For example example Amazon/AWS has an entire sector of business dedicated to federal contracts.

https://aws.amazon.com/federal/

Even back when I was working for a tiny startup one of our clients was a government contractor.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1067...

> All Information (Except Text) for H.R.10670 - China FIREWALL Act of 2026

> Official Title as Introduced To prohibit Chinese AI models from being used on government-issued devices or software systems, to prohibit the procurement of any such models, and for other purposes.

It’s not too far fetched to see this expanded to government contractors or even other private businesses which handle sensitive material in the future.

As is a 2000$ gaming laptop can a run a basic llm which is probably good enough for most basic programming.

Most companies are going to be forced to use “safe” LLMs and pay by the token. Maybe for half a million Anthro will let you host on site, but even this will face usage fees or caps.

It didn’t work out, another job I decided to not proceed with because it’s DoD related.

Had a recruiter cancel the call because she had a personal emergency. Just ghosted me after that , no explanation.

Friday I had a promising call, but I’d have to move again.

I’m not sure what alternative the author proposes to working in tech.

I make music , but I can’t imagine sending a demo to Universal working out.

A couple of funny things happened, once we were clearly being blocked and my manager wanted me to figure out a way to evade said blocking.

And in another case we ended up getting scraped ourselves. Which was absolutely hilarious. I think we were able to resolve this by just contacting the website host.

I am not a lawyer, but a lot of things in America are almost 100% dependent on how much money you want to spend suing or defending yourself in court.

There are a lot of VC funded companies who more or less just scrape and resell data. If LinkedIn and few other places figure out how to actually block them , they'd be out if a business.

I have a few GitHub actions that have ran for years without issue. You add a yaml file to your repo and it’s done.

As a hobbyist, I’m happy.

I would never do any real work with actions though.

Say the first step was an OA. I fail my OA and move on with my day, or I pass and we both know I’m minimally qualified.

I just think there are better ways to do an initial filter.

I went ahead and applied for a job, and unlike Oxide, TypeSafe has an application that only takes a few minutes to fill out.

I did take a second to play with the TypeSafe API first. I'm also excited to get Jev running locally.

Not like I'm realistically good enough for a top AI company, but I can dream. I got multi code signal tests for Anthropic and got 70% at best.

Would be nice to get equity, ipo and cash out.

I don't want to work in my 50s

But that should be done later in the process. I'd rather an LLM auto-reject my application vs spending 5 hours on a writing exercise.

Think about, I apply to a minimum of 5 jobs per day. If I need to spend 5 hours for each application I'm spending 25 hours a day on job applications. Obviously this isn't possible.

I apply for jobs because I want money. Not to reflect or learn about myself.

It’s just business, even if you do the song and dance to get hired they can still fire you later.

They waste very large amounts of candidate time on an essay like assignment before you get to talk to someone.

Truth be told they already know from your resume if you’d be worth interviewing. That’s enough , and maybe a OA.

The best process I’ve experienced, was a quick conversion with a few technical questions, then I can start as a contractor. If it works out it works, if it doesn’t that’s ok too.

No need for me to write a long paper, when HR probably took one look at my resume and sent out a rejection.

This was not only free for me, but I got a large cost of living grant on top of tuition itself being free.

Community College was amazing. For international students it's a very easy way to get a visa. The requirements are basically making tuition payments on time.

Well it's over now. Even if the tides shift again you'd have to be silly to risk coming to such an unstable place.

I suggested to a friend of mine that he consider a CS masters in China. He's semi fluent, but lacks a CS background. I imagine he could figure it out though

ISPs can be obligated to suspend infringing customers.

Why not 99% ? Then Rockstar can go out of business, the entire game industry can collapse and I guess we can all play board games.

It’s not like they’re depriving you of water or something. You’ll be fine if you don’t play GTA6.

Or Rockstar does consider this to be a big deal and delays the release to incorporate Games as a Service style DRM which is much harder to beat.

I just talked to a colleague who’s trying to find an in stock PS5 for GTA6.

Going to sketchy torrents, and configuring it to run locally is beyond what most people really want to do.

I can imagine maybe a few hundred thousand people doing this. Even then it’s going to be like using a hackintosh, the experience will be full of bugs.

Most folks will just do something else.

At most less than half a percent of the target market would actually do this.

Still, I’d imagine Rockstar easily being able to sue anyone in the US who tries to play this illegally. It’ll probably just stick to Russia where buying a PS5 is basically impossible anyway.,

Who am I kidding, jail is for poor people selling food stamps, not billionaires.

Nothing wrong with stealing every book ever written if you have VC money.