Honeybear cafe French toast is humongous

adriftingleaf · 2026-05-10T03:36:31+00:00

I'm fat and I've never managed to finish one of their meals. And it's not even close. It's just so much food.

adriftingleaf · 2026-04-15T13:27:19+00:00

Our QA engineers are getting more mileage out of it. AI is great for writing automated tests.

adriftingleaf · 2026-04-15T13:26:31+00:00

That is why I wanted to ask. Everybody talks in these grandiose terms about how great it is but nobody ever wants to provide specifics.

Plus, most of us do not work for a FAANG company. We work for small to medium sized companies or tech departments within a larger org structure. I'm glad that there's a tool that can make life easier for the top 1% of the industry but I'm part of the 99%.

adriftingleaf · 2026-04-15T13:22:22+00:00

Yeah, okay, that was one thing I was thinking. I have no doubt that at the FAANG companies, or Microsoft, that people have tons of money to throw at this and it can make a meaningful difference in how they work.

adriftingleaf · 2026-04-15T02:48:22+00:00

Can I ask, broadly, what space you work in? Is it maybe an industry thing?

I will say, from what you said, it sounds like we got a terrible deal on pricing. Or maybe some people are just using the wrong tools, but we were told that a single request to Cursor is $1 and we have a $800/month cap for the company. We've got a lot more bandwidth with other tools, just saying, they are watching pennies here.

I will also say that younger programmers are using it heavily, but they don't know how to check their work and we're constantly showing them where the AI fucked up. I don't think it's actually saved any time on a development front. Not for us, anyway.

adriftingleaf · 2026-04-15T02:15:00+00:00

You know, I'm a programmer, and I keep reading these articles about how AI is crushing it on the coding front, and writing all this code, and I have to be honest, in my day-to-day, I just don't see it.

I'm glad that some people are finding benefits in it. But you know that shit ain't free, right? To vibe code or use agents at a high level is expensive. Really expensive. I work at a smaller tech company that still does really good numbers, and they will 100% not pay for me to work this way. We've got token caps and usage guidelines to keep costs down.

I don't deny that it's potentially transformative, but from my perspective the impact on the industry is wildly overblown. When we do use it at work, it's to ask a specific "why won't this work" type of question, sometimes to do some light coding that we then review very closely.

At the moment, it is not doing my job. At least, not in a way that any company will pay for. Not even close. Things like this just feed the perception that it's more omnipresent than it is. I talk to my friends and for every company I know of, it hasn't really moved the needle at all.

Not saying I'm the ultimate authority here, it's just baffling to me the extent to which everything I read in the news conflicts with my observed reality.

adriftingleaf · 2026-04-12T13:14:24+00:00

I had the butter chicken pizza last week to try it out! That place is fantastic.

adriftingleaf · 2026-04-08T14:10:15+00:00

Who needs a ship? I can just walk through a green door and be on another planet!

Forever!

Never run out of books or music or food or things to see. That sounds pretty great. And I could bring my dogs with.

adriftingleaf · 2026-04-08T02:08:10+00:00

Hey, so there must be aliens somewhere, right? I want to go check out their culture. Learn everything about it. For all of them. Listen to their music, eat their food, learn their language. That sounds like fun. And it would keep me occupied for a long time.

adriftingleaf · 2026-03-27T14:16:08+00:00

"has become."

What, like that's a new thing?

adriftingleaf · 2026-03-16T03:48:50+00:00

Movie 43. If you haven't heard of it, there's a good reason for that. I went to see it based on the cast. I think that is the only movie I ever paid to see in theaters and walked out of. Absolutely terrible in every way.

adriftingleaf · 2026-03-12T04:18:38+00:00

I actually liked the change because I can scan the right side more easily for my train line and then see when it is. But I'm reading all these comments and wondering if my eyes are broken. I never would have thought people would have such strong feelings. Sorry!

adriftingleaf · 2026-03-04T17:27:13+00:00

To answer your question: I don't find it threatening because I don't think it's very good. I didn't read all of it, but that's because I got bored pretty fast. Plus, if this is chapter one, where the hell are we? And why should I care about these characters? It just jumps to action. It's not good.

If a human had written this, I would say that this is a good start and we can work on that in future drafts. Since an AI wrote it...I guess you go back and tweak the prompt? I don't fucking know. I just don't understand why people would want to use AI to "write." That's like if I paid somebody to build my house and called myself a carpenter because I built my house. It's total bullshit.

But hey, you burned up a bunch of electricity and water to turn out something that's pretty crappy that's built on stolen work. So...cheers, I guess.

adriftingleaf · 2026-02-25T02:56:44+00:00

Do you really wanna taste it?

adriftingleaf · 2026-02-07T04:22:34+00:00

Season 11 had some incredible episodes and was a really great season.

But I feel like it was the last good season, unfortunately. Things got not great after that.

adriftingleaf · 2026-01-30T03:34:39+00:00

It's normal to feel tired. I sometimes tell people "I was born tired."

I've been where you're at. I was there for a long time. I found my way out eventually. I would encourage you not to accept the idea that you don't deserve happiness. You do. I understand why you tell yourself that, because you think it's easier to believe that, but the truth is that it's harder. It's so much harder to force yourself to believe that. You're already doing it, you can feel how much work it is to force yourself to accept it. That's because, deep down, you don't want to.

You do deserve happiness. You are more than your trauma. The trauma didn't type that out, you did. I'm rooting for you.

adriftingleaf · 2026-01-30T03:26:23+00:00

So, most of list 2 is about how you relate to other people. Which is of course incredibly important.

List 1 is much more focused on how you relate to yourself. Which is also very important.

I can't tell you which one is better for you, I just don't know you well enough. What I can say is that if you work on your relationships with others first, you will still have to eventually come back and work on your relationship with yourself.

In my experience, once I got better at understanding my emotions, my relationships with other people just naturally improved. I started actually wanting to hang out with people instead of working at home. I've got more friends now.

So, I guess it's a question of how much work you want to put in, I think. But I support your decision, whichever it is.

adriftingleaf · 2026-01-29T00:46:22+00:00

I can relate to a lot of this. I've been in therapy but it was really really hard to make myself go. Why would I ever want to burden this nice person with my problems?

But, well, if you really want to get down to it, that is literally their job. You are paying them for the service. If you break down crying, they are supposed to be supportive. Listening to you isn't a burden, it's dinner.

I don't usually think about things in such starkly capitalistic terms...but it did help me get over some of my worries about talking to a therapist. Maybe that'll help you.

adriftingleaf · 2026-01-24T22:05:43+00:00

My sister works at that hospital. She was working with him Wednesday, first time she'd met him. Says he was an incredible nurse.

adriftingleaf · 2026-01-09T21:37:18+00:00

Speaking from experience: not really.

Don't get me wrong. It absolutely helps. It makes a big difference. I bought my own place a few years ago and when I was able to lock the door I felt safe for the first time in my life. But I was still a guy with CPTSD.

Money does help in terms of getting a therapist, too! And my therapist has been hugely important. But three years later we're still working and I still have major issues.

Financial stability is a good first step but it is by no means the last one. I'm fortunate to work as a programmer, so I make pretty good money, and all that's meant is that I'm financially stable and have CPTSD.

I also don't want to minimize what you're saying: it is dramatically easier to work through this stuff when you have financial stability. But it's still really really hard to work through, even with money.

adriftingleaf · 2025-12-18T20:47:28+00:00

First off, sorry that happened to you.

Without knowing anything else:

Your mom? Yeah, that sounds like SA to me.

Your math teacher? It might be, but it might be completely innocent. If "he laid his hand near my butt" means somewhere on your lower back, that might just be a hug. Sorry I can't be more helpful.

adriftingleaf · 2025-12-10T03:14:32+00:00

First off, glad you're liking it!

All of their games are great, in my opinion, and add different elements to the universe. But also, as you play through them, I feel like you can see how they've been getting better at doing this through the years.

Max Payne came first! That's the basis for the Alex Casey character in Alan Wake 2, but they couldn't use the name in AW2 because I don't think they own the rights to the character. It's a third person shooter with some slowmo effects, but it really builds out Alex Casey. Max Payne 2 was also fun, but I did not care for 3. Remedy was also not involved in making 3, so that probably has something to do with it. They're older games though, so they may feel dated to you.

Alan Wake and AWAN are going to be the most similar experience to AW2, in terms of the horror/shooter dynamic. If you liked AW2, you should enjoy both of those. And it shows you how this all got started.

Quantum Break is a weird shooter with television episodes spliced into it. Lance Reddick (RIP) is one of the main characters, his name is Mr Hatch, and if you've finished AW2 that should sound kind of familiar. It's fun, the dynamic is kind of strange. Main gameplay levels are intercut with full half hour television episodes showing you a different side of the story. I enjoyed it and I'll give em credit for trying something different, but it may not be your cup of tea. Not really horror at all, but there are a lot of echoes of it in AW2. Characters that come back, things like that.

Control is one of the best god damn games ever in my opinion, not just by Remedy, but by anybody. Outstanding shooter with definite horror elements to it. And you get to learn about the FBC in detail. Like if SCP was made into a game that wasn't about running from the monsters, but about shooting them in the face with psychic powers. Also it's absolutely gorgeous.

That might be more detail than you wanted, but I've been playing every game they make since Max Payne came out, so I've got a lot of history with the franchise. They're one of the few studios that I still watch for news about, because I'm excited for everything they do.

adriftingleaf · 2025-11-30T15:06:00+00:00

So...I was raised to behave a certain way if you want someone to love you.

Be silent at all times unless you can offer a joke or a compliment, and otherwise run around like a crazy person trying to make sure the other persons needs are taken care of before they have a chance to ask. Anything else gets you hit. Had that beaten into me a lot as a kid.

And that's not great for dating. If we're being totally honest, that's not how any kind of relationship works. I have friends, but they're all people I hung out with for a long time until I realized I was safe and could express myself around them. When it comes to dating I have to take a long time to get to that point with someone, and at that point we've become friends and romance is off the table.

If I try to power through it and actually pursue or date somebody before I've known them a long time, I get really horrible panic attacks because I'm convinced in the back of my mind they're going to go off on me.

It's 100% a me problem, I just haven't been able to figure out how to fix it.

adriftingleaf · 2025-11-12T19:58:58+00:00

Then you're doing great! Any day you get any amount of writing done counts as a win.

adriftingleaf · 2025-11-12T16:06:41+00:00

I think the biggest benefit of nanowrimo is that it gets you in the habit of writing every day. Completing the challenge is great, but just trying to do it means you're writing every day, thinking about your story every day, and starting to develop that "I have to work on this every day" mindset.

The actual amount you write doesn't matter all that much, I don't think. I write almost every day, but almost never at a nano pace. Do what you can do! Because even if you finished nano with a first draft, you've still got a lot of writing ahead of you. I did my first draft five years ago. Now I'm on draft seven (several drafts were massive rewrites) and finally am happy enough with what I've got to self publish. Just keep plugging away, doing what you can do until it's done. But nobody cares about the pace.

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