HexPhantom
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- HexPhantomExactly. Once the work is upstream and open, it stops being "Valve's thing" and just becomes part of the commons
- Yeah, it's a great example of demand-driven open source work actually landing in places that matter
- Something built to shave off latency on a handheld gaming device ends up scaling to hyperscale servers, not because anyone planned it that way, but because the abstraction was done right
- What really stuck with me is how delayed the correction was. You didn't get immediate feedback that "this is not how people actually relate to each other" until college, and by then the social debt was already there. That's a brutal way to learn norms
- The tragedy is that we responded to the real dangers of the past by trying to eliminate all risk, and in doing so stripped away most of the texture that made childhood feel real
- What looks like fear of responsibility can also be fear of doing something wrong in a world where mistakes are heavily punished and rarely forgiven
- The irony is brutal: kids lose unstructured time and independence, parents lose breathing room, and nobody feels good about it. What used to be normal "being outside all day" now reads as neglect
- If you remove physical autonomy and replace it with algorithmic spaces optimized for engagement rather than growth, you shouldn't be surprised when teens struggle with agency, goals, or mental health...
- "Paying it back" instead of "paying it forward" feels especially right here
- Kindness doesn't have to be dramatic to be life-saving in the moment
- I think this really nails something people struggle to put into words: it wasn't that the system was perfect, it was that it felt human
- Wild how life sometimes compresses decades into a single afternoon
- Stories like this always hit me harder than I expect. Not because they're dramatic, but because of how quietly competent the kindness is
- That sounds like an absolute dream compared to today's market
- It's wild when you think about it: a family scrapes together a down payment and pays full freight on property taxes, while a corporate landlord can roll one property's paper losses into the next deal and keep building their portfolio, tax-deferred
- Housing is more than a market - it's where people live
- The fact that we're only now uncovering fundamental mechanics like "hair is pulled, not pushed" kind of highlights how under-invested this area has been
- Just make sure you set the fan to "regrowth" mode and not "recede"
- That feels like a pretty big clue that mechanics and motility are way more central to tissue dynamics than we give them credit for
- They're easy to get stuck in instead of taking action. It's calling out the trap where we mistake prep for progress