I tend to agree. It's pretty easy to have cooking skills that out pace the trouble of driving, waiting, and ultimately only kind of enjoying fast food.
The advice I give people when rarely solicited, is that you work all day to ensure you have food and shelter. 1/3 work, 1/3 food, 1/3 shelter. If you routinely don't have time to cook and enjoy your food -- frankly, what are you doing with you life? Planning a menu, shopping for groceries, cooking meals, these things should take up your time! It's what you need to be doing. That's the point of this all!
Completely agree - we focus on spending time rushing to get food and things so we can get back home and spend time scrolling, but we should actually be spending time, in my humble opinion, cooking and enjoying life. I think over the long-term people in America will recognize this more and more.
Also, after a while you realize at least outside of some dishes like maybe ramen or something like that, you can cook day-to-day better than just about anywhere you can go out to eat. It also makes you appreciate really good restaurants a bit more too. At least that has been my experience.
And since they can sell the machine fully configured, sales of single CPUs or drawers must not be a big thing. They will keep stock for replacements, but I agree we won't see them doing multiple batches often. By now they must be well into the development of the z18 and z19 processors. This year Hot Chips I'd expect them showing the next POWER and, in 2026, the next Z, hitting GA in 2027 or 2028.
I was self taught for 10 years in the field and found a program that offers a Master's degree with work experience accounting for the undergrad. I didn't take calculus or stats in my undergrad and that has caused some headaches in completing the degree, but the amount of stuff I was exposed to in such a short period of time was incredible.
Very quickly into the program I was stuck by just how unethical it was for me, with no experience and certification to make guarantees and promises to an employer who didn't know better. In most fields the knowledge worker could be held liable for making this kind of "contract" (think lawyers, electricians, doctors, etc.).
You can be driven and motivated. You might have learned a ton on your own. You cannot know what you don't know. People in these comments will trip over each other to explain that education is subjective and you won't use any of that stuff in the real world. They have stories about wasted classes and dusty academics. The reality is much more boring.
* Lectures are very effective ways of provide a curated bit of information.
* Structured practice and verification (homework and grades) are quick ways to ensure that the start of learning has occurred.
* Working with your peers will likely expose strengths and weaknesses in your existing understanding of the subject matter. This often helps everyone involved.
* Reading academic publications and textbooks helps to standardize the shared understanding of the subject and ensures that future efforts to expand the field or solve hard problems are more effective.
You said in your post that you're not sure where to go with your career and your opportunities aren't evident to you --- go to school and give yourself some deeper knowledge. It'll help you figure out how to navigate the field.
In the UK there's this :) https://www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/qualifications/f66. No entry reqs at all. I've a friend who for various reasons back in the day got no secondary school (high school) qualifications i:e no GCSEs or A levels, no undergrad either, but did an apprenticeship and ended up as a software dev , did an Open University MSc and ended up with a Comp Sci Phd ! Open University always seems fantastic to me but maybe US employers would expect Americans to have an American qualification? Regarding your original Q to do the degree at all, absolutely, worth it for the mental development, also there are some great jobs out there that do require a degree and a shame to miss out. Having taken part in a sift for junior developer positions, the applications we get have a lot of cr*p, many people with bootcamps plus half-arsed / plagiarised GitHub. Those with a Real comp Sci degree plus some experience really do stand out.
I agree with this. I have to learn a lot about a new tool before I can effectively use the docs (beyond the getting started). If it's area where I'm already familiar, then sometimes I can jump in pretty easily, but often fumbling is a key step.
I got a masters in cybersecurity recently and I have no intention in switching career paths from my system engineering focus to cybersecurity. I don't see why this can't just be a foundational study path for computer science beyond the 4 year degree. I didn't base this decision off anything more than just my personal interest. The program was a good fit for me.
With that said the points the author is making about recruiting and driving salaries down are endemic to other areas. In my undergrad, I had a law-related class and the professor took a class to talk through the issues with job placement in the legal system and encourage students fulfilling an undergrad before LSAT and future JD, etc. to consider things like public policy programs so they didn't end up with mountains of debt and a degree that was hard to actuate into a career.
I can't speak to LWN, but from what I've seen this is a bot that crawls the site, generates search terms and "deeper" crawling techniques using AI, and then makes another set of requests.
This would be generating topical queries to add search for, e.g.,
We have been suffering this. It's easy enough to weather high traffic loads for pages, but our issue is targeted applications. Things like website search bars are getting target with functional searches for sub pages and content by labels, etc.
It causes the web server to run out of handles for the pending database lookups.
A real mess. The problem is these searches are valid and the page will return a 200 result with "Nothing in that search found!" types of messages. Why would the crawler ever stop? It's going to work and work until we all die and there's still another epoch of search term combos left to try.
We solve problems like this all the time, but we're hitting another level and really exposing some issues. Ideally our WAF can start to kick the traffic. It's good to see other people having this issue. We first started addressing this last fall -- around November.
I've been through both aspects. I really wouldn't listen to any of the people in this thread. Advice in this arena is so specific to domain and environment. If you don't remember function parameters for every builtin or stdlib of your language(s), you should look it up in the docs or use the LSP provided feedback. I have to reference my own libraries for docs sometimes. I just find myself in too many different codebases in a week to remember everything.
I learned more Bash and Python from running Shellcheck and Ruff respectively. Frankly, if your code has squiggles that get on your nerves from the LSP/linter fix the settings ... or better yet, correct the syntax. gasp
Hey, nice work. I think dedicating time and effort to documentation pays off in years to come.
Also -- from your original plug about your product I would have ignored it, but after reading through some of the docs, I actually see some use cases for this in a couple of upcoming projects!
I think Jaws of the Lion broke the rules down for Gloomhaven really well -- it introduced the complexities of the game slowly over scenarios. I would advise anyone who has a game that takes more than a couple of hours to play to have a way to start the game and then add complexity after initial barriers have been met.
Mechs vs. Minions is another one that does this iterative process of teaching.
This article looks great, I'll continue to read it.
I came to say the same about JotL. They got so much right in that game with the way they introduce the rules and the spiral-bound book game board being the most prominent.
The advice I give people when rarely solicited, is that you work all day to ensure you have food and shelter. 1/3 work, 1/3 food, 1/3 shelter. If you routinely don't have time to cook and enjoy your food -- frankly, what are you doing with you life? Planning a menu, shopping for groceries, cooking meals, these things should take up your time! It's what you need to be doing. That's the point of this all!