I turned a hobby into a career. I wouldn't recommend it. You lose the love for the hobby and the career doesn't match the hobby since you're mostly doing what other people need to do, not what you want.
I’ll just throw in a counter example. I turn 50 in two weeks. I programmed for the love of it and eventually turned it into my career. Maybe it hampered my love, a little, maybe. But the job and the passion are still different. I still write software on nights and weekends. But, maybe I’m a weirdo.
Hopefully this career will still be here until I retire. If not, I’ll try to adapt, maybe to something more hands on.
This is very insightful and also aligns/overlaps with the rather unpopular don't follow your passion mindset. one can still find some work that's reasonably enjoyable even when it's not your hobby or passion; just that such work takes a while to find and might not last forever so you'll be back to square one.
True, focusing on salary will only guide you towards a job you will hate. If I had the opportunity to do it all again, I would work towards a caereer where I had more interaction with people rather than a computer screen. It's something you might want to think about.
I'm with him on the connection of heart disease and sugar. The amount of sugar we as a society ingest is excessive. It can't be healthy. But I can't get behind the idea of an industry wide statin conspiracy. There's a lot of here-say in this article. If all the studies are wrong then the for and against studies are wrong equally. How can we even trust anything?
This seems to me to be a case of "It's true because I say it's true"
Avoid suspiciously low-priced bargains, give it a good several days of solid memtesting (I used to use Memtest86 and Memtest86+, and Prime95 for good measure) and you should be fine.
I feel this is going to be a short war. The war will be settled long before the November elections. The way I see it, there's going to be a "deal" and the administration will call it a win, "THE BIGGEST WIN EVER!" But I'm an optimist at heart. Keep calm. Think hard before you make a move.
It's going to be a short time until we see the newest version of the "Mission Accomplished" banner, I'll give you that. But the length of the war depends more on the power groups that rise up in Iran's wreckage. We don't seem to be helping up any friendly group, so that's not giving me much hope.
Why do you feel this way? Did you also feel Iraq would be a short war? After all it was really no trouble gaining air superiority and replacing any nominal authority with our own.
I’m totally open to theories of how America and the world at large will recognize a new Iranian leadership, but as is the strategy seems to be “create a power vacuum and pray”
The administration has said that they don't want regime change so that leaves just about anything as a win for the US. I see a big push to destroy the nuclear weapons material and capabilities. Once that's done, the US is out. It's a hard goal but it's the shortest way out.
Well, the news is reporting that the US is going to deploy a third carrier to the Middle East. Will it really be a short war? Or will it take a long time to destroy the remaining elements of the regime on the ground?
No, I don't see it. Current COBOL is running and meeting the needs. Rewriting the code would be a massive venture but even if Claude is able to map and rewrite the code there is 0 chance it can be trusted without major and expensive testing. Additionally, dealing with the new hardware that will be needed would be a major point of pain. Claude will help but why break something that's working. The better path will be to do a new needs analysis and then use Claude as one of the tools to make the transition. But the biggest block is getting management to pay for new code when the old code is not broken plus there is a chance of making things worse by doing the rewrite. Why would management take that risk?
Yup, my experience has been that vibe-coding is very time-consuming. It reminds me very much of how LLMs are great at creating mind-blowing images, but you get what you get. Once you decide that you need to modify the image you get, it becomes a time sink. You might be able to change it and get what you need, but there is no guarantee and it's a never ending task.
The same thing happens with code; you may get great results from your prompt, but trying to customize it will drive you nuts and you may never get what you want.
Maintenance is another hurdle. How do you maintain code you might not have the skills to maintain?
Vibe-coding may reduce software creation time, but it's not taking over software engineering. The SaaS business is going nowhere. Most people, by far, will continue to rely on someone else for their software needs. But be very aware that the software business will change. We are seeing that already.
True, it's the reason why most items aren't recycled. By far most items are buried or burnt rather than recycled. Our economic system is setup to minimize the manufacturing costs without considering disposal cost unless it's mandated. I don't think recycling will every be a real thing unless disposal costs become part of the overall price of manufacturing an item. Something that's mostly impossible unless it's mandated and people decide that trash is unacceptable or at least needs to be greatly minimized. Thinking about it, maybe at some point disposal cost will become so expensive that people won't buy new items unless sellers pay for trashing them.
I wrote a script that set an X countdown time to shutdown. The script gave a warning at five minutes and 1 minute until shutdown. Once I set it I could not stop it. It would load automatically at boot time. It worked rather well until I decided to stop using it. I don't have a solution for giving up. :)
Yeah I don't think any tool can fully solve this – it's ultimately a willpower thing.
the tool's job is to add friction, not to be unbreakable. Even if you bypass it sometimes, if it stops you from staying up late a few more times per month, that's a win
Intereting that Taipei 101 is used. The 101 is reminiscent of an introductory college course. So Taipei 101 is just the beginning. There should be more challenging climbs to come in the future.
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