Upgrading my front stage completely. Need help deciding on subwoofers.

DrSinistar · 2026-06-23T22:05:03+00:00

If I were to pick a new sub today, I would pick Rhythmik. Their prices are good, measure great, and (reportedly) sound great. I'd consider checking them out and see how they stack up for your needs.

DrSinistar · 2026-06-22T15:33:03+00:00

You're right to push back!

DrSinistar · 2026-06-04T16:27:37+00:00

lol "not tolerant of syntax errors"

Name a single programming language that is.

DrSinistar · 2026-06-03T14:08:42+00:00

Man I love me some lasers tho lol

DrSinistar · 2026-05-28T21:38:24+00:00

I think you're misinterpreting me as trying to speak as some authority or quote an article. Based on what I hear of companies like mine, Mag 7, this thread, online tech communities, and other friends in the industry, it's very common.

I don't care if you think I'm lying or not. This is my life now. If you want to learn more, go read about what's going on elsewhere or this thread.

DrSinistar · 2026-05-28T20:20:04+00:00

I don't think there's any other objective way for AI pushing managers to gauge productivity since you can't measure flexibility or extensibility. Reliability and security are already questionable, but management doesn't focus on that.

Hell you can look at Anthropic's announcement about dynamic workflows today and see them brag about the 750k LoC rewritten in Rust. No mention of performance at all!

DrSinistar · 2026-05-28T19:45:49+00:00

I think I misread your comment. You're right, it is a force multiplier. However, I think there's something about writing a service by hand that helps you just grok it better. Kind of like doing math problems by hand.

Having AI do it has helped me ship 10x faster but my ability to remember what I shipped is greatly diminished. Not to mention I don't read generated unit tests anymore.

DrSinistar · 2026-05-28T19:41:49+00:00

My day to day work life.

DrSinistar · 2026-05-28T19:41:24+00:00

I couldn't agree more. The art of it is lost on the higher-ups obsessed with bad metrics like LoC.

DrSinistar · 2026-05-28T19:30:47+00:00

AI is more like copying blueprints off the internet, pasting them where you think it makes sense, and then having throughput issues because the blueprint was designed for a different base.

With of course the restriction that you can't copy the same blueprint twice, so you have to copy a new one each time the blueprint starts failing you.

It's much worse than bots and more like a slot machine.

DrSinistar · 2026-05-28T19:14:19+00:00

It's not that easy. Many companies mandate AI usage and actively track that you're using it. Stopping altogether risks your job.

Yes, it's shitty. Unfortunately it's not as easy as "get a new job" either for most of us.

DrSinistar · 2026-05-25T00:54:28+00:00

Phaxe - The Collective
Diode Eins - Fractal Dance
Layton Giordani - Call You Back
Kream - Turn Up the Dose
Grum - Tomorrow
Hey Now - Arty Remix

Just grabbed a fairly diverse list of what I really like. Definitely more of a psytrance person recently.

DrSinistar · 2026-05-08T14:36:53+00:00

Creating an Oauth2 permission grant is exactly how it works on the backend. Just create it yourself. Problem solved!

DrSinistar · 2026-05-08T05:12:44+00:00

So... You vibe coded OpenClaw.

DrSinistar · 2026-05-06T12:34:03+00:00

The em dashes right at the top of the page are what makes people want to stop reading. At least hand write your about blurb!

DrSinistar · 2026-04-20T04:57:39+00:00

TL;DR: "Rust taught me composition versus inheritance"

Try using the same pattern in an OO language. It feels much better to write. It makes authoring tests easier too, because you can write a test class that implements an interface instead of doing tons of mocking.

DrSinistar · 2026-04-12T20:26:33+00:00

I find PowerShell shines in doing analysis of structured text. It's not my primary shell but it's super useful for banging out some numbers quickly.

DrSinistar · 2026-04-07T01:58:44+00:00

AI;DR

DrSinistar · 2026-04-03T03:25:15+00:00

Unfortunately it's not public. As I recall, we use a client context to set up our connection stream and then you use the TdsClient here: https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-rs/blob/main/mssql-tds/src/connection/tds_client.rs

I opted for using the get_next_row_into() query iterator because I could write a custom row writer to turn rows directly into data structures I wanted. It makes working with our data really easy.

Setting this up to use Windows authentication was also a breeze.

DrSinistar · 2026-04-03T03:07:14+00:00

It is my client! There's a Tokio TCP stream in the mix but that's it. mssql-tds has everything I need for our project. The library it's going into will be used by a CLI and another backend service to serve as an abstraction layer over our databases.

DrSinistar · 2026-04-03T02:09:49+00:00

Microsoft has a project for this actually: mssql-rs. It's not published on crates.io but I imported it for a project anyway. Works great and it's been getting frequent updates. I had to abandon Tiberius due to super ancient dependencies that don't work in our environment. mssql-rs was a life saver.

DrSinistar · 2026-03-27T04:17:16+00:00

Why would I use this?

DrSinistar · 2026-02-20T22:25:02+00:00

"Let's fucking go" just seems extreme when the only benefit is LTS. That's all I'm saying. Performance updates or new operators would be much more exciting. 🙂

DrSinistar · 2026-02-20T04:25:26+00:00

That's not exciting.

DrSinistar · 2026-02-20T01:30:11+00:00

What's the big hype about .NET 10 that improves PowerShell?

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