My base pay is half what I get paid. I get paid my other half in stocks. It’s how big tech works.

I have a full pro model for Kiro at work. It does actually work, but we have custom MCP servers for all the internal tools, context on how to use these tools, style guidelines, etc. and then on top of that we have a lot of AI context files in the code base to help the AI understand the code base and make the correct changes.

I’ve been using it on a side project and it works if you know how to constrain it. It does get things wrong a lot. But the big thing about it is doing spec driven development where you give it a write up and it makes a requirements doc and a design doc with a lot of correctness properties in them to follow when generating and making the tasks.

I don’t believe people can vibe code unless they can actually code. It’s a whole different way of coding. I still manually edit what it does a lot.

A lot of people explain it like it’s a brand new junior developer. You need to give it as much context as possible, tell it to exactly what you want, tell it what you don’t want, tell it why, etc. and it still may not listen exactly.

I own a free oracle cloud virtual instance because it was free and better than every other free service. 100% dedicated VI, 4Gbps network bandwidth, 4CPUs at around 2.5GHz, 24GB RAM, and 200GB. All free. And no possible way to ever go over since those are static when I created the instance.

This is for a personal project that I didn’t want hosted on my home server to expose to the open internet.

I justify using oracle because I’m technically costing them money with no downsides for me.

Fuck Oracle’s ownership though.

Many smart lights are not a security vulnerability. Get those that connect to a local only hub and or if you need access away from home for whatever reason, get HomeKit enabled devices.

Plus, even if remote access could happen, it’s not even a security vulnerability to have a stranger turn on my lights. I just flip the switch off.

I’m sitting here with my red and blue soft lighting in the evenings watching tv and playing games. It’s the perfect lighting.

Morning. I sweat so much in bed since I started taking SSRIs.

I’d say it’s exponential growth for how many users are super active. Like maybe only 5% of users even know about this new thing. And then 1% even care to use the block feature.

Welcome! You’ll see the same people over and over again, but it’s really nice.

Enjoy your time and contribute! I only try to contribute with comments and not too much content, but maybe eventually.

It definitely wasn’t the first ride, but just the first day. Still incredible though!

Seattle got rid of the main tram by Pike Place market years ago, but we’re investing so much into transit now!

A photo of Mount Rainier from the world’s first light rail on a floating bridge that opened yesterday in Seattle! We waited about 3 hours after it opened to even ride it. Everyone onboard cheered when we got on the bridge. It was gorgeous.

Thanks for the TLDR. Snopes is blocking people now for having an adblocker.

The problem is that we used to have “iq” tests that were enforced for voting. This is not a good precedent because it can be used for evil even though it’s probably the best thing to do.

My mobile tethering is so good that I’ll usually do it even if I have access to WiFi. It’s just faster and more reliable. I could probably get insane speeds on the beach too.

See, I like iOS because it integrates with my work laptop of a MacBook Pro. I don’t need to fiddle with my phone anymore and all texts just come through my laptop.

But also, I like tinkering/programming stuff on my time. iOS just works for the most part.

But it would be nice to not be giving money to corpo tech.

I code with AI a good bit for a side project since I need to use my work AI and get my stats up to show management that I’m using it. The “impressive” thing is learning new softwares and how to use them quickly in your environment. When setting up my homelab with automatic git pull, it quickly gave me some commands and showed me what to add in my docker container.

Correcting issues is exactly like coding with a high junior dev though. The code bloat is real and I’m going to attempt to use agentic AI to consolidate it in the future. I don’t believe you can really “vibe code” unless you already know how to code though. Stating the exact structures and organization and whatnot is vital for agentic AI programming semi-complex systems.

Tell me you’ve never had to get eggs out of a nest, without telling me. Shit everywhere. They’re birds. So much shit.

For my home PC, sure. Running some windows apps on my Linux machine in wine is a little weird and sluggish. Discord is very oddly sluggish for known reasons. Proton is fine tho.

But for my work? Nah. My M3 MacBook Pro is a beast compared to even the last Intel MacBook. Battery is way better unless you’re like me and constantly running a front end UI for a single local service. But without that, it can last hours. My old one could only last 2 meetings before it started dying.

My private tracker is just 2 weeks of seeding and if no one is leeching, you get credits that can be used to zap torrents or buy upload to keep your ratio high. I just pirate whatever and have my client auto delete the torrent after 2.5 weeks and then just login to the site every few months to see the ratio and make sure I’m not missing a file. Very much set it and forget it.

But that’s very different. People are uploading music on YouTube to be listened to as music and that directly infringes the copyright of another song on YouTube that is legit. It’s directly taking money from the owners of the song. Games are not (typically) intended to be a replacement for just listening to that song.

There’s a reason they have a -6 total score from me… I don’t just downvote all willy nilly either…

I usually watch these type of videos while WFH but I haven’t been able to these last few weeks.