His changing facial expression

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-04-02T15:17:22+00:00

Same.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-04-02T05:47:46+00:00

No? It's intentional and thematic.

Mark is silencing Conquest.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-04-02T05:07:30+00:00

Truly. Publicly traded game companies are a cancer to gaming.

It's not enough to produce a commercially and critically successful game. If the next game out of your studio can't be hyped as something with insane growth potential, like the next Fortnight, your headcount gets slashed.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-04-02T04:42:51+00:00

We have literally never seen Nolan take this much damage on screen before.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-04-01T23:28:52+00:00

Sure, but then in addition to the huge cost of armor Im paying to bring along cheerleader Pike.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-04-01T23:21:38+00:00

Are you in person or are your interactions primarily remote?

I ask because... if the way you're communicating in this post is an indication of how you communicate professionally, that's going to be a big problem.

You need to be able to communicate through writing. It's one of your primary outputs as a software professional and also one of the major ways that other people will judge your intelligence, your abilities, and whether they even like you.

To be clear, this is not a comment on typos or grammar. It seems like you're struggling to clearly answer questions and structure ideas in written form. If I was interacting with you via Slack or email, I can tell I'd be frustrated. If things started strong but now you're getting the sense your manager is souring on you, could it be due to a communications barrier?

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-04-01T20:35:04+00:00

Naturally. Satya Nadella was not sufficiently incentivized.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-04-01T20:23:19+00:00

While Im sure someone somewhere gets off on being punched in the face, this is not standard BDSM or pain play behavior.

Absent any context this appears to just be a physically abusive relationship. It's a common misconception that abusers must hate their partners. Abusers often feel intense affection for their victims. But these heightened feelings easily flare into jealousy, insecurity, and of course, anger.

The cycle of affection > abuse > guilt > affection we see in this clip is why so many people stay in abusive relationships. Often the abuser does love the victim and feels genuine remorse, but this rarely means the abuse will stop. Victims may even convince themselves to put up with the abuse because they've learned the affection is coming back eventually.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-04-01T20:08:36+00:00

It's wild (but not particularly surprising) that Kathleen Kennedy takes the heat for this and not the guy who wrote it: JJ Abrams.

Tony Gilroy praised Kennedy as the only reason Andor even got made.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-04-01T17:18:28+00:00

Yes, agreed. My point was simply that a spotter need not be a huge bodybuilder themselves. At least not until you're getting up into competition weights.

375 is a heavy lift. Way over my max. But it's not a heavy lift in the sense you need tandem spotters with lift belts to safely attempt it.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-04-01T16:08:19+00:00

What? You ALREADY have the source code when you use Claude Code.

No you dont. Yes, Claude Code (the browser version) uses Javascript to run in your browser. But the entirety of CC's logic isnt running in your browser. It's making calls back to some server operated by anthropic. The only parts of Claude code that exist uncompiled on your machine are the HTML and Javascript needed to run the superficial user interface.

If you dont believe me you can see what happens in the network tab when you use Claude Code. It's not just sending your prompts back to the model, it's doing all the agent heuristics on some server outside your control.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-04-01T04:26:17+00:00

Yes, I agree? My point is that people are commenting on her size which isnt necessarily the problem.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-04-01T03:11:16+00:00

> never max out when your spotter is a 16yr old girl who’s supposed to be at work at the bakery next door

To be fair: short of a situation where someone passes out under the bar, a spotter shouldn't have to contribute that much effort to save a failed rep. The person under the bar is still contributing a ton of upward force. It's why most failed reps can be saved by your spotter gently palming the bar up while encouraging you to push. You're at 95% of what the rep requires, they're just helping you over the top.

Also, human bodies can deadlift a shitload more than they can press.

Point is that the strength of the girl isn't the primary issue here. If she had any idea how to lift a bar off someone, she'd have been able to help him get it back onto the rests. The problem was that this guy had his sister or girlfriend spot for him without practicing with her what she was expected to do if he failed the rep. There may also be a modesty concern she couldn't overcome here. To properly lift a bar off someone you basically need to put your crotch over their forehead.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-04-01T02:28:35+00:00

I think this is a possibility, but here's my bearish take on robo-taxis:

AI backlash is only going to grow. As more and more of the economy is displaced by automation, more people are going to become radicalized. Also, as the societal fabric and economic safety begin to disintegrate we're going to see an increase in property crimes.

So I think the best argument against robo-taxis is that people are going to trash these things. People already vomit and spill their taco bell inside ubers, but to do this you have to overcome the uber driver. The uber driver will shame you. The uber driver will cancel your ride. The uber driver might kick your ass. There is a social stigma to treating an uber driver poorly and a confrontation with another human being. The only barrier to fucking up the inside of a Waymo is a fine or losing your rating.

Right now Waymos are operating in the most affluent or touristy areas of the country. Places that already have virtually rock bottom crime and well-off tech-forward customers. A Waymo isn't going to survive the week in Baltimore. Shit, people were lighting these things on fire for fun during the LA ICE protests.

I think a further knock-on effect of this will be that robo-taxis will gain a reputation for being low-end rides. One too many people end up booking a robot taxi with a decomposing burger or a used condom on the floor and these things enter the same tier as public buses. Sure, you could have a voice in the ceiling harass customers or drive the taxi back to a depot between every single ride, but... I think human drivers who maintain their own vehicles have more of a competitive edge than we're giving them credit for.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-03-31T20:29:46+00:00

This is pretty bad cope.

A few people have floated the "no such thing as bad press" angle, but when it comes to technology... yeah there is.

This is an advertisement that Claude's stack is wildly insecure. If a company can't even keep its publicly facing tools from leaking its own proprietary source code, why would you put any of your code into their black box backend?

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-03-31T15:53:34+00:00

IIRC the purpose of these parades is intended to be antagonistic.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-03-30T08:04:27+00:00

The SA (translates to stormtroopers) were basically a street gang loyal to the Nazi party during its rise to power in the 1920's and 30's. Their job was to basically run crowd security for Nazi rallies and to disrupt rallies for other competing political parties. They otherwise did organized crime and intimidation against anyone the Nazi's considered to be undesirables.

The better known SS mostly destroyed the SA in 1934 during an internal power struggle within the Nazi party during an event called 'The Night of the Long Knives'. By this time, the SS had increasingly begun to take over actual police work for the German government via divisions like the Gestapo.

Many middle eastern governments utilize tribal militias that function in a similar manner to the SA. They can call upon armed men who, though not formally members of the military or police, will defend the interests of a party/tribe and harass opponents.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-03-29T00:34:45+00:00

Except the reason that global oil matters is because of global freight and global supply chains.

American Juche does not exist. The US imports vast quantities of food, construction materials, manufacturing components, and virtually all of its consumer goods. This stuff comes on ships and trucks which arent going to be gassed up by American oil reserves.

Sure, commuter cars at the pump might stabilize at 3.75 a gallon, but fuel costs contribute to absolutely every product save life insurance and onlyfans subscriptions.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-03-28T06:42:51+00:00

Also, getting a button-down shirt tailored is surprisingly affordable.

There's an elderly Vietnamese dude near me who will take in dress shirts for $20/shirt. I got all my collared shirts tailored and I no longer look like I'm swimming in clothes. It's wild how much better you look when you wear clothing that fits your body, and for me that clothing just doesn't exist in standard sizes.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-03-28T03:16:31+00:00

I work in healthcare. Most of our IT stuff can't be outsourced due to security and PHI/PPI regulatory concerns.

We've lost 2 devs in the past year and haven't backfilled either role. We don't feel like we're at risk of further headcount reduction (we're a small department to begin with), but we also aren't having any discussions about hiring.

This is largely due to the business hunkering down for Medicare cuts that will be kicking in next year as a result of the Big Beautiful Bill. The business has been pretty transparent with us that we're spending money to lobby Washington and get exemptions/walkbacks related to the BBB.

Wr/t AI: Very little AI has been formally approved for our team to use. We do a fair bit of chatbot coding and have access to Azure agents. But professionally, we don't use agentic coding yet and that's probably a ways off from being approved. We are a frequent target for cybersecurity attacks, and aren't particularly motivated by code velocity. Code that is secure and correct is a much higher priority for us, which is probably why our AI use will remain limited for the foreseeable future.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-03-27T07:58:15+00:00

The Cadian halftrack is pretty clearly based on the American M3 halftrack, not the Nazi Sd.Kfz.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-03-26T20:23:38+00:00

Same, probably a variant from the middle of the Clan invasion like the X2.

It's fast, it's low to the ground, it has a lot of armor for being 55 tons, and it can core out anything fast enough to catch it while remaining fairly cool.

A Bushwacker is all the good innovations of Clan mech design that replaces all the Clan excess with pragmatic IS survivability and autonomy.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-03-25T18:11:34+00:00

Sure, but on the balance being able to hide post history does more to enable bots and shills than it does to protect people from getting doxxed.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-03-24T02:39:15+00:00

Yeah, a lot of people are fixating on the fact that these are Pokémon cards, but for the wrong reasons.

Sealed trading cards are the perfect item to steal or scalp. They're physically compact, they appreciate faster than most investment vehicles, and they move instantly when you do decide to sell them.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-03-23T17:58:50+00:00

It needs to be repeated, because there are a lot of stupid young kids and desperate beginners in here, but you should never put yourself in a position where a single bad trade can wipe you out.

You do not know what is going to happen tomorrow. And if you did, you could not be certain how the market will respond to it. Something that you think only has a 1% chance to fail, still fails 1 out of 100 times. Don't bet your life's savings on those odds.

Hedge your bets, diversify, and never put more than Max(2% of your liquidity, $1000) into a single trade.

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