That being said, I'd much rather read a few ideas for good recurring passive income. Instead, the author kind of flexes on that, then says "I get refused VC money because they don't see how their money would be useful for me" -- which is one more flex -- and moves on to the technical bits.

It's coming across as bragging to me.

Python requires much more hand-holding that many don't want to do for good reasons (I prefer to work on the product unimpeded and not feeling pride having the knowledge to babysit obsolete stacks carried by university nostalgia).

With Go, Rust, Zig, and a few others -- it's a single binary.

In this same HN thread another person said it better than me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737151

So you really cannot figure out how somebody could have time but still be unable (or very unwilling) to do things they perceive as their plans that they want to do?

Really? Not a single idea?

Tearing down straw men is easy. Thinking critically and widely is more difficult.

We operate within our own time and energy budgets, man. I might never get to that literature. My peaceful times in life where I could chill and choose what to do are over and I don't expect them to ever come back. Though who knows.

There have been multiple initiatives to remake a 6502-based computer. My today's self does not appreciate the 8-bit limitations however; artificial and not limiting in the way that sparks creativity. I'd much rather work with a 32-bit micro PC (I believe they're called micro-controllers?) and be able to address more memory and then try to minimize its use, rather than being stuck at 8/16-bit addressing forever.

But every time I see a 6502 post, I get a tinge of longing. :)

But yeah, their general tone is very... castrated. Safe. Hugely impersonal.

I have learned to quickly edit out their suggested comments when I ask for an advice.

To me they have been a positive -- after careful curation.

Until Apple adds a kernel-level containerization support (likely: never) then this difference in performance will continue to exist.

That being said, Orbstack really is the best on macOS. Docker Desktop is only slightly slower but much worse as an UX. Colima I appreciate for its full headless nature but it's severely behind in performance, sadly.

- 30 minutes with Colima on Mac;

- 20 minutes with OrbStack on Mac;

- 13 minutes on a weaker CPU (Ryzen 5500U) on a native Linux laptop;

- 14 minutes on a Ryzen 5600X and a virtualized Debian inside Windows 10 WSL2.

Pretty stark differences. Granted our test suite is mostly I/O bound but that really tells you something about the VM overhead on a Mac and the lack of an actual kernel-native containerization support on macOS.

Your message almost sounds like it has an agenda.

The current generation is insanely fast. I am planning to get a gaming PC for my wife and a mix of gaming + workstation PC for me (or maybe just base it off of the Ryzen 9950x3D and call it a day). We plan to hold on to them for 10 years.

I don't care if anything 6x faster comes out. For what I need the current generation is even an overkill.

I'd even go as far as to say that it would be quite OK if that's the very last generation and no further hardware development ever happens.

Happened before, will happen again.

Ultimately, out there, people value you by just 5-6 things and almost never they are your beliefs or personal values.

So your respectful challenge seems to be missing the point. Your beliefs are not challenged here. But you cannot change how other people value you.

I don't disagree. I really want that reality to materialize. It does not. We have people in very high positions who very carefully make sure it never happens. They have connections, money, resources, obedient and scary enforcers -- they have everything.

While I have you here, I want to make a comparison. There are/were dozens of thousands of devs who commanded $400K for at least 5 years, some for 10+ in FAANG companies, just resting and vesting. They are the ones who should try and sacrifice something to try to better the world. Not me in Eastern Europe who get passed over on the final phases of interviews whose phases I _all_ aced (and got told so in very clear terms) because I said that no, 6200 EUR is not enough for a senior and that I'll start from 7500 at least. Not me who is still renting in this 40s because he was a young overconfident doofus who never learned any money and financial advice (and nobody told him he should; on the contrary, everyone was very happy to exploit me and keep me blind of my own interest) and is now finally working hard to his own ends only -- in a period he should be resting and thinking about the later parts of his life! -- and because he's mostly operating in the EU market, notorious for barely any investment climate and conservative compensations, and definitely not me who has seen first-hand what happens to people rocking the boat.

My disagreement with you is that you invoke some mythical "we the humanity" entity which to me is a cheap way to avoid your own personal responsibility. I don't belong in that "we" group. The FAANG or any privileged engineers are there -- not me. Have you ever commanded FAANG salaries for at least 3 years? If so, and you have not changed anything, then you are directly responsible that the system is not better. Not me. The three total times in my life when I actually managed to gather money to rest for 6-10 months, I used them to just rest from all the crap that happened to me and just recovered physically and mentally. What for? Just to get back into the meat grinder.

What you say is generally valid but you get lost in the bigger picture whereas the everyday fight to change the system is on the ground -- this must not and should not be handwaved away with ideals but with CONCRETE measures, step by step: "allocate 1000 EUR from your next salary and invest them in exactly this and that place" or "use law 1234 and regulation 5678 to get some of your taxes back" or "insist for this contract clause so you are eligible for at least 6 months of severance if you get fired early" etc.

Tell me what power do I have as a contractor. No employment rights. No medical / dental. No severance. I can get fired tomorrow and I have no time to catch my breath. I have to start interviewing tomorrow. Better hope I get the best sleep in the last 5 years tonight! Or else it's not happening.

Executives / people in power just use the "boil the frog" tactic i.e. they tighten the grip 1cm per year until one day, as you said, it's you who is on the chopping block and you are just left confused about WTF went wrong. We are seeing it everywhere, you and I, otherwise we wouldn't discuss this at length here.

> The machine is us. If we don't like how it works... Time for change.

OK, shall I send you my account number so you can support me for 12 months full until I find a job where I feel I can in fact change the world for the better? Disclaimer: it might take 60 months as well. Make your difference in the world! Do concrete measures! Or hell, do it for somebody else -- help them achieve their full potential and recruit them to help the world with you.

Virtue signalling, man. An empty one, too. This is what you're doing. Wishing a theoretical reality into existence so far has not worked for any living human as far as I am aware.

> I got a lot of days left, and I don't intend to leave the world working like it is, because it is not working for the vast majority of us.

Again, that is very obviously true. But it's only theoretical. Everyone is too afraid to not lose their stable income -- and I feel for them. Do you?

> It isn't empty idealism.

It is if it's never happening. Pragmatism it would be if it was already an established practice.

I like my dragons purple btw.

> If we don't change, nothing can change. Therefore, we must change.

Obviously. But that "if" is trying to lift an impossible amount of weight is what I am saying. It's one of those powerless "oh, if only!" cries that we the people are prone to.

> Maybe your position is too precarious to risk getting fired

You mean yours isn't? Or even that of at least 95% of all devs worldwide? I can definitely say "no" to my CEO if he wants something too big that would take too much time and energy for questionable business results -- I am even expected to ground him. But if my colleagues hand me a ticket, I cannot just refuse without repercussions. I'll not get fired on the spot, that much is certain. But if it happens 2-3 times they'll start looking for a replacement. Same will happen if I outright tell my CEO I can't do something due to ethical concerns. That's how it is almost everywhere I looked and asked (and have very rarely worked with US companies).

> If you're a software developer then you can almost certainly afford at least a moderate pay cut

I can't even afford a 10% pay cut. I want to live in your world.