I don't care to hear arguments about how npm was _configured wrong_.

A tool with insecure defaults, with a long and storied history of being the vector by which data has been exfiltrated and companies hacked, needs to do an awful lot to justify still being used for any infrastructure our team is responsible for.

The SSD cost 30% more than I paid two years ago and was half the capacity (1TB). The RAM cost double what I paid two years ago, was slower, and was half the capacity (32GB).

Below cost of production my ass.

The only Western car company even competing with them is Tesla, who people love to hate for ideological reasons.

Calling what Chinese companies are doing “dumping” is pure cope for the utter failures of Western companies.

Look at my post history, I’m not pro-China at all, but I am a realist and can see the evidence with my own eyes since we can actually get the vehicles here.

I give it 5 years for Western and Japanese companies to be decimated in this market. Can’t say they don’t deserve it.

Spoiler: Yes.

Personally when going on the road I like portability (14" MBP or MBA), but at home I want raw non-thermally throttled power.

The rest of the jargon and strangeness was absorbed slowly over time until it because natural, like a language.

I still can’t explain how it works to my wife.

I wonder when they will join the rest of us in the future.

The last year with it has been so bad I canceled our $80 Family subscription and switched to the native Apple one despite its feature gap, because 1Password just couldn’t do its basic job reliably (fill passwords without requiring 20 taps, constant unlocking disregarding lock timer settings or some other arcane dance like force killing Safari to reload the plugin).

Very strange, but I’ve seen the same folks dog pile in for other causes, so I guess it’s just a part of the identity now.

(Speaking as someone who also owns a Windows 11 RTX 4090/9950X3D gaming monster… sometimes I like gaming on my MBP!)

But I have had, uh, non-trivial breakages happen also when I upgrade the system itself to the next yearly release. Non-bootable kernel kind of breakages.

But I will give you that I can just boot from the generation before the upgrade, and it works again. So there's that :)

I even read the source using Zed not Xcode :)

I know that a part of why I did so well in programming was being forced to think about what to do and how things worked for so long, and it gave me a lot of stamina to brute force my way through problems.

But these days, I'll admit even I reach for an LLM more often than not, and I can feel my mental muscle memory atrophy.

I don't know how to give my son the same experience (currently at age 8, he still does not have any of his own devices, and has highly restricted access to the iPad).

But still...

Dad was a teacher in a rural school, mum stayed at home.

Until I went to school I would stay outside all day with my friends, playing in and around the rivers and dams, making our own fun with abandoned cars and rusted out farming equipment.

Our school had one computer, and I was lucky enough to get to use it after hours from time to time.

I would study the manual from front to back so I could optimise my time while on the computer.

Practiced typing on a typewriter to type in code listings faster later (aging myself here ;)

Today I build AI agents and infrastructure to run them for a hyperscaler, and my car drives me around. Feels like another lifetime ago.

I could go 30 minutes before the discomfort made me have to take it off.

No such issue with the WH-1000XM6, I can wear it the entire day.