Gold Toe in black, thick and thin, 8x packs 6 of each. I have an entire drawer of socks and have thrown out 3 pairs in 6 years. I have spare socks in my car, daily backpack, gym bag, golf bag. It is awesome having too many socks. I recommend everyone do this once and try it. Socks for athletics is a different problem and needs its own solution, but for everyday socks and dress socks, its pretty awesome.

Think of the intelligence of your average user, half of them are dumber than that.

We’re not designing ourselves a new friend, we are designing a tool.

And Arkansas and Illinois. Finding large tracks of land for sale that hasn’t had some part of it enrolled in a wetlands or conservation easement is getting more and more difficult. (Also, this will be a large problem in the future. Forever use bans is not best productivity or ecology.)

Yes, tell us more please.

or just panels, windows, and paint, but every exterior piece should be solar-roof, walls, doors, windows. everything should come with dozens of contact points so and 2 points touching adds it to the home grid. Your some can self assemble the solar grid in the home, store what it doesn’t use and sell the rest to the grid, The house your cars and your phone/smart device arranges optimal time for charging thr car. Houses shouldnt need wires either, as we will develop a while home wireless da/and power standard which solves the need to wire all but the thirstiest appliances ,.

You have to have a plan, then execution.

Pick something- anything- as a goal. Want to be an entrepreneur or attorney? Make a list of steps to accomplish then put them on the calendar. You need monthly financial, personal, and professional goals. You have to track them. I update net worth spreadsheet every friday when the market closes and for each columni know what I need to make to hit my goal.

Financial, personal, and professional goals - Each need a 1 month, 1 year, and 5 year plan. When you accomplish your one month goal in three weeks, you use the extra week to get ahead. But, and this is important, you never miss your monthly goal. You do whatever it takes to get it done.

The thing you pick doesnt have to be your calling or your life’s ambition, just something you are interested in and will get you to your 1 year and 5 year goals. I goal set Feb. 15 every year. Success is a habit. some success takes connections. Some take studying. They all take hard work.

For instance You want to go into sales? Take one VP from a local company out to lunch every 2 weeks. You want to build a marketing business online? Late night studying techniques and practicing with a product you are buying in bulk from China.

After a while, you become efficient with your time and success just becomes a habit.

Tell me where you are on these three things now and where you want to be, and I will show you how to make it happen.

Here is a story. 3 years ago I was happy. manager of software dev for a billion dollar company. I could have sat in that seat for a decade. air wasn’t helping me hit my financial goals. So, i made a level up plan to double my already high salary in 5 years. Made a plan. I needed new skills in AI and ML and connection. So, i applied to every ms program in Cs in the top 10 rankings. Landed at # 6. Working my ass off at work and class now. they offer me a TA position. Since class is remote, I make a group with every person in my state. I leverage that to get recommended into 2 fortune 500s, do inteeviws, get 2 offers.Take one, 60% pay increase. we are just stating year 3 of my plan. I spend all the time i have to network, learn, and perform. 18 months later, I have an offer from another company that is 38% more than my current pay. From deciding to “level up my career” and double my pay, it took 3 years, 6 months of the original 5 year plan. My new salary is more than doubled.

Goal, plan, ecxecution. That’s all it takes

Don’t be pedantic. You understood what I meant.

I’ve been lucky in that at some point people started calling me and offering me jobs, so I haven’t interviewed in forever. Happened again yesterday in fact. It will happen to you to if you become known for some obscure but useful area of tech.

There was a point in my career that I began refusing to do coding interviews.

I reject one liners in pull requests in any language that combine more than 3 functions. Its not maintainable.

As a software developer for 28 years. The day an AI can make something that synthesizes differing requirements for the same application from 10 different stakeholders and make them all feel like they won, then I can happily quit. Until that happens, I'm pretty safe.

Also, I'm getting CS masters degree in AI just be sure I am the one making the shovels, not the one digging the hole.

I mean, I’m friends with a cat

Look at my profile history. I have 27 years of experience in software design with multiple patents in data mining and personalization, currently a sr level architect for a Fortune 100. Even I am getting a fresh MS in AI and machine learning so I can take advantage of the new opportunities. The rate of change currently is blinding.

Robotics takes hardware engineers, path training, manufacturing , safety tests, etc to get them on the factory floor. Robotics is hard. I do it as a hobby. From idea to prototype is months for anything mildly complex.

AI is data and math in the cloud. I can have an idea, locate the right data in our data lake, write and train a model, do regression testing and have it ready for production in weeks. Hardware is difficult to scale and the iteration time is long. Math in an instant access scalable virtual environment is easy.

I don’t think anyone understands what is coming and how fast unless you are working daily to make it happen.

I wish I could talk about my job. But I can’t. I can say, every aspect of how large corporations operate will be optimized by AI. 4 years from now the competitive edge between companies will be those who embraced AI and those that didn’t. 8 years from now, the edge will go to those have the best AI.

I have been running the “same” AI chess bot on twitter for 6 years now. It is built to play up to 500k games at a time and plays at least 20 with versions of itself at a time, posting the moves of games as tweets. Every 1000 games or 30 days, which every is first, it updates it’s scoring tables, does an regression analysis of the moves, and if better, moves this nobel to a new set of move graphs hashes, then copies that out to a new player file set and spins up the new player. This player comes online announcing its synthetic FIDE ratting score. The others running then have to announce theirs as well. The one with the lowest performs apoptosis by shutting itself down with a final announcement to the twitter channel detailing its exploits: Name: Alive for: Won X games against Y players, with an average win rate of z. I increased / decreased my FIDA score by x amount over my life time. That is the memorial in the wall of rememberances. Then the new bo announced him sent and says he is ready for a game. godfreybot on trigger if anyone is interested. They mined all the base openings a while ago starting to do some weird openings now..

Now, this doesn’t rewrite the math for the bots, buts does update likelihood tables and when one gets created, it gets a wildcard rating between 1-10 to tell it how aggressive to be in straying from thr known most productive lines. I think I could add a subroutine for scoring and choosing moves tbat gets written based on a sheer elolutioaary model and then score and compare that too. Just a thiught

There is enough electrical signals floating in a server that it could modulate those to do radio transmissions from the bus? I mean, NSA could read what you typed based on detecting signal bursts from keyboards in your house from the street back in the 90s, so it’s entirely possible. Just because a radio isn’t built in purposefully doesn’t mean it isn’t already a radio with a little math. I’ve seen prototype server boards that would scramble nearby CRTs when you turned it on because a shielding was missed.