I'm not a blue angel, but when I used to be a pilot literally every time I went to sim, I would chairfly for maybe an hour a night, visualizing and moving my hand to where the switch was, etc. for each and every…
Who are you to define what meaning is, where it comes from, etc.? There are many more ways to contribute to something larger thab yourself than work too
> maybe people don’t like being told they are not special is not really a rebuttal of what I was saying. People are all trying to be John Henry here… common people
I used to be a paid professional scientist for a few years. I think your take is quite naive here.
I doubt that lasts for very long. Regardless, we're all needing to learn that we weren't as special as we thought we were.
I was gonna say, "first time?" We were the bane of everything's existence for like 20 years, despite having the highest test scores, the best educations, working more hours than everyone, and making less. Come on in,…
The plagiarism and copyright stuff is just a smoke screen. A lot of people are upset because they used to be special, their identities were tied to them being smarter, or having more niche domain knowledge than anyone…
> math has destroyed a major source of “life’s meaning” YOU ARE NOT YOUR WORK! My god people! The meaning you get from life shouldn’t be reduced entirely to the job you do. Mathematician, or programmer, or pilot, or…
You say that, and then here I am basically vibe coding SaaS for money right now lol
Yeah it depends on the industry, but SaaS is damn criminal lol Personally I’m perfectly happy with having like several good companies ideally in different industries that I can do a good job for. I mean, we will see…
It’s incredibly easy; when something breaks I fix it. 95% of the time that is just me pointing Claude or usually codex at the problem and drinking coffee.
All word of mouth so far from an industry I’m intimately familiar with. So maybe YMMV, but I started by saying, “hey, let me build something for you, if you like it we can figure out how to pay for it” then I started…
You think a construction company or an air taxi has an in house engineering team? Good lord guys…
Lolz, I’m literally doing this right now for a living. When a software suite costs a company $70-100k per year that does a bunch of stuff they don’t want, they’ll definitely pay you to build bespoke tools for $24k per…
People are scared is why.
This is because the ticket is “don’t scale.” You’re not going to be a billionaire, just be happy doing a good job making niche things for companies. You don’t need 800,000 users. You need 8 small businesses that are…
I just want to say, as one of those filthy American types, that you always have the right to refuse anything, in any country for any reason. You might be persecuted for it - but that right to say, “F-you I’m not…
I love lisp and think it’s amazing. One of the things that commonly throws me off when I haven’t been writing it very much day to day is sometimes it’s unclear what’s going to be returned by a function. An explicit…
Has t this sort of thought been the constant refrain of every generation at the advent of new technology?
I haven’t dug into the stats, but if they just stayed level while everyone else fell it would look like a rise relative to everyone else, no? This could just be them staying level while everyone else slumps - or maybe…
No, it’s not. That analogy is bonkers. People should actually make their kids do stuff that’s intellectually challenging and push them to succeed. The test scores are in part (in my opinion) because people can’t be…
Dude I was pulling dying people out of the arctic and my wife was putting patients on ventilators. But “oh no… I was bummed because I couldn’t go to the mall!” You have no idea. Not to mention, I literally got sick that…
If you’re not trying to push your kids to do better and have some agency etc., you’re doing a bad job at parenting. People have a responsibility to their kids and to the future, and part of that responsibility involves…
Seriously. I cannot stand this revisionist history nonsense about how "terrible" the lockdowns were. Meanwhile my wife was on the front lines watching people die on vents, and I was literally medevac-ing people out of…
> The two categories of people I know who say this are elite-college graduates and parents of kids who crashed out of their standardized tests. I mostly see business people who are already successful people saying this…
I'm not a blue angel, but when I used to be a pilot literally every time I went to sim, I would chairfly for maybe an hour a night, visualizing and moving my hand to where the switch was, etc. for each and every…
Who are you to define what meaning is, where it comes from, etc.? There are many more ways to contribute to something larger thab yourself than work too
> maybe people don’t like being told they are not special is not really a rebuttal of what I was saying. People are all trying to be John Henry here… common people
I used to be a paid professional scientist for a few years. I think your take is quite naive here.
I doubt that lasts for very long. Regardless, we're all needing to learn that we weren't as special as we thought we were.
I was gonna say, "first time?" We were the bane of everything's existence for like 20 years, despite having the highest test scores, the best educations, working more hours than everyone, and making less. Come on in,…
The plagiarism and copyright stuff is just a smoke screen. A lot of people are upset because they used to be special, their identities were tied to them being smarter, or having more niche domain knowledge than anyone…
> math has destroyed a major source of “life’s meaning” YOU ARE NOT YOUR WORK! My god people! The meaning you get from life shouldn’t be reduced entirely to the job you do. Mathematician, or programmer, or pilot, or…
You say that, and then here I am basically vibe coding SaaS for money right now lol
Yeah it depends on the industry, but SaaS is damn criminal lol Personally I’m perfectly happy with having like several good companies ideally in different industries that I can do a good job for. I mean, we will see…
It’s incredibly easy; when something breaks I fix it. 95% of the time that is just me pointing Claude or usually codex at the problem and drinking coffee.
All word of mouth so far from an industry I’m intimately familiar with. So maybe YMMV, but I started by saying, “hey, let me build something for you, if you like it we can figure out how to pay for it” then I started…
You think a construction company or an air taxi has an in house engineering team? Good lord guys…
Lolz, I’m literally doing this right now for a living. When a software suite costs a company $70-100k per year that does a bunch of stuff they don’t want, they’ll definitely pay you to build bespoke tools for $24k per…
People are scared is why.
This is because the ticket is “don’t scale.” You’re not going to be a billionaire, just be happy doing a good job making niche things for companies. You don’t need 800,000 users. You need 8 small businesses that are…
I just want to say, as one of those filthy American types, that you always have the right to refuse anything, in any country for any reason. You might be persecuted for it - but that right to say, “F-you I’m not…
I love lisp and think it’s amazing. One of the things that commonly throws me off when I haven’t been writing it very much day to day is sometimes it’s unclear what’s going to be returned by a function. An explicit…
Has t this sort of thought been the constant refrain of every generation at the advent of new technology?
I haven’t dug into the stats, but if they just stayed level while everyone else fell it would look like a rise relative to everyone else, no? This could just be them staying level while everyone else slumps - or maybe…
No, it’s not. That analogy is bonkers. People should actually make their kids do stuff that’s intellectually challenging and push them to succeed. The test scores are in part (in my opinion) because people can’t be…
Dude I was pulling dying people out of the arctic and my wife was putting patients on ventilators. But “oh no… I was bummed because I couldn’t go to the mall!” You have no idea. Not to mention, I literally got sick that…
If you’re not trying to push your kids to do better and have some agency etc., you’re doing a bad job at parenting. People have a responsibility to their kids and to the future, and part of that responsibility involves…
Seriously. I cannot stand this revisionist history nonsense about how "terrible" the lockdowns were. Meanwhile my wife was on the front lines watching people die on vents, and I was literally medevac-ing people out of…
> The two categories of people I know who say this are elite-college graduates and parents of kids who crashed out of their standardized tests. I mostly see business people who are already successful people saying this…