Honda Ridge lines ( older style) navigation system's clocks went out to lunch in January, 2022 and will not show correct time until GPS satellites do some sort of time sync in August. No fix until that happens.
There was an interesting article on what could be driving housing inflation a couple of weeks ago-cant find the link. It was about the soaring prices on billionaires row in Manhattan.
The idea in the article is investors are trying to increase the liquidity of real estate assets down the line towards the higher liquidity of stocks. The results are more investors seeking returns from real estate, buying up buildings as if they were stocks. This can cause a fast step change in demand against the slower increase in supply, driving up prices quickly, which in turn drives up rents.
Energy costs hit this inflation as well, because most buildings need heating and/ or cooling during the year. With the supply of traditional energy being artificially restricted, this drives up the costs associated with real estate, increasing everyone's costs. Look at what's happening in NYC.
Bolt-on forks and trailer ball receiver for front loader bucket. I use these just about everyday, to lift, move, and position stuff. Would not be able to live where I live at my age without them.
Wood door shim to scrape food cooked onto pans. Free and gets off stuff scrubbies won't, without scratching the s** out of a pan using a metal one. Saves ruining wooden spoons doing the same thing.
Battery powered, brushless motor chain saw: i'm worn out before using up two lithium batteries, and get a lot more done with not expending energy pulling on a 2 cycle engine. Same for weedwacker, brush cutter and pole saw. Keep it sharp, works fine for this semi retired farmer, even after sitting idle all winter.
I agree about the battery powered lawn devices. I started with a lawn mower and a string trimmer, graduated to a chainsaw, and finally ended up with a leaf blower. I love them all!
You don't realize how much time and attention you give these small gasoline motors over the years. It's soooo much easier to slap the battery in for the first cut of the season and just go. No more winterizing. No more checking/changing spark plugs. No more pulling starter cords until my arm falls off. No more loud stinky exhaust.
These are by far the best purchase I've made in a long time.
I just got the Ryobi 40v weedwacker and leaf blower. I did my 1 acre lot and it still had one bar of battery. I even did some thicker brush areas to put it to the test. Would definitely recommend!
Lots of great advice in these comments.
What would I add?
Get off Tinder and go out into the world outside of work, trying organizations, groups, conferences, classes in areas you've ever thought " that looks interesting", " I'd like to try that".....
You will meet people just like you, that share these same interests. There is a high probability you will meet someone as interested in you as you are in them.
The web offers so many ways to find these groups, organizations,..... that were never available before. Being that you are a programmer, you can probably write a routine to give you more options than you need.
I too enjoyed programming and math, which for me was about solving puzzles presented as tasks or problems, getting immersed in a thought machine, and seeing the results. This skill can be expanded into many different vocations and a vocations, a " secret sauce" allowing you to succeed in what ever , how ever you define " success" . Could be sitting in a hammock In Key West after a day of inventing an algorithm to count manatees from drone images during their winter gatherings in Florida, or Bora Bora doing something else. Or working for Hilton and stay for free, or an airline and fly for free. You get the idea.
At 23, you definitely have a whole world ahead of you for as long as the ride lasts. The adventures, puzzles to be figured out, fascinating people to meet; way too many opportunities for others to benefit from your life in ways you cannot imagine. Ending that denies the world those unique aspects only you can create. Seems like a waste to me. Definitely seek professional help if you find yourself thinking about it.
Lots of great reading out there. This has talked me off the ledge more than once.
My experience with " no code" reinforces the issues raised in ex other comments, with a little emphasis to add:
If you never learned your times tables, then used a calculator, imbedded calculation loops are tricky to troubleshoot .
" no code" layers this more deeply, creating a very large number of programming code lines, function calls and subroutines on interpreted code that runs slow anyway. It can be difficult to untangle when things just don't work right.
Interpreted code always runs slower that code compiled into machine code. Maybe adding in AI and machine learning will eventually be able to take this first-rev , " no code " prototyping and optimize it into an efficient, effective, fast system that is bullet proof, and intellectually protected.
Not all low code platforms use interpretation or dynamic code creation. I work on one which is language agnostic / polyglot (see other comment here) and have seen more examples from other devs / competitor demos. You can think of this probably more like code gen for stubs, but one place to write in Cue and multiple tech / language outputs (for our Hof tool).
You are right about the complexity hiding and difficulty therein. It's part of the reason ours is open source.
The cliche on " location " is true. This relates to the liquidity of the real estate: will more or less people want to buy this property when I go to sell it?
Also relates to long term increase in selling price verses property tax: Are the carrying cost so high it eats gross profit and no one will want to buy it?
I tend to hold for 10 years or more- what expenses ( roofs, heating/ Ac, stuff like that) are you probably going to face over that time period.
Seek and see the value in all you do. Arrive early, stay late, and put in a little extra. Sticking with your degree will build muscles for harder times you will surely face in your life.
Universities are great places to build your network. You have access to all sorts of people that you could not meet otherwise. This is how people get to be president and stuff like that.
As others mentioned, having a degree, especially a technical one, will help you in many unseen ways throughout your life. For one, it certifies to others that you have a marketable skill, that you know what you are talking about. Another is when layoff time comes at jobs, the degree is an extra point in your favor. You also need your undergrad to go on to a masters, be that technical or business or law.
Start a side business, hobby, family....school, like work, will suck at times and be hard to keep grinding away at. From someone at the other end of the spectrum, both the night school and work grinding enabled more results in my life than I ever expected to achieve.
A consequence could be the industry goes more virtual using CGI and AI. This way the financial rewards go more to everyone on the team, not just the people at the top, or the lead actors and singers. Coders become the superstars.
