Most people in general are clueless

Police truck just started in my head

Of course, Windows being so janky for power user stuff made Linux a lot easier for me to pick up in comparison

All higher level programming languages are training wheels for programming

It only looks like this if you want compression and backwards compatibility. All compiled languages have output that is optimized for those things and not readability, but if you turn off minification and use a modern language target then the compiled typescript code will look almost identical to the original code.

Never forget that we’re doing incredibly complex audio signal processing with meat.

I have no idea what level of proficiency you had in mind.

I grew up with windows and it’s sloppy implementation of a lot of things is a big reason why I got into computers because it let me fuck around with things under the hood easily. I remember messing around with the registry to do things that you couldn’t edit in the settings guis.

The 10x thing is ridiculous. The highest you can get is 7.3x.

Every millennial I know, knows how to use a computer.

I also blame Apple and their walled garden approach to software

Computer networking was the most complicated class I took. How can GitHub be too complicated compared to the class? Or is it a non low level computer networking class?

That would only be a problem if you need dynamically allocated memory. It could be a statically allocated simulation where every atom is accounted for.

AI will trivialize the day to day work of programming, the really hard part of programming is being able to put together complex systems in a maintainable way. It’s really more of a project structure problem than it is a programming problem. Best way to future proof yourself is to focus on the higher level architectural challenges and putting together complex infrastructure as opposed to learning things like sorting algorithms (although I don’t think interviewing has caught up with that yet). LLM powered systems may eventually get to the point where it can even replace architectural tasks, but at that point almost all office jobs will be obsolete.

EDIT: Another thought, getting out of tech now is like getting out of tech right before the Internet took off. Yes AI will replace a ton of jobs and there’s going to be a big reckoning, but there’s a shit ton of work to get these systems in place in a reliable way. The next Gen of AI is super capable, but it’s also pretty jank, and getting it to work to it’s capability will require a ton of work which provides a ton of opportunity to get in on companies that will become big when they do it well.

Can’t anyone just fork one of the LGPL versions and start a new project?

Southpark did it!

If he was specifically trying to invite children with bad childhoods then it’s not actually too surprising that some of their parents would come after him.

That used to be the reality of life. It’s only very recently that we’ve produced machines that far outpace what humans can do. The reason we aren’t seeing the benefits is that a select few own those machines and have consolidated their wealth.

I picked Portland because its a big city

Restaurant prices aren’t a secret. I just checked places in Portland and the most expensive burger I could find was $15 and that came with fries, and that was the most expensive one on the menu. This is a meme joke and is exaggerating to be funny, don’t confuse that with reality.