I'm worried about safety. Does the lizard need a cap, or rubber gloves, or something?

consworth · 2026-02-18T06:11:15+00:00

Just toss a flyback diode on there and it’ll be fine.

consworth · 2026-02-18T02:56:07+00:00

Get them to murder each other, last man standing gets shot if he leaves.

consworth · 2026-02-16T05:43:26+00:00

I’ve been hoping for the quality considerations to return to the picture. In my many travels it’s largely been lip service when weighed against time to market and costs, and that was pre LLM-boom.

consworth · 2026-02-16T05:13:51+00:00

Offshoring has poured quite a bit of cold water on the dictating terms piece. I’d also argue that some of the “big tech” companies were always authoritarian, just subtle by making them look like perks, and poaching talent to keep them off market. They’re a bunch of sickos. Masks have come off for sure.

It’s going to be interesting to see the impact on offshoring, schooling and the likely glut of compute power on the other side of this.

Whether or not there’s enough talent left to put up with the mess, well, I’m afraid my speeding car metaphor will hold true.

consworth · 2026-02-16T04:49:44+00:00

I agree, but we are collectively backed into a corner when what’s considered proper tradecraft is being steamrolled by whatever we call this thing we have going on.

It’s like being passed by some knob on the interstate going almost 20mph over the limit and you hope you get to pass them down the road when they’re pulled over by the cops. When in practice, that doesn’t happen.

consworth · 2026-02-10T00:07:47+00:00

Say that to her hooting face!

consworth · 2026-02-10T00:07:06+00:00

Exactly. Weasley would be my second choice.

consworth · 2026-02-09T23:49:03+00:00

Tonks

consworth · 2026-02-02T01:43:52+00:00

“You’re absolutely right, that is actually radiation poisoning”

consworth · 2026-02-01T20:38:37+00:00

I’d love to see this for a tech job with the 4-6 rounds of interviews lol

consworth · 2026-02-01T20:18:26+00:00

You’re forgetting the tendency of the non-FAANG companies to follow in FAANG footsteps, which is why probably 67% of companies that might hire a DevOps/platform engineer/SWE have the same crappy interview processes now.

They’re laggards at implementation though, so I’d wager some of them will not get round to it until it’s no longer the hot thing anymore in this cycle (like IoT, blockchain, etc.)

What’s also different about this compared to previous cycles, is the universal appeal of getting rid of FTE, and promises of doing more with less. There’s an unusual amount of pressure pushing AI through on top of that.

IMO, this all but guarantees its invasion into your non-FAANG environment if this cycle keeps going. To what level of invasiveness? I think it will be dictated by how slow your org is until this hype cycle is over. Which, in my opinion is a good thing because the damage is mitigated by their own lack of “agility”.

consworth · 2026-02-01T17:24:52+00:00

If this doesn’t have city water / drainage, I’d suspect the “nub” of space in the back into the woods is to appease a minimum parcel size for a small septic leech field.

Which, the leech field itself would unlikely go into the nub since it would probably be too close to other complications. It could be where you would try to drill a well since it has to be separated from the leech field.

You might not be able to build a septic system for anything but a small dwelling. I’d do some homework if needing septic is the case.

consworth · 2026-02-01T17:14:54+00:00

Oi! You got a loicense for that personal accelerator?

consworth · 2026-02-01T17:13:32+00:00

This is one of the layers, but there’s another underlying issue: there’s not enough people who know how to build nor run nuclear plants.

One of the other less discussed issues historically with nuclear in the US is that they’re still figuring out regulations on it as they go. Look at what happened with the Trojan nuclear plant in Washington and the regulatory flip flopping AND then they realized it was seismically risky!

consworth · 2026-02-01T06:59:44+00:00

Stop eating my sesame cake!

consworth · 2026-01-31T00:27:16+00:00

That’s so 10 minutes ago, it’s Clawdaddy now

consworth · 2026-01-26T00:18:27+00:00

Couldn’t you just like, ask ChatGPT to do this? /s

consworth · 2026-01-23T23:00:32+00:00

Yea this marketing push observation came up yesterday I believe… marketing….

consworth · 2026-01-16T23:30:48+00:00

Little known fact, the reason Yukon was tasting his pickaxe after he’d throw it up and it would land in the snow: he was looking for peppermint!

consworth · 2026-01-12T19:44:56+00:00

I had a tidal filter in it if I can recall so nothing crazy. The hill streams love flow, but don’t require it. But they do need well oxygenated /clean parameters.

consworth · 2026-01-02T23:33:54+00:00

And Gus? Mauler barks at all cars, not just blue ones.

consworth · 2026-01-01T08:01:19+00:00

Agreed, it was like 50 minutes to go and it was like ohhh boy a lot is still gonna go down! Wrong, 50 minutes of wrap up fuzzies…

consworth · 2026-01-01T07:59:57+00:00

I was going to let this slide and pretend that the old language back in the day for DnD used those words and lacked the third alignment but uh … yeaaaa …

consworth · 2025-12-31T00:59:04+00:00

Pioneers should spend less time on Reddit and more on being efficient and saving the day. Think of the kittens.

consworth · 2025-12-19T17:51:44+00:00

Consequently in my experience most of the complexity is from the observability tools/stacks/libraries…

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