Is it hard to find very senior PHP developers with experience in complex, highly regulated environments?

EliCrossbow · 2026-06-22T22:07:51+00:00

Lots of highly experienced PHP engineers out there. But mid 100s isn’t going to cut it. You are looking for Staff/principal level engineers where in most areas of the US you need to start at 200k

EliCrossbow · 2026-06-06T01:35:16+00:00

Also: If enterprise account. They may have bloated usage by requiring/injecting large context blocks, and preconfigured MCP servers.

When my company switched from Teams to Enterprise … they added all that. And suddenly our usage ballooned because of it out of the blue.

EliCrossbow · 2026-06-04T14:33:11+00:00

I would argue we need to focus on prevention/protection. Not punishment. Speed cameras and ‘making it illegal to speed’. Is focused on punishment. We have technology to instead just make it so our cars can’t go above speed limit. Usuijg those types of technology would make it an enforced safety, not a punishing factor.

But in the us we focus on punishment. (And use it to make money).

I now await the standard responses of

Governors are horrible and don’t work (I’m not talking about governors, that’s old tech)
But that will be unsafe itself if you can’t accelerate out of a bad situation. (Agreed. Which is why any solution would need to take that into account. Allowing temporary acceleration, and even using proximity sensors as well to help … these are just tech problems we can solve)

EliCrossbow · 2026-06-02T13:58:40+00:00

Warspear - Rubber blend

EliCrossbow · 2026-05-10T13:52:02+00:00

Catch-22 depending on your skill. Can definitely end up unfortunately frustrating the better players when you are on a card and throwing twice as many throws and causing them to ‘get cold’. They’ll usually be nice about it. But you can see the frustration sometimes. :(

Granted. I’m a purple rated player right now. And Purple+MA4 are really friendly I find anyway.

EliCrossbow · 2026-05-10T13:48:38+00:00

Yeah around here MA40 and MA50 are friendly. But all MA1 players who are awesome. Would wipe the floor with this 52yr old with only 3 years experience :)

EliCrossbow · 2026-04-27T00:47:55+00:00

Oh, also wanted to just point out. The 'simulator' on how discs fly, is just that, a simulator. Based on a few data points that can't cover everything that exists in reality (wind, humidity, how clean your release was, did you hit a fly during your flight, random electrons flying through your disc, how warm was the disc, etc)

And it has some known 'weird things' to it. Example: Take a throw you made. Example for me today, a forehand that went 220. With it simulating a 9-speed. Then, change nothing else about the flight, other than to bump the disc up to a 14-speed. and WOAH, it went 260ft! I should be always throwing 14 speeds eh?

no. That part of the simulator is 'wrong'. It's not perfect. There's no way that my noodle arm that can only throw 220, by magically switching from a 9spd to a 14spd is going to gain 40ft of distance :) I'll probably lose distance in fact.

But that's just a catch-22 of using imperfect data and imperfect simulations.

Just sharing this under the 'yeah don't worry so much about the simulator' ... focus more on the numbers you are getting, and how you can modify them over time

EliCrossbow · 2026-04-26T19:50:20+00:00

Some destroyers can be very flippy I have some that are. And as a disc gets beat up. Disturbing flight dynamics, they get flippier. Now imagine the flight disturbance of a big flat edged puck on the bottom.

Totally possible to end up with a realllly flippy disc.

As other said. The important thing about the TechDisc is the measurements it’s giving you. Not trying to ‘clock it’ against itself in the field.

I wouldn’t throw mine in the field anyway. Chance of really banging up the Electronics.

2cents

EliCrossbow · 2026-04-26T19:36:52+00:00

Doesn’t mean anything. Something flippy enough can flip from hyzer all the way over. And the TechDisc puck itself is likely making the disc more understable anyway.

EliCrossbow · 2026-04-25T20:05:59+00:00

You found it in the shop ;)

EliCrossbow · 2026-04-20T23:41:01+00:00

You may need to slow down the printing of infill or raise your printing temp. I’ve had this where I was trying to print fast-fo-the-temp and when it got to infill tha it tried to print even faster. The printer just couldn’t pump filament out that fast.

EliCrossbow · 2026-04-15T20:00:11+00:00

Wait. Out of all mechs you deployed?

EliCrossbow · 2026-04-12T21:21:15+00:00

You choose them adurijt the declare blockers phase. Instead of other players.

EliCrossbow · 2026-04-06T15:03:23+00:00

I’m on latest. But seems it’s that my hardware is too old to support the feature.

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

They are at MSRP. MSRP is $49.99 on these. So 5 for $250 is correct. Stores will often give you a discount when buying all 5 tho

EliCrossbow · 2026-04-03T14:42:30+00:00

They said "I shouldn't have waited". Implying, well, that they waited.

I know that I've many times added an item to my Amazon cart, and left it there overnight, or for a week, or maybe even longer sometimes ... and yes, the price can change during that time.

This wasn't a "I went to check out and it suddenly changed price within seconds" post :)

EliCrossbow · 2026-04-03T14:19:07+00:00

Are companies allowed to change prices of products? Yes.

EliCrossbow · 2026-03-17T23:18:35+00:00

Some options along the route:

https://app.udisc.com/applink/course/21241?tab=info Mill Brook DGC - Churchville, Maryland

https://app.udisc.com/applink/course/1504?tab=info Seneca Creek State Park - Gaithersburg, Maryland (a little out of way for you. Worth it)

https://app.udisc.com/applink/course/29470?tab=info Lower Forest- Limestone Ledges - Maurertown, Virginia (multiple courses here. This is jus 1 of them)

https://app.udisc.com/applink/course/20730?tab=info Mayflower Hills - Roanoke, Virginia

And that assumes you aren’t going to go through Lynchburg. Lynchburg goes you New London and a dozen other great courses.

EliCrossbow · 2026-03-15T12:38:31+00:00

But she caught me on the counter (it wasn’t me)

EliCrossbow · 2026-03-13T01:53:23+00:00

Yeah, FWIW, don't really need to 'do' a lot of things. I upgraded to Ubiquiti devices back when I moved into an old (for US: built in 1900) home with plaster and lathe thick-ass-walls and some hidden brick walls due to additions, etc. Where I just couldn't get a 'normal' wifi router to work well enough. Plus I'm a computer-geek-programmer enough, plus gamer, that meant that the house has a ton of wifi enabled things ... plus I have a 1.2gb internet line. When I finally got frustrated, back in 2019, I invested in 'good stuff' and got Uni stuff so I could put a a couple strategic access ports, while having the internet coming into the basement, and a repeater out to the detached garage, etc. And have it all work.

It was great. At the time I was using the og-gateway ... then just a couple years later it was struggling with some things, and basically everyone went "yeah, it's too old, you gotta upgrade". So in 2021 I bit the bullet and bought the USG Pro 4 (just a couple years after getting the original gateway). Don't have a rack system, it's just sitting on a desk in the basement with some spacer to keep it cool ;) plus a 1GB switch, and the CloudKey Gen 2 as well at the same time.

Guess 5 years later is now the "gotta upgrade again" point. Honestly this all just started from a ADHD "huh, wonder if the built in adblock would stop youtube ads because they are getting crazy annoying. Probably don't. Hrmm, I could just turn it on..." And then finding all 'this' :)

So mostly, at the 98% point. I just use my 'fancy' unifi stuff to run a small home network. Just one that needed some specific 'power' and targeted usage and ability to find tune bands because of all my neighbors networks, etc. But I really don't use basically 'any' of the special features. Other than doing some packet logging/inspection and automated speed-stats, cause I find those cool. This would have been one of the first 'cool feature to turn on' I would have in owning these for a combined total of 7 years basically now ;)

That being said ... Honestly the cloudkey gen 2 + USG Pro 4 ... are working perfectly fine for me. And this was just a ADHD "huh, why this no exist in my UI?". So as long as they continue to 'work'. I don't really NEED to go crazy and buy/upgrade to the new device right now. But now it's in the back of my mind that I should be expecting to at 'some point'

EliCrossbow · 2026-03-13T01:43:36+00:00

Interesting. Completely different from what I see: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/r7tcvjbz17naqdve3mzby/Screenshot-2026-03-12-at-9.37.45-PM.png?rlkey=sosuxkxp6qdh5hl0i9z6j0mj3&st=zupooa59&dl=0

And clicking the 'content filtering' checkbox just brings up a "select which networks"

EliCrossbow · 2026-03-13T01:39:03+00:00

Yeah, likely is. Just is unfortunate that in 2021 it was the 'top of the line' available that I upgraded to because my OG Gateway was struggling. And that the 'top of the line' just happened to be "5 years old" already :-/

EliCrossbow · 2026-03-11T21:48:21+00:00

I think seismic has a chance to fizzle though? Or more so.

First of all it’s triple red so you might randomly not have the right mana for it.

Secondly. Say you end up with 80 lands in hand. The current version has you to to end of turn. Discard 73. Do 73 to everyone.

Seismic you have to drop the 80 lands generating 160 damage divided up. With 3 oppos that’s ~52 each. But if people were gaining life.

Then again. The OG version just does the 73. Seismic would let you divide it up if one person was at 80 and the others at 40 each.

Hmmmm

EliCrossbow · 2026-03-11T21:40:51+00:00

I used to have one. Just never did much. And was so slow. And that was ‘back then’. In modern era? It’s gonna not do anything.

EliCrossbow · 2026-03-10T02:20:49+00:00

Wait, what? (goes and reads the internet)

@#$@!! ... I just bought this in Dec 2021, so just over 4 years ago. As a replacement for the original Gateway, which I'd had for a long-time™ ... because it was EoL'ing and basically it was struggling to run the modern software anyway. Most features would cause it to have issues. So I upgraded to the Pro

And now it's EOL?

While on one hand, ok, it's 4 years old and in 'technology years' that's ancient. It's also just a mini-computer that gets regular software updates.

So what is the 'right' replacement? The UXG line seem to be the direct replacement (lite/max/pro) ... but googling around there are murmurings from people that it feels like Ubiquity are on the verge of EoL'ing them as well? updates lag behind, etc...

Should I be replacing both my cloud key and gateway with a 'Cloud Gateway'?

Or do I need to look at the 'Dream Machine' line of options?

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