It exists to solve what seems to be a fairly universal problem, but it's just a slightly better version of the shell scripts i'd write to solve it myself and boy howdy does it not make the underlying problem any easier to solve.

Maybe the best way to put it is indirection without abstraction?

The only thing worse than debugging your own helm is debugging someone else's. I have lost too many hours trying to finagle helm charts.

Rather than use programmable lights or alarm clocks to set my sleep cycle, I have trained my very food motivated cat that going to bed at 10 means treat and waking up at 7 means treat.

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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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I suppose my passively stated assertion is that if that is a viable political strategy and there are no repercussions for it, democracy fundamentally cannot function.

If the whole point of politics is to just say whatever gets you to win elections and then "do the right thing" when you're in power, our political system is worthless.

If we cannot hold our people and govt to a basic standard of truth the experiment has failed and democracy is impossible.

Showed this to my wife without telling her it was Taylor Swift, she asked me if "this was that Dracula Flow guy"

Is there a word in German for "The feeling of mixed anger and despair when you discover that the simple question you had is not easily answered by documentation"?

~6 hours in or so, and silksong has me in a pin, locking my gaze to their lips, growling "Get motivated"

I fear I will never pass the mothman or ant gauntlets. I've not even seen phase 3 of the big scary fly.

The most common refrain I've heard in my adult life is "Well, I know it's unethical, but someone is going to do it and make money, so isn't it better that an ethical person makes that money"

When you believe the only penalty for discarding your ethics is remorse, you do not have ethics.

Whenever I see this Socrates quote (or any other Greek philosopher quite really) I am reminded that most of them despised writing and would be very mad in principle about the idea of meme quotes.

It is kind of heartening to discover that even with extremely advanced program generation all the standard best practices still apply.

It's almost as if we were nothing but extremely advanced program generators all along (this is half wit and half truth)

It appears that asking the monkey paw for a day off today may have been a mistake.

The fextralife wiki has reasonably good coverage of the best spots to find those fish. A few only spawn in specific time and location within a locale

Hey this looks pretty slick, giving big platin-

CAR COMBO?!?!

The lc500 is my personal attainable dream car, warms my heart to see you enjoying it!

Oooh, I needed this!
I do a good amount of low level rust, and seeing a recent talk on per-cpu variables in rust made me realize I don't have a solid understanding how to do unsafe safely!

The moment I realized that the problem was getting to the grub config, the Eldritch horrors began.

Ran into a GRUB bootloader problem where it takes forever for a system to hit the menu due to the boot disks being last in the order and grub appearing to enumerate them to find its config.
Never before have I so quickly reached the end of the internet. I am forsaken. Send help.

If you don't want to be friends with a person, you shouldn't date them.
Be nice. If a person does not value kindness, you don't want to be in a relationship with them.

Great post! Captures a lot of my thoughts on language choice in general, and I think helpfully discusses the weird toxicity that comes out of this particular side of internet discourse.

But we all know the reason the compiler was ported to go is so doom would run at a proper frame rate

I know that so many pundits and commentators have said "We need a Joe Rogan for the left" but they ignored those appearances legitimize people? Like we should be having the crazy radical leftists on the pod smoking weed and talking about how we invented houses then decided people should be unhomed!!

Playing largely SP now, fights last about 8 minutes on average.
I have purposefully lagged on upgrading armor and weapons to keep it interesting.

Happy to out myself as very likely discriminating against Republican men far more than any particular woman.

I'm entirely certain I am not the first person to make this joke, nor will I be the last.

Just got the news today.

Somehow, Shen Yun has returned.

Across the arc of dark souls games, I think that ER is the best designed across play style viability, and behavior tuned difficulty. This does make many fall victim to optimizing the fun out, but in previous entries the cheese was way, way worse than what I see most people do to make ER easier

Certainly losing trust the way things are going especially with all the food borne illness outbreaks. I'm basically at the point where I avoid eating any raw or preserved foods if I can.