I get superstitions about being cocky or headstrong. Nearly every time I do, the universe corrects my behavior, typically by me failing in some huge, embarrassing fashion.

There’s another way. Adaptive headlights can fix this: https://youtube.com/shorts/AgxVuXC0T44

You’re not wrong though. Even crappy headlights on taller vehicles seem much brighter to observers. My buddy’s 2005 RAM is proof. When we’re in it, I’d have better luck seeing with a flashlight, but when he’s driving behind my car, it’s like someone’s shining the bat signal into my rear window.

Also, don’t get me started on people who replace their bulbs with HID or LED bulbs but don’t spend the money on projector headlights. It’s infuriating.

All fair points. Also, I meant the EU. 🤦‍♂️

I’ve had some success playing tinnitus ringing over headphones and it made it markedly better. Still comes and goes, but from what I understand, it’s encouraging the mind to start ignoring it. Kind of like going nose deaf.

Or earwax. See a doctor.

Installed my huge emulator library, but GameNative is where I spend the vast majority of my time. It runs PC games from basically any online market (Steam, Epic, Amazon, etc).

Plays 2d perfectly and most of my games are indie titles.

Great “pick up and play” format.

This is my dream. Get stranded somewhere in the UK. Contribute to a society that isn’t completely soul sucking.

I know it ain’t perfect, but what is🤷‍♂️

Came here to say basically this but I want to live in a world where it’s not true, and I actively, knowingly choose willful ignorance. I want her to run, I will vote for her, I will get out the vote for her. I think we have to.

In case there’s someone who hasn’t seen this, it’s an eye opener: https://oadouglas.github.io/Wealth-To-Scale-Adapted-For-Classroom/

Also, it’s a few years old so the numbers would be more stark.

Yup. Very similar. I quiet the voice in my head saying “I’m too tired” or whatever with “ignore it and just get to it”.

…with teeth

Enterprise Architect here.

This is the answer. All the way.

At my job, employees haven’t written code since the asp classic days and it was garbage back then. This meant almost all new code is written by contractors, which is often garbage. And slow, expensive garbage at that.

Now, AI can at least make better code than the contractors at a fraction of the price.

It also tightens the feedback loop between getting half-assed requirements and getting the deliverables back to those who requested them so they can say how it’s not what they asked for. That process used to take months, now it takes like a day between iterations.

I honestly don’t know where people are working where they say they have tight control of first party deliverables and clear requirements with a cogent SDLC. All companies I’ve worked for have been about 1-2k employees. Are these people working in 10k large organizations where people can afford to be an expert in only one thing and camp on it their whole career?

Also, remember those debugger skills because we’ll all need it.

Based on my fruit and coffintake, I’m living forever. Ignore the alcohol.

Yeah, I really like the view that my wife is my partner. We have a shared stake in the other’s success, but can act independently.

I think the opposite is the ideal. If using AI, write an architecture document of the code, then point an LLM at it. Be prepared to open up the debugger and troubleshoot someone else’s code.

Honestly, I’ve gotten a lot of lift from this technique since the devs at my job legit don’t know how to even use source control.

Before AI, my former boss would do this but with email instead. She’d call a 2hr meeting and no kidding spend the first 1.5hrs answering emails or editing a document, and then complain no one was getting anything done. I’d regularly stay until 7 or 8pm (starting at 8am, before my boss) just to keep up with workload.

Worst leader I’ve ever had. Sorry you’re going through something similar.

I’m on the other side now and promised I’d never look back.

Formerly steam deck, now unseated by my AYN Thor. It can play 70-80% of the games the deck can in a package that fits in your pocket.

My breville coffee maker and bratza burr grinder. It makes the best coffee and doesn’t complain.

Also, my dolphin pool cleaning robot. Vacuuming a pool manually is such a hassle. Outsourcing that to a bot is truly amazing.

Anything that buys me back my time.

Herniated L3/L4. No chair has helped me. Only things that have are

• sit/stand desk
• movement (the best position is the next position)
• dead hangs, progressed to pull ups
• deadlift, slow progression, perfect form. Teaches proper lift positioning and bracing to execute successfully.
• same for squats

Not medical advice in any way. These are just the things that have helped me immensely. If you take any lifting advice off the Internet, get a coach.

I know if my back starts to hurt it’s because I’m not doing one or all of them enough.

Totally agree 100%.

Most of my countrymen are motivated by discomfort. The problem doesn’t exist until it visits them at their doorstep. Until that very moment, they’re happy being armchair experts on the world at large despite never having left home, let alone talking with people that are different from them.

Also, it took me a while to grieve the fact that most Americans don’t read past the headline and deeply desire simple solutions to complex problems.

Why not put solar over parking lots? We have ridiculous minimum parking requirements in the US. Why not lattice them in solar panels and derive energy from them?