It is, yeah. It’s like 100% of the reason for me. I’m gonna buy an iPhone later this year most likely.

Their networking cards are great too. They just can’t come up with any answer to Ryzen.

I don’t think going to school prevents you from transitioning into a management role, nor does it seem to have prevented you from obtaining a career in the industry.

I don’t think it’s necessarily fair to blame your degree for a lack of management positions, you could always transition into management like others have done. I don’t think those others got hired into management specifically because they didn’t have a degree, or because they were high school dropouts. It’s entirely possible they only got into their roles through nepotism, which would have nothing to do with a degree or a lack of a degree anyway.

With that said, yeah, the money being made in the trades by business owners… yeah, that would have been nice, but even then there’s no guarantees that everyone can start their own successful business and make well into 6 figures and beyond.

Hi there, now you have my curiosity.

Which degree was it, why do you regret getting it?

I’ve never met anyone who regretted getting their degree.

I have met people who regretted not getting one because it closed doors for them (including talented people who were otherwise doing well at their jobs) so if someone is really going to forgo their degree, they should acknowledge it’s a risk.

Even if you don’t get a CS job you should still get your degree anyway, it will make getting other jobs easier. A degree is better than no degree.

I hadn’t heard of Forgejo, although I realize now that I have seen repositories using it before. I think it’s cool that they even have statically linked binaries of it but it’s a bit concerning that like an entire web server is built in because what if there’s vulnerabilities? I guess if you regularly stayed up to date it’s not too bad then.

Edit: Oh, sounds like it’s a fork of Gitea which I have heard of before, interesting.

Well yeah, it’s a for-profit company. They exist solely to make money, that’s their entire goal.

It’s almost all marketing and has been for a while. ChatGPT peaked with 4o (and 4.5 if you used their API), 4.1 was a step backwards despite them calling it an improvement, and 5 was another step backwards.

They are not any closer to AGI, and we’re not going to see AGI from LLMs no matter how much they claim just how close we are to seeing AGI.

At this moment there is only one potentially viable way of approaching this and it’s government regulation of some kind. Either government needs to regulate that payment processors get no say in the contents of customers business, or else they need to regulate the adoption of a neutral digital payment system.

I think it’s more likely for me to win the mega jackpot, and I don’t even buy lottery tickets.