EddySchauHai

I can’t imagine the stress of trying that. Work can be hard enough, why add the complexity of lying about your name in a company people know you

Do you reckon we will have Prompt Engineers who are skilled at getting AI to generate what they want before long?

Yeah I saw ads for that recently, a Snap documentary of the life of Bhad Bharbie or something (a female rapper I believe). I don't believe we're talking about TV shows that rival Apple TVs exclusives

Perhaps? This was based on google top-link data which may not be reliable for a small farm but I assume it's within an order of magnitude!

I'd be content with a small loss to be honest, I'd still be working as a remote engineer. I just would like more nature in my life!

I don't know what's more impressive, this tractor or the fact the author has worked a single dev job for 17 years after graduating lol

Yeah you are right. One of the most profitable crops is cherry tomatoes and you can make $1400 per acre on a good year, $900 on average. Saffron, with optimal yields at the most expensive prices per lb, will get you $125k from 2.5 acres.

My dream is to have a farm with enough crops to cover my food & maybe sell a little extra. Out of interest does anyone know a good place in Europe where that's possible for a good price?

I rarely use the cloud at my current role and it was pretty awesome to see sysadmin skills I got when I started in 2014 were still relevant. Sometimes I wonder how insanely productive a PHP developer must be when he's given an Apache Server and MySQL to build a CRUD app after 20 years experience of a single stack, compared to my eight years experience of completely random technologies.

Huh, interesting. Most of my friends who have PhDs don't have masters and that's Europe-wide! The UK definitely is different though. I got onto a Masters in CS without a Bachelors and was discussing carrying on into a PhD which would have been pretty interesting to explain on my CV.

Realistically YC is about maximizing ROI and I would happily bet a crypto-related startup will be in Summer '23s cohort - they have crazy valuations and liquidity out of the gates. Personally I want those startups to showcase problems crypto is useful at solving rather than selling pickaxes to the gold rush but I'm less sure that that'll happen. Certainly the idea that Crypto has ran its course is, IMO, premature - people have said that during every bear market since the beginning yet overall usage appears to be increasing and institutional buy-in again appears to be increasing.

You say to the guy who wrote the first seed check of Coinbase

I've worked on a real-time system in Haskell and it is possible but iirc you do avoid laziness.

Which is apparently a thing! https://www.zcombinator.org/

While PhDs without masters are common in Europe, universities may have doctoral training centers that have an extra years to act like a masters. My wife went straight from undergrad at Oxford and her PhD was four years instead of the usual three with the first year consisting of short courses & projects.

Yeah for sure, but $0.05 AND $10 or whatever the fee is means it's still not suitable for most vendors, except on large purchases that have a % based fee.

> While other payment processors take 1% or more on every payment you receive, we take only $0.05 per payment.

What about network tx fees?

Sort of related but I, a 28 year old tech guy, am going back to school part-time to get a BEng so I can get into more aerospace-heavy roles. It'll take 6 years but I'm currently happy with my work so am not in a rush. Currently I work in networking/search for a defense startup so it's tangentially related.

I disagree with this, I'm (unfortunately) swamped with short videos on how to 'make side hustles' doing just these sorts of things due to the cost of living crisis.

I used GPT-3 to generate responses to someone who argued a post is GPT-3 generated on an old account. It was pretty funny - it fooled them, but smaller text is usually harder to detect as bot-generated.

Even old well known tools can be optimized and reimagined; just take the Plumbus and it’s recently upgraded Plumbus X!

https://youtu.be/JGaBU5cKluU

And this is why I love HN so much haha

I want to work on boring languages that let me focus on domains, not tools, and even so I work with Rust and have done in my last 3 or 4 roles. If you do systems programming in a startup, Rust will be there.

External blog posts have helped, it’s easier to Google ‘nix-shell for <foo>’ and copy working code into your local environment. Honestly I couldn’t write hello world in Nix, but I can scrap together bits that work now and hopefully (according to the Nix ethos) will always work.

How’ve you managed that? I’m a test engineer in the Bay Area but when I move back to the UK, if I can’t carry on with my current role, I’ll go into contracting. I see rates up to £700 but was really aiming for £500 myself. I also have 8 years experience. Any tricks you’ve found on breaking four figures a day?!

Hahahahahahaha this made me lose some of my coffee.

Who volunteers to write the data analytics in Julia?

I have been avoiding nix for a while since I had a bad time with it several years ago, however recently used it for a small Haskell/Latex environment for literal programming and found it worked really well. I’m probably going to invest time into learning it now, as the online docs seem to have gotten better.

I love this phrase hahaha!

My wife's a postdoc and I'm a software engineer with around 8 years experience, so I make roughly 3x not including stocks etc. Our money goes into the same joint account and we split everything evenly (although I must admit to being more likely to impulse spend and go over my budget). I have no issue sharing this because in marriage you're equal, so I don't really think about it in that way. She also had more savings than me when we got married, so there's some equality gained there.

Just have a budget and try stick to it. Have a pot for your own entertainment and for her own entertainment, and then for joint entertainment. It's great she's on more money than you because you're playing for the same team. If there is some sort of "It's my money, I earned it" then have different personal budgets I guess, weighted on income amounts. But everything else should be equal imo (house, bills, holiday fund, etc).

I guess it's just experience to be honest. It happens rarely, you might be lucky enough to be involved with solving it, and then you focus on the important parts of the project again. I've only worked in startups so don't know about the 'Big Tech' solutions but a little knowledge of general linux sysadmin, containers, and queues has yet to block me :) Once the company is big enough to need some complexity beyond that I assume there's enough money to hire someone to come in and put everything into CNCFs 1000 layer tech stack.

Edit: Thinking on this, if I want to scale something it'd be specific to the problem I'm having so some sort of debugging process like https://netflixtechblog.com/linux-performance-analysis-in-60... to find the root cause would be generic advice. Then you can decide to scale vertically/horizontally/refactor to solve the problem and move on.

What you’re describing there sounds like general Linux sysadmin to me?