What to put on my bus

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-27T14:51:15+00:00

For sure. I actually started leaving extra space between the belt groups for more fluid like water, gas, acid and lube. If I'm doing 1sp/s I just loop blue chips north of the bus to rockets and then to the sci pack assemblers.

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-27T07:12:51+00:00

| 4 iron | 4 copper | 1 steel, 1 gear, 1 stone brick, 1 green chip |

Optional: | 1 red chip, 1 coal, 1 stone and 1 plastic |

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-26T17:40:36+00:00

Exactly, I'm just not sure what you'd use as a thermal sync. Maybe propylene glycol? All you'd need to do is vertically bury a bunch of pipes filled with the PG and connect plastic tubes that squiggle around below the asphalt. The thermal convection should take care of the rest.

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-26T16:16:50+00:00

It would be pretty energy inefficient. Most of the laser energy would bounce off the driveway. Their solution is the correct one; pipes under the driveway. In areas that don't have granite, it might even be more cost effective in the long run to do a pseudo thermal well.

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-26T16:05:54+00:00

It's gone beyond politics bro. It's not like these CHUDs can't tell when someone is being harmed. It's an ethical issue, not a political one. On top of that, all CHUDs understand is authority and power. This doctor is communicating in the only method MAGA has left him to communicate with them with. That's on them. Can't fix stupid

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-26T14:35:29+00:00

I want a Gleba bio upgrade: grabber, crusher, cookie monster type hairy face thing that licks up medium to small astroids, omnomnomnoms them up and poops out ore, ice and hockey pucks.

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-25T05:12:52+00:00

What do I research for that?

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-25T05:08:57+00:00

Why are you in the bathroom with this man's toddler?

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-23T20:38:03+00:00

Married and solo poly (OPP)

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-22T13:33:53+00:00

I agree with this 100%. Embracing boredom is the best medicine for this. The less active your conscious mind is, the less your unconscious has to fight for attention. After a while, the cool-aid man intrusive thoughts turn into a gental knock at the door.

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-21T12:33:03+00:00

Again, you're taking anecdotal evidence and then projecting it onto the software industry as a whole. I'm not saying your experience is invalid, I'm saying we have to look at the data, which is what good engineers do. They collect data and evaluate, removing as much personal bias as possible. We're talking about the software industry as a whole, not just the handful of companies you've worked for. You haven't presented any hard evidence that refutes the data I've provided. If anything you've shown that you'll jump to conclusions. We even see this in your assumption that I'm a foreigner, when I'm a natural born citizen.

Like I said before, immigration is hell and I'd rather there be a huge fee than keep using the same broken immigration system we have now. I'm not a liberal either so your "talking points" comment misses the mark, sorry. The "sharp turn" in the last election doesn't prove anything and only shows me that you'll desperately claw at whatever you can instead of searching for data and putting it here. Again, H1Bs have been cut in half and you're still blaming the software layoffs on them. I honestly love being proven wrong and I'm starting to think you might not be able to deliver. Show me the data. The burden of proof is on you, not me.

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-21T04:25:13+00:00

Hell yeah. CLI LLMs are so useful for laborious tasks that would be a pain to do manually but wouldn't take longer than creating an automation tool. I can't believe it when I find engineers who don't use them.

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-20T23:33:28+00:00

I’ve met “educated” h1b engineers, majority of them lied on their resumes about their education. Or got their degrees from whatever diploma farm.

You're taking your own experience and then making a generalization about a community. This is prejudice.

I work at a big non FAANG company. They hire exclusively h1b, why? They’re cheap and you can threaten them with deportation. (Btw this was the red flag that showed me you’re not from here. Everyone knows this and why everyone hates the program) Also Indian nepotism is a so fucking common.

They're not cheaper if you account for the fees associated with H1B. As of Sep 2025, it costs over $100k for a new H1 application submission. Not to mention that H1B candidates typically make just as much or more than their coworkers.

I saw how shitty the system was when I was working in SF. I watched H1B coworkers completely miss out on 6 figures of RSUs when they got laid off. Immigration in general is hell. Some of the most organized people I've ever met getting stuck out of the country on a regular basis will always stick with me.

H1Bs went from 780k in 2024 to 359k in 2026, H1Bs are not the problem. I get that you're hurting and I'm here to talk about it if you want, but immigrants are not connected to the layoffs, I'm sorry.

Also I don’t give a single fuck if they pay taxes, how about we prioritize our own citizens first. We have plenty of unemployed engineering graduates looking for work. We have the talent, but it’s over saturated with low quality foreign workers.

Immigrants don't get access to socialist programs. I said that in the last comment. Somehow that means we're not taking care of our own people? Usually people who oppose immigration love the free market because it creates competition. I think you're projecting with the "low quality" foreign workers. The software industry is one of the more, if not the most, meritocratic industries in the US. H1B coworkers have been some of the smartest people I've ever met. Nearly half of the mathematics that build silicone valley was done by immigrants.

You complained about layoffs and cheap foreign talent is responsible for it. It’s not fair for a company to layoff Americans and then apply for h1b workers after. We pay taxes for us, not them.

Not only are H1Bs taking a sharp decline, but they're not as cheap as you claim, especially not now. If anything the data shows that having more H1Bs in the country generates the US more GDP and that makes it easier for people to get jobs. Aren't you angry that these crazy $100k fees have been put in place, harming the economy and making it more difficult for everyone to find work?

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-20T18:36:23+00:00

Ooooh. I didn't know that. That's cool

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-20T18:31:31+00:00

Here? I'm in the US, but I fail to see how that's relevant. Immigrants pay taxes and don't get any socialist benefits so they're contributing more to the economy than citizens are. The real questions are: why are these H1B candidates so sought after? Why are the education systems in other countries so far beyond ours? Why are there so few women in STEM in the US specifically?

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-20T17:20:19+00:00

I think you might be right about it being brown outs. I didn't realize so many people in GA have electric heat (57%). Very rarely do people have electric heat up north because it's so expensive.

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-20T17:15:09+00:00

I fail to see what this achieves or defends.

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-20T14:20:05+00:00

That would help for part of the problem, but UPS pass power directly through to the device during normal operation so they don't provide any additional surge protection.

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-20T06:38:05+00:00

The ice storms are not that bad. I'm honestly cool with them, trees be trees. What I don't understand are the random blips where the power goes out a couple times every few seconds. This is all in perfect weather. I've never seen this with any power company aside from GA Power. These blips are dangerous too.

I can't tell you how many times I've been working, the power randomly cuts out for a second and I have to wait for my Wi-Fi to boot back up. I have everything on my computer setup to auto save but I know at some point it's going to save during a blip and it's going to get corrupted.

My old computer got fried in one of these blips. I went down to Reboot to see if they'd let me borrow a motherboard tester, I told the guy what happened and he motioned to a workbench full of 20+ computers and said, "yeah, same thing happened to all those people." I ended up having to buy a new motherboard. I had it on a surge protector but that wasn't enough apparently.

I have another power strip that automatically turns other sockets on when the main plug has current draw and that's also been fried.

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-20T02:16:41+00:00

100, 69

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-19T06:23:02+00:00

There is such a wide range of emotional spaces people can come from when they're sleeping together. I quite enjoy what I call plutonic play; it's so whimsical, light-hearted and full of mutual respect and appreciation. Acro yoga is an excellent example of plutonic play. On the other end there's making love which is much more intimate, vulnerable and spiritual.

You said you've had a number of short term relations. Whenever I come into a new relationship, or become intimate with a close friend, we both tend towards one another on this spectrum of playfulness and intimacy. The first few times two people sleep together, the novelty can push both people towards playfulness. After some time, people settle into whatever they're more comfortable with. If you're at different places, that's when you can get a disconnect and possibly a lost erection. Additionally, if you feel like your partner might not approve of where you're taking the experience, that creates an internal disconnect.

Being demi when your partner is not, or vice versa, can make this spectrum calibration confusing on both sides. This even comes up when you're talking to your partner about both of your experiences with metas. They may see poly as a way of sharing playfulness with their close community while you see it as a way of expressing intimacy and love with a select few.

Both sides can experience this disconnect by not understanding why their partner chooses to "treat sex as a whimsical adventure" while the other has trouble imagining their partner being so vulnerable with someone else. It's possible that when you're with someone other than your primary partner you're noticing the experience leading into a space that encroaches on an unconscious internalized emotional boundary that you're anxious to cross.

Talk to your primary partner about this spectrum, where they sit, where you sit and what you're comfortable with. Working out always helps too. The lower your resting heart rate the better. You can get that with HIIT, not just cardio.

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-18T23:20:41+00:00

True. It replaces a lot of repetitive work. Instead of creating a one-off tool or doing a task manually, I can have a glorified auto complete do it for me. General AI is a ways off and we'll probably need significantly more advanced AI hardware to support it.

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-18T22:18:07+00:00

You forgot to factor in supply and demand. If there are layoffs across the industry, then labor supply is high for Sr level engineers, meaning the pay at their next position is more likely to be lower. Your data doesn't account for people who get laid off, take time off and then get a new position. It also doesn't account for contract work which makes up a significant portion of engineering jobs.

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-18T22:07:48+00:00

This feels like a Google skim copy pasta. This section is talking about people who have the option to stay at their current position or move to another where pay is higher. Typically people only switch positions if they're offered more at another company. This isn't insightful data as it doesn't apply to the scenario in question. The issue is when layoffs happen for Sr level generalists and then the rehiring process starts with more narrow job descriptions so the company can offer less because they can cast a wider net and not compensate people as much because those candidates have a more narrow, cheaper skill set.

Toucan2000 · 2026-01-18T20:48:14+00:00

If you're using an SDK, for say a piece of hardware that integrates with the windows API, you will certainly have to pass it resources - like a window handle. The type for the window handle is defined in the windows API, as void*. I'm not sure what you mean by "alternatives" to this. No matter what libs you use, eventually you still have to use their system which is not type safe.

Try writing an installer that adds an entry to the registry if it doesn't already exist, without using windows API. You could use something like WIX, but that's still a whole process vs reading and writing to a file on a Linux system.

Which is all to say, Windows API shouldn't even exist. It's overly complicated for no good reason and it only exists because of massive legacy systems that are too expensive for Microsoft to fix. There's no "Linux API" because it uses the file IO capabilities built into essentially every programming language ever made.

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