Even 5% per year sounds pretty reasonable, honestly.

If you are a billionaire within a lifetime, then the yearly growth of your assets has been so insane that a 5% headwind should not scare you, you big crybaby.

Or if you inherited it and don't have a rapidly growth net worth... cry me a river.

There are some exceptions to the "no kids" rule, which I sometimes represent.

If my wife is out of town or has all-day plans with some of our friends, you will occiasinally see my son and me at the local grocery store with a small cart full of products of questionable nutritional value that seem best suited to an upcoming LAN party.

He might waste some of my time while shopping, but when it's time to check out we usually hit a self checkout and are out of there in seconds.

I suggest we start calling this The Musk Argument.

As in, I won't spend an inconsequential fraction of my money to solve world hunger -- after I literally challenged you for a proposal to do so -- because I don't think you will be 100% successful.

Instead, I think I will take public actions to kill untold numbers of poor people around the world while I continue my quest to be the first smart boy with one million million dollars.

Oh I'm an engineer that works on physical products (embedded software) and you will get zero disagreement from me there, lol. That is the case even with expensive stuff that's sold to other businesses rather than cheap consumer tech.

And the way I meant "better" was more like "superior specs / technically better." I mean, as far as "good enough" and "meeting user needs at lowest cost > exceeding needs at higher cost" you cannot argue with the success of USB. It has succeeded beyond the scope of its own name.

I remember reading that one reason firewire was so great was that every device had a controller chip or something like that, whereas USB used the system processor for a lot of stuff.

So the cheaper option won the mainstream market over the better option. Now where have I heard that before other than all of the times?

Outdoor back-to-basics stuff has only proven more beneficial the more I have integrated it into my life.

Carpentry, landscaping, gardening, and taking care of my many animals all help me get fresh air and exercise in addition to whatever else I get out of the activities.

I am living the superposition of that meme where the resume or linkedin profile goes from Senior Systems Architect to Goose Farmer. My day job is software for embedded systems. At home, in addition to the indoor projects I am slowly transforming my little fenced-in back yard into a combination of oasis, hobby farm, and town from an old RPG or zelda game.

To be fair, a not insignificant portion of that ad's target audience is probably considering impulse leasing a Volvo and showing off all of its gadgets to their friends.

Oh, my sweet summer sausage.

I say we go with fake unintelligence, so that we can shorten it FU.

This situation reminds me of the realization at the end of Terminator 3. Only instead of "Skynet wasn't hardware; it was software" the real-world version is going to be "it wasn't intelligence; it was access. Access willfully given, in a thousand pieces, because it was convenient."

At least with the internal thermometer you could plausibly use some kind of control loop. But all the recipes you get are going to assume a normal fixed-temperature oven anyway.

I think all the "AI" magic beyond that is a con, in the purest sense of the word. They are trying to get people's money by building unearned confidence with bullshit.

Oh good. I was only 98% sure I was done buying consoles forever. It's good to really know.

I might make exceptions for consoles/devices that run linux off the shelf. (I want to get a steam frame, ok?)