tibiahurried

Internet was a fun place … until they turned into s.. with ads all over. Social media destroyed it.

AI is killing creativity and human collaboration; those long nights spent having pizza and coffee while debugging that stubborn issue or implementing yet another 3D engine… now it is all extremely boring.

I have worked at a couple of FAANG. When I wanted to get things done, I would hide in a meeting room, or I would work from home. The office is the most unproductive environment (at least for me). People will interrupt you all the time, for random things, chit chat, coffee and what not. Having head phones all the time did not make any difference.

I wish companies would understand this.

I don't know where you guys work but I have worked in very big co with meeting attended by entire organization > 50 and much more. Google Meeting, in chrome, worked just fine. I am not sure about other browsers. But I prefer chrome to having to install a client. Also, I find Google Meeting interface much cleaner and easy to use than Zoom. In addition, you can record meetings; they are stored in GDrive and you can share them. Plus, you get captions and transcriptions. All in all, is a much superior product.

Why Zoom when you have already got GSuite? Google Meeting is great, it works in the browser and does not need any additional software.

We use BitWarden and it is free. $620M for a password manager is nuts.

What's 10x is not the house, but the land, the physical space the house seats on. The land is a finite resource, thus it can only appreciate in value.

Isn't already super trivial to get a nodejs app and running in not time on AWS or GCP? Why would I pay for this?

> more space

That's hardly the case. Buy a big place, usually costs more than renting one. Or at least that's my experience. If I had to buy the place I rent it will cost me easily $3M to 4M. My rent will only pay for a 2b/1ba. I am talking about major city. Perhaps is different in suburbs, don't know.

>Dealing with terrible neighbors isn’t nearly as bad.

It is way easier to just rent a different place than having to sell your house because of that noise neighbor that likes to throw party every week end.

>want to grow old next to their friends and family.

That's exactly what I am gonna do.

> ownership of a house in some areas becomes so expensive as to be the exclusive domain of the wealthy

I agree. In fact, I live in an expensive area, but planning on moving in few years when I will be retired. Then I will buy a mansion for little money. And still gonna have plenty of savings and investments to pass onto my kids.

I don't understand the ownership at all cost. You need to run some numbers and understand if buy is financially more convenient than renting. If not, it is ok to rent. But some people are just obsessed with ownership. Even if is not financially sound.

Absolutely, it all depends. But I keep seeing close friends who are now home poor. They own their place, but that's it. They are done. They don't have any significant money for rainy days, they can't afford anything else because all their money go into their properties.

For me, that's not how I want to live my life. But as you said, everyone is different. So for them, perhaps that's ok. Not judging.

It is a seller market, and it is probably gonna stay that way for some time. The only properties I am considering buy are those located in vacation places. You can still find good deals, and you can easily repay by renting them out for few months a year.

I will only consider buying a property in a major urban city only if I had to live there basically for ever. Otherwise I will keep renting. Prices in major EU cities, like the rest of the world are insane compared to the level of income, even for wealthy engineers.

Homes like stocks are way overvalued. Homes are fueled by the frenzy of ownership at all costs, and stocks keep pumping at absurd levels.

Everything is extremely overpriced. Eventually, it will come down to common sense.

My friend has put all his savings and stocks to buy a 2b apartment. Myself, on the other hand, did not sell any stock and have invested all my savings. I rent a much bigger place, my rent is way lower than his mortgage and at least for me it will be more convenient to rent at least for the next 10y. After that, I will retire and move to a cheaper area.

Keep saying people have gone mad. Many fail and underestimate cost of ownership. Remember that a good chunk of your mortgage are taxes and interests, factor that when you compare rent vs buy.

That said, I do own properties that I rent out. But I bought them at sane prices. And they generate cash flow that I use to pay for my rent and other expenses.

My background is in automation and robotics; I studied system identification: a discipline where you would use mathematical means to identify a dynamic system model by observing input/output.

You treat the system as a black box and estimate a set of parameters that can describe it (e.g., Kalman filter).

I struggle to understand what's the fundamental difference between system identification and ML/AI. Anyone?

You ultimately have a bunch of data and try to estimate/fit a model that can describe a particular behavior.

It all comes down to a big optimization/interpolation problem. Isn't what they call "Learning" just really "estimating" ?

Then the more CPU/memory/storage you have, the more parameters/data you can estimate/process, the more accurate and sophisticated the model can be.