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This isn't to say that poor people shouldn't go to college, but the subsidization of their ability to has spiraled them into debt and made jobs more scarce.

For all but a few highly technical degrees, usually those requiring certification, college served as a gatekeeping tool to ration the limited number of white collar jobs to families with generational wealth, which is why back in the day a kids "college fund" was so important.

For any job except those requiring a certification or license, you could theoretically teach yourself, college just standardized that teaching and mitigated risk for employers in hiring the wrong person.

When abundant student loans entered the picture, there is no more filter so at first we end up with too many qualified persons pushing wages down.

Then the colleges of course get greedy and want more student loan moan so they lower admission standards.

Previously a college had incentive to keep admission standards high because people paid top dollar for their name because employers recognized their name. If they let in a scrub they risked an employer hiring them and attributing their lack of ability to their school, thus lowering its prestige and what people would be willing to pay for it. There were also a limited number of people able to pay that prestige price.

Colleges no longer have that pressure, and its arguably more profitable to take mediocre students in for their student loan money than it is to be selective and command top dollar from a wealthy few.

This race to the bottom academically combined with an oversupply of graduates has made it a lot harder to actually get a job. College is no longer a gatekeeper its a minimum requirement and it no longer guarantees a job due to oversupply.

At the same time because its a minimum requirement everyone goes into more debt just to get the same relative inflation adjusted level of income a high school education got them 30 years ago, and the government guarantee of student loan money means the schools can raise tuition without pushback.

I don't really know of a solution to this, it sucks. I think the masters has become the new bachelor's and bachelor's is the new high school diploma. The problem with that is that due to academic standards dropping, a bachelor's degree really isn't much more rigorous now than high school previously was so today we simply go 30 to 60k into debt for a level of education that used to be free.

I went to college and was able to get a job. I work fully remote as a SWE and have for about a year.

Given how unstable tech is I have no interest in paying rent, despite being able to afford it if we assumed my income was guaranteed.

I outfitted a newer van as an apartment and mobile office. I get all my "house" electricity from EV charging stations. I come to my old college every day, pay to use the EV station to top up, park in the shade and work, and then head to a massive nearby hospital to sleep at night.

I shower at the gym.

As a single dude I have everything I need. My living space is probably about as big as a Japanese apartment yet my van just barely fits in a normal parking space.

Campus PD is aware of what I do because I asked permission but they do not know I am actually homeless, just that I loiter here during the day.

Do you think the college admin would be angry if they knew? I'm guessing they would probably only care if a lot of people were doing it or if I was causing a disturbance but I am sure some people have noticed me by now.

But its the only restaurant in my city that, when I asked ChatGPT to find one without gross food handling or safety concerns in the reviews (gloves, hand washing, etc) or health code violations, it passed. Literally the only restaurant aside from Culvers.

That was already the vibe I got but it gave me evidence to back it up.

I exclusively eat at either here or culvers when traveling because everyone else seems to hire hom3less apathetic tweakers.

Edit: not sure why everyone is so upset about a compliment lmao

Am I just seeing new car dwellers in the summer in the Midwest and north that ultimately end up in a shelter or what?

I just want somewhere to exist in my van where its legal to camp for the usual BLM time period but both easily accessible by van and unpopular.

Obviously a unicorn spot but I don't care about scenery. The only requirement is it not be in a state with worse outdoor roach activity than say Ohio.

I think the ideal spot would be remote and boring to look at so that its overlooked by most vanlifers due to not being scenic and far enough from social services it doesn't attract tweakers as being a convenient spot.

Its a lesser known secret that you can rent a small locked private office for a few hundred a month to use as a hangout spot, shitter and storage unit alternative.

But something I never considered.... I work remote and can afford full apartment rent but don't because I want to save money.

So what if I spent the money I would have spent on an apartment on a small retail storefront? Same perks as private office but I could do my remote work out of there and also multitask and run a retail store with no more overhead than the average normie remote worker who has an apartment.

On top of that id have a private bathroom I could macgyver a stealth shower stall in.

My employer doesn't care if I work multiple jobs they certainly wouldn't care if I did my job for them at a retail counter and occasionally operated a cash register. No different than playing a game while I wait for my CICD pipeline.

Worst case I have something cooler than an apartment, best case I get rich running some accidental business.

I'd have to debate whether to do something based on a hobby or research something out of my element thats lucrative.

But yea for anyone else working remote with a relaxed employer, this might just be a goldmine.

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I work remotely from my van, so I don’t really have destinations.

In fact because I do all my work with AI agents and I can verbally talk to them I don't have to stop driving to "work".

It creates this weird vibe where I just exist in public spaces with no apparent purpose while I wait on Claude so I just kind of stare and notice things and occasionally change spots just because. I'm not in any hurry and see the world totally differently almost like I think an animal probably does.

A cat doesn't need an articulated reason to move. It was under the tree. Now it wants to be on the wall. End of explanation.

Sleeping is similar, we all have our rotation of spotsjust like wild animals have various roosts.

I imagine homeless people are similar but because I never leave the van it almost feels like an extension of my body. Like I am one giant (v)animal.

I'm not even going to mention the fact I can piss and shit without going anywhere lol

I find it interesting chargepoint tells you the last time someone used it. Curious the longest period you have seen or otherwise evidence of it probably never being used (but still working)

I'm not going to doxx myself but I have the Peter Griffin cowboy-doctor-astronaut problem. I work full time as a remote software engineer, hold a license and actively work part time in a second highly respected profession (that people often would lie about being to impress people), and on top of all of this I live in a massive highly customized van that functions as a carrier strike group for all of my jobs and hobbies.

Does anyone else deliberately not tell people they don't know well all their jobs/hobbies because it would come off as lying? I've also found it dilutes my credibility in both my fields despite the fact I'm talented in both as they are completely unrelated.

Universal across all dealers. They hire people with no experience to be lube techs every single time I have issues.... loose hubcaps, wrong PSI in tires, etc. Heard many more horror stories in the reviews of just about every dealer. I'm at the point I'll probably just find a private shop I trust, unfortunately I travel so thats difficult when I'm on the road. Also I really wanted to keep all service at the dealer due to the warranty but they need to change their business model this is pathetic.

If opus 5 is beating fable on nearly all benchmarks and was cheaper then what the hell is it? Did they have a breakthrough or were they insanely gouging us on fable and didn't want to admit it so they rebranded it as opus 5?

Or did the latest benchmarks compare opus 5 to the likely nerfed current fable 5 (a lot of people suspect they are the same model)?

Reviewing three PRs at about 6k lines of code changes combined cost over $100 and its not even done. Nobody, not even a huge company is going to pay that.

Either they find a way to make it accessible at Opus 4.8 levels or the bubble likely pops. Hopefully thats the goal because at this rate it costs probably the same if not more than paying a senior dev to code by hand.

My company wants to move away from Anthropic, out of my hands. I have Claude max 20 and love it but I'm reading Codex doesn't even have a model with 1M context?

Is there really no competitor currently for Opus 4.8 1M on a subsidized $200/mo plan? Looks like my only option for that context window with Chat GPT woild be API and it isnt clear I can use it with Codex.

I just impulse bought the mission 1 pro as best buy only had 1 left. I'm not entirely sure its what i wanted so hoping to confirm.

Best available action camera currently available based on sensor size and image/video quality at a reasonable price?

Can I mount it to my vehicle and control everything remotely via the app?

Does it come stock with the normal gopro mounting attachment (the 2 loop things) or do I need to buy a housing that attaches to the gopro mounting?

Any other essentials to protect it?

"To date, the government has only given us verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak, which essentially consists of asking the model to read a specific codebase and fix any software flaws. "

Translation: Someones favorite zeroday got patched because of Mythos and they can't risk their targets finding out causing them to lose access to whatever they backdoored.

Think about this for a second, there is only two ways to infer this. Either an adversary discovered an offensive capability or a defensive one. If it was an offensive one they would have rushed to have it disclosed. This reads like its a defensive one they don't want their adversaries to patch.

The fact that Anthropic clapped back by saying even GPT 5 was capable of whatever they were worried about smells like whatever specific indirect information-by-watching-AI-fix-vulnerabilities example they provided wasnt the patched zeroday in question, it just frightened them into realizing Mythos probably could patch their most coveted zerodays if that same prompt was done on another specific codebase.

While them only banning foreign nationals sounds like its a foreign adversary they are worried about, my guess is they can't force Anthropic to shut it down so they pulled a lever they can pull in such a way that its impossible to comply with, having the same effect.

Is this against TOS? I assumed it was because they first $200 is so heavily subsidized but wondering if people are currently doing this without issue and if so do you use the same machine or different machines or what?

I'm basically a junior enhanced by AI which I have been doing for a few years now since I was hired. I am the only engineer in the company as one left and we are hiring a replacement as well as additional. I'm being asked to interview a new engineer and really assess their coding skills.

I can see if they're at least at my level, and maybe that's all my boss wants me to do, but how would I assess their ability without sounding like I'm questioning their ability? I know I can ask for projects they have done and to tell me how they did them and why they made the choices they did, or what challenges they faced, but I'd feel like a douche "quizzing them".

Anyone notice how the one business popping up everywhere including abandoned retail stores is storage units for the newly homeless to pay usury rates to store their stuff after an eviction?

They are popping up everywhere and they all have the same scam where they massively raise rates after a few months and punish their most loyal customers.

I'm wondering if I buy it through Home Depot or a major retailer if they will let me buy a protection plan from them.

I am getting it instead of Jackery for vanlife because it can charge at EV charging stations. To clarify, I don't have an EV but I do live in my gas powered vans and this would be a gamechanger. How long does it take to charge 10 kwh of batteries this way on the Apex? Also how good is their warranty vs Jackery for promised total cycles? I think Jackerys latest said like 6000 cycles and 10 years for their Homepower 3600 which is what I'm comparing this to.