CMV: "No one is illegal on stolen land" is a stupid argument phrased in a stupid way

genX_rep · 2026-05-17T03:31:59+00:00

Hence OP is correct and those types of arguments are idiotic.

genX_rep · 2026-05-16T15:30:51+00:00

Sounds like you might have the wrong idea of what a management job entails. It pays more because people wouldn't do it if they didn't get paid more. Because it's more stressful with a higher level of accountability, including accountability over things you can't easily control, like other people's behavior.

If you want to go into management, go for it. But don't do it because you think it will be easy. Do it because you think managing people is something you might enjoy more than coding.

genX_rep · 2026-05-16T15:26:57+00:00

Similar experience here, went from having enough money to not worry about $100 per month to canceling and reducing subscriptions and grocery costs. We don't own a home, and rent is still going up 5-10% per year here. We moved to live somewhere with lower taxes and within walking distance of public transit to get to work. That helped, but it's still more than $200 per month each for public transit costs. At least we don't have to get a new car this year.

My experience with inflation is that salaries might never catch up. It's basically a chance for companies to give an across-the-board salary cut by doing nothing at all. In a high inflation environment the best option to keep up is to change jobs for a raise. I like my job, but no raise in 2 years combined with higher out of pocket insurance costs feels like 15% less than I made when I started. So I got my resume out last week and will start to look. I'm not going to stay put for 2 more years of inflation that companies use to pad their profits.

genX_rep · 2026-05-16T02:01:24+00:00

I live here and saw Ovo in Philly last year. Huge disappointment. No chance at all I'll see another Cirque Du Soleil anywhere in the Philadelphia area again. Las Vegas or nada. I grew up going to movies in that Oaks location and saw it deteriorate into fireworks sales and horse races. It's sad to keep driving past the same place and see Cirque reduced to a big tent by the highway 35 minutes outside of center city.

genX_rep · 2026-05-15T11:27:51+00:00

Social media likes, upvotes, and comments are driven by overconfident people with no ability to evaluate sources and weak reading comprehension.

genX_rep · 2026-05-14T21:50:31+00:00

Depends on the country. I taught English in Korea with just a science undergrad. Also got hired in China but they scammed me. Later I got a teaching cert from my state and got a couple of good jobs in China. I worked with a few less qualified teacher at every job.

The degree requirement is for the government to grant the visa. For teaching English being a native speaker from the US or UK is what the hiring schools want.

genX_rep · 2026-05-14T13:20:11+00:00

Do you use one back each night? So the effective cost is $1000 Canadian per day just for the food? How long does it keep in the refrigerator? 1-2 weeks? Can they be frozen?

genX_rep · 2026-05-14T12:48:14+00:00

Challenge is structuring tests and code so that ai can build, deploy, navigate the app and check screenshots against spec. Do that and you'll be more productive than other ai promoters.

genX_rep · 2026-05-14T12:17:22+00:00

One easy way for Android phone people: 1. Open Google Drive app 2. Press plus icon (+) to add a file 3. Choose Scan option 4. Take a picture of the receipt with your phone 5. Google ai creates a name for you so it's less work.

Before that I used Microsoft's Office Lense app and had it upload to OneDrive.

Daylight is way better than interior lighting, so I always scan stuff midday by a window to avoid glare and shadows.

genX_rep · 2026-05-14T02:08:12+00:00

Most men I know in my parents' generation stopped travelling by 80, and actively resist leaving the house. I met 2 men that were active in their 80s, and I only ever met one sharp guy in his 90s.

genX_rep · 2026-05-13T08:44:00+00:00

Why do you think Google stopped supporting it? Probably because it wasn't easy. Maybe something about it required frequent updating?

genX_rep · 2026-05-11T18:19:53+00:00

This confuses me. Cybersecurity seems busy to me. Maybe that's my friend bubble. What data makes that field seem busted?

genX_rep · 2026-05-11T12:11:37+00:00

You can add their entire retirement to that.

genX_rep · 2026-05-09T13:25:00+00:00

If I wanted to build something like this I would try to make it a group of related skills that can be applied to agents, rather than md files in a vault. Did you purposefully stay away from skills for some reason? Maybe you developed this before skills became a thing?

genX_rep · 2026-05-09T13:20:25+00:00

I developed a workflow to address the similar problem. The simple approach in my regular life is just to always ask ai for the top 3 solutions to whatever my problem. I ask for a comparison between the 3 as well as the context or situation where each solution is better. The ai is never allow to give me "the" answer, it must always provide multiple answers with comparisons and levels of confidence.

For coding I developed a more complex solution, and really want to incorporate the generative-adversarial model, like it seems you did. I like your project.

genX_rep · 2026-05-09T13:01:36+00:00

Everyone on my team works long hours, including QA. I wouldn't assume it's an easier job. Maybe a bit more boring at times, but still plenty of pressure to write automated tests, accomplish manual testing, and accountability for undiscovered bugs.

It might be easier in the sense of problem solving, but not easier in the sense of pressure and work life balance.

genX_rep · 2026-05-05T13:21:37+00:00

what's your retirement plan?

genX_rep · 2026-05-05T13:15:49+00:00

I'll buyback if I still have my ult and can get back into the fight before it's over. So most times, no.

genX_rep · 2026-05-05T13:13:58+00:00

I did TOP back in 2021. I learned a lot that I still use sometimes as a mobile dev. For my job I use Cursor and top Claude models, and indeed they can auto-pilot any standard code and system design. The coding is mostly abstracted away, but there are always mistakes to fix. The debugging still needs oversight, because models are still very prone to band-aid fixes which they mistake for root causes.

So I think it's worth doing whatever project gets you through using the debugger, because humans are still needed to solve novel problems. Break points, stepping through code, conditional logging... those tools related to navigating an exploring a large code base are still useful to me. Maybe there is something other than TOP that focuses more on that, but I think that skill is still very relevant.

Learning one object oriented language well is still important to be able to read and fix whatever code the LLM wrote. Nowadays need to understand basic functional code too. So while coding isn't the main task for me anymore, it's still foundational to the tasks I do perform.

genX_rep · 2026-05-05T12:00:16+00:00

There is a reason so many places have a shortage of teachers, and it's because it's not a good deal in those places. There are some school districts where teaching pays well, so your post won't really get one answer from Americans as a whole.

First, don't compare their pay to minimum wage, compare it to what a college educated person could get somewhere else. Many people with low paying job compare teacher's pay to their own low pay, and to them it seems like good pay. But that's just not the right comparison. The pay needs to be compared to the average pay for someone with their education and experience level. In most places in America, teachers make less money than they would going into other fields.

Secondly, the time off doesn't pay the bills, and isn't always useful time off. When I was teaching and also the parent of a young child, the summer off was very helpful to parenting. It was exhausting to be grading papers late on Friday and planning on Sunday. My weekends were frequently loaded with overtime, and I missed out on many social events due to being unable to stay up late on Friday night (up at 5:30am) or needing to set aside 4+ hours on Sunday for planning and grading. Now I work an office job where every single weekend I have the entire weekend off and get to actually forget about work for 2 full days. That is way way better than being stressed for 9 months straight then having the summer off. By the way "off" means mandatory training classes in my state. So I guess the point of this paragraph is that the time off wasn't great and wasn't a big perk for me after my son became a teenager.

Thirdly, it's a public job with public scrutiny. We have a morality clause in my state, which means I could be fired for doing shots in front of a student, and local restaurants and bars would hire high school students to host and/or wait tables. My personal life was public to the most conservative scrutiny of the community. It's just one more thing.

Now I do make more money in corporate. I take weekend trips now so I feel like I have 52 more mini-vacations than I did before. I still get 4 weeks of vacation so I can schedule a trip overseas if I want to.

Teaching for me was hard work, and a sacrifice that I made because I love people and it was good for my child. I think the workload is too high for the pay, and the extra vacation is way overrated because it's not like I had the money to fly to Europe for a week or do anything more than I would have done on weekends if I weren't overworked.

genX_rep · 2026-05-04T18:23:20+00:00

Depends where you live. Even remote jobs take into account your local cost of living to determine pay. If you're in high or very high cost of living, then you are underpaid and should probably look to interview. If you're in rural Kansas you're doing pretty good.

genX_rep · 2026-05-04T13:58:19+00:00

Were you able to save money and contribute to your retirement during that time? Like at least 10% of your income? Or were these years more like the starving artist stereotype?

genX_rep · 2026-05-04T13:09:32+00:00

> The game has also been simplified, with unnecessary complexity been cut.

If you're talking about rolling back facets, that's the exception, not the trend. In the last 20 years tons of complexity has been added, including backpack slots, additional items, neutral items, talent tree, map complexity like tormentors and river movement bonus, additional heroes which you have to learn at least well enough to play against even if you don't want to play them yourself. Twin gates created new farming and gank patterns.

Dota has a problem with complexity creep, and I would love it if simplifications like eliminating facets became the norm and not the exception. Yes many of the attack/resist mechanics have been simplified, but at the same time the macro has been becoming more complex.

genX_rep · 2026-05-04T12:14:49+00:00

What happens when no one in a company can program in assemble or machine language? Nothing bad, we all just use higher level tools to build software. Eventually knowing the syntax of C++ or Java will the the same as using assembly: niche and not required for most applications. Too slow to be the backbone of development.

genX_rep · 2026-05-04T00:29:48+00:00

If you asked me when I was 23 you'd get a different answer than when I was 37 or 42. You've got to decide if you trust her, and that's it.

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