People do under estimate how nice it is that the language ref or framework/tool documentation is all on one web page i can easily pdf print it and push it to my ipad for reading.

I personally think we over urbanised. If i look at my friends circle, most of the urban ones are childless and the rural ones have 2~4 kids.

Super anecdotal and totally non scientific observation.

There might be a confounder though, with the causality working backwards.

Rural housing is way cheaper than urban housing.

Urban cultural offering is way more lively than rural cultural offering.

If you want kids you need space, and have no time for fun, so you optimize. You stop paying for cultural offering you don't need, and opt for cheaping housing you do need.

Doesn't mean that urban/rural life makes you have children, rather the opposite. The choice in having children dictates whether you choose rural or urban life.

Not saying it's like this, just offering an alternative theory.

From my observations, its more the friends that never left rural village we grew up in that have children. My urban friends don't really have children maybe because urban life i stressed but you also have so much stuff to do so maybe kids isn't really a thing one think about, it's more about building up a network.

Sorry for the late reply.

For me it's different. For one it's like you said: friends that never left the rural areas have kids more often.

But also friends that I grew up with in urban environments, left to rural environments around the time of having kids. Those that didn't, stayed.

It seems that those who preferred to spend more for the cultural offering of the city stayed and optimised their time to enjoy that cultural offering by not having kids (bars, cafes, museums, hobbies, sports, travel, career).

While those that preferred family life, chose to optimize for that by moving to a place where housing was more affordable, allowing less time spent on career, more time spent on family.

Pretty much, they aren't going to trust each other that an incoming missile is not armed with a nuclear payload.

You do know that in a business environment proof of concept is more a proof of production. Shit doesn't get rewritten when it can at this very moment start generating revenue and profits.

Them using excavator and trucks etc to move dirt. Is the same as us using a compiler to compile code into an executable.

LLM would be if the digging and hauling of the dirt happened without any people involved except the planning of logistics.

> LLM would be if

you'd sometimes discover a city communication line destroyed in the process; or the dirt hauled on top of a hospitals, killing hundreds of orphaned kids with cancer; or kittens mixed into concrete instead of cement.

And since you clicked "agree" on that Anthropic EULA, you can't sue then for it, so you now hire 5 construction workers to constantly overlook the work.

It's still net positive... for now at least... But far from being "without any people". And it'll likely remain this way for a long time.

LLM would be equal to a monstrous moving castle with million robotic hands that can somehow collaterally extract piles of dirt from earth, doing a lot of damage to our planet

In my mind using a simpler language should be less painful given there is less to argue about given syntax and versions etc. Take c# for example you have multiple ways to do the same sort of things.

Same here i'm a decade plus in this field, writing code was by far the number 1 and the discussion surrounding system design was a far second. Take away the coding i don't think i will make it to retirement being a code/llm PR auditor for work. So i'am already planning on exiting the field in the next decade.

For strength you can do a workout within like 25~35min that is taking it slow like browsing socials during pauses.

Talking about programs like rippetoe, 5x5, 531 etc. Unless you have elite genetics or are on juice you don't really need to go beyond those programs.

This. I go beyond those programs (currently weight training 4/week with an upper/lower split) and it's still ~4 hours/week inclusive of some stretching at the end of each workout.

Vs ~40 hours/week of whatever a tradesman does.

Unless of course you’re training practical, useful strength. Which requires intense bursts of weight training, and balance between tempo runs, rucks with 35-40% of body weight, and slow run/jogs. Weightlifting is a small part of a larger picture of strength and being able to put it to use. Cardio is the single most important thing you can train because without a gas tank you’re just a fat, slow, strong slob.

You don’t need to be elite nor on juice to do this. All you need is a purpose. I do this all the time, am over 35, and not on juice. My fitness is great but no where near elite.

Rippetoe is an obnoxious jackass and you can venture to his forums (cult) to see it. He’s great at making fat, out of shape, strongmen. He’s not great at producing a fighter, tradesman, or operator. When you want to know what works look to the people actually using their fitness not morons like him who proselytize and look like the hardest thing they do all day is eat a pack of bon Bons.

Rippetoe gives good advice on lifting form and programming especially for novices but I'd look wider for diet and nutrition advice.

Strength on itself is already functional and useful. I kind of agree with you, its why i have been moving away from the strongmen stuff, more into kettlebells, calisthenics and walking during lunch and/or post dinner.

It's kind of interesting how with vibe coding we just threw away 2 decades of secure code best practices xD...

All frontline experience is valuable. It reminds the leader that in war, real people, people on your own side, people that you know, people that you will miss, will die.

and in this case the particulars match the archetype: my understanding is that Zhang was the "dove" while Xi is the "hawk." The hawk just ate the dove. We're going to war.