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I don't do it in my head. I do diagrams, then discuss them with other people until everyone is on the same page. It's amazing how convoluted get data from db, do something to it, send it back can get, especially if there is a queue or multiple consumers in play, when it's actually the simplest thing in the world, which is why people get over-confident and write super-confusing code.

1. Go here: https://www.thetruesize.com/

2. Type in "Taiwan"

3. Type in "Ukraine"

4. Overlap them.

5. Go here: https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.php

6. Find China & Russia

7. Now find Taiwan & Ukraine.

8. Ratio China/Taiwan and Russia/Ukraine.

Wish the Anunnaki just left notes on how they did it. Joking aside, suddenly gold is all over the news, e.g.: "Composite material adorned with gold nanoparticles improves infectious disease testing"* Gold is also going up in value due to global instability. What I am really getting at is - are there any "actual" applications at this time? Also, if anyone feels like summarizing what I could google - did graphene ever live up to the hype, or still too expensive to produce and not quite what it was advertised as?

* https://www.mining.com/composite-material-adorned-with-gold-...

There are a 1000 real estate schemes/strategies being marketed to people:

1. Flip - buy undervalued property, fix it, sell it. Variation: buy in bad neighborhood, fix, rent, neighborhood gets better, sell it.

2. "Buy cashflow" - e.g. find properties where rent > monthly payment/taxes/interest/maintenance. Impossible now.

3. Split and short term rental - buy house, fix, split single family home into 5 units (garage == unit, basement == 2 units, each room == unit, etc. I see this in the US more and more now, which is an indication of the economy.

4. Rent, short term rent out (often fully legally with consent of apartment / house owner). Benefit to this is no cash investment.

5. Houses at foreclosure auctions. tldr: Sell for more than normal open market houses now because everyone goes.

I can list about 15 more, but again, the point is that the market isn't what it used to be so none of these really work anymore, but it doesn't keep people from pushing them.

Real Estate is in a bubble and as much of a scam as everything else. Your age, with two older acquaintances who made millions from RE. The environment is NOT the same as when they were doing it. Every garbage house gets picked up by "investors" now that either scam (pain rotting drywall and put a new heater in, bump price 40%) or lose money on it. Or it gets picked up by real investors that have crews that can gut it entirely cost effectively. It's the same for flipping cars - the profit margins are razor thin.

The only RE investing that still works is buy, rent, have retirement equity in 30 years, maybe. Occasionally put some money IN. Potentially lose a lot of money mid term and hold paper losses if RE bubble pops. And guess what? Maybe not even that with the current rates.

It's funny to see people acting like RE is some bastion of stability. Stock market is inflated atm too.

The ycombinator title is made misleading by swapping "gambling" for "blowing" money - these are not the same words at all. One implies they are just living in the moment, the other implies they are trying to get rich quick at high risk.

If true, and I have no reason to doubt you based on the accuracy of your previous messages, you have made your point. I definitely don't know the F-35 chip specs.

Well, my previous trolling aside, you can build an internal combustion (or electric!) go-kart type deal on a mid software developer budget. There are plenty of university students doing so for under a couple of thousand USD. You can also experiment with RC planes.

I do realize how relative money is - it's "nothing" to a FAANG dev (though they probably don't have the time), it's potentially years of savings for someone working in the the 2nd / 3rd world.

Yea! And for the same amount of effort and difficulty I can recommend a couple as well!

- build your own kit car. Maybe start with something easy like a Ford GT with a V8 from a donor Mustang!

- build a kit airplane! Make it a jet for a little bit of extra challenge!

- make a rotary engine from scratch! Make your own materials!

- now a figure 8 propeller piston engine!

- create your own chip fab facility!

These articles are weird, delusional flexes.

1. "well, they control the advanced nodes!!"" - it is: "Taiwan is home to 92% of the production of logic semiconductors whose components are smaller than 10 nanometers". (https://www.forbes.com/sites/katharinabuchholz/2023/01/13/ad...)

2. "the things you're using these advanced chips for will no longer be relevant", "Missiles and radar powered by Intel/Altera chips will do the job just fine until more domestic fab capacity can be spun up." Hard-disagree. US advantage is in high resolution AESA sensors, thermals, and fast advanced processing and comms. We aren't talking Tomahawks and PESA radars when it comes to competitive advantage.

Finally, there is a reason why domestic fab capacity is ramping up slowly in the US and Russia doesn't have such capability to speak of - it's hard and the major powers are behind.

See what BirAdam said - he is correct. Armenia / Azer is a direct cause of Russia being drawn into Ukraine, insofar that Russia "guaranteed" peace and had a contingent of "peacekeepers" in Armenia. What you see is an acceleration on conflicts in areas that were held back by global stability before. Now that Russia couldn't react, Azer backed by Turkey (and arguably other powers in the West) pushed Armenia out of Nagorny Karabakh. If Russia wasn't in Ukraine, this would likely look like Georgia in 2008 where Russia would use this as an excuse to take some land. Instead they did nothing, because they are busy.

Africa is too much to summarize - basically look into what Wagner and US PMCs were doing there. It's just more proxy conflict.

Russia supported by Iran vs Ukraine supported by every major Western Power.

China vs Taiwan standoff. China recently built a Taipei city center mock up in the desert. Taiwan controls 90%+ of global microchip production.

Recent Armenia vs Azerbaijan (supported by Turkey) war. More tension on border.

Israel levelled Gaza and killed 30,000 Palestinian civilians, and is striking Lebanon and Syria. Iran posturing back.

Posturing in Africa by Russia, France, and China.

North Korea being noisy as usual.

This is literally just the tip of the iceberg.

Decent trench system.

Top 10% is basically a frugal tech-bro in a flyover. FAANG is top 5%. Assuming "over the course of at least 5-10 years" for both to get there. I doubt these are the people being discussed. These are basically millenials/zoomers that can actually afford the "American dream middle class lifestyle" - house, kids, savings, etc without an inheritance, but not much more.

Article is probably focusing on 10mil+ net worths at least, but likely "UHNWI" which are 30 mil+ who have time to think about this stuff.

Whoah, your friend is a badass! I also didn't know Ireland still allowed duels. Do you know if it's just short swords or what? Cool benefit for his dual citizenship. (sorry, sorry, had to).

I will acknowledge that people have tastes I don't understand - Children of Time was another collection of filler tripe that contributed nothing to the genre. Definitely put it down when I realized it's "A Deepness in the Sky", without the good parts, just "lol prehistory with spiders."

You brought up Martin - he has a passing understanding of history, combat, and was a veteran (aka is somewhat grounded in reality while writing fantasy), which is why Gemisin and Brandenson should not be used in the same sentence with him, and definitely not with Tolkien.

1. There is nothing imaginative about it. A child throwing out random ideas and copying cool scenes from TV shows at random is not "imaginative". It's made worse when every edgy social-commentary trope is forced in.

2. The biggest offense, of course, is the word "science" in her being labelled a "science fiction" author. A 4th grade understanding of the first chapter of a geology book that is immediately violated is not "science fiction".

Of course, I am mainly upset about the destruction of the Nebula Awards by the inclusion of the Fifth Season in the list among authors who actually understand science, computer science, served in the military, and overall have, and further, an understanding of how things work. Jemisin might be on par with that guy who wrote about magic balls catching lightning (Sanderson) in the Stormlight Archive, but neither of them belong on a good science fiction list.

Is this book in the same vein as "N. K. Jemisin is a real author"? Good to be forewarned.

It's probably the only poem I tried to memorize other than "Good Timber" by Malloch. I am ashamed to say I forgot both, other than 4 lines about "the woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep."

I don't really know Frost's other poems either.

Speak for yourself, I built the architecture that enabled a business to go from 50 mil to 3 billion revenue in the last 4 years and I have zero equity and a midwest salary. Really need to think about my life choices.

We were in a complete bubble the last couple of years. If you didn't work before the bubble, your perception of reality is entirely skewed. The mania was due to two things - tech companies outperforming everything else on the SP500 and easy credit for start ups. The response was over-hiring, a huge number of bootcamp grads, and everyone who could pivoting to an IT degree. Worries about the economy (record debt, etc) are just the icing on top of the tech over-saturation cake. Other, way overstated bubble is "AI destroying jobs". It's not reality, but the perception is there.

In short, it probably won't recover to bubble territory in the next 20 simply due to the huge supply of devs. On the other hand, the field does require some education, some IQ threshold, some persistence, etc, so there will be ok-paying jobs for a while. But again, if you started working circa 2021-2023, you will need to adjust your expectations.

I think he is proposing that tech company CEOs have some hands-on engineering experience at least for a short while. I agree with that - "MBA only" bosses really have no idea what it's like to be on the ground. I can't even emphasize how true this is, "no idea whatsoever" is a huge understatement. I thought they were faking to be lazy at first, but they really don't understand that some people need to actually do the work and what goes into it. And I say that as an MBA/CFA before engineering.

SWEs are not a tier where people care about your class much if you have the skills, speak professionally, and appear professional. Just don't talk about yourself. "How are you?" "Good". Yes, no one cares about you or your problems, but that's just work.

If you are aiming for director positions, yea, it's different story. Pro-tip - it won't be enough to pretend, they are mostly all related or went to the same school, worked together before, etc. So acting the same won't help much either.

In other words, as a SWE, you are blowing this way out of proportion.

I see the negs, but I don't see any coherent arguments, much like "irl", past "We just need it, ok". Nevermind the fact that even the OS-agnostic garbage argument falls apart the moment you do anything complex since it relies on the host kernel. Doing some graphics stuff (no, not games or AI, just say, PDF report generation)? Guess what, your library might be relying on OS-specific libraries and will break the moment you put your "agnostic" container on Linux. And now Docker desktop needs a license and everyone needs to learn Rancher.

Again, you don't need Docker. You aren't CoreWeave or a cloud provider. You DON'T need to virtualize your hardware and parse it out in pieces on a moment's notice. You don't need K8S to do a rolling update for you when on the cloud, you don't need Ingress to load balance, you don't need ECS/EKS to break every day.

I am persisting in hopes someone convinces me I am wrong by the way. This isn't a rant, I have a decade of experience of someone building a fancy container/orchestrator infrastructure only for all of it to fall apart the moment the DevOps team leaves. Perpetual cost center that adds nothing.

And yes, I know, I am not doing it right and we need Flux to fix all our problems now.

Terraform feels like a useless wrapper on top of AZ CLI and resource definition yaml files. In general, Terraform provides nothing but a useless wrapper that people need to understand.

Furthermore, most companies don't need K8S either if they are using a cloud provider. It only starts being cheaper if you forget what you pay the DevOps team (or senior devs who do DevOps on top of code) AND have a huge number of resources. Otherwise you literally have to be in maybe the top 30 companies for K8S to actually save you money.

1. The title sucks. This article is basically about adding lunges on top of walks. Conclusion: "Yes, adding lunges is good". Again, the title and the setup for this article completely misrepresent what it's saying.

2. My opinion, nothing to do with the article, though a lot to do with the misleading title: Overall, walking for 30 mins to an hour a day is huge and will increase fitness an incredible amount over nothing. Of course, it can replace neither intensive cardio, weight lifting, or mobility work. But throw a few hills in there, and it's probably sufficient to stay healthy.

All I hear is "tails are useful in space". Monkeys have tails. Monkeys descended from space. What if it was aliens?!

I am glad someone else has the same view point: Asimov and Stephenson are great hard sci-fi, but they can't write characters. Except Stephenson COULD, and did in Snow Crash and Diamong Age to some degree, but then stopped being interested in it. While VV had good characters in his books, even though I would argue he wasn't "excellent" at it either, and maybe Stephenson even surpassed VV in characters/story in Snow Crash.

I can't really judge Asimov - so many people stole from him that he just reads like War & Peace to me in the sense that it was probably awesome and novel at some point, but at this point it's just a little stale, even though Foundation was still cool...at least the first few books.

With that said, I don't put VV above Stephenson. Maybe above Gibson because I really appreciate the technical details, but not quite sure. To me VV, Stephenson, and Gibson are all the absolute top tier, at least in the sci fi realm. No one even comes close, as cool as some one offs by other authors, like Forever War, are.

Does anyone know if he got started on another book in the series?

I don't know Brin at all, my first thought was "Sergey?!" - will check out his books and appreciate the recommendation.