It's just been incredibly busy on my end.
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It's just been incredibly busy on my end.
My kids have extracurriculars every weekday and some Saturdays for the next several weeks, I'm wrapping up a fairly large change order on some of my 1099 work, and I'm launching a SaaS product; not to mention my normal W-2 job.
My employer is closing our facility at the end of June, but I'm not worried.
The five month severance pay is almost equal to what I currently make, and I'm sure I'll find work elsewhere.
After June, I'll have plenty of time for old projects I set aside.
Two days from Idaho to DC that seem pretty good.Quote:
First will be a couple days of training (Amtrak, specifically)
I shouldn't have said "a couple". I just wasn't sure what it would be at the time, though I thought it would be a few. At best, it will be roughly four days. It's hard to count, and actual experience may be quite different. The key is that I have to change trains in Chicago. Many things could go wrong with that change. Many things could go wrong before that. It will be an adventure.
Well Trump is dodging bullets again. I wonder what the record is? Unfortunately, in the US, since the shots were fired from outside the security perimeter, it doesn't have to be about him. We have a whole lot too many opportunity shootings.
I took a train out of Chicago once. That's a big station but I found the train ride very enjoyable. Nice seats, much more comfortable than a plan. But that was 45yrs ago. lolQuote:
The key is that I have to change trains in Chicago.
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If you had left on your trip a few days earlier, you might have been sitting next to this guy. The latest to let politics make him nuts. He didn't have much of a plan. Just bum rush all the security. He didn't even make it to the same floor as dinner.
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Blanche also said investigators suspect he traveled by train from Los Angeles to Chicago and then Chicago to Washington, D.C., before checking into the Washington Hilton.
I’ve taken the train from New Orleans to Denver and one of our stops was Chicago. It’s a beautiful station, although it was under construction when I went.
I will certainly keep you in my prayers (not sure if you're religious or not). When I left back in August, the job market was very tough, hopefully it's loosened up a bit and you can find something quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Porter
Tough here, but is it tough there?
It has to be a unnerving for young coders everywhere nowadays. With AI's current abilities and the likelihood of their abilities to significantly increase in the next 5 to 10yrs, it feels like there will be very limited job opportunities for general developers. Or a general developer will need a different skill set.
I had lunch with a friend of mine who is/was a developer for Apple. He told me that in the last five months his job has completely changed. Whereas he had been coding, now it's all supervising AI agents and doing code reviews on agent generated code. He said they only have to step in and write stuff largely when the agents have gone off the rails.
Not only does that suggest that writing code might be going the way of the COBOL, it also suggests where the new jobs might appear: herding agents. Knowing coding would still be important even if all you are doing is reviewing, but also, being able to describe a task adequately for an agent to do a good job might be a thing. The number of such jobs would likely be considerably less than the number of programming jobs today, though. Technology tends to work that way. One guy with a chainsaw could do the work of dozens with crosscut saws. One guy with a modern tree felling machine (don't know the proper name for them, and I think there are a couple different types) can do the work of a dozen guys with chainsaws. In each case, the number of workers declines for the amount of goods produced.
I’m constantly asked if I’m worried about AI replacing my job. My answer is always the same: until a client knows exactly what they want, I’ll be safe.
It doesn’t mean that I’ll be doing what I do now, but at the end of the day, LLMs are not a replacement for general intelligence.
I'm not constantly asked if I'm worried about AI taking my job, but if I were, I'd reply, "what job?"
I like that.
Hopefully not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Gas prices are interesting. I filled up the car on Friday, on the expectation that prices would rise. In fact, they fell, though only by two cents. That just seems weird, to me. Why two cents at that one station? Did they get a new shipment of gas that was just a little bit cheaper?
CA has some interesting gas prices. They are averaging over $6 per gallon, with some places over $7. CA is always some of the highest in the nation.
I was always surprised how long the lines were at our local Costco. They would be five or six deep. Their prices are low not low enough I would wait 30min to fill up. There is the 4% cash back if you use their credit card, that could add up @ $5/gallon.
Prices in WA are just behind you. They generally appear to be below $6/gal, though not by a huge amount. I did find one place with gas prices down around $5.10/gal, but that was on a reservation, which can have strange prices. In this case, it was a reservation for the odd Walmartian tribe with their blue plumage with yellow trim.