Yeah why was he in his bathroom? Did he airbnb the rest of his apartment? Genius. Rent out every bit of the apartment you rent to cover your rent while you pitch your crypto-scam from your bath tub on Zoom. This is the underdog pulling himself up by the bootstraps story of the year!

"listing every fee they created would be too difficult."
Difficult how? Making lists is not difficult.

If they were honest all the fees would be listed as:
$3.99 - fee type: money grab
$0.95 - fee type: money grab
$0.10 - fee type: lets make billions of dollars
$10.99 - fee type: executive yachts fund contribution
$1.00 - fee type: executive yachts fund contribution fee

Bullshitting customers is easy: get ChatGPT to make up the fees. How hard is that?
But it's easier to get Brendan Carr to get rid of any regulation that requires them to do work.

That's where I stop. I don't need more help from a tool than getting the boilerplate stuff out of the way quickly, creating a skeleton, maybe some unit and integration test skeletons that I can fill out with real assertions that mean something. If you keep it limited to small tasks, it does fine. I can get it to identify thread-safety issues in code reviews or refactor something into less complicated code. Small tasks that speed up development. Ask it how to do something, provide an example, and it's way better than searching the googles or any of the other heavily commercialized search engines. So far GPT and Claude haven't injected any ads or product placements into their answers.. Trying to do "agentic" stuff ends up pooping out code that gets filtered out by its own minders after a few minutes. If it needs a lot of context, it goes kaboom.

Working in front of a screen ruined my eyes (has nothing to do with my age..) I haven't read in a while, not like I used to where it was a half or more hour of reading before going to bed. Now it's just youtube and that's f-king up my eyes even more. The other problem is I've read a lot of the stuff I want to read. Should I read it again? There are good writers now. I know there are some.

it sucks balls.

"Park's startup Pickle offers up to $500,000 base salary and expects candidates willing to work seven days a week"
Fuck you, Mr Park.
Wait, on the other hand, I could retire in a few years. Naw fuck that guy and his Pickle.
Although it would be funny to say "PACKLE!" to people who ask where I work now.
The AI stuff, whether that means ML or integrating stuff with LLMs is not all that hard. Working for companies who expect you to develop AGI for them by working 24/7 on the problem is the hard part. Anyone who promises or even says they'll try to develop AGI for a corporation has a lot of something. Overconfidence or DGAF.

TV commercials are terrifying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Now we're getting anime-style pharma commercials. I'm sure we're seeing AI generated commercials for drugs now too.

88% reduction in PTSD symptoms and the other 80+% numbers are amazing though. I tried to sign up for ketamine therapy because
A: I know I respond well to ketamine since I've been heavily dosed on it for 2 different surgeries and have used it other times as well without bad effects
B: The old drugs I was prescribed 20 years ago maybe help, maybe don't. Can't tell. Probably just built up a tolerance and dependence at this point.
I wasn't qualified though, since I have not tried AT LEAST 4 medications and failed to have any results. That seems extreme for a therapy that supposedly works in treatment resistant patients. I have been on 4 different medications actually, but over the last 40 years.
Idk, maybe it's like ECT. It resets the brain for a while, but you eventually get back into the same ruts.

Hey they didn't get to executive class by being good at writing. They got there by .. I don't know how they get there. I do know that's not where I'm going.

I have a built-in filter with basically charcoal and silica that I change once in a while. I add NAC-L to my water, which tastes sour and smells like sulfur farts. I also sometimes add electrolyte mix with various salts and some fruit flavors, but no sugar.
Long story short, if you don't like the pitcher, install an inline filter and the tap water is just good/safe. If you trust the filter. I have a 3 stage filter that does all the things.

Has anyone ever come close to Firesign Theater? Or even the old radio programs from the prior decades that inspired it?
I listened to a few narrative podcasts and they all fell in to the same annoying patterns. Kinda like watching Discovery Channel "documentaries" where you learn nothing, leave wishing you had that time back.
I think Nat Geo made the same mistake of letting boobs produce their stupid "documentaries". I tried to watch the one about pirates, but it just kept coming back to a dumb scene they filmed with the Queen and Sir Francis Drake ostensibly, and close-ups of the Queen's powdered leathery face making dumb expressions and mouthing words while Sir Francis tried to look dashing. This is what podcasts are like.

I'll be an on-site muffler repair technician. I'll be a sneeze guard scraper at Applebee's. I'll sell sea shells down by the sea shore. Anything but plumbing.

"there is so much luck involved it is ridiculous"
This is very much my experience exactly. Rarely ever does your effort in investing beat the market unless you have some kind of insider information pouring in all the time. In other words, don't try to beat the market, join it. If your portfolio can't beat SPY or a fund like that, might as well just invest in SPY.

https://www.parts-people.com/b...
I've had this one for EVER and it's still working perfectly. I don't think they make em anymore or I'd have 2.

I had one of these in my sub-basement recording studio for ..10 years? It worked flawlessly the whole time on the few dim incandescent bulbs, satanic candles, etc
It's still used as the remote keyboard when tracking drums from the other side of the room.
I tried to find another one for my second studio tracking station but they stopped making them. UNTIL NOW
Actually if the battery lasts around 10 years, that's about how long the one downstairs has been working flawlessly without ever needing charging.

That's why I don't have sex much. I had a few short and longer lived relationships with divorcees who were fit, active, really attractive, but 99.9% of people I see day to day are like "RUN AWAY" levels of fat. I used to have sex like every night, but that was in a relationship.