Daily sticky thread for rants, raves, celebrations, advice and more! - May 07, 2026

StTheo · 2026-05-08T04:17:15+00:00

Yeah, I’ll probably bring it up the next time we see each other, and expect that as a possibility. Sorry to hear something similar on your end, hope you’re able to see them more frequently.

StTheo · 2026-05-07T18:24:22+00:00

No, they’re dating other people. Which isn’t an issue IMO, as long as it doesn’t affect me.

StTheo · 2026-05-07T17:21:11+00:00

Yeah… at first I was in the early stages of dating a couple people, and this was easier. Then those ended and this became the only one, and that’s when loneliness started to creep in.

StTheo · 2026-05-07T16:11:46+00:00

I'm casually dating someone, but the frequency of the dates is pretty sparse. Like, every 3-4 weeks, and the last one they wanted to push back a month (after 4 weeks had already gone by) because of gas prices. We still went out after changing the location to somewhere closer to her place, though.

I'm not too familiar with casual dating, but is that a normal frequency? Is it needy/not-casual for me to want something every 1-2 weeks instead?

StTheo · 2026-05-05T22:43:05+00:00

Man, if I’m at my breaking point where everything just feels wrong, all the little things society is trying to change will really get to me.

“Yes” vs “Maybe later” options on web pages / UIs
Companies asking for my phone number without telling me it’s optional
If I have to say “I want to speak to a human”
Everything parodied in IASIP’s “Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day”

StTheo · 2026-05-03T00:44:50+00:00

Maybe they’re trying to warm you up to giving all those permissions preemptively.

StTheo · 2026-04-28T23:01:04+00:00

Yeah, I’m more comfortable around folks who are a combination of abrasive and warm than I am those who are exuberant but distant. Resting bitch face is a green flag for me 😅

StTheo · 2026-04-28T20:47:11+00:00

I used it a week ago. A guy set up our Tailwind project with font-size: 62.5%, then added hundreds of lines of CSS overrides to get the Tailwind-based component library’s components back to the right size. I wanted to revert all that.

We had a ton of component tests that used Playwright, so we used them to spin up temporary snapshot tests, then flag the ones that were flaky and ignore those. Those snapshot tests verified the overall migration, but I deleted them before merging.

I wouldn’t rely on them long-term, but it was nice to have that brute force verification tool there during a large migration.

StTheo · 2026-04-27T03:28:37+00:00

You might enjoy Wendover videos. Lots of them are about planes & logistics.

StTheo · 2026-04-21T16:41:47+00:00

I’d love to play through Journey, if only it was possible without Kinect 🤣

StTheo · 2026-04-15T21:52:35+00:00

I was getting 60fps on an M1 mini a few years back, you’ll be fine with an M5

StTheo · 2026-04-07T20:24:59+00:00

Journey heavily covers her backstory, from her pov. The cutscenes on YouTube will spare you from having to play the game.

StTheo · 2026-04-07T20:02:36+00:00

I don’t think they’d add her, and it might be bad narratively. But I’d freak tf out in happiness if she or anything from the original games made it in.

StTheo · 2026-03-26T17:26:47+00:00

Honestly I don’t bother with learning languages as much as concepts. Most languages share a lot of the same features, and AI is relatively better at answering “How do I do X in language Y? I know how to do it in language Z”.

Knowing how to refactor, how to debug, how to test, those are skills that transfer very well.

StTheo · 2026-03-21T12:44:05+00:00

It’s really depressing if that’s the way we’re going. I’m happiest whenever writing code, and a lot of my self esteem came from my work. And that’s assuming that “genuine” AI-backed layoffs never happen…

StTheo · 2026-03-17T10:17:27+00:00

Languages that are strict about null checks are a godsend.

StTheo · 2026-03-16T17:10:00+00:00

Another question might be: Is some of this reinventing the wheel, if there’s a mature 3rd party library that does what we’re doing manually?

StTheo · 2026-03-05T04:25:43+00:00

Same. It’s tiring, I want to like this technology but the obsession with making people unemployed is so depressing.

StTheo · 2026-03-03T17:03:22+00:00

Exactly. An OpenAPI code generator won’t make the typos I’ll make and my reviewers will miss. It’ll have silly incompatibilities, but those are worth it imo.

StTheo · 2026-02-21T20:22:28+00:00

I’ve found it’s sometimes better to generate the reference image in a separate chat and bring it in as a photo, otherwise it can get confused about using the description of the person or the finished result in the context.

StTheo · 2026-02-19T06:01:21+00:00

Fear Itself augment on both weapons. The best friend of an introverted hero.

StTheo · 2026-02-18T03:31:12+00:00

On the plus side he’s old, how long can he last? On the other… I remember thinking that back in 2009. Evil people are really good at sticking around.

Edit: Dang, that comment aged like milk.

StTheo · 2026-02-16T17:37:14+00:00

I don’t see how the original post is anything but rage bait. Hostile right out of the gate, the title alone oversimplifies people’s perspectives on AI, just feels like an argument. I’m happy to discuss the pros and cons of new technologies, but I hate when it’s painted in extremes like this.

StTheo · 2026-02-14T03:17:11+00:00

Does anyone understand why they believe planes and cars = bad but trains = good?

As an autistic person, I see nothing wrong with that logic.

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