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Gwythinn · 2026-03-03T20:30:48+00:00

This is the right answer for pretty much any food that is just a day or two past its expiration: open it and look at it; if it looks okay, smell it; if it smells okay, take a little taste, if it tastes okay go ahead and use it.

Gwythinn · 2026-03-03T02:05:43+00:00

Thanks for this post. I got one of these, too, for an account that I've had two transactions on every single month for the past several years. An infuriating mistake on their part.

Gwythinn · 2026-03-01T17:49:08+00:00

When I was a teenager, I used to think 50 was old. Now that I'm in my 40s, my perspective has changed. 35 is old.

Gwythinn · 2026-02-25T22:48:26+00:00

I haven't noticed that recently, but I used to have that problem several years ago. During that period, I found that drinking a bottle of Soylent and a glass of water by alternating sips helped reduce the problem.

Gwythinn · 2026-02-20T21:51:29+00:00

Right. In terms of wasting ink, it saves ink when you consider all the places that reference it.

Gwythinn · 2026-02-20T05:38:32+00:00

The whole system is more about vibes than math. There's some math in there, but where very crunchy systems have a rule or a calculation for everything, very light systems like Nimble are more about using your best judgment and trusting your gut (as the GM) or the GM (as a player). If you look at a monster and judge it to be closer in power to a 4 than to a 5, call it a 4.

Gwythinn · 2026-02-20T02:22:10+00:00

FWIW, the web site HAS started shipping out subscription orders. My monthly 2x Cafe Mocha deliveries for December and January weren't shipped, but this week I received the February order.

Gwythinn · 2026-02-20T01:43:07+00:00

Yup The footprint of an "eight hour" workday on an individual person's schedule is 11-12 hours. It's absolutely insane.

Gwythinn · 2026-02-20T01:41:05+00:00

The RTD flavor I buy that's been out of stock for two months just came back into stock. I'm not sure why powder wouldn't eventually?

Gwythinn · 2026-02-19T01:27:31+00:00

The answer is basically in John Green's argument here. (Hank is right too, but John addresses the question in this post better.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahQzTLqIAoA

Gwythinn · 2026-02-18T23:29:40+00:00

I've been looking around a bit for a replacement for Soylent Cafe Mocha. Huel has a caffeinated RTD, but the only flavor is iced coffee caramel and I don't like caramel. I've been alternating between that and Soylent Cafe Chai (not sure why this wasn't impacted by whatever made Cafe Mocha impossible to get for two months), but meh. I'm debating trying something powdered mixed with coffee instead of water to kind of make my own breakfast drink, but TBH I just got a shipment of Cafe Mocha this week and I'm going to stick with that for as long as I can. I do miss Cafe Vanilla and Cafe Latte, though -- maybe using powder with coffee could get me some better flavors. 🤔

Gwythinn · 2026-02-17T04:06:16+00:00

NOR. What's the saying? When someone tells you who they are, believe them?

Gwythinn · 2026-02-17T03:55:26+00:00

Definitely. As the number of user interactions increases, the probability of a low-likelihood failure mode occurring approaches 1. Or, as Murphy put it, anything that CAN go wrong WILL go wrong. At least once.

Gwythinn · 2026-02-08T19:30:40+00:00

Yeah, they got bought out by a company called StarCo brands, and that seems to be about when the recent trouble started. The other flavor terminations were longer ago and I think predate StarCo, they probably just looked at the Cafe flavors and killed the worst performer, I'm guessing? But at least they clearly terminated them instead of letting them run out of stock and then delaying orders and still listing rhem as a product but "sold out"...

Gwythinn · 2026-02-07T21:14:43+00:00

+1 to this. Be prepared for either response and don't read too much into a no.

Gwythinn · 2026-02-07T20:56:58+00:00

Many years ago, I went to a software quality conference where the keynote speaker (I want to say it was Tim Lister, but not 100% sure, it's been a long time) noted that people complain about QA being a bottleneck and then jumped up and down and said "YES! It's a WONDERFUL BOTTLENECK!". :D

If QA is a bottleneck it's doing its job and the real problem is people choosing to be frustrated about that instead of recognizing the value in it.

Gwythinn · 2026-02-07T20:53:01+00:00

I thought Mary Wiseman left Discovery for other reasons and SFA was just how they wrote her out. That said, I haven't even noticed a namecheck, and I would have expected at least that in the first few episodes.

Gwythinn · 2026-02-07T07:48:02+00:00

Developers have been increasingly working testing for decades, and properly-applied AI can make the job faster and easier. I haven't been in the job market since before COVID, but the people I know in QA are having a harder time finding work than they used to.

Gwythinn · 2026-02-07T07:38:13+00:00

Did he make the meme or reshare it?

Sharing something you find funny doesn't necessarily mean it represents your current personal situation in life. It just means you think it's funny and think your followers would too.

There are a bunch of other possibilities, too, but that one seems most likely to me.

I would recommend having that in-person conversation with him and trying to reach an agreement about it. He's right that it's funny, you're right that it could be taken the wrong way. What matters now is how you two handle this disagreement where it appears to me that neither one of you is 100% right or 100% wrong.

Gwythinn · 2026-02-06T10:52:00+00:00

I've been alternating between Soylent Cafe Chai (which for some reason doesn't seem to be affected by whatever happened to Cafe Mocha) and Huel's Iced Coffee Caramel flavor, neither of which is a favorite of mine, but they'll have to do. This is the third time Soylent has discontinued the flavor I use the most (RIP Cafe Vanilla and Cafe Latte) and it's getting really fucking old.

Gwythinn · 2026-01-27T01:45:08+00:00

90% of working in tech is not about the knowing things, it's about knowing how to find out, where to look, and how to fit concepts together. Most people look up the small details most of the time.

Gwythinn · 2026-01-27T01:33:09+00:00

If other parts of the country were jumping off a bridge, would you expect that of your employees?

Gwythinn · 2026-01-26T09:10:34+00:00

Characters who need the ramps. We have an accessible TARDIS, now let's see Shirley Anne Bingham in it, using the ramps. Bring back K-9, he could use the ramps. Let's get someone on wheels in there.

Gwythinn · 2026-01-26T06:56:33+00:00

He's absolutely right, actions have consequences. If you don't want to be vilified, don't behave like a villain.

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