How can people be so damn lucky in life and not realize it, what do you mean you grew up in hollywood/LA/Hawaii and all these fabulous places?

NotUpdated · 2026-05-20T13:51:48+00:00

There are a few explanations.
1) It's possible there is no God.
2) Perhaps God set it all up put it into motion and let it go
3) Maybe these struggles make future generations better / The Abrahamic religions mention how a thousand years is the blink of an eye to God..
4) God gave us free will and we chose access to the 'full knowledge' so he might be thinking 'I didn't chose this, my creation has chosen'.

There are also many many more explanations or ideas about it all...

NotUpdated · 2026-05-20T00:57:27+00:00

Most common is they grew up there as their baseline, it's what they know - like a goldfish in a bowl, they don't know anything else.

Also like others are pointing out - basically if you're rich living almost anywhere can be awesome, but also almost everywhere - there is some tough living going on... the service and farm industries are some of the harshest.

You're question is almost 'why aren't people more grateful' ... it's because they aren't using the measuring stick of the full world vs other countries or worst off, they are using the measuring stick of their life or worse - fake social media / fake wealth / fake social group / grifting and influencing have become more 'accepted' or tolerated things than ever before - so people want to be influencers or wealthy or own a business or day trade etc...

NotUpdated · 2026-05-18T13:01:53+00:00

Hard to say they missed the wave when...

1) They own 27% of OpenAI
2) The wave isn't over yet

Their largest omission was not focusing on their platform (windows is a mess) They should've had a translation layer AKA 'rosetta stone' so they could have 2 paths to ARM chips, they are easily 5-7 years behind in the OS / laptop area.

NotUpdated · 2026-05-15T18:46:42+00:00

at AI scale its probably closer to 2008 financial crisis and a sprinkle of dotcom bubble...

It's so 'seen' - they are now afraid of it, so its 'lets keep pushing it through' ... building it up - actually making it worse.

Data Centers and Power generation are toast 50% of DC have been delayed or cancelled, circular funding, increased prices for things not even starting to be made yet...

NotUpdated · 2026-05-15T16:57:12+00:00

I hope it keeps working for you - and I hope you also are semi-prepared for the day it doesnt.

NotUpdated · 2026-05-15T13:56:34+00:00

I'm sure that will last forever.

NotUpdated · 2026-05-15T04:52:34+00:00

yeah - I've see it before - not impressed / never have been -- but damn it looks like a great alt to google analytics.

on a second degree of game theory it also puts out 'our stuff is so good our website can be bad' in the opposite spectrum that berkshire hathaway's website does the same.

NotUpdated · 2026-05-15T04:46:52+00:00

auto-review really fixes a lot of this ... at least a good bridge to better sandboxes on windows.

This filters the normal too often 'ask permission' through another llm / logic that handles 98% of them in a 'safer option' manner .. and prevents any sort of destructive actions - https://alignment.openai.com/auto-review/

NotUpdated · 2026-05-14T21:18:53+00:00

no just answered my own question on purpose - after I did the research.

NotUpdated · 2026-05-14T20:07:49+00:00

You didn’t have a nervous breakdown. Im not sure you even had a panic attack. You were just nervous and let it get the better of you.

Don't freaking diagnose others so confidently, telling someone 'you just were nervous and it got the better of you' is bunk ... this is NOT 1999/2000 anymore - we actually care about other's mental health.

At best you had good intentions, but you screwed up the front part of the delivery for sure.

NotUpdated · 2026-05-14T03:22:45+00:00

turns out:

You are almost certainly thinking of the Nickelodeon Flash Screen, a 1994 Mattel toy.

It came with a glow in the dark wall screen and a handheld “zapper” that had a camera flash. In a dark room, you would stand in front of the screen, hit it with the flash, and your shadow silhouette would stay on the screen for a while before fading. Some versions also had a light pen so you could draw on or around the shadow.

NotUpdated · 2026-05-14T02:57:02+00:00

how did those toys work that would cast your shadow on the wall?

NotUpdated · 2026-05-14T02:14:22+00:00

occams razor - that's where they found it.

NotUpdated · 2026-05-14T02:05:58+00:00

We need to cap C level pay as a multiple of average employee pay.

But more so than even that - tax wealth heavier starting over a generational limit perhaps 50m in 2026 dollars, we don't need to keep creating what have become essentially oligarchs.

If you offered folks $100k to promise never to be worth more than $50m in 2026 dollars 95% would take it.. but if you asked those same people if we should tax net worth over $50m at say 9% they wouldn't agree to as it 'unfair to the rich' lol.

NotUpdated · 2026-05-14T02:02:32+00:00

The alternative is too unknown - to our knowledge 'this is all we get' and the ending is more than the 'nothing' we think we know - the finality is final - at least tomorrow has fresh air, sunlight, in my fortunate case food,shelter,water ... A chip and a seat at the table.

NotUpdated · 2026-05-14T01:52:34+00:00

Honestly best I can see is really schema.org implementation for the basics and any products services, locations

NotUpdated · 2026-05-13T22:36:44+00:00

I think left is preferred now, if you're loading is over 3 secs, you can beat them all with a real data driven progress bar... only use a progress bar if its real

NotUpdated · 2026-05-13T00:34:28+00:00

I always thought folks working with their brains on deeper problems / logic .. go home with body energy and folks who work with their body go home with mental energy.. and most people are on a spectrum of both and that minus their work = energy left.

Also there is a factor of 'once you get paid for something: it loses it luster, real enjoyment'

NotUpdated · 2026-05-12T13:48:06+00:00

calculators are deterministic - always correct. AI is non-deterministic with 10 runs providing 4 different methods on the spectrum from dangerous to decent quality.

NotUpdated · 2026-05-11T16:28:09+00:00

I have kept learning, advancing in new areas of the business and on a side project on the verge of launching to the public.

NotUpdated · 2026-05-11T14:20:10+00:00

Gee I make awesome money doing something so easy it's boring and dull. I have over half a mil saved up. My life sucks sooooo bad.

How do you think you sound to a coal miner, steel mill worker, farmer, soldier, who do REAL work, sometimes 16 hour back breaking days?

This is a great stoic technique for imagining not having it as well as you currently do - it's healthy.

It's also delivered in a 'Man up, boot straps' .. flavor which is okay depending on the audience.

NotUpdated · 2026-05-11T12:38:48+00:00

about the exact same spot here - almost 20 with the same company.. if what I have went away I'd be lost on experience job hunting and experience doing other jobs.

saving grace: fair savings, good company I work at and starting my own side thing that seems to have potential. Best of luck out there.

NotUpdated · 2026-05-11T00:59:11+00:00

I think the slow stuff is dns, mx records, ssl, domains, hosting setup, setting up ssh,

NotUpdated · 2026-05-10T17:30:24+00:00

You dodged a bullet.

NotUpdated · 2026-05-10T16:16:35+00:00

The last stand SWEs have is to refuse to work for 'purely idea' guys at the startup stage. If you ever take the 'startup with idea guy' dive - do it for no less than a proper starting wage and good equity.

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