And a lot of other situations with review bombing over the past decade.

The pi 500 looks amazing and I plan to order!

I was somewhat impressed with the specs of the raspberry pi 4. It was fast enough to run a desktop client for a bit. But it started suffering when I tried to code my regular programs on it. I turned it into a server and called it a day.

Where the raspberry Pi 5 is much beefier. And I was getting rid of my aging chromebook too.

No promises, but the monitor was built for low-powered devices. So it should work in theory.

I bought another portable monitor for $70 and that also worked. But so did a cheap $20 used LCD monitor.

At its price point, it’s very underwhelming.

I also did the math and I could get an average phone (used) every year for three years before I break even. And those average phones would be more powerful with each iteration.

Unless you’re bought into eco-friendly minimal waste messaging, it’s really hard to choose fairphone.

Here’s some BS. My phone’s battery replacement cost $220. ($100 for battery, and $120 to be serviced) That was the same price as buying a refurbished version of the upgrade.

I missed the days of just replacing the battery with a screwdriver.

In 2000s, website builders were supposed to make websites so easy, a grandma could make a website. Look how that turned out.

Also right now, I could argue that as a engineer, i can use AI to create mockups and I don’t need a designer. But designers aren’t going anywhere.

Devs/designers using AI to support our workflow is going to be the norm.

Don’t put too much trust in so called “certificates” from these schools.

Absolutely this.

During an interview, an applicant bragged about how he was at the top of his class in computer science and could not stop mentioning his GPA. I turned off my video because I couldn’t stop laughing.

His portfolio was dogshit too.

We just hired a former musician who spent his 20s-30s in a band, and his 40s playing in dive bars.

He took a 2 year bootcamp and he’s currently one of my juniors in his 50s. He told me the salary at the junior level was 2x more than he ever made.

Maybe he’s lucky. But if you’re obsessed with programming, you’ll make it. It’s a tough industry right now. But in two years, who knows? Maybe they’ll be a hiring spree again.

Hurtin’ hearts need some healin’, Take my hand with your glove of love.

“huge fan” 🚩🚩🚩

My experience with HN is comments from out-of-touch engineers and me-too startup folks circle jerking with themselves. Can’t say they’re any better than the random discourse on social media.

He didn’t really get “assassinated”. He just got denied his critical-life benefits.

Wait what? You know that leftists dislike Democrats, right?

Are you really not aware they are two different things?

Thanks to Trump judges, Presidents have Absolute Immunity.

Joe can absolutely start draining the swamp.

I remind my panicking liberal friends that the US only became a “Superpower” within the past 100 years.

So many countries have caught up.

Once trump gets in office, no one will ever be able to remember any of this because the shit will be a full never ending flow into a turbine

Yep. There’s literally a massive laundry list of BS trump did in 2016.

Biden honestly can do whatever the hell he wants because it’ll be completely buried in three months.

I remind my team every year that even seniors struggle at times.

I’m now 15 years in and at least twice a month, I’m coding with 40 tabs open trying to piece together the best solution, often just throwing spaghetti at the wall.

Getting increasingly hard.

I finally learned why those 50" tvs are so cheap, like $200. Buy a dumb TV that’s the same size is easily 5x the price.

Then again, nobody needs a TV and I only bought one during the pandemic, then connected it to my pi hole.

Who learns with five thousand files though?

This person is why we have that meme where devs would rather struggle for a week than spend a few hours reading the documentation.