kevinskii

I have a dirty confession to make too: I’ve been running Tahoe and Windows 11 on my devices, and both are working fine for the most part. If I ever switch to Linux desktop, it will be mostly out of boredom.

I probably would not have read the article, but your comment piqued my curiosity. I couldn’t resist.

1/5 would not click again.

Likewise! I built my personal blog with Astro and host on Cloudflare (username.dev), and feel guilty about taking advantage of such excellent software and free tier. Here’s hoping they find a way to take my money soon.

> ” I worked crazy hours in my early 20s because I liked it. I liked computers, I liked my team, and to be frank, I had not much else to do. If I went home early, I would be spending time on the internet anyway.”

This describes me almost exactly when I was in my 20s. However, I have far fewer regrets than you might. My career progressed a lot faster than it otherwise would have, and thanks to salary compounding my family enjoys much greater financial security than we otherwise might have. The institutional and product knowledge I gained in those days enables me to now have a much more relaxed work schedule and spend time with my family while still delivering value. And finally, it’s fun to walk through a lab and see the software I wrote unprompted over a few weekends still humming along two decades later on hundreds of stations.

I am under no illusion that my company is my family, but I didn’t do it for them. I did it for myself, and the company happened to benefit. There have never been any loyalty expectations on either side, and I would probably do it all over again.

Not every blog post written in the author’s free time needs to be manuscript-worthy. Informal benchmarks can be often really helpful in solving real world problems where it’s not worthwhile to try to squeeze out every last nanosecond of performance.

I agree with the OP. VS Code using the Jupyter protocol is superior to notebooks in almost every respect in my experience. It gives you an excellent debugger, the ability to track changes in Git without any modification, and you can also run as a regular Python script.

Excellent points, but perhaps part of the reason for the price difference is because the US population is much more geographically dispersed, so the infrastructure costs are much higher.

I agree that remote screen sharing can be sufficient, but I'm personally a much more effective mentor in person with lots of whiteboard space.

I agree. I read the first edition to Intro to Statistical Learning and it went into just the right level of mathematical depth. The authors also have Youtube lectures that accompany the chapters, and these are a great reinforcement of the material.