I’m glad to hear that’s still going. I used that a lot a decade ago!

That’s what OP already said in the text of their question.

That time was best for me too. I was forced to adapt to working from home, and I haven’t been back to an office since. I got a job in my dream industry as well, took a risk, and all is amazing now.

We all paid and are paying it back via inflation.

(At least that’s how it is in my country)

It’s like living off credit cards. It’s fun until the limit runs out and now you have to pay it all back.

Yeah borrowing from the future is fun. Until the future arrives. :/

Thanks for this. Was very thought provoking. It goes along with something my generation teases about with growing up in the 80’s. It was an entertaining and dangerous world and we didn’t have time for all this anxiety depression stuff. Haha

maybe not quite a majority

VAST majority. This is 80-90% of devs.

There’s an article to read if you click the link!

It has nothing to do with AI posting the articles. It is Apple’s AI generated notification summary that shortened it to that

Yes - the details surrounding that, and its relationship to this statement, is covered in the article.

Yeah it’s just the borrow checker and ownership stuff that throws you for a loop. Particularly with large system design

Rust can be picked up the same way. I was in the situation you describe. Knew a dozen languages. Picked up rust and really enjoy it. It added a dimension to my thinking (ownership). I feel closer to the metal yet safe. That said, it still gets tricky with system design. That’s where it’s a lot harder due to ownership stuff. Just syntax wise it’s not bad tho

The stuff you’re seeing on your YouTube is specific to things YouTube thinks you like. All I see is airplanes and science stuff.

I’ve never heard of these videos exposing cults as any sort of large media thing. The internet is a yuuuuge place.

If you mean generally YouTubers that I disagree with because they’re dishonest, I don’t know of any. Surely I’ve seen plenty but I just naturally click away and forget about it.

Omg just ask the dude already! You’re totally over analyzing this. Go for it. You can do it!

To add to this, there are a lot of phone apps to help track the job of all this money without opening accounts. YNAB is the one I’ve used for a decade or more. Super useful.

Nakamoto Consensus, the mechanism by which Bitcoin is protected, is the original digital solution to this problem. Several others exist in modern cryptocurrency chains/ledgers.

With regards to protecting digital treasure, I think this fits the bill.

It’s precisely what the 4th amendment is for. Defending ourselves from tyranny.

You do get a feel for where the important parts of the error actually are

Yes, after decades of scanning large pages of text - code, errors, logs, search results, etc - a programmers ability to apply pattern recognition to screens of letters can be truly remarkable.

RUSH’N ATTACK for NES. I remember buying it as a child and being devastated that it sucked so bad.

I never said a majority of stocks are financial. I’m crypto they are tho but that’s kinda obvious given that we are bootstrapping a new financial system.

The internet changed a ton of things!!! Individual investors have so many tools to research now compared to 30 years ago! It’s much easier to get due diligence on investments and confer with others.

Accounting figures are obviously FAR superior with crypto native companies since everything is verifiable.

cryptocurrencies haven’t changed the process for gaining the investment necessary to start a new bakery or other small business and never will provide a pathway to do so

I adamantly disagree with that last part. This is precisely where crypto shines when done right it allows everyone an equal footing on raising and investing in capital projects. Note I’m not saying that it removes risk - it removes friction - admittedly at the cost of risk.

The reason you don’t see this taking off is 100% because of regulations, hoops, lawyers, and capital required to register a security. If I want to tokenize a business plan in the USA, I cannot easily do that without getting wrecked by the SEC.

The elitists can and will continue to do private equity and insider trading to maintain a lead because they have the capital to do so. I can’t speak to how they all feel about crypto. I would assume they would love it too. Free markets are far cheaper than the crap they go through now to do fund raising and such.

It’ll be interesting to see how this goes in the coming 30 years. It definitely benefits countries without a strong financial system already in place way more. Will it outperform the legacy, cumbersome financial system? Time will tell!