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It's on XBGP.
played a little bit earlier. It didn't instantly hook me but it feels like one I'll need to spend some time with to decide whether I like it.
Initial impression is that it feels like it's in a weird space between complex and abstract for a TBS.
played a little bit earlier. It didn't instantly hook me but it feels like one I'll need to spend some time with to decide whether I like it.
Initial impression is that it feels like it's in a weird space between complex and abstract for a TBS.
February 6, 2026 at 10:17 PM
It's on XBGP.
played a little bit earlier. It didn't instantly hook me but it feels like one I'll need to spend some time with to decide whether I like it.
Initial impression is that it feels like it's in a weird space between complex and abstract for a TBS.
played a little bit earlier. It didn't instantly hook me but it feels like one I'll need to spend some time with to decide whether I like it.
Initial impression is that it feels like it's in a weird space between complex and abstract for a TBS.
jesus christ.
a skythread instantly pivoting from minor pasta holy wars to "lol, OP literally drinks their own piss" proves not even a month hiatus could possibly dejuice skythreads.
a skythread instantly pivoting from minor pasta holy wars to "lol, OP literally drinks their own piss" proves not even a month hiatus could possibly dejuice skythreads.
February 6, 2026 at 6:37 PM
jesus christ.
a skythread instantly pivoting from minor pasta holy wars to "lol, OP literally drinks their own piss" proves not even a month hiatus could possibly dejuice skythreads.
a skythread instantly pivoting from minor pasta holy wars to "lol, OP literally drinks their own piss" proves not even a month hiatus could possibly dejuice skythreads.
Reddit OP crashing out bc not every pasta shape cooks uniformly.
Sometimes, having a little variation in texture is the point.
There are a million pasta variants because there are a billion possible uses for pasta if you don't box yourself in to thinking it's a single thing.
Sometimes, having a little variation in texture is the point.
There are a million pasta variants because there are a billion possible uses for pasta if you don't box yourself in to thinking it's a single thing.
February 6, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Reddit OP crashing out bc not every pasta shape cooks uniformly.
Sometimes, having a little variation in texture is the point.
There are a million pasta variants because there are a billion possible uses for pasta if you don't box yourself in to thinking it's a single thing.
Sometimes, having a little variation in texture is the point.
There are a million pasta variants because there are a billion possible uses for pasta if you don't box yourself in to thinking it's a single thing.
Like either the Trump or the bin Laden stories would have made the 2011 WH Correspondent's Dinner an infamous event. The fact that they overlapped is pretty wild.
February 6, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Like either the Trump or the bin Laden stories would have made the 2011 WH Correspondent's Dinner an infamous event. The fact that they overlapped is pretty wild.
That WH Correspondents Dinner is such a weirdly central event generally.
It's also where Obama casually laughed off bin Laden-got-away jokes knowing he'd given the order for Neptune Spear the morning before and that the raid would happen the next night.
It's also where Obama casually laughed off bin Laden-got-away jokes knowing he'd given the order for Neptune Spear the morning before and that the raid would happen the next night.
February 6, 2026 at 2:09 PM
That WH Correspondents Dinner is such a weirdly central event generally.
It's also where Obama casually laughed off bin Laden-got-away jokes knowing he'd given the order for Neptune Spear the morning before and that the raid would happen the next night.
It's also where Obama casually laughed off bin Laden-got-away jokes knowing he'd given the order for Neptune Spear the morning before and that the raid would happen the next night.
oh yeah, front line gruntwork is doomed.
it's going to be hilarious watching people come up with really elegant solutions to the wrong problems, though
it's going to be hilarious watching people come up with really elegant solutions to the wrong problems, though
February 5, 2026 at 7:08 PM
oh yeah, front line gruntwork is doomed.
it's going to be hilarious watching people come up with really elegant solutions to the wrong problems, though
it's going to be hilarious watching people come up with really elegant solutions to the wrong problems, though
LLMs don't solve the problem a lot of consultancies are meant to address: people not knowing what questions they need to be asking in the first place.
February 5, 2026 at 6:26 PM
LLMs don't solve the problem a lot of consultancies are meant to address: people not knowing what questions they need to be asking in the first place.
Fast food also had to contend with sudden labor shortages and labor competition after the pandemic.
The cultural touchstone of a minimum wage job now pays significantly above minimum wage almost everywhere.
The cultural touchstone of a minimum wage job now pays significantly above minimum wage almost everywhere.
February 5, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Fast food also had to contend with sudden labor shortages and labor competition after the pandemic.
The cultural touchstone of a minimum wage job now pays significantly above minimum wage almost everywhere.
The cultural touchstone of a minimum wage job now pays significantly above minimum wage almost everywhere.
These four rules (and slight variations on them) are popular because they follow a swiss cheese model: there has to be a failure of *multiple* rules in order for an accident to be catastrophic.
February 4, 2026 at 6:47 PM
These four rules (and slight variations on them) are popular because they follow a swiss cheese model: there has to be a failure of *multiple* rules in order for an accident to be catastrophic.
there's something really striking not just about the destruction, but what it says about the people of Ukraine that they chose to replace the broken windows with art.
February 4, 2026 at 5:49 AM
there's something really striking not just about the destruction, but what it says about the people of Ukraine that they chose to replace the broken windows with art.
from a quick skim, of the accounts I see that are even kind of gender-coded, they're *all* male.
February 3, 2026 at 8:57 PM
from a quick skim, of the accounts I see that are even kind of gender-coded, they're *all* male.
lowering the bar so that they can try things faster doesn't mean that the bottomless well of backlog gets exhausted and Work is Over™️-- but it might mean we get to start taking on more complex and interesting projects!
February 3, 2026 at 3:17 PM
lowering the bar so that they can try things faster doesn't mean that the bottomless well of backlog gets exhausted and Work is Over™️-- but it might mean we get to start taking on more complex and interesting projects!
sometimes I feel like the fact that most of my career having been spent in areas of tech that are directly (internal) customer facing colors my perspective relative to people in pure tech roles.
the business *always* has more things that they'd like to do or try than there are resources to do them.
the business *always* has more things that they'd like to do or try than there are resources to do them.
February 3, 2026 at 3:15 PM
sometimes I feel like the fact that most of my career having been spent in areas of tech that are directly (internal) customer facing colors my perspective relative to people in pure tech roles.
the business *always* has more things that they'd like to do or try than there are resources to do them.
the business *always* has more things that they'd like to do or try than there are resources to do them.
The code side was mostly field mapping and translation and I ended up building a small internal library to handle it because HL7 is like semi-standardized CSV on crack.
February 2, 2026 at 4:58 PM
The code side was mostly field mapping and translation and I ended up building a small internal library to handle it because HL7 is like semi-standardized CSV on crack.
I used to do HL7 interface integration in healthcare and it was a weird amalgamation of light coding (data transformation), networking, and system ops.
I didn't really think of myself as a developer even though it was a decent portion of the job.
I didn't really think of myself as a developer even though it was a decent portion of the job.
February 2, 2026 at 4:57 PM
I used to do HL7 interface integration in healthcare and it was a weird amalgamation of light coding (data transformation), networking, and system ops.
I didn't really think of myself as a developer even though it was a decent portion of the job.
I didn't really think of myself as a developer even though it was a decent portion of the job.
I solved this problem by owning at least a half dozen sets of calipers so that there's always at least one or two within arm's reach.
February 1, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I solved this problem by owning at least a half dozen sets of calipers so that there's always at least one or two within arm's reach.
Part of what I was describing is the fact that the systems side in particular traditionally hasn't *had* a firm educational pipeline. (Slightly less true for developers).
The field tends to be heavy in autodidacts, which certainly contributes to some of attitudes you see.
The field tends to be heavy in autodidacts, which certainly contributes to some of attitudes you see.
January 31, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Part of what I was describing is the fact that the systems side in particular traditionally hasn't *had* a firm educational pipeline. (Slightly less true for developers).
The field tends to be heavy in autodidacts, which certainly contributes to some of attitudes you see.
The field tends to be heavy in autodidacts, which certainly contributes to some of attitudes you see.
I do think you're right that education is the key!
IME the reluctance in the industry is a mix of indoctrination and fear that they'd lose getting recognition/compensated for advancing themselves.
The latter is the low hanging fruit and opens the door to addressing the former.
IME the reluctance in the industry is a mix of indoctrination and fear that they'd lose getting recognition/compensated for advancing themselves.
The latter is the low hanging fruit and opens the door to addressing the former.
January 31, 2026 at 6:54 PM
I do think you're right that education is the key!
IME the reluctance in the industry is a mix of indoctrination and fear that they'd lose getting recognition/compensated for advancing themselves.
The latter is the low hanging fruit and opens the door to addressing the former.
IME the reluctance in the industry is a mix of indoctrination and fear that they'd lose getting recognition/compensated for advancing themselves.
The latter is the low hanging fruit and opens the door to addressing the former.
I'd also include the systems/ops side of things.
Part of it is those fields have traditionally moved very quickly, so there's also been a resistance to professional standards (since they're obsolete as fast as they're defined).
It's ended up breeding some of the more toxic meritocracy belief there
Part of it is those fields have traditionally moved very quickly, so there's also been a resistance to professional standards (since they're obsolete as fast as they're defined).
It's ended up breeding some of the more toxic meritocracy belief there
January 31, 2026 at 6:47 PM
I'd also include the systems/ops side of things.
Part of it is those fields have traditionally moved very quickly, so there's also been a resistance to professional standards (since they're obsolete as fast as they're defined).
It's ended up breeding some of the more toxic meritocracy belief there
Part of it is those fields have traditionally moved very quickly, so there's also been a resistance to professional standards (since they're obsolete as fast as they're defined).
It's ended up breeding some of the more toxic meritocracy belief there
tech workers have also, historically, had little internal solidarity.
they've actively resisted unionization efforts in the past.
interestingly, game dev in particular is one of the specific subfields where that dam has been starting to break.
they've actively resisted unionization efforts in the past.
interestingly, game dev in particular is one of the specific subfields where that dam has been starting to break.
January 31, 2026 at 6:21 PM
tech workers have also, historically, had little internal solidarity.
they've actively resisted unionization efforts in the past.
interestingly, game dev in particular is one of the specific subfields where that dam has been starting to break.
they've actively resisted unionization efforts in the past.
interestingly, game dev in particular is one of the specific subfields where that dam has been starting to break.
is there a geometry reason the joints have to be perpendicular to the honeycomb? I'd reorient them so you can just print the whole thing flat if not.
other than that, supports and just loosening the tolerances on the joint to account for a little slouch is probably your best bet.
other than that, supports and just loosening the tolerances on the joint to account for a little slouch is probably your best bet.
January 31, 2026 at 6:13 PM
is there a geometry reason the joints have to be perpendicular to the honeycomb? I'd reorient them so you can just print the whole thing flat if not.
other than that, supports and just loosening the tolerances on the joint to account for a little slouch is probably your best bet.
other than that, supports and just loosening the tolerances on the joint to account for a little slouch is probably your best bet.
But then, at the same time, catch flak for not grifting the right way because you don't amplify random GFMs.
Literally no winning.
Literally no winning.
January 30, 2026 at 10:50 PM
But then, at the same time, catch flak for not grifting the right way because you don't amplify random GFMs.
Literally no winning.
Literally no winning.
The conflation of using having a platform to get media attention with clout chasing and grifting is particularly insane.
You've posted about needing (expensive) car repairs in the middle of all this and never asked for a dollar.
Pretty lousy grift lol
You've posted about needing (expensive) car repairs in the middle of all this and never asked for a dollar.
Pretty lousy grift lol
January 30, 2026 at 10:49 PM
The conflation of using having a platform to get media attention with clout chasing and grifting is particularly insane.
You've posted about needing (expensive) car repairs in the middle of all this and never asked for a dollar.
Pretty lousy grift lol
You've posted about needing (expensive) car repairs in the middle of all this and never asked for a dollar.
Pretty lousy grift lol