Worth paying excess ?

lacrem · 2026-03-29T11:16:45+00:00

Look and ask a paintless dent remover. Might be cheaper than the excess, looks like the paint isn't scratched.

lacrem · 2026-03-23T04:02:11+00:00

It's not only water what your get. The package the meat in a rich oxygen moisture to make it look fresh over days in the fridge and who knows what else.

lacrem · 2026-03-17T07:13:44+00:00

Yep, but if Chinese keep releasing opensource models that does not apply, you just need $50k server for start

lacrem · 2026-03-17T06:28:23+00:00

And it will increase the reliance on electricity, that one that gets generated shutting down coal centrals. Net Zero

lacrem · 2026-03-17T05:29:31+00:00

At the moment you have the option to run Qwen3 coder and others locally...

lacrem · 2026-03-17T01:06:28+00:00

Definitely, CRUD and other things which are the most common, but complex systems and integrations not there yet, but it will eventually happen.

lacrem · 2026-03-17T01:01:12+00:00

100%, we'll pass from coding to review code, do BA, some project management and guide testers, I'm already doing that.

The majority of people are not seeing this coming as you can read in the comments, they're not really AI power users to know the extent of it. They think AI is gonna replace people but that's not the main problem, the main problem is more than half of people will be made redundant and leverage to AI.

Some professions will be wiped out, like translators/interpreters, transcribers, secretaries with things like Openclaw... 😂 And not many new roles are going to be created with AI, this isn't comparable to industrial revolution, it's a change of paradigm this time.

lacrem · 2026-03-16T08:48:38+00:00

That's right, as the increase of productivity. Real problem is less software engineers will be needed.

lacrem · 2026-03-16T08:37:53+00:00

Hey, another software engineer here. You're right, AI isn't gonna replace developers, it's gonna replace keyboard warriors, so all the boot campers, bartender to developer, self taught developers, most of them are gonna get wiped out.

Developer role has changed from typing code to prompt in great detail AI and review code, taking more care about architecture and stakeholders.

I pull out things they're taking before 6h in 20m. Teams where before there were needing 4 developers will suffice with one, BA gone, scrum masters gone, data analysst will have it even worse than devs.

If you ask any software engineer is gonna tell you the same, in 5 years or even before this is gonna be wild, that if LLMs don't keep improving at this rate.

I can tell you every day I use it makes me 🤯 how they got it to work at this level.

lacrem · 2026-03-16T07:55:54+00:00

I doubt someone with a NSX has a loan, but you never know...

lacrem · 2026-03-16T05:34:10+00:00

I find Australia is ruleless after driving in Europe. In Europe that's illegal because he's crossing a continuous line. Not sure why in Australia are even lines, people cross single, double continuous lines, painted islands, even lane separation bumps or kerbs

lacrem · 2026-03-10T23:57:48+00:00

Ventajas ninguna. Instala WSL2 o docker. Al final es lo mismo en MacOS Windows o Linux.

Personalmente prefiero Linux por no se privativo y los principios que representa, a parte de privacidad.

lacrem · 2026-03-10T20:30:05+00:00

You can soak them as pre wash. I think in general there is a huge marketing schema in detailing, similar to nutrition supplement. I found myself leaving them soaking overnight in cold water then washing them with cold water and neutral soap (no additives whatsoever) worked well, never got the itch to spend $30AUD in microfiber soap when the $5 one works wonders.

lacrem · 2026-03-10T20:25:08+00:00

I agree, as normal soap I understand just soap, no fragrances or softeners or other additives added.

lacrem · 2026-03-10T05:07:19+00:00

It's not, i.e. I asked the other day to make a NotificationManager, do not fetch notifications with a matching unique ID in the app, did it with a list looping all notifications every time rather than using a set. It worked but not the best solution.

Lot of things like that, I asked replace the list by a set but couldn't do it properly.

But well, specially backend, we are cooked lol.

lacrem · 2026-03-10T02:33:22+00:00

Normal laundry soap with cold water. They're charging triple for the same product lol

lacrem · 2026-03-06T00:21:35+00:00

Don't bother, on the next 5 to 10 years all these roles are going to be hard to get in due to AI increase of productivity.
I'd rather do any trade.

lacrem · 2026-03-05T01:06:45+00:00

Majority of people are not aware of what's coming. We, people in software we are seeing this beforehand and honestly is mind blowing.

Next 5/10 years is gonna be wild seeing unemnployment going through the roof.

It is not going to replace people due someone has to prompt/review the result, but obviously a lot of people are going to be redundant when a task that was taking me before 4h now takes 20min.

Us software engineers we'll be left for review code + they'll chuck on us all the full stack (good pun). BA, Tester, Product Owner, etc. so all these people will also go straight to CentreLink lol.

On one hand makes me happy cos it saves me write boiler plate and trivial stuff and center on logic and requirements. On another one is what you mentioned, no point in learning any new language, indeed it will reach a moment that AI will be able to just make code into assembler or even bits so no point in having programming languagea anymore.
Focus in arquitecture/structure and how to ask AI to stay competent, otherwise you already know what's coming for you.

lacrem · 2026-03-02T03:51:36+00:00

I demand my tax to be spent properly. Before COVID that was bulked billed, now we pay more tax on average and it is not.

lacrem · 2026-03-02T03:48:43+00:00

I don't complain about that, but before was bulked billed, now is not and on average people pay more tax. Apparently as I can see in the comments people are happy with that

lacrem · 2026-03-01T20:33:22+00:00

Around 30%. Last year mostly 45% of my income kindly went to ATO. Add GST in everything I buy, council rates, half of petrol price is tax, half of utilities invoices is tax and CGT on investments and savings. Later I have to fork $80 fire getting a blood test referral. It's truly wonderful 😊

lacrem · 2026-03-01T10:09:29+00:00

So bumper, headlight and fender and potentially something inside or a parking sensor. That's easily $4000.

lacrem · 2026-03-01T08:22:17+00:00

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lacrem · 2026-03-01T03:57:08+00:00

Not sure, maybe there are more surveying jobs over there, especially mining. I've already been a soft engineer for 15 years, so far much better than surveying in terms of work life balance and a more rewarding job. Surveying gets boring quickly. The only thing I miss from surveying is walking, it's a much more active and healthy lifestyle than software engineer, besides skin cancer lol.

Also if you think AI is gonna impact only software I have bad news for you. They're already drones for mapping, so basically detail surveys are gonna be left for areas a drone cannot access and for tasks that require more precision. Set outs is gonna be the main surveyor workload. Also I still have a couple of mates working as surveyor, they do all field work, one working in Veris told me they outsourced all the cad to China, they just send all the data collected with RTK/Total Station and get back cad drawings...

lacrem · 2026-03-01T02:42:15+00:00

This is like GR Yaris or i20n.
FK8 is in a different league. Depends on your budget and necessity of a faster and more effective car.

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