I JUST TOOK IT OFF FOR A SECOND

I think the general question you always need to ask when buying something “nonessential” is: will I use this enough to justify the cost?”

Whether that’s a MacBook or a car or a gaming console or even a $0.99 app.

Just be honest with yourself. I once bought a MacBook Pro because I decided I was going to develop iPhone apps. I never learned Objective C. I barely used the laptop at all. It was a waste of money, plus stressing over the guilt of never using it.

Flip side: you only live once. Don’t trap yourself in a mindset that you always need to save every penny and never enjoy yourself with small things.

Everyone exists somewhere in the spectrum between saving and spending. Figure out where you live on that spectrum and make your purchasing decisions accordingly.

What exactly is the point of this comment?

Marinate in it.

It sucks and it’s good for you.

Huggies diapers fucking say “up to 100% leakproof” on the box.

I just want to see a picture of the face of the person that thought that was reasonable.

I think the more interesting version of this question is “how long can really good sex keep you from noticing all the bullshit?”.

Everyone has blinders on at the start of a relationship, but once you reach a point where the amazing sex is “your regular sex”, when do you start to have uncomfortable conversations about your future?

If the bubble doesn’t burst in 10 years, it might be that it’s not a bubble.

I’ve been hearing about the housing bubble for my entire life. It hasn’t burst. I think maybe we’re using the wrong word there.

AI is weird one because there’s such a mind boggling amount of investment in something that hasn’t brought any financial returns yet. Either the Visionaries see something we don’t, or it’s going to collapse or contract after one or two more earnings calls.

I’m just using Unraid for the server, after many iterations (PhotonOS, VMware, baremetal Windows Server, …). After many OSes, partial and complete hardware replacements, and general problems, I gave up trying to manage the base server too much. Backups are generally good enough if hardware fails or I break something.

The other side of this is that I’ve moved to having very, very little config on the server itself. Virtually everything of value is in a docker container with a single (admittedly way too large) docker compose file that describes all the services.

I think this is the ideal way for how I use a home server. Your mileage might vary, but I’ve learned the hard way that it’s really hard to maintain a server over the very long term and not also marry yourself to the specific hardware and OS configuration.

Do you automate that or just check the list manually every once in a while?

Sizing is unacceptably insane. There has to be an explanation other than “everyone in the clothing industry is an idiot”, but I haven’t seen one.

Just got underwear for an 18-24 MONTH old and they’re bigger than my 14 year old niece’s underwear.

Serious answer:

If the internet didn’t exist, I’d be peer pressured into following whatever norms are followed by all the people in my physical surrounding. I’d take my cues from what my parents and family and classmates told me were “right” and I wouldn’t question outside it.

I’d probably spend more time “socializing”, which as an introvert would exhaust me. But I wouldn’t know any different, so it would just be The Way It Is.

But you asked if my social life would be “better”, and better is hard to define. Better for… general community compliance? Probably. Better for my general mental health? Probably not.

I like spending 15 minutes catching up on my Lenny communities and reading what you degenerate fucks are up to. I am less excited about “going out with friends” every night and “doing something”.

A Way Out was the weakest of the bunch but it was also their first. That studio is absolutely rocking couch coop.

“I use Facebook Messenger. If you care about our friendship, you’ll install it too.”

Now what?

Yeah but the Steam Box comes with steam already inside. If you build a PC you need to get your own steam and then someone put it all inside yourself.

I dunno, that sounds like like Sisyphean task to me.

I do backups with a Raspberry Pi with a 1TB SD card and leave it on all the time. The power draw is very small and I think reasonable for the value of offsite backups.

My personal experience with WOL (or anything related to power state of computers) is that it’s not reliable enough for something offsite. If you can set something up that’s stable, awesome, but if your backup server is down and you need to travel to it, that suuuucks.

The thing that’s helped pull people back from AI dependency at work has been to frequently ask “how much time did AI save on the whole thing?”

I mean, ChatGPT is amazing at writing bash scripts. But if you spend 40 minutes iterating over a solution before the clanker gives a usable solution, didn’t AI just cost time?

People refuse to accept they aren’t gaining anything from AI until they repeatedly look at the big picture.

I found code that calculated a single column in an HTML table. It was “last record created on”.

The algorithm was basically:

foreach account group
  foreach account in each account group
    foreach record in account.records
      if record.date > maxdate
        max = maxdate

It basically loaded every database record (the basic unit of record in this DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM) to find the newest one.

Customers couldn’t understand why the page took a minute to load.

It was easily replaced with a SQL query to get the max and it dropped down to a few ms.

The code was so hilariously stupid I left it commented out in the code so future developers could understand who built what they are maintaining.

“So what was the problem in the end?”

“Man, I don’t fucking know.”

• me, every goddamn time

I wonder what they spent paying people to implement and communicate this change.

At 600k for a company that size this cost them more money than just paying the extra 4 cents.

I’m a huge fan of Drysol. You apply it once every few months and it prevents you from sweating. It’s a little itchy while drying but after that you’re sweat free for weeks! Then you can go without a daily product, or just a light wipe of deodorant if you like the smell.