps: speaking of taking 3-6-12 months off advises. Irrelevant of your situation, I think we are living through interesting part of the "hockey stick" curve when being out for one year could mean end of the tech career. Things move way too fast, and gaining velocity.

Comment · 2 years ago
>it's about money, corporate takeover, money, "efficiency," money, green, money, safety third, money, because fuck them that's why, money, $$$, money...

let me rephrase a bit. It is all about shareholders and how to make more money for them. Every single quarter. and if the CEO is not aligned with these values she will be replaced by new one. Not all CEOs are greedy bastards but the whole system is designed to eliminate every single person who cares about something else except short term returns for the shareholders. So good CEOs are out and bad CEOs are in. Survival of the fittest as it is.

Comment · 3 years ago
nitpick: I wonder how TSP became NP complete. It would require to polynomial time algorithm to validate the solution. I doubt such algorithm does exist.
Comment · 3 years ago
As far as I remember Far was always extremely popular. As far as I remember before "free license" there were various cracks readily available. At some point the author gave up and said something along the line, I won't make money from "russians" anyway so please use this "license" and may be you will stop to produce those cracks!

When on Windows, Far becomes tool to go if you are developer. Powerful file browser with shell and quick viewer and editor, also with ability to create shortcuts to dirs and commands. All together it creates this mouse-free flow which many devs like.

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