Elon's nonstop buzzing keeps Tesla's stock bubble afloat. The minute he calls it quits, it bursts, and that would piss off a LOT of people more powerful than Elon. Among billionaires, Elon is the lowest tier.

Higher tier billionaires though, the ones so powerful that you don't even know their names? They're psychopaths that enjoy playing around with social groups and sometimes entire countries. Oh, and ten-year-old boys. Those are people that start wars. You can't become a high-tier billionaire and not be a psychopath. All rising non-psychopaths quietly retire before they reach that point.

If you want to predict whether some event will happen in the near future or not, ask yourself how powerful is the old rich pedophile on top that will get mad if it happens. This is why If a zero-day is discovered in something like Postgres, some of the smartest programmers to have ever lived will get to fixing it within minutes.

@retoor look at what 3 eur buys you on Hetzner.

You don’t want to know.

@Demolishun this cheap multimeter is but a plastic case for a big standard IC made for Fluke back in the day. This IC was so popular that it became dirt cheap

I work with _way_ lower voltages, and no, this multimeter is not that good. I need smth more precise

https://hackaday.com/2020/09/...

@Lensflare I use that for everything

More engineers = more good. Every programmer was a noob at some point, and noobs don’t mix well with vim. This is why we need VSCode.
They learn to code using VSCode, then they learn vim, emacs or any other elitist text editor.

Молодец!

@Lensflare if that whole programming shtick doesn't work out, I can review traffic cones. On OnlyFans.

@Demolishun agree on all of the above. I do the same thing, but rn I'm mostly just using other people's wasm modules from github

@Demolishun there are complex algos that involve a lot of inner loops, and you know it. But why write them in JS in the first place when you have wasm

JS is a glue language

@BordedDev wow! congrats!

@qwwerty btw, looking forward to seeing your side project! Really curious at this point

@qwwerty yes, I believe that IN CERTAIN NICHES you can just do a good product once and monetize it forever through subscription, without ever touching the codebase again (aside from merging dependabot's requests).

Imagine a product that never changes, just exists in the background, non-excitingly earning one person their living. That's my end goal.

@qwwerty first, I'm doing it all alone, as I always do.

Second, I deeply believe that some software projects can just be “done”. I never understood it when companies like Slack were cramming more and more features into their products, probably motivated by nothing but fear of the competition. I think that if they fire everyone in the engineering dept. but one guy who will be applying security patches, their market share won't suffer long term.

For my project, I've specifically chosen a trivial and highly utilitarian scope that anyone can tackle, just to outdo everyone in UI/UX and reap my MRR forever, all alone. My product is boring. The business model and the overall spirit here is that of pushover.net and rsync.net, not google or facebook. A super-stable, super-inert whale entirely dominating a very specific narrow niche.

I've already done one free project that I didn't touch for 4 years now, and it still gets crazy usage.

Also, Jim Carrey in “Mask” has no ears.

@lungdart wow! So how do you avoid gaining all the weight back?

Both Bing and Yandex support https://www.indexnow.org. Use it to get reindexed instantly.

Google doesn't.

@Lensflare there is none. I just thought it was funny

we're one step closer to doing Intel's JNZ in JS

@Lensflare Kevin is a common name in Germany of all places? I never knew!

@antigermanist “In France, they call people like you Les Incompetes.”
— Kevin McCallister‘s sister to Kevin McCallister

By the way, my motivation thing works for me astonishingly well. Without an active side project, I feel like the biggest loser in the world. I _have_ to have a good side project to get much needed dopamine. Because I'm bipolar, I can use every bit of dopamine I can have.

My current side project is so fucking amazing in every single aspect that y'all will shit your pants when you see it. The design, the code, the content, everything is perfect. Truly my magnum opus.

There are two parts to it: free one and paid one. Free one is 100% ready. Paid one is like 30% ready, so yeah, I'm really doing it and not just talking about doing it.

If you don’t do the side project that earns you money, you will work for the rest of your life. Simple as that

stole the “prosecutor got me by my balls” from one of you, don't remember who

@awesomeest pics! pics! pics! pics! pics!

@antigermanist that one week off thing is a price you pay for the entire autumn/winter/early spring worth of dirt cheap heating everyone's apartment had preinstalled when the house was built, so… fine by me. I'll just get a water heater and use it for a week every year. That's what everyone is doing

ah, the sweet sweet times when my drunk grandpa forgot the stroller with 1 y.o. me on the street when it was -35 degrees Celsius outside, and I almost died from a long battle with pneumonia afterwards. Not at all helped by my shitstain of a mother trying to cure it with homeopathy. Good times!

yaayy! congrats!

@Lensflare I bet M$ GitHub or TS teams and M$ Windows Server teams live vastly different lives.