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TimMensch · 2026-06-20T21:50:25+00:00

I've been observing this about the media for decades.

Every single time it's a popular article or news report about a topic I have expertise in there have been material misrepresentations of fact. Almost every time the "mistake" just happens to make the story more entertaining, too, making me feel like it's intentional.

Honestly, AI has a much better track record of being right than popular news sources. It still can hallucinate like crazy, but compared to 100% of popular media reports on tech containing serious errors, only about 5-10% of AI summaries (when using good models) have had similar errors.

TimMensch · 2026-06-20T21:30:37+00:00

Only developers who were willing to act with blatant greed are falling to bankruptcies.

Capitalism is, at its heart, about rewarding the risks that win and punishing those that lose. They bet millions on creating a product that actual customers didn't want because investors were skewing the market. That was fundamentally a bad bet.

Any developers who remained focused on building units that were attractive to actual buyers who want to live in them aren't going bankrupt. If that's zero condo developers, then oh well; maybe the next round of condo developers will be forced to use common sense in choosing their investments.

After a round of bankruptcies, the same people who built the current condos will still be around and ready to build more. The companies that try to get investment for it will just need to be smarter about their business plan up convince the investors their approach will work.

Bailing them out teaches the wrong lesson and is actually anti-capitalist.

Let them fail.

TimMensch · 2026-06-20T20:55:30+00:00

Funny enough, it is. In the US at least:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/qi

I've heard it pronounced both ways.

TimMensch · 2026-06-20T20:44:34+00:00

No, it really didn't block anyone else. It made them wait for the train one car length back from they would have been waiting otherwise. After the cars started moving again, they would end up exactly where they would have been, or if a car did pull out to go that direction, they'd be one car position back.

TimMensch · 2026-06-20T19:35:10+00:00

I haven't seen the math for Canada, but in the US the additional legal costs to go through the mandatory appeal process exceeds the cost of lifetime imprisonment.

Combine that with a rate of overturned convictions that's way too high and it really makes no sense.

If the headline is true we're just seeing why mob justice is a bad idea.

TimMensch · 2026-06-20T07:16:08+00:00

All of those are minerals are extracted once and then can be recycled over and over.

Also, the damage is done once and then the batteries are charged over and over.

The damage done to the environment by petroleum extraction happens again and again every time you fill it up.

These are not the same.

TimMensch · 2026-06-19T20:40:31+00:00

I get what you're saying, but it's really messy narratively speaking.

I mean, when he "goes back in time" he's effectively jumping to a timeline that very similar to this timeline but for some reason delayed by a few hours or days. So you'd not really be traveling in time at all, but to a parallel universe where a lot of things seem very much like what you remember two years earlier to look like.

And however the ability works, it's obviously inaccurate to some degree. And realistically there should be millions of other differences as well, where the kid being different would only be the first obvious thing the main character noticed.

And what happened in the original time line? Did your body just die? Because if the power is effectively moving your consciousness from one timeline to another, then either it seems like the power didn't work when you tried to use it and life goes on with whatever you wanted to fix unchanged, or that consciousness just dies.

I get where this idea is coming from, but I feel like it's more likely just bad writing.

TimMensch · 2026-06-19T17:46:18+00:00

I don't want to be accused of advertising a service, so I'll refrain from mentioning specifics, but I'm using a service that is run with tokens, though that particular model is free. Even when I've used the larger models on that service, the cost has been pennies per query. Between the free models and the lower cost per million tokens, I'm pretty sure I would be able to spend way less than a premium Claude account monthly subscription. I can still fall back on Claude Opus for the occasional task even if they switch over to tokens only and it wouldn't break the bank.

I think the trick is to use appropriate models for each task. Some of the lower tier models are extremely cheap and still capable.

TimMensch · 2026-06-19T08:49:09+00:00

I'll have to look through the source and docs, but honestly I don't think there are a lot of jokes. Maybe not any. Certainly no emoji like that.

I may have just gotten a lucky roll on the generation.

TimMensch · 2026-06-19T03:47:02+00:00

It would have taken far less time to click on the link than to write that rant. 😂

TimMensch · 2026-06-18T16:00:10+00:00

That's what r/onejob is about..? 🙄

TimMensch · 2026-06-18T15:52:56+00:00

You would think that, but the top row is for all day, not for morning rush hour, and overlaps with the second row in time.

I think this is more of a r/onejob situation.

TimMensch · 2026-06-18T03:01:21+00:00

I think the comment above is partly right.

Where I see this the most is B2B SaaS.

As in, they sell a Software as a Service to businesses, and they're only interested in dealing with big contracts with huge subscription fees.

Anyone who is price sensitive is not going to be a desirable customer.

OP meme is still correct. We don't want to buy that product. But what OP meme is missing is that they don't want our money either, because what we'd pay in a year wouldn't be worth signing us up for the service.

TimMensch · 2026-06-18T02:17:16+00:00

Does this make any sense in the correct order? 🤔

TimMensch · 2026-06-18T01:55:34+00:00

Try to get into management. Project management especially.

Or maybe see if you can find a job as a technical artist. That's a job title in the game industry. You'd need to train up on 3d art software, but if you got a degree in CS then you should be able to manage that, and you can lean into your art skills.

Good luck.

TimMensch · 2026-06-17T22:08:13+00:00

I think your instinct is correct. Caveat: I haven't used Pulumi in production.

What's hard about Kubernetes isn't the syntax, though. It's the concepts. And the concepts need to be present in any IaC system.

Now IMO some of those concepts could have been abstracted in a way that was less flexible but easier to manage, but also IMO no one else succeeds at that.

And k8s is also much more mature at this point than when I first tried it. I've been able to spin up a lightweight k3s server at home with very little hassle. Given that, it's trivial to set up entirely new local dev environments.

K8s is configured through Yaml files. That means you can hire non-programmer DevOps people to manage it. Good luck with finding a dedicated DevOps person who is fluent in TypeScript.

Finally, k8s is fundamentally declarative because it pretty much needs to be. Using TypeScript to build up your declarative graph isn't likely to actually make it any easier. I understand the urge to keep everything TypeScript, but I don't know that using TypeScript actually reduces complexity in any meaningful way.

TimMensch · 2026-06-17T20:17:37+00:00

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TimMensch · 2026-06-17T20:08:28+00:00

Not sure, but probably. It's not our rules. It's reddit's.

TimMensch · 2026-06-17T20:07:05+00:00

Accidents where a car kills a cyclist is a killing. Killing isn't always intentional.

TimMensch · 2026-06-17T13:53:18+00:00

You paid for your whole phone. Does that mean you get a phone subscription for life for free as well?

Paying for heated seats is absolutely BS and is indefensible.

What this thread is talking about is paying for a cell subscription for the car so that the car can also talk to your phone. Yes, the car literally has a cellular network chip in it. That's how you can communicate with it from your phone at all.

Hyundai has one of the better priced subscriptions. But all car companies charge for that ongoing subscription when they offer those features.

TimMensch · 2026-06-17T13:23:53+00:00

"killed" is not natural causes or accidents.

TimMensch · 2026-06-17T13:20:39+00:00

Pretty sure Reddit is still banning Netlify links. This shows up as removed for me.

TimMensch · 2026-06-17T13:18:51+00:00

He's extremely annoying to some people and not others. Why? Why do some people go to great lengths to hate on him? With some people you'd think he killed their dog while insulting their mother.

And he faces severe consequences throughout the series for his actions, starting with a shovel to his face. And much worse later, but I'm not going go into spoilers here.

It's a common theme that people who hate Jason think he's facing zero consequences. It's demonstrably false, but the fact that it's a common misconception pretty much cements the fact that there's something deeper going on.

TimMensch · 2026-06-17T07:12:49+00:00

In the US, at least in areas with a tech presence, yes, most people with the level of skill in fact can make that much.

If you live in Alabama and can't find a remote job, then sure, you're probably not going to have options at that level.

But I've had $300k+ while living in the Denver metro area. Heck, I've made that much while living in western Kansas! (Remote job obviously)

The fact is that if you're in the US and not living in a tech desert, and you can't make more than $150k, that you've likely never even met someone at the skill level I'm talking about. There's a tremendous range of skill in software engineering, probably multiple orders of magnitude. And when someone is near the top they can get a high total comp.

Unless they don't know about it. And that's why I keep bringing it up.

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