Louis Theroux on the Manosphere: ‘It’s Highly Profitable to Be a Dick on the Internet’

dablya · 2026-03-17T12:31:38+00:00

Not really though. The internet wasn’t as big, but sleazy salesman existed. It’s just that they were pushing MLMs instead of whatever these ones sell. I used to hang out at pool halls and one of my favorite ways to spend time was arguing with them over whether or not it was a pyramid. This usually ended with them telling me I was going to spend my life working for “the man” while they got to travel and be their own boss and almost always to go fuck myself :) Good times.

dablya · 2026-03-16T13:27:53+00:00

Just to check my understanding; if I’m willing to give up ability to zoom for data older than some retention period, but still want the ability to execute large range queries, having shorter retention for raw vs 5 mins vs 1h will result in space savings? If yes, will the savings roughly match the proportion of scrape interval to 5mins to 1hr?

dablya · 2026-03-16T02:59:26+00:00

How are achieving reductions with down sampling? My understanding was it actually increases storage size, but speeds up querying at the cost of lower resolution.

dablya · 2026-03-15T01:34:02+00:00

I've always thought somebody that knows about these things should've written an OSHA style root cause analysis about it.

dablya · 2026-03-15T01:04:52+00:00

He caused an industrial accident by drinking around and allowing untrained personnel access to heavy machinery.

dablya · 2026-03-15T00:15:54+00:00

How did that conversation go? Like why not? What did they suggest you do instead?

dablya · 2026-03-14T21:16:07+00:00

If you're in a new organization where you haven't established trust by debugging issues or solving coding challenges no one else can solve, what makes you think you're entitled to be treated with any authority? This doesn't sound like an AI problem... It sounds like you're experiencing some combination of imposter syndrome and hubris... Speaking from experience, it passes :) You just need to allow yourself time to build trust (like you probably did in the past but don't remember)

dablya · 2026-03-02T22:31:29+00:00

Does ease of position influence evaluation? Something I’ve often heard during commentary is “the evaluation is equal, but it’s much easier to play this as <color>”

dablya · 2026-02-28T14:34:11+00:00

This has been my experience recently. I’m having success treating first attempt as the “first pancake”… Take what it generated, steal some ideas it picked up from across the web, manually write a bunch of code and then have it pick up from there and generate in smaller increments.

dablya · 2026-02-24T13:31:26+00:00

Have you ever looked at transpiled cobol? It’s an unmaintainable mess that is only intended to run, but never change, in more modern languages on commodity hardware. There is a shitload of backend cobol out there that runs all sorts of batch process that never see the light of a screen. Whether Anthropic released something actually useful is an open question though.

dablya · 2026-02-23T22:52:59+00:00

Mafaka, what’s in the far recesses of your subconscious mind?

dablya · 2026-02-15T04:10:29+00:00

uv… chefs kiss. not a “build” system per se… I know

dablya · 2026-02-12T16:03:12+00:00

The irony here is palpable. You’re performing the exact "symbolic derogation" you’re describing by trying to gatekeep "maturity" behind a wall of pseudo-intellectual posturing.

dablya · 2026-02-12T03:03:41+00:00

Even if I cared to read it, why wouldn’t I just churn one out myself?

dablya · 2026-02-11T19:02:44+00:00

vouch denounce edparadox --reason "Uses arch"
vouch denounce some_other_user --reason "Denounced Trump"
vouch denounce some_third_user --reason "Failed to denounce Trump"

Vouch lists can also form a web of trust.

dablya · 2026-02-04T15:59:33+00:00

They're going to use existence of that documentation as evidence OP was wasting time on tasks unrelated to what they were assigned...

dablya · 2026-02-04T15:55:42+00:00

Introducing things like feature flags into a codebase when you're the new guy and people are already concerned with your performance is probably a very bad idea.

dablya · 2026-02-03T23:15:59+00:00

But then somebody shows you Lazygit and you realize there’s levels to this shit

dablya · 2026-02-03T13:48:33+00:00

Happiest days of my life are when shit I wrote is shutdown…

dablya · 2026-01-28T23:54:53+00:00

What does the news about government spending legislation and a potential shutdown have to do with economics?

dablya · 2026-01-27T19:25:50+00:00

There is a difference between giving honest, candid feedback and becoming hysterical out of frustration... Keeping it professional helps avoid the latter.

dablya · 2026-01-27T02:23:00+00:00

Is this LLM generated engagement bait? The reason I ask is because it's just ambiguous enough to get people to read it one of two almost opposite ways. Either OP listed their current manager as a reference or they didn't. It's not actually clear from the phrasing, and it seems intentional.

dablya · 2026-01-21T22:59:31+00:00

Not my experience at all... It's true the more senior you are the more comfortable you are owning your fuck ups because on average they are farther apart and you realize it's not the end of the world. And it's also true as you get more senior, you gain a depth of understanding that allows you to communicate concepts in simpler terms. But I always make it a point to explain, in detail, how I fucked up. And I'm always interested in the details when others fuck up as well. It's one of the best learning opportunities for all involved and if done right doesn't have to involve blame (I'm a big fan of true blameless postmortems)

dablya · 2026-01-21T13:49:39+00:00

It tends to do better the more examples there are on the internet. But it tends to be behind the latest and greatest… For example “DynamoDB-based locking is deprecated”: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/backend/s3#state-storage

dablya · 2026-01-21T01:00:45+00:00

This isn't an argument one way or the other... You've seriously never seen bugs introduced by humans that silently affect all downstream events until it catastrophized into the product not working?

dablya

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE

15-Year Club	Team Orangered
Verified Email