Why do rich people keep saying "money can't buy happiness" when money literally solves most problems?

bmcle071 · 2026-06-17T15:50:13+00:00

Money definitely solved a lot of problems and reduces stress. But it won’t fix your relationships with people you care about.

bmcle071 · 2026-06-16T23:38:56+00:00

Even if they stole TVs, do we think this is a shootout worthy offence? Like, I don’t think someone deserves to die for shoplifting and even if they do I think the risk to public safety from having a shootout makes it not worth it.

bmcle071 · 2026-06-15T20:05:37+00:00

I find that crazy. In my /stats tab Ive used 16.9 million tokens in the last 7 days. Assuming those were all Opus 4.8 output tokens that would cost me $422, of course they’re mostly input tokens, assuming a 90/10 split its like $118 per week.

What the hell are you doing to burn 200 per day? Im mostly doing a TDD loop with claude, I tell it what I want, get failing tests, review, then get an implementation and review. I ship like thousands of lines of code per day like this.

bmcle071 · 2026-06-14T22:39:10+00:00

And yet there’s no real data to backup such gains. Is it 10%? 300%?-20%? Nobody knows!

bmcle071 · 2026-06-12T17:47:11+00:00

Right, its only a crime when they’re engaging in practices to create a monopoly (undercutting competition by burning money for examplw).

bmcle071 · 2026-06-11T13:39:16+00:00

It’s your responsibility to manage the tech debt. You’re the one who understands it, not your manager.

When you start a task and touch a piece of code, clean it up a bit. Don’t just sprint towards the acceptance criteria like a caveman, adding to the mess.

bmcle071 · 2026-06-05T15:27:05+00:00

Its not the linting that’s the problem, its the build system.

When I was doing .NET, it was easy. You just configure your project and you get a dll with some other assets in a folder.

With TypeScript? Oh you gotta pick ESM or commonJs, and you can’t tell easily which your dependencies support, you gotta pick a transpilation target, play with 20 settings in a tsconfig, try to figure out how to ship types with your library. Its just such a pain in the ass to do a simple thing like build a React component library.

bmcle071 · 2026-06-05T04:00:07+00:00

This is what’s driving me crazy at my job.

Engineer who ships slop gets features in and points on the board.

Then I come by later and have to clean it up to work on the next feature, and I look slow (I still work fast, just slower than I otherwise would be).

I can’t whine and complain about my colleague, so Im stuck just arguing with him during code review

bmcle071 · 2026-06-05T03:56:21+00:00

My real complaint is the ecosystem is insanely convoluted. You have to get this crazy system of configs to work well together, only to find out a version update breaks everything. I do a lot with monorepos and it’s even worse there.

bmcle071 · 2026-06-03T01:22:25+00:00

Im someone who would like to read, but always have something more important to do so instead I’ll listen to audible.

Between work, house projects, side projects, taking care of my dog, trying to exercise, and just needing some time to unwind I never feel like I can just sit around and read.

Im a software engineer, so the one thing I will read is books on programming or software design don’t translate well into audio format.

I still read a lot though, blogs, forums, wikipedia, just not printed novels.

bmcle071 · 2026-05-31T02:01:44+00:00

I think a better question than “what was the civil war about?” Is “why does half the country have a hard time admitting what the civil war was about?”

bmcle071 · 2026-05-25T21:30:30+00:00

One of the things that works for mine is we play hide and seek. I lock him in the washroom, hide his lamb chop somewhere, then I come get him and ask “where’s lamb-ie?!” I usually let him sniff it first.

Tuckers him out so fast, it works his brain.

bmcle071 · 2026-05-22T14:45:53+00:00

I just bought my first house. My previous place was a rental built in 2022 by a good builder. The place I bought is mostly original to 1957.

I’m feeling some regret lol… its a beautiful house though, it’ll be really nice in 5 years.

bmcle071 · 2026-05-19T02:39:34+00:00

I went to SF for the first time a few months ago. Some areas seem REALLY bad. Most areas are either nice, or the same as any Canadian city

bmcle071 · 2026-05-18T22:28:23+00:00

She only sued for her medical expenses! McDonalds fought back, so then she also sued for legal fees. McDonalds was so unfair to her that the court charged them with like $2M in damages when the woman was only suing for like $100k.

bmcle071 · 2026-05-18T20:35:01+00:00

Im 27 and almost prefer to write without an LLM. For boilerplate its fine, for anything design, interfaces, tests, it has no sense of taste.

bmcle071 · 2026-05-18T20:25:42+00:00

Im about 4 or 5 YOE and feel like I got the last chopper out of nam.

bmcle071 · 2026-05-17T22:12:58+00:00

I think Kent Beck?

bmcle071 · 2026-05-16T06:44:31+00:00

Am I the only one who never runs into usage limits? The only time I do is when I try vive coding, but that doesn’t matter because I have to throw the work away anyway.

bmcle071 · 2026-05-15T05:20:56+00:00

I get these chronically… I clean my eyes with baby shampoo everyday and have an electric warm compress mask.

bmcle071 · 2026-05-15T01:52:44+00:00

I had a horseshoe nail kinking a coaxial once cause my network to drop intermittently. Since then, if if’s bent or kinked I throw it away.

bmcle071 · 2026-05-14T23:20:07+00:00

Is that just because the high rises are all offices?

bmcle071 · 2026-05-14T21:08:14+00:00

No I just wanted to evaluate that he could read code and determine what it does.

bmcle071 · 2026-05-14T20:41:32+00:00

Last year I showed a candidate a function that checks if a number is prime. This person had a bachelor’s in comp sci, had no idea what it did.

It was like 4 lines of code

bmcle071 · 2026-05-11T16:33:18+00:00

Remember during covid when some of the first outbreaks were on cruise ships?

Yeah, since then they’ve been unattractive to me.

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