charlie0
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- charlie0I'm not convinced. This strikes me as a work harder, not smarter. Good judgment is required here.
- I've always disliked this advice because it's trite. It's often true at an individual level, yet in practice, I've never seen this work once more people are added to the equation.
- Credit cards aren't a fixed cost. Spend less.
- You don't have to go that far though. Why does it take months to get housing permits? Or many years to get nuclear permits? Just making those processes more efficient through technology would greatly help, but we can't. It's not the technology slowing these things down.
- Technology is inherent deflationary due to scaling laws of increasing productivity. This is awesome because think if all the zero or very cheap apps etcs. The productivity is largely based on lack of regulation which allows innovationto occur at speed. Now if we only could deregulate "meatspace" applications (think nuclear, housing, etc) we might be able to achieve great gains.
- That's what Lunar is for. Just bump up the brightness to HDR levels. Helps a lot with the glare, but will take a bite out of the battery life.
- It's always interesting to see users have somewhat strong opinions over fan vs fanless. I could never go Macbook Air again because I've been to hotter climates and do things beyond just using a browser and invariably the keyboard gets too warm for my fingertips. I need the MBPs fans and Mac Fan Control, noise be dammed.
- That is my number one issue with startups. They all start minimalist and end up bloated, some sooner than others, and what made them great disappears behind all this bloat. See: tyranny of the marginal user.
- I'm looking at alternatives that are guarantee to work locally and only found the following:
Posting.sh -> Postman imports are experimental which makes it a non-starter for people like myself with large Postman collections. TUI only also makes it harder to switch.
Insomnia -> Owned by another large tech company.
Yaak -> Made by the same guy who created AND SOLD Insomnia above. Not exactly comforting to switch over for. How long till this one also gets sold?
Any other great local tools out there? I would like to be done with Postman.
- Why?
- What do you do if your manager sends you on boondoggles of a project?
- "All they wanted was the phone app. " This is key. A smartphone, any smartphone, was never going to be the answer for these folks.
- Don't be pedantic, you know that for most people, it is about the money, especially when you're a junior living in HCOL area.
- I find our community's take on paying for IDEs interesting. We're now willing to pay 20, 100, 200 USD a month for AI subscriptions, but wince at paying that for IDEs that clearly add value and also save time. I'm also frugal, but Jetbrain IDEs have been easily one of the best investments I've made for dev tools.
- Give them decent pay increases and I'll guarantee you they won't leave.
- Learning what NOT to do is almost as valuable as knowing what to do.
- Are you trying to tell me those who take the most risk already have a safety net?!
- The article came across as alarmist while completely failing to provide the bigger picture of whether this is actually a bad thing or not. We instantly assume it's bad because it would indeed be awful for us in the US to live like that.
I'd be interested in knowing how these workers get by, is housing and other important things cheaper there?
Flexible employment is not a bad thing, in fact, it's great. What would be bad here is not being able to afford basic necessities in a system like that and this article completely ignore that side of the equation.
- I thought this was service where I could rent out a high powered telescope for a few hours, but rather you send in your own telescope. Still a nifty idea for those who love astronomy.
- I'm shocked, shocked! Well, not that shocked. Did anyone really think the subsidy on Claude Code was not going to come back to this?