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by rr808 3mo ago
Yes that is another reason, high healthcare costs for employing workers means higher construction costs in the USA.
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by rr808 3mo ago
Even states like Mississippi and Iowa have low housing costs and wages much higher than Spain.
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by rr808 3mo ago
A lot of the price difference between Europe and USA now are wages. US wages for construction workers in NYC or SF are 2 or 3 times that of Madrid. Lots of things are cheap just for this reason alone.
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by rr808 4mo ago
My office has a big grad program so there are hundreds of interns and people under 25 in the office. Is really fun for them, I think its a real benefit that people look for now.
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by rr808 4mo ago
I know its not an acceptable view in 2026, but if women had to leave school at 16 and thus couldn't have a professional career I'd think many more women would have multiple children, like 5+ would be normal.
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by rr808 4mo ago
One issue is that the wealthiest most advanced countries are having the fewest people, while the poorest countries have a the fastest growing populations. Pakistan or Nigeria alone will have more people than the whole of Europe. They may be
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by rr808 4mo ago
There ended up being 4 lines between the two cities. Hard to believe such a thing was possible in this day and age. I guess if there were no cars trains would be much more popular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpoo
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by rr808 4mo ago
Or as Arthur Brooks puts it - the shower now is the only place where you dont have your phone on you.
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by rr808 4mo ago
lol yeah I'm not a poet.
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by rr808 4mo ago
Their business model is more like make a lot of noise about high tech, then hire h1bs to do routine IT work their corporate customers do.
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by rr808 4mo ago
I have Opus 4.7 at work at 15x. Burns through tokens like water. It feels like one of these new mega datacenters is just for me. I'd love to know what the bill is, but we're just encouraged to do as much AI as possible.
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by rr808 4mo ago
One reason I like Go is the fast compile. Rust really slows you down. Esp in days of AI when agents are building/testing in cycles.
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by rr808 4mo ago
As someone working on a Sunday on a rainy memorial day weekend. Bring back the 5 day week!
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by rr808 5mo ago
Agreed, the biggest boom towns have been in the South where restrictions are low and profits high, leaving some really ugly suburbs.
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by rr808 5mo ago
There are millions of homes that are super cheap and no one wants to live there. I think we missed a real opportunity for WFH to allow people to move where things are more affordable, rather than having everyone live in mega cities and comp
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by rr808 5mo ago
I have 3 laptops, a PC and a PC at work and 2 phones. Passkeys still confuse me and I'm not 60 yet.
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by rr808 5mo ago
I quite like the new trend where you can login just by entering the 2fa on SMS or email. Skip the whole username/password.
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by rr808 6mo ago
I still remember those $3 uber rides.
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by rr808 6mo ago
I'm still on 23H2, windows update fails every time I try. This summer I'm switching to Linux.
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by rr808 6mo ago
I work in big financials. Everything used to be built on Excel. A lot still is but Python/Jupyterhub or custom applications has taken over a lot of the complex stuff. Excel isn't really essential any more.
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by rr808 6mo ago
I switched from C++ to Java/Python 20 years ago. I never really fit in, I just dont understand when people talk about the complicated frameworks to avoid multithreading/mutexes etc when basic C++ multi threading is much simpler th
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by rr808 6mo ago
Me too, I figured I spent more time on the computer than taking pics. Now I shoot jpg and if I have some spare time I go out and shoot. If I take a good pic I share it with basic editing if any instead of waiting to get it "perfect&quo
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by rr808 6mo ago
Yeah I started with that. Eventually did an electronics engineering degree. Now I just write python and CI config.
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by rr808 7mo ago
Still having your own hardware seems so much cheaper. Maybe even just for dev/uat environments? Every big corporate I have worked at has lower cost of capital than Amazon, and yet they want to move to AWS. I just dont understand it.
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by rr808 7mo ago
Nice, I didn't think of that. I love the fanless trend in Apple macbook airs.
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by rr808 7mo ago
Back then I didn't foresee the 22GB image our jupyter/ML is in 2026. There must be a better way.
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by rr808 7mo ago
The first Xeon looks to be released 1998, so sounds about right
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by rr808 7mo ago
I still remember my first CPU with a heatsink. It seemed like a temporary dumb hack.
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by rr808 7mo ago
The LG Gram is incredible, 17 inch thin light and powerful. However it has one of the worst keyboards I've ever used.
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by rr808 7mo ago
I think they're dumb but my wife loves them. The video quality is surprisingly good.

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