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One of the common myths is...

If repairing auto at shop costs $1000 one should op out to spend $300 in parts and own labor.....

Paying for the wrong utility makes you remain poor as the down car repair has a very low utility to you earning that higher wage while the shop repairs your car.

It would only make high value utility sense if you did that several times and then open your own car repair shop as business owner.

Warren Buffet implies this obliquely in his writing about the choices he has made.


That only makes sense if you have the opportunity to make more money than you'd be paying the mechanic with the time you spent fixing the car. I'd venture to say that's true less often than not. Even if you day job makes more per hour than you're saving by repairing the car, it doesn't necessarily mean you can just choose to book more hours on the job. To make it more concrete, let's use the given example. Let's say the repair is $300 in parts, and $700 in labor. Let's call the shop rate $100/hour, to be conservative. So in order for it to make sense for me financially, I have to a) have a job that makes at least $100/hour and b) have the choice to work an extra 7 hours.


that was not the kicker....it was the ending comment...

Better learn how to learn as we are not training(or is that paying) you to learn...


The problem I see is the VC involvement...

VCs operate from the goal of xtreme high user market share as the problem..

As frameworks get better, the audience using the IDE changes...

Both are misaligned before even meeting and it will get worse once VC money control is added.

My bias, I am a flutter framework user and MS VSCode user.


This reads like a developer trying to make a GUI be less effective....kind of like some maligned GIT client and other dev production tools...


actually its alive and well on bluesky...my profile:

https://bsky.app/profile/fredgrott.bsky.social

join me on on bluesky


For those that need a translation....

1. For front end people, its code and design both...i.e. two jobs combining.

2. For backend, its again combining two jobs dev and server engineer...

In short words look to what two jobs will combine that you can leverage with tools that allow you to combine those two jobs in the first place. For example, front end frameworks generally allow us to combine front end dev with designer.


things are changing they found a way to decouple the membrane in producing hydrogen which significantly decreases the cost see

https://www.science.org/content/article/new-type-water-split...

In production in probably 5 years from now...



I take L-theanine for ADHD

1. Theanine is an analog for Glutamate and Glutamine. 2. Due to indirect relationships to ADHD, Depression, etc. no one take Theanine by itself...I do not. 3. When drugs are created we often have incomplete pictures, for example SSSrIs for depression...we now know its both low levels in serotonin and GABA combined...bias yes I take Theanine, GABA and Glutamine for depression and it does work.

One experiment on oneself means very little...I know as I spent 36 months finding the combo that works for my depression and ADHD.


Side note, If you are developing software that hacks anything WHY IN THE HELL would you have any antivirus software installed knowing full well that antivirus software extracts any detected virus and sends it elsewhere? For context that was the excuse for the 2017 ban of Russian antivirus firm....


An NSA contractor writing malware choosing to use Kaspersky is either a massive mark against that contractor or a massive endorsement of Kaspersky.


Two reasons:

  1. Kaspersky AV had the strongest heuristics analyzer and the largest signature base

  2. If you write malware, you want to test it periodically (in sandbox) if AV engines detect it


Third Reason:

NSA Contractor has a requirement for AV on all computers, it was installed on all computers and fact it's bad idea on select computers doesn't matter. Contract dictates, the contract gets.


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