The brief video OpenAI did sets the stage as I see it - for an evolving kind of engineer. Who will think and design as much as know code.

Captive Wi-Fi has changed at cafes and businesses. My experience is, Starbucks blocks local hot-spots. You're forced to use their Captive Wi-Fi and only their Wi-Fi. This formerly wasn't an allowed thing.

Are they mining data? Does this promote some ambiance? There's probably 3 different answers, and you'll normally hear 1 is the reason.

It's probably more to do with QOS algorithms. Unless you're not browsing TLS-protected sites there isn't much data to mine. Wifi eavesdropping is mostly a solved problem these days. If starbucks could MITM your wifi connections to mine data we'd have bigger problems.

What’s a local hotspot and how does Starbucks block it? It’s illegal to jam signals (assuming a “local hotspot” is some Wi-Fi network from a neighboring business or center?)

It's using your phone's "hotspot" feature to get your other devices online without signing into the wifi. Modern smart phones have this built into the OS. The phone broadcasts its own SSID and the laptop or other device connects to that, and then the phone acts as a router with its own mini NAT and DHCP stack.

It can be blocked because the wifi equipment at the cafe can see multiple MAC addresses emanating from one client, among other techniques.

That doesn’t make sense. Why do you care about the wifi equipment in the cafe if you’re connecting through your phone? The cafe’s wifi isn’t even in the loop.

What I meant is that I’ve noticed cable-provider hotspots often stop working inside cafes like Starbucks and you can reconnect to them as soon as you step outside.

How do they block them? The only way I can think of would be signal jamming, which is super illegal and would have the FCC on them like brown on coffee beans…

Right. Check out the products they started with. Lots of YouTube out there on the topic.

Yes even lifts, pickers, etc are in the realm of not having financial-econ impact for the groups that have invested or bought them.

I don't think that's true at all. I had warehouse experience before going into software and automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) such as the mini-load type systems are vastly impactful. They are far superior to forklift based retrieval or worse still, human picking.

Certainly this AI report is prone to error and needs clarification. But it's a great starting point. Would love to see the page expanded on with sources. This:

    business-software-applications: 20,248
    software-engineering: 16,992
    cybersecurity-engineering: 11,476
    software-engineering-leadership: 10,608
    data-and-analytics: 10,379
    machine-learning-and-ai-engineering: 8,793
    full-stack-software-engineering: 8,369
    java-software-engineering: 8,114
    software-quality-assurance-and-testing: 6,250
    devops-engineering: 5,381

Should be broken down with a tree that shows location.

AI

Aye, AI.

AI what?

The market kept seeing huge gains despite the inflation and recession narrative circa Dec 2022-Jan 2025. This one should be interesting too. Truth is, we're in a bull market. NPR is CNBC is NPR

TSLA stock looking good again today. That's all I'll say about last June.

This was great stream of consciousness. Sub-stack is more appealing now.

Logistics are a nice guard rail for the pro-sport wealth management conversation. Let's presume rates of success are still low. Why.

Consciousness. We all have a wealth consciousness.