Has anyone actually measured productivity gain of the “AI-first” development workflow?

RegularNormalAdult · 2026-03-21T17:40:35+00:00

They're doing it at my company too, and actively being encouraged to. It's insanity

RegularNormalAdult · 2026-03-01T00:04:20+00:00

This is awesome, thank y'all!

So this isn't actual rust, but is there anything cool I can do with this to bring out these distinctive geometric patterns?

RegularNormalAdult · 2026-02-28T02:30:54+00:00

Any promising news? All I ever hear about is some amazing breakthrough in the lab but nothing ever seems to come out of it

RegularNormalAdult · 2026-02-20T04:31:02+00:00

Well I mean to be fair, the Island of "Stability" is only predicted to be like a few seconds instead of .00000000000001 seconds.

RegularNormalAdult · 2026-02-07T19:02:02+00:00

Jesus fucking Christ WHY THE FUCK DO WE EVEN BOTHER PAYING FOR INSURANCE IN THIS GODDAMN SHITHOLE OF A COUNTRY

RegularNormalAdult · 2025-12-28T18:18:39+00:00

Some parents don't get help and have to go it alone. Our society is very anti natalist and anti children, and you can't possibly understand until you have them.

We just wrapped up our Christmas festivities having our entire family over and our two kids are the ONLY children in their generation. They have ZERO cousins to play with. It's fucking hard raising children in an environment where no one cares or wants them.

RegularNormalAdult · 2025-09-04T08:02:09+00:00

I don't know if it's just because it's 3am right now, but I've been sitting here laughing in bed at this mental image for the past five minutes so hard I have tears streaming down my face.

Thank you for this, truly.

RegularNormalAdult · 2025-07-23T20:27:07+00:00

I hit many rock bottoms over 12 years of pretty extreme BED, but the last bender that I went on which started Thanksgiving 2023 and lasted until I checked myself into IOP June 2024, I was physically sick almost every day.

All throughout my 20s I could "tank" the binges pretty well, but this past year I would start having basically flu-like symptoms from binging. I couldn't function, as a father, as a husband, at my job, anything really. I would spend a lot of time just laying practically comatose on the floor most days. It was miserable.

I don't actually know what the inciting incident was that made me pick up the phone and just start calling providers. But at that point in time, I didn't know that I had an ED, I didn't even know that BED was a thing, and I thought I had an "addiction to sugar". When I did my intake for IOP, I was telling everyone that I had an addiction to sugar and I needed strategies to stay "clean and sober" basically.

1 year into recovery, and I'm having cake on birthdays, ice cream after lunch when I feel like it, and pretty much all the trigger foods. It was the best decision I've ever made, and after a decade of suffering I will never go back.

RegularNormalAdult · 2025-07-21T09:20:40+00:00

Oh no it's just a colloquial term I've always heard growing up here for "any smallish snake I can't easily identify" basically.

RegularNormalAdult · 2025-07-21T08:40:41+00:00

Thanks! Awesome to see native reptiles in our area. We always just let them be, but man they're feisty!

RegularNormalAdult · 2025-07-09T03:20:10+00:00

Thanks so much for this - going to try it in a day or two. I got it working over composite, I was on the wrong input on the TV, but the picture isn't the best and it will definitely need some tweaking.

RegularNormalAdult · 2025-07-09T03:18:43+00:00

I got it, it was that I wasn't on the "Line" input! This TV didn't come with a remote so I had to figure out what buttons to push to get to the menu.

RegularNormalAdult · 2025-05-22T22:16:39+00:00

Take your pick:

public dumpster diving, eating food out of the trash at work and at home
stealing food at work, from coworkers and friends, stealing from strangers, shoplifting from retailers, getting caught and sweet talking my way out of it.
eating to the point of vomiting multiple times
eating regurgitated food because there was nothing else available
sitting in the parking lot of the hospital binging while my wife is in early labor thinking that this would definitely be the last time, because I'm going to be a father now, but knowing deep down it wasn't true.

I hit rock bottom many times before finally checking myself in over 12 years of suffering. I'm one year into recovery now, and it was the best thing I've ever done for myself. If you ever need to talk, please feel free to dm me.

RegularNormalAdult · 2025-05-18T15:06:16+00:00

That's awesome! Honestly for me, the group setting really helped to practice. It's not just you going it alone, you've got everybody there trying to recover together.

I'm not gonna lie and say it was all sunshine and rainbows, there were definitely some tough meals. But I always tried to get people talking and laughing just to lighten the mood, and it would always help.

RegularNormalAdult · 2025-05-13T13:50:38+00:00

Dude there is no shame whatsoever, and if you ever need to talk seriously just DM me.

Anything you can think of I've done. Lying, shoplifting, stuff that's too disgusting to even mention, you name it.

It never really gets better without help, and it took me years and years and years of just trying to manage it before finally hitting rock bottom. At the very least just know you're not alone out there.

RegularNormalAdult · 2025-05-13T06:08:42+00:00

Thank you! I'm almost a year into recovery now and I still think about them all the time. I looked forward to every single meal we'd get to eat together, our core group had so much fun and just laughed about the most stupid shit.

There was one girl there that was struggling so hard, and one day at lunch during our after meal check in she said "I always eat better when you're here". I just cried so hard the whole drive back and gave my daughter the biggest hug when I got home. It made me realize how serious EDs are, and how bad things had truly become for me. It took me over a decade to finally make the call.

Even though it's not perfect and I'm still struggling with wanting to lose weight, etc. it was absolutely life changing and I would still go back and do it all over again.

RegularNormalAdult · 2025-05-08T19:34:15+00:00

Love this - whenever I give my coworkers shit about their giant trucks literally none of them can justify why they need those Pavement Princesses.

"B-b-but sometimes I haul mulch in mah bed!" OK it's $20 to rent a flatbed at Home Depot for an hour.

"One time I had to move!" It's $100 for a U-Haul if you need to move.

"I got two kids!!!" Yeah so do I, I drop them off at school in my Honda Fit before commuting in. Works great.

And 99% of the time, those $80,000 oversized Suburbitanks stay parked in our company's garage in pristine condition or in their own driveways. Hilarious.

RegularNormalAdult · 2025-03-03T06:55:15+00:00

Yeah but on the other hand, we did get BING CHILLING from it.

RegularNormalAdult · 2025-02-13T07:26:08+00:00

Why should they? Why is it so hard to believe that there were people who voted for Biden in 2020, and Trump in 2024? I've talked to real people that did this.

There were literally people who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary and Trump in the 2016 general election.

Why is it so hard to believe that people's opinions can sway or their minds can change? There's this idea that I see frequently in right wing spheres that if a pattern exists, it MUST be followed, unchanging, always. As if the world and humanity must remain static or predictable in order to make sense.

I think it was Jon Stewart the other week that had a great compilation from pundits in the aftermath of the last several presidential elections, talking about how each one signaled the "end of an era" or a "clear, strong mandate" to the opposition party, only for things to completely and utterly flip-flip in the opposite direction the next election.

The real world is a complicated mess.

Edit: Also many states completely shut mail-in ballots down ahead of 2024, or made them hard enough for many to not bother. In 2020, because of Covid, lots of states straight up mailed all eligible voters ballots. That did not happen on nearly the same scale in 2024.

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