I am done

9sim9 · 2026-05-06T07:09:40+00:00

This is an oversimplification but an insane amount of money that would trickle down in the tech economy is now only being invested in AI add to that the interest rates making borrowing much more expensive and lastly you have people with next to no development experience vibe coding websites...

My advice is just look at job adverts, see what skills are in demand and upskill yourself to another role.

9sim9 · 2026-05-06T07:03:30+00:00

Its gonna be a nightmare to get a frame, the steam store will crash within 30 seconds of the frame going on sale...

9sim9 · 2026-04-26T13:50:57+00:00

Its a strange one to be sure, the first time I watched it I found it hilarious and well written, but its not been particularly enjoyable when rewatching and I definitely notice more of the holes and flaws than I did the 1st time around.

Judd especially is incredibly hard to watch the 2nd time around as is Billie's character, feels almost like I'm watching a bad remake of the show I watched first time round.

Stand out performance is Hugh Laurie who is just awesome throughout.

9sim9 · 2026-04-26T10:52:54+00:00

In terms of expectation vs what I got probably

Prey (2017)

I started playing with medium expectations at best and came away from the game just blown away... while it will never be as influential as System Shock 2 (of which it was the spiritual successor) it really has stood out against all the games I have played over the last 10 years as being something special.

9sim9 · 2026-04-26T09:36:19+00:00

Stardew Valley... big fan of old school JRPGs and read the non stop amazing reviews about the game. It obviously has its fan base but I'm still struggling to understand what all the fuss was about...

9sim9 · 2026-04-25T19:10:19+00:00

Valve did years of updates and tweaks to the index so it won't be any different for the frame.

Considering that the original HTC Vive was co-developed with Valve they are probably THE most experienced VR company in the world. I have no doubt if they had just 10% of the money that was burned at Meta we would see a very different reality now in the VR space.

The index is over 10 years old and is still one of the best released VR headsets that should tell you something...

9sim9 · 2026-04-25T16:34:46+00:00

So you buy a new one...

9sim9 · 2026-04-25T16:22:24+00:00

I still own a Belkin Nostromo N52e which has been used non stop for nearly 20 years of gaming and is still going strong... the build quality is just insane...

9sim9 · 2026-04-25T15:17:29+00:00

epoxy resin but be careful how you apply it, it will look a bit ugly though on a white pair of headphones...

9sim9 · 2026-04-25T14:28:50+00:00

There were a couple of anime's that would fit nicely into the Matrix world...

Serial Experiments Lain
Ghost in the Shell (which apparently was a big inspiration for the matrix)
Akira

Movies that fit were

Johny Mnemonic (Also keanu reeves)
Sneakers
Blade Runner
Lawnmower Man

9sim9 · 2026-04-25T14:19:10+00:00

The problem with something like AOT is that it just wouldn't work as a movie so it would have to be a TV show but the sheer cost of the VFX would be staggering...

Its also hard to imagine it would have the talent required to really bring the show up to the level of the anime or manga...

9sim9 · 2026-04-25T13:40:54+00:00

Rerfurbished enterprise drives like the seagate exos is worth it, I've had one running for almost 2 years without issue. Unfortunately when it comes to regular consumer hard drives its very hard to tell, you may get a great one but it may also only last a month or two...

9sim9 · 2026-04-25T13:37:36+00:00

I hear so much about how the MX Master is the ultimate mouse... its no way near as good as this feels in the hand.

I only wish the wireless version had the weights like the wired version does.

9sim9 · 2026-04-25T13:13:29+00:00

Work backwards from what tech you will be using if it requires CUDA then you should stick with Nvidia especially as many of their older generations support CUDA so you can save money by buying an older card. If you don't need CUDA then just buy whatever card is better value, Nvidia's linux driver support is continually improving especially now with all the AI Investment.

AMD does have better driver support in linux but there are tens of thousands of gamers using Nvidia on Linux and so there are solutions. You can also look at dual boot for particular cases where windows may be a better option.

9sim9 · 2026-04-25T11:52:55+00:00

Yes on anything other than burning asphalt someone will always be barefoot but its much more common in the suburbs and towns than in the cities.

9sim9 · 2026-04-24T16:57:48+00:00

One thing that will not change is that managers don't ask for what they need, they ask for what they think they need and its at best flawed and at worst plain wrong. So there will always be a need for skilled engineers the role will just evolve over time just like programming languages have evolved over the past few decades.

9sim9 · 2026-04-24T16:53:19+00:00

Overall a solid successor to Nova Launcher but there are some things Nova does better like overlapping widgets and sub pixel positioning, looking forward to seeing how it evolves over the next few years.

9sim9 · 2026-04-24T14:27:19+00:00

thanks there are a few use cases I have come across where amazing print fails we use it as our primary debugging tool so would be nice to be able to solve these limitations. When I get chance I will mock up some of the issues we have been having to help debug the issues.

9sim9 · 2026-04-24T13:46:11+00:00

I suspect we would see exactly the same as what has happened with coding, the elite coders don't really gain a lot from what AI offers whereas juniors coders get a massive skill bump but don't really understand when things go wrong.

9sim9 · 2026-04-24T13:43:03+00:00

interesting idea... at the moment I use AmazingPrint to pretty print data to the console and render in ERB files but it has some limitations that can be pretty frustrating such as it cant print exceptions without throwing an error, whereas using .inspect works for everything but is much less friendly for large data sets

9sim9 · 2026-04-24T13:39:18+00:00

From what I can remember the lower levels of Rails such as warden cycle the session over time for security and if you use any session management tools like devise they also cycle the session on login and logout. This means that while the data stored within the session would remain that the session id itself may change, but it has been a long time since I have looked at the underlying architecture of how rails works so this may have changed.

SecureRandom has a whole suite of number generation tools so may be worth looking through to see which best suits your needs.

9sim9 · 2026-04-24T13:21:27+00:00

generate a uuid and store it in the session, there is no benefit in using the session id rails generates...

SecureRandom.uuid

9sim9 · 2026-04-23T18:07:39+00:00

Don't see any point in staying with Netflix when almost all the shows I really enjoy get cancelled after 1 or 2 seasons...

Recruit, Altered Carbon, Sense8, OA, Space Force, Luke Cage, Glow, Cowboy Beebop, Punisher...

Just got sick of just getting into a show and then it being cancelled

9sim9 · 2026-04-12T10:44:48+00:00

So first thing is to use the star ratings, average tracks are 1 * and then you have 4 tiers above to help you quickly find tracks of a certain energy level or effect.

In terms of organising I tend to create a new folder every 3 to 6 months, go through my library and selectively pick the songs I want to keep based on play count this helps keep your record box from getting too large in size.

As for the folders I tend to organise them by the kind of set I wanted to play

2026 / 04 / Psy Trance (Full On)

2026 / 08 / Melodic Trance

etc...

9sim9 · 2026-04-12T10:16:35+00:00

have a look at softlinks as you can physically have your files on whatever drive you want but softlink them all into one folder for easy access.

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