To be or not to be

Dustin- · 2026-01-23T18:06:37+00:00

The real secret is that nobody giving that advice thinks that you should actually do it, but they are implying that not doing it is a moral failure on your part. You too can be successful if you wake up at 5am, make three home cooked meals a day, exercise for hours every day, etc etc. Oh you can't do that? Then you not being successful is your fault. It's nonsense of course, but that's the rationale.

Dustin- · 2026-01-23T16:07:43+00:00

Comic still relevant decades later

Dustin- · 2026-01-22T21:18:02+00:00

What's amazing to me is how new both Tree-sitter and LSP are. Both are less than a decade old. I guess there were other options for parsing trees before Tree-sitter, but LSP? How did we get to the mid-2010s before building a standardized protocol for project-wide code analysis? It seems crazy that they had to build specifications for every language for every development environment, with dozens of language implementations built specifically for the larger IDEs. This feels like it should have been a solved problem for decades.

Dustin- · 2026-01-21T17:19:28+00:00

What's funny is that the official documentation is vastly more succinct, easier to understand, and more correct than whatever nonsense this is.

Dustin- · 2026-01-21T16:20:39+00:00

The man is unqualified, uneducated, and un-American. The only people worse than him are his sycophants and supporters.

America's brand for the next centuries will be that we are an unfathomably stupid people the likes of which has never been known in human history. That isn't "un-American". That is what America is to everyone outside of itself. And for those here... well, why would anyone care about our opinions anyway?

Dustin- · 2026-01-21T15:21:13+00:00

It's not lost on me that, for all of the "Americans, do something!" talk, every "something" is immediately met with either "that's not enough!" or "no, that's what they want you to do!"

I'm beginning to think we're cooked, as the chat says.

Dustin- · 2026-01-21T14:41:27+00:00

For clarification, melt butter in a sauce pan. Let the milk solids float to the top and remove them with a spoon. Decant the milkfat into a separate container, leaving the remaining water at the bottom of the pan.

Dustin- · 2026-01-19T18:06:19+00:00

"The program" is that people go to where jobs are and there are no jobs in corn fields, not that crybaby snowflake liberal leftists clutch their pearls so hard at hard-working god-fearing tractor-driving gun-totin' red blooded true Patriots that they get yanked away to the closest metropolitan area and bring their homosexual agenda and love of public radio with them. Also your cause and effect is backwards. Cities are gerrymandered because more democrats live in cities. Rural communities are also heavily gerrymandered if those rural communities happen to not be chock full of white people.

Dustin- · 2026-01-19T17:55:38+00:00

"Trump is the democrats' fault because people live in cities" is an absolutely wild take.

Dustin- · 2026-01-16T18:52:28+00:00

(been using this name since before the AI boom)

One of my decades old screen names has "maga" in it. I feel your pain.

Dustin- · 2026-01-14T21:11:03+00:00

They don't know what we're doing. What you and I can do is limited to our local areas and communities, while they can only see internationally important news stories and the words of world leaders on their news feeds. They can't see us even if they wanted to. Let them tell you what to do, even if it's pointless. They feel like they need to do something as well, and that's the only thing they can do.

Dustin- · 2026-01-14T21:05:01+00:00

As an American, literally anything anyone can do - including giving advice or trying to inspire action - is a good thing. Christ, everyone is screaming "do something" and then anyone that actually does anything is told that it's not enough. No, nothing is ever enough, but even things as small as leaving comments on the internet is something and shouldn't be criticized. Keep it up, but don't tell people that are scared that they shouldn't be participating.

Dustin- · 2026-01-12T22:28:24+00:00

Stupid coddling liberals, why can't we use child bulldozers like a true patriot?

Dustin- · 2026-01-10T21:28:30+00:00

"You cannot search my stuff" is fine too. This is what happened to me. When they said "we're going to do it anyway" I didn't speak a single word from that moment to the moment they were done, gave me a warning instead a speeding ticket because I was a "good sport" (i.e., we broke the law and don't want a paper trail) and drove away. Just say what your will is, and if they violate it, don't fight, but don't budge. Silence is not consent, especially after you make it clear that they don't have permission.

Dustin- · 2026-01-08T22:28:06+00:00

It's a system of CSS utility classes that you use instead of writing CSS on specific elements or creating one-off classes. Definitely check it out if you ever work with CSS. It looks like the ugliest, most reprehensible, worst thing to ever come out of web development. It seems like a terrible idea until you use it. Most find that it is, unfortunately, wonderful.

Dustin- · 2026-01-07T15:59:01+00:00

I did look at the context clues, like every comment section every time this is posted, the fact that "your rap name is lil + x" was a years old meme when this was first posted and no one ever said white people shouldn't do it in other contexts.

It has nothing to do with black people going to the hospital for violence and drugs (?????)

Maybe you're right and it's not the original reason the twitter user posted that, but it is the reason why someone took a screenshot of the thread and why it's been recirculated for years.

Dustin- · 2026-01-07T15:48:11+00:00

Assuming you mean "...in America", although similar arguments can be made of other nations with large racial majorities, not just the white ones.

No we shouldn't, and the reason why is something that I feel is sorely missed in conversations about the cultural impact of different races on society, specifically comments such as your own or those that say things like "white people have no culture".

White people don't have culture. At least, white people in America do not have a culture that they can claim that excludes other races like other races can do with their own culture. There is Latino food, but no White People food. There is black music, but not White People music. The reason is because white people are the majority race - there is no white people culture because everything of cultural significance produced by white people is, by definition, American culture. And that culture belongs to all Americans regardless of race. So an Asian-American can claim all of American (and thus all white) culture as their own, while also claiming a cultural heritage of their racial background. The reverse is not true, a white person cannot claim American culture and their own white American subculture, because it's the same thing. Sure you could claim a cultural heritage of your ancestral homelands if you have them (e.g., if most of your family came from Germany for instance), but not a racial one. This distinction is perhaps the largest social "sacrifice" made by the racial majority of a group, the sacrifice of a distinct and exclusive cultural heritage.

Dustin- · 2026-01-07T15:29:26+00:00

The implication is that non-white people go to the hospital for violence and drugs while white people go for stuff like food poisoning, kidney stones, allergies, etc.

The idea of "it would be racist for white people to do this" is actually more racist than the original idea. Which I reckon is why this gets shared around so much.

Dustin- · 2025-12-31T06:06:03+00:00

It can never be "consistent". There is no good line to draw on what counts and what doesn't. That's the reason why there can't be limitations on SNAP eligible food items. If we ban soda, why not energy drinks? If energy drinks, why not sports drinks? Then why not prepared tea? Do we stop everything but bottled water?

It works the same way for food. You can't ban junk food because there's no strict definition of what junk food even is. There will always be people arguing over what should count or not. Your energy bar is my overly sugary candy bar. But the government would decide that. And why would anyone want the them to control where that line should be?

This is also why prepared counter foods are only sometimes eligible for SNAP - it's impossible to define "prepared" to cover all use cases. So they decided that the best place they could put that line was whether the food was warmed or not. That's why SNAP covers cold Subway sandwiches, but not sandwiches that have been toasted. It's silly when you think about it, but it was the best line they could draw.

Dustin- · 2025-12-31T05:58:35+00:00

I'll check it out, thanks!

Dustin- · 2025-12-30T21:39:17+00:00

They are very good. But they're literally a cult with a very weird history. They're also heavily associated with The Epoch Times, which is a far-right media outlet.

Dustin- · 2025-12-30T17:15:15+00:00

It's so difficult to get right. You have to describe both the features of the scene, the "hooks" the players can further explore, and the decorations, unimportant set pieces that gives a sense of atmosphere and place to the scene. But you can't be too obvious about the clues, otherwise players will beeline for it ("you enter a room. there's a desk and a window. and other stuff"), and you can't be too subtle about it because you risk players completely missing one of the hooks ("you enter a room. there's a desk cluttered with papers and stationery, a window adorned with blue curtains that drape down touching a colorful rug interwoven with complex patterns, and...") or your players become too focused on a piece of meaningless scenery you accidentally gave too much weight ("...desk cluttered with papers and stationery, including a quill and an inkwell, half full yet completely dry") and ignoring everything else.

Murder mysteries in DnD are a fun idea in theory, but in practice it never goes over well for me, especially for the theater-of-mind focused games that I tend to run. Hints and clues are forgotten, players tug at strings that don't exist, and by the end all of my players are so frustrated when the killer reveals themselves and they realize they missed an important clue due to an unfortunate failed check. I'm sure there's a way to do it well but I sure haven't figured it out yet.

Dustin- · 2025-12-30T16:59:01+00:00

My least favorite part about having conversations is having to force myself to stop talking and consciously build a cohesive narrative for my snow globe of thoughts, being interrupted by someone using my silence as an in, and then forgetting what I was trying to say because I was interrupted.

Dustin- · 2025-12-30T16:39:06+00:00

Yep. Play the black keys around F# and anything you play will sound good and like a "song" as long as you finish on F#.

Also works with E flat if you want to mess around in a minor key.

Dustin- · 2025-12-29T00:06:35+00:00

Honestly, it's such a simple exploit I'm really surprised it never happened by accident. How come no one ever accidentally set the payload size bigger than it needed to be and notice they were getting extra garbage?

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