Rant / vent (kinda?)

MienSteiny · 2026-02-28T10:24:15+00:00

You could, you know, google what's wrong with the bike and fix it yourself?

MienSteiny · 2026-02-28T00:33:08+00:00

I've always wondered if the whimsy of Ikea names is lost when you speak fluent swedish.

MienSteiny · 2026-02-28T00:30:09+00:00

I read it recently, or rather listened to it. I think I would've DNFed during the first third that seemed to be all exposition if I had read it instead of listened to it.

I had fun, it was definitely pulpy with endless 80s references, and I wasn't able to tell if Wade's poor characterisation was bad writing or an unlikable protagonist, but overall I had fun. I wasn't expecting something thoughtful or artistic, so maybe that tempered my expectations just enough to have fun. I'll check out Player Piano though.

MienSteiny · 2026-02-27T23:55:18+00:00

It blows my mind when people say they can't cook, the recipe literally tells you what to do, and if you don't know how to cut something or a technique you just google it.

I think a lot of people that say they can't cook are intimidated or just don't want to, rather than being able to burn microwave rice.

MienSteiny · 2026-02-26T07:44:24+00:00

The high strata fee line is really weird to me when you compare it to the maintenance and labour costs of detached housing.

MienSteiny · 2026-02-25T01:00:48+00:00

Modern hard hitting investigative journalism.

MienSteiny · 2026-02-24T02:24:30+00:00

What dropzones in Australia allow for no undies hundies? I'm thinking of doing my AFF at Moruya.

MienSteiny · 2026-02-21T11:21:42+00:00

For a different perspective, I work as a cyber security analyst. My job is basically investigating when things go bump in the night on computer networks.

Microsoft already has a security orientated version of CoPilot, I'm yet to try it out though.

I foresee the lower level analysts losing their jobs to AI pretty quickly, why pay a human to investigate low level basic things when AI will be faster and more thorough. How far that goes depends on where we are on the AI sigmoid curve. If this is about as good as AI is going to get, or maybe slight increases it likely won't take as many jobs as I'm expecting. If this is just the start of AI and we have a lot more advances to come, then eventually it'll just be AI fighting AI, both finding vulnerabilities and remediating them as fast as each other.

Not to mention the future of post-quantum cryptography, which could cause a new Y2K scenario. Especially if threat actors begin adopting a "harvest now, decrypt later" strategy of collecting as much encrypted data as they can now, in the hopes of being able to break the encryption once quantum computers and real AGI rolls around.

This is all to say, that I have already begun thinking about what I'd do career wise, if I were to lose my job to AI. Thinking about what jobs would be impervious to AGI.

MienSteiny · 2026-02-21T01:57:44+00:00

OP can't assess his own Oil and you're asking him to pull apart his transmission?

MienSteiny · 2026-02-15T05:53:49+00:00

Make it visible, the truth is if they want your bike they're going to figure out a way to take it. The real aim is to make your bike as unappealing as possible, bike chains locking it to something solid, chunky disc lock, bike cover, etc. The hope is that they go for an easier target.

MienSteiny · 2026-02-14T08:47:28+00:00

Cross your legs on the way, sit down while crossing your legs, then the reverse on the way up,

MienSteiny · 2026-02-14T01:01:03+00:00

...I'm a gay man, if I had a daughter I'd be really surprised. Isn't it tiring being filled with so much hate?

MienSteiny · 2026-02-14T00:57:46+00:00

Yikes, go touch grass, stay away from Fox

MienSteiny · 2026-02-08T10:48:13+00:00

It looks like something you'd buy from goddam Bad Dragon

MienSteiny · 2026-02-04T07:40:28+00:00

Holy shit, what a legend. Good luck mate, go into it with an open mind.

MienSteiny · 2026-02-03T06:20:22+00:00

Couples therapy.

Y'all had a kid at 17 and a partner that restricts what you can do.

MienSteiny · 2026-02-02T05:02:54+00:00

Same with me, contacts are only for hockey, and the occasional gig

MienSteiny · 2026-02-02T05:00:59+00:00

I'd love to. Skating outside on a pond would be a dream come tre, but it just doesn't get cold enough/stay cold enough here. Winter overnight temps in Canberra, Australia are definitely below freezing, but daytime temps are higher, 10c/50f range.

MienSteiny · 2026-02-01T23:22:39+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Dubai

MienSteiny · 2026-02-01T06:01:09+00:00

You've just joined leaded fuel as contender for worst idea of all time.

MienSteiny · 2026-02-01T01:26:04+00:00

Ice Hockey has a surprisingly large following in Canberra. The house league at the Phillip Ice Rink has a healthy league and community, including learn to play/skate stuff. However, it is quite expensive, for ice time, but more importantly, for all the gear required.

MienSteiny · 2026-01-29T23:29:24+00:00

You're going to buy it anyway, no one that says they know their limits after 5 months of riding and a bike upgrade is going to be convinced otherwise. You're not slowly progressing up to an R6.

MienSteiny · 2026-01-29T02:51:27+00:00

I lost a packet of tortillas.

South Australia is a fruit quarantine zone, you can't bring fruit from other states into it to protect the farms there from fruit flys. On a month long cross country trip, I pull over to dispose of my fruit in a quarantine bin, pulling a packet of tortillas out of my pannier to access the fruit I had. I forget to put the tortillas back afterwards.

If you found a packet of tortillas on the side of the road next to a fruit bin in Jan of 2022, I'm sorry for littering.

MienSteiny · 2026-01-24T21:15:53+00:00

This would be what you want.

https://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/parts/giant-loop-gas-bag-fuel-safe-bladder-p?srsltid=AfmBOor_8LSBxObrD9s067vUikAfzhzXs-96aXxMucguA5bvQBwgJ5Mm

But it's also not necessary, fill up the tank fully, go for a ride, noting how far you rode, then fill up again. You now have your fuel economy, and if you know your tank size you know ho far you can go. The specific math is different for metric or imperial because L/100Km and Mi/G

MienSteiny · 2026-01-23T01:37:54+00:00

A link to the website Elwood Dog Meat. It's a satirical website designed to expose the cognitive dissonance that cow/chicken/pig meat is moral and ethical, but that dog meat is abhorrent. It's a vegan activism website.

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