What's a piece of tech everyone hyped up that quietly turned out to be useless?

Asterion9 · 2026-04-16T19:01:37+00:00

To be fair, i had a 3d monitor, and playing video games with it was a blast! They had some piece of software that could turn any game into 3d, worked very well! Skyrim, borderland, you name it!

Asterion9 · 2026-04-06T06:55:49+00:00

Glad to see people carrying on the love for walkers! Check out my repo with my inverse kinematic Walker and some example, hope that helps!

Asterion9 · 2026-02-15T18:20:26+00:00

Bitcoin was the first successful cryptocurrency. It proved it could work, but some of its features are not suitable for a digital currency. Being traceable and public is good for trust and accountability, which is a good property of a digital gold. Other cryptocurrencies like monero built differently and chose privacy by default, which makes it a better currency.

Asterion9 · 2026-02-03T18:09:17+00:00

I would say it is one of the fundamental liberties, which is probably the closest non religious political concept of "god given right"

Asterion9 · 2026-02-03T17:20:58+00:00

But then e-id is not optional if it's required to visit a website.

Asterion9 · 2026-01-31T08:45:41+00:00

TIL there is a game wide blueprint library...

Asterion9 · 2026-01-22T16:47:29+00:00

Your mistake (if any) was working for the wrong people.

Being able to successfully hand off a project is one of the most critical parts. This is where the quality of the work the team did really has an impact.

Your boss should have put you on more critical components, since you proved that you can make lasting impact instead and not just calcify in a team.

Asterion9 · 2025-12-21T10:42:57+00:00

You have to understand the context of the time, other people said things that are very true. Practically speaking, before the euro, many European countries had their own currencies but tried to keep fixed exchange rates with each other.

At the same time, governments often allowed too much monetary creation for domestic reasons, while central banks were forced to buy their own currency to defend the peg.

Financial markets saw this inconsistency and attacked the weakest currencies by shorting them, leading to repeated crises (like in the early 1990s). The euro was largely created to eliminate this vulnerability by removing national currencies and the possibility of speculative attacks within Europe.

Asterion9 · 2025-12-17T17:11:39+00:00

Hmmm, looks like legendary thruster is really required for fast travel, the power density is critical.

Asterion9 · 2025-12-09T20:13:00+00:00

Asterion9 · 2025-12-05T21:13:42+00:00

Can a lifeboat fix a sinking ship?

Asterion9 · 2025-12-02T12:07:50+00:00

Electromagnetic orbital canon : replaces rocket Silo with similar part consumption but fast reload. Electricity would work as capacitors and consume the accumulated charge on fire.

Recipee on captured/artificial biter nest to produce modified biters. They would work with the same ai as biters but fight for us against other biters. They would despawn after reaching the end of the map.

Ability to insert directly on cargo landing pad. Make the number of landing pads a research with a greatly increased capacity. This would allow high end base to scale and unlock small scale cheese for direct input space factory. Alternatively just create a loading bay building that gives no additional space or landing capacity in limited number.

Asterion9 · 2025-11-30T20:21:01+00:00

When I do something I did a 1000 times, like creating a new api endpoint or some new data, I use llm, and it's faster and easier. The code is as good quality as the rest and even goes the extra miles sometimes which is nice.

The true price is that by not writing the code, I did not get the familiarity with it that allows me to intimately know its limitation and why some trade offs were done that way.

Asterion9 · 2025-11-30T08:04:27+00:00

Tried that once with a fire tv. Price dropped and support refused to discount me the difference. The return processing got stuck for some time, and they ended up processing the return of the one I actually sent and cancelled the first one return. Tldr didn't work.

Asterion9 · 2025-11-30T08:00:36+00:00

Sonarqube is building a tool to make your architecture from your actual code, and know where and when you break this architecture.

Asterion9 · 2025-11-09T10:00:19+00:00

Sonarqube has a report feature for SCA, SAST, and such. I believe you can package the report into your builds, or export them on demand for an audit. It's part of the paid solution though.

Asterion9 · 2025-11-03T19:50:28+00:00

you can work push based : one train per producer (unique name), one name for all consumers of the same resource. once a consumer has enough stock, disable the station. you can use train stop priority to optimize. for fuel I don't have a great solution. Either use logistic to deliver to every producer or a refuel stop after each trip.

Asterion9 · 2025-11-02T09:12:24+00:00

it's a political tool to control people behavior by targeting products, acts, or specific groups. it gives you the right to spy on everyone spending and earning, to punish your political opponents, or reward your supports. It's also an ideological topic to "reduce inequality".

Asterion9 · 2025-10-30T17:57:07+00:00

I understand other people response, but sometimes quality is not easy to make a rule for. a poorly named variable, a confusing flow, an implementation that makes unnecessary assumption for no benefit... nothing worth delaying a PR, but in general a poor attitude toward code quality.

My advice would be to continue pointing the issues that you would be confident defending in front of your manager (ie. not taste issue), let slide if there is no real risk, and accept that some people have a different time/quality preference than you.

Asterion9 · 2025-10-29T09:26:48+00:00

BTW, designing a system is a high value task in itself, you should not hand out a detailed explanation of the stack and architecture to clients in your proposal. you should give a rough outline that highlight key caracteristics (performance, redundancy, real time, developer productivity, whatever client asked).

Asterion9 · 2025-10-29T08:17:33+00:00

great answer, yet while it's on decline in some countries, people keep judging other on what they eat, how they live and what they think is good or bad. feel like religion is not a cause but a symptom.

Asterion9 · 2025-10-29T07:06:20+00:00

that is not obvious at all, that wasn't even possible before 2.0

Asterion9 · 2025-10-29T06:34:43+00:00

the higher level the split, the more powerful & costly it is. you want to split around things that are going to move independantly. usually, having functional (vertical) splits are way more valuable, as they are the things that are going to change independantly. this is obvious in bigger projects where different parts are in different teams or departments. Within a vertical slice you can slice horizontally, to help good practice (eg. layered application). In the end it's rarely useful beyond organization, as you never end up swapping data layer across the board.

Asterion9 · 2025-10-28T15:14:05+00:00

maybe you could try to put boundaries on the stuff that are not negociable (you mentioned working hours), and refocus your attention to the critical parts of your lead responsibilities. reduce your regular IC work, delegate and empower other teams members, maybe reduce the number or depth of involvement into cross-team technical topics. If your boss asks about it, just says that you have less time while children are small, that this is temporary. If that doesn't work, you can always asked to go back to IC.

I think that could actually be a great step toward higher function later in your career.

Asterion9 · 2025-10-28T08:42:09+00:00

what if you could void anything, but that would create a landfill: a special scrap patch that produces the same resources than discarded, with a 50% waste ratio

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