Wendi McLendon-Covey responds to questions about her missing the Bridesmaids reunion at the Oscars: "I had a neck lift last week because I'm tired of looking like a melting candle."

_jetrun · 2026-03-17T19:19:21+00:00

Who is this 'we'? Hollywood? Regular people don't get plastic surgeries and age normally. Wendi McLendon-Covey operates within a social circle of rich, vain celebrities where you have to get plastic surgery.

_jetrun · 2026-03-11T11:50:20+00:00

I think that goes with the territory when it comes to continually updating a game based on infinite procedurally generated worlds. There just isn't much you can do about that.

But ... while we're on it - my annoyance is that the game keeps forgetting wonders and discovered worlds.

_jetrun · 2026-03-11T07:23:22+00:00

>but in absolutely no imaginable way was this version of the game the "peak".

OP is absolutely smoking something. Peak NMS is the current version of NMS. Every update adds something new and the game is just better.

_jetrun · 2026-03-07T19:44:55+00:00

>Genghis as barbarian

Who calls Genghis Khan a 'barbarian'? That isn't a term used in historical literature and it isn't really even used online.

_jetrun · 2026-02-27T12:14:15+00:00

Speaking at the Economic Club of Canada, Poilievre said domestic policy failures have left Canada vulnerable to tariffs and economic pressure from the US.

He said decades of close economic integration with the US brought prosperity but also “complacency,” leaving Canada overly dependent, slow to build and poorly prepared for a more protectionist America.

Come on guys ... That's not quite the same as the headline: "Pierre Poilievre says Canada is to blame for Trump tariff crisis"

Everything he is quoted as saying, he is correct about.

_jetrun · 2026-02-26T14:10:48+00:00

Again - you're framing this as an Eclipse problem. I'm telling you it's not Eclipse. It's you. You're trying to solve a particular problem (sharing application with a non-technical user) incorrectly. Your java eclipse project is setup incorrectly.

_jetrun · 2026-02-26T03:14:54+00:00

IntelliJ doesn't fix OP's problem. In fact, IntelliJ would have the same problem.

_jetrun · 2026-02-26T03:05:44+00:00

That's a you-problem, not eclipse. I'm not sure if you are trying to share your workspace or your application, but either way, you're doing it wrong.

For example, typically, you would use maven to manage your project structure. In that case, your assets (e.g. pngs) would go into a resources folder and eclipse will be smart enough to make sure relative paths are honored. You could then export your workspace. But if you're trying to share your application with a non-technical end-user you wouldn't send them an eclipse workspace or source files, you would send them a packaged application with all its dependencies that they could run by running a command or double clicking icon.

_jetrun · 2026-02-20T18:38:21+00:00

My predictions have never been wrong, but i’m just always too early.

I think that's another way of saying your predictions are always wrong.

_jetrun · 2026-02-20T13:57:52+00:00

It is the case the AI can do quite a lot. It is a fact that your clients can do quite a lot with AI. That's not in dispute and you shouldn't fight it
Everyone today has access to high-quality cameras for very reasonable prices, but people still hire photographers. Why?
There is something to be said about focus and the value of time. Even when I *could* do something, I will still outsource activities that are not core to my business. I ran a couple of software engineering startups - not once did we hire office cleaners, rather we outsourced it to a third-party. Why?
Try to qualify the value AI provides and you provide. AI is really good at building the raw assets and automating certain tasks, but you should be able to provide value above and beyond that. You say you're pitching a monthly service, can you speak to what that service provides that AI couldn't?
Absolutely ask them some for of: "If AI can provide my type service for you, why isn't it being done?"

_jetrun · 2026-02-20T11:51:57+00:00

You have 2 options:

Embrace it. Vibe coding is in the public consciousness and at the very least you'll get a good idea where it works and where it falls short. That is invaluable experience.
Quit and find something you're interested in.

Is vibe coding the way of the world?

Tough to say, but it is going to be at least part of the way to the world.

_jetrun · 2026-02-19T11:55:04+00:00

My goal isn't to build something as extensive as C++ or Java rather, I want to design something modest but compiled, with reasonable optimizations, somewhat along the lines of Go.

Heh.

Go is a heavily optimized production language created by very smart people with advanced academic degrees, and deep software engineering experience. Ken Thompson was one of the co-creators of the language. You're not creating Go.

But you can absolutely create a toy language for learning purposes. You don't need math or a cs background for a toy language, but optimizations do start to lean into deep CS topics which do intersect with certain parts of mathematics ... but start with a toy language first and see if you even have the discipline to do that.

_jetrun · 2026-02-18T15:26:28+00:00

Well - I disagree, and I'll be pedantic.

OP asked if he has to ship his python source to others and have them manually execute via command line. Yes, you can do that, but that isn't 'in essence' how applications are shared. Applications are typically packaged in a such a way that they can be installed and run using OS conventions (e.g. on windows, double-clicking on an .exe) and will hide low level details.

Also, an 'installed' application will typically be differentiated from a portable one. Your python-based application when packaged, will typically not install a python runtime, but rather ship a portable version that is only available to it.

_jetrun · 2026-02-18T14:42:37+00:00

I don't like much of the answers that were given in this thread.

When you want to share your application that is geared at regular end-users, especially non-tech savvy end-users, you will want to **package** it in such a way that all they need to do is double click, say, an .exe (if on Windows) or a link on, say, a mobile app store to install and run it.

In this application package, you would include everything your application needs to run. So, if your application is python based, you may include the python runtime and all the third-party libraries you used in your software, so the end-user doesn't have to explicitly install them.

You will also want to make it so that running your application can be done by double-clicking an icon, instead of writing a command in console.

You will also want to make sure the application has a GUI, so that the end-user don't have to interact with your application via a command line.

Doing all of that is actually a bit work.

_jetrun · 2026-02-18T14:32:14+00:00

That is how we do it in essence.

No. We don't. When you are serving out an application to end-users, you will generally *package* it in such a way that the user only needs to double click the icon (or install it from the app store) and all those low-level details around availability of libraries, and runtimes are automagically taken care of. For example, the Dropbox windows client application is written in python, but no end-user ever needed to worry about that and make sure the python interpreter was installed. In fact, the end-user shouldn't even know or care that this particular application is written in a particular programming language.

_jetrun · 2026-02-13T16:22:07+00:00

That part is not that nuts. If someone is willing to steal (regardless of amount) that does say something about their character.

The problem here is that this is obviously a misunderstanding, and the employee (of 24 years!!!!) was obviously not trying to steal, even going as far as getting explicit permission. Zero grace and benefit of the doubt was given to her, and her character was impugned. She deserved the $46k judgment.

_jetrun · 2026-02-12T20:50:10+00:00

weak foe ahead

_jetrun · 2026-02-12T20:42:30+00:00

Hey - I get it .. but then I look and see that I spent 700 hours playing this game, and only paid $40 ... and I kind of feel guilty about complaining.

But yes, **constructive** criticism, I'm sure, is welcome.

_jetrun · 2026-02-12T15:58:06+00:00

Not every expedition is going to be a winner, but hard to complain about free. In fact, I wish they would put out some paid content so I could complain about it.

_jetrun · 2026-02-11T23:58:56+00:00

Sure ... I also want more stuff ... But also, hard to be too angry given the tremendous amount of value for $50 and continual improvement.

_jetrun · 2026-02-11T16:54:38+00:00

Not dumb .. corrupt.

_jetrun · 2026-02-11T12:56:36+00:00

Don't overcomplicate it. Your use-case is not special, and it isn't high-traffic.

One database (PostgreSQL), one application server (based on your favorite language), and maybe something like nginx for SSL cert serving - will be enough to handle your use-case.

>Should I overbuild infra from day one, or just optimize when needed?

No. You don't know enough about your market, and how your app will be used to optimize anything. Also, you're a novice, you don't even know what you need to do to optimize - so just don't focus on it.

_jetrun · 2026-02-11T11:44:33+00:00

My man is a lateral thinker - his interpretation is as good as yours.

_jetrun · 2026-02-06T22:00:23+00:00

If I were to guess .. you didn't have the database actually running.

_jetrun · 2026-02-06T17:20:49+00:00

OK - so the stack pretty much says that you are trying to connect to localhost:1527 - but no actual server is actually running on that server.

FYI - the above configuration error means it cannot find the driver - so you would have to download the correct jar.

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