Rob Lang
brainwipe.bsky.social
Rob Lang
@brainwipe.bsky.social
Lead healthcare web dev, PhD in AI, amateur game dev, aspiring gravel cyclist, ex-RAFAC gliding instructor and drone racer.
Rules additionally add a meta puzzle for the players to manipulate in imaginative or unexpected ways. Does the manipulation of systems feel right for the genre? GURPS always felt more present day than Sci Fi or Swords N Shit cos combinations of the rules didn't feel specific enough.
December 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
All statistical techniques depend on the input set. To reduce misogyny and racism bias from that data, you need an expert on the data who admits the bias is there. In medicine, it's very hard to get experts to admit bias that's existed in humans medics for a hundred years or more.
December 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I use Google sync and OneDrive sync for moving my notes and knowledge base files but I also use Obsidian for writing blog markdown that I generate with Gatsby. I hope that helps!
December 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Obsidian is worth a look for just this kind of thing. I used VSCode like you do and found Obsidian lighter and better at capturing knowledge. Especially for markdown. It keeps everything as markdown, so you can side-by-side them. It has lots of other features I don't use yet but worth a look!
December 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Is that VS Code? Have you tried Obsidian?
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Modern image generation isn't that awful anymore. One wonders what the prompt was!
December 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I can understand that person; creators as large and successful as you rarely interact because there's a tipping point where it takes so much time - perhaps more than the time it takes to do the hunt, write script, choose Star Wars tee, teach Chad his lines, shine the dome, film, edit and upload!
December 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Not novel but in 2000, it was a requirement that I reproduced the results of papers were similar to mine. I discovered properties/limitations not listed in the original papers. I had to reproduce the data and code. I would not have been allowed to submit my thesis without it.
December 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I didn't - and won't - use the AI auto comments. It means that I'm now having to think of very "me" replies to make it obvious that I'm not using the auto comments. Saying thank you to the simple comments no longer meets the bar for me!
December 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I've always tried to write odd/quirky comments in an attempt to build a secondary discord community for my game. If a commenter thinks "that's interesting, let's check the discord", I've succeeded.

That said, simple comments such as "great job" don't help reply eccentricity.
December 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The web was the <font> of all knowledge and it was Comic Sans.
December 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
What makes me uneasy about this approach is that it assumes that the existing monolith is clean and you have domain experts on hand that understand the existing system and the new direction. Plenty of places I've worked the existing monolith *was* the domain expert. You can't set it aside.
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
That's not how abstraction lift works. When a new layer appears, it only briefly augments before replacing the lower layers. My app won't be replaced by another app built by, AI will become the app, then the browser, then the OS.
December 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
When I hear people say Die Hard is a Christmas movie unironically, I reply "...and The Terminator is a romance".

It has a romance in it. The romance is pivotal to the story. It's not a romance.
December 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Was the same in 1995 when I started and in 2003 when I left. All departments across the university were judged equally. English paper on Shakespeare that took 2 months given same weight as paper from 4 month archaeological dig or 2 years of botanical growth or robot that took 3 years.
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Very impressed with the speed in which you turned that round, Dylan! Great job.
November 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Take it off the front and stuff it on the back. Nice little loop.
November 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
20% of the internet is having a bad day. Including our minnow of a company! Oh well.
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Musk is a bleak human.
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM