Sysiphuscript

Lately finding it fun tosolveing data structure and algorithm problems from a functional programming angle. Focusing on not assigning to variables.

6 min video by Stefan Molyneux on how to reason https://freedomain.locals.com/post/6845717/how-to-reason

Bloomberg is wondering if $999 is a psychological threshold for USA consumers. But ignores the moral qualm that those prices are brought to them via slave labor.

I always thought going to college for CS was taking the long road and stalling personal innovation. Then I began to wonder if it hurts more than helps. Now it seems these students would have done way better going 1 year to a community college to get referrals and building cool stuff on the side. That would get their foot in and then every year they could bounce and double their salary till they gotabover 100k salary.

If the developer never worked with other devs in github, are they really a senior? If the dev has never written a unit test, are they really a senior?

Vibe coding FTW

Just finished nostr:nprofile1qqsza7flq8xjfylqgg66dwrmzrfuff6w9flt0s72795zdrm27ue3fdgpzamhxue69uhkzapwdehhxarjwahhy6mn9e3k7mgpzemhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skc4fygql 's Functional Design and of course it's another banger. I may go a year or two between his books. But every new one i dig into, i am reminded how lucky i am to have found him so early in my career.

I get why Benjamin Franklin disliked democracies. But there are other reasons. Like having junior, less experienced, and less learned, developers try to steer the team with over simplified solutions.

I run into this every where I go. "Simple" is rarely defined. Building layers consistently is never on their mind. They never had to maintain a codebase thats over 20 years old, while adding new functionality that doesn't break existing functionality. They never fully understand the value of the single responsibility principle, they never had to maintain gnarly test suites for large & bloated classes. They never question how to structure their code to avoid changing 10 files for a simple change. They generally find a couple of paper tiger points and anchor to them. Its OK if a developer has never come across these circumstances, but it is dangerous for niave hubris devs guiding juniors into over simplified points of views, because they haven't gone the next step in their knowledge.

Another banger from Signull on X: "i have noticed that when people want something too badly, when they chase, when they try too hard—it almost always slips away. it’s not just some dumb universe thing.. it’s just human nature. people can smell desperation, & it repels. not because they consciously think “oh, this person is desperate,” but because desperation warps behavior—it makes you less attractive, less confident, more erratic, less enjoyable to interact with. i remember a time when i desperately wanted a job. i chased it relentlessly, i was the most qualified candidate. but i didn’t even get an interview. the more i pushed, the less it worked. contrast that with moments where i let things come to me, it was effortless. doors opened, people gravitated toward me, opportunities just happened. the paradox is that the best way to get what you want is to not need it. not pretend not to need it (people pick up on that too), but actually rewire yourself to not be attached to outcomes. desire without attachment is the sweet spot, pursue, but don’t chase." I noticed this with women in general. Don't be thirsty. They won't come, and even when they finally do, your thirst was not justified.

Lex's interview of Primegean: https://youtu.be/tNZnLkRBYA8?si=4RFDDUgI2UvvYkkT

I like all 3, but xirtman on Twitter made a profound observation: "What we have here is a secular priesthood preaching gospel to a generation of men hungry for guidance, yet incapable of fulfilling the most basic biological or civilizational imperative: the creation of a family. Tim Ferriss: the productivity hacker turned self-experimenting monk. Andrew Huberman: the neuroscience demigod whose dopamine maps rarely intersect with intimacy or fatherhood. Lex Fridman: the emotionless black-clad pod-priest who flirts with sentimentality but recoils at generativity. These aren’t men with families — they’re cult leaders of sterile optimization. Their mantra: hack your life — not live your life. You want to know what they’re really selling? Surrogate masculinity. Masculinity unmoored from duty, generational continuity, or even real-world consequences. What they offer is a hollow, anesthetized masculinity: dopamine schedules, journaling routines, five-hour morning rituals — but no sons, no daughters, no wives, no lineage. This is not wisdom. It’s a simulation. And millions of young men, starved of fathers, swallow it whole. Where are the podcasts about building families, holding down difficult relationships, sacrificing for children, standing up for tradition? The algorithm doesn’t reward those. It rewards slick, postmodern celibacy dressed as enlightenment. Ferriss, Huberman, and Fridman are not countercultural sages. They are the ideal products of a dying civilization: libidinally spent, spiritually castrated, generationally irrelevant. And what does it say about us — that we’ve enthroned them as our guides? I would call this the ultimate psyop: a priesthood of hyper-individualist eunuchs preaching salvation through narcissistic self-improvement, leading us away from real, rooted life into the infinite loop of personal branding, quantified selfhood, and “high performance” — but not legacy. Let that sink in. Do you want to follow men who optimize their testosterone — or men who use it to build a future?"

Experienced this first hand. My first programming gig, I had a boss who admitted she would not interview any candidates with masters or higher. She said, they were over qualified. I never under stood her point of view.

Relationships are made up 2 individuals. Everyday individuals want to do what they desire, but must compromise. The act of compromising can be done through 'might equals right', manipulation, or negotiation. Most adopted their compromise tech from very flawed parents. Work is req