silverlake

hace 2 mesesdiscuss

I bought a fully renovated house as my first house. Unfortunately the builder was a moron. I spent 10 years with near constant repairs. Every house on my block has the same story: different builders, same shoddy quality. I was lucky to find a buyer that paid the asking price. I’m now happily renting again. I’ve always had great luck with rentals fixing things immediately.

silverlake

hace 4 mesesdiscuss

I have Codex and Gemini critique the plan and generate their plans. Then I have Claude review the other plans and add their good ideas. It frequently improves the plan. I then do my careful review.

silverlake

hace 4 mesesdiscuss

It’s the same as buying a house. I want to buy a house for $1.2m. I put down $200k and borrow $1m. The bank determines the value of the house. My equity absorbs a 20% drop in prices, so the bank is fairly protected. Businesses are different because they really can go to $0. Banks will need more collateral and/or make many different types of loans to dilute the risk.

silverlake

hace 4 mesesdiscuss

Yep, once you accept “might makes right” the laws in a democracy become polite suggestions. Oh, your town is in the way of hydropower? Too bad the gov’t has more guns than you. That’s how you get the Three Gorges Dam in China. Nevertheless, the Trump Mafia is demonstrating how paper thin democracy and rule of law really is in the US.

silverlake

hace 5 mesesdiscuss

The true cost of labor is paid for by taxes. The bottom 50% in the US pay little to negative taxes due to government benefits. Most taxes are paid by the rich. Therefore, the true cost of labor is paid for by the rich, rather than by consumers in the form of higher prices.

silverlake

hace 6 mesesdiscuss

Since 2014 most bits of central London have seen 10-30% increase, which is below inflation and far, far below stock returns. This should persuade my wife not to buy here. Thanks!

silverlake

hace 6 mesesdiscuss

This resonates with me. I have a hobby where I transform classic books into hand-written papyrus as the author intended. There is something almost meditative in unspooling a 10kg scroll where the sometimes illegible ink allows me to wonder what that sentence even was.

silverlake

hace 8 mesesdiscuss

I don’t know. But at least you’ve identified the real problem: lazy people generating trash code. AI isn’t bad, people are.

silverlake

hace 8 mesesdiscuss

Enough that stacked PRs are a thing. At my job people sometimes build large features on a branch for 6 months. Then it’s a massive PR and no one can review it.

silverlake

hace 8 mesesdiscuss

Hi, AI apologist here. This scenario is a problem with or without AI. You can’t drop a 13k line PR you don’t understand without prior discussion. There are many ways to use AI. Your scenario (keynote speech) is a bad way to use it. Instead, a PR where you understand every line, whether you or an AI wrote it, should be fine. It would be indistinguishable from human generated code.

AI is a tool like any other. I hire a carpenter who knows how to build furniture. Whether he uses a Japanese pullsaw or a CNC machine is irrelevant to me.

silverlake

hace 4 añosdiscuss

Doesn’t VTune support processor trace? Some VMs support PT. And AWS has support also.

silverlake

hace 14 añosdiscuss

> They do this all the while looking at you as a hero

Not all people make great parents. I've hated my parents for as long as I can remember. They didn't appear to enjoy being parents either. The daily beatings were really annoying. I'm glad you're happy, but the world isn't a Disney movie.

silverlake

hace 16 añosdiscuss

Are you measuring the value of an MBA by the odds of becoming a billionaire (or even >$100M)? People achieve that level of success without regards to their education. Hard work, luck, tenacity, luck and connections are more important. I considered getting an MBA from a top 10 school. Basically, it offers the easiest path and best odds of earning $200+K/year and more flexibility in terms of careers (tech management, consulting, banking, etc.). Being a lawyer is grueling and boring, a doctor is grueling and takes a long time, and a tech entrepreneur is a crap shoot. I ended up in the tech path because I enjoy it and I don't care too much about money.

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