I find this topic and thread fascinating.

I took too much Adderall today.

You'll never guess why. The answer might shock you.

The trick is making sure no one is happy with the final outcome

`Yet you rely on ${new Date().getFullYear() - 2005}-years-old solutions like Wordpress`

It's just the weight of literally everything on the planet pushing down, as well as miles of rock :)

Indirectly. The actual spike of pressure that ejects the magma comes from the gasses dissolved therein. When the magma moves up, the pressure drops and the gasses become oversaturated and thus prone to violent release.

The gas bubbles result form when pressure is reduced, like you mention. So there's actually less pressure near the surface, it's just more erratically applied. The pressure of the earth's subsurface is proving the animating force.

“just” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there ;)

Literally! :-)

Yeah, they likely saw it racing down the mountain and then met their doom fairly immediately.

I can't help but be the pessimist angle. RAM production will need to increase to supply AI data centers. When the AI bubble bursts (and I do believe it will), the whole computing supply chain, which has been built around it, will take a huge hit too. Excess production capacity.

Wonder what would happen if it really takes a dive. The impact on the SF tech scene will be brutal. Maybe I'll go escape on a sailboat for 3 years or something.

Anyway, tangential, but something I think about occasionally.

Prices are high because no one believes it's not a bubble. Nvidias strategy has been careful careful with volume this whole time as well.

The thing is it's also not a conventional looking bubble: what we're seeing here is cashed up companies ploughing money into the only thing in their core business they could find to do so with, rather then a lot of over exuberant public trading and debt financing.

This is the replacement for credentialism, love it or hate it.

You don't need a fancy school to get into a top firm anymore. You have to master the hell out of the interview.

no point mastering an interview you're never even invited to because you lack connections or can't get past the ATS.

IMO it's not risk so much as foregone conclusion. You can see the hopelessness in GenZ and (to a lesser extent) millennials.

But we only care about short term metrics now, so no one cares. They don't even care to develop the tools to understand it. It might as well not exist. Blame the young people and move on.

You have cause and effect reversed. Companies stopped training workers and giving them significant raises for experience, so we started job hopping.

Some genius MBA determined that people feel more rewarded by recognition and autonomy than pay, which is actually true. But it means that all the recognition and autonomy in the world won't make you stay if you can make 50% more somewhere else.