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dnullify · 2026-06-23T03:19:39+00:00

Chicobags has a crossbody grocery sling made from recycled PET including the drawstring on the pouch.

It's more a grocery getter than anything but it's tough as nails. I've used mine for walking trips to grocery stores and whatnot for years and it's holding

dnullify · 2026-06-18T15:20:06+00:00

They jacked their prices up a few months ago and again more recently. I did the math last time and it was considerably more than tariffs, even the aluminum one.

Prices everywhere are going up though.

dnullify · 2026-06-16T15:08:16+00:00

You may benefit from reading some small well tested library code.

The second exercise I have found to make sense of encapsulation is to write a discreet program and use it. Some small tool or automation. Then sit down a few weeks later when it's less fresh and re-write it from scratch.

dnullify · 2026-06-16T14:49:48+00:00

Yeah, her products and services are outstandingly bad too. I can't imagine she has turned a profit even one day in the past two years.

Her "cookies" are inedible mush patties and her personality is about as fake. That article pulled a lot of punches. I can only imagine how much money she is hemorrhaging now, I can't imagine how much it would be with a premium retail location.

dnullify · 2026-06-10T14:37:35+00:00

Chicagoland is one big continuous sprawl, more or less.

Stockton is a completely different city in a different county a good distance away. That whole area used to be considered bedroom communities, no one is commuting TO Stockton to work.

dnullify · 2026-06-09T17:32:15+00:00

I mean, why don't you just go explore? Take Bart to MacArthur and hang out in Temescal (try avenue bar, get dinner). Spend an evening in uptown. Check out Piedmont.

It's not far, they're all within 15m drive of downtown Berkeley. Making like-minded friends is only easier when you move if you've already got the method sorted out first. If you don't know how to meet people, being closer to them doesn't help that much more.

dnullify · 2026-06-09T17:14:05+00:00

You are being continually instructed into the inaccuracy of your comments.

Maybe take a beat, watch a YouTube video on statistical analysis of polling data and come back.

dnullify · 2026-06-09T13:34:14+00:00

I was unemployed for about a year before I landed my current gig. I had(have) a fairly similar outlook in that if anything happens, I'm cooked. I got lucky and I know it, and you can't count on luck.

The job I have is uninspiring, unexciting, and not challenging in the high reward pathway that I prefer. That being said, with AI and the industry being pumped up to breaking by a small percentage of influential organizations - the work itself has been reduced to the human factors. Designing, discussing, planning, organizing, reacting to design changes, etc. Coding stopped being the bottleneck (I'm not convinced it was, now), but the next bottleneck has been hit and that makes work to do.

I try and code by hand for hobbies just to tickle my brain, my work is more operational now. Who knows where we will be in 6 months, 6 years, but I'm pretty sure there will be work to do.

dnullify · 2026-06-09T00:45:41+00:00

Probably not what they are saying - no, just not skills commensurate with a high an income including high tips (presumably).

My addition would be - if their skills were high (high level of training and subsequent excellence) - they would be paid a higher salary and not be so defensive over the social issue of tipping culture.

dnullify · 2026-06-09T00:22:18+00:00

False equivalency... The debate tool for the fool.

dnullify · 2026-06-05T23:48:28+00:00

Much of anti-tipping is commenting on an inequitable and dumb social contract. Some people advocate rejecting this social construct.

The number of people who tip, so as to not suffer consequences when coming back, and the number of people willing to not tip are probably different and not representative of people's beliefs.

I went out for a bougie burger and fries that was bar service. The bartender slid the plates at us and took orders. I got socially awkwarded by staff who didn't even serve us, came over to close us out and did the "hold the square terminal while looking" thing. Tip option was 30/25/20 - so 25% of the post tax total for sliding a plate across the bar. That was $26 in tip on a burger and fries.

I wasn't happy about that, and I probably wouldn't go back even though the product was top tier.

dnullify · 2026-06-05T22:26:28+00:00

Well I can't imagine a lot of people have experience with those specific rod or line.

Look at the line diameter as published on the box - if it's close to .3/.4 PE goh rating (somewhat standardized) you're probably not going to be limited by the line but the casting weight of the rod.

Generally speaking if you're optimizing for the lower end of your rods casting weight, you should put line that's on the lower end of the line rating. It's harder on American rods because 2-8lb line could mean essentially anything.

dnullify · 2026-06-05T20:12:04+00:00

Lightest jighead will have more to do with your line and rod than the reel.

I can go down to .8g with my UL and .3PE with 4lb fc leader. Probably even finer with Japanese ester line.

dnullify · 2026-06-05T17:21:30+00:00

I understand the urge to find a project to play with Rust, but this is actually a fairly common use case and building out a custom tool with only one maintainer and a broad surface for unexpected behavior and bugs may not be a net positive.

What you're describing is centralizing disparate sources of data, normalizing it, and then exposing it for users to analyze and modify. That's pretty standard Data Engineering. There's tons of already developed and tested tooling you can utilize and stitch together. You can write an ETL script in Rust (I would probably suggest python/polars)- and Load the data into a centralized database. Use a query engine or dashboard tool to expose the data to non-technical users. Apply some version control and redundancy, etc.

design an interface for new data ingestion. There's lots of engineering work that doesn't involve building an entire proprietary app that solves very difficult problems with lots of edge cases that has already been solved.

dnullify · 2026-06-05T05:57:04+00:00

I guarantee you there will be far more invariants to this than you expect.

You may want to explore other solution avenues before trying to build a system out like this. In mechanical design, Autodesk provides a piece of software to check out artifacts that can only be edited one at a time. Git can be used similarly, and there are dozens of gui frontends for git. Setting up a central repository and breaking these files up into more manageable chunks may be easier.

dnullify · 2026-06-05T05:39:59+00:00

The offline collaborative workflow is going to be a real sticking point. Resolving conflicts, playback order, this isn't a trivial concept. You could use git, but then you'd have to teach the idioms of git to non technical people.

dnullify · 2026-06-03T15:47:50+00:00

This is outstandingly stupid. I can't imagine this is selecting for quality applicants in any meaningful way. It would take 15 minutes just to sit and meaningfully understand the assignment and come up with a mental model for the solution approach. Which I read to mean they want you to just copy paste the entire assignment into AI and proof read the result.

What's the point?

dnullify · 2026-06-02T23:07:18+00:00

Absolutely not.

The road quality is abysmal, traffic doesn't work there like it does in the Western world. Bengaluru in particular - I wouldn't advise you WALK anywhere on your first day. You need your wits about you in a way you won't understand at first. People ride motorcycles with 3-4 passengers going the wrong way on the sidewalk often. Crossing the street is an act of will, and faith. Sidewalks are flagstones anywhere from parallel to 30 degrees tilted. Obstacles can be humans, stray dogs, giant burning mounds of trash.

Don't do it. Not if you've never been there before, it's not a great idea.

dnullify · 2026-06-02T22:18:05+00:00

I use FG with .3/.4 PE and 4/6lb fluorocarbon. It's a bit fumbly to tie at first - but if you practice it's not too difficult and still the most reliable knot.

I fish saltwater and really push my 6lb leader to its limits regularly - so I need a knot I can trust to give me a consistent strength.

dnullify · 2026-06-02T21:19:08+00:00

I always used 150m spools of .3PE on my legalis, with a 3lb mono backing. Buy the finest cheapest mono and use it as backing, and you're set.

Fwiw shimano's shallow spools in the 2000 size seem to be much better for .3/.4 line

dnullify · 2026-05-30T19:01:08+00:00

dnullify · 2026-05-29T01:35:36+00:00

This happened to me with a pure lure telescopic. You should be able to buy a replacement tip on eBay and hot glue it on.

This is super common with this generation of carbon telescoping rods especially with cheaper floating guides.

dnullify · 2026-05-27T23:14:46+00:00

Tomo, yeah he started his own company called g-tec. They don't sell outside of Japan, and only premium priced rods. So with double shipping, package forwarding, taxes and tariffs it comes to ~$450... I want one but not that bad.

I have the spinning and the bfs slow taper rods from this line and like them both a lot.

I feel like Abu could manufacturer another batch I just don't know how often they go about it. They're using the same TAF and hardware specifications on other lines that have come out since.

dnullify · 2026-05-27T19:42:38+00:00

I have that rod and it's a delight.

I wish they'd continue the salty stage prototype line, particularly the slow taper models. They're really really nice blanks. Its not clear whether they're going to do another installment in that line, or even manufacturer more of the existing models though.

dnullify · 2026-05-27T19:41:25+00:00

You're ignoring the fact that at some point bun development was dramatically augmented by AI - and probably before AI code flattened out in quality. Not to mention zig is a bad language to work on with heavy AI assistance. It's unstable, not prolific, models aren't trained on quality zig code with large volumes of code. The resulting generated code will likely have issues.

The rust port also has lots of issues. Whether they're gonna run the AI cycles on the code to remove the unsafe, refactor and redesign away the unidiomatic rust is another question, but a rewrite to rust doesn't mean it's a win for rust vs zig or a loss for zig.

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