Kareem Kouddous

Anas al-Sharif was buried in Gaza City today along with his colleagues. His older brother, Ahmed, wept over his body. Israel brags about killing him--they know no one will hold them to account. "Silence or death" is how Anas characterized Israel's threats. He refused to be silent

@Aella_Girl This isn’t about critical thinking this is about fact gathering and the ability for any journalists to access and account first hand what is happening.

I do really wish someone smart and good at critical thinking would sit down and invest a lot of research into which claims by both sides are accurate and which are propaganda. This would be so good for the world

@phineasb @kevinakwok @clay_gtm Hi @phineasb and @kareemamin! Long time 🫶

@kevinakwok @kareemk @clay_gtm good catch - now delete and try again. i was excited...

@levelsio Wait till you have kids, the flexibility v stability equation flips

Buying a house is the worst financial decision I ever made except for buying Alibaba stock just before they arrested Jack Ma It only made sense because in my little beach town there's not a big supply of good rentals and most goes to Airbnb in the summer and stuff gets booked a year in advance Having the house, now with a home gym, jacuzzi and sauna we added and stuff like Starlink, is nice, a soon self sufficient fortress we can get back to But financially it will probably never be a good decision, which is fine But renting is NOT throwing money away, especially if the supply of rentals is good: I've rented all my life, lived in hostel dorms, hotel rooms, then suites, then apartments, especially in South East Asia the supply of housing is abundant, newly built and amazingly luxurious to live in The flexibility of not being stuck to a place is amazing The only argument I can think of for buying is 1) mine (no good rental housing supply) and 2) that most people don't have the cash lying around to just buy a house, so it's the only loan/leverage they can get for a big amount, but that loan is also not without risk (see underwater mortgages) If you do have cash and can buy a house with it, it's debatable if you should buy or not, because at that point you can have the flexibility of living in the most beautiful rentals and Airbnbs of the world and bouncing around the world, I did that I think what's important is breaking this cult of home ownership which is a real religion worldwide, with a lot of pressure put on people to buy or "get on the housing ladder early or be too late" as Dutch people would pressure me into it when I lived in Netherlands I think we should be quite wary of middle class people taking on a 30-year million dollar loan as it's literally a ball and chain There is a shortage of housing everywhere, the solution is to build more housing, one reason we're not building more housing is that it's beneficial for home owners if prices keep rising But prices only rise with shortage of supply, it's quite a messed up dynamic Realistically we WILL build more housing soon because the shortage we have worldwide is unsustainable and will cause revolt if we do not If that happens home prices will start dropping and it's not a good investment anymore Sorry for rant but yes interesting topic

Hossam Shabat filed this article just hours before he was killed by the Israeli military. There needs to be justice for him and the more than 200 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza. We will not forget. Read Hossam's last dispatch: dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-shaba…

@elonmusk how are you sure yours hasn’t?

Most people don’t understand that their minds can be taken over by a virus, just like a computer virus takes over your computer. The woke mind virus is like Cordyceps.

@levelsio There’s biodegradable vacuum packaging

I think it's the plastic they use when packaging steak Supermarket suppliers will package it days before and then it get shipped to supermarkets everywhere My local butcher ALSO uses vacuum plastic to package it though but he cuts it and packages it at the moment of purchase So slightly better I wonder if you can just buy meat without plastic packaging? Butcher paper or smth?

@nateberkopec I bet there is a way to piggy back off of existing stacks and just focus on the differentiated part which I assume is the UI/UX. You also don’t need to win the entire market, just a segment that gets you to cash flow positive.

@kareemk tbh I fear the only way is via VC, the market is too late stage to accept a mini/partial product

Every day I get infuriated at how bad APM products are. They're made by people who are checking boxes on feature lists, not by people who actually have ever used observability to fix a problem.

and no matter how good these models get coding will always be iterative because the requirements are never perfect

With coding, I'm finding that there is a large hidden UX cost of the increased latency using o1 and o1-mini where the cost of a mistake becomes much much higher because of how long it takes to wait for the result and these models are very far from being perfect.

@levelsio Not only own the land but be a productive part of the local community. No good to own land and a gun when your neighbors do to and see you as an outsider/intruder.

Yes that's my point, when all goes to shit you have the paper that you own it and you hold a gun and go stand on the roof to defend it like Koreans in LA

@levelsio Industrialized agriculture only works for certain crops and not the ones you want on your plate. Mimicking natural systems through poly cultures increases efficiency, yields and quality. Yes, owning land and producing a core HUMAN need is an excellent AGI hedge.

True but for that you need to own land And industrial agriculture is already highly robotized and makes food cheaper than you'll ever can Owning land actually is another survival mechanism in a post-AGI world, people will always need land right?

@levelsio I share this as someone who accumulated assets in tech and now I’m building a regenerative farm in Mexico. Working with the physical has been tough but deeply rewarding way more so than pure online. With a tech mindset and capital we can really affect change (and make money).

@kareemk True I also invest in physical now

My current spending is ~$5K/mo That is if I don't travel, If I travel it goes 2x to 3x because Airbnbs are pricey compared to rent, and flights, eating outside more I'll probably get cancelled for spending so much on Uber, but it's not a lot of rides actually Also excludes annual taxes like capital gains and income tax Second home is my old rental shared with a friend

@levelsio Just more public market allocation? You have the opportunity to directly affect the physical world.

@kareemk Invest invest invest

@Tawheed I was looking for this as well and ended up building a thin coarse grained api in python to get access to the orders of magnitude more mature ecosystem and just call the from RoR

Is there a RoR way to implement LLMs into an existing application?

Wow and everything is so much easier now but unfortunately the worlds problems will not be solved thinking step by step

@lessin I see this as the shift back to a decentralized local first economy. Tech is now starting to enable everyone to do it themselves for their community.

‘On demand’ job trend was a mistake for labor … It is time to help workers build equity not just enjoy flexibility of 'being their own boss'

@levelsio But how much do you pay for devops support?

More importantly: My VPS bill is the same it was last month and all the months before it $384/month Even with increased traffic! I don't need to auto scale, it's powerful enough with 16 CPUs and 64GB RAM Actually it's way overpowered