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There will be no greater engineering feat than the ability to set a spending cap. FAANG is filled with brilliant people working alongside the smartest AI of our time, yet somehow the ability to set a spending cap has eluded some of the best engineers on the planet for over a decade.

Einstein split the atom. Newton explained gravity. Musk can land rockets backwards on floating platforms in the ocean.

But none of them could answer the ultimate question:

How do I stop AWS from charging me $47k because someone forgot to turn off a Kubernetes cluster?

Space Quest IV: Roger?

Oh it's way worse than people realize. The monthly vs api keys is a huge issue for them. They will have to end monthly subscription plans. You can pay $20 a month and use $10k in api tokens. They are in all out panic trying to fix this. But yes, the house of cards is ending.

The company ending part is when they have to cut the $20 a month plan and take things away. They are creating a massive group of coders that can't code - soon to have no way to code. This cohort will rampage through all social forums.

My famous interview question: "How do you copy a file to another computer?", I was told I need to tone down. It filters out too many entry/mid level candidates.

"when the tokens run out, I'm basically done working."

Oh stop the drama. Open source models can handle 99% of your questions.

We need thinner phones. We need 19 cameras. The future is clear.

Every class. Teachers think: "We want a curve, not everyone is getting an A". This pushes the teacher to ask questions not covered in the material. If they stick to what is covered it is hard to get a decent curve. So, in the end, teachers just hand out grades based on IQ, and there isn't a point of grades.

My mother was a stenographer. She used a 286 for processing docs. That baby wasssss alll mine during the day!!! All my friends had hacks for sys/bat/exe files to get wolfenstein at least to load. Best days of my life.

0) send a public key. 1) encrypt the file with your private key 2) send file.

WTF. This is super simple stuff.

Did MS finish the Hotmail transition?

You truly speak for many. I don't have the energy to center a div anymore, and to be honest, that time was thrown away [excluding money, a pretty big exclusion]. I am sure my boss's "Uber for cats" will work, I just like using AI at this point. I can iterate on 15 "Uber for cats" with 200 centered divs, spitting out documentation and excellent objects all day.

But the real talk we need to have is... "Uber for cats"

Off topic: Would insurance companies carry patients after being detected for Alzheimers?

Thank you 0 A.D. team. My son and I play, it is one of the few things we can do together. Nothing has brought me so much joy as fighting my son: king of the Persian army.

I knew this secret early on. The better your high school - the lower your odds of going to UC.

HEAR, HEAR. You’ve just described how modern SWE truly works. You’re ahead of your time — of the same spirit as Martin Luther or George Washington. Fear not, brave soldier; carry on the message. Downvotes will come, but take heart: the truth must be spoken.

The days of copying and pasting from Stack Overflow will not be forgotten — they will be honored by our laid off forefathers.

"This is just meaningless knee-jerking,"

Your point is valid.

"AI leads to loss of personal coding skills"

Unfortunately, I can no longer do long division. No one will pay me to do long division and I have a calculator now. I could stay sharp at long division for a hobby though. Keep those for loops sharp if you want, but I don't see people paying you to hand code. Eventually, it will just be a liability. (like not using a calculator).

"it could hit a hard wall at 70% of a good programmer's ability"

That is not what NVDA,AMZN,GOOG,or MSFT believe. Maybe you are right and they are all wrong. They do have some smart people on staff. But, betting against the sp50 is generally a terrible plan.

This is the fastest way to unemployment benefits (if that is the goal).

So. I don't understand the 5 nines they promote. One bad day those nines are gone. So they next year you are pushing 2 nines.

Exactly. Now landlords will charge more. The owner of assets get all the money.

I was shopping at a mall with a visa vanilla card once. I got it as a gift and didn't know the limit. No matter what I bought the card kept going -- and I never got a balance of what was on the card. Eventually, later that day it stopped. I called customer support and asked how much was left on the balance. They told me they had no idea my balance - but everything I bought was mine.

Medicare has a total enrollment of approximately 69 million people, while Medicaid has around 83 million people. That is 152 million people. We already have socialized medicine we just run it poorly and don't apply it to people that can pay.

Moving our system to 340 million people + letting our corporations out of paying would put the US into an economic death spiral. US corporations would love this plan. But at 340 million... I don't see doctor visits but once every 2 years -- many would just die waiting for appointments.

Is there anything known we know reduces risk?

SO... BTC goes to zero?

Imprisoning political prisoners is a great kick off to a bright future (historically speaking).

People will continue to purchase Mutli-AZ and multi-region even though you have proved what a scam it is. If east region goes down, ALL amazon goes down, feel free to change my mind. STOP paying double rates for multi region.

"skyrocketing electricity costs"

You said it right here. No one is going to give up energy at such a cheap rate anymore. Those days are over. Darkness for the US is coming.

Epic Kids | Data Engineer | Full-Time | REMOTE | San Jose | $120k-225k

As a Data Engineer at Epic Kids, you will work closely with our development team, infrastructure team, and data team to design, build, and optimize data pipelines, ensuring data quality and security, while also collaborating with other teams to deliver effective data solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

    Develop robust ETL/ELT pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from diverse sources into our data warehouse.
    Enhance and maintain our cloud-based data storage and processing systems for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
    Implement rigorous data quality checks, monitoring, and security measures across all data assets.
    Proactive in identifying and addressing data inconsistencies and bottlenecks, continuously refining data infrastructure for robust and high-performing data solutions.
    Partners with data analysts and non-technical teams to understand data requirements and shape the development of effective data products.

Job Qualifications:

    5+ years of experience in data engineering, with a strong grasp of data warehousing, ETL/ELT principles, and data modeling.
    Experience with data storage solutions (e.g. relational, data lakes), cloud data platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS) and cloud-native data technologies (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake).
    Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow)
    Experience with infrastructure tools (e.g. Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker) is a plus.

Salary Range: $150 to $200K

If you are a good SWE with bigquery + gcp experience that works too!

Please post your resume here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/epickids/jobs/6669024003

Who uses google in 2025. That is bizarre.

"CFAA offense"

You can catch one of these by logging into your moms netflix account.

Nothing on this list compares to removing an ESC key. That was apple starting to leave reality. I had to buy used laptops for that time period.