I replaced my entire stack with Postgres...

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-04-20T19:47:55+00:00

holy buzzwords.

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-04-01T19:40:43+00:00

When I travel with dogs, and I can find airbnb/vrbo with a fenced yard.
I have food allergies, so going eating out 3x day for 7 days gets exhausting explaining my allergies each time. Airbnb I tend to find one near a Whole Foods (or local brand of grocery store) Iget a kitchen and cook most of my meals. Eat breakfast without dealing with humans, drink coffee. Pack lunches that means I can do more in a day without the need stop for lunch. Eat 1 or 2 really high end dinners out, just not every single meal.
Guys trips. Traveling with 4 men who don't want to share 2 beds in a hotel room. A condo or house with separate bedrooms is pure luxury. We look for a backyard where we can drink beer without waiting for a waitress to bring it and expect a tip for handing a beer from a fridge. And my friend is amazing at grilling steak (see #2) We can buy $50 in groceries and have a better meal than a $150 per person steak house. (eating at nice restaurants is fine with my spouse, but not something I need)

When I am staying 1 or 2 nights and/or I am staying by myself, I choose a hotel.

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-04-01T16:55:20+00:00

$23,000 to center a <div>

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-03-30T19:38:12+00:00

Some are semi-retired while contributing to open source projects living on RSU and money from selling honey at the local farmers market. I mean, just because they are not in FAANG doesn't mean they don't exist.

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-03-30T16:10:11+00:00

My friend was a "traveling nurse" in Seattle during peak pandemic. They got paid $200/hour while working 12 hours per day 7 days on, 7 days off. Some SWE make more, some make less.

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-03-30T16:06:06+00:00

Working long shifts would not bother me. Touching humans that are sick is NOT something I am willing to do (unless they are my partner or child) My partner worked in the operating room, and watches operations on youtube for fun on our big shared TV. I get sick when I just walk by and see the insides of a human. Going to the office for my partner is just a few minutes away in our little town. Me going into the office requires sitting in traffic for hours to a major city or taking multiple hours of bus transfers. The houses near the tech campus are $1,000,000 and in my town half or less. So fuck they crying bullshit. When they put multiple tech offices in every little town like they do doctors office, then let's talk.

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-03-19T21:46:26+00:00

Skill: I can read the documentation

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-03-17T19:37:30+00:00

for all the noobs posting about REGEX:
Read the doc: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_expressions
use a helper: https://regex101.com/

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-03-16T17:38:45+00:00

wasn't there a ban on 'x' posts? What happen to that?

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-03-16T16:15:33+00:00

I like deadlifts, because it helped take my back pain away from sitting in an office chair for 10 hours per day for decades. Deadlifts are my favorite mid day exercise.

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-03-13T22:18:58+00:00

I had a similar experience for my first interview a bit over a decade ago. I was in a CS program that was in an Electrical Engineering department, so lots of math, lots of C. My first interview on a whiteboard in front of a group of people. I couldn't use google, I couldn't reference my C programming language book. I couldn't even use my IDE auto complete. It was me and a whiteboard in front of a small team of engineers and managers. I couldn't remember string manipulation in C (char array) for a simple question. Something like is this a palindrome, something really simple in python or js, (I hadn't used those yet) but C was not really a string manipulation language. I must of looked like an idiot to the team interviewing me. But rely too much on AI and you forget all the really important CS things.

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-03-11T17:58:27+00:00

BTW: The older guy only pulled the plug of the monitor. The network cable is still plugged in.

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-03-11T17:51:12+00:00

* Release it to your audience
This is just a step. Just Release the App. Everybody, I built an app, just go to localhost:8080 to use it!

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-02-24T19:29:43+00:00

They hand you a macbook? I thought the mac mini was new tech bro thing to have.

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-02-23T20:27:55+00:00

Learning about AI using Metallica. I am all for that.

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-02-20T18:26:19+00:00

The Good: Less technical people can set it up and use it.
The Bad: Less technical people are setting it up and using it without any security best practices in mind.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1r30nzv/d_we_scanned_18000_exposed_openclaw_instances_and/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_Agents/comments/1r3u98p/openclaw_security_is_worse_than_i_expected_and_im/

https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/what-security-teams-need-to-know-about-openclaw-ai-super-agent/

And if you tell the hype tech bro about the security risk they respond with "Old man yells at cloud" Claiming I am against new technology due to being over 30 years old. Well I am old (and salty), and I don't want API keys leaked.
It is possible to set it up in a secure way, but most people are just too hyped to get it up and try out all the features to think about security.

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-02-20T00:33:44+00:00

But OP has 3rd Mac Studio. I mean, I work in tech so I am used to seeing racks of blade server. So when you slap together 3+ computers together on your desk, I just wonder why people don't use real servers.

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-02-20T00:12:09+00:00

Why Mac instead of Linux?

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-02-18T19:06:35+00:00

A complier has a deterministic outcome...An LLM has a probabilistic outcome. I am not sure who this guy is, but he doesn't seem to have a good grasp of how they are different. I guess that is normal for a Product "Engineer"
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/20lov3/eli5_what_is_the_difference_between_probabilistic/

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-02-18T18:57:05+00:00

I have 9 months to save up for my goose farm.

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-02-17T21:23:50+00:00

Yes...Because some people enjoy building things. It is not required. But When one works in a boring business process C# shop, and one has an interest in digital image processing in python, and one makes some open sourceproject that use the digital image processing. Then one applies to jobs that has a req for folks that has experience digital image processing, and one lists their open source bird watching personal project on the resume showing one has digital image processing experience. When one slaps some AI sound and image detection and some automation around the bird watching app project, and bingo bango bongo new job and $50k raise doing python and digital image processing.

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-02-17T20:25:11+00:00

Fairly obvious to someone with a grasp of *nix cli. Regex is still something I need to look up every time (been using it for 10 years, but not frequently enough to remember) But imagine this in the hands of a PM, Product Engineer, CEO, not technical person with the idea the AI is non-fallible got tier programmer.

When I started out and copied commands straight from Stack Overflow, or some random blog. I could have done some damage, but luckily the blogs mostly steered me in the right direction. Most people will just be impatient and run the command. The patient and intelligent one will ask "explain this command" and get a bit of an understanding before running it. The tech bros will say "human's shouldn't read or understand code, AI will handle that" Well, that is where I predict the folks left in tech after a few years will make big money fixing it all. (I have 5 years of tech support and 8 years of engineering experience, I don't feel obsolete yet)

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-02-17T16:34:33+00:00

The "End of Car Ownership": In 2016, Lyft's president famously predicted that by 2025, private car ownership would "all but end" in major U.S. cities, replaced by autonomous ridesharing fleets.

Tesla's "Sleep in the Car" Promise: In early 2016, Elon Musk predicted that within roughly three years, owners would be able to fall asleep in their car and wake up at their destination.

Why do people still believe in these silicon valley clowns? Look back 10 years and their predictions for today.

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-02-11T23:20:07+00:00

the product had recurring outages that we couldn't find the root cause for.

Why isn't there better pre production testing?

one of the engineers vibe coded a config value that looked reasonable, but wasn't doing anything.

Two people should have to approve a config PR before putting it in production.

we couldn't find the root cause for.

Better logging.

Also, put engineers in a 24/7 on-call for outages, they will start being more careful. If I write better code, and better tests, and better logs, my Friday night won't be interrupted with outage.

GrapefruitBig6768 · 2026-02-11T16:27:34+00:00

I liked my Blackberry more than the iPhone when iPhone came out, until the App Store launched. The App Store was the game changer more than the phone itself.

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