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New comment by nsxwolf in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

nsxwolf — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:01:20 +0000

The photo in the article looks like AI slop but isn't - it was taken in 2019. It took me awhile to convince myself everything in it was real.

New comment by nsxwolf in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

nsxwolf — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:07:06 +0000

I started feeling like a factory worker well before LLMs. My reputation and network stopped mattering and it all came down to take this assessment and do this Leetcode to prove you are a good enough replaceable cog. I have about 15 more years before retirement and I doubt there is anything left to look forward to in my career.

New comment by nsxwolf in "No Raise, No Promotion: 1 in 4 White-Collar Workers Are Stalling Out"

nsxwolf — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:11:29 +0000

If you tell me I have "Unlimited" PTO, I'm taking 5 weeks, because that's what I've had at every regular PTO job in the last 20 years.

New comment by nsxwolf in "New Beam Spring Keyboards"

nsxwolf — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:50:00 +0000

I suppose you have to look at it as this person is just unwilling or unable to operate in a different way at this price point, and if you want a new beam spring keyboard, right now there is no competitor.

New comment by nsxwolf in "Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers"

nsxwolf — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:40:57 +0000

I'm pushing 50 now and I hit the wall almost 10 years ago. No real raises, new opportunities pay less. Inflation has been ratcheting down on me constantly, and my family has to make continual changes to stay in the black.

ALDI is great though!

New comment by nsxwolf in "No Raise, No Promotion: 1 in 4 White-Collar Workers Are Stalling Out"

nsxwolf — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:35:47 +0000

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/no-raise...

New comment by nsxwolf in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

nsxwolf — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:21:47 +0000

The Slirp backend for the NE2000 networking driver is the big one for me.

New comment by nsxwolf in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

nsxwolf — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:19:27 +0000

It's just not as good as a notebook. I've tried to make it as good. It sleeps, there's too much fumbling around with it to get to what you want. You lose the muscle memory of where something is in the book, you can't quickly flip to anything. You notice you used to do certain things, like flip to two different pages at once. Everything is just immediate and tactile.

New comment by nsxwolf in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

nsxwolf — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:01:41 +0000

Good movies still pack theaters.

New comment by nsxwolf in "The worst job interview I ever had"

nsxwolf — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:18:53 +0000

You don't want to pass an interview like that.

New comment by nsxwolf in "Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking"

nsxwolf — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:48:31 +0000

How do you convince people to not want an instant answer? Even if SO didn’t result in so many “What have you tried?” responses and immediate closures, most people would still prefer instant feedback.

New comment by nsxwolf in "1940 Air Terminal Museum Begins Liquidation"

nsxwolf — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:17:53 +0000

The 980 was used as the CPU in the Evans and Sutherland Novoview graphics system, part of a flight simulator.

New comment by nsxwolf in "Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid"

nsxwolf — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:35:04 +0000

Definitely possible, I lost my sense of smell completely for a couple of months over a decade ago after a minor cold. Completely gone, could not even smell gasoline. It was pretty upsetting. One day it was a faint scent of peanut butter that came back, and a few days later it recovered completely.

New comment by nsxwolf in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"

nsxwolf — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:06:09 +0000

All I know is I’m glad I don’t live in the world where this kind of reasoning dominates. All the greatest things I’ve seen in my life have been arguably pointless in this way.

New comment by nsxwolf in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

nsxwolf — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:24:51 +0000

When did admissions start being referred to as the "talent pipeline"?

New comment by nsxwolf in "The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build"

nsxwolf — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:58:03 +0000

I never understood why they haven't had a team implementing simple features like that for over a decade. It's not even AI. Have a dashboard of the most commonly tried things every day, and develop the features.

New comment by nsxwolf in "S-100 Virtual Workbench"

nsxwolf — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:55:10 +0000

That was the very same reaction of many early S-100 computer owners. This emulator has done a good job emulating that.

New comment by nsxwolf in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

nsxwolf — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:22:58 +0000

No one has once ever spoken to me on it.

New comment by nsxwolf in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

nsxwolf — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:34:10 +0000

I don’t have enough time to play anything, but I do occasionally like to get something on release day so I can enjoy being part of the moment.

New comment by nsxwolf in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

nsxwolf — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:49:47 +0000

I built one and found absolutely no use for it. No one ever, and I mean ever, answers you. It's sort of like ham radio, where you get your technician license and get on a net and discover people are just talking about their antennas. Except it's worse, because all the antenna discussions are happening on Reddit and Discord and not on the network itself.

People are very enamored with what you could theoretically do with it, but they never actually do any of it. It's a hardware fetish, it's all about building boxes with solar panels and seeing how many nodes you can light up on the map. Reminds me of another ham radio thing I never got into, "contesting".