Steven Schroeder

@zuess05 I’m calling BS on “production ready”. People throw around that word without knowing what it means. You can build an active/active multi-homed on prem (and remote) system that survives network loss by vibe coding? Yeah good luck with that.

Serious question. For 20 years, a "Software Engineer" was someone who spent thousands of hours mastering complex syntax, logic, and architecture. Now, a 19-year-old can vibe-code a production-ready SaaS in a weekend using plain English and a $20 Claude subscription. What does the title "Software Engineer" even mean right now?

@TK1841 @AGJamesUthmeier 3 with meaning for non alcohol related establishments. 2 apply to licensed carriers, one doesn’t. 2 for alcohol related establishments that apply to everyone. None apply to cops. 🤷‍♂️

@schroedingerdev @AGJamesUthmeier Texas has four (?) I think different versions of signage that convolute everything. They are no better at this than anyone else.

I don’t think so. Not on my watch. If anyone's right to carry under Florida law is denied, contact my office. There will be serious consequences, including personal liability for public officials, for violating any Floridian’s Constitutional rights.

@multiplanet1 @elonmusk I can’t speak for him, but I have a feeling his engineers don’t make up elaborate performative stories about how they (or he) they their (or his) work done. He seems to like the type that actually do work.

@schroedingerdev @elonmusk Why?

There is a room inside SpaceX that fewer than 20 people have ever entered. It has no official name. Employees call it the Vault. There are no windows. One door. No phones allowed inside. No laptops. No recording devices. A Faraday cage built into the walls blocks all wireless signals. What happens inside that room has shaped more of the modern world than most people will ever know. This is where Musk makes his actual decisions. Not in board meetings. Not on Twitter. Not in the public interviews where he says provocative things and the media argues about whether he's a genius or a villain. Those are theater. Necessary theater, but theater. The real decisions happen in a room with no signal, no recording, and no audience. Every major SpaceX milestone was decided there first. The decision to attempt landing a rocket on a drone ship. The decision to build Starship out of steel instead of carbon fiber when every engineer said steel was outdated. The decision to build Starlink. The decision to bid on military contracts that Boeing and Lockheed had monopolized for decades. Each of these decisions looked insane from the outside. Each one was the product of hours in a room with no noise. Musk has talked about this principle indirectly. Never naming the room. But describing why it exists. He said the quality of a decision is inversely proportional to the number of people in the room when it's made. He said most CEOs make their worst decisions in meetings and their best decisions alone. The room is his technology for being alone. In a world where every thought is interrupted by notifications, every strategy session has 15 people with competing agendas, and every CEO is performing confidence for an audience, Musk built a physical space where none of that exists. No signal means no interruption. No phones means no distraction. No audience means no performance. No recording means no self-censorship. What remains when you strip all of that away is the only thing that matters for decision making. The actual problem and your actual thinking about it. Most people have never experienced this. They think they've thought deeply about something. They haven't. They've thought about it between notifications. They've thought about it while performing thinking for an audience of colleagues. True thought requires the absence of everything except the thought itself. I don't have a Faraday cage. But I started creating my own version. Two hours per day. Phone in another room. No laptop. Just a notebook and the problem. The first week felt almost physically painful. My brain kept reaching for stimulation that wasn't there. Phantom phone checks. The urge to quickly look something up that was actually the urge to escape the discomfort of uninterrupted thought. By week three the quality of my thinking changed in ways I can measure. Solutions appeared that never surfaced during normal screen-filled days. Connections between ideas formed that couldn't form when attention was fragmented across 30 browser tabs. Most people live at 5% signal and 95% noise. They make every decision inside that noise and wonder why the decisions are mediocre. Musk built a physical space that inverts the ratio. 95% signal. 5% noise. The decisions that come from that environment are categorically different from anything the noise produces. You don't need a Faraday cage. You need two hours, a closed door, and the discipline to leave your phone in another room. The best decision you'll ever make will come from the quietest room you've ever sat in. The rockets are impressive. The room that decided to build them is the actual invention.

Noise, lights, and pricing are all legitimate concerns. Fair enough. I just think the water situation is overhyped by people who forgot about the water cycle from 5th grade. Yes, distribution and availability of potable water is a concern. But it’s not like data centers use water such that after its use it’s gone forever.

@schroedingerdev @WallStreetApes Well, actually, a lot of the water does evaporate. That's not really a recycled situation. The people that live in Abilene hate the noise, the lights and how now there's no where to live and rentals/hotels have sky rocketed.

This is Lake Corpus Christi in Texas The dark scarred patches in you see are exposed lakebed, this used to all be underwater There is a drought and an extreme demand for the water for industrial uses like refineries The Mathis water crisis is so great, they’re drilling emergency wells and could lose pumping ability soon Lakefront homes have lost value. Businesses like marinas are hurting. The state park is still open but it looks very different Keep in mind, Texas a while is in an extended drought, yet they are going from 40 data centers to 400 planned data centers in the next 2 years It’s insanity

@multiplanet1 @elonmusk No need to apologize. He’s not gonna hire you lol.

@elonmusk Sorry Elon, thought it was true. Great success for the SpaceX IPO! You are the best!

@multiplanet1 @DarthJarJar___ @elonmusk Where? Cite your sources.

@DarthJarJar___ @elonmusk I genuinely had read somewhere about this room.

@WattMells @Girl64Saved @WallStreetApes lol. No. 7th generation Texan. One that listened in school and can think critically.

@schroedingerdev @Girl64Saved @WallStreetApes Californian 🫵

@Girl64Saved @WallStreetApes The Abilene data center uses closed loop cooling. It isn’t just sucking in water and dunking it down the drain. And even if it was, that would be recycled at the wastewater treatment plant. And water turned to steam is recycled in the atmosphere. 🤷‍♂️

@WallStreetApes Lake Travis looked like this in 2011. Praying the Lord refill the lakes. The data centers have got to stop. The one in Abilene is awful.

@Tejano_Bob @WallStreetApes Just fly over it in a real plane and take pictures. It’s not a conspiracy. I can rent a plane and fly over 99.99% of Texas right now. Literally only Pantex, Crawford, and Bush Jr’s Dallas mansion are perma no-go’s. And in the case of the Bush properties it’s only to 2000’.

@WallStreetApes Now I understand the FAA drone restrictions they have been placing in certain areas. Can't have people learning the truth while they grind to pay that tax bill.

@RealSilver1977 @WallStreetApes It’s a contrail. 🤦‍♂️ It’s literally an ice cloud that happens when hot humid air mixes with very cold air. What you’re seeing is a cloud. From two different air temperatures/humidities mixing. There is no spray.

@WallStreetApes Stop the spray. It is drying everything out. People are solar and hydro-powered.

@PatPowe05917155 @WallStreetApes @1bigJawBone Even Caddo was formed by damming, just a natural logjam than happened by circumstance. It is a “natural” lake in the way many people would think. But we do have 2 actually natural lakes: Sabine and Green. Green is tidal, Sabine was likely formed by rising sea levels.

@WallStreetApes @1bigJawBone And don't forget. EVERY Lake in Texas, except Caddo, is man-made. We are not a "wet" State. Large bodies of fresh water are unnatural in Texas.

@a80486dx2 @ayesha_fatiima Oooooooh. Yeah, we’re much too far gone there. Just torrent React OS, and cry. Intoxicating liquors may also temporarily help.

@schroedingerdev @ayesha_fatiima We mean different things by "the corporate issue," I meant their political influence on the distribution software.

Since Canonical keeps making anti-Linux decisions, it's getting ridiculous. They are forcing Snaps on everything (even Firefox via apt), spam terminal with Ubuntu Pro ads, and the Snap Store keeps letting malware through. This isn't the Ubuntu we loved anymore. It's turning corporate. Time to switch. I am planning to go with fedora or something else

@Itsfoss I’m a generous leader.

@schroedingerdev Good to see that you included progress bar in it

Share your favorite command line trick or tool to free up disk space on Linux 👇

@OndrePenner @Itsfoss Works great. Just too obvious is all.

@schroedingerdev @Itsfoss Good ol rm -rf / seems to be out of fashion nowadays

@SheriffEd_HCSO @HCSOTexas Throw one of these bad boys in the window. Have deputies ready to receive seasoned perp at the doors with a X12 LLS, and typical M4/M16 cover. Fin.

To our community members near Telge and Tuckerton: The @HCSOTexas Violent Criminals Apprehension Team (VCAT) and SWAT are at a residence located in the 16200 block of Coleburn. Members were conducting a warrant service for a felony warrant and the wanted man has possibly barricaded himself inside the location. #HouNews

@droidbuilds @brahma__xD Oh, AI pulling from a Reddit post. Yes, very precise.

if macbook is so powerful. why do most developers still use windows?

@a80486dx2 @ayesha_fatiima RHEL or SUSE both solve the corporate issue, and have for decades.

@ayesha_fatiima Ubuntu always was a shit Linux distribution. Fedora way is better. But it doesn't solve the corporate issue however.

@project35816610 @ayesha_fatiima Free? Corporate? These two things don't mix. Just pay for RHEL. Free? Stable? These two things do mix. Previously, CentOS, now Rocky or Alma.

@ayesha_fatiima What a free Linux distribution for a corporate server you suggest instead of Ubuntu?