Any recommendations? Ideally looking for somewhere with a good enough amount of seats/space and a decent wifi. I have so far only found a few but would love to try more around LIC.
Keep in mind, this needs to account for the existing draft order (i.e. Can't just suddenly draft no. 1 pick of that year). No trading up or down. Keeping the same draft picks and order since 2015 to 2025, which player(s) do you regret the Steelers FO not drafting?
It is the year 2026 and I am currently still rocking my 2019 MacBook Pro with a non-stop thermally throttling Intel i5 processor with only 8 GB of RAM with the most battery-draining Touch Bar with the worst butterfly keyboards ever introduced that regularly malfunctions.
If I introduce more than 2 tabs of Google Chrome, the fan sounds like a lawn mower and heats up to 40 degrees celsius. In fact, the fan is so loud that it's honestly embarrassing to bring it to a public cafe because I know it will bother other people.
I started working with this bad boy at 8 AM on a full charge and by 11:30 AM the battery was already at 11%. I do not even understand how that is possible with the laws of thermodynamics but 2019 pre-silicon Apple managed to achieve it.
Summarise:
I can't wait to switch. M5 must be life-changing.
It is the year 2026 and I am currently still rocking my 2019 MacBook Pro with a non-stop thermally throttling Intel i5 processor with only 8 GB of RAM with the most battery-draining Touch Bar with the worst butterfly keyboards ever introduced that regularly malfunctions.
If I introduce more than 2 tabs of Google Chrome, the fan sounds like a lawn mower and heats up to 40 degrees celsius. In fact, the fan is so loud that it's honestly embarrassing to bring it to a public cafe because I know it will bother other people.
I started working with this bad boy at 8 AM on a full charge and by 11:30 AM the battery was already at 11%. I do not even understand how that is possible with the laws of thermodynamics but 2019 pre-silicon Apple managed to achieve it.
Summarise:
I can't wait to switch. M5 must be life-changing.
Bit of a paradoxical headline I know.
But I recently have been mentoring a woman in her mid 20s, who is attempting to transition from a finance background into programming with the motivation of learning technical skills to build/help build out products that she wants to create (startup oriented).
AFAIK when I first met her, she was essentially bare bones in terms of domain knowledge on computer science and software engineering outside of the very basics - all she had done were some python projects back in college in a financial data analytics class. Since then, in a space of about 6 months, her ability as a programmer has seemingly exploded exponentially on a scale I have never seen at a beginner level. It would be one thing for me to claim she is fully vibecoding/heavily leaning on AI when I review her projects, but she is always able to break down every single line of code that she produced and explain in depth/clarity of some senior programmers I know. Of course, she can't program at depth like a real senior engineer, but the way she thinks about systems/architecture/approaching a project is that of one.
In my opinion, she has one of the highest aptitudes in terms of logical and analytical thinking of anyone I have ever met (including some of the senior programmers I worked with at bigger tech companies as well as generally intelligent execs/partners I know at non-tech firms). The way she is able to learn a completely new concept - break it down line by line, understand it fully, absorb the knowledge, and then apply that knowledge in a new setting - feels a level above what I was like when I was learning & what I've seen from 99% of the beginner programmers.
Her level of work ethic is also ridiculous, likely stemming from her finance career, where she told me most days barring few weekends, she is coding 12-14 hours a day because she feels motivated to learn.
I know this whole thing sounds absurd, but I'm at a bit of loss in terms of how to mentor/guide someone who has blown past what I was like at my beginning career stage and is much more motivated about programming (at this stage of my career) than I am. Has anyone else met someone like this? It feels rare to see someone non-technical that is a) extremely motivated about programming after college and b) naturally gifted in intelligence.