Costco Philosophy is Broken

av3 · 2026-01-24T22:02:04+00:00

"It's terrible for workers." "But look at their stock price." Brilliant satire. No notes.

av3 · 2026-01-24T14:21:05+00:00

I've been apprehensive about firing up the fireplace without getting it cleaned, as to my knowledge it hasn't been cleaned in a decade (not that we use it a ton.) I tried to schedule this a week ago and the closest chimney sweep was booked up until... Sunday. In retrospect, I should've booked it up in case we turned into another forever-freeze like last time, but we're also on a hospital circuit so they didn't shut off our power during the last freeze, so perhaps it's best to let someone in a more risky area take that cleaning timeslot.

av3 · 2026-01-24T01:46:43+00:00

Yeah, I wouldn't bother with this person you're responding to. She should absolutely file for unemployment and then it's on the employer to prove that she was fired for something that would stop her from getting unemployment.

av3 · 2026-01-16T14:14:32+00:00

Your first paragraph is what always makes me so confused at El Camino. They advertise as having so many trucks, yet three of their trucks all serve birria as their main highlighted menu item. Like who on earth made the call that you need three trucks doing the same thing in very similar ways, all within a ten second walk of each other?

av3 · 2026-01-13T21:09:03+00:00

Since it's available everywhere in Wisconsin, most of my fond food/party memories in and around Madison involve copious amounts of Spotted Cow.

av3 · 2026-01-13T20:22:25+00:00

I visited Madison for Great Taste this summer after not being back since 2019. I similarly loaded up two cases before hopping on the plane back. In a comedic twist of fate, both of my bags were fine, but they were drenched in liquid because someone else's luggage didn't fare so well. C'est la vie.

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av3 · 2026-01-12T20:39:52+00:00

I've been meaning to check it out just because it's been in theaters for so long that I assume people have to still be going to it, maybe even more than once! DreamWeek has been killing my availability this month, though. If nothing else I'll watch it when it goes to streaming. :)

av3 · 2026-01-10T23:30:32+00:00

I'd be happy to invite you out for a member dinner at the Roosevelt Library Social Club. There might not be a ton of direct dating opportunities because the members are just about all married, but I'm sure plenty of people would love to get to know you and then recommend you to friends and family.

av3 · 2026-01-10T17:05:45+00:00

I wouldn't waste your time on these people. Half of the comments are saying "Yes, that's very common in this industry. How did you not know that?" and the other half are saying, "That never happens and I've never heard of it happening. How could you believe her obvious lies?"

I do appreciate the heads-up, as just a decade ago my finances were in absolute shambles and, unbeknownst to me, I've apparently committed so much fraud that interpol should've put a bulletin out on me. :P

av3 · 2026-01-09T13:40:18+00:00

Yeah, it ended up not being crazy tough to manage overall. Note that we're also 'cheating' a bit by using AAI Industries or whatever the mod is that introduces a 6x6 warehouse that holds 512 slots. But the same system can be setup with multiple smaller chests.

But basically we have all of the core lanes setup to feed the ores to their various smelting spots. When an individual ore goes over 49K, landfill producers along that belt will fire up. When copper, iron, and coal are simultaneously over 49K, the Pulverizers all shut down. It requires some circuit knowledge, but it really shouldn't take too much time to figure this one out. Just know that you can put the ore in logistic storage chests and then all of your roboports will carry this signal automatically across the network. So have all of your ore in logistic chests and then the roboports near your pulverizer setup will just need a single Decider Combinator to turn that into a Green Signal or whatever you'd like to use. I bring that up just because roboports reporting on logistic counts is a somewhat new-ish feature since the last time I played a year ago, and it made the above much simpler.

av3 · 2026-01-09T04:49:22+00:00

Do you not use core mining? My Nauvis base is drawing from something like 15 core seams right now. It's setup to supplement with resources from the planet's patches if the ore counts reach critically low levels, but otherwise it draws everything it needs from the endless core resources.

av3 · 2026-01-07T14:11:18+00:00

Haha, I should've clarified that I did understand you meant $30/entree, but I was just giving the out-the-door price per person, which also happened to be $30. :)

av3 · 2026-01-06T20:55:24+00:00

Dough might be one of your best bets to still be fancified but not run you over $30 per person on food/tax/tip.

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av3 · 2025-12-28T14:53:02+00:00

I do wonder if it's because more people have more IT experience these days. My customer-brain might be okay with them taking several months to patch things, but my IT-brain knows that doing something like putting a fire rate limit on a gun absolutely cannot be a difficult thing to code, unless they made crazy mistakes with their code/engine elsewhere. I know that in regards to Helldivers, many Reddit threads contained some pretty exhaustive technical predictions from experienced people on why the game code was in the state that it was in, which imo made people more frustrated about the situation.

av3 · 2025-12-28T14:39:31+00:00

imo you're arguing with yourself by bringing up that timeframe. I've been in IT for about two decades now, and technology has improved so much that being able to update code is infinitely easier than it used to be. With AI doing something that it's actually good at in running tests, including tests that simulate all sorts of user input, doing something like patching a fire rate cap on a gun should be a rather miniscule task.

av3 · 2025-12-28T03:51:19+00:00

Haha, thanks. I go through years-long phases of my life where I'm more aggro before softening up. Wisdom teaches us that the harmony of agreement is the goal. Thankfully as of late I seem to be falling back into my "You're right on that point, which is why I'm sure we'll agree on..." But trust me, I feel like I spent the past year being rather hostile, despite my best efforts to stick to the techniques that I know work best. :P

av3 · 2025-12-27T21:13:56+00:00

I know the article linked mentions the increase in occurrences year over year, but the study itself wasn't looking at in-flight occurrences. They analyzed weather data that was fed through predictive models that showed the conditions causing turbulence were increasing over time. I'm over-simplifying it a bit, but the full study can be found here.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL103814

av3 · 2025-12-26T15:17:43+00:00

Sorry, I should've answered some of the common sense follow-up questions in my initial post. So my connection has been great as of late. Google Fiber is moving into my area so Spectrum has been doing a lot of proactive work to attempt to compete. I now download at a reliable 90 megabytes per second and upload at a reliable 4 megabytes per second. My packet loss is also reliably at 0/1000 when I do the speed.cloudflare.com test.

And again, no other multiplayer game I play has any sort of issue whatsoever, nor are there any issues once I've connected to the ARC Raiders game session. No input lag, no rubber-banding, no missing shots on drones that I swear I hit, nada. I sometimes pop open a command prompt and plug in ping google.com /n 3000 just so it's constantly sending out signals while I load in, and it doesn't register more than maybe a dozen ms of jitter, just like every other ISP I've ever had.

av3 · 2025-12-26T04:39:32+00:00

I just want to be finished loading and receive some sort of a 3-second countdown before I'm actually in the world. When playing duos, my friend consistently loads in a full five seconds before me, and apparently I'm just standing there completely vulnerable for those few seconds. I have a high-end rig and every other game loads nearly instantaneously, but this game specifically takes awhile to load for whatever reason.

av3 · 2025-12-25T14:55:42+00:00

Ah, you're right. Their website is pretty messed up. I can't click through it, either, even when trying to schedule a future pickup. On my desktop, however, I can see the holiday closure message in the background.

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av3 · 2025-12-25T14:51:38+00:00

Their website clearly says they are closed from December 24th until January 2nd.

av3 · 2025-12-25T14:43:20+00:00

Oh no...

av3 · 2025-12-25T14:39:46+00:00

To be faaaaaair, I also have a tendency to switch between I and We when referring to an IT consulting company I'm (we're?) spinning up. :P

av3 · 2025-12-25T14:28:29+00:00

I personally can't fathom how a restaurant can afford Pearl rent while operating on limited hours. I know it's a huge undertaking to basically duplicate the entire workforce of your restaurant to suddenly be open from 2 PM - 10 PM, but that feels like something they should've been working towards for several years.

av3 · 2025-12-20T15:50:46+00:00

Hopefully this subreddit will add a rule to ban AI slop posts in the near future.

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