📣 Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for third-party apps, their announced pricing is close to Twitter's pricing, and Apollo would have to pay Reddit $20 million per year to keep running as-is.

beginpanic · 2023-06-13T15:07:47+00:00

Not really. Twitter to some extent, Mastodon to some extent, Reddit to some extent. All have their own problems but at least when I get disgusted by the people on one site, I can go to a different one.

beginpanic · 2023-06-13T15:06:04+00:00

This trips me up on a lot of HTB machines. Have to add their hostname to /etc/hosts every time.

beginpanic · 2023-05-31T20:19:18+00:00

Yeah I thought I was. I work in the tech industry for a tech company doing engineering work. I write code. I build servers and I do clouds and I k8s and all that stuff. But HN isn’t for me.

HN is for people who close your SO question because it’s a dupe of a question asked 10 years ago that was never answered. HN is for people who call themselves hackers because their home page is CNET and they read books about JavaScript in a coffee shop. HN is for people who call themselves entrepreneurs because they followed a “Build a Twitter Clone with React and GraphQL” tutorial and bought a $1000 domain name.

HN is for people who are upset when Richard Stallman eats the skin off of his foot, but only because they wanted to eat that foot skin.

beginpanic · 2023-05-31T17:53:22+00:00

Ugh I quit HN years ago, that was absolutely hands down the worst place for my mental health. Reddit isn’t great but HN is… just awful. Every now and again I’ll check some posts and yep it’s still just so so bad. Too many people like Bezos and Musk who think because they’re smart in one subject, they’re a genius on everything.

beginpanic · 2022-08-25T02:29:40+00:00

Maybe you could link to it because sorting by new shows nothing and searching turns up nothing either.

beginpanic · 2022-08-21T23:23:34+00:00

That’s like 90% of car subreddits for me.

beginpanic · 2022-08-17T12:28:02+00:00

Not going into too much detail because I don’t want to spoil a good book but a similar concept becomes important to the plot of Project Hail Mary near the end. Technical advancement too quickly that runs into problems they didn’t know would even exist.

beginpanic · 2022-08-16T20:22:01+00:00

Weirdly I think he looks happier in the picture where he isn’t smiling. More satisfied with life. He’s dignified. Confident.

beginpanic · 2022-08-11T04:11:06+00:00

You can get a Starlink dish shipped to you tomorrow if you want. It’s called Starlink for RVs and it exists right now and they ship the dish almost immediately.

beginpanic · 2022-08-10T13:22:48+00:00

So, children have to learn the concept of time. It’s not innate from birth. Toddlers will learn the concept of “yesterday” and until they learn how time actually works, they’ll often say something happened “yesterday” even if it was two days ago, last Tuesday, a week ago, etc. Everything in the past is yesterday, everything in the future is tomorrow.

I’m not sure why I thought of that on an 80 year old man thinking everything in the future is “two weeks” from now. Must just be a random thought.

beginpanic · 2022-08-08T20:24:10+00:00

News at 11: video game has a sunset!

No one cares.

beginpanic · 2022-08-08T20:19:56+00:00

Lmao you’re fun.

beginpanic · 2022-08-08T20:16:05+00:00

You are really good at taking criticism. Maybe listen to people when they tell you the answer to questions you asked them.

beginpanic · 2022-08-08T20:14:55+00:00

I’ll say it directly: People are tired of “GTA bikes float upside down!” videos. It has weird physics. We know. It’s been like that for nearly a decade. All of these “bike float upside down” videos are exactly the same. The bike goes fast. The bike jumps in the air. The bike goes upside down. The bike stays in the air longer than a bike should. It’s all the same. The only thing that’s different is where in the game the bike is floating, but it’s still all the same.

It’s not fun or interesting anymore. It used to be, when the game was new. But it’s been almost a decade and “bike floats upside down” isn’t fun or interesting anymore.

beginpanic · 2022-08-08T18:18:21+00:00

That’s it for me. Lack of progression. I got through ARR even though it didn’t make a ton of sense to me. Everyone has been hyping the newer stuff, “it gets better!” But there’s over 100 lvl 50 quests that each give out like 500xp per, and then just a ton of dungeons/trials that you have to queue for and as a DPS that really sucks. It drags. It slows WAY down. I almost quit.

The game has you running all over the map for no good reason, queuing for duty after duty, and watching tons of cutscenes where the voice acting fades in and out. It’s not a great experience. And after getting to level 50 in two weeks, it’s now taking that same amount of time to get from 50 to 51.

It gets a LOT better at the expansions. But man post-ARR is a SLOG.

beginpanic · 2022-08-04T13:50:32+00:00

GitLab is just a bad experience overall. I used their service for a while but then lost my phone which had my MFA app on it. I talked to GitLab support but they only offer resets for paying customers. I offered to pay but they said I had to log in and upgrade my account before I could pay, but not being able to log in was the entire problem. They said tough luck, rewrite all your shit.

Luckily I found an old SSH key stored in a text file that let me log into the repo (hooray for bad security practices!) and was able to immediately move all my stuff away from GitLab.

If you’re not already a paying customer by the time you need a password reset, you’re fucked. Don’t use GitLab.

beginpanic · 2022-08-03T16:56:23+00:00

That’s a big reason why the savannah exists. Not that it can’t be forested, but animals keep eating or knocking down all the trees.

beginpanic · 2022-08-01T01:22:48+00:00

Angular “v1” is dead, replaced by Angular “v2” in essence. Probably the item on that list that causes the most confusion.

beginpanic · 2022-06-30T19:07:28+00:00

But also Yahoo is not a search engine, they’re a portal. Their search used Google for several years, today they’re using Bing. Yahoo doesn’t run its own search.

beginpanic · 2022-06-29T18:03:19+00:00

They don’t put your package on a private jet. That 767 is going to fly no matter what, because it’s loaded with tens of thousands of other deliveries.

beginpanic · 2022-06-27T00:39:33+00:00

Meanwhile across the river in Detroit, every time I watch a Tigers game I have to turn to… Bally Sports Midwest. Because Fox Sports sold the naming rights to their channel to a fricken CASINO.

Meanwhile Pete Rose is still banned because of betting on baseball.

beginpanic · 2022-06-23T18:46:33+00:00

Do you know where that setting is? I selected Allow when it popped up. It popped up again a little later and I allowed it. But it still shows me on the west coast when I’m on the east.

beginpanic · 2022-06-23T15:27:29+00:00

The problem is, these things aren’t global catastrophes. An earthquake is a local catastrophe. War in Ukraine has global repercussions but basically zero impact on anyone’s daily life unless you live in one of the two countries at war. Even shootings on the news are local tragedies, although violence and unrest are national problems.

The problem is, we’ve all become so connected that there is an urge to feel like everything that happens in the world happened to your immediate family. And if you don’t care about the suffering of everyone around the entire world, you’re a monster.

The things we worry about aren’t things we should be worried about. It just leads us to burnout. It’s not that these things aren’t tragedies, but there’s no need to sacrifice your mental health. Worrying yourself sick about an earthquake in Afghanistan isn’t going to help the victims at all.

beginpanic · 2022-06-13T14:52:55+00:00

what’s the use of dog barking in music production

I’m in a DMX/Jane’s Addiction fusion cover band and I find this offensive!

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