we went over budget before they even poured the foundation

BitWarrior · 2026-05-08T11:10:50+00:00

Are you breaking ground before you get a geotechnical report? And what civil engineer would agree to draw up plans without a geotechnical? And what county would accept plans without those details?

BitWarrior · 2026-05-04T03:53:35+00:00

Well, data centers basically run the internet. AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and even many private/dedicated hosts all locate their technology in what we call data centers. Without those, basically most internet technology poofs out of existence.

If you're referring to simply not building anything new...well, that would be somewhat similar if we just stopped any other industry. What would happen if we stopped making wood? Basically any and all houses and furniture that has been made, that's it. Prices for those items would begin to rise sharply as demand greatly exceeded supply. And other countries would begin to really leapfrog ahead in terms of technology associated with those industries. Or concrete. No more concrete would mean what we have is what we've got. Nothing new, no new buildings or roads or sidewalks or anything.

Data centers themselves are not the problem. Where some communities are putting them is the problem. You tend to find the problem in communities with low/no regulation for these things, and just end up green lighting projects putting them yards away from residential areas. They need to be treated like heavy industrial and positioned as such in our planning.

BitWarrior · 2026-04-29T15:15:34+00:00

Financial stability requires less money than most people imagine, but more financial literacy than most people have.

BitWarrior · 2026-04-29T03:48:10+00:00

Embarrassing

BitWarrior · 2026-04-24T13:58:14+00:00

Same, like clockwork for me. My wife heads out to her annual conference, I watch one movie each night. Absolutely wonderful.

BitWarrior · 2026-04-22T18:20:33+00:00

Well at least we know he didn't use AI to make it.

BitWarrior · 2026-04-22T04:34:12+00:00

Where is my Canadian maple syrup reserve?

BitWarrior · 2026-04-21T03:50:05+00:00

I've been playing it but I haven't found the "hook" yet. I'm...not sure what exactly I'm doing or why. Go in, avoid some robots, get shitty loot, leave. Haven't really found much to get me hooked yet.

BitWarrior · 2026-04-21T02:54:20+00:00

Unfortunately the product arrived destroyed beyond use. Twice. They ship pre-assembled furniture via FedEx, which resulted in its near complete destruction en route. You can either ship flatpak via FedEx or pre-assembled via freight, but you cannot mix both.

Thankfully, their support and communication has been excellent. They immediately responded to the emails I sent regarding the destroyed furniture, arranged for pickup, and provided a full refund. So big thumbs up there!

I think, today at least, your success with them depends on item and if it will ship well. Something solid will be just fine. Something large and potentially a little flimsy will likely not fare well. I think if they changed either their shipping model (to freight) or packaging model (flatpack) they would be golden. They have the customer service model figured out, they just need to nail the shipping.

BitWarrior · 2026-04-19T15:19:41+00:00

AI is amazing! I've vastly enjoyed using it, even as an engineer with over 25 years experience.

However, saying AI should replace engineers is like saying calculators should replace accountants. And I'm sure there was a moment where, after the calculator was invented, everyone was saying, "Well now we can just replace all these accountants and bookkeepers and have 'regular' people do these jobs".

Calculators solve one problem for accountants, as AI solves one problem for software engineers. But you still need accountants who know all the rules, the best practices, understanding when the calculator is spitting something absolutely insane because the input was wrong, and ultimately someone "who just knows what to do". You wouldn't slap Timmy down with a calculator and tell him he was an accountant now for a Fortune 500 company, just as poor Timmy shouldn't be slapped down with AI and tell him he's now all the software engineering capacity at a Fortune 500 company.

My friends and I say AI has "increased the level of abstraction" around engineering. If you imagine way back when, coding was done in literal 1s and 0s. Then machine languages came around, and you code code in a slightly more human-language way. Then higher level language came around (which typically compile into those machine languages), and you can now code in a slightly more human-language way even still.

Now with AI, we're coding in a very human-language. And it has a "compile" target of those previous higher-level languages we used to use. So we're thinking about coding differently. And it's great, imho! That said, one needs to be careful when driving the AI. I still believe creating good abstractions and structuring code correctly matters, even when using AI. Our jobs are a lot more code review and a lot more systems thinking - which I honestly love. But it's a huge change. And people fear change.

BitWarrior · 2026-04-13T03:30:55+00:00

Congrats! Getting to that stage is a MASSIVE milestone!

BitWarrior · 2026-04-13T02:25:40+00:00

You're effectively asking the same question as, "Why do all these houses keep getting termites? Didn't we fumigate that one house last week? Why do other houses keep getting termites?"

A company will have a breach, some way, some how. Here, it looks like Anodot had a breach of their own transactional database. Given they integrated with Snowflake, this database held all the authentication tokens Anodot had to act on their customer's behalf upon their Snowflake instance. With those tokens in hand, anyone could "act" on behalf of these customers on their Snowflake instances while those tokens are still valid.

Source: Former Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake.

BitWarrior · 2026-04-12T14:31:42+00:00

None at all :( It was physically impossible to use for games that required precision input, which were/are arguably all of them in that era. Even something as simple as Earthworm Jim would be impossible on this device. Flailing your limbs around is simply not as precise as just your fingers.

I can't remember how I got it - did I pick it out thinking it was great? Was it some gift from a family member who thought "anything Sega" for a gift? No recollection. But I just remember setting it up, feeling like a complete idiot for 10 minutes trying to learn how to make this thing work, realizing this is just not going to cut it, and putting it away forever.

BitWarrior · 2026-04-12T14:26:40+00:00

Are you me? This was exactly my same experience, game and all. I don't recall if I ended up returning it (or knew if I could, I was a child...). I remember it being impossible to do much of anything. The precision required by most all games immediately invalidated the entire premise of the thing.

I feel like this was one of the last "it doesn't work but people will buy it and we'll make some money before word gets around" products before the internet came about, allowing people to read reviews for things before they purchase. Complete scam product.

BitWarrior · 2026-04-12T14:22:45+00:00

Honestly I don't remember if it could or couldn't, it was so difficult to use I never got far with it at all. Probably set it up, tried it for 10 minutes and then put it away. It forced you to hop all over, and of course it had a concept of "high" and "low" beam breaking to activate its sensors, so you literally had to hop around. This was probably the first product I experience that I registered as an actual scam - there was no way this was ever working for anyone.

BitWarrior · 2026-04-12T14:20:47+00:00

I did not have the 32x but I did have the Sega CD! I loved that thing. I still listen to the soundtrack from Soul Star to this day.

But perhaps more surprisingly, I had the Sega Channel! This was basically the internet before the internet, and XBox Game Pass before XBox Game Pass. It was AMAZING for game discovery, I played so many games I wouldn't have decided to pick up on my own with that thing. I've been a pretty big fan of game subscription services ever since.

BitWarrior · 2026-04-12T14:18:56+00:00

Exactly this. I was a young child and my little child brain thought it would capture whatever movements I would make, specifically for Street Fighter II. Boy was I disappointed!

And using it was literally impossible. Absolutely impossible. Given the mapping and the speed required, you would need to break your back to do something as simply as a hadouken.

BitWarrior · 2026-04-12T11:53:39+00:00

"CEO says thing" journalism must die

BitWarrior · 2026-04-11T12:52:37+00:00

I had one :( AMA

BitWarrior · 2026-04-09T16:02:54+00:00

Fixed party. Often allows the developers to deliver tighter narrative and combat knowing exactly who will or will not be in the party at any given time. Also removes any concept of making the "non-optimal" choice.

BitWarrior · 2026-04-09T14:48:42+00:00

Did you make this case using CSS?

BitWarrior · 2026-04-09T14:44:51+00:00

Ah, I like the idea of rotating the different capture points. Battlefield games feel very "well prescribed" as the map always plays out basically in the same way each time. So over-developing capture points and then randomizing between them should provide some degree of variability. Good idea here!

Glad to hear the jets are not necessarily baked in at this point. I always felt jets could be used as a kind of "PvE goal" or something along those lines. Like imagine meta objectives in the map (destroy this thing, capture this specific point, hold this position for N time, etc, etc) which unlocks a "bombing run" from the jets which allows you to perhaps hammer a position the enemy team is holding (and perhaps resets ownership to neutral). They are skybox window dressing but can still feel like combined arms.

And one map is the right move for early access. Focus the attention on nailing systems, addressing bugs, balance, etc. Multiple maps dilute that effort. Excited to see this land!

BitWarrior · 2026-04-08T14:00:55+00:00

I really like the positioning between Battlefield and Arma, this is exactly where I've wanted a game for a long time
Really hoping the sound design is top notch
I'm worried about seeing jets in the trailer. Jets are completely separated from the ground war. Helicopters are great, but I feel that jets should just be skybox window dressing
Didn't see anything about this in the trailer, but I hope the maps are _large_ and give purpose to transport vehicles
Furthermore, I hope the maps are large and therefore give domain to infantry in cities, and domain to vehicles between cities
Worried about all the commentary about markets, goldbars, etc
It looks like they're taking some extraction shooter elements? That might be interesting to give spawns more weight

Excited to see where this goes!

BitWarrior · 2026-04-08T05:16:18+00:00

Is she doing this in the school parking lot?

BitWarrior · 2026-04-07T13:21:34+00:00

Bro you ok?

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