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Those sound like problems specific to big corporations. Maybe you'd better enjoy working for smaller companies.

I'm not a devops guy but I had to manage our Ansible deployment at one of my first jobs and always despised it. Scripts that would work locally would often not work on the Ansible deployment, and it was hard to debug. The other engineer (don't think he had experience with it either prior to the job) also felt the same way.

I was more of a junior dev at the time so maybe I was an idiot, but I don't miss it at all. In theory I agree with what you're saying, but deploying a Dockerfile to something like Google Cloud Run is just a hell of a lot easier. Yea I'm paying more than what I would be managing my own VPS, but I think this is more than offset by the dev hours saved.

I agree that the article doesn't really bring up anything new or interesting.

One important implication of a ChatGPT centered web is the removal of reward/credit to content creators. Now when you Google for something you'll probably arrive at some StackOverflow, blog, or Reddit post where there's at least an author's name attached to an answer. But ChatGPT just crawls that content without citing sources, reducing any reward for contributing. Maybe this doesn't have serious implications - after all most people contribute under pseudonyms, but its worth bringing up.

Centralized exchanges should only ever be used to convert between fiat and crypto. Once you've bought your crypto, get it the hell off the exchange.

I also had a terrible experience with Coinbase once in the past where they locked my account for no reason and wouldn't let me purchase or sell. Thankfully it self-resolved in a couple days, but left a pretty bad taste in my mouth, though I haven't had any incidents since then.

Unfortunately centralized exchanges all seem to have atrocious customer support and are a risk. Not sure what can be done as a customer other than to minimize exposure to them as much as possible. Coinbase definitely needs more serious competitors in the U.S>

You're on the side of the company with crap support ghosting its customers? For your users' sake I hope you're never in charge of running a business.

There's some truth to this, but environment does make a difference. The problem with this advice is that it seems to imply that moving doesn't make a difference - when the reality is that some people are just better suited to different environments. A nature lover is just going to be happier living somewhere blessed with beautiful nature than in NYC. The challenge of course is distinguishing which problems are external vs internal, and sometimes you need to make the external change to discern the difference.

I resonate with this as I type this from NYC, a city significantly more nature-starved than London. I was pretty impressed with the parks and greenery in London. My friend there bought a unit in the first floor of a townhouse with a backyard in a peaceful but convenient neighborhood. Such an apartment would cost at least double in NYC and those sort of places are rare.

I'm definitely not a rural person, but I do think that living in nature has a strong correlation to happiness. I don't think the average person in a concrete jungle like NYC is happier than in a random village in the Amazon jungle or the Swiss alps. I don't regret my time I lived in NYC though other than that I stayed too long. It's fun for a time in one's life while one is young, but it's not a forever place for most people.

Most jobs suck. "Find your passion" is bullshit career advice because a job by definition means selling your freedom (if the job was so much fun they wouldn't need to pay you because people would do it for free). Unfortunately the reality is that we must make money to afford a modern lifestyle, and thus if you want financial freedom you will probably need to get a job (yes you can create your own business, but until that takes off you need to pay the bills somehow).

I quit the rat race and left NYC to travel the world. After 1.5 years of traveling I started to run amount of money and I reluctantly decided to start working again - this time remotely. But to my surprise I found that I actually enjoyed the new job and had missed having that sense of responsibility (or maybe I liked finally seeing my bank account balance go up and was trying to rationalize it, who knows). But eventually the job started to suck as I realized it was a deadend job and felt like I wasn't respected. I was miserable and performing the job was a chore, but I stayed because I didn't have the courage to quit a job that paid so well for so little work - the same position I was in in NYC before my world travel.

Finally that contract ended, and I was again free from work obligations. This time I set my goal to create my own tech projects with the hope of eventually monetizing them and living off of that. Finally I enjoyed programming again because I was building whatever I wanted.

A job fell in my lap with another startup, and I initially didn't want to take it because my focus was on my own work. But in the end I decided to give it a chance as I figured it could be a valuable experience, and I can always quit if I don't like it. The job turned out to be awesome. Awesome people, interesting problems, and I get a front row seat at an early stage startup. The downside of course is that I have not been able to put as much time on my personal projects as I'd like, but I am still working on it on the side, and we'll see if I can manage them both.

Leaving the rat race to travel the world led to some amazing experiences with high highs and low lows. I went from being sick of software engineering to wanting to build my own tech startups - which is my main work goal now. It took me traveling so much I got bored of it until I got inspired to want to build tech things again to solve my own problems. But maybe you'll leave forever and prefer being a park ranger in the words - who knows. We're all different.

In any case I think people should do whatever the hell they want, as no money is worth wasting one's life in misery. Worst case scenario you don't like living in the nature and can return to London to work at another bank with a renewed sense of gratefulness. Of course most likely you probably won't ever return to the same exact old life. Maybe you'll work remotely for a startup from the woods, or become a writer, or go completely offline and just live a simpler life. Who knows. It doesn't matter as long as you're doing you.

Either way best of luck on your journey, from one rat rat escapee to the next.

It's not about age, it's about experience.

A virgin will have serious FOMO over sex. But the more experiences you have with different partners, the less special it is ie. the less FOMO you get since you've "been there done that."

This is why I work at startups.

Right now building an open source writing application (basically a Notion clone) that lets you save offline and seamlessly publish your notes/writing as websites. It's not ready yet but hoping to have minimal MVP ready within a few weeks: https://yume.fyi

This sounds like something I would've written. Know you're not alone in recognizing this, and best of luck! One of us will get he message across.

I agree with the sentiment of the title but this is a terrible article that doesn't go into any depth and adds nothing to the conversation.

> The decline of Twitter

What evidence is there that Twitter is declining? If anything it seems Twitter usage has increased under Musk.

> (I swear, if I see anyone tweeting out 4,000 characters, that is an immediate block)

How can someone talk about the need to bring back long-form content while simultaneously saying they'd block someone who writes long-form content? Doesn't make any sense to me. I've always thought the Twitter character limit was stupid as it eliminates the ability to write long form content on Twitter, and I'm happy Musk is finally going to eliminate this artificial restriction.

There will always be a place for blogging, but the problem with it is lack of discoverability and conversation (sure you can add a comments section, but most people won't take the time to register for an account on your site just to write a comment on your blog post). Ultimately people write to get read, and social media gets more eyeballs.

I don't think blogging will ever be more than a niche thing due to this lack of discoverability. Solve the discoverability aspect, and you've basically reinvented web 2.0 social media

Macbooks are at least $500-1k more expensive than any equivalent PC laptop. For $1k you're only looking at a M1 Macbook Air with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage.

Screen resolution is great on Macbooks, but also great on certain PC models as well, you just need to do your research and buy a good one.

I agree that Macbooks generally have superior battery life.

I have a LG Gram 17 with 17" screen, 32GB RAM, 1TB storage, and 12th gen i7 processor and paid $1,500 for it. A Macbook Pro with 16" screen, 32GB RAM, and 1TB storage starts at $3,500, 2.3x the price. So yea hard disagree on anyone claiming that Macbooks don't carry a significant price premium.

I recently bought a new laptop and initially installed Linux (Ubuntu) on it, but then uninstalled it for the following reasons:

- No 2-finger swipe for back/forward navigation in internet browsers. This is impossible on Linux since Linux doesn't support customizing 2-finger swipe. Sure I could set it on 3-finger swipe, but I wanted 2-finger swipe.

- Couldn't connect my Airpod Pro wireless headphones. Searching around it seemed to not be possible to connect the headphones with microphone.

There were a lot of annoying things I had to fix that work out of the box in Windows/Mac like the scroll speed in Chrome being way too slow (had to install a Chrome extension to fix). Googling solutions leads you somewhere like askubuntu.com which I found extremely unreliable - with often the highest upvoted answer not even answering the question, so you need to go through a bunch of different questions where people tell you to download some random dude's package that hasn't been updated in 5-10 years and doesn't even work.

Ultimately the dealbreakers combined with the general difficulty and hassle of doing basic things led me to uninstall it and go back to Windows (with Windows Subsystem for Linux). I really wanted to use a free open source operating system, but I didn't want to sacrifice on the above functionality and have to waste a lot of time fiddling with my computer just to get basic things working. Shame because there are a lot of things I don't like about Windows and it's not very customizable (eg. can't reduce size of taskbar on Windows 11 without hacky regedit update that cuts off the bottom of the toolbar, no way to alt-tab among same application windows in reverse order where it immediately switches to application. I have an AutoHotKey script that only partially works)

LG Gram 17 is my favorite laptop. If you want a large screen (17", 2560x1600) while being ultrathin and lightweight (1.35kg), I haven't found better.

That being said I ended up uninstalling Linux for Windows because Linux turned out to be a big pain and had too many dealbreakers for me (no two-finger swipe back/forward navigation, couldn't connect Airpod Pro headphones with microphone, too much hassle to do basic everyday stuff). I know Windows isn't ideal, but with Windows Subsystem for Linux you still get your Linux terminal.

You're basically just arguing "Twitter can do whatever the hell they want", which is not what I'm debating.

I'm arguing that a platform like Twitter that operates under the pretense of accessibility to all and freedom should uphold itself to a higher standard of free speech than the blatant one-sided censorship it engaged in during COVID. This would make the product better for its users, and be better for society.

Of course legally they can decide to adopt the principles of the Chinese Communist Party, but I find that morally reprehensible and clearly I'm not the only one.

Fox News is a right-wing propaganda media outlet. Just because its articles have comments sections doesn't make it a social media platform.

Ok I stand corrected on this law, which basically says that companies aren't liable for user-generated content (the article could've just said that in the first line).

Either way from a moral perspective doesn't change the fact that a platform censoring viewpoints is a violation of the principal of free speech, and morally reprehensible in a free democratic society. Twitter tried to be the Orwellian Ministry of Truth, and I'm glad that Twitter's new management recognizes the error of their former ways and is committed to not repeating the same Orwellian mistakes.

Ok I stand corrected on this law, which basically says that companies aren't liable for user-generated content (the article could've just said that in the first line).

Either way from a moral perspective doesn't change the fact that a platform censoring viewpoints is a violation of the principal of free speech, and morally reprehensible in a free democratic society. Twitter tried to be the Orwellian Ministry of Truth, and I'm glad that Twitter's new management recognizes the error of their former ways and is committed to not repeating the same Orwellian mistakes.

I don't see what there is to disagree as the first.

Either you're a platform or a publisher, and the difference is whether the company is legally liable for the user's content.

Twitter claims itself to legally be a platform, and therefore on a legal basis should uphold free speech (not to mention on a moral basis).

If they want to be a publisher then they can do that and destroy their site, and everyone will migrate off to competitors.

Social media companies try to portray themselves legally as platforms in order to eliminate legal liability for the content that users post on their platform.

Twitter as a public platform has a duty to uphold freedom of speech and not censor viewpoints it doesn't like.

Amazing that people in a country founded on free speech are trying to defend censorship.

For me it's the opposite. I wish I spent less time studying, more time socializing and making connections. I don't think the marginal effort required to go from a B+/A- student to an A student is really worth it (unless maybe you're applying to grad school or something and they consider it a big factor, employers don't really care as long as it's above the cutoff). If one wants to spend that time productively better to invest it in working, doing research, or entrepreneurship.

> the fact that somebody is paying for said app implies that it is useful.

False. This is a tautology, aka circular reasoning.

For example purchasing and consuming heroin does not add value to anyone's life.

A lot of social media consumption (eg. TikTok) doesn't improve one's life, yet people consume them out of addiction.

Someone choosing to do something doesn't mean that it is valuable for them. Another counterpoint would be suicide.

Interesting. How are tags determined?

People are getting promotions without pay increases? That's news to me.

If you're getting promoted and being assigned greater responsibility, than your compensation should increase accordingly.

Yes I've been looking for the same thing. I created https://zsync.xyz with the goal of serving as a place for high quality discussion of any topic, but turns out it's pretty difficult to create a community since there's that whole chicken and egg problem.

If anyone has any ideas on how to create a community like this, I'd love to hear it. I'm really not a fan of chat rooms other than for casual chats between friends because there's no search engine indexability.

I guess in the meantime, I'd say Twitter is probably the best I think. Everyone's on there, and people are incentivized to increase their following. I just wish they'd do away with that 500 character limit since that confines longer form writing to Twitter threads and makes actual dialogue totally impractical.

I completely disagree. When I'm trying to learn something, I'd much rather sit through a short, efficient video than a 1 hour unedited video of someone including mistakes and rambling. Hell I generally don't even have the patience for videos in the first place and default to searching for text first unless I'm specifically looking for audio. But to each their own.

When is an instance you'd need to sort by ID? How does it make table relationships annoying?

> I can easily do this without crypto.

Good for you, not everyone in the world has this privilege.

Please take your substanceless sarcasm to Reddit, this is not the place.

Cash is not digital

> Only relevant for crime

Absolute nonsense. There are people who prefer paying with cash for the same privacy advantages.

> Also possible with many banks, VISA, Western Union. The fact that you're using an intermediary is irrelevant

Sending crypto is way easier, faster, and cheaper than sending an international wire transfer or Western Union transfer. With crypto, it is peer to peer and no one can censor you. In the traditional finance world, anyone can have their bank account, payment provider, or transactions blocked by their bank, payment provider, government, or any of the other countless middlemen who need to approve of your transactions.

> In practice, it's far more centralized

Peer to peer money and self-custody is more decentralized than holding money in any centralized institution.

> Doesn't really mean anything

You clearly don't understand the concept, so please educate yourself before you comment. The composability of smart contracts is what enables defi.