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throw1234651234 commented on Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014) agileotter.blogspot.com/2... · Posted by u/ingve

I had the same thought as I read that line. I think he's actually describing Linus Torvalds there, who, legend has it, thought about Git for a month or so and when he was done thinking, he got to work coding and in six days delivered the finished product. And then, on the seventh day he rested.

But for the rest of us (especially myself), it seems to be more like an interplay between thinking of what to write, writing it, testing it, thinking some more, changing some minor or major parts of what we wrote, and so on, until it feels good enough.

In the end, it's a bit of an art, coming up with the final working version.

throw1234651234 · a year ago

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.

throw1234651234 commented on TSMC expects customers to pay more for chips fabbed overseas theregister.com/2024/04/1... · Posted by u/rntn

euratai · a year ago

China is old [1] and broke [2]. It won't be able to afford to attack Taiwan - for reference, 1930s Japan and Germany had way more young people. Japan was also rich from its empire, while Germany transitioned away from gold standard to afford its wars. 2022 Russia thought the war would end in 3 days.

Also, as we see from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, drones and missiles are effective at taking out the world's second largest navy. Taiwan has very accurate and effective homegrown missiles [3]. China would need to amass a ton of ships which would be easily detected, staff them with only sons from families, and try to move them across a 100 mile straits while under the barrage of US/Japan/Taiwan missiles and drones.

Lastly, China is quickly transitioning to state run economy much like Soviet Union [4], which means innovations and growth will be gone forever, especially in tech industries.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

[2] https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/global/frugal... https://www.scmp.com/economy/economic-indicators/article/325...

[3] https://www.eurasiantimes.com/taiwan-smashes-chinese-warship...

[4] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/China-s-favored-sta...

throw1234651234 · a year ago

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.

throw1234651234 commented on Goldene: A single atom layer of gold liu.se/en/news-item/ett-a... · Posted by u/peutetre

throw1234651234 · a year ago

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-...

throw1234651234 commented on To make a fortune, target bored young men who want to make a fortune businessinsider.com/gambl... · Posted by u/pseudolus

rcbdev · a year ago

> The only RE investing that still works is buy, rent, have retirement equity in 30 years, maybe

Yes. What other way could you possibly reliably generate positive cash flow with real estate as a normal person without a lot(!) of initial equity?

Common advice where I'm from is buy tiny apartments without rent cap in good locations (Stuttgart, Vienna, etc.) on maximum loan runtime to refinance later and rent them out. Preferably one every 1-2 years. These typically cost anywhere around € 120-150k and the common 20% deposit can be earned reasonably quickly. Banks will usually be completely fine with this as long as you have positive cash flow and you can write off a lot of things around your business as a renter on your income tax forms in most countries.

I have only ever heard variations of this advice. Never anything else.

throw1234651234 · a year ago

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.

throw1234651234 commented on To make a fortune, target bored young men who want to make a fortune businessinsider.com/gambl... · Posted by u/pseudolus

gamepsys · a year ago

Male, 30s reporting.

I'm often seen as the more successful and stable member of friend groups. The number of people that come to me talking about their puts, calls, crypto, and other high risk investment play is way to high. I always tell them "I invest long, so I don't know anything about that" and try to steer them towards more predictable investment options. No matter how many people I point to real estate deals they could feasibly get into, and talk about how much I've made on real estate, not one of these people have gone down that route. In the way they talk, they actually want to gamble and don't want to grow wealth. I think it might also be the marshmallow experiment, because they also don't want to discuss any play that I measure in years.

I'm seeing this in more demographics than just young male. I was looking into a business plan and talking to a trusted boomer about the business plan. They have more experience in some specific aspects, and I was looking to identify more risks. Towards the end of the conversation they told me "of course, I was never a gambler", to which I replay "neither am I, that's why I'm talking to you and doing my homework."

throw1234651234 · a year ago

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.

throw1234651234 commented on To make a fortune, target bored young men who want to make a fortune businessinsider.com/gambl... · Posted by u/pseudolus

throw1234651234 · a year ago

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.

throw1234651234 commented on Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers bbc.com/news/world-us-can... · Posted by u/onemoresoop

15155 · a year ago

Which defense contractor is using a sub-10nm process node for products? Every F35 chip is >90nm.

Which adversary would these chips yield an advantage against in a nuclear war?

Domestic fab capacity is ramping up slowly because these facilities are multi-billion-dollar, multi-decade endeavors. Intel's existing domestic fabs can make everything a war-fighting nation could need, capacity and capability-wise.

throw1234651234 · a year ago

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.

throw1234651234 commented on Challenging software projects some programmers should try andreinc.net/2024/03/28/p... · Posted by u/cmpit

Bjartr · a year ago

As far as writing an interpreter or compiler are concerned, what you're describing is more like making one for an existing production grade language that's compatible with it's wider ecosystem.

These exercises are more like building a rubber band powered toy car. Useless (but not worthless), fun to build (if building things is something you enjoy), and something you can learn fundamentals of the domain from.

Also, I wish I could take a swing at any of what you mentioned for as little up front investment in money or space as giving these software exercises a shot, it'd be an incredible learning experience and awesome fun!

throw1234651234 · a year ago

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.

throw1234651234 commented on Challenging software projects some programmers should try andreinc.net/2024/03/28/p... · Posted by u/cmpit

bosch_mind · a year ago

To add onto this list (unless I missed it), I would recommend interpreter, compiler and assembler. An interpreter is a fun way to learn a new language and can be done creatively and artistically which allows you to exercise the art of programming in expressive ways. Lexing for optimal string manipulation and parsing, AST construction for fun ways of building and creating the grammar and interpretation which can be done any number of ways.

Also, it’s not as hard as it seems if compilers in college was your last attempt in this area.

- crafting interpreters

- writing and interpreter/compiler in Go

Both good books on the domain for an amateur compiler writer.

For lower level assembler and chip design stuff/logic gates etc. obviously I recommend Nand2Tetris

throw1234651234 · a year ago

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.

throw1234651234 commented on Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers bbc.com/news/world-us-can... · Posted by u/onemoresoop

15155 · a year ago

TSMC controls 60% of global semiconductor production, not "90%+." If your argument is: "well, they control the advanced nodes!!" - if Taiwan is attacked, 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. Most defense products are running on processes from two decades or more ago and are already legally forced to consider adversarial supply chain issues.

throw1234651234 · a year ago

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.