Yeah but that's not tech, the positive are just result from legal loop holes. I would say though that Taxi companies now have proper app because Uber forces them to catch up with the tech. Calling taxi in the pre-Uber era was literally hell.

> Calling taxi in the pre-Uber era was literally hell.

We clearly live in two completely separate parts of the world. I'm from Denmark (where Uber ran away after being told they had to operate as a taxi company) and calling a taxi was never a problem for me. You called the dispatch, said roughly where you were, and they can by with a dude in a car who you then told where you wanted to go. By now the taxi companies have apps too, but the experience is roughly identical.

The prices suck, but that's not really a usability problem.

Uber couldn’t exist before a critical mass had a smartphone with GPS in their pocket. I don’t see what the bar is if we don’t consider it revolutionary. Anything that goes mainstream is going to eventually feel pedestrian and watered down from a tech perspective. But if you look at how most people lived and worked 30 years ago to today it’s a massive change.

More like you are not allowed to work. Loss of work experience, loss network, not even accounting for inflation.

I would welcome an opportunity to walk away from the entire tech industry with a guaranteed-for-life income, allowing me to pursue dreams without them needing to be financially viable. Setting up as a high end timber boat builder without ever needing to turn a profit while still having the same income I do now is something I'd jump at immediately.

While I agree with the sentiment, you could lose that income at any time should they close to drop to non compete.

Plus, nobody says you can't work in any other field you like, just not whatever you used to do.

Net present value of 50% of salary for the next 30 years is something like a million dollars for most HN commenters, I'd guess.

Except it's not "for life". It's until they feel free to lift the non-compete. My guess is that most information you take from a company is irrelevant in a couple years. Maybe 5 tops?

Plus it'd almost certainly end with zero notice. You'd get a email saying "you're free to go". Suddenly. After say 26 months.

So it's not like a "pension for life" - just a gap in your employment history.

Oh no, ah jeez, slightly more than one year of income for zero effort, darn.

Any employment gap can be easily explained by saying "I was under a non-compete and being paid garden leave while working on personal projects to keep my skills fresh". It's very common in e.g. the finance world, I believe.

I suspect most people with that sentiment don't have a mortgage/kids/etc. I have known youngish people who got a very nice severance package back in the day and essentially took a 6 month sabbatical. I don't really see a problem for getting future jobs so much. But it is a loss of significant income (assuming you were well-compensated even if you're still being paid something) and may not have great alternatives for income though, if you're in the position to do so, you can of course travel or whatever.

I've no argument with the severance cash, I'm saying that you can't just revert to a hobby because you have an "income for life."

The uncertainty means you're still out on the job market looking for a real job.

There's perhaps significantly lower total compensation and potential uncertainty. A lot of people just aren't in the position to travel the world (or whatever) for a year. Or even work on an open source project that may or may not even be within the bounds of the non-compete depending in the company.

And loss of negotiating power -- the company knows your BATNA is garden leave, and probably not a better offer.

Not sure how your family is using it. But I find that a laptop using as a desktop has a much longer lifespan than a laptop using as intended ( a traveling work station ). Things like moisture, accidental drops, keyboard issue is much more common.

That's true I use laptop in that mode maybe 20% of the time and 80% it's plugged in.

I find that with enough wrong answers it feels like you are fighting alone again haha.

I find it exhausting in a yes-man kind of way where it does whatever you told but just somehow wrong. I think your human case is the reverse.

Just like a person would. If you want it done right you have to do it yourself. Or you have to tell the LLM exactly how to do it.

Often I find it easier to just do it myself rather than list out a bunch of changes. I'll give the LLM a vague task, it does it and then I go through it. If it's completely off I give it new instructions, if it's almost right I just fix the details myself.

In so many ways, LLMs are like that very energetic and confident Junior developer you hired straight out of college who believes he knows everything but needs to be course corrected constantly. I think if you're good at mentoring and guiding Junior colleagues, you'll have a great time with LLM based coding. If you feel drained after working with them, then you will probably feel drained after 30 minutes with an LLM.

Piano layout is suprisingly robust, just use a bigger size key like organists do.

OP needs the walking piano from the movie "Big". That'll give them a workout.

This is one of the thing that smart watches should be doing, or even better, something like https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2022-10-17-otp-on-wrist/.

I thought receipt paper is pretty bad due to BPA ?

I think what really matters is how much code of that language is on StackOverflow :)

Ever since I first read this theory, I have always been wondering how credible is this. Where have you heard it from ?

I am not sure, but probably related: https://evonomics.com/why-capitalism-creates-pointless-jobs-....