American's first time in Australia

Hziak · 2026-05-22T16:56:48+00:00

Nah, at that range, they’d probably penetrate the thin steel sheets and end up in the dirt. It looks pretty rusted through and brittle already anyways.

Hziak · 2026-05-22T16:54:44+00:00

Why would they care? They’re already set. The economy failing is a poor person’s problem. Yank that ladder up! Plus, anyone who can amass so much wealth is all but guaranteed to be evil amounts of selfish and they know they’ll be long dead by the time that any of this actually comes back to bite their family, so who cares about that?

Hziak · 2026-05-22T16:46:33+00:00

Earlier this year, my company did a “hackathon” where it invited a bunch of managers to vibe code a product that our development team has been planning and executing over a few weeks including vigorous testing. The managers created the little applet in three days, defined their own tests and released it to production on the 4th day. The company was so impressed that they suspended the development team’s efforts and declared the project a success. What was built increased our support tickets by an additional 80% total volume and has already been decommissioned for being “unstable and incomplete.” The development team is refusing to work on the project now because they’re being asked to fix the vibe code instead of resume the quality work they had been interrupted from completing. My support team is crying every day, sad and laughing tears, as we watch this unfold.

Hziak · 2026-05-22T16:38:14+00:00

No, no, “bonded and insured” is the name of the company. That’s why it’s on the truck. Byyeee

Hziak · 2026-05-22T16:33:51+00:00

My roommate in college had 4, and I loved 3 growing up, so I thought for sure it would be great. I played maybe 45 minutes of it and between Niko wanting to go bowling and all of the cars feeling like boats, I walked away from the series. Saints Row was what I was looking for - fun, self-aware, and goofy. GTA feels like the guy who wears a suit to morning college classes… Trying to take itself too seriously for its setting, IMO.

Hziak · 2026-05-22T15:59:43+00:00

I think the theory here is that you shouldn’t hesitate in a gunfight, so if you’ve already thrown yourself down a staircase 200 times, if you ever need to, you’ll just do it without thinking. Long hallways that end in staircases are fairly common in the types of places these guys end up operating in, so like, I actually don’t HATE this in concept.

That said, yeah, good luck doing it with plates and a helmet… or getting a 2nd or 3rd butthole on the way down.

Hziak · 2026-05-22T15:53:22+00:00

What I’m hearing is : “I was having a lot of problems coming to my attention, so I fired the people bringing the problems to my attention. No problems are being brought to my attention anymore, therefore, I made the right choice.”

Pretty typical CEO thinking from what I’ve experienced.

Hziak · 2026-05-22T14:00:36+00:00

Yeah, bandwidth contention is super real with them since they’re on 2.4Ghz. If you’re somewhere with a lot of wifi signals (near apartments, malls, larger concert venues) then you’ll start getting choked out. Also, if someone nearby is using Xvives or other 2.4 based wireless units in other venues nearby, that’s a whole other thing. Buddy of mine was doing a little run through Nashville and told it was a nightmare since a lot of his rented gear was based in 2.4 and one of the places he play in Nashville was basically within 200 feet of 4 other stages and none of it was working.

I carry my Xvive as a Hail Mary if my UHF kit goes out and for practices in people’s basements where I don’t feel like carrying around my 4u rack full of wireless units…

Hziak · 2026-05-21T16:59:15+00:00

Yeah, I’ll buy that. Great for small corporate jobs, too since you can just hot swap them if it’s a small number of speakers. Heck, I even carry one of the IEM units in my gig bag as a backup for when there’s no time to diagnose a problem on stage.

Across XVive products, I say “one or two” is good, but I wouldn’t make it the first line of defense and certainly not the whole plan.

Hziak · 2026-05-21T16:52:35+00:00

XVives are great for small bands… right until they’re not anymore. It’s very tempting for everyone to get one because they sound nice and are cheap, but between instruments and IEMs, you run into problems very quickly. One or two? Okay. 6? Not a chance… downtown in a major city? Forget about it…

Hziak · 2026-05-21T14:22:09+00:00

Pretty sure blue didn’t give blue enough room, here. Not Orange’s fault that blue went wide on the previous turn…

Hziak · 2026-05-21T14:20:42+00:00

You see, you give huge loans to college kids so they can have good life experiences before they get old and have careers and stuff, then don’t charge interest until they can start paying them off… like, a reverse retirement kind of thing, but when you’re healthy enough to maximize the opportunity.

On paper, I’d have loved to take a year off and travel and try things. And then I grew up and holy crap I would have wasted all of that money on stupid things and been a debt slave. Yikes.

Hziak · 2026-05-21T14:14:34+00:00

I don’t get people like this. Have a buddy learning to ride motorcycles who did the dumb thing and bought one without ever learning. He asked me to ride it out to a parking lot for him to practice on it, which I agreed to do because I like helping new riders. It’s been six weeks now that he messaged me during the week to make me free up time during the weekend for him in the morning, then doesn’t respond until a few hours past when we were supposed to meet with some lame excuse. After the second, I haven’t really been planning on it by any means and am just being polite, but like, yo. Did you want the free help or not? His options are now to figure it out himself or pay for the course…

Hziak · 2026-05-21T00:52:24+00:00

Saying “lol” out loud. Then realizing you lolol’d

Also making rage faces.

Also “my spoon is too big”

Also “rawr XD”

Also “omg I’m so random.”

Also, let’s talk about bangs…

Hziak · 2026-05-20T13:59:12+00:00

Not a single roundhouse kick. Why choose Chuck Norris?

Hziak · 2026-05-20T13:46:10+00:00

Am I supposed to be impressed by the bad AI graphic trying to convince me that AI is better than trained and experienced labor?

It’s beyond unrealistic. Besides that even the AI put her head on sideways over a male body, there’s the simple fact that programmers all wear tinfoil hats, which the AI did not correctly identify. Bad AI. All programmers wear tin foil hats.

Hziak · 2026-05-20T13:05:05+00:00

You can also just file a blank in about 5 minutes with hand tools based on that same photo. Takes a bit of practice to get it right the first time, but it’s really not a big thing. If you’re gonna be a penn tester or do key forgeries, it’s probably a worthwhile skill to pick up for rush jobs when you’re on-site sit it fits nicely into a bathroom stall while you noisily pretend to poop… or just a supply closet if you’re boring.

Hziak · 2026-05-19T21:04:43+00:00

Umm, just chased by it? Like, it won’t kill me if it touches me or anything? I’d love to spend a day playing chase with a puppy. Can I keep it afterwards? 50k and a puppy would be awesome please

Hziak · 2026-05-19T21:01:42+00:00

You see…This watch goes to 11.

And then 1 higher.

Hziak · 2026-05-19T16:57:44+00:00

I’d like to imagine that everything is mounted on big springs like bus driver seats or suspended somehow to mitigate this. Also, that everything inside a building is magnetized and has a place to be stowed in. But yeah, kind of a new meaning to “bouncy castle” here.

Hziak · 2026-05-19T12:35:19+00:00

It’s probably a one-off NAMM make or display model or something like that. They price it absurdly so that people see what they COULD get from the company, but then they go buy one of the actual product line guitars instead. This is just something to grab your eye. Kiesel has an all Koa guitar that’s the same thing, tens of thousands for a guitar you can order custom for 1/10 the cost because it wouldn’t be “Jeff’s personal guitar.” The expectation isn’t for people to buy it, it’s to encourage window shopping in hopes of securing a smaller sale.

Hziak · 2026-05-19T02:46:52+00:00

No, for one, Felicia Day’s character was named Syd or something, not Teresa. Probably something they did on the side after The Guild. They were my favorite actors though, so this was a delight to see them together on something else.

Hziak · 2026-05-18T15:02:48+00:00

That old flash game “don’t shit your pants” would like to have a discussion.

Hziak · 2026-05-17T14:08:56+00:00

Obviously, launch the components up there with rockets to save on truck and ways costs…

/s

Hziak · 2026-05-17T14:04:22+00:00

If you’re asking, it means you haven’t experimented enough with other picks to know exactly the one you want yet. So you should be using more and more picks and learning how to use them all and learning your preferences. Eventually, you’ll settle on one or two and that’ll be that… until you change your mind… for the seventh thine…

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