- jliptzin parentThere are some things it's really great at. For example, handling a css layout. If we have to spend trillions of dollars and get nothing else out of it other than being able to vertically center a <div> without wrestling with css and wanting to smash the keyboard in the process, it will all have been worth it.
- Not really sure what's so crazy about that. A brick and mortar shop will spend way more than that on renting a good location for their business when they have no clue whether they'll turn a profit. This is just the digital equivalent of that. People trust authoritative domains like vidaliaonions.com way more than something like vidaliaonions-direct.net and they're given more SEO weight as well. At least I know that used to be true; not sure how true that is today but I'd imagine it still is.
- I am probably going to get downvoted to oblivion for this but if you’re going to have AI write your code, you’ll get the most mileage out of letting it do its thing and building tests to make sure everything works. Don’t look at the code it generates - it’s gonna be ugly. Your job is to make sure it does what it’s supposed to. If there’s a bug, tell it what’s wrong and to fix the bug. Let it wade through its own crap - that’s not your tech debt. This is a new paradigm. No one is going to be writing code anymore, just almost like no one is checking the assembly output of a compiler anymore.
This is just my experience. I’ve come to the conclusion that if I try to get AI to write code that works and is elegant, or if I’m working inside the same codebase that AI is adding cruft to, I don’t get much of a speed up. Only when I avoid opening up a file of code myself and let AI do its thing do I get the 10x speed up.
- My friends and I have always wondered as we've gotten older what's going to be the new tech that the younger generation seems to know and understand innately while the older generations remain clueless and always need help navigating (like computers/internet for my parents' generation and above). I am convinced that thing is AI.
Kids growing up today are using AI for everything, whether or not that's sanctioned or if it's ultimately helpful or harmful to their intellectual growth. I think the jury is still out on that. But I do remember growing up in the 90s, spending a lot of time on the computer, older people would remark how I'll have no social skills, I won't be able to write cursive or do arithmetic in my head, won't learn any real skills, etc, turns out I did just fine and now those same people always have to call me for help when they run into the smallest issue with technology.
I think a lot of people here are going to become roadkill if they refuse to learn how to use these new tools. I just built a web app in 3 weeks with only prompts to Claude Code, I didn't write a single line of code, and it works great. It's pretty basic, but probably would have taken me 3+ months instead of 3 weeks doing it the old fashioned way. If you tried it once a year ago and have written it off, a lot has changed since then and the tools continue to improve every month. I really think that eventually no one will be checking code just like hardly anyone checks the assembly output of a compiler anymore.
You have to understand how the context window works, how to establish guardrails so you're not wasting time repeating the same things over and over again, force it to check its own work with lots of tests, etc. It's really a game changer when you can just say in one prompt "write me an admin dashboard that displays users, sessions, and orders with a table and chart going back 30 days" or "wire up my site for google analytics, my tag code is XXXXXXX" and it just works.
- My home is in the woods. Took me a while to switch to Starlink because it was difficult to get line of sight. Eventually, Xfinity pissed me off so much that I was willing to move heaven and earth to move to Starlink. I ended up running a 300 foot cat6 cable through a pond to the back of my property to the only place I'd get line of sight and it's been working great. If you have to pay someone to climb up a tree and mount the dish so it's above the tree line, it's well worth it.
- Yep, I knew this was Comcast/Xfinity just seeing the title. I had the exact same problem, for years. Intermittent disconnects for a few minutes at a time, multiple times a day. I must have had upwards of 50 technicians come to my house, all insisting there was some problem with the wiring in my house (there wasn’t) or the router or whatever (hardware all replaced multiple times including the wiring). Eventually after years of complaining that the issue isn’t in my house, they finally sent a bucket truck a half a mile up the road and the problem was fixed in about 30 minutes. It worked well for about a year and then started happening again. They started giving me the run around again. I had appointments scheduled for technicians to come, three times in a row they just never showed up. To “apologize” to me they said they would provide a credit on my account. The amount? 1 penny. I took a screenshot and saved it in case anyone thinks I am making this up. Luckily, by this time starlink was available in my area. I switched to that, turns out it’s much cheaper anyway and since then have not had any issues. The sooner Comcast goes out of business, the better.
Tip to anyone reading this: After I cancelled and closed my account, they billed me one last time for double my monthly bill ($200). No idea why, probably they thought they'd try to get away with it. I had little to no interest in participating in their customer support circus again, so I just went online to my bank and submitted a dispute of the charge. The bank instantly ruled in my favor and closed the case, issuing a permanent credit. I have never seen that before. They must be getting tons of Comcast chargebacks to do that.
I also submitted a complaint to the AG office and my local commission but I'm not expecting anything to happen.
- It’s still better letting Claude slog through all that boilerplate and skeletal code for you so that you can take the wheel when things start getting interesting. I’ve avoided working on stuff in the past just because I knew I wouldn’t be motivated enough to write the foundation and all the uninteresting stuff that has to come first.
- I signed up for one of those first time deposit offers and made a bet on the Super Bowl once, as I was going to a watch party and find it to be unbearably boring, so I figured this would make it somewhat interesting. I ended up winning, I think I tripled my money when including the bonus. Even though I won, I had zero interest in ever betting again. I got so much spam texts and emails from that Sportsbook over the next few years trying to get me to bet again it was insane.
My brother jokes and says I am in the top 1% of sports bettors now
- The average person should not even really pay attention to the category of the storm. That is mostly of scientific concern. It measures the maximum wind speed found at the relatively tiny center of circulation which may or may not have anything to do with how destructive the rest of the storm is hundreds of miles away from the center, as the article points out. That can also depend on things that have nothing to do with the storm itself, such as whether it’s impacting an area with lax building codes that is unprepared for storm surge. People should forget about that scale and focus on what local authorities are saying about the potential danger.
- Options can be used for speculation but they are also frequently used to reduce risk/exposure. Covered calls and married puts are just a couple of such strategies frequently used by retail investors. We shouldn’t ban those tools just to prevent political corruption. We should be enforcing the law when it comes to insider trading and market manipulation much more effectively.
- Why would Trump fire anyone? Voters have signaled that they no longer care how classified information is handled. Maybe they no longer know why classified information should be carefully guarded, or it's just not a priority anymore. We all remember the FBI's photos of top secret documents being stashed in the Mar a Lago bathroom and ballroom. Not only did Trump not face any consequences for that whatsoever, he actually gained votes compared to the last time he ran. Trump is behaving completely rationally here. He's not going to lose even 1% of his support base over this, so why would he take any action? It's pretty interesting that for all the decades of skepticism and distrust of the government I've heard coming from conservatives (2A to guard against tyranny, "government is the problem", etc), they're putting an awful lot of blind trust in this particular administration.
- Here is your buying power if you keep your money in cash: https://tinyurl.com/y6vthhxu
And here is what happens to your money in equities: https://www.officialdata.org/us/stocks/s-p-500/1900#inflatio...
You might get lucky and switch to cash from equities at just the right period of time to come out ahead, but you're better off just leaving your cash invested in equities and buying lotto tickets if you feel like gambling.
- I'm the same way. I just send myself emails when I need to save or keep track of something. I throw in some keywords that I'll know I'll search for in the future if/when I need to reference back. This works 95%+ of the time. For physical documents I need to save, I'll just keep it in a stack and periodically throw them in my scanner and save them in one PDF file and put it in a google drive folder for searching (using AI or otherwise) later. Most of these documents I never need again anyway, but at least they're there.
I know the organization people are probably horrified by all this, but I know myself well enough by now to know that I just won't stick to any system more complicated than this. The most important thing is that all that stuff is there, somewhere, if I really need it. I am essentially saving the effort up-front that I will 100% have to do in exchange for a little more effort later down the line which I probably won't have to do because I usually never need any of that stuff anyway.