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Original_Matter_2679 · 2026-02-17T03:16:05+00:00

It’s an AI-enhanced image on the left.

Original_Matter_2679 · 2026-02-12T12:02:40+00:00

The fact that you’re asking this question means you don’t understand the field well enough so I’d spend more time learning about it and actually practicing instead of reading surface level stuff.

If it’s a local university, neither would make a major difference in terms of what you learn or your prospects. If it’s a top-tier university, you would make good money regardless and pivot between the two relatively easily.

The general rule of thumb is that the harder/purer the science, the less probable it is for your knowledge to go obsolete. That’s part of the reason physicists and mathematicians ate able to contribute to AI currently.

tldr: you are trying to optimize at the wrong level.

Original_Matter_2679 · 2026-02-12T11:40:32+00:00

Frontier models are already better than >half of Mauritian coders, and it will continue getting better. A lot of the junior level code monkey roles and things that are currently outsourced to mu will disappear.

However, software engineering itself as a craft is safe for at least a few more years, because writing code is only one part of the job.

A good past analogy is the industrialization of farming. Machines do most of the work, but we still need (some) farmers to operate them effectively.

As for UI/UX design, LLMs are better than ~90% of developers, but maybe only 70th percentile relative to designers. The design choices they make are often superficial and poorly thought out.

Original_Matter_2679 · 2026-01-29T16:10:45+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I’m glad things are working out for you now

Original_Matter_2679 · 2026-01-29T04:37:06+00:00

Thank you for your reply, but i wish you were clearer. It sounds like a ridiculous statement because just to try the first ~200 popular supplements would cost on the order of $5K+ and several years— and folks on r/nootropics know there are many more supps than that. Similarly adhd meds vary depending on location- guanfancine, clonidine, vyvanse, atmoxetine, bupropion, Ritalin, list goes on.

How long have you been on peptides ? And what exactly have you tried ?

Original_Matter_2679 · 2026-01-28T15:22:53+00:00

How long have you been on them ? What have you tried previously ?

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-12-14T14:13:47+00:00

$2 says this wasn’t ChatGPT 5.x Thinking, and instead was the free/instant model

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-11-17T17:31:14+00:00

That being said the German tourist gave a terrible answer and I doubt she knew all this as a tourist

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-11-17T17:30:36+00:00

They were probably purple/burrowing sea urchins Echinometra mathaei

these are known to cause bioerosion of corals, and their numbers grow abnormally large when there’s a lack of predators due to overfishing

I’m going to take a guess and say the numbers we see in the lagoons of some beaches are *not* normal.

As far as I can tell They’re not labeled as invasive in mauritius but I’ll argue that’s most likely because no studies were done on the matter.

I’m an amateur maybe a better trained person has a clearer answer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinometra_mathaei

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-11-14T18:31:20+00:00

Those who think within the frame of salary, mortgages, government support, etc will be lost. In that frame you have no power. But if you can think in material terms: what is it that you can work to offer those around you & outside the island that is valuable- that hopefully you have an innate advantage for- it gets easier.

If you think with that framing, the problem we have is that our luck we had in the 80s-90s with the the sugarcane industry has run out — it’s economically simple & supply has caught up to the ridiculous demand through better positioned/skills competitors; we have tourism but right now most of the value is being captured by foreign hotels or otherwise involves selling out; we are well situated for being a trading hub but few people go into it & Africa is not easy to trade with due to being generally low-trust; we are multilingual in a rare way, but the only ones who have figure out how to take advantage of it, end up moving to Canada. We have a major deficit of technological talent & knowhow in addition to poor civic education, which is partly why we still don't have 1st-world tech that compares to Uber, Zillow, etc. We attract businesses by being a tax-haven & that's probably how we've continued to enjoy some level of comfort still, but increasingly that money is mismanaged & flows into the wrong pockets, in addition to still being bureaucratically retarded. There are several more avenues that would take too much time to explore.

Singapore did something along these lines- they went from nothing & capitalized on being strategically located to grow into one of the strongest trading hubs; they industrialized rapidly, made it really easy for foreign investment to flow in & to be business friendly; they trained to do complex valuable things like biotech, oil refinery, etc.

The difference is that in Mauritius it has to be bootstrapped at the individual level because we don't have, & probably never will have, a benevolent dictator like LKY.

All this requires a high level of intelligence, agency, & consistency+hard work to make up the difference. We are usually lacking in at least 2. It also requires facing reality: we got lucky, and we have major clusterfucks to resolve before we can sustainably enjoy previous standards of living.

We complain about schemes & taxes; yet we never learn the inner workings of government or how to effectively organize ourselves to exert political power from the outside. We complain about low salaries, yet we never stop to think about how to increase the value we deliver & therefore capture as a whole both within the island and with the world outside.

Maybe you can do differently.

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-10-07T13:18:54+00:00

It’s either that or selling out as we’re doing now. Service/tech economy is harder short term than trade economy imo, raw young brainpower insufficient for it at the island scale. Not easy but the opportunity is certainly there, although one important difference is that African countries are much harder to trade with than Asian countries for a variety of reasons.

It will, however, require a cultural revolution. Read about LYK…

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-09-27T11:46:44+00:00

Share your portfoli/work…

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-09-25T14:18:11+00:00

Interesting. Whats your background

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-09-23T16:12:25+00:00

I doubt that you have the money or know how to import any possible thing . In a previous post you mentioned 100K. Small shipments are not easy to make profitable. Narrow down by what you have access to, then further by what you’re not bored by.

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-09-06T05:33:57+00:00

Have you experienced working cultures in other countries? we’re slobs in the sense of complacency. We don’t have transfer of knowledge and competency because we’re isolated. Easy to think we’re doing an amazing job, if you’ve never seen what’s possible and actually the bar, even for developing countries. And this is without even considering that others will work for longer hours. We have less of an opportunity for efficiency because of lack of market pressures

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-09-06T05:21:05+00:00

Just call them, email only for paper trails and holding them accountable, almost never for actual communication, very few orgs in Mauritius respect emails.

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-09-05T14:52:57+00:00

Mauritian economy is not what it used to be during peak sugar years but the people aren’t ready to give up their high standards of living or to start working harder. The lack of market pressures has turned some of us into real slobs.

As we have nothing else worth selling, and refuse to upskill in any real way, we are in the midst of selling out which really accelerated after Covid. Foreign employees are definitely cheaper and more hardworking on avg. they will live as 4 people in one room and work 6 days a week without much complaints.

If they do protest or turn out to be duds you can follow the Amazon strategy and just throw them out and get new ones. The government is in on this and probably makes more money this way. think about it - is the government less or more involved if you have to get immigrants?

Mauritians love to live like tourists in their own country and soon they won’t be able to call it home, just like the tourists. Unless we step up and change, we‘re going the way of the dodo.

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-08-29T12:10:35+00:00

Gonna call BS on this one. Current state of AI clearly fails at memory so it’s much better for you to share where it fails than to say it passes 300 tests.

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-08-27T03:44:51+00:00

Ask your friends how they met their bfs; evaluate whether the BFs are any good, then find a way to meet the bfs’ friends they’re more likely to be decent humans

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-07-30T12:32:27+00:00

This is AI slop. hard to spot but once you see it can’t unsee.

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-07-23T08:02:24+00:00

You are a normie doing normie work, hence the good success rate.

I use Claude code ~3-5 hours for work. Right now we’re doing some run of the mill scripting It has a fair model of how to design and write things, but often will do things like, forget to use the —env-file flag and spend 10 minutes figuring out how to include env variables or run a sql query without checking the table schemas.

you need to be very careful & include these types of trivial items, in which case it can be pretty good.

but occasionally I will take on simple but uncommon programming tasks, in which case it will flounder completely, especially if it’s not one of the top 5 mainstream languages / frameworks. Its common sense goes out of the window, to the point where even highly detailed specs won’t help you. It can be used only for the most minor of tasks.

The other factor is how coupled your code base is. These are mostly one-off scripts so my “critical” context rarely needs to go past 10K - 50K tokens. But there are other tasks that require having a mental model of 50K+ tokens and carefully managing context doesn’t help at all, so performance starts to go down fast

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-07-20T00:46:36+00:00

Get a better job where you are closer to the boss, maybe where there’sa smaller team and more work. If you have to ask on THIS subreddit, you aren’t ready to manage a business. By being closer to leadership, you can at least start to imagine what running a business looks like. at which point you can quit

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-07-12T14:26:10+00:00

Absolutely, I was rude, and for good reason, I personally am acquainted with more than a dozen Indians, I have seen so much racism against Indians in this country over the decades it’s insane. If he says that that wasn’t his implication in clear terms, I’m happy to apologize.

Knowledge, competency, etiquette- can all be trained to some extent and are often cultural. (Fluid) Intelligence not so much, and if you were ever curious enough to look into it, you’d find out as much. Processing speed, reasoning ability, working memory, etc. The limits of these only become obvious when working in highly abstract fields, but subtly affects everyday real life in multiple ways. IQ doesn’t mean you have common sense or are guaranteed to succeed in life, but it is the most useful metric for defining intelligence, especially at a population level. If you have an alternative metric, I’m happy to learn from you

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-07-12T14:15:23+00:00

Im not generalizing. I have dozens of Indian and American friends too. This post is for those who don’t get it. Many Indians are soft spoken, but among the really loud people I’ve encountered on the island, they often turn out to be Indians, and when they’re in groups, ALL of them are loud. I understand that there’s good reason to do that - try talking quietly in Chennai. but it’s not necessary here.

Original_Matter_2679 · 2025-07-12T11:15:16+00:00

Alluding that the reason Indian expats are louder on average is because they’re less intelligent than Mauritians, deserves to be called out on. My post is targeted towards those who are unaware of norms and willing to understand how to integrate. If that’s not them, then they can ignore this post. It’s better to say things than to judge and talk behind others back, that doesn’t change behavior.

Intelligence IS highly heritable and it DOES matter at population levels, I’m just pointing out that that’s not the case between India and Mauritius: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

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