I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but it will happen sooner or later.

It's interesting how this comes up when the west is the one that is trying to catch up :)

Fair enough, but the point still stands: innovation of equal benefit compared to isolationism once more with a hefty share of underhanded copying, which will ultimately result in similar technical capabilities anyways.

While historically this has been difficult to achieve, when innovation cycles shift there is an opportunity to shift ingrained practices too.

I do the same. Directed tasks with smaller context and start a new "chat" when it's done what I want.

Even as a techie, I prefer and use iCloud for exactly this reason, especially for stuff I share with family. I don't want me to be the bottleneck for what is considered basic functionality these days.

I actually I'd be even willing to downgrade my car one level if I'm not driving and just sitting in the back seat. Will likely be cheaper for me to own even with the increased subscription.

I've been meaning to get more components for a diy NAS since atleast the last year and just been pushing it lazily. I'm literally kicking myself now when I actually started looking up deals for this black friday.

Same here, I was waiting for DDR5 to come down in prices to upgrade from 32 -> 128gb. Could have done it for 200-300€ a few weeks ago, now I'm just sad.

Depending on how many disks you need, buying old PCs on eBay is the way to go because there are still some Xeon E3 ECC models available cheap ($100) with plenty of RAM (16GB) and four SATA ports for a NAS.

Check used RAM. I've been reading those are still often fine, pricewise

GraphQL sure, but I'm not sure I'd put kafka in the same bucket. It is a nice technology that has it's use in some cases, where postgresql would not work. It is also something a small team should not start with. Start with postgres and then move on to something else when the need arises.

One of our final projects during university was to design and program a basic database in C. Even after 20 years I think that was one of the most one I've had in a project.

We use a headless service and client side load balancing for this. What's the difference ?

instead of polling for endpoint updates, they're pushed to the client through k8s watches

I get the sentiment behind your comment but I have a few lawyers in the family and they work round the clock. They might be in meetings or pouring over documents all day that might not look like work to the average software engineer but trust me, they do work hard. And it's true for everyone - from junior interns to senior partners.

> They might be in meetings or pouring over documents all day

FWIW it’s “poring over” when reading carefully.

From Merriam-Webster

    “As a verb, pore means "to gaze intently" or "to reflect or meditate steadily." The verb pour has meanings referring to the falling or streaming of liquid (or things that move like liquid).”