Ignore the people who haven't found out how to use ai yet or don't want to.
AI is a powerful tool. Depending on what I need I use chatgpt, in-ide agents, or a platform like Devin.ai.
I use it when it helps me advance my goals. I don't when it doesn't. Sometimes it misses the mark and I scale back and have it do a specific piece and I'll do the rest.
Sometimes I use it to analyze the code base in seconds vs minutes. Sometimes I use it to pinpoint a bug fast.
Ive solved customer issues in seconds and minutes with it vs hours.
I worked on a banking app with deeply domain specific data issues. AI was not very helpful on that team. My current work on consumer web apps mean my problems are more mundane and AI is a big accelerant.
Being and engineer means solving the problems with the right tools with the right tradeoffs as well. It's why I use an idea vs notepad, I use chatgpt for one-off scripts and "chat", and i use agentic workflows for big, repetitive, or "boring" low-stakes tasks.
I don't necessarily agree with labeling them drug dens. But certainly the hosts showed zero or negative effort in keeping the room clean and suitable to rent. They do deserve some shaming.
Cripes. When possible just do fiber and DACs. Faster and much cooler than 10Gbit. 10Gbit uses an absurd amount of power per port thus the need for all that cooling.
Folks have been saying that conduit is the way, and the fiber is the future, and all kinds of things like that for decades so far.
But the simple truth for all those decades is this: When there's already cat-whatever cable in the wall, it generally still works.
Decently-installed conduit (ie, actually-usable conduit) adds a ton of time and expense, which is why it is very seldom used for data circuits in residential structures.
The cable that exists is a lot better than the conduit that doesn't. And copper ethernet is bog-standard like MP3 is: It isn't the best in any technical sense at all, but everything supports it. Universal compatibility is pretty nice.
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So the ongoing cost of copper 10gbe is electricity. Someone else here in the comments says that a copper 10GBe SFP+ module can use ~3 Watts, or that a newer one can use about 1.5 Watts.
We can be generous by using the larger figure of 3 Watts, and 8 devices..
With 4 ports, eight 10-gig endpoints @ 3 Watts each, and $0.19 per kWh [delivered]: That's $3.28 per month, or about $400 per decade.
If we assume 1.5 Watt endpoints, then that number halves.
If we subtract the power consumption of fiber SFP+ modules (or media converters or whatever) to make the number a relative comparison instead of an absolute, then that figure goes down further.
Most folks don't care about network cabling these days. For many/most common consumer uses, wifi (with mesh nodes or whatevr) is quite good for streaming video and playing online games.
These people aren't seeing the whole picture, but that's not new: They simply don't care, just as most folks have never cared.
And they care less and less as our (rather amazing) portable pocket supercomputers continue to supplant desktop computing in normal Internet-connected life.
Some folks are even actively against wired home networks as a premise: When I'd hang out on Reddit, sometimes I'd see photos of well-orchestrated and fairly intense home network infrastructure, but the new buyer of the home just wants it all gone from their sight and is seeking advise about getting that accomplished.
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The house I live in right now has zero phone jacks (though the overhead wires still connect to the house before disappearing completely), and it only has 1 run of functional coax (which connects to the docsis modem).
I've added some decently-installed Cat 5e, which is completely adequate for what I'm doing. (That's been a trend for me for decades: When I live in a place, I tend to hardwire my stuff.)
But the next person probably won't care about that at all. If I move out and come back to visit in 5 years, the cabling I've added will probably have been erased.
And in the next place I live, I'll probably have to add more wire again. That's normal to me; again, I've been doing that for decades now.
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And that's OK. I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to computers and networking.
Most people are not that way at all, and most people never have been that way. Most people don't give a fuck about this stuff at all.
And this is all completely acceptable.
(I guess I could choose to hate it instead, but life is too short to hate this kind of thing. Acceptance is both simpler and better-productive.)
It's buried but an article link gives better details... HN link is sloppy writing.
Luis von Ahn, the billionaire cofounder and CEO of the language-learning app, revealed on Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s The Burnouts podcast how a job candidate treats their driver from the airport to the office can make or break their chances of getting hired—regardless of how impressive their résumé looks or how much they like the candidate in the interview process.
It may not have been completely avoidable though. What if the maximum number of people who would ever vote for blue is 30%
If that's the case then it's truly impossible to save them.
Your assumption is there is more than 50% of people who will vote blue or could be convinced to do so.
It's a terrifying thought that there could be such a deficit of empathetic people. But without any evidence you're just hoping based on your own beliefs that over 50% believe in blue like you do.
What if I'm not afraid of dying. But I'm just not willing to throw my life away unless there's decent evidence it could succeed and we could get above 50%
I notice that this thing you and others call empathy doesn't extend to the outgroup: if anybody doesn't subscribe to it, fuck 'em, is the general sentiment.
No idea! Well, I must assume good faith and believe you. To me it looks like you're labelling everybody you dislike as "probably a psychopath, best disposed of". I suppose that's consistent with saying they're not the outgroup, it's just a practical necessity or something.
In this instance of course what you're proposing is very mild: you think they should suffer one another's company - which you imagine would be a terrible experience. Unless you further imagine that they'd like it? But my impression was that you thought they'd have a bad time, and since they're your non-compassionate outgroup, you very compassionately don't care.
You read a bunch of things into what I wrote that simply are not there. I like plenty of people who would press the red button without hesitation. Their decision is their decision and my decision is mine. Might they “have a bad time?” Maybe. Maybe not. I’m certain I would have a terrible time, if I joined them in the majority.
They are indeed cringe worthy. Even my four year old cries when his spoon is the wrong kind of spoon. This does not make him spoon-phobic. It means he is a kid who has no control of his emotions.
A baby has even less understanding.
Everyone who is debating the homophobia of the baby is projecting.
>> Everyone who is debating the homophobia of the baby is projecting.
The gay men in the video were saying this about the baby. If its a joke? Then its a really sad one when people are filming their cringeworthy interactions with a newborn and then posting for the entire internet to view in order to get attention.
Welcome to the severe, rapid decline of Western Civilization.
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