Math Academy Foundations II - Complete! 56 XP/day avg. 113 days to complete (7 days off for a hurricane and 5 more for Starship IFT-6, otherwise consistent) At this rate, I'm looking at one year for MF I thru M4ML. (I placed about halfway into MF I) MA continues to be amazing. Trust the system! Some thoughts...

@Ysqander That’s a nice earnest response, and I appreciate it. But I was shitpoasting haha I swear I’m not a narcissist 💅🏻 😊 🪞

Eating good sticky rice by hand feels right

Day 4,206 of me asking @Tesla to please limit startup audio volume to 25% regardless of where I had it when I parked

@BrianEastwood_X I pay him to take my data - x premium and FSD subscription. Glad to do it

@anielizarmly 🫡 🥖 🍞 🥯

@thrillhouse_van Yea, it’s better to take your foot off the gas when you notice performance falling off!

When you are feeling drawn to buy the latest shiny, glowing (maybe never to ship) AI hardware product, read this. You have a supercomputer with an Internet connection in your pocket, & another, more powerful one on your desk. Stop falling for it!

The Japanese have created mechanical pencils that rotate the lead as you write to keep the tip consistently round. Incredible, simple tech. Strong recommend for $7.

@Giuliano_Mana Yea thanks for the kick in the ass to pick back up my copy of WoN

@brndsil Bad opsec to post your wealth like this. Aren’t eggs like $48,584 a piece now?

@GrowAllYourFood @cremieuxrecueil Eek!

Money is good. It’s a signal and a symbol and a useful scoreboard. Incentives matter. The invisible hand is a superior coordinating force to central planning. Creating wealth is admirable and should be supported, not obstructed. My point is a pragmatic one. Adam Smith is incredible, but truly absorbing that book is a 1/10000 person kinda thing at best. Also if you want a good distillation of Econ, Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt is awesome and I’d bet it also hit many of Smith’s points. I need to revisit Wealth for Nations though. I only read parts of it in the context of a great podcast series by @EconTalker years ago

@GrowAllYourFood @cremieuxrecueil Firing an employee for their stated opinions is an action of varying degrees of bullshit depending on where the person states them, but it should be legal

@beinlibertarian Suppressors sold at Wal Mart with no hassle please

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Richard Hamming Chapter 4: History of Computers – Software Progress The previous generation (of programmers) always resents the ways of the new generation - "anything but writing machine code/assembly is for sissies." This despite the fact that, for example, writing the old way takes more time to debug. New ways, even if improved, are often slow to be taken up by the professionals. Even those who invent or discover something new often don't understand its implications, leaving it up to subsequent generations to make something of it. Adopt new methods, if they work well, before others - then outwork them. Makes me think of the constant Battle of the Programming Languages on x. Just find what works for you and build. Don't get stuck on what's "for sissies". To see the obvious and make progress, it sometimes takes an outsider - or a thoughtful insider - looping these questions: - What am I doing? - Why is this necessary? Philosophy Psychological v Logical programming/design: To what extent is it appropriate to buffer the user from the machine? Is the language easy for the expert only, or also the non-expert? It is likely that non-experts (those with closer connection to the problem/user will do the bulk of programming in the future. (Prescient comment in the age of AI) Is programming closer to novel writing or classical engineering? Novel writing, he says, because given the same prompt, there are often many sufficient solutions. You can/should/do/will define the problem as you solve it. Build with this in mind. But to the greatest extent possible, think before you write to get it right the first time.