I'll never understand why tech companies choose some of the locations for their data centers. Considering a big thing with data centers is "keeping stuff cool", you would think they would build them in the northern states, closer to Canada versus the hot sticky swamp.
Readit Newscodelikeawolf commented on Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center fortune.com/2025/08/24/me... · Posted by u/voxadam
Seems like a United issue. I have been flying American and others lately, and it feels like very manageable hoofing.
Nothing compares of course to traffic on 90/355/190.
It's usually Alaska. I fly back and forth to PDX pretty frequently, so I get plenty of cardio at the airport. And you're right about the traffic, but I would argue that 290 is the absolute worst :)
I cannot relax before I’ve physically visited the gate, starting from the night before. I sleep poorly before a flight, waking up a hundred times to glance at the clock to make sure I haven’t overslept.
I’ve never overslept. It doesn’t matter.
So, my mental options are 1) give in, get up, take a leisurely trip to the airport without worries of an unplanned traffic slowdown, get through security, stroll to my gate to make sure I know where it is, then find a lounge and chill in relaxation knowing that everything’s fine, or 2) stress out that something might go wrong and make me miss my flight up and wish I’d left earlier.
I know me. I’ve done this plenty of times. This is my choice. So I go with the first every time: get there too early, then chill more than I possibly could if I were anywhere else. Either way I’m going to be up and moving. Why not use that time to radically de-stress my morning?
> I cannot relax before I’ve physically visited the gate.
Haha, oh lawd I can relate. After getting through security with hours to spare before boarding, I make sure to check that my gate actually exists before I can relax.
I too mostly fly out of O'Hare. Once I got global entry, I was a reliable 45-60 minutes before wheels up guy. I have never had Precheck take longer than 15 minutes.
I'm also an O'Hare flyer and the biggest time vampire you face there isn't long security lines, it's the four-mile walk to your gate lol
People are told to eat less processed food and more vegetables and yet we’re all fat. Nobody listens.
Anybody who listens to this either doesn’t travel much or is the sort of person who’d get there that early anyway. Unless I’m checking a bag (which means I’m going somewhere that I’m anticipating bringing a lot of stuff back) I lazily aim for an hour early and am closer to 45 minutes. I’d be even later but there’s substantial chance of random traffic between me and the airport I most frequently fly out of.
I take at least 6 - 8 flights a year and I have never needed to show up to the airport 2 hours early, but for some reason, I still do. Maybe it's superstition? I almost always end up at my gate within 15 minutes of walking into the airport (thanks TSA PreCheck!) That being said, even if I could confidently start showing up 45 minutes before my plane is about to take off, I'm essentially just sitting around at home, waiting to get a ride to the airport. So I'm either sitting in a chair on my laptop at home or doing the same at the airport. At least the airport has a Starbucks.
I immediately got "Pimp My Ride" vibes. Yo dawg, I heard you like HTML so I put HTML inside the canvas inside the HTML.
codelikeawolf commented on Amazon's AI Coding Revealed a Dirty Little Secret bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/quantified
That was in plain text in the PR? How’d it get through?
It's entirely possible that the PR was reviewed by AI and this didn't raise any robot eyebrows.
codelikeawolf commented on How to increase your surface area for luck usefulfictions.substack.c... · Posted by u/jger15
> Talking to people without an end in mind other than satisfying your own curiosity is the slow way that is the fast way. People love to talk about what they’re interested in, and by extension love to talk to people who are genuinely curious about the things they’re interested in.
I feel like this is generally good advice just to grow as a person. I love hearing what people are into, even if it's not really my cup of tea. I get to learn something new that I probably never would have found on my own. Plus, I usually end up making a new friend.
No joke, the main reason I got TSA PreCheck was so I didn't have to take my shoes off. All the other benefits were just nice extra perks. It was a preposterous policy and I'm glad it's gone.
codelikeawolf commented on 'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI' bbc.com/news/articles/cyv... · Posted by u/tareqak
I think there is a very real possibility that widespread AI use increases the amount of “repair”-like tech jobs, even if it simultaneously eliminates some of the entry level “create” ones.
The analogous situation to me is the 80s and 90s, when computers really started to be used by businesses and regular people. There were so many issues with the process of digitization, moving from paper files to computer files (for businesses), etc. that entire industries grew up around it. This was relevant to me personally, as my parents made a living doing this for decades.
So if AI results in a ton of half-baked broken-but-profitable software, it might turn out the same way.
I looove cleaning up/refactoring old code, improving build systems, writing tests, etc. I've been contracting part-time at a place for a couple of years now, and that's basically all I do. I suspect there's going to be a greater need for people like me in the near future. I don't think that the code LLMs or agents produce is any better or worse than the code it was trained on. Not to sound too judgmental or condescending, but there's a lot of crap out there. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned, because I have made a nice bit of extra cash cleaning that crap up. I imagine the description of what I do is going to go from "I'm being paid to fix issues caused by years of accumulated technical debt" to the title of this post. Ironically, AI helps me with my job to some extent, but I usually end up rewriting most of the code it generates because it follows the same bad patterns I'm trying to address.