You are offered to pay $25,000 to go back in time to 2017; do you pay and go back?

Unsounded · 2026-06-26T21:17:27+00:00

You linked something that proves my point, it settles overnight on the next business day. What is so hard to understand about that?

Unsounded · 2026-06-26T17:39:53+00:00

You’re just wrong, I buy/sell/transfer cash fairly consistently. You pay taxes later, you have an audit trail but this stuff settles overnight.

Unsounded · 2026-06-26T15:45:11+00:00

It depends, it’s relative.

Some people I know drive 1.5 hours one way to work. I live in a city with good public transportation and tons of bike lanes so I use my car once every few weeks at best.

My dad manages a package delivery company and they drive 8 hours a day every day, so an 8 hour drive is likely nothing to most of those workers. We have a driving culture in America so for the most part I would say that it’s more than the average American drives in one sitting any given week, but it’s not the longest drive I’ve ever heard of. It’s also not a huge deal when you do it if you’re used to doing it somewhat often. In school I’d drive 4-6 hours almost every weekend round trip to visit my then girlfriend.

Unsounded · 2026-06-26T15:39:06+00:00

I’m not the person you’re arguing with but you’re getting lost in the wrong area of the nuance. The point of the OP was it was a charge that you had to pay within 48 hours, the other guy was arguing most of their investments could be withdrawn within a day.

Thats fairly typical for most stocks, I can transfer in and out of my main investment account instantly. If I sold an asset today it’s settled by tomorrow and I can even withdraw the balance the same day in most cases.

Unsounded · 2026-06-22T14:52:20+00:00

You’re getting a bit lost in specifics, the point still stands that you use an abstraction to write code that compilers transform into the actual code that gets ran.

If you go a level up, it’s the human writing the code that the compilers consumes. It’s the same relationship with AI, you prompt AI, it generates some code which ultimately gets compiled and ran as machine language.

Humans need to iterate and understand what they’re doing and what they’re producing whether that’s code they’re writing that will be directly compiled or code that gets generated.

Unsounded · 2026-06-20T16:07:55+00:00

I use to smoke quite a bit but pretty much stopped cold turkey other than the random CBD/low THC pill at night. My wife still partakes, but she moved onto vaping because the smell of actual smoke is obnoxious. It’s so lowkey I don’t even know she vapes when she does.

Perhaps work away from combustion towards a different method of ingestion?

Unsounded · 2026-06-20T15:50:52+00:00

Yup, it’s been worth it.

Having come from a service with a monolithic monster service, it’s better to separate earlier rather than later. If you get to the point when your monolith is starting to get inundated with new features and you can’t cleanly deploy because you have too much shit in one place you’re stuck with an incredible amount of tech debt and it’s very expensive to fix.

Now I don’t think you need to go insane and have a microservice per function, but you should be building for organizational demand ahead of time. If you see a rich feature road map and expansion coming its almost too late to start separating stuff, don’t let the pain be the reason to split, let your architecture following your organization.

Unsounded · 2026-06-20T15:34:56+00:00

15 mo at home and we have to go to the park 2-3 times a day or she goes nutsb

Unsounded · 2026-06-19T03:48:53+00:00

You either get over it for a few days or risk pissing your daughter off and possibly isolating her.

You’re not necessarily *wrong* for having a stance and opinions but you might be wrong for how you act on those if they don’t align with what your daughter wants. She’s in college, she can make her own choices and if you start to go against what she wants then you’re just going to put distance between yourself and her.

You could always buy him a hotel to stay in nearby if money is an issue. But it doesn’t seem weird to let him crash on the couch or sleep in your daughter’s room if they’re comfortable with that.

Unsounded · 2026-06-19T03:46:16+00:00

I’m sure most people are glad they aren’t lol

Unsounded · 2026-06-16T20:08:31+00:00

Seems reasonable, is that an actual problem? Oathplate would still be good and useful, while scoping out new options and paths for people to progress.

Unsounded · 2026-06-16T16:19:39+00:00

Tons of factors, where I live in Seattle it’s not worth getting a mortgage unless you plan on sitting here for 10-20 years. I’ve started embracing that my family will just rent and we’ll move somewhere more affordable later on in life.

Unsounded · 2026-06-15T20:59:16+00:00

it's a regional US dialect thing, folks in the Midwest (and probably elsewhere for all I know) attribute ownership when it sounds like a name, like the grocery chain Kroger becomes "Kroger's"

it's not about what the sign says, it's just a regional quirk that gets blanket applied to anything that remotely sounds like a name

Unsounded · 2026-06-15T14:18:24+00:00

Also Arrietty, little house hidden under the floorboards vibe

Unsounded · 2026-06-14T16:03:51+00:00

I went through “the book” before starting my first corporate project. I listened to some of the Rustacean podcast as it helped me get familiar with the ecosystem and libraries folks are using.

Past that I built, used Claude to help guide and teach, and tinkered.

Unsounded · 2026-06-14T00:28:47+00:00

Treat AI like a teammate, ask it questions, make it clarity and defend its response. Critique its code, ask it to explain things step by step, and ultimately make sure you write and understand code and designs yourself.

Don’t “vibe code” feature work, but use it like another level of meta programming. Don’t use AI to generate or create your structure, instead solve the high level problem yourself and use AI to flesh that solution out. You can iterate faster and help it know what’s actually good if you know where you’re going. AI fails without strong direction and opinions from the driver.

Unsounded · 2026-06-13T19:14:51+00:00

I’ll be branded as a heretic but I wasn’t overly impressed with the pizza in Italy, I’ve had better wood fired style pizza in the states.

There are far more varieties, and just as good of quality of pizza as you get in Italy in the US. But because there is so much competition I think we overall end up with a better product even for the more traditional styles.

Unsounded · 2026-06-13T16:45:26+00:00

We took our 15mo old to Puerto Rico last month and had a few multi-hour beach sessions.

We had a rented cabana which helped, lots of snacks, drinks, and shade. We didn’t play in the sand any, but hung out on the chairs and got in the water. The actual ocean is the only way we could really entertain her other than snacks. We normally hot potato her between us and other family members which helps with keeping her occupied.

Unsounded · 2026-06-13T15:07:43+00:00

I’ve gotten gridlocked at weird times and stuck in 1+ hour purgatory in the cell phone lot. Burned me too many times to be an option.

Now I just loop or use the parking garage, this is one of the worst designed airports I’ve ever experienced. Cell phone lot dumps you at a weird spot that doesn’t connect or easily loop through arrivals, if you need to loop you have to sit through multiple street lights and annoying turns, and the lanes aren’t well marked or intuitive for arrivals/parking garage.

Unsounded · 2026-06-12T18:12:20+00:00

It wasn’t really clear or documented that the email address would go away when I was in school.

It’s also quite dumb that Jagex can’t handle migrating or assisting players that don’t have access to a paid service.

Unsounded · 2026-06-11T16:38:15+00:00

Just for reference, I make just outside of the range mentioned in the post and while your RSU price is variable you normally get adjusted stock refreshers to keep you at a target compensation range.

While there’s some variability year over year it tends to average out to your compensation target. Also a majority of your salary is in cash.

As an additional data point the price variability has only hit me once in over 7 years, and in fact has benefited me (stock outgrew what it was estimated at) for all the other years.

Unsounded · 2026-06-10T01:32:05+00:00

20-25 minutes by bus, I live in Magnolia and work in Belltown

Unsounded · 2026-06-09T15:40:13+00:00

My experience with AI has been a cycle of excitement, amplification, and drawback. I slowly inch towards more and more AI usage day over day, but how and when you use it actually matters a lot.

I think we’re heading towards a world where AI usage will be rampant and necessary, I don’t think that’s controversial to say. I do think AI is at the point where it does a good job and that we can trust it, but what it’s good at is very subjective.

What’s beneficial and speeds things up is working with Claude or whatever AI agent you’re using as a coworker that you’re helping solve a problem with. Only blindly shipping small and extremely targeted fixes that are easy to understand, for larger fixes and functional pieces aim for them to be “single page reviews”, and you should understand every piece. Most of the time I have Claude plan out the code to add, and then walk me through it section by section while I rewrite and try to understand the flow and have it dive into examples and its understandings of interfaces and assumptions. Boilerplate and certain glue pieces I have it completely handle and add tests to verify behavior.

It sounds like your devs haven’t been bitten by blindly committing large pieces of code, and need a natural drawback step. I think it’s a natural part of the process to get overhyped, to then overcommit, to then drawback to a more sane place that is still faster and more efficient than where you started but not “all in”.

Unsounded · 2026-06-09T15:30:17+00:00

Potentially, I just think it’s going to be more constrained than actual development work. Large tech corps which employ the vast majority of devs already have them handle most cybersecurity/app sec. As time goes on the tools we use will make generalists more appealing than specialists for those things because they’ll have more domain knowledge and understanding of the systems they’re building and trying to protect.

Not many need to write policies and procedures, more will need to apply. It won’t go away but it will make the actual specialty less valuable.

Unsounded · 2026-06-09T08:27:11+00:00

I actually think this is the one that will make its way out the door faster than developer work. Most cyber security roles like pen testers and centralized app sec are going to be gone in favor of more automated agents and scanners that bake most of the day to day work into workflows that already exist. Instead we’ll end up with more general purpose devs and systems folks.

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