And z.ai themselves also have subscriptions.

However, more relevant to the post, is that when you're ordering groceries online, you need to verify your age at checkout if you're buying stuff like alcohol (or energy drinks). It's trivial, and for a lot of people it uses the same authentication service that they already use to access their bank.

Right now, we can get local models that you can run on consumer hardware, that match capabilities of state of the art models from two years ago. The improvements to model architecture may or may not maintain the same pace in the future, but we will get a local equivalent to Opus 4.6 or whatever other benchmark of "good enough" you have, in the foreseeable future.

Not by choice though.

Vast majority of people who get CS degrees don't want to be computer scientists. They want to do programming work, so they get a CS degree because that's the degree employers require. They don't even know that said degree won't focus on what they actually want to learn.

And it's not like they have better choices. There are no programming trade schools. Bootcamps seem to have the right idea in principle, but implementations are often questionable, and most employers won't consider bootcamp graduates.

It has nothing to do with knowing how to do shortcuts, but having to do them at all. There are plenty of instances where you may only need to provide input to one window at a time, but see other things, like documentation, output, logs, or a browser window of the page you are editing. Having multiple monitors allows me to greatly reduce the need to switch between windows to reference something or see results of my inputs.

I personally find that if I'm forced to alt-tab between my IDE and documentation, like when I'm working on a laptop, it's incredibly distracting, breaks my flow, and slows down my work significantly.

I think recursion should be taught with examples that would be easier for a student to write with recursion than without it. For example, listing all files in a directory.

It's easy to understand why recursion is useful when you are tasked with traversing a file system. It's not when the first example you are given is calculating Fibonacci sequence.

Finding URLs of private trackers is trivial in google. Getting an invite usually requires knowing another user, unless they temporarily open signups for everyone.

Here's one of many lists of private trackers

https://hdvinnie.github.io/Private-Trackers-Spreadsheet/

I'd never work if I didn't have to pay bills. Spending my limited time on earth doing something for someone else's benefit on someone else's schedule makes me miserable. No such thing as an "enjoyable job". If there was, there would be someone willing to do it for free.

I've had a year of NEET life during college, and it was the best time of my life by far.