My fave is when I asked Claude to help out and it reads my code and comments inline and then tells me “stupidmanager, im not sure what you were doing and your comments show you weren’t sure either”

Wish I got a screenshot.

Also, I almost as quickly fixed the issue after asking Claude and then asked for a review to which I told me I probably should hide the comments.

Not sure when Claude got snark installed, but it’s to a point where I have a rule prohibiting it.

Going to point out that not only is *.* unnecessary, but he’s in ~ (home) so assuming it even worked he just deleted his home.

Try having an account since 2007 and logging in once a month to check in with friends, but this last year I get banned for using vpn. Same deal, verify, ban, unlock, verify, ban. I personally like that they tell me my account was compromised…

I have it running now on and old Mac that isn’t logged in with any other accounts. It’s on its own, doesnt use Adblock and uses the public WiFi from the coffee shop below my apartment. If I have to use Facebook, they can figure my usage patterns out without help.

Oh it’s worse, I’m on the tail end of Gen X, very early millennial depending on your interpretation of the defined years. And our definition of major purchase is very different.

I’m very financially sound and price shop, never impulse buy things. I’m not cheap, but I don’t rationalize something I want unless I’ve researched it.

But then there’s medicated me… I don’t take prescription painkillers unless absolutely necessary. High doses after a surgery have found me binge shopping on places like w00t for the dumbest things. I of course don’t remember ordering at 2am, 120 led candles with remotes and color changing flames. Or after a car accident I felt the need to buy 100 non-refundable boxes of emergency break ice packs (break the capsule and it gets cold for 20 min) - donated these to the local highschool sports club. And my all time favorite was ordering a go-cart, $3500 for no reason.

After some hard financial lessons, my ex just took away my phone if I was going to take high doses of painkillers.

New loans pay off the old loans. The cycle repeats. Seriously, if you zoomed out and looked, the billionaires and some upper 9 figure millionaires are in debt against their assets which clears on death. But the debt itself is low interest, and the assets are appreciating faster. Its one reason they say “hit a million and never worry about money”, though I think that number is like 5mil now.

You never actually spend your money…

Buy, Borrow, Die!

I’ve walked out of interviews that had these popular puzzle questions in the 00s. The company you’re interviewing for is not testing you for your job, it wants a corporate drone that is ok with bureaucracy and can navigate the red tape they’ve put in place.

Really a waste of time, but if I run into this at my age now I ask if they can tell me how their company is making something for the betterment of human kind.

Bleh. Late 90s I was a mobile pc tech and I could have used these gloves back then on some computers. People are gross.

Just had a conversation with someone on this last weekend. They’re what I call someone dependent on corporate daycare. They need to be working or they lack self value. Their boss is an ass, hardly works and this guy thinks he’s slacking at 12 hours a day (exaggerated only a little).

What are you doing that is so important? Is it saving someone’s life? Life changing cancer drugs? No no, it’s a PowerPoint that shows the progress on the projects of equally less important tasks that is only making your boss look good.

And the fucker still thinks he’s not WORKING HARD ENOUGH!!

+1 for cloudflare. But I don’t use their tunnel products, I just expose my ports to only their known IPs. With cloudflare you have a nice “free” waf in front with tls that points to a secure(nginx proxy) or unsecured docker container. Audiobookshelf is a great example. Is best to use their dns product too, for easy management of your public facing sites.