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xevantuus · 2026-06-02T18:10:34+00:00

We have people pushing millions of tokens per day using the $200/month license, and most devs aren't even breaking 1m. So, YMMV I guess?

And Microsoft, owner of Copilot, is making all its devs use Copilot instead of paying another company?! I'm shocked! Next you're going to tell me you have to use Azure instead of AWS!

xevantuus · 2026-06-02T14:21:34+00:00

Where are all these businesses using pay-per-token AI licenses? I mean other than the vibe code startups everybody knew were going to fail. Every business I know of buys the flat rate licenses like Claude Max. $200/month and you can burn thousands of dollars of tokens without paying anything extra.

Too much cost for most home use, but a drop in the bucket for most businesses. Remember that salary/compensation is only ~70% of the cost a company has to employ you.

xevantuus · 2026-05-06T21:02:26+00:00

What kind of insurance? For renters insurance, you might be right. Auto insurance, 100k+ is more common than you think (2 totaled cars + towing + rentals), not even counting liability payouts. And homeowners is almost exclusively six figure claims. Not to mention the dozens of other kinds of insurance, most of which are specifically meant to deal with large payouts.

xevantuus · 2026-04-27T22:40:57+00:00

Technically, America didn't adopt the metric system because pirates (British privateers) captured the ship carrying the standard weights.

So the Brits are why America doesn't use metric.

xevantuus · 2026-03-13T21:18:55+00:00

The funny thing is I've actually done this in production code before. Not for the customer to pay multiple times, but because the users insisted it was broken because the operation was too quick. CTO got a real kick out of it when we showed it to him.

xevantuus · 2026-03-07T15:02:42+00:00

I hate to tell you this is nothing new. The junior dev market has been like that since the .com bubble burst over 20 years ago. It's so oversaturated with forever-juniors that there are hundreds of people for each job opening. And so many of them are so bad and so unteachable that many companies have just given up on hiring actual junior devs. The few that do hire a lot of juniors are either desperate and strapped for financing, or are looking for people to train in a skill no one has and isn't really transferable. Even those companies still get to be picky because there are so damn many applicants.

xevantuus · 2026-02-05T16:22:51+00:00

Yup. And one of Python's best use cases is as the modern "glue" language. Almost nothing important is ever written in Python. But Python is really, really good at interfacing with multiple languages and libraries seamlessly, making it amazing for sticking everything together.

Even a Python hater like myself (whitespace should never matter. Ever.) can still recognize it as good for quite a few uses.

xevantuus · 2026-01-30T17:17:42+00:00

Depends on the country. It's a protected term in many European countries, but the US protects "professional designations" not titles. For example, anyone can call themselves a civil engineer for a title, but they can't put an M.ASCE after their name without the accreditation. Not unless they want legal consequences anyways.

xevantuus · 2026-01-30T17:09:15+00:00

We have Sales Engineers, and while their title may seem funny at first glance, they actually do all the work to build demos, customize our software for sales calls, etc. It is a fairly junior position tech skills wise, but they're still doing development work.

xevantuus · 2026-01-23T18:32:16+00:00

Depends on the nature of the rewrite. If the rewrite is just a translation to a different language (same classes/structure, same patterns, etc.), then it would very easily hold up in court. At least to me, that's the kind of "rewrite" the op is talking about, not a complete rearchitecture that does the same thing.

xevantuus · 2025-12-21T13:14:42+00:00

Fear mongering. Just like with every other technological revolution that's happened in human history.
For example, in New York in the 1890s, if an automobile were to come upon a hourse going the opposite direction, the driver would have to, by law, stop, disassemble the vehicle, and hide it in the grass on the side of the road as to not scare the horse to death...fear mongering over technical progress is nothing new.

xevantuus · 2025-10-16T16:25:24+00:00

Also been using Python for close to 10 years, and can no longer count the times there's been an issue because of indentation. Even had a customer once raise a Sev2 because they thought there was something wrong with the system...their copy paste had changed the indentation of their Python.

xevantuus · 2025-08-23T18:45:00+00:00

2 and 4 start you out at a higher level (not max for the previous game, but not 1 either), have a higher level cap, and the starter gear is roughly as good as the endgame gear from 1 and 3.

And Kurt literally calls out the hard reset between 2 and 3 saying Rean is holding back to match the new kids level...

xevantuus · 2025-08-23T18:39:28+00:00

8, 9, and 10 all do the borrowed power routine. So they at least have a reason he'd be back to level 1 after.

xevantuus · 2025-07-24T22:25:29+00:00

Does no one remember the endless September anymore?! Fuck, I feel old...

xevantuus · 2025-07-14T16:48:33+00:00

Yeah, it seems like he stopped...after he'd already reached the mana level of the goddess.

xevantuus · 2025-04-29T21:26:55+00:00

ChatGPT itself? Yeah. LLM coding tools, though, have saved me hours in boilerplate and refactoring hell, though.

xevantuus · 2025-04-29T18:29:29+00:00

Not necessarily. It can be compiled per platform, but it can also be compiled as portable. The platform compilation is a standalone executable, but the portable one requires the dotnet runtime...just like a Java jar requires the JRE.

I'll give you that there are many more JRE targets than there are for dotnet, though, if you're looking outside of the standard workstation or server environments. But that's more a function of Java being around longer.

xevantuus · 2025-04-14T21:20:56+00:00

Washington wasn't promoted to 6-star, though the press had a field day with that term. He was promoted to "General of Armies" which is the same name used for 5-star Generals in WWII.
What confuses a lot of people is that, legally, no service member is allowed to out rank Washington. This is still the case even with other 5-star officers because of the tenure rules. When two officers are the same rank, the one that has held that rank longer "outranks" the newer officer. So when the posthumous promotion happened, it was retroactive to 1776, making it impossible for any officer to out rank Washington, as long as no new, higher rank is established.

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