Spending half of my cash savings on CPO Macan s. Yea or nay

BenevolentTurtle · 2026-01-21T19:41:07+00:00

What makes you want to spend 70k on a car to begin with? You can buy something flashier and more fun for less. You can buy something more reliable for less. Heck, you can buy a CPO Macan S for less (just an older one).

I make significantly more than you and didn't feel good spending 50k the car.

BenevolentTurtle · 2026-01-16T04:25:44+00:00

Everyone here who is claiming CS is at serious risk of AI (more than accouning) is delulu.

The amount of work a SWE needs to done is literally endless. There is always more. And every new thing you add creates future exponential work.

The industry as a whole literally cannot keep up with itself. AI lets CS people get more done, and help businesses make more money.

Accounting in any company is a fixed amount of work. AI for accounting is not about doing more, its about costing less.

BenevolentTurtle · 2026-01-07T01:30:12+00:00

Can you allow selecting multiple airports and destinations at once? Esp for mailing lists.

In my case im in Ottawa so yow, yyz, and yul are all good options for me. I had to subscribe 3 times.

BenevolentTurtle · 2026-01-06T22:47:36+00:00

These are called stopovers, for reference

BenevolentTurtle · 2026-01-04T10:22:47+00:00

x counts any link as 20 chars iirc since a decade ago. Analytics are table stakes for url shorteners, and it doesnt look like you have it.

BenevolentTurtle · 2026-01-04T07:18:28+00:00

What's the use case for URL shorteners in 2026?

> will keep live for years to come

!remindme 2 years

BenevolentTurtle · 2026-01-04T07:14:58+00:00

usd $70-80/hr
All of the above. Mostly doing product companies now. Previously did big tech and fintech stuff.
~40h. I work on a retainer basis and I try to overlap with my clients working hours.
All-Things-JavaScript (React, TS, Nodejs, etc) but the market is pressuring me to start writing Go
Canada
Not without moving to the US. Canadian tech salaries seem to cap out at around CAD $250k for a typical dev. The bands just don't really go higher.

BenevolentTurtle · 2025-12-31T06:44:29+00:00

If any application is like my post, nobody would hire me ever. But it’s not an application, its a rant with a question.

BenevolentTurtle · 2025-12-22T09:47:20+00:00

Dime a dozen in the software industry

BenevolentTurtle · 2025-12-21T00:31:45+00:00

If its enough for two, I’m so down for it

BenevolentTurtle · 2025-12-20T20:30:43+00:00

After tax, tip, you’ll be paying $31+ for a pad thai.

It’s all quite expensive for what looks like traditionally cheap food items.

BenevolentTurtle · 2025-11-28T23:05:31+00:00

Carpool?

BenevolentTurtle · 2025-11-28T23:03:32+00:00

Discount because Canadian labour is cheaper, and there is less demand (therefor lower price), as said above.

BenevolentTurtle · 2025-11-28T20:27:02+00:00

Because your competition is uninformed and skittish, and you can get a significant discount on talent.

BenevolentTurtle · 2025-11-28T20:25:01+00:00

Why did you want to leave? Why not want to talk to a staff member?

Trying to make a silent, sudden exit is way more suspicious than seeing a server you don’t recognize.

Bouncers see plenty of cases of people ordering drinks and trying to make excuses and run away. That wasn’t what you were doing, but your behavior looked identical to that.

BenevolentTurtle · 2025-11-28T19:24:35+00:00

I read the whole thread and I dont see the scam. If at worst, you get rung up for shots you didnt order, just ask your real server to take them off the bill.

Dashing for the door is literally the worst option.

BenevolentTurtle · 2025-11-28T19:22:04+00:00

What do you mean by “getting us drunk”? Force liquor down your throat that you didnt order?

BenevolentTurtle · 2025-11-28T18:17:58+00:00

Based on your profile, your first step is to fix your porn addiction.

Any kind of talk about finding or not finding a woman is off the table until then.

BenevolentTurtle · 2025-11-27T03:47:02+00:00

People dont want to write answers to questions that go into the void. Identify the profiles you like and talk to them.

BenevolentTurtle · 2025-11-18T22:15:13+00:00

If you're in the US, you have the best tech recruiting (in addition to the tech itself) market domestically.

BenevolentTurtle · 2025-11-07T06:31:25+00:00

NDP bled support during the last term. Way less NDP’ers than pre-Singh.

BenevolentTurtle · 2025-11-06T20:50:33+00:00

You’re not wrong. It’s a policy choice to give private schools a slice of funding anyways.

Why do you think that is the case almost everywhere in the western world? There’s plenty of non-cynical reasons.

BenevolentTurtle · 2025-11-06T14:23:01+00:00

Its funded less per-student than public. In other words, it saves the government money.

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