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Children was their hands, diapers get changed, and rarely get on countertops.

I am certain you don't step in the toilet bowl and walk on your countertops after.

Yeah, I thought about applying.

Investing 6 hours into applying for a position should warrant a response beyond 'we are going to pass'

this is mcp or custom call to lowest cost model

someone did a webcam + agentic + capture of other computer bios/boot -> upload to image model -> back to agent

Keeping an animal that defecates indoors and allowing it contact with food prep area is obscene.

yes but then that defeats the purpose of 'local'

and if remaining local, the hardware required to run multiple poor models could be better spent running better models.

I have attempted to orchestrate using different models, loading and unloading, but the speed is not there and by the time mistakes are discovered considering the lack of quick iteration the results become worthless unless the task is trivial.

Zuck is correct because the barrier to a large user base is not skill but market share which requires substantial effort, luck, timing, and patience.

Nobody can put a dent into Coca Cola because of their market. Better products exist but there is really no way to compete against $5 billion in marketing allowing them to maintain $50 billion.

Cursor is ~1MM users a day. $60k/per user is high but considering this is a stock buy, Space X "made" $300BN in the first day that is ~20% or one day of positive movement.

For Musk (with his baggage) to create or steer that user base would require a significant investment and time. Why not just slap some coupons from an initial bump to acquire the user base, user experience, and IP?

I started paying $100/month a few years ago to now ~$5k a year out of pocket for personal use to learn and grow in my position at work.

What is business? Assets? Relationships? Contracts? Market share?

The entire stock market is selling floating points of imaginary numbers.

The nagging imperative requires a stronger response than the capitulation of identity.

You're 55, making $400k a year as a HVAC Repair Company, and while you love the business and your kids are in expensive colleges (not taking over the business) you are offered $8MM to sell. Instant retirement. A buy out isn't the same as selling out because people live off of cash and not principal.

Successful business owner has revenue of $2-20MM with their owner's "salary" being $200k-4MM which is very respectable.

Owner gets old or want to quit the business and a PE offer of 2-8x Revenue comes in.

Owner making $200k instantly cashes that $4MM check and walks away.

PE takes contracts, guts all the expenses and cuts staff in half, and purchase price is recovered in <2 years.

Suddenly there is only one HVAC or dentist company that can maintain licenses and insurance.

No, no, and absolutely.

The bill is written 'do good, stop bad stuff by establishing a committee or group to make sure fund good stuff, bad stuff doesn't happen' then the law passes and lobbyists write the details that fund the programs that tax the people that generate the income for companies that donate to the politicians that sell their votes to the lobbyists and interest groups.

California politicians start with the end goal "maintain power, secure revolt, obtain capital, deny failure".

It goes beyond lying to your face. They will be convincingly genuine, heartfelt, while finding a way to extract as much as possible for themselves, by extension their party, by extension the 'government' and do absolutely anything to keep the illusion that you have a choice, a vote, and a voice.

I lived here my whole life. These politicians are evil. Lie, cheat, and steal - deny if caught, punish if provoked.

I do not expect you to take me seriously.

I was responding to the idea Musk is not a good businessman. I think the evidence suggests otherwise.

Market Cap: Tesla (TSLA): ~$1.4T GameStop (GME): ~$9.7B

If anything, GME is a meme.

I also gave my bias so as a way to ignore me.

The part on the harness is spot on.

I have been encouraging people to think about agentic coding in the same way.

Let agents do the reading and writing and inspections. Human does the thinking.

Asking an agent that is looking at a firearm specification schematic "what is wrong with this?" and the response is "this thing contains an explosion and can kill". Human "that's the function" when the human should be asking "based upon the materials used, are the fault tolerances sufficient to maintain structural integrity".

10 years returns S&P 500 (index of all those better than Musk): 261% Tesla: 2700%

Disclaimer: My portfolio is 65% Tesla.

This was done with 23 and me. Data was hacked and sold

I wonder about this.

Bad actor at plaid gets access to X accounts. Then sells data? Does unauthorized transfers? Create political or religious dossier on every account?

I assume my balance would be returned if someone hacked but what if they wrote checks with signatures which is fraud and that's different. My understanding is no. Fraud doesn't return the balance.

I have my money in 3 accounts. Most I lose is 33% of my total wealth.

The alternative that illegals in the area use are gold and cash and those ladies get mugged and robbed constantly because others know they stash their valuables on their neck and under their bed.

Without a bank the options are limited. Everything is online. Swiss accounts are toast. Crypto has similar problems as gold. Storage and protection is complicated.

I'm inclined to build an LLC type asset and insure the liquidity or something.

All my info can be purchased or captured through my phone or mail and that is enough info to write a check or take out a loan of $50k in my name.

I am not sure the laws and banks protect me in the event someone successfully claims to be me. I wouldn't mind mandatory in person wet signatures for anything over $1k-5k or >5% of my account

I have been to many places, in different cultures, and countries. Outside of blood relationships and church, I have not seen a villager change a diaper for another without compensation.

You got two 'village' responses which I fully disagree with because a dozen reasons. The village is not going to help you change diapers, feed the children, or do anything except have the children play together.

I do not find parenting that difficult because I parent differently.

The alternative: Teach them to entertain themselves. They clean up their own messes. I have the kiddos do tasks with me. Babies are easy enough, toddlers need limited stuff to do as it is all about novelty. Kids 5+ can learn to entertain themselves with their talents, siblings, neighbors.

I've created two mother's. The firstborn is privileged.

I would assume it is not true and yet I say I am 6'5" you believe me?

We could debate the idea of status, happiness, and motives although we would split ideas into atoms until there is nothing of substance to discuss.

I will answer your question: What sort of dividends - at one point I wanted a specific title, degree, job type until a discussion and decision I had one day that lead me to take a different approach. There are many exercises that determine your true motive. You are offered a job at 4x your income. No one will know your name and your work has no value outside of income. Would you take it? You are offered your dream job, title, schedule, etc at 50% of your current income. Would you take it? Once you find the combination of values in the equation you discover what makes you happy. Me: No stress. Work from home. Using my skills at least 50% of the time. Zero tracking of hours.

Being the Grand OP I suppose I can jump in with some thoughts after reading and skimming the thread.

The teacher (Mr. R) was a math teacher. He lived in his bubble and my guess is he had no children, or no boys. I had excessive mental energy without a proper outlet or direction. I managed to change every Apple 'error' sound to an annoying rendition of his name (Mr.R) would ring out on every computer until it was corrected.

While I may have been smarter and more talented than him - I was not above him in any respect during school. He had more experience and grounding in life - of which he offered me zero.

In hindsight I wish he did the following, which is how I behave today with others; ask hard questions and give them direction to meet their goals.

I do not blame my parents for their inability to see I was in the top 2% of intelligence. I cannot blame the teacher really either. Each of us have potential to be wonderful at something. We need to learn what it is and have the ability to use our talent. I finally learned my talent despite my desire for status. I ignored status, adopted the idea that I need to to develop my talent, and it has now paid off dividends.

Being happy is actually very simple, just not easy. Do the things that make you happy.

You're a hero of mine so here is my story.

Me in math class in 1996 - I had a TI-82 things are programmable so I have no formal education, my parents are illiterate, and taught myself to program, and I begged them to buy me one.

I spent time learning how to code on it, writing from scratch, the game Spyhunter.

I couldn't figure out how to draw with lines or pixels so I used ASCII or text.

I presented this to my teacher who told me "these aren't for games". I was crushed.

I believe in you.

I am on point, about 1.3% of the year, being a father, husband.

That 1.3% or about 5 days is my vacation.

I went' from ~60% free time to 1% and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Children would change that, instantly.

I wasn't a father until late in life and then all of a sudden, everything is easy.

The moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep, every moment has meaning and purpose. Nothing, no meal, no evening, no dollar is wasted.

As my children grow - the only question is how long do I have until I have grandchildren. After that - how long until I no longer have skin in the game?

I do full time AI stuff and it is meaningless other than the provision it provides.

I would not recommend avoiding the biological imperative. Reproduce. Everything else after that moment is clarity.

I have written and maintained AI proxies. They are not terribly complex except the inconsistent structure of input and output that changes on each model and provider release. I figure that if there is a not a < 24 hour turn around for new model integration the project is not properly maintained.

Governance is the biggest concern at this point - with proper logging, and integration to 3rd party services that provide inspection and DLP type threat mitigation.

I like to write personal letters too. I also send emails.

I do the former for fun. The latter to provide for my family.

There is a reason old men take on hobbies like woodworking and fixing old cars and other stuff that has been replaced by technology.