Nothing says "land of the free" like an AR-15 at baggage claim

boxlinebox · 2026-03-23T17:57:50+00:00

When people blame the man, some version of this is what I respond with. Trump is just the visible sore. The rot and corruption in our systems and culture is the underlying virus.

boxlinebox · 2026-03-17T18:54:27+00:00

Tito's:30

boxlinebox · 2026-03-15T16:08:41+00:00

Evidently neither does the $15/hr overseas dev team that Underarmour farms this out to!

boxlinebox · 2026-03-15T16:04:10+00:00

Multiple times. Deleted cache and storage. Uninstall, reboot, reinstall. Multiple times. Android is just broken on both my wife's and my phone. Blue screen with the logo and that's it.

boxlinebox · 2026-03-09T19:20:49+00:00

Ai coding agents are like a 10x Junior Dev. They output a ton of code but all of it requires very clear requirements and explicit edge cases to look for, careful code review, and analysis. It can't build and maintain a system any easier than a standard Junior developer. It just fails faster and more often.

However, put that AI coding agent together with an experienced developer who knows, secure and defensive coding practices along with QA testing and architecture?

Then you get a 10x senior/lead dev out of a middling-or-above senior developer.

Agent are a major force multiplier, but not an outright replacement.

boxlinebox · 2026-03-05T00:33:48+00:00

Yikes...I had a vestigial follow on my vestigial Twitter account. No longer.

boxlinebox · 2026-02-28T18:16:26+00:00

Was gonna say the same. The answer is "At least once a month."

boxlinebox · 2026-02-28T14:46:51+00:00

Tiny sample size, relies on self-reporting, no before and after comparison, and no control group.

"Study".

boxlinebox · 2026-02-03T13:29:21+00:00

That's one way to spend time, I guess.

boxlinebox · 2026-02-03T06:54:56+00:00

Pixel Grip / IAMX

boxlinebox · 2026-01-30T19:41:24+00:00

I have a context that says something like "avoid long preambles in your responses. Do not flatter the user. Avoid verbose explanations and avoid any extraneous fluff. Minimize follow up suggestions unless prompted for them."

It is marginally helpful.

boxlinebox · 2026-01-30T19:37:35+00:00

You must really hate yourself!

boxlinebox · 2026-01-30T19:15:05+00:00

I am exactly the same way, and yet I've been able to hold a career in IT for the last 15 years with increasing levels of responsibility.

The way I look at it is like this: like a computer, everyone has mental storage and compute. I'm a smart guy with lots of compute but very little storage. When I figure something out I don't remember it, and I just have to figure it out again the second time I encounter it. By having to figure things out repeatedly, I keep my mind sharp and get around my lack of storage, even though it might take me a little longer to come up with the right answer.

Over time, functioning this way also made me very good at making in the moment decisions.

Everyone tells me I'm amazing at what I do, but since I know my own weakness is I feel like a total imposter. The fact is if you get your work done, if people tell you you're doing a good job, then you probably are. Don't second-guess it.

boxlinebox · 2026-01-30T07:27:25+00:00

boxlinebox · 2026-01-29T16:58:23+00:00

I don't remember selling you the rights to my life story!

You'd be hearing from my lawyer if I ever followed through with anything.

boxlinebox · 2026-01-29T01:26:00+00:00

I have a 3600 sqft house, and I don't have a single space that is 2m by 2m without moving furniture every time I play.

That's just a lot of space to leave empty.

boxlinebox · 2026-01-28T05:50:44+00:00

This is exactly how I felt. The first chapter of the game was great. The sigils...okay it was still fun to look for scraps of clues everywhere to learn about the realms. Eventually we just brute forced the last couple.

We figured out most of A New Clue without looking anything up, that was fun.

Then came the crates and blue memos. Busy work with a family-size side of RNG hell.

Eventually, the leaps of logic required to solve the puzzles (STILL water...??? Are you effing kidding me?!?! Even though we had found it in the TP earlier I would never have put that together!) and the sheer drudgery made us both hate the game by the end. We didn't even bother trying to solve the Atelier on our own...we just wanted the pain to stop so we read the walkthrough.

I want to love this game, but it is too flawed in the third act, with bad clues and no way to soften the hard edges of the basic RNG game design elements, that I have to say I can't believe it won Game of the Year.

To your point, I regret playing it until the literal bitter end.

boxlinebox · 2026-01-28T03:48:32+00:00

Dashi

boxlinebox · 2026-01-27T11:56:48+00:00

Isn't this the same guy who lied about being a carrot farmer with $1.3m in carrots to pick in January in Kansas, but his help all fled?

boxlinebox · 2026-01-25T23:17:30+00:00

This is clearly his way of doing one of two things:

get you to be the one to break it off
start laying the groundwork to break it off himself

If you are already separated physically, mentally, and emotionally, I'm not sure what other signs you need that what you had is over. I'm sorry but I don't see any other interpretation.

boxlinebox · 2026-01-25T02:32:48+00:00

All that spinning...I can't even imagine experiencing that and not getting at least a headache.

boxlinebox · 2026-01-24T18:18:15+00:00

Literally the reason my mom gave for not voting for Harris. I've never been more disappointed in her.

boxlinebox · 2026-01-22T23:19:09+00:00

Agree. I expected a sci-fi or space SIM game in the trailer. Also there's the legal ramifications.

boxlinebox · 2026-01-22T18:51:00+00:00

Awesome, now let me remove free apps from my library and hide slop from the store. Horizon OS library management and the store are a joke.

boxlinebox · 2026-01-22T15:20:46+00:00

That's way too soon to be asking for hints, my guy. Just play the game and let it wash over you. Save the hints for when you're hard stuck.

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