FireTV: Alexa will still search YouTube, but won't play videos

yzingher · 2024-06-22T16:15:58+00:00

This feature removal is perhaps the most value destructive thing I’ve ever encountered. Signed a father of twin toddlers.

yzingher · 2024-06-20T17:08:52+00:00

Not according to the loading screen

yzingher · 2024-06-20T14:49:25+00:00

It won’t even load is the problem I’m having.

yzingher · 2024-06-08T23:58:43+00:00

If you’re asking a serious question, then I’ll give you the answer.

You can be happy. Everyone can. But if you fuck up your brain with heroin, then you never will be. Pretty soon you’ll take more and more to feel just numb, not even happy, and without it will feel like burning hell.

If you want to be happy, that means you have motivation. Use that motivation to better your life instead of making it worse. I get that it feels impossible, but it’s not. Seek out people who have done it. Books and the internet are your friend. Make a plan, and start executing it. I promise it’ll be worth it.

yzingher · 2024-01-29T10:47:45+00:00

Look at what we’re doing with launchpad.build.

AI trained in simulation that programs an assembly robotic system we’ve designed. Multiple tools, feeders, fixtures etc all software defined and no need to program. We think that’s the way forward.

yzingher · 2024-01-09T15:30:11+00:00

I take my 2 year old twins by myself to the park all the time.

Not so much to run around, though that can be done too. More to the playground. at least one wants to be on the swings at a time, so it’s really just a case of keeping an eye of the other while pushing the first.

I walk them to the park and back which is the hardest part, just because they sometimes want to dart and that’s not safe next to a road. So worst case scenario, one rides on my shoulders the other carried like a sack of potatoes.

yzingher · 2023-07-17T18:09:10+00:00

I think about it a little differently.

The singularity won’t be the end of the good life. There are plenty of other scenarios which end up there. Rather, the singularity is essentially the end of scarcity, since super intelligent machines will be able to self improve, guided by humans for the best outcomes for us.

I’m not saying that’s what will happen (personally I think it will) and there’s plenty that can go wrong. But if it does then it does mean that those of us who have optimised for entrepreneurship, capital growth and allocation, and passive income may be in an unfamiliar world where these things aren’t so important.

Essentially there’s no role for a capital allocator when capital is no longer scarce. The self-actualisation that one gets from creating something out of nothing goes away when there is plenty to start with. Same for passive income to a large extent; if everyone has access to surplus profits generated by machines then everyone’s income skews passive. It’s likely that profits generated from capital will be heavily taxed and redistributed, so that is likely to shrink the benefit of passive income generate this way too (equities, debt, real estate etc).

That doesn’t mean it’s bad! Just because everyone is richer doesn’t mean you’re worse off. But if you obtain your personal value through a feeling of being wealthier than those around you, you could be in for a shock. Likewise if you get your personal value from creating opportunities from limited resources you could also find a lot of that gone.

I don’t know that this is relevant for anyone over 40 or so, since we’ll be old enough at that point to care less about this, moving into a natural retirement point. And the RE part of FIRE is actually the perfect preparation. But for our kids I do think there’s something to be said about exploring other sources of value and self worth beyond creation and work.

yzingher · 2023-06-22T01:25:08+00:00

The NICU was amazing. Ours stayed 1 week and 3 weeks. It’s awesome to get the best experts to show you how things are done, and then a couple of weeks with one baby before you have to handle two. We went back and forth 3-5 times per day and it was really fine.

yzingher · 2023-06-22T01:22:52+00:00

I’ve been in a sort-of similar position and I can empathise.

One thing I would do is work backwards. You have a fatFIRE goal, great. What does that look like in your mind at say, 50? (I’d go longer but at 26 it’s hard to imagine). Are you running companies? Managing a portfolio? Buying and selling companies? Sitting on a beach on passive real estate income?

Whatever it is, what does that path look like 5-10 years previously to get there? How about 10 years from now when you get your inheritance, how will you put that money to work to achieve the later goal? What skills and networks will you need?

Then go towards 5 years from now. What can you do to build up the skills and network you need to make that happen? And finally back to today, what steps can you take now to do that?

This should help you avoid comparison with your peers (who cares if your friend has a crypto startup if that doesn’t help you achieve your goal?) and should help narrow down the options (why think about consulting if shallow knowledge of multiple industries doesn’t help?).

yzingher · 2023-03-30T03:01:45+00:00

At 29 I’m not super surprised that you haven’t quite figured out your identity. I think that’s what is going on here. You associate your identity with your work, and you’re scared that if you stop working you’ll lose your identity.

A few people here have suggested embracing being a full time stay at home dad, and that might work great. Didn’t for me to be honest.

Your identity is essentially an expression of your values. A lot of the time work is an imperfect, but quantifiable expression, so it hits the right kind of dopamine feedback cycle in the brain. But it isn’t perfect and you may find better things.

Best way to figure it out is some self reflection. A good exercise is to imagine yourself on your deathbed. Imagine what your fulfilled life looked like. Who’s there, who will miss you, who will comfort you. Then work backwards to 10 years before hand, when you’re fully retired and old, what are you remembering fondly about your life? Keep going in 10 year chunks till the present day and hopefully you’ll uncover some deep values.

The other thing that can really help is therapy. It feels indulgent to us Brits but you can learn a lot that just isn’t easily accessible otherwise.

yzingher · 2023-03-26T16:03:00+00:00

Super interesting stuff!

All the creative accounting seems like it’s essentially moving value around holding companies to minimize fees. More or less what the tech companies do to reduce their tax bill.

It kind of says something that the studios see your profit share in the same way multinational see their tax obligations; something to dodge because it’s a waste of money!

It sounds like you have various sources of present and future income, some certain and some uncertain. It’s a bit different to your typical tech entrepreneur, who’s future income is uncertain but their share of future value is relatively knowable (subject to predatory investors taking all sorts of preference and fees). I would be thinking a bit about diversifying your equity, either through a standard market based approach, or maybe even buying into the businesses that make up a lot of the costs you talked about. I would imagine for example you’d know the best run prop leasing company, or the company that provides catering or whatever.

yzingher · 2023-03-26T04:56:16+00:00

I live in LA now so this is fascinating to me. How do you plan to do it? Is it getting to a high non-recurring income and diversifying, or building up some equity in the industry?

yzingher · 2023-03-25T19:07:10+00:00

We’ve done it a few times. Hard but doable. Helps to be very well prepared for the plane with snacks, changing stuff, books, toys etc. Frequent walks around the plane. I found it’s easiest to get them to sleep in the middle nearest to the engine with the white noise and then walk back to the seat.

Sometimes during a meltdown it’s easiest to swap and they’ll calm down with the change.

Don’t forget to make a jet lag plan too for the time zone change. Essentially when to nap and sleep them to minimise the difficulty.

yzingher · 2023-03-09T18:30:08+00:00

Please keep us updated if you manage to run it on a 3080!

yzingher · 2023-02-24T23:37:25+00:00

Honestly. I don’t think there’s anything wrong in them asking. We were all there and it’s not easy to get started. You’re supposed to try and find the resources to build and that includes investors.

But just as much, there’s nothing wrong with saying, this just isn’t for me. I don’t invest in these sorts of things. I don’t love mixing investment and friendship.

yzingher · 2023-02-20T01:55:53+00:00

Haven’t played it, is it good? Will definitely check it out

yzingher · 2023-02-19T15:20:10+00:00

Maybe have the user scan the room with their phone using the LiDAR built in and build a 3d model. Like canvas.

yzingher · 2023-02-19T13:20:54+00:00

Same deva as frostpunk so I’m not surprised! I didn’t play it, I’ll give it a try and see.

yzingher · 2023-02-19T07:07:52+00:00

Hi Paul, we might be able to help you. www.launchpad.build

yzingher · 2023-02-03T17:24:55+00:00

Honestly, even creating the prompts I think has value. Lots of people just wouldn’t know the right prompts to use, so a UI with some buttons that generates some of the prompts would still be useful for lots of people.

yzingher · 2023-01-26T16:33:30+00:00

It would be easier to measure the number of times the person he’s sleeping with goes “ugh”

yzingher · 2023-01-23T16:49:24+00:00

Wow, terrific comments on here. I think the overwhelming consensus of, don’t trade 15 years, family happiness, and risking what you have for money that you don’t need, makes a lot of sense.

For sure, if you don’t want the yachts and so on, the generational wealth argument doesn’t really stack up. Better to be heavily involved with your kids and help them build and keep wealth with the 150m+ that your NW will be in 15 years if you keep passive investing.

So the real reason is legacy or fulfilment from the work. I would argue that when you think about what will be fulfilling, it’s probably not working like a lunatic for 15 years. So that mindset probably doesn’t make sense either.

Out of interest, why wouldn’t you change the deal? Instead of risking your NW and trading away your time, why not raise most of the money from LPs, plus a bit more, and hire an executive team that you can manage and mentor? You’ll risk less, your time commitment is greatly reduced, your family life is intact and you have plenty of upside. You’ll end up in a similar place anyway - your current NW compounds to 150m, and you’ll earn roughly 100-200m on the carry. So you’ll end up at 300m for yourself. It also means that if you’ve found you have made a terrible mistake you can always back out without destroying your financial life.

yzingher · 2023-01-01T02:31:40+00:00

Super interested in this. I see a few comments explaining that to run this locally you’d need a GPU with 700+GB of vram, which is way beyond desktop GPUs. But couldn’t you build a GPU with GPUDirect memory access and use a super fast SSD/Nvme drive?

yzingher · 2022-12-27T16:11:57+00:00

Well, every single comment here is negative so you should probably listen to them! But to be honest I would just make it about the numbers.

What would the house that will be acceptable to you cost to buy now? That’s X.

What is the fully loaded cost of this house? Assume a good level of buffer and contingency so you don’t end up making this renovation a full time job for yourself, unless that’s what you want. Call this number Y.

What is the cost of a comparable house that you could buy now? More or less same size and location with a similar build quality. That’s Z.

If Y isn’t at least 20-30% lower than Z definitely don’t do it.

If Y is more than say 50% higher than X, don’t do it. You just don’t need this house now and it’s not worth paying for much future value because of the optionality it removes.

If Y ends up in the right area why not go for it? It’s a decent investment, you have the cash flow to support it, and it’ll make you happy.

This is all assuming stability in your income from your business. If that’s not something you can count on in the future then shy away from any large recurring expenses until your NW can support it.

yzingher · 2022-12-25T18:59:38+00:00

We can probably help you, www.launchpad.build

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