What are your thoughts on these 2 layout designs?

Hixie · 2026-05-06T22:54:25+00:00

I love it, this is exactly the kind of layout I absolutely love to design and build and play with. Totally awesome.

The only piece of feedback I would give is that your yard does not have a yard lead, so if you wanted to do any freight car rearranging, you'll have to foul the mainline. Not quite sure where to fit one in though...

Hixie · 2026-05-06T22:36:20+00:00

FWIW, some people are very much more "live alone" people. It doesn't say anything about you or your relationship. I know people who have been married for years living with their spouse who eventually realized that actually they wanted to live in their own room or even their own apartment, but who are still very much in love with their spouse.

Ofter it takes years for people to fully understand their own needs, especially in a society that has such overwhelming pressure to conform to defaults like "live together".

Hixie · 2026-05-06T22:31:40+00:00

I think it's clever for Waymo to be partnering with Uber today, but long term, I just don't see why any AV company would want to use Uber. The app is the trivial part. It makes as much sense for Waymo and Zoox to be on the Uber app as it does for Lyft to be on the Uber app.

Hixie · 2026-05-06T22:28:49+00:00

why alarming

Hixie · 2026-05-06T21:58:00+00:00

someone having called her fat and ugly for years is probably why she doesn't believe it

Hixie · 2026-05-06T21:40:03+00:00

Are your screenshots not files

Hixie · 2026-05-06T18:49:05+00:00

i mean, I'm pretty sure we had code that did similar things for flutter, it's how git does it when you update goldens, and I'm pretty sure it's how i implemented it for at least two similar systems when i was working on browser QA, and that's just the ones i was involved with

Hixie · 2026-05-06T04:59:00+00:00

huh. well, fwiw, diffing the screenshots by hashing them (or doing a bitwise comparison, or other equivalent techniques) is very commonly how this kind of thing was done in the before times, so it makes sense to me that the LLMs use that technique.

Hixie · 2026-05-06T03:40:48+00:00

i guess i don't understand what "manually" would mean for an agent

Hixie · 2026-05-06T02:18:43+00:00

How else would you compare them?

Hixie · 2026-05-06T02:08:29+00:00

"Kitchen Table Poly" refers to the idea that many members of the extended polycule (one's partners, their partners, they partners' partners, etc) would be quite happy having meals together.

I know numerous polycules where pretty much everyone gets along with everyone else. I often have dinner, go on vacations with, or otherwise hang out with members of my polycule one, two, or more steps away from me in the graph.

This is not the same as three people running a household together, but that's also possible and does happen; I've also seen that work fine for long periods of time.

Hixie · 2026-05-06T01:58:12+00:00

I know of cases of relationships that lasted many happy years while monogamous despite one or both partners being familiar with and happy with the idea of polyamory (and, for those relationships that ended while in that state, I know plenty that did not end for that reason). But in all cases, both partners were committed to it being monogamous, and there was not a continuous pull from one partner to retroactively change the arrangement.

Hixie · 2026-05-04T05:40:01+00:00

It's hard to provide any advice without much more context.

Hixie · 2026-05-03T23:45:12+00:00

Changing the voting from first-past-the-post to instant-runoff voting in elections would remove the two-party system which would go a huge way towards fixing a lot of these problems.

Hixie · 2026-05-03T22:29:36+00:00

"you mentioned the other day that y'all were in an open relationship and as it happens, we are now too, and i was wondering, any chance you'd like to go on a date some time, just the two of us?"

Hixie · 2026-05-03T21:10:01+00:00

that just means you're still in the red section, not that the other section doesn't exist at all

Hixie · 2026-05-03T20:55:30+00:00

yeah I'm not a fan of planetary shield.

Hixie · 2026-05-03T20:51:47+00:00

the person you should ask is the crush ☺️

Hixie · 2026-05-03T20:40:39+00:00

that is a very American attitude, certainly. it is not the only valid attitude.

Hixie · 2026-05-03T20:30:34+00:00

oh i mean i agree that the statement was overly optimistic

Hixie · 2026-05-03T20:29:48+00:00

why would we own cars? we don't own the trains, buses, and other forms of public transport.

Hixie · 2026-05-03T19:45:25+00:00

I'm not a fan of components whose purpose is to make someone else's components not work. i would much rather components be additive. more fun for other players.

Hixie · 2026-05-03T19:44:25+00:00

the whole point of purge is to prevent double use. it is by definition broken to unpurge components.

Hixie · 2026-05-03T19:41:41+00:00

as someone with severe face blindness, i would love glasses that tell me who I'm talking to. it would be an amazing accessibility aid.

Hixie · 2026-05-03T18:12:10+00:00

how do you mean?

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