Same thing with engagement rings, it's just a stupid fake tradition created by DeBoers in the 1950s that costs an inordinate amount of money for nothing.
I really hope that lab grown diamonds puts that entire industry out of business.
Lab corundum is where it's at. Almost as hard as diamond (Mohs 9), but much less prone to cracking than diamond. It's available in tons of colors (most famous are blue and red -- sapphires and rubies). Lab-grown is so much better than natural that the way they identify natural is by looking for imperfections that lab versions don't have.
Oh, and diamonds burn while aluminum oxide does not.
There's no need to go broke when you can buy a superior product for less money.
I definitely think sapphire is the best gemstone for rings given the huge variety of colors and reasonable synthetic rough prices. My only gripe is that green shades that look nice are hard to find in synthetics.
I need you to reread my comment, and then paraphrase what you think I said, for me. Cause I don't get how this is someone's response to my comment in a million years unless it's like intentional rage bait, or something.
Anyone who has access to Satoshi's account is worth $100B. If Satoshi were still alive some of the BTC would have been moved at least a little but they haven't.
There was no guarantee that Bitcoin would take off. It may be tough to imagine looking back in retrospect but, in another world, Bitcoin could have turned out to have been another digital currency with limited value. Many people lost their keys in the early days when Bitcoin was worthless. It's not unreasonable to think the same wouldn't have happened to Satoshi. He may have also thrown them away on purpose.
It's okay. I'm pretty sure after 40+ years of using Microsoft products I'm going to switch fully to Linux and MacOS. I'm tired of fighting against Microsoft even though I am a long time (and mostly happy) user of Windows. But whatever is going on in the last few years, especially Recall, has made it dangerous in my opinion to keeping Windows. So as they become and more draconian it only makes my decision easier and easier. I've had Macs and Macbooks for a while now but I bought the latest Macbook Pro and I'm very very happy with it, despite Glass (I barely notice any differences from the previous version).
> Every single one followed the same pattern: build, post, get 12 likes from friends, a bit of organic traction, then nothing.
> I know I need marketing help but giving equity to someone I met online feels like a huge risk.
No offense, but your equity, from your own admission, is literally worthless. If someone decides to help you out for your equity, you should be jumping for joy. Most likely you need to pay out of your pocket, but if you're not willing to risk your own capital, then how can you expect others to risk theirs?
Yes I'm exactly like you as well. I've been coding for 30+ years, I still love coding and system building etc, but sometimes the level of frustration to find the information and then get something working is simply too high.
Over a weekend, I used ChatGPT to set up Prometheus and Grafana and added node exporters to everything I could think of. I even told ChatGPT to create NOC-style dashboards for me, given the metrics I gave it. This is something that would have painstakingly take several weeks if not more to figure out, and it's something I've been wanting to do but the cognitive load and anticipatory frustration was too high for me to start. I love how it enables me to just do things.
My next step is to integrate some programs that I wrote that I still use every day to collect data and then show it on the dashboards as well.
On a side note, I don't know why Grafana hasn't more deeply integrated with AI. Having to sift through all the ridiculous metrics that different node exporters advertise with no hint of naming convention makes using Grafana so much harder. I cut and pasted all the metrics and dumped it into ChatGPT and told it to make the panels I wanted (ex. "Give me a dashboard that shows the status of all my servers" and it's able to pick and choose the correct metrics across my Windows server, Macbooks and studio, my Linux machines, etc), but Grafana should have this integrated themselves directly into themselves.
For home projects, I almost exclusively use the web chat interface to code. I haven't done anything large yet so I will iterate and get the web chat to update code, print out the code that I copy and paste.
How does this differ in terms of pricing than Codex?
You're probably not old enough to remember when Magic Johnson was diagnosed with AIDS. I was in college and I remember the moment when I heard like a flashbulb memory. I was in my dorm cafeteria near the windows eating dinner with my friends. It was an extremely significant event because AIDS was a huge deal at the time and the fact someone like Magic Johnson got it was utterly shocking. Everyone thought the same thing, that he was going to die soon. There was even a controversy later on about him playing basketball where he could get a cut and potentially pass it along to others. The fact he was still alive after many years and then his HIV count went down to zero is a miracle of modern science.
South Park made a parody about that where the cure is injecting literal money into his veins. I don’t know if you’re aware, but most Americans don’t have access to these kind of things. If anything, it’s simply demoralizing to know your loved ones get to die and the billionaires and their families get to live.
And why is that the case in America? You'd think that something as simple as Medicaid for all (I'd say Medicare but that's clearly socialism and we can't have that!) would be simple. But it's not and I doubt it's ever going to change here.
So in the meantime, in this glorious land of temporarily embarrassed billionaires, who vote to perpetuate a system that is killing them (hand in hand with their own choices) I'd prefer people to have access to the miracles if they can find a way to afford them over taking them away because most people can't.
I used to be a lot more progressive. The re-election of Voldemore took care of that. American needs an intervention. But chin up, I guess, now that we have gutted federally funded STEM, the pipeline of miracles here will soon run dry. I guess that takes care of your concern.
As someone who believed firmly that QA is a dying/dead profession, after moving over to AI coding over the last 6 months, I think coding is dead and QA and code reviews are what will remain after the aftermath of AI coding. Being able to test the output of AI to make sure it is doing what you want it to do is most of my job now.
I have been having the same thought. Since I've stepped back into code in the past month I have written maybe 3 or 4 lines. Deleted more than that for sure. Most of the time has been spent babysitting and manual testing.
I really hope that lab grown diamonds puts that entire industry out of business.
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