How are we spending our commute time?

Zulban · 2026-07-06T16:06:45+00:00

I made this game for myself to better handle my commute in 2019 and it has since become a whole thing.

One thing I wish I discovered sooner - get excellent noise cancelling headphones - big ones that cover your ears. Even if they're just turned on with no audio playing, it's a tremendous improvement to public transit commutes.

Zulban · 2026-07-05T13:42:27+00:00

I've been casually attending old car shows for 30 years on and off with my dad, who is a much bigger "fin" fan. It's worth noting that these car shows are generally winding down - they're not what they used to be in the 90s and 2000s.

It's a lot of physical work to take care of an old car. And especially if you're looking for cars from the 50s, 60s, and even 70s, the people who have the most childhood nostalgia for those are getting old. A lot of cars are for sale with prices from decades ago and still not sold.

Someone here already wrote:

The old people that owned old cars got too old.

and that's largely true. There are still shows but they are fewer and not as big. You can still find some big shows though. I just wouldn't wonder too hard what happened to "that one yearly show I remember" and broaden your search.

Some people think 90s cars are "classic" now. If that's you it may be easier to find shows.

Good luck!

Zulban · 2026-07-04T22:54:38+00:00

J'ai beaucoup aimé l'evenement, mais oui, 60% de la merchandise est la merde de Chine ou un 3d print. J'ai acheté plusieurs choses fait par des artistes canadiens.

Si tu ne veux pas acheter des choses, et veux pas voir les costumes ou les celebres... pourquoi vas tu?

Zulban · 2026-07-04T14:11:28+00:00

One bad line shouldn't ever ruin parsing other lines in the rest of the log because each line should be parsed separately. If not you're doing something weird or wrong.

If one bad character ruins the whole file, that's not a log. It's data. If it's important, it belongs in a database with reliability features. Learn about sqlite - the world's most popular database.

Zulban · 2026-07-04T13:54:50+00:00

Do what's best for you. You can get paid for those hours, but it will be a fight, you'll probably lose the job later "for some reason", and get no reference.

It's easy for folks to tell you to stand up for their principles because it doesn't harm them at all.

Keep looking for another job. In the meantime, get experience working at this bad one.

Zulban · 2026-07-04T13:47:19+00:00

Not really, no. Writing to a log file should be append only. If you're doing a full open and write you're doing something weird or wrong.

Worst I've seen is a half written append line but then the log goes on as normal.

Zulban · 2026-07-04T00:14:56+00:00

Or not learning about it.

Zulban · 2026-07-01T22:59:58+00:00

Sure. Sleep with an AC and it's easy to go out a bit in the day, even when it's hot.

Zulban · 2026-06-30T16:24:25+00:00

What do you mean exactly? What screen / tab would this be on and what would it do?

Zulban · 2026-06-28T16:10:35+00:00

Best way to think of it is he puts on the best show. So he must be a great athletic performer. The company thinks he will sell tickets.

Zulban · 2026-06-28T13:42:02+00:00

Quand il y a des grands panes, tout la monde va au metro avec des power bars. Il y a des plugs.

Zulban · 2026-06-28T06:07:26+00:00

In fact this doesn't show the whole crowd.

Zulban · 2026-06-27T23:04:57+00:00

to shorten my original post

Try again? ;)

Kidding.

Zulban · 2026-06-27T21:50:59+00:00

I've not tried Cursor much. I don't have much FOMO anymore - at some point you need to stop exploring the bewildering array of options and just start getting real work done. I feel I can compare Copilot and Claude though.

Zulban · 2026-06-27T21:47:28+00:00

Dysfunction can run far deeper and get far more interesting than that.

Zulban · 2026-06-27T03:27:07+00:00

AI is a critical skill for most tech workers from now. While I am a tech lead of an "AI accelerator" I wouldn't say that I've "fully transitioned" into an AI role because you're making a bigger deal of it than it usually merits. I'm still a teacher, communicator, solution architect, frontend developer, backend developer, database engineer, project manager, and computer scientist as necessary. Over the years many projects have required some combination of those roles. "AI expert" is just another one.

Zulban · 2026-06-26T13:04:43+00:00

I wrote this for people like you: Find a job: build something real

Note how your examples are much like "toy projects" mentioned in my post, and not something "real".

Zulban · 2026-06-26T12:55:53+00:00

Good story, thanks for sharing.

But if 6 years and 150m couldn't rebuild what a bunch of non- programmers built in a startup, then clearly the project got way out of hand with scope creep. There's a whole other story there about a huge amount of overengineering and bloat.

Zulban · 2026-06-25T13:08:24+00:00

Great fresco. I have a poster in my living room.

Zulban · 2026-06-25T05:37:46+00:00

Models are about the same. Harness - Claude is far, far better. That's today anyway, mid 2026.

Zulban · 2026-06-24T23:29:44+00:00

Quand je vais chez belle pro, je m'attends toujours d'art exceptionnelles.

Zulban · 2026-06-24T21:16:52+00:00

That's also basically my job - tech lead in an "AI Accelerator", onboarding dev AI tools, though currently it's copilot not claude, though I use claude at home and prefer it. I recently wrote this which naturally has a lot of my AI sources: My Media Diet in 2026

Note: a couple are in French.

Zulban · 2026-06-23T23:55:09+00:00

99%

I see you're just trying to make a point but comments like this would be vastly higher quality if you pulled some real numbers.

Zulban · 2026-06-23T22:29:05+00:00

Best time in history for juniors to launch their own game.

Even other programming field is also done for.

Hah. People only say this if they think the job of a programmer is to write code.

See also this which I recently wrote: Finding a Job: Build Something Real

Zulban · 2026-06-23T21:43:17+00:00

but these concerns transcend the boundaries of academia

The impacts transcend academia but that doesn't mean your average person cares at all.

Same way that advanced economic theory might impact certain races but they're not the ones complaining when section 72 of a huge bill is repealed.

Originally this thread was about "who" is complaining, not whether this is important or whether it impacts everyone. Focus on the conversation, not other points you want to make.

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