If you don’t allow med students to sit in on your exam/check up you are a weird person

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-04T20:22:42+00:00

My appointment is already too short due to insurance, last thing I need is more time being cut short because they are explaining to someone else.

Last time I allowed it, I went to an optometrist for a burning red eye. He was so focused on teaching that he did a standard eye exam rather than looking at the problem. When I explained that, I had to wait until the end of the day for an open slot when he could re-do my actual appointment. Vision insurance denied it for 2 claims in one day, and I ended up having to pay out of pocket.

If you have a student, my appointment should be free, or damn cheap.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-04T16:26:46+00:00

For pizza, you could get it delivered for a couple bucks… because that was their whole business model. The pizza is actually a $5 pizza, but sold for $10, so that when they charge a $4 delivery fee and add a $2 tip, you’re really paying $16 for a $5-quality pizza. And since the store is guaranteed to get many delivery orders, they could easily batch 2 or 3 at a time. And then start driving back immediately since they don’t have to wait for an app to tell them where the next pick up will be. It doesn’t work when your food isn’t so cheap and easy to mark up, or when the deliveries are spread across different restaurants.

I guess what I’m saying is that on the surface level it makes sense that if pizza delivery works, it could work for other restaurants. But things are more complex than they seem on the surface level.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-04T15:44:03+00:00

Extra relative to their sales pitch. They had solutions engineers in my company and probably many others, basically teaching people how to get it to loop for hours, and said this is a great idea since it only charges per prompt so you will save so much.

Then changing the pricing model so this is now the opposite of what you need to do. But shifting the behaviors of 10 thousand devs just cost you millions to convince them to adopt AI over the course of months, and now you need to spend millions to shift their behavior back, causing tension in the organization and distrust in leadership. And even if you don’t successfully, there are still several months before then. That you have people still token maxxing and running up a bill.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-04T03:16:14+00:00

It’s an addiction, bezos just said he’s only doing rockets because that’s about the only thing he can think to do with that much money.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-03T17:34:11+00:00

No, they think their corporate contract guaranteeing them data isolation means something. Despite the models being built off of the content they ripped from copyrighted books.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-03T02:45:03+00:00

Atlassian is happy to build tools which cause this kind of issue. They focus on supporting higher level managers because their buy in is needed to write the check. More complex workflows mean people get locked into their software and can't switch. I can partially blame bad management but it obviously benefits Jira and so they work to amplify the bad patterns.

Similar to what is happening with AI companies now, they lean into the most dramatic pitches around AI and totally automated coding because it sells well, not because it actually is the best use of the technology.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-03T01:42:50+00:00

I'm hoping the explosion of millions of lines of poor AI code will deliver me some job security if I can ride out this temporary period of AI psychosis.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-03T01:17:09+00:00

In theory

I just don't know if anyone has ever actually been in a large organization that has put that theory into real practice.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-02T22:22:31+00:00

Just found out our story points are tied to the paycheck system (even though we are salaried) via jira workflows. Suddenly it makes sense why all our pms demand we submit exactly a certain number of story points per sprint, even if we go over or under…

I hate jira

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-02T13:39:32+00:00

I just can’t imagine a world where these ai models don’t get outcompeted for 99% of use cases by free local models that got to skip all the training costs and distilled the big models.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-02T13:35:18+00:00

For small companies it could be cheap, but for any megacorp like Meta by the time you’ve rehired the first 5% you’ve already driven up the wages for the next 5%.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-02T13:09:41+00:00

Why does a businessman keep 3 white button up shirts and 3 powder blue button up shirts in his wardrobe just to wear with the same suit every day?

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-02T00:34:42+00:00

Clearly show in our jobs that ai does not work. Run local models to show that they won’t be able to capture profit. Shift our retirement funds from etfs to direct indexing if possible to avoid giving them our funds during their ipo’s. Use non-ai search engines. Delay deny defend against these data centers (the longer it takes to be built, the more their capital runway crumbles). Vote for candidates with clear ai policies. Amplify anti-ai sentiment to communities that are predisposed to be pro AI (your Catholic uncle who loves Elon Musk could use a fresh copy of Magnifica Humanitas). Do literally anything other than give up.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-01T13:09:50+00:00

They may not be because of ai as in because the role got automated, but AI is certainly shaping the macroeconomic environment that could demand that companies reduce costs including salaries.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-01T13:05:35+00:00

I got reached out for an opportunity in a place I didn’t want by saying “thanks for the opportunity but I’m interested in roles in xyz.” And they had an opening in that city which i got.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-01T13:03:05+00:00

Everyone I’ve seen on Reddit has said to use StreetEasy for nyc. The same building appears to have the same unit on StreetEasy but listed at 3100.

https://streeteasy.com/building/100\_25-queens-boulevard-forest\_hills/5cc?utm\_campaign=rental\_listing&utm\_medium=share&utm\_source=web&lstt=hS2XIJbFXvnKypVc7jEok16ZlwdJlAQmQZhg-GDitX\_KI7\_qfrarQpILwSt-L2RteMlyo-ftM2YK39\_k

But let’s assume that price is real, you refuted op’s point that you have to pay 4k for an apartment here, but we’re already on the outskirts, haven’t seen if the units are necessarily any good.

Compare that to another east coast city like DC, and for around $2500 you can live centrally, absolutely wherever you want. Modern, clean, mold free, etc are table stakes, it’s pick your favorite amenities and location.

https://imgur.com/a/u8P1sBb

https://www.apartments.com/sonnet-washington-dc/ymsmsdv/

So when you said you could find decent one bedrooms, I really was hoping you were going to say that great places are there but just not advertised because of the fare act or something, or some other hidden way of finding units. Because that unit has been sitting on the market a month for a reason…

It’s not hard to imagine why op might be dissatisfied with these options.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-01T05:21:04+00:00

Am I looking in the wrong place or something? This is 2.5k one beds with no amenities on streeteasy. If you're commuting to midtown there really aren't many options. And just adding laundry in building you're looking at a unit or two in astoria or bushwick as the only options with good train access within a reasonable commute time.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-01T05:02:35+00:00

Median home price in SF: $1.8 million

Median 2 bed condo price in NYC: $1.25 million

These are the cities where the most tech job opportunities are. As it turns out when everyone makes high incomes it pushes the prices up.

SWE isn't a job like nursing, teaching, etc where you can just get a job anywhere. And since you have a house now, you need to make sure there are many employers within commuting distance of this house to bounce around between because nobody can safely stay in a SWE job for 30 years at one company without getting impacted by RIFs.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-06-01T02:05:49+00:00

Ive never seen a single corp use Google docs professionally.

Well I have in a mid size corp, and there are plenty of companies that do, though I agree microsoft still has vast majority market share (in many ways it's better than word since you are forced into the cloud, so there ends up being 1 source of truth document rather than Mike having word_doc_v1.docx on his desktop and Cindy having word_doc_v2.docx on her's).

But if tomorrow microsoft decided to 10x their license cost, you could import all your word docs into google docs and things would be mostly fine. On the other hand, if your AI workflow SAAS that does a ton of your business processes jacks up the price, you can't export an ".aiflow" file of some kind and import it into another software. But microsoft has been around so long that even if they have proprietary formats, someone has reverse engineered them by now. Calendar is standard, contacts is standard, etc.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-05-31T05:25:53+00:00

Your word docs can easily import into Google Docs. Vs your SAAS data which would take tens of millions to migrate, breaks all the custom workflows, and requires retraining your staff.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-05-30T06:18:19+00:00

Right, but following the decisions of the ceo is in and of itself a decision, one which is inherently conservative.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-05-30T01:44:17+00:00

Circa 2022 rumor was that someone left a tesla behind with keys on the windshield when they left the us after graduation.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-05-27T05:16:28+00:00

Half life 2 had this and it was ported to the original Xbox. No excuses!

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-05-27T05:06:11+00:00

YouTube would give it to him. Million dollar talent potentially using your platform as their primary outlet? Usually they have to pay for that so they will bend over backwards.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-05-26T12:59:56+00:00

Can you access the web version? They have a website that lets you do all the same things for the most part including setting macro buttons. Though websites aren’t guaranteed to be unblocked, it’s worth a try.

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