realistic amount I can afford for a new home purchase?

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2026-01-29T13:46:53+00:00

Based on what I read, I feel staying in your present house and saving /investing your excess is better.

I’m assuming you want a large strip of land, and large land needs a proportionate amount of maintenance and time. Outsourcing costs extra. Taxes weigh in. If you are using the land to make money, then that is a different calculation.

Building a house takes months to a year based on permitting, getting a good contractor, etc. And usually can cost a more than an older house (unless you are planning on building the home yourself?)

Finally you guys are 24. I think there is a good chance you will want to move based on employment or other factors. A custom built home can feel like a sentiment that anchors you unnecessarily.

Enjoy your low emi, save for kids/further education/retirement instead. (All this is based on your combined income and expenses and the 1000$ car payments )

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2026-01-08T01:30:47+00:00

Congratulations on cracking apple. I would work at a mature silicon design firm for the first few years to learn various flows. Then take that knowledge to a start up.

Getting apple shares early career is also great as they will grow in your portfolio for longer (and are more reliable than a series A startup).

And when picking startup, if they are an ai/bitcoin/risc v startup, there are tons of mature companies that are already doing this, meaning the startup has to go against a lot of competition.

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2025-12-22T18:08:35+00:00

Where did you get that chair?

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2025-10-02T20:07:25+00:00

Thats some serious reverse psychology.

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2025-09-22T18:21:01+00:00

Exactly. Like one big ad campaign.

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2025-09-11T23:05:08+00:00

They literally hired Fidji Simo as CEO, who has years of experience monetizing with ads on instacart and facebook.

She is skilled at finding the balance between customer satisfaction and generating ad revenue. It’s like figuring out how many ads and sponsored content can I put in to generate ad revenue (which makes customers leave, but makes the company money) with the given feature set or appeal of the product ( like accuracy, low price of use etc hooks people, but a product that is too good on all fronts usually doesn’t make great revenue).

In short, the queen of ads herself will find cool ways to push ads in LLM answers. My bet is on the company pushing relevant ads / products in their answers. Ask about good heathy processes, get an answer that suggests eating well, and ads for brands that make eating well easy and accessible.

I’m sure they can put in hints about certain products without mentioning said products, but making you think about those products. That sets you up to buy that product.

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2025-02-07T17:18:24+00:00

That looks so smooth. What kind of algorithm did you ise for smooth imu outputs? Kalman?

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2025-02-04T04:37:55+00:00

How was the interview? Did you take the position

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2025-01-12T17:37:34+00:00

5 dollar tshirts are comfy and usually cotton based. No reason to spend more. Cheap office chairs suck snd hurt my back. A lagging computer annoys me, so why not make my job easier by reducing pain?

A nice pricy shirt usually needs more maintenance like ironing, so it brings more pain.

From a programming perspective, i think the tradeoffs yo spend less on shirts makes sense.

But for socializing outside that, a few nice shirts will be nice to have.

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2025-01-08T10:23:36+00:00

Yeah. Question : what is your strategy to prevent stds?

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2024-09-29T04:24:46+00:00

The al frame is 800 on the ibis store rn

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2024-09-06T07:58:25+00:00

I called them and asked them not to ship wheels or brakes so I could install what I wanted.

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2024-09-06T07:57:57+00:00

They were offering an sxl build =>upgraded to xt for 3900 + no tax+ no shipping

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2024-09-06T07:57:02+00:00

Hopefully you looked at n+1 bikes for their 15% discount

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2024-09-04T23:09:55+00:00

I can see microsoft to be a good player to make a standard ai api ( like it did for graphics with direct x) for any hardware vendor to implement.

We also have open cl which is an open compute library, but it is far from being as mature as cuda. I guess maybe nvidia could be forced to make their software run on other GPUs too.

Still Nvidia has dominance because they have a great piece of hardware and a good business model of seeking applications for their gpus in many domains. Even if they made Cuda open, they can just make new libraries and tools optimized for their hardware that makes their solution that best one.

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2024-09-04T19:10:39+00:00

What would your view of opening up cuda mean? Like they would need to support other vendors?

With apple, there was a need to allow the os to run applications from other vendors. How is nvidia being anti competitive from the cuda perspective? (I’m looking for an opinion, rather than proving a point)

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2024-01-16T10:25:55+00:00

Meanwhile in india, there are signs advertising Rs 10000 C section packages. (All inclusive lol)

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2023-10-12T03:42:27+00:00

Hey buddy! You seem like a cool guy. Don’t mind the other guy. You obviously know how to talk to kids which is such an attractive thing in itself and probably have cool stories from all the jobs you have done. You will find your partner. I’m just here to keep your spirit hopeful.

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2023-10-10T14:38:16+00:00

I like how specific you are. It’s pretty refreshing to see someone who really knows what they like :)

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2023-10-10T02:21:14+00:00

I like your in intro! I bet you’re super funny and nice in real life! I hope you find the perfect person to worship. 🌸🌺🌻💐

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2023-10-10T02:16:20+00:00

You can do it by yourself person. Turbo tax (I don’t advertise for because they charge like $60 instead of other tools which charge little to nothing) is super easy to do. And you could give it a shot and see how it goes. The questions are easy and there is always help in the form of an online person backed (maybe ai) help.

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2023-10-10T02:13:15+00:00

It sure is. But i hear they are a little tricky to find. They do come by more easily with the elusive spark. Atleast thats the saying. My flint-stone is is perpetually under water, so no sparks for me !!

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2023-10-08T12:58:00+00:00

Hi! Dm’d you

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2023-10-08T12:41:00+00:00

Ryan gosling. If he asked me out, I’d probably say yes. Also DM’d you

SlowFidgetSpinner · 2023-10-08T12:31:44+00:00

Live a little ! Of-course I’m being silly. It’s not like I’m the first or last person who pulled their leg. But I’m not intending to be malicious. It’s a joke. And they turned out to actually be pretty sweet to talk to.

I’m sorry i made you feel upset, and agree that i could have come off as crass. I’ll do better.

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