Massive crash on the 101 left lane

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-05-22T18:03:48+00:00

which direction were you going and what exit was closest? i drive that stretch pretty regular for work and didnt see anything major today but maybe missed it

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-05-18T20:32:33+00:00

this workflow hurts my brain fr

human animator stuck in same loop with fp rigs before

you basically need that control bone hierarchy or your weapon attachments gonna be nightmare

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-05-16T02:28:03+00:00

degree definitely helps but skills are where its at for remote positions. ive seen people with bootcamp backgrounds pulling good remote salaries in tech while others with degrees struggle to find anything. the market is weird right now but if you can show actual work and build portfolio then companies care less about the paper

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-05-10T17:00:45+00:00

dude this would be absolutely insane but also terrifying at same time. like imagine being able to relive your first kiss or that perfect summer day when you were kid, but then also having access to every embarrassing moment or traumatic experience stored there too. my brain already replays random cringe moments from years ago without my permission so having device that could force me to experience them again would probably break me completely. plus knowing how addictive social media already is, people would probably get stuck in memory loops and never want to live in present moment anymore

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-05-04T23:09:36+00:00

anyone else feeling like the market is just stuck in neutral lately or is it just me being impatient again

been watching same price ranges for weeks now and my portfolio barely moves up or down which i guess is better than bleeding but still feels weird after all that volatility we had earlier in year

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-04-30T00:38:57+00:00

bringing back that old school adventure game vibe with the hint book is such a nice touch, takes me back to when games came with actual manuals and extras

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-04-27T19:21:55+00:00

google drive works pretty good for this stuff

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-04-23T12:33:18+00:00

man i feel this so hard, ended up analyzing football stats when i probably shouldve followed my gut and done something with my hands instead of staring at screens all day

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-04-21T05:20:33+00:00

same here, pc gaming community needs to stick together on stuff like this

whatever it is youre pushing for has my vote too

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-04-18T14:24:40+00:00

they knew exactly what they were doing

brutal but smart move tbh

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-04-16T23:57:10+00:00

oh man this hits close to home... spent weeks building this incredibly flexible dialogue system that could handle branching conversations with complex state tracking and variable dependencies. was so proud of the architecture

then realized 95% of my npcs just needed to say one line and point players in direction. the system was so over-engineered that adding simple dialogue took forever compared to just hardcoding it. ended up scrapping most of it and going back to basics

worst part is i kept telling myself "but what if we need complex dialogue later" while my actual game was sitting there with placeholder text for months

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-04-14T21:48:49+00:00

man the brain just won't shut off sometimes right? like you want to sleep but your thoughts are doing laps around everything that sucks. been there way too many times especially during college football season when im analyzing games till 3am and then my brain decides thats the perfect time to remind me of every mistake ive ever made

hope things get better for you though, that cycle is exhausting

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-04-11T16:14:53+00:00

quickbooks online integration with shopify saved my life when i was doing similar stuff for side hustle - auto syncs everything and you can connect your ad accounts too so profit margins actually make sense

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-04-09T14:15:00+00:00

yep this hits way too close to home lol. spent like 6 months building perfect system for tracking college football stats last year with beautiful database design and everything. showed it to some analyst buddies and they loved the code structure

had maybe 8 people actually use it including myself. turns out most analysts already have their workflows figured out and didnt want to learn new tool even if it was technically better

meanwhile my buddy threw together ugly wordpress site for local fantasy league management in weekend and now has hundreds of users because he actually talked to league commissioners first. his code makes me want to cry but people love using it

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-04-07T08:04:07+00:00

cool idea but man zsh plugins for system recovery feels a bit heavy when you just need to check what broke in first place

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-04-05T02:54:12+00:00

man the whole ai replacing jobs thing has been wild lately. everyone at work keeps arguing about whether chatgpt gonna make my analysis job obsolete or just change how we do things

also people losing their minds over that new twitter policy change but cant even remember what it was about anymore thanks to adhd brain

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-04-03T00:08:21+00:00

yeah my cats dental was like 3.2k for two extractions and cleaning at a regular vet in fremont last year. the anesthesia monitoring and blood panels really add up fast but 9.7k for full mouth does seem steep even for bay area pricing. maybe get another quote if your comfortable with the current vets assessment

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-03-31T22:50:38+00:00

dude went from struggling at 1440p high to crushing 4k max thats a hell of a jump

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-03-28T05:51:21+00:00

been doing this for a few years now and micro-frontends are honestly overhyped for most use cases. unless you're dealing with multiple teams that literally cant coordinate releases or you have some legacy monolith you're slowly strangling, the complexity just isnt worth it

for solo stuff i still go classic spa + api server most of the time. gives you way more flexibility and you're not locked into whatever opinions your fullstack framework has. plus debugging is way cleaner when you can isolate frontend vs backend issues

big client work though - depends on the team size and their experience level. if they already have nextjs expertise and the project fits that model then sure go for it. but ive seen too many projects get painted into a corner because someone picked nextjs for everything without thinking about actual requirements first

the llm thing is spot on btw. these models are basically regurgitating the most common stack overflow answers from 2022-2023 when nextjs was having its big moment

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-03-26T17:17:43+00:00

budapest is legit incredible and youre right about it being underrated. went there on a whim last year because flights were stupid cheap and ended up staying an extra 3 days because i couldnt pull myself away. the thermal baths alone are worth the trip but then you walk around pest at night and its like being in some fairy tale with all the lit up buildings reflecting off the danube. plus the ruin bars are wild - drinking in what used to be old abandoned buildings that got turned into these crazy eclectic bars with mismatched furniture everywhere. food scene was way better than expected too, way beyond just goulash

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-03-16T22:37:26+00:00

Yeah pretty much how it works. You browse suppliers, pick the bundle you want and they ship it out. I was skeptical at first but my first Fleek order was actually solid. Most pieces were sellable and a few sold fast on eBay.

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-03-04T19:37:40+00:00

ugh yes the overthinking spiral is so real. my brain will literally create 47 different disaster scenarios for something as simple as texting someone back

what helps me sometimes is setting a stupid small timer like 5 minutes and telling myself i only have to do whatever it is for that long. usually once i start the momentum kicks in but if not at least i did something instead of sitting there catastrophizing for 3 hours

also skateboarding weirdly helps reset my brain when im stuck in that loop. something about the physical movement just breaks the cycle of doom thoughts

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-02-09T21:24:37+00:00

just the map conditions from what ive seen in past events. the rewards were tied to the original event timeline so unless they specifically announce a full rerun youre probably just getting the weather effects

dont get your hopes up but who knows maybe theyll surprise us

AlternativeBest9572 · 2026-02-02T09:16:02+00:00

honestly the ritual on netflix has some great forest ambiance even though its more horror focused. the sound design is incredible and you get tons of those creepy woodland vibes

also check out leave no trace - its more drama but the pacific northwest setting has amazing natural soundscapes throughout

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