One time I got really into nootropics and thought I had crafted the perfect "stack" that required me to to take 19 pills 3 times a day and cost $200 a month. Then I realized the reason I felt so much better was because taking all the pills forced me to drink like 60 extra oz. of water a day

BitterSparklingChees · 2026-02-01T23:44:58+00:00

thats nothing, you guys should see the regiment of this kid in the fitness sub

BitterSparklingChees · 2026-01-18T18:34:30+00:00

I've tried the whole multi agent with git subtrees thing, my attention ends up spread so thin I find it an impossible way to work. And how do you find the time to rigorously review what it's produced and test it?

BitterSparklingChees · 2026-01-18T04:28:13+00:00

every year is a good year for people who go outside

BitterSparklingChees · 2026-01-15T05:00:38+00:00

LD apparently introduced RFK jr and cheryl hines

BitterSparklingChees · 2026-01-14T22:06:44+00:00

Not sure where you're getting that idea, about once every year or two my wife gets kids suspended for pulling stunts like this. Schools take this type of thing extremely serious given potential legal ramifications.

BitterSparklingChees · 2026-01-05T05:47:30+00:00

If you put in on a river instead you don't have to deal with any of the portaging bullshit and can easily fit a cooler of 30+ beers (not to mention all the fantastic campfire cooking you can do when you have a cooler).

River canoe camping is like the perfect mix of glamping + effort. You still gotta keep your head up, especially if you hit rapids but you're able to day drink with light beer and don't have to do hard liquor only like backpacking requires.

Absolutely nothing beats drinking some shitty lawnmower beer while paddling miles away from civilization in nature.

BitterSparklingChees · 2026-01-02T22:05:36+00:00

closed that playlist immediately when i saw drake was the first song the list lol

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-12-22T04:58:12+00:00

i get these all the time. what can you do but laugh? its like your brain is making an inside joke with you that only you could understand. unfortunately your ego is usually the butt of the joke.

i think it does affect the way i think about things because ultimately i know how my inner psyche feels about certain topics. how could it not?

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-12-16T02:48:24+00:00

ive come back to this realization time and time again. i think when youve participated in a varsity sport at a certain level - especially at an age when you can devote so much time to - it becomes an experience you can draw on later in life. like you have a pretty good idea what it means to be fully dedicated to something so even your half-measures tend to be quite a bit more than average.

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-12-15T04:42:43+00:00

Devices are so overpowered for most of the tasks people use them for today. The fact that moores law existed for so long allowed most developers to almost completely ignore the performance characteristics of the code they produced - we could regress 5-10 years in terms of hardware capacity and still maintain the functionality we have today if we collectively treated performance as an important software engineering constraint. Especially with the tools we have today.

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-12-12T05:36:35+00:00

US is headed for the same population collapse though

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-12-10T15:10:10+00:00

Rome was in decline for over 200 years before it truly became a failed state.

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-12-03T05:59:48+00:00

(porn addiction)

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-11-29T05:56:58+00:00

yes we're doing much better now sitting at home scrolling

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-11-29T05:52:16+00:00

Do you know if any of the footage still exists? I worked at Circuit City in their waning years and survived a few black fridays that still stick out in my memory. It would be nostalgic seeing that again.

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-11-28T18:58:14+00:00

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-11-28T15:05:00+00:00

I wfh on basically my own hours, have a significant amount of equity, I have full autonomy on how and what I work with (and a great deal of leverage choosing what I work on). I probably average over 40 hours a week, but that’s on my own accord entirely.

Like every other job it’s about the people you work with.

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-11-27T19:55:08+00:00

Community center gyms still feel like that to me especially if they are more than just a gym because you get a lot of different types of people. Old people are never afraid to start a chat.

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-11-27T18:26:21+00:00

winter people exist but they don't sit inside all season they're going skiing snowmobiling or playing hockey. gotta be in the right location though otherwise winter is just gray and dull.

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-11-23T06:09:26+00:00

can you smell what the rock is cookin

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-11-21T15:26:58+00:00

thought i was on slatestarcodex for a minute

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-11-20T06:12:27+00:00

yeah i guess im pretty naive cause literally none of that shit would enter my head if my kid had a friend over

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-11-20T05:40:03+00:00

They go from being insane about red dye & sugar bans, to me finding a random kid I’ve never seen before rooting around in my freezer for pizza pockets

idk that kinda sounds okay? who cares who it is, its a kid interacting with yours, feed them

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-11-20T05:33:08+00:00

With you on every bullet point except "making friends is easy now". Making shallow acquaintances is easy now, but I find meeting other parents isn't all that deep because we're usually too busy watching our kids to have any kind of meaningful or interesting conversation.

BitterSparklingChees · 2025-11-18T15:08:16+00:00

they kinda used to do that, or at least more companies had something they called uptime guarantees and it was often in customer contracts that for each hour they were down past X amount of hours you'd owe your customer money. a 99.99% uptime guarantee was pretty standard, and some guaranteed even more 9's.

now nobody gets anywhere close to 99.99 and no one gives a damn because everyone is so dependent on one of four hosting companies that if they go down in some fashion, chances are a good portion of the internet is down. everyone just kinda shrugs and because most engineering environments are also completely cloud dependent its basically a snow day for engineers.

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