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@RollingHedge Inheritance

Relieved to be fully out of London property since September last year. I no longer view real estate as a viable asset class (in the near term, or even medium term, future) per se. Moreover, who will buy all the £1m+ properties nationwide when the boomers die? Median wages are several multiples lower and due to inflation no one is saving anything approaching a deposit for such a property. Smells like a bubble waiting to pop. The market will be flooded with these ‘assets’ in the next 15-20 years and the prices will have to crater unless something changes. Perhaps AI increasing wages of the new managerial class will rise to meet it. But somehow I cynically doubt it. Meanwhile, you have to live somewhere of course and our home is very much that. A home, not an asset.

@DanielW_Kiwi Sort of. There's more volume near the 16 corners than you might imagine. 3D volume intuitions get wonky at higher dimensions, and very much so at very high dimensions.

Do you have an intuitive understanding of a tesseract?

@DanielW_Kiwi Well done sir. Generations will tell stories of your dedication and sacrifices.

A man can find no greater meaning or purpose than this, providing shareholder value.

@_trish_xD COBOL, Ada, 68000 assembly. Sort of never really used again: XSLT. I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting right now. Multiple variants of BASIC, bits of Z80 assembly. Logo(!) I assume some LISP and Smalltalk.

Programming language you learned once but never touched again?

@DanielW_Kiwi @fjzeit But they already have what they want. No amount of money changes that.

@fjzeit I'd ask for 30 Million

i’d be making a clear public statement about my stable mental health and installing security cameras and a fire suppression system in my home, and buying a few dobermans…

Slow and steady wins the race. That "move fast and break things" approach is a very short term tactic, not a strategy. Tech debt is just debt, you're gonna have to pay it back eventually whether you realise it or not. Yeah I read it back. And wake up in the night with "wait! there's a better way!"

Hey, peeps who write code, do you ever churn out a bunch of code on a hot streak and then feel like you need to look at it all before continuing? What about burning out?

Engineering group update meeting. Power point point slides. New members! ... Claude! ha ha! (dude, wtaf, you just fired a bunch of people like 7 days ago. this is clumsy and insensitive.) ... Q&A link. Endless questions. CTO just keeps going. For three hours. "I'm being transparent!" Yup. Starts getting irate about questions about low morale, and starts pushing back. Dude, read the room. Stop digging yourself into a deeper hole.

@John_Stepek Not sure "finally" is the right framing. "They" have been trying to resolve fundamental issues with financial tinkering and engineering for decades (at least) - that's how we got into all these deep messes. "I wouldn't start from from here if I were you"

The fundamental problem for markets right now is that in the Iran war, they've finally run up against a problem that emergency monetary policy can’t fix. There is no Greenspan put in this situation. (And TACO is a poor substitute).

@loftwah They know they're in a meat grinder with no way out.

The amount of Russian soldiers that look relieved when they see the drone coming is wild.

@DanielW_Kiwi here ya go 👎

How do I get a dislike button?

@sunnydecree Bircoin is stillin the early years of rapid power law growth. Stock induces and gold exhibit are slow exponential growth. Also, bitcoin was already oversold and near the bottom of its historic power law corridor.

GM. Bitcoin is showing almost no volatility, while stocks are down and gold is down even more. Isn’t that weird? How do you explain this?

@jeremyphoward Own the code, and move in small steps you control and understand. They aren't ready yet for unsupervised working.

Opus & Sonnet 4.6 haven't been a great hit for most of my work, or our customers, since (as warned in their tech report) they're over-enthusiastic about agentically taking over, rather than letting the human lead. Any suggestions for competent models that are patient followers?

Work as measured by mining difficulty was subject to a rapid progression through CPU, GPU, and then ASIC mining, and many steps in each of those phases, as well as profit motive evolving rapidly, starting with enthusiasts mining at a loss. The power law relationship with calendar time is more about the Lindy Effect - folks simply trust a system more the older it is, as it is increasingly battle tested. Combined with diffusion of knowledge of bitcoin - that it exists, what it is, and that age factor creating new waves of diffusion ("huh, is that thing still going, I heard it was dead").

@voidcompiler @LeomathHeart @planC Block size vs time is pretty lumpy in the early days. It’s reasonable to believe that there is a solid relationship between work (to mine blocks) and market cap, even more so than just calander time. The problem is that it’s more complex to calculate and harder to extrapolate.

This model shows a better linear pattern and regression fit (R2 = 0.97) compared to a common price to time model. Strong credits: @martykendall2 for the BTC Market Cap idea @PlanC for the clean hourly BTC block and price data (137k data points). The chart is the result of work in progress based on sharing ideas among some very devoted Bitcoin researchers. I will share my intermediate finding. This is the standard OLS regression of the Log(BTC Market Cap) on Log(BTC Block height).

@nic_carter @Daractenus Do you not know that his father was a toolmaker?

@Daractenus Starmers very existence is a humiliation

The utterly mad president of the US just shared a skit humiliating the British PM.

@ThePunnyWorld Yup. And keep them in a biscuit tin instead of a cookie jar.

I'm sorry, but shouldn't British websites use biscuits?

@DaelonSuzuka And two spaces after a full stop?

Who else remembers hitting tab at the beginning of paragraphs? What ever happened to that?

@OhNoezzz @RubiRubenstein @UK_Resurgence @SimonMagus They aren't independent. That's a technicality not a reality.

@voidcompiler @RubiRubenstein @UK_Resurgence @SimonMagus But the BoE is supposedly independent and they're the ones with the printer, not the govt. She might legislate to bring monetary policy in house of course though. Then hyperinflation will follow.

The U.K. is in for a truly miserable time over the next couple of years, but the comedic value of Angela Rayner having to implement true austerity might just keep us buoyed through it.

Yup. And those people are typically higher up the org. "Look how good this is!" "Hey, I know, let's fire n% of enginneers!...like, this week! Get HR on a call will ya" (literally what happened in my org just recently)

@fjzeit Impressive.

i asked grok to date this photo. seems about right in terms of year, i have no idea if the location and other info is close or not. grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5…