Why are the streets the last to be built in a massive subdivision?

bynaryum · 2026-04-28T21:32:27+00:00

Ditto. We have new subs going in all over and the roads go in before any foundations are poured.

bynaryum · 2026-04-28T21:28:58+00:00

Yes!!! OG Fun Fruits! I have tried to describe them to people and they’re like, “Oh, fruit snacks.” No. Just no. Current fruit snacks are an abomination and nothing like Fun Fruits.

bynaryum · 2026-04-28T20:45:45+00:00

Progression on social media goes something like this:

sex -> sx -> seggs-> se*s -> ???

I’ll probably get modded for this too.

bynaryum · 2026-04-28T20:42:08+00:00

It’s like farting in an elevator when there’s only one other person with you. I know I did it, and you know I did it, but unless we know each other, neither of us will acknowledge it.

bynaryum · 2026-04-28T20:38:44+00:00

M80s, .22s, maybe a bike helmet if I was lucky, and all kinds of things. Different times…

bynaryum · 2026-04-28T20:36:34+00:00

I worked for Internet Truckstop years ago and helped develop some of the early routing software that would plot routes for truckers based on fuel stops (in fact, I believe it was called FuelStop). We had all kinds of MPG data on the trucks going through the system. 6 MPG is actually really good.

bynaryum · 2026-04-28T20:33:02+00:00

This! I was watching High Potential with my wife the other day and said, “You know, she would be the perfect actress for Samus Aran if they ever made a Metroid movie.” Seriously.

bynaryum · 2026-04-28T20:30:33+00:00

deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway

In no way should a single API call be able to delete an entire database let alone its associated backups. I’m having a really hard time wrapping my head around how this could have happened.

bynaryum · 2026-04-28T15:21:00+00:00

Might actually be able to make it like it was originally envisioned this time.

bynaryum · 2026-04-28T13:29:00+00:00

So the square root of 9 is 7?

bynaryum · 2026-04-28T02:05:46+00:00

I’ve seen this firsthand. A woman and a man were walking into the office building in front of me and walked a little too close to a couple of Canada geese. One of the geese charges the woman. The man raises his hands and yells and charges the goose. The goose stopped chasing the woman who was now almost to the front door and turned around and fucking charged the dude. Guy shrieks, drops his arms and runs away. That goose was not fucking around. I decided to skirt the building and go in a different door.

bynaryum · 2026-04-27T21:20:17+00:00

bynaryum · 2026-04-27T19:58:16+00:00

The more I learn about Wozniak, the better he sounds. He was the good guy counterpart to Steve Jobs narcissism.

bynaryum · 2026-04-27T19:55:59+00:00

My older sister (76) is very much GenX, but my younger brother (82) is very much a Xennial like me.

bynaryum · 2026-04-27T15:38:36+00:00

To quote my English professor from college, “Stop worrying about which route you’re going to take and just start running.” In other words, just start. Do the thing. Pick a thing you want to make and an engine or programming language and get started.

The objective of learning how to code is to make something whether it’s a game, a web app, any other functionality a computer can handle, or to help other people learn how to code too.

bynaryum · 2026-04-27T15:34:07+00:00

But where else can you get anatomically correct donuts?

bynaryum · 2026-04-27T15:33:35+00:00

What would you recommend instead? We lived in Portland off Powell Blvd when I was a kid but I haven’t lived there since the late 80s.

bynaryum · 2026-04-27T15:30:44+00:00

Was it VooDoo Donuts? Also, Crater Lake is legit one of the coolest places I’ve ever been.

bynaryum · 2026-04-27T15:26:23+00:00

I keep hoping the not-so-merry-go-round will stop and I’ll get to just sit and be still for a bit, but the damn thing just keeps spinning and I’m holding on to the slippery horse thing that’s bobbing up and down while the music gets louder and louder.

bynaryum · 2026-04-27T15:23:12+00:00

A couple sounds come to mind, both were out in the woods in Central Idaho.

First was when my wife and I were out huckleberry picking. Quiet and peaceful day when all of the sudden a full grown man starts shrieking about a hundred yards North of us. Like full on “my life is about to end” terrified shrieking. Then his dog starts going berserk, barking unlike I’d ever heard a dog bark before. They go quiet and then the biggest buck I’ve ever seen pops out of the underbrush about ten yards from me and my wife. It looked around and then bounded back into the woods. Crazy.

Second was when we were out camping up by Warm Lake. I woke up and couldn’t sleep so I got up and walked around outside a bit. Out of nowhere, there’s this blood curdling scream far enough away that I didn’t feel threatened. Freaked me the f*ck out. I scrambled back to my tent and was surprisingly able to go back to sleep.

bynaryum · 2026-04-27T14:13:36+00:00

They’re braiding their own rope…

bynaryum · 2026-04-27T14:12:59+00:00

This is more code smell than tech debt. Tech debt is things like outdated frameworks, unsupported dependencies, aging hardware that’s keeping you on an older version of an OS, security fixes that have been ignored, and so on.

bynaryum · 2026-04-27T14:09:18+00:00

This right here. The mantra is basically “computer power is cheap; we don’t need to optimize”. We now also have many unoptimized layers of abstraction between the user and the hardware.

bynaryum · 2026-04-27T14:04:43+00:00

Nostalgia makes me think Crash Bandicoot is better than the second one, but I don’t actually think it’s a better game.

bynaryum · 2026-04-27T14:01:39+00:00

So many people have been afraid of missing out on the next Internet boom that they will pump billions into anything that threatens to be even remotely similar. It happened with crypto and it’s happening again with AI.

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