GiorgioG

I won’t get those 7 minutes back. What an uninformed, political, meandering bunch of nonsense. Seriously, an LLM could have done a better job making stuff up.

My wife drives a ‘23 Blazer RS (non-EV). We killed OnStar as soon as the trial ended. Still has CarPlay. At $44k with all the discounts (my dad is a GM retiree), it was hardly a bargain. I can’t imagine paying $60K for the EV version of it. Don’t get me wrong it’s a nice car, but it’s a Chevy.

> Do whatever you want.

Of course. Having said that you have to take a look around and decide if the conditions are remotely in your favor, right now, and when/if things don't pane out in 6-12 months. The economy (not the stock market) isn't great, finding another job without much experience in the current state of the tech industry might look even more bleak. I graduated right after the dot com bubble burst. I took the calls from recruiters offering me sign-on bonuses and other crazy stuff during the bubble - I declined and chose to finish school instead. A year later after graduating I moved to Boston and heard first-hand accounts of developers driving cabs to make ends meet when things imploded.

It's one thing to take a high risk / high reward chance, but swapping a steady good-paying job for effectively an unspecified unpaid role doesn't seem like that. If he's willing to work unpaid, he's more likely to get a low-ball offer if/when the company decides to employ him.

So in the current economic/tech-job environment you have a fairly secure job, a whopping 7 months of experience since graduating and you think it's a reasonable idea to quit to take on an unpaid role with a startup...unless you happen to have millions stashed away, or a fallback plan - I can't imagine why anyone would think this is a responsible idea.

Chevy’s RST Silverado can do 450 miles, but it’s nearly $100k.

Sure they’re against them - they’re much simpler to service and most likely significantly more reliable. Given that dealers typically make most of their money on service (repairs) than on sales of vehicles, it’s no wonder they’re more likely to be biased against EVs. I have an ICE F-150 (2016) and I can’t fathom only having 240ish miles of range. I’ll wait 5 years for the 450 mile version.

Maybe they should hurry up and approve more claims. Seriously, my son’s insulin pump is sitting in “prior authorization” just so they can fuck me into paying the full deductible come Jan 1. Fuck United Healthcare.

If a forum has it, foreign agents already had it.

It's still in production (until 2025.)

In your 'about', you have worked with/at well-respected tech companies. I suspect they had significant investment in their DevOps teams and that has not been my experience at large non-tech companies in my career. Our differing experiences make sense when thinking about it in that context.

> DevOps and SRE thinking

DevOps thinking is exactly what got us into this IaC mess we're in now. Back in the day (like 15 years ago), things were actually simpler - you were either dev or ops, period. But then K8s and all that jazz came along, and suddenly we need this whole army of "DevOps engineers" just to keep the lights on and make everything 10x more complicated than it needs to be. And please don't say "yes but the cloud changed everything" - no someone made the cloud more complicated than it needed/needs to be and thanks to ZIRP, companies just kept hiring DevOps 'engineers'.

I've seen this multiple times: Management looks at this circus and goes "Let's make all each dev team handle their own DevOps crap." Meanwhile, they're telling the actual DevOps engineers to go back to focusing on ops. What was even the point of this whole transformation if we're just creating more specialists and dumping more complexity on developers' plate?

The whole thing has basically turned into its own monster that needs constant feeding. We didn't need all this overhead before, but here we are, drowning in YAML and dealing with infrastructure that's way more complex than the actual problems we're trying to solve.

I can't wait for Design Token Engineers to become a thing /s

> There's a whole movement bringing DevOps and SRE thinking to design/UX

Heaven help us. Hope this dies a quick death.

Ask yourself this question again when it's your partner/parent/child in the casket.

Feel free to participate if you feel that strongly about it: https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/community

Call me crazy but I've never seen 'nitpicking' in the definition of history: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/history

Is it really "all totally wrong"?

All the nitpicking here is insane. Can we all just appreciate the work that went into this?

IIRC you need to replace the brake cartridge and the blade.

If your net worth is tied up in your home (house rich, cash poor), you can't put that money into savings or investments. My house is "worth" 2X what I paid for it 11 years ago, awesome. It's not helping to pay the increase in taxes, homeowners insurance, groceries, that have gone up, up & up.

You know, it's possible for both Europe and the US to be really, really nice - to different people. But some people need to feel superior. I have lived in both places, and I prefer the US.

You keep making statements from things you've read online about the US, but you've never lived here as far as I can tell. I've lived in Europe, and it's not for me. The difference is I'm not shitting on Europe. In my firsthand experience, some (not all) Europeans have a superiority complex towards the US. To those and you, get over yourselves.

Hey feel free to stay in Europe, seriously we don’t care what you think of the way we live. If Europe was so awesome my parents would have stayed there, but thankfully they moved here for a more prosperous future for their kids.

Windows 11

I put an Arc card in my daughter's machine last month. Seems to work fine.

It’s about time the hype starts to die down. LLMs are brilliant for small bits of grunt work in software. It is not however doing any actual reasoning.

We use this at work, steer clear. Support for Windows is an afterthought.

Great, random themed location images.

It's just one more thing I have to consider. Even if I only take 3-4 500 mile trips per year, I don't EVER have to think, well jeez we'll need to stop 3 times for 30-45 minutes in specific places to charge up. We might also have to wait in line if it's a busy weekend/holiday. When I can easily do 450 miles on 1 charge and the price of the vehicle is comparable, then it's at least worth considering. The closest thing to that right now in the F-150's class is the Chevrolet Silverado RST. But it's "only" $93,000. Thanks, I'll keep my gasoline F-150 for now.

I can't eat index funds.