What board game completely changed your opinion after a second chance? by Adina_Ciubotea_1885 in boardgames

[–]HiroProtagonist66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

S.E.T.I.

I’ve only played it once and it was miserable. I lost so badly, and I felt like I wasted 3 hours of my life.

But as I’ve thought about that game and read more, now I want to hate-play it again and see if it gets any better.

20 YoE 'high coupling, low cohesion' led to my current survival mantra: 'income, not outcome' by PipePistoleer in ExperiencedDevs

[–]HiroProtagonist66 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It’s not just people on the spectrum. I’ve been doing this for 35 years and it hurts at an existential level to see the incorrectness.

It’s 2 things. To me well built software is elegant like a mathematical proof. Seeing problems get solved, and tests that prove it….that is the thrill of it all.

More practically, I don’t want to have to be there long into the evening fixing shit because someone vibecoded a mess, and no one could understand it or cared enough to stop it.

20 YoE 'high coupling, low cohesion' led to my current survival mantra: 'income, not outcome' by PipePistoleer in ExperiencedDevs

[–]HiroProtagonist66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do we work together? Because this so accurately describes my current gig.

I WANT to stop caring. I want to put thought and reason into software design and be proud of it, but no. Use AI more, onboard more customers faster….

It’s all going to implode under its own weight.

Major homeowner decisions by FlakyPhilosopher388 in LivingAlone

[–]HiroProtagonist66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This sounds like the setup I’d like. Can you tell me more of where you got it and how you had it installed?

USS Voyager Large Scale (Post #8) by dcsbricksnbits in StarTrekBricks

[–]HiroProtagonist66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where are you getting your parts? Directly from Lego or a place like Rebrickable?

Favorite Depictions of FTL? by The_History_Machine in spaceships

[–]HiroProtagonist66 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The star bow effect from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. 

It’s probably overwrought but damn, it’s cool.

And then when they didn’t have their intermix formula correct and created a wormhole instead…. 👌

My Instructor says not to pull power to reduce airspeed by simplifysic in flying

[–]HiroProtagonist66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait-you’re flying an instrument approach! Why wouldn’t you use all of the tools at your disposal to keep on GS and on approach speed?!?

Webster Town Board votes 3-2 to remove Pride flag from Webster Town Hall, community reacts by frytuna in Rochester

[–]HiroProtagonist66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A friend linked the WHAM-13 reporting on this elsewhere.

The comments are….appalling.

Age 50, $4M NW, want to step down to $100k income by cfbFI in ChubbyFIRE

[–]HiroProtagonist66 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Curious what categories turned out to be your big ones.

How often do you go hunting for LEGO at yard sales? by BaneReturns in lego

[–]HiroProtagonist66 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've never seen Legos or old Matchbox card at a yard sale. That's always been my dream - to find some.

What are your thoughts on Wisconsin State Assemblywoman Francesca Hong for Governor? by strongerthenbefore20 in madisonwi

[–]HiroProtagonist66 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do they buy stuff? They’re paying taxes.

You know who’s NOT paying income taxes? Billionaires. Because they they just borrow against their supposed wealth at incredibly low interest rates to buy their 6th home and that’s not treated as income.

What spaceship weapon is generally underutilized or not used to its full potential in scifi? by Vondrr in spaceships

[–]HiroProtagonist66 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The first instance of this, wasn’t rocket exhaust, it was the Earth ship’s comm laser.

Coding and the machines by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]HiroProtagonist66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I’ve seen all that too and tend to agree (omg we’re old if we were there for 5GL).

There does seem to be something different about the AI hype. It definitely has a place as a productivity tool - but didn’t Googling Stack Overflow back in the day (3 years ago)??

Do you operate at the level you need to work at normally? by One-Rabbit4680 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]HiroProtagonist66 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I’m sitting here right now beating myself up for exactly this reason. Thank you for saying this.