PopeDotNinja

The best way I could summarize it is that coding is the easiest part of my job (unless I have to touch CSS). Working with people is by far the hardest part.

Not on a static road without people, animals, weather, geological events, etc.

I dunno. I've had pretty good luck breaking into SF companies, and I didn't get started until 40. But I'm a glutton for punishment and went through a lot of grinding to make that happen. I'd say it depends on how flexible your mind is, and how bad you want to put in the work to get it.

If you ever make it to Dubai, or any place with sand dunes, go dune bashing as a passenger in someone’s 4x4. It’s fun :)

It is sad. This is how I see it...

A platform is usually supplanted by something else. Big auto supplanted big horse drawn carriage. Jet engines pushed out propeller engines. Murdering EU Facebook with nothing is like ripping out grandma’s USA made hearing aids until & hoping a local starts a hearing aid company.

I’m 45. At 40 I wondered if I’d ever feel successful. I’d just been fired from a shit job that took advantage of me and once again I was trying to scramble to find meaningful employment. I found it a month later, and now retirement at 50 seems like a remote possibility if save aggressively and live a modest life.

Feeling hopeless at 40 sucked more than feeling hopeless at 20. Feeling hopeful at 45 is more amazing than feeling hopeful at 25. So I guess I appreciate the good and the bad more now than I used to.

And attention seeking clowns used to around before the Internet. I used to be one.

Yay!

I haven’t learned Rust yet, but in general I like to pick a tightly scoped, well defined problem & try to build that before I look up how to actually solve it. If you’re interested enough to try it, build a JSON parser, which is something I like to do.

In some places, they slap you on the wrist with a sword.

My personal gut reaction is to avoid touching dirty money at all costs. Life’s too short to try and explain that to a law enforcement professional with no imagination.

Think of smaller nuclear reactors as an option for places where renewables might not make sense, like in mining. Building power generation that costs 10x some renewable source will never make sense. However, building small scale nuclear as replacement for onsite diesel generators could make a whole lot of sense. Illinois Energy Prof has a good video on this => https://youtu.be/7gtog_gOaGQ

Hearing about the Giant Pacific Octopus always reminds me of the story about the guy who found a novel way to go Octopus hunting when hunting them was illegal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/magazine/the-octopus-that...

Basically when you can afford to build a business with giving away founder sized equity grants, you don’t NEED another founder, but you might want one anyway. The title itself is meaningless.

If that's they case, maybe AWS should raise the pricing on us-east-1 to fund improvements and/or encourage people to either move off to newer data centers.

So I figured out part of it. Google News pulled a TikTok and introduced a #ForYou page. Somewhere along the way, the #ForYou page became the default option. I switched the default back to top stories. We’ll see how it goes.

If you’re at the level you’re just starting out, there’s a good chance your home is your biggest asset. Forming an LLC won’t let you borrow money with no collateral, so there’s a good chance your gonna have to expose yourself to personal risk. If you have to put your home up as collateral, an LLC may not give you much.

My personal experience was that banks will start treating your LLC as an entity that isn’t an extension of you when you start getting up to a few million USD in revenue. Then you are likely to have assets like accounts receivable, signed contracts, inventory, etc. I may be wrong here, as I didn’t get to that level, but I remember conversations ending with “we can help you when you’re making 3 to 5 million.”

Absent mindedly is closer. Whatever you call reaching for something out of habit with thinking about it.

Honestly if I’d been given the job of babysitting a self driving car, the same thing could have easily happened to me. I’d get bored out of my mind and unintentionally pull out my phone & start browsing Reddit before I caught myself. It’s a shit, soul sucking job to actively do nothing.

A single member LLC in California is treated exactly like a sole proprietorship for tax purposes, except it costs you $800 per year. Unless you know you need it, you probably don’t need it. It won’t protect you from lawsuits, you’ll still have to provide personal guarantees on loans, etc.

Source: had single member CA LLC and wasted $800/year for a few years on it.

You could have a solar powered HVAC system that captures the condensed water, and then submerge the thing you’re trying to cool in that water!

P.S. am not HVAC wizard.

Sticking with something long enough to learn the difference between how it seems it should work & how it actually works.

You gotta be in it to win it.

I don’t disagree that purging unneeded code has value. That being said, software systems are so complex, isn’t it better to just leave code alone if it’s not negatively impacting the business? How many orgs have a micro service architecture that is so well tested that you can delete code from one service and demonstrate that won’t cause a failure in some other service? I haven’t seen one yet.

Interesting, thanks for the info.

The airport in Kona on Hawaii is built on a lava flow from Hualalai’s last major eruption about 200 years ago. Hualalai is still considered an active volcano, too. Maybe they’ve got a force field they haven’t told anyone about.

And how would you get them out to, and stop at, 550 AU? Voyager 1 and 2 are nuclear powered with RTGs and they are respectively about 150 AU and 125 AU from the sun, and they are going really fast. The Voyager RTGs are also fairly depleted at this point. I’m guessing these spacecraft would need a faster, more efficient mode of propulsion, like a nuclear thruster or ion drive (or Epstein drive?!). One could also get a lot more fuel for the journey if the the probes didn’t have to launch fully fueled from the Earth’s surface.

I’m never going tie my money to a voice activated anything. The last thing I need is to have a prankster on YouTube say “Alexa buy 1000 rolls of toilet paper” at March 2020 prices.

How do negative mortgage rates even work? My brain doesn’t understand that. Does the bank make money on fees or something? -1% mortgage rate and 3% in processing fees?

I was definitely in this camp earlier this year. I had traveled solo to La Palma in the Canary Islands (part of Spain) in March to enjoy some of the most scenic outdoors anywhere during the day, and work remotely in the evenings. When lockdown occurred, I was boxed up all alone in an apartment with a nice view of the beach 25m from my window, but I was unable to go outside for exercise. [1] I got grumpy and irritated and anxious from being so isolated very quickly.

[1] https://photos.app.goo.gl/VgFmChqpErAPsMrA9