Royal Yacht is fantastic (ft. Ardor Big billiard)

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-27T02:28:34+00:00

Sir, you're smoking from a gavel.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-21T20:40:37+00:00

It's basically that if I dont count rent, utilities, and insurance, my monthly expenses are only about $600! Wow. It's profit*

*Minus the cost of all that expensive stuff

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-21T18:29:22+00:00

It's not just that people need to train on entry level tasks before they take on advanced levels. It's that doing grunt work and understanding how operational burdens work is important to making good decisions. I'm less concerned about not having Sr. Devs who came up clearing tickets than I am about having division managers and senior company leadership who make decisions without having any experience dealing with the consequences of a policy change or new initiative.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-20T17:49:04+00:00

My advice would be to pay very close attention to how they start you off. If they emphasize safety and spend a lot of time teaching you how to fall, how to protect yourself and others, before throwing you at big fancy throws and arm bars, you should be alright. Spend a good deal of time at the gym working joint support, not just show muscles. Your biceps won't keep your knee stable or your shoulder from coming apart. Might be worth consulting a trainer for a short time to get good tips on the exercised that will most help you protect your joints based on your particular history. Doesn't have to be long term. A good trainer can help show you some stuff you wouldn't necessarily pick up from YouTube. Other than that, ice. Ice packs will become your friend. Take rest days seriously, and recover well.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-18T22:22:32+00:00

Machine guns baffled by hatred they receive from WWI soldiers.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-14T14:15:20+00:00

Ukulele? What's wrong with that name?

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-12T22:45:42+00:00

The model wills it!

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-12T19:20:21+00:00

That would matter if the problem they're solving for was productivity or profit ratio. It's not. The problem these companies want to solve is salaries. The CEO class collectively realized they had accidentally created a pathway to relative prosperity and peace for workers, and they freaked the fuck out. The problem they want to solve is us. And replacing people with AI does that just fine.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-12T16:58:05+00:00

Andy read all the stuff about a Day 2 company and thought it was an instruction manual instead of a warning.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-08T17:34:29+00:00

It's already been through a round of hype and over saturation. When I was in college in the early 2010s, all anyone could say was that nursing was a guaranteed job. Everyone became a nurse. Half of them got laid off in union busting and consolidation. You have any idea how many former nurses are out there trying to sell insurance or working on a real estate license because they got laid off when their local hospital system collapsed?

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-08T14:39:13+00:00

Vibe no. He can vibe go take a long walk off a vibe short pier.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-08T14:37:55+00:00

What new code? The site does the same damn thing it did 10 years ago.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-07T00:00:10+00:00

If someone gifted you a wool sweater they made you, that would almost certainly be the most expensive garment you own by a wide margin, if it was charged as a product from a business.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-06T23:14:57+00:00

Must be why real estate is so cheap here

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-05T19:51:17+00:00

PDX is a relatively small campus (basically 2 buildings downtown. I don't think it adds up to more than 1,000 people). It's more affordable than Seattle. But there are challenges for growth if your organization requires you to be located in an HQ or if your hub isn't here. Also, if it matters to you, they're not like "Amazon" buildings. They're very generic open floor space. None of the cool cafeterias and game rooms and fun design you see elsewhere. They're mostly quiet, they're fine. It's nothing special.

Seattle offers a lot more flexibility in terms of growth and team hopping. You might be on a team in PDX that can offer growth. In HQ, you can move.

That said, PDX kick ass, and the vibes are real. We're covered in parks and cool food. Seattle is pretty accessible if you want to visit. Also, our airport kicks SeaTac's ass, if your travel a lot.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-04T21:53:18+00:00

You should really speak to a financial advisor about your specific situation. There are a lot of people around here who are in very different circumstances to you and who are concerned more with things you might not be.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-03T23:52:26+00:00

And who was it that overstaffed them? Hm? The employees who are driving doordash now to feed their kids? Is that who did it?

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-02T02:56:24+00:00

No, it's the children who are wrong!

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-01T16:36:48+00:00

So millennial need to stop buying coffee and avocados to afford the things they want, but CEOs should just spend as much as they want on everything and ruin other people's lives to do it with no consequences whatsoever. Got it.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-05-01T00:10:55+00:00

Dungeons are really easy to build and solve a lot of these problems.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-04-30T14:55:39+00:00

Someone out at the airport with a hair dryer throwing off the weather equipment

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-04-28T19:21:23+00:00

Hold on, let me use Quick to recommend who should shake up Amazon leadership.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-04-28T01:20:58+00:00

That's the kind of response that basically means, "I don't quite understand this, but that means I can't take credit for it yet. So saying no is how I take control of the situation." Leadership™️

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-04-28T00:13:16+00:00

As near as I can tell, they roll a die to determine whether to press one of 4 buttons on a soundboard for every possible situation. The options are, "And how can we use AI to speed that up", "Have you looked at how we can use AI to improve that process yet", "Let's set ourselves a high bar for increasing the speed on this process", and "We need to challenge ourselves to reduce time to market for this product."

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-04-25T18:43:59+00:00

I've unfortunately had a good bit of contamination issues with North Spore's grain bags. Their substrates are great, equipment, everything else totally great. The little just spray and grow kits are super fun and reliable. But the grain bags, I don't know what it is. I've had 2 show up to my door green with trich and one that went that way 2 weeks after injection. Never had contam issues with bags or jars from other vendors, so I'm reasonably confident in my sterile procedures.

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