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Can’t wait for the lisp revival of the 20’s

Move when you retire to a LCOL area.

I think he means $500k post tax over five years. Not $500k per year.

FIRE “enthusiast” here currently saving a large portion of my income. (24 years old)

What have you been doing in retirement?

Which is why you move when you retire.

Can’t you get a screen protector that makes it feel more like paper?

I had 11 onsites (over the course of 6-8 months) at mostly normal tech companies before getting an offer at a FAANG.

Now I've been here 6 months.

Really crazy, and I have no idea how this ended up happening. Probably a combination of studying more and getting better with every interview, finding my weaknesses and fixing them. Along with a combination of bad luck with getting rejected so many times, and good luck with the final acceptance of where I am.

Interesting thing is that I think my offer was more towards the higher end of band for this company, so who knows.

Doesn’t erlang have a REPL, allows you to do live deployments. Individual processes crashing doesn’t bring everything down, you can tell it how to handle those. Dynamic typing. Functional programming. Concise syntax, with “let it fail” mentality.

False.

Angel investors frequently invest at the level of thousands of dollars.

Because I created applets/whatever’s on ifttt like 5 years ago and I haven’t touched them since, and they keep working.

God forbid I have to maintain a server, upgrade for new libraries, handle moving a server, etc etc. Write the code in the first place, debug problems, update my API keys...

I still have a facebook but I rarely check it now. The only reason I use it usually is for facebook messenger (I use the app, without checking facebook), and I find facebook marketplace to often have a decent selection of goods, seemingly better than craigslist now for some items.

Note however, I'm pretty young, just turned 24.

You also went to an expensive private high school.

Also went to an expensive private school.

He also went to an expensive private school.

> It may be easier if you have credentials, but it’s certainly possible without them.

So they care a lot, but it’s not everything to them?

Just had a 41GB set of files sent to me in one transfer using magic-wormhole. Worked first try without a hitch. Pretty awesome from the receiving end.

Source?

I don't disagree, would just like to share this information with friends :)

If you sell a course you made 100% profit, basically very little chances of loss, and your business can go to zero overnight, but not negative, and very little needed to scale up.

Compare that to running a real business where things change all the time

If anyone likes the ergodox / moonlander, but wants a keyboard with curved keys, look up the Dactyl Manuform / Dactyl keyboard. It’s a split keyboard that also has curve keys so it takes less movement to reach keys.

Unfortunately you have to have them custom built or build one yourself, but there are sites that let you easily order one.

Here’s an example https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/ak8d0m...

Nim has been mentioned on here many times.

I have a daily cash stream. I call it a job.

Also I keep a large emergency fund and save/invest the majority of my earnings.

> I'm not comfortable investing the entirety into an index fund, given the current socio-political climate.

The government is printing an awful lot of money right now.

Keeping your money in cash isn’t a guaranteed return if inflation goes up significantly. You’re much better having it in assets with intrinsic value. (Stocks, real estate, etc)

I would suggest investing the money over the course of a couple years into an index fund, probably S&P 500 or total market.

Even if you invest at the worst possible times (right before crashes) you’ll come out way far ahead of leaving it in cash.

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...

> Peter Attia is one of the many great people worth following in this area, with a very high-quality information-dense podcast.

One of my favorite podcasts, and I had listened to every episode until recently. (no longer driving during the pandemic, and that’s when I used to listen to podcasts)

The information density is awesome, it really makes me think trying to keep up with it, and over time I start to understand a bit more.

I'm surprised how I almost ended up tearing up and was close to crying while watching this.

Saying this as someone who is not a huge NASA or space enthusiast.

I did study physics, and I'm more into science than the average person though.

My previous job was all common lisp. I really enjoyed writing it. The REPL was definitely a job, and having a dynamic runtime environment.

The internships are remote now, it sounds like.

I used emacs for a year and a quarter as a common lisp developer.

There was an integration into emacs from the compiler that provided support for a lot of things like jumping definitions and seeing who calls, and it was much better than the IDE IMO, in that syntax highlighting worked correctly for one, along with the ability to use multiple buffers and windows.

I used it as my main place of development while I worked at that company, and it was a pretty great pleasure minus a few issues.

I never tried using SLIME because our lisp didn't seem to automatically support having project files being loaded into it, but I probably would have had I stayed too much longer.

Yup. There are a lot of physics concepts I broadly understand, but solving a problem for them is a different beast.

edit: Also, speaking as someone who mostly taught themselves physics from the books in college and didn't go to class. (I was not a great student, I did _okay_, and probably got lucky).

Stunned and bewildered

Cold and afraid

Torn up and broken

Frightened and dazed...

:(