Current LLMs seem to be OK code generators when constrained well. I'm building a product with my hands tied behind my back when I only use Claude. Its... working.

In my language, division isn't closed. The type of x/y is maybe<double> because when you do shenanigans of defining division as a different operator than multiplying by the multiplicative inverse, your code sucks.

Myself, mind and body

Everyday, I get up and cold plunge. I exercise twice a day. I eat carnivore diet. I do red light therapy. I drink a gallon of water. I read 10 pages out of two books. Sometimes I get a third exercise in. I use the sauna (20 minutes at 205F). I stand on a vibration plate for 10 minutes.

I also play factorio.

My body is also something I constantly work on yet I can't help but read this in Patrick Bateman's voice.

Articles like this speak to the importance of things that "just work".

This has been my dream for the last few years.

I'm making progress as I am also acting as a fractional CTO for a few start ups where I only took equity and only used my platform. All the companies are going to migrate off at some point, but they found market fit and are staffing up full engineering teams.

Over the next few years, I'm going to continue just having fun building. However, I have a few verticals that I plan to launch in and start figuring out marketing for that is... reasonable.

It kind of is a feature. I had a boss once that owned the building to the business and charged rent to ensure zero profit.

It's like life is a realtime monopoly game I'm learning tactics all the time.

> I had a boss once that owned the building to the business and charged rent to ensure zero profit.

This is common and legal structure designed to, among other things, reduce taxes owed. It only becomes a problem if the business has shareholders who are not participating in the scheme to shift money to the land company.

> I had a boss once that owned the building to the business and charged rent to ensure zero profit.

To be clear, I assume the company wasn't wholly owned by him, correct? Because if it was, it wouldn't be a conflict of interest.

It's not breaking fiduciary duty to the company if the company is wholly owned and in the interest of the owner. Or the transaction is in the interest of all the owners. It comes under transfer mispricing (transfer pricing manipulation) where transactions are not at arms length which it would not be if the same owner wholly owned both. It's not a highly policed area so it's legal insofar as people do usually get away with it. I think there will be crackdowns on it eventually, courts are more apt to pierce the corporate veil for solo-owned companies.

I think there are many changes coming down the pipeline as governments start running out of money. Capital gains tax normalization, capital gains tax treated as income every year instead of at a 'event' when you sell. An effective wealth tax by taxing a percentage of property value. Once those are in place I think they'll crack down on the creative use of corporations to minimize tax.

Not exactly unscrupulous if he wasn't charging insane rents to himself. His business would have to pay rent or mortgage for office space in any case. And the income his other business would get from the rent is taxable as well. At a certain point, he either has to break a law in an egregious manner and hope he does not get caught, or he has to pay taxes. That's the system we put in place when we start setting up income and corporate taxes to prop up a massive federal government.

Not for the same motivations, but a lot of legal cannabis businesses do (or did) something nearly similar to get around not being able to use the banking system:

Buy the building or even lease it with a sublet clause using a separate entity, and then lease/sublease the space to the cannabis business with the lease fee being, for example, "90% of gross revenue". I'm not sure on the details of how operating funds were pushed back in.

How did that work? So the "company" pays the "landlord" so it shows zero profit but now the landlord has a profit right?

The OP likely isn't telling the full story or maybe doesn't understand what actually happened, like most people who talk about taxes online.

The landlord will use it to pay down loans, improve the property, and maybe invest in new property.

Society only functions so long as most people don't know these 'exploits'. Short of a rather intrusive totalitarian state I'm not sure how it would be possible to effectively police against such exploits. What's new is sharing information on exploits is much easier than it used to be and people feel less moral aversion to using them.

A bug for society is a feature for the elites that control it.

Sounds like a "sale and lease back"

For the hashmap problem, sure. Any SWE worth their salt should be able to figure those out.

I highly doubt you are sight-reading atomic bomb LC hards.

I also don’t think that most white boarding interviews actually use that kind of question.

I'm just a tryhard. However, I've been coding since a child out of a weird love/obsession. Nothing super successful in the public space, but I retired at 40 to spend time building my cathedral: https://www.adama-platform.com/

my history: https://www.adama-platform.com/2024/01/28/euler.html

This is next level. Have you heard of Rama by Redplanetlabs?

Some time ago, yes. Found it interesting.

How does one quantify a conversation with a transdimensional being?

This is a reason I avoided going into real estate because the market of renters... is high risk. You really have to go for scale and play the distopian macro game or its a huge gambit. My sister rented out a house and it was gross... used tampons everywhere.