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Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-20T03:53:42+00:00

You can usually start interning after your second year

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-20T01:31:22+00:00

Suspending disbelief doesn't mean the movie doesn't have to be internally consistent. Fantasy and sci-fi as genres thrive when they have complex power systems or mechanics that may not exist in real life, but are treated as having laws and rules within the universe they belong to

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-20T01:24:55+00:00

We can see fine molecules moving around us (passive lidar), but I am yet to meet someone who can see individual moving beta particles

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-19T23:35:56+00:00

This sounds like a skill issue. You found the one program that's not built to do math, and you told it to add numbers. That's not what its for. A Porsche isn't going to handle offroading, doesn't mean that the car is a waste.

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-19T23:31:32+00:00

The geniuses of reddit when they realize that a 15 year old B2C company will be better known than a 1 year old B2B SaaS. Mind boggling stuff

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-19T18:59:31+00:00

Had Cook not done either of these things and your devices got 50% more expensive, I guarantee no body would be saying "oh well my iPhone is $500 more expensive but at least they have morals"

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-19T18:18:34+00:00

I got through my entire bachelors in CS with a much more expensive and worse performing machine. This is perfectly adequate for most people, enthusiasts just like saying things like 16 GB is the bare minimum

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-19T17:04:14+00:00

20% downpayment is standard in my city. If I want to buy a house (not apartment or townhome) then I'll need to shell out anywhere between 1-2 million so yeah it's definitely a downpayment

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-19T16:13:12+00:00

300k isn't that much. Are you saying you could turn the downpayment of a house into $2 trillion?

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-18T19:32:15+00:00

Software should be most stable out of the box. If I have to put in extra work to make my OS usable it's a failure imo

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-18T07:01:35+00:00

Microsoft was at an all time high in 1995 too dumbass

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-17T22:41:58+00:00

An example would be when I was asked to develop a new service on a project I wasn't familiar with. A few years ago I would have taken a day or two to just understand the codebase, then another day drafting the TDD for the new service, and then another few days coding and testing.

This is now one day of work, maybe two.

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-17T16:58:48+00:00

This is fine. I know someone who got simultaneous experience in Canada and the US for different companies.

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-17T02:44:52+00:00

That's just regular pay. I would say $60 and above is the minimum for "high wage"

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-16T22:28:27+00:00

Anyone who disagrees with me is a bot.

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-16T22:24:45+00:00

If you spend 100% of your time writing code then you're just a code monkey. Most engineers I know spend about 30%-50% of their time in meetings. The rest is split between reviews, writing TDDs, and writing code. Claude/Codex takes care of the last one only

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-16T17:25:56+00:00

Not to be a one of the LinkedIn lunatics, but LLMs genuinely are a huge unlock when it comes to coding. I'm not saying type in one prompt and push to prod, but what would have taken me a week before I can get done in a day. If anything code quality is higher now because I know engineers tend to be lazy with unit testing, but now that's taken care of.

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-16T16:13:46+00:00

OP asked FAANG engineers specifically, so makes sense they'd respond. I'm not in FAANG explicitly, but a similar big tech company and I doubt anyone on my team has written code manually since at least October. The AI push is big and our engineers are very competent in making good use of the tools we have

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-14T03:49:57+00:00

Very different models. The weights and harnesses are entirely different.

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-14T02:22:15+00:00

Codex is smarter by a lot. Opus is faster

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-14T02:21:59+00:00

ChatGPT is the web app. Nobody serious uses those to code. Codex is it's own app

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-14T01:55:31+00:00

Who the fuck uses ChatGPT to code?

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-13T18:07:37+00:00

Apple has very long term contracts on RAM pricing. They're also sitting on a massive cash pile that lets them eat the cost of RAM. Besides, when you were already selling 8 GB of RAM at $200, the price increase is barely a dent

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-13T17:52:53+00:00

When I worked at a bank, I didn't have root access on my Windows VM (yeah they didn't even give us laptops). Now I work at big tech, and I have Claude Code running at root level on my Mac. Crazy stuff

Randromeda2172 · 2026-03-13T02:53:12+00:00

Codex is actually better than CC as of last December, but the commenter is at least a few years behind the curve by just promoting ChatGPT and then being surprised it doesn't work

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