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Bloomberg is wondering if $999 is a psychological threshold for USA consumers. But ignores the moral qualm that those prices are brought to them via slave labor.
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2025-04-08 12:10:24 UTC

I always thought going to college for CS was taking the long road and stalling personal innovation. Then I began to wonder if it hurts more than helps. Now it seems these students would have done way better going 1 year to a community college to get referrals and building cool stuff on the side. That would get their foot in and then every year they could bounce and double their salary till they gotabover 100k salary.
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2025-04-08 11:08:21 UTC

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If we were within the Roman timeline, I think we would be somewhere between the Gracchi brothers and Marius.

2025-04-07 20:46:23 UTC

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Did RFK go and change the limit levels on the bottles or something?

2025-04-06 17:43:36 UTC

If the developer never worked with other devs in github, are they really a senior? If the dev has never written a unit test, are they really a senior?

2025-04-04 11:30:25 UTC

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I wonder what happens to the world's power dynamic if USA destroyed their billionaires but China and others let theirs take over markets that our billionaires controlled.

2025-04-04 11:28:26 UTC

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So isn't Zelensky, if the videos are accurate

2025-04-03 16:38:32 UTC

Vibe coding FTW
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2025-04-02 12:24:42 UTC

Just finished @nprofile…ygql 's Functional Design and of course it's another banger. I may go a year or two between his books. But every new one i dig into, i am reminded how lucky i am to have found him so early in my career.

2025-03-30 23:07:48 UTC

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I get to own my data

2025-03-29 21:14:42 UTC

I get why Benjamin Franklin disliked democracies. But there are other reasons. Like having junior, less experienced, and less learned, developers try to steer the team with over simplified solutions.

2025-03-29 19:00:24 UTC

I run into this every where I go.
"Simple" is rarely defined. Building layers consistently is never on their mind. They never had to maintain a codebase thats over 20 years old, while adding new functionality that doesn't break existing functionality.
They never fully understand the value of the single responsibility principle, they never had to maintain gnarly test suites for large & bloated classes. They never question how to structure their code to avoid changing 10 files for a simple change.
They generally find a couple of paper tiger points and anchor to them.
Its OK if a developer has never come across these circumstances, but it is dangerous for niave hubris devs guiding juniors into over simplified points of views, because they haven't gone the next step in their knowledge.
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2025-03-28 22:48:05 UTC

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Might be an opportunity here.

2025-03-27 04:08:45 UTC

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And when asked for one of his user's phone numbers, he gave it up and said hisuserss are dumb mf'ers. According to business insider

2025-03-26 15:02:59 UTC

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I may need to look what that is and create something to do it for my links

2025-03-25 15:52:23 UTC

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We're so back!

2025-03-25 11:05:16 UTC

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Surprising, since Sergey Bin from Google was saying the sweet spot for productivity was 60 hours a week and at least 5 days in the office. With all the layoffs, I kinda expected the others to do something similar. I wonder if they are baiting employees, to prepare for layoff of another 5% of the staff.

2025-03-24 16:23:45 UTC

Another banger from Signull on X: "i have noticed that when people want something too badly, when they chase, when they try too hard—it almost always slips away. it’s not just some dumb universe thing.. it’s just human nature. people can smell desperation, & it repels. not because they consciously think “oh, this person is desperate,” but because desperation warps behavior—it makes you less attractive, less confident, more erratic, less enjoyable to interact with.
i remember a time when i desperately wanted a job. i chased it relentlessly, i was the most qualified candidate. but i didn’t even get an interview. the more i pushed, the less it worked. contrast that with moments where i let things come to me, it was effortless. doors opened, people gravitated toward me, opportunities just happened.
the paradox is that the best way to get what you want is to not need it. not pretend not to need it (people pick up on that too), but actually rewire yourself to not be attached to outcomes. desire without attachment is the sweet spot, pursue, but don’t chase."
I noticed this with women in general. Don't be thirsty. They won't come, and even when they finally do, your thirst was not justified.

2025-03-23 03:48:04 UTC

Lex's interview of Primegean: https://youtu.be/tNZnLkRBYA8?si=4RFDDUgI2UvvYkkT

2025-03-21 21:23:16 UTC

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Rightfully so. The right to have private property and protect it, is the bedrock to the west's progress

2025-03-21 05:55:47 UTC

I like all 3, but xirtman on Twitter made a profound observation: "What we have here is a secular priesthood preaching gospel to a generation of men hungry for guidance, yet incapable of fulfilling the most basic biological or civilizational imperative: the creation of a family.
Tim Ferriss: the productivity hacker turned self-experimenting monk. Andrew Huberman: the neuroscience demigod whose dopamine maps rarely intersect with intimacy or fatherhood. Lex Fridman: the emotionless black-clad pod-priest who flirts with sentimentality but recoils at generativity. These aren’t men with families — they’re cult leaders of sterile optimization. Their mantra: hack your life — not live your life.
You want to know what they’re really selling? Surrogate masculinity. Masculinity unmoored from duty, generational continuity, or even real-world consequences. What they offer is a hollow, anesthetized masculinity: dopamine schedules, journaling routines, five-hour morning rituals — but no sons, no daughters, no wives, no lineage. This is not wisdom. It’s a simulation.
And millions of young men, starved of fathers, swallow it whole.
Where are the podcasts about building families, holding down difficult relationships, sacrificing for children, standing up for tradition? The algorithm doesn’t reward those. It rewards slick, postmodern celibacy dressed as enlightenment.
Ferriss, Huberman, and Fridman are not countercultural sages. They are the ideal products of a dying civilization: libidinally spent, spiritually castrated, generationally irrelevant.
And what does it say about us — that we’ve enthroned them as our guides?
I would call this the ultimate psyop: a priesthood of hyper-individualist eunuchs preaching salvation through narcissistic self-improvement, leading us away from real, rooted life into the infinite loop of personal branding, quantified selfhood, and “high performance” — but not legacy.
Let that sink in.
Do you want to follow men who optimize their testosterone — or men who use it to build a future?"

2025-03-21 05:50:27 UTC

Experienced this first hand. My first programming gig, I had a boss who admitted she would not interview any candidates with masters or higher. She said, they were over qualified. I never under stood her point of view.
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2025-03-21 05:28:53 UTC

Relationships are made up 2 individuals. Everyday individuals want to do what they desire, but must compromise. The act of compromising can be done through 'might equals right', manipulation, or negotiation. Most adopted their compromise tech from very flawed parents. Work is req

2025-03-14 03:45:51 UTC

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When that's not enough, the govt has the ability to change laws to justify extortion-like confiscations.

2025-03-13 17:28:55 UTC

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I assume these are scientists Epstein compromised and are fleeing the states. No other reason they want to make less and be taxed more out of a moral cause. They're running from something.

2025-03-13 17:24:25 UTC

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This would be cruel and unusual

2025-03-13 12:45:30 UTC

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Serves that chain right, after they displaced all the miners.

2025-03-09 16:07:59 UTC

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Every phase I experience, that The Sovereign Individual predicted, reminds me how surreal life can be.

2025-03-06 23:30:52 UTC

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Is this code for, 'leave republicans alone?'

2025-03-05 06:08:04 UTC

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I'm sure some company out there is probably excited to require their employees to sync their watches, to get PTO approved

2025-03-04 15:27:20 UTC

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😲

2025-03-01 04:36:35 UTC

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Is anyone else wondering if something might happen to Zelensky?

2025-02-28 14:39:18 UTC

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There is a meta to the meta.

2025-02-28 14:36:19 UTC

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😲

2025-02-27 23:48:58 UTC

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We knew this was going tohappebn. Also they began to force school kids to take vaccines, right during covid. So many natives left the school. The federal funding got hit so hard, because its based on enrolled kid count.

2025-02-27 23:45:42 UTC

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In the book 1984, these people would have been watched for years. Their psyche profile documented. Each one has a risk score. Many would probs dissapear for a while. Like they do in China.

2025-02-27 23:00:22 UTC

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I wonder if the person knew they were going to be fired anyways for performance or something.

2025-02-26 12:07:52 UTC

Ray Dalio has gone very dark these days https://x.com/GaryStoneSWS/status/1894394443828269130

2025-02-26 04:37:07 UTC

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also self hosted llama3

2025-02-26 04:36:24 UTC

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copilot,
cursor,
chatgpt premium,
grok.
work pays like $250 a month.
I pay $20 a month.

2025-02-25 17:20:22 UTC

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All so we can shorten that feedback loop!

2025-02-25 00:06:38 UTC

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I guess it was a pump fake? They stopped buying 1 a day for a couple of day, just to come in and buy 7 all at once?

2025-02-24 17:06:47 UTC

holy crap, stay away from girl scout thin mint cookies: https://x.com/lovetocook12345/status/1893868504887042366

2025-02-23 06:14:09 UTC

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😲

2025-02-23 05:15:35 UTC

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Many people in the field wouldn't be so nice. He gave a thorough answer providing the person steps to move forward. Your note must be of tongue and cheek or something.

2025-02-20 13:30:49 UTC

This might be the most important time in human history, with decentralization, AI, and cryptography. Hopefully we don't see some mass event that resets all of humanity's progress.

2025-02-20 00:53:26 UTC

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My first week as well. Definitely feels strange.

2025-02-17 22:23:32 UTC

"TIL that Cursor is the fastest growing SaaS in the history of SaaS
1-100m in 12 months WITH A WIDE AND SMOL CUSTOMER BASE (400k paying devs, means that growth is very predictable/sustainable, this thing is an Atlassian-level machine)"
https://x.com/swyx/status/1886983583883243710

2025-02-17 19:03:52 UTC

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watching this now. Thank you for sharing!

2025-02-16 16:51:32 UTC

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us govt will confiscate btc at some point, like they did with gold.

2025-02-15 15:13:26 UTC

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The sooner the better. Longer it goes on the harder it is to transition off those platforms.

2025-02-15 15:08:49 UTC

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i kinda expected little boys.

2025-02-14 00:23:35 UTC

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social credit score?

2025-02-05 03:33:57 UTC

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Highlights the value of bitcoin.

2025-02-02 17:26:35 UTC

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Now that you say it, i could not agree more. Before covid no one took it for granted. They all knew it was a privilege that we did not want to lose.

2025-02-02 15:07:32 UTC

I see value in working in office. I also see value in working from home and i love it.
But sometimes it feels like my coworkers are distracted, they are not available sometimes for large portions of the day. Some have admitted to playing golf when they were suppose to be helping me. This all, while i work 55+ hrs a week.
I am starting to dislike remote work because i am finding the environment i am in allows too much slack.

2025-02-02 13:09:07 UTC

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Thank you. I’ve been looking for a good breakdown

2025-01-30 18:02:53 UTC

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Their govt is still buying btc. But banning their people from using as legal tender. Seems like they just stole their own people’s btc. Since they all used that govt wallet

2025-01-29 17:08:20 UTC

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When i saw this quote, i stopped reading. I don’t have enough time to read bias BS. “The big picture: The memo is just the latest step in the White House's unprecedented move to push career federal workers out of their jobs, and, observers say, replace them with loyalists — a return to a patronage system that federal law sought to banish more than a century ago.”

2025-01-25 19:05:43 UTC

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Gives you the chills

2025-01-23 21:02:47 UTC

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The fact that he just bought 40+ mill in wrapped btc does not bode well.

2025-01-20 13:18:52 UTC

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They keep cutting bangers!

2025-01-20 13:05:15 UTC

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Udemy has a few. Steph Girder has some good courses. Wait till they go on sale (any minor or major holiday all courses go on sale).

2025-01-19 15:06:40 UTC

With the new file buffer boost from node 23, I wonder if this will speed up s3 uploads through AWS’ library
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2025-01-19 13:21:43 UTC

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I feel like this could have been prevented with a web app.

2025-01-17 12:25:27 UTC

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😮.

2025-01-17 05:21:31 UTC

I’m an introvert and I don’t have a need to celebrate or get together. But becoming a principal at a smaller shop and watching everyone butt heads constantly, I think it might actually be essentially for team building. Might make the conflicts go a little smoother.

2025-01-17 03:34:03 UTC

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Is this real?

2025-01-16 22:25:16 UTC

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It’s a start

2025-01-12 12:51:17 UTC

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Easy enough, as long as you follow hexagonal folder structure and you create boundaries by following domain driven design. It helps if you have common patterns for the different layers (like you see in onion architecture).
Those that don’t like it often fall in 2 camps: super juniors or old timers. Usually the juniors because they don’t know what pattern to use for the behavior being encapsulated. And, old timers are so use to large files/classes that they dislike it at first. But once i go through a few patterns and examples almost everyone adopts a large portion of it. Even if they don’t go full blown, they almost always cut down their class sizes (which helps with unit test) and use some of the patterns.

2025-01-12 04:12:17 UTC

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I think I annoy 50% of those that work with me, because I followed Single Responsibility Principle to it's logical conclusion and adopted functional classes (classes with only one public method [actually, mostly just one small method]).

2025-01-11 16:16:55 UTC

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So the hypothesis is, freedom has been won and it won’t be challenged again? Or, are you saying nostr’s time isn’t here yet?

2025-01-11 13:36:36 UTC

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All of Zuck’s responses, early on, felt like they were from a script. It felt like, he would wait for rogan to stop talking and then go back to his script. It did not feel genuine.

2025-01-10 17:19:53 UTC

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Makes sense, I suppose the responder replaced “sun bathing” with “sun exposure.”
Perhaps the most succinct way would be to say, “those that sun bath but are fearful of EMFs don’t realize the irony.”

2025-01-10 13:01:58 UTC

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Yeah, i think the responder was alluding to the fact that sunblock has carcinogenics, which gives people cancer when the sunscreen has a chemical reaction to the sun. If this was not a concern, wouldn’t most sun bathers just use sunscreen?

2025-01-10 05:19:06 UTC

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😮
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2025-01-09 06:02:04 UTC

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They better sell before trump takes the reigns. Otherwise it might get repurposed.

2025-01-08 18:01:04 UTC

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Profits the name of the game. Incentives pushed them into it, and now incentives push them out. But was rather disingenuous to feign moral motive when it was all for profit. Least they’re being more honest as they leave that UN agreement.

2025-01-08 12:31:30 UTC

Usually when I see this I assume the message is, more govt regulations. Not more solutions, like nostr.
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2025-01-08 12:23:52 UTC

Black panther director tried to pull $12,000 out of the bank and the bank called the cops. Someone should tell him, he can move $100,000+ in bitcoin in 10 mins and no police are involved.

2025-01-08 12:20:07 UTC

At first it felt like a joke, but with Trudeau surprisingly stepping down, could Trump really buy another country? Putin is probably thinking, “dang, I could have done that with Ukraine?”
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2025-01-07 18:27:20 UTC

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😮. For real?

2025-01-07 01:03:04 UTC

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Can nostr fix this? Could someone host their own relay and use encryption/decryption for those on that relay?

2025-01-06 22:38:53 UTC

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Yeah, it’s unfortunate. You can’t opt out. I bought a new macbook pro, right before the announcement. After the announcement, I got so disheartened I made the macbook pro my bitcoin node. Then i went with a linux distro for my coding device. It’s taken me quite a while to get the linux laptop to look and feel like my old macbook.