1. glaslong Dec 27, 2025 parent

   Hmm even if it were causal it would be worth it. It's not a stretch to say my cats once saved me from worse.
2. glaslong Dec 26, 2025 parent

   Someone once told me a benefit of staffing a project for Haskell was it made it easy to select for the types of programmers that went out of their way to become experts in Haskell.

   Tapping the Rust community is a decent reason to do a project in Rust.

3. glaslong Dec 12, 2025 parent

   They'll come down some day, but between the massive ai co purchases, and how long Micron says it will take to bring up new production capacity... most estimates I've seen are that it stays high (or grows higher still) until at least 2028.

   https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/ram-prices-are-exploding...

4. glaslong Dec 3, 2025 parent

   "commoditize your complements" and all that.

   "oh look, with open weights now everyone can run this quadrillion param 'superintelligent' model. but what's that? only we have the power capacity and cheap $/W to actually serve it? funny thing...!"

5. glaslong Nov 25, 2025 parent

   unfortunately for them, it doesn't matter that it's impressive, because i don't need it.
6. glaslong Nov 19, 2025 parent

   i aspire to this level of unemployment. fantastic!
7. glaslong Aug 30, 2025 parent

   meta tends to keep people so on edge, with performance so heavily based on peer agreement, that it creates a sort of defensive toxic positivity

   a little bit a negative feedback at high level can domino quickly too. massive pivots, reorgs, the works.

8. glaslong Mar 21, 2024 parent

   it is good to hear they dogfood their products so heavily
9. glaslong Oct 11, 2023 parent

   on any other site i would have said this was clearly a joke
10. glaslong Jun 30, 2023 parent

    I find it’s really similar to having a team of junior devs under you. Lots of output, generally good for problems that are googleable, need heavy guidance if the problem is both new and niche, lots of subtle bugs.

    The first two points in @gavinray’s methodology being unfortunately critical.

11. glaslong Mar 5, 2023 parent

    Seems like they should just poison you harder to reduce the time you have left for long legal disputes.
12. glaslong Dec 29, 2022 parent

    Perhaps an inward effect of the Rougon-Macquart coefficient — corollary to the outward the light-bending phenomenon. https://twitter.com/cpriestman/status/1230821595222028288
13. glaslong Dec 1, 2022 parent

    Corne-ish Zen[1] Though until recently, an Orange Boy Ergo [2]

    [1] https://lowprokb.ca/products/corne-ish-zen [2] https://mechwild.com/product/orange-boy-ergo/

14. glaslong Nov 23, 2022 parent

    All I can say is avoid the SteamDeck. Having portable access to fully mod-able Rimworld is very dangerous.

    Against the Storm has also gotten me pretty badly this way.

15. glaslong Oct 2, 2022 parent

    This exactly. It’s terrible as a precision pointer, but great as an attention heuristic. A strong secondary intent signal.
16. glaslong Mar 24, 2022 parent

    This is advanced level edgelording
17. glaslong Jan 4, 2022 parent

    Generally for photogrammetry you want to aim for more diffuse lighting. Avoid direct light sources as they will cast shadows onto your subject that get baked into the texture. Cloudy days or light diffuser umbrellas are helpful.

    https://sketchfab.com/blogs/community/lighting-in-photogramm...

    There are methods for de-lighting, but it’s better to just capture without if possible.

    Or if you want to get fancy you can build a capture rig to create intentional shadows and process them into texture normals with something like Substance.

    https://store.substance3d.com/blog/your-smartphone-material-...

18. glaslong Nov 21, 2021 parent

    As well as the non-crypto SuperStonk vs The Hedgies variety.

    Not so decentralized in the technical sense, but the motives are very similar.

19. glaslong Nov 21, 2021 parent

    Another fun one. The CIA forgot a bomb in the engine of an actively used school bus after a training exercise.

    https://www.npr.org/2016/04/01/472716101/cia-leaves-explosiv...

20. glaslong Sep 15, 2020 parent

    Could this feed back into the Watch’s automatic calorie and exercise tracking? Fitness+ shows an instruction, watch logs the sensor data that follows it; seems like a good way to expand their data set.
21. glaslong May 8, 2020 parent

    Next year is cancelled as well.
22. glaslong Apr 8, 2020 parent

    I didn’t read it as smack talk. Though I agree most will probably see it that way, so it is poor taste by definition.

    I never knew the man, but personally I feel like I have a greater appreciation for who he was than if the In Memoriam had only mentioned positive contributions. It makes him feel more real and human to me.

    It‘s certainly bad form for someone in leadership, but in the same way that I appreciate leaders who break from PR spin to acknowledge and explain the nuance, I also appreciate a more balanced remembrance.

23. glaslong Apr 8, 2020 parent

    It definitely runs up against social taboos to speak so frankly of the departed, but I find it refreshing personally. I can’t speak for anyone but myself, but were I to die tomorrow I would actually prefer that the whole of my life is remembered:

    - Accomplishments recognized, good and bad.

    - Loved ones given space to grieve.

    - And anyone I may have hurt allowed their feelings of relief.

    Our legacy is what we leave behind, not just net change, or the parts we wish it to be.

24. glaslong Mar 5, 2020 parent

    And similar means to justify our distaste for some actions, as evidenced in this thread.
25. glaslong Jan 30, 2020 parent

    Yes, curious that my weekly soccer game doesn’t count, but birdwatching does...
26. glaslong Jan 24, 2020 parent

    What do they use for group messages? WhatsApp? Messenger?
27. glaslong Jan 11, 2020 parent

    This would be a nice solution for giving your family access after death too.

    They can meet at the funeral to assemble your horcruxes.

28. glaslong Dec 18, 2019 parent

    You can get an Esp32-Cam for ~$10 and plug it into Home Assistant.

    https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-cam-video-streaming-we...

29. glaslong Oct 5, 2019 parent

    Downwell, except you fall up and have to pull your bootstraps along with you.
30. glaslong Jun 24, 2019 parent

    So many things!

    1. Home Assistant for tying together all the various brands of smart home devices https://www.home-assistant.io/

    2. OctoPrint for managing a 3D printer (also has a home assistant integration) https://octoprint.org/

    3. Magic Mirror that shows me news, weather, commute time estimate, etc https://magicmirror.builders/

    4. PiHole for blocking all ads on my home network https://pi-hole.net/

    5. The brains of a toy i hacked apart for a friend's robot fight https://www.facebook.com/RobotRiotCompetition/

    6. PyPortal Twitter feed on my desk https://www.adafruit.com/product/4116

    7. Server for various weekend web projects

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