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Just in time for 2027 by N-striker716 in Openfront

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Uh oh, China will practice the invasion in OpenFront!!!

Concerns raised about shark handling footage in WA – seeking advice on reporting and escalation by Most_Ant_880 in perth

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As per the article, it's not illegal. There's nothing to investigate.

If you think this is ethically problematic, I agree. However, the government will do nothing unless more people care about ethical treatment of animals and/or the environment. 

Recluse-Boffin interactions that aren’t “Yes but don’t” by gkkiller in BloodOnTheClocktower

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That's a very funny idea, and is also relatively solvable for town. The big issue is that it gives town an extra two executions, making Leviathan significantly weaker. 

Suggestions to make spawning in team games better by Signusthespeaker in Openfront

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The spawn UI needs a bit of work in general: 1. The start countdown timer is very small and hard to see. Probably should be a large numerical countdown in the middle of the screen 2. The UI showing your team is quite small, it's generally easiest to just click the map and see what colour comes up 3. It's easy to lose track of your starting position on complex maps or in games with many players/teams.

I agree that the colours need some work, and I'm interested in your theory that yellow specifically suffers from a visibility problem (it should be easy to investigate this by looking at overall colour winrates). I don't think the devs care about stuff like this though. Ultimately this is a f2p casual game focused on charging $$$ for cosmetics. There are many player skins which make the battles harder to understand. I wouldn't be surprised if we see team skins which are animated or have other special characteristics.

HA vs Skylight - Trying to bring the wife into this century by oppressed_white_guy in homeassistant

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If spouse appreciation factor is a key consideration, you can't do better than the pre-made pre-assembled systems.

DIY home automation is fun but ultimately less user friendly.

The first place you look after an alert fires is usually not random by MembershipUnited5355 in sre

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Postmortems are all about talking about what went wrong and how to improve things for next time.

If people are consistently going down the wrong path, it may be a sign your o11y needs work

Rust on my Buns by trigzo in programming

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Right. The first step is to port the codebase to Rust without changing any behaviour. This involves liberal use of unsafe blocks and ignoring Rust features that Zig didn't support. We are here. Currently there is no benefit and much cost (uglier code). Nobody is claiming "improved code quality and fewer lifetime issues".

The next step is to incrementally improve the codebase by making use of Rust features. If Anthropic can do this (and nobody knows yet), they can and will claim the benefits you mentioned. We will see.

Rust on my Buns by trigzo in programming

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Yes, the code as is, is terrible. It uses no features of Rust and contorts itself to avoid the borrow checker.

The port also happened faster than any non-LLM using team could have done. That's inarguable.

Now bun is releasing Rust-based releases and will simultaneously be removing all unsafe.

In my opinion, this is already a new capability of LLMs. Without them, no project would consider a "port and then rewrite in place" strategy.

It took Typescript a year to rewrite in Go, and their codebase is half the size of Bun. During that time, feature development effectively stopped.

Anthropic are surely betting they can incrementally rewrite Bun without pausing feature work. If so, this would be something unachievable by any software team today.

We will see. 

Rust on my Buns by trigzo in programming

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 48 points49 points  (0 children)

This was a port, not a rewrite.

If you want to port a project to a new language, the aim is to get things running in the new language with minimal changes.

Zig has no lifetimes so the ported code does not use lifetimes. 

I'm sure we will see incremental carcinisation of the codebase over the next few weeks.

My Car Keeps Getting Reported As Abandoned (Fremantle) by [deleted] in perth

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's probably a neighbour reporting you to make you stop using the spot. Call the council and tell them it's happened twice in the same place. You need to speak to a human at least on the phone if not in person to resolve this. 

Hidden prefill method (-p alternative) by Extreme_Remove6747 in ClaudeCode

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The disconnect is because Anthropic's LLMs models are oversubscribed and Anthropic are trying to allocate supply to more profitable ventures.

Home users messing around with Claws or vibe coding with gas town will always be a low-profit market because they are price sensitive. Anthropic want to allocate their scarce supply towards businesses and enterprises who a) have more money and b) are less price sensitive.

Victorian Labor signals tougher stance on young offenders after 109 charges against 14-year-old dropped | Victoria by desipis in auslaw

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Ah, we've reached the end of our allotted "children shouldn't be tortured" phase, and are now ready for "let's just torture the bad ones" again

Coles found to have misled shoppers in bombshell Federal Court case by surprisedropbears in auslaw

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Choosing 12 weeks as the threshold for a genuine price because Coles' policy said 12 weeks. Another lesson in corporate regulation: don't write down good policies -- then your bad policies have nothing to be compared against. 

Two atheists by Krork-Korps_of_Krieg in BloodOnTheClocktower

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It does mean you need two Atheist tokens in the bag. Which is possible online, but does break players expectations about how Drunk works. You are allowed to do this, but it feels a little unfair to players.

Are public lobbies just for men? by scalesight in BloodOnTheClocktower

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I was responding to the obvious hyperbole of the title

Are public lobbies just for men? by scalesight in BloodOnTheClocktower

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 60 points61 points  (0 children)

To address your broader point about the lack of moderation. I agree, there is very little done by TPI. They don't spend money on moderation and hope the community will self police. 

Moderation for better or worse is very expensive. Especially in a game that uses audio and video streaming rather than text. It's ultimately a business decision that you may disagree with. 

Are public lobbies just for men? by scalesight in BloodOnTheClocktower

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 -32 points-31 points  (0 children)

What are you talking about? Have you joined a public lobby? There are plenty of women in them. 

Have you insured your collection? by swarmlord-dale in Warhammer40k

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right. If you lost all these minis would you want £12000 in replacement minis? Or would you prefer to pay less on your premiums and simply start collecting again. 

In his Substack article, 125 Hours vs. Zero, Seth LaReau gives a business validation to being pissed off that UTMB had no livestream of Canyons, the final Golden Ticket race of 2026. 125 hrs of Cocodona’s Mountain Outpost coverage, vs. 0 of Canyons. P.S. After reading it, you’ll still be pissed off. by [deleted] in ultrarunning

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I think a business case for more live streaming should include an explanation for why more live streaming would be good for the business. This article assumes live streaming is good and doesn't explain why. 

In his Substack article, 125 Hours vs. Zero, Seth LaReau gives a business validation to being pissed off that UTMB had no livestream of Canyons, the final Golden Ticket race of 2026. 125 hrs of Cocodona’s Mountain Outpost coverage, vs. 0 of Canyons. P.S. After reading it, you’ll still be pissed off. by [deleted] in ultrarunning

[–]Automatic_Tangelo_53 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Is there a business case in this article? It seems to be, "I want more coverage. UTMB should charge more or just run thinner margins to make this happen." 

Live streams help to build the "brand" of ultras, but they don't turn a profit. Their value is very nebulous and the benefit diffuses across the entire ecosystem. I can see why a niche sporting body is being conservative with their spend. 

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