Do you reckon we will have Prompt Engineers who are skilled at getting AI to generate what they want before long?

Yeah I saw ads for that recently, a Snap documentary of the life of Bhad Bharbie or something (a female rapper I believe). I don't believe we're talking about TV shows that rival Apple TVs exclusives

Not sure if this is the same kind of content you are talking about, but I rather enjoyed Ryan Reynolds Doesn't Know Anything... though I was in a pretty dark place when it came out so it was probably ironic :(. The issue for Snap, of course, is that I only watched it on YouTube ;P. Here is a link to the first episode:

https://youtu.be/MnR4P7205dc

I do not understand how people can stand this type of quick cut content.

I can. There's plenty of videos on YouTube that end up tiring by the end of ten minutes, even if they contain informative or entertaining content. What I do not understand is how they expect whatever revenue they can get from a 6-7 minute video can pay off the cost of bringing in celebrities to star in them.

I don't know what's more impressive, this tractor or the fact the author has worked a single dev job for 17 years after graduating lol

Yeah you are right. One of the most profitable crops is cherry tomatoes and you can make $1400 per acre on a good year, $900 on average. Saffron, with optimal yields at the most expensive prices per lb, will get you $125k from 2.5 acres.

My dream is to have a farm with enough crops to cover my food & maybe sell a little extra. Out of interest does anyone know a good place in Europe where that's possible for a good price?

I am curious, but surely the $900-$1400 an acre is based on rows configured for tractor-based tilling/plowing, fertilizing, herbicide etc.? As I understand it, the nice thing about a smallholding is that you don't have to mechanize near as aggressively, and therefore can plant much more densely than a tractor-based farm would.

While hand grown can be denser it’s not an order of magnitude denser. The main advantage is being able to combine/layer different crops.

Look at machine farmed fields just before harvest; the fully grown plants will often be quite close together.

Perhaps? This was based on google top-link data which may not be reliable for a small farm but I assume it's within an order of magnitude!

Land prices in Portugal (away from the coast and from bigger cities) are pretty cheap for western European standards. It's getting noticed though - a quick YouTube search will show you plenty of examples of expats jumping on the opportunity.

IMO making a profit would be the hard part - the internal market is small and in general produce prices are low.

I'd be content with a small loss to be honest, I'd still be working as a remote engineer. I just would like more nature in my life!

I rarely use the cloud at my current role and it was pretty awesome to see sysadmin skills I got when I started in 2014 were still relevant. Sometimes I wonder how insanely productive a PHP developer must be when he's given an Apache Server and MySQL to build a CRUD app after 20 years experience of a single stack, compared to my eight years experience of completely random technologies.

You say to the guy who wrote the first seed check of Coinbase

Crypto has run it's course, I don't think Gary did anything wrong by helping the crypto experiment happen. But YC is about the future, not the past.

Realistically YC is about maximizing ROI and I would happily bet a crypto-related startup will be in Summer '23s cohort - they have crazy valuations and liquidity out of the gates. Personally I want those startups to showcase problems crypto is useful at solving rather than selling pickaxes to the gold rush but I'm less sure that that'll happen. Certainly the idea that Crypto has ran its course is, IMO, premature - people have said that during every bear market since the beginning yet overall usage appears to be increasing and institutional buy-in again appears to be increasing.

Is it premature to say beanie babies or tulips have run their course?

There will continue to be many hardcore fans of tulips and crypto regardless of the price, but marketcap adjusted for inflation has passed the max

As a crypto sceptic I'd still love to have been the person who wrote that check

I've worked on a real-time system in Haskell and it is possible but iirc you do avoid laziness.

Which is apparently a thing! https://www.zcombinator.org/

While PhDs without masters are common in Europe, universities may have doctoral training centers that have an extra years to act like a masters. My wife went straight from undergrad at Oxford and her PhD was four years instead of the usual three with the first year consisting of short courses & projects.

The UK is very different from continental Europe. Your statement isn't quite valid.

The EU has had the BMD reform in the past where education systems were standardized to a bachelor-master-doctorate three-party system.

To get to a PhD, you need first a bachelor (the name usually varies depending on the country, e.g., it is called a license in France), then a master.

That's the very common pipeline there. Doing a PhD without a master is a rare thing.

Huh, interesting. Most of my friends who have PhDs don't have masters and that's Europe-wide! The UK definitely is different though. I got onto a Masters in CS without a Bachelors and was discussing carrying on into a PhD which would have been pretty interesting to explain on my CV.

> While other payment processors take 1% or more on every payment you receive, we take only $0.05 per payment.

What about network tx fees?

Tx fees are paid by the senders, not the recipients.

Payment processor fees on a decentralized system with no need for a middleman, very cool, definitely not entirely antithetical to value prop of crypto itself

Yeah for sure, but $0.05 AND $10 or whatever the fee is means it's still not suitable for most vendors, except on large purchases that have a % based fee.