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@ronrule @gothburz My thoughts exactly

@gothburz I literally fired everyone who pulled shit like this and replaced them with devs who can fix a two minute problem in two minutes. Time is money.

My manager asked how long it would take to fix the bug. I said two weeks. It took forty minutes. But now I have two weeks of buffer. That's called experience. Here's how it works. Every estimate I give has a multiplier. The multiplier depends on who's asking. My manager asks: multiply by 4. A VP asks: multiply by 6. The CEO asks: multiply by 10 and add "dependencies." Dependencies are other teams. Other teams are always slow. Even when they're not involved. Especially when they're not involved. Nobody checks. The bug took forty minutes. I fixed it Monday morning. I didn't tell anyone until Thursday afternoon. That's three days of buffer. Buffer is protection. Protection from the next ask. Because the moment you finish something fast, they ask for something else. Finish the bug in an hour? Great, can you also look at this other thing? Finish it in two weeks? Great, take the afternoon off. You earned it. I earned it by lying about how long things take. That's not how they'd describe it. They'd call it "managing expectations." I'm managing expectations. My expectations are that I don't want to work that hard. When I was junior, I gave honest estimates. "That'll take about two hours." My reward? Four more tasks that day. Then I watched the senior engineers. They said "end of week" for everything. Everything was "end of week." A config change? End of week. A one-line fix? End of week. A meeting that could've been an email? End of week. They were never stressed. I was always stressed. I learned. Now I'm senior. Now everything is "end of week." Or "end of sprint." Sprint is two weeks. Two weeks is forever. Forever is comfortable. Sometimes someone pushes back. "Can we do it faster? This is urgent." I pause. I look concerned. "Let me see what I can do." Then I deliver in three days instead of two weeks. I'm a hero. I wasn't faster. I was honest about the original timeline. But the compression makes me look dedicated. "He really hustled on this one." I didn't hustle. I just stopped lying for a moment. Strategic honesty. Delivered at the right time. After enough fake delays. The best part is nobody tracks this. Nobody says, "He estimated two weeks but finished in forty minutes." They say, "He finished ahead of schedule." Ahead of schedule. I set the schedule. I beat the schedule I invented. That's exceeding expectations. I'm exceeding expectations. My performance review says I'm "highly reliable" and "consistently delivers." I am reliable. I reliably estimate 10x what things take. And I consistently deliver. Right before my fake deadline. That's called being senior. New engineers burn out because they're honest. I padded my way to work-life balance. My manager asked why I always seem so calm. I said, "Experience." Experience means I've learned to lie about time. Professionally. With a straight face. And a buffer that could fit a vacation. That's engineering.

@Christo39775311 @hippyygoat You’re treating 3,000 years of Asian state expansion as equivalent to modern European colonialism. That’s not insight, it’s ignorance dressed in confidence

@yhzeev @hippyygoat I'm sorry but that is nonsense. Expansionist empires was the norm all over this world for 1000s of years. Asia is no different in this regard. Only in the last 75 years has that not been the case. And even then china invaded and annexed Tibet.

STRONG STUFF.. China will not fire the first shot, but China will not allow you to fire the second shot!!

@Christo39775311 @hippyygoat Fking dumbass comment. You don’t understand Chinese culture or history. The imperialist concept is a western way. Go back and study history boy.

@hippyygoat If it wasn't for the US and western companies China would be an impoverished backwater. But now they are pretending that the US wants to what? Invade them? Nike them? Nonsense. They built that army for imperialist conquest not defense against the US.

Dear @EmmanuelMacron You stated that “recognizing a Palestinian State is the best way to isolate Hamas”. So in response, I’d like to tell you a story. I have a feeling you’ve never heard this one: Once upon a time, in the year 2005, an Israeli Prime Minister and his government made a silly decision to do exactly what you suggested. So they sent a large number of Israeli soldiers into Gaza, and then forcibly removed entire communities and families of Israelis off their land and out if their homes and brought them into main Israel by the bus load. But the story doesn’t end there. Once done, they then went back to the now empty villages and town, and they dug up every last Israeli grave and removed the bodies to bring back to Israel. And you know why, @EmmanuelMacron? Because they believed it would bring peace. And they did this after 5 long years of Hamas and your buddies in the PA sending suicide bombed after suicide bomber murdering thousands of Israelis including buses filled with kids. So now, picture this… Gaza is completely free of even a single Jew. No soldiers. No anybody. Just Arabs. We left them schools and homes a s businesses and hundreds of greenhouses intact with thriving businesses worth hundreds of millions of dollars, all so that they could build a better life for themselves and have self determination. And guess what happened next @EmmanuelMacron? Those Arabs you love so much took less than a few hours to burn down almost everything, ripped the greenhouses apart, stole hundreds of pipes, and made rockets. But not rockets to make fireworks to celebrate their new found state. Nope. They made actual freaking rockets. The kind that you fire at people to kill them. In fact they made hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of rockets, and then fired them. But not done with just firing the rockets at Israel, they then voted for??? That’s right @EmmanuelMacron. They voted for Hamas. And they voted for them for only one reason. Because Hamas promised to exterminate every Jew and burn Israel to the ground. Yup. Every Israeli man, woman, child and baby would be wiped out, BECAUSE we gave them a state. And for the past 20 years, the Gazans have done NOTHING but attack us again and again and again. But they didn’t do it alone. Nope. They had help. You know who helped them @EmmanuelMacron? I’ll tell you. It was Iran, and Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, and Egypt and Jordan, and Syria, and Lebanon, and the UAE, and… the United Nations, and Russia and China, and Britain, and Spain, and Ireland, and the EU, and… France. That’s right @EmmanuelMacron… YOU helped them building everything imaginable so that they could attack us, then you gave them political cover to get away with it. That’s what YOU did. And then came October 7, and they tried it again and slaughtered many of us and kidnapped many too. But we defended ourselves and turned Gaza into rubble. It’s just a pity it took us two years but we would have done it sooner had you and your European friends not done everything in your power to stop us. And now, here we are in 2025 @EmmanuelMacron. And what do you do? Well, you think that starting this story again in exactly the same way will somehow isolate the very people who got full power and control the last time. Now I have to be honest with you @EmmanuelMacron. It’s difficult to describe just what kind of idiot you really are, because no language has yet the words to fully express it. But I can assure you that every word in every language that means retarded idiot exists solely to describe you. So tell us again, @EmmanuelMacron, how giving bloodthirsty psychopaths a state is a good thing? Because the last time didn’t quite work out too well.

@zipcpu Then that’s your problem right there. Your combinational logic needs to be clocked. If not you will fundamentally have timing issues that might even work 99% of the time, but will be flawed. It means you will have a timing failure, which is just a statistical probability

@yhzeev Not quite. You can check it out here, where it goes next: #L208" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/ZipCPU/vgasim/…

HDMI. It worked in simulation. It worked when driving the display from my laptop. It (mostly) worked when driving my projector. But when using the customer's camera and the customer's display? It failed miserably. The ultimate bug? Traced this this one line.

@wangbin579 The moment when we humanise our mentors are usually an indication of growth. It’s an opportunity to see it from another perspective

@yhzeev I don’t hate Linus — I’m just a bit disappointed. The god-like image I had of him is gone.

For normal people like us, we should admit that scheduling is hard — especially how modern operating systems handle it.

@LenPenzo @Ih8bluebirds @zerohedge Let’s thank John Keynes for that

@yhzeev @Ih8bluebirds @zerohedge The debt-based fiat system will mathematically implode under sustained deflation. That's why the Fed spreads the false narrative that inflation is good. It's also why the Fed will parry any sustain deflation with massive printing - even though the "cure" will kill the patient.

Japan 40Y yield

@Ih8bluebirds @zerohedge You can’t hyperinflate like that. A usd hyperinflation is basically the end of the world scenario. And we don’t want that. The only path of a system like the usd at the moment is a deflationary recession, which will occur during the QE. The fed is timing the deleveraging.

@zerohedge 9/10 🔥 The Fed, trapped by rising inflation and a crashing dollar, risks full-scale hyperinflation. Confidence in the U.S. dollar evaporates, and global trade shifts towards alternative currencies.

@Ih8bluebirds @zerohedge USD is already weakening. It’s been weakening

@zerohedge 5/10 💵 Massive QE would flood the market with dollars, weakening the USD. Global confidence would erode, and emerging markets would struggle with dollar-denominated debt.

@Ih8bluebirds @zerohedge It has already abandoned YCC

@zerohedge 2/10 🇯🇵 If Japan is forced to abandon YCC, it faces two choices: hyperinflate the yen through aggressive printing or sell U.S. Treasuries to stabilize its economy.

@DungeonGrill @BernardJBaars Attempting to slowly grasp different aspects of the science behind that which gives rise to higher orders of thinking. There are a multitude of hard problems in every single field of study. Not just in consciousness. Unbelievable. I’m just talking to an idiot.

@DungeonGrill @BernardJBaars Incremental steps. Look, instead of talking out the the crack of your hind. Try, doing a grok inquiry. Why don’t you just ask Grok, if you are so lazy to even read a page of literature. And once again, leading authority in a field means just that. You lead the pack of scientists

Consciousness is not an epiphenomenon—it performs real work. It enables coordination across brain regions that would otherwise remain isolated, creating a unified cognitive moment.

@BernardJBaars I remember you showed in a paper that we experience consciousness discretely. That was a fascinating finding for me. It explains why in certain conscious states that we might perceive reality in a strobe like manner

The sense of continuity we experience is a construction, not a given. Moment-to-moment consciousness is fragmented, yet the brain stitches these moments together into a seamless flow.