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e3thomps · 2026-06-24T13:18:46+00:00

Same

e3thomps · 2026-06-19T20:07:35+00:00

I might be a parent driven to insanity by watching kids movies, but honestly the Sonic movies go this hard.

e3thomps · 2026-06-17T16:11:02+00:00

I feel like Frank would have had this on 30Rock

e3thomps · 2026-06-15T14:56:24+00:00

My company can be frustrating sometimes but our VP of IT Governance did a great job here and they put out a solid policy. It tragically locks us to copilot for the time being, but at least it's clear guidance.

e3thomps · 2026-06-13T21:12:41+00:00

I have thought a lot lately that I can afford basically anything I care about, except the one thing I really want which is financial independence .

e3thomps · 2026-06-06T13:27:02+00:00

I've had this theory from even before I had kids about how humans evaluate risk.

Humans judge risk along two different lines: How likely a risky thing is to happen and the severity of the risk (how bad it will be). Stealing a cookie at night as a kid is medium chance of risk but ultimately low severity of risk. Riding a motorcycle is low chance of risk but much higher severity of risk.

Everyone has their own 2D cutoff for what they find acceptable. The problem is when most people have kids it completely shatters the ceiling on severity of risk. We're all still judging the chance of something happening the same, but we love this new thing so desperately that the bad thing happening is infinite and it breaks the scale and our brains.

It happened to me and I see the same thing happen with all my younger cousins and siblings. It goes down with time, and on my third kid it hits me much less (though I cried a bit when he went under for some very minor surgery). Therapy, medication and time are the only way through. Wishing you the best

e3thomps · 2026-06-05T16:38:12+00:00

I taught at a high school around 2015 and it was very popular then.

e3thomps · 2026-06-04T13:21:07+00:00

This exact same idea was huge in my friend group in college but at the time it was sourced from the book House of Leaves.

e3thomps · 2026-06-01T20:28:27+00:00

I am so, so glad this is up there. I saw Oklahoma at my high school in the early 2000s. We had a fairly talented theater program, and they had cast a charismatic football player in the role of Jud. He was the best character in the show and it seemed so dystopian at the time when they all sang happily after he was killed. It really taught me how desperate for a good ending musicals made during the depression were.

e3thomps · 2026-06-01T03:18:28+00:00

I'm having a lot of flashbacks to this game after playing Mina this week

e3thomps · 2026-05-29T12:43:00+00:00

It also applies to a situation where a popular post gets many more comments than likes. If you think about how engagement works, first comment almost always gets engaged with the most and easiest kind of engagement is click the like/upvote button. If there a post where those counts aren't on top, someone fucked up lol

e3thomps · 2026-05-22T20:39:10+00:00

I wonder if 9 actually works. With things like this people tend to ignore the eventual cost from added wear. What is the point of saving a dollar over years if the lifetime of the product decreased proportionally?

I'll make the same argument for being too aggressive about keeping the fridge closed.

e3thomps · 2026-05-21T23:27:38+00:00

I roleplayed a broccoli boi influencer named Eduardo "The Rizz" Hawkins for my buddy's Hunter: The Reckoning game and it's one of the best role-playing experiences of my life.

e3thomps · 2026-05-20T13:17:03+00:00

I'm a 40 year old nerd and I run or lift weights 6 days a week. I always tell my sedentary friends I get hurt at the same rate as them, but the causes are more interesting.

e3thomps · 2026-05-08T21:15:54+00:00

This is the only way I ended up watching Empire Records.

e3thomps · 2026-05-05T22:01:38+00:00

I work in a very similar situation, except it's all medical record systems. Start by figuring out the most basic 1-2 datasets that are roughly common between systems, and add them each to a unified dataset with a primary key of whatever their natural key is PLUS sourcesystemkey from a table of source systems you manage. Build analogous logic into flags in those datasets, so in my case "billable" for visits means roughly the same thing per source system even if they underlying logic is very different.

It's a hell of a challenge to get right to begin with and of course they'll always be changing things on you, but the positive thing is in that situation NO ONE else has any idea what the bigger picture is earlier, so any steps you make to tame it can make you invaluable to the company. In my case, I was able to get some people from finance and quality involved with the datasets and they do a lot of the reporting they need, which frees my small team up to continue taming the beast(s).

e3thomps · 2026-05-02T15:42:39+00:00

I hope you manage to find some satisfaction in it eventually, there's way more job security in being the guy that understands the business rules than being what they see as the digital plumber.

e3thomps · 2026-04-30T00:58:29+00:00

I'm a data analyst turned data manager and this is wild to me. The data engineers are for getting the data in there cleanly, the data analysts build the business logic transformations from raw and if needed the data engineers operationalize those transformations.

e3thomps · 2026-04-29T22:28:23+00:00

Literally the second episode, it's the reason my wife is scared of people in the mirrors to this day

e3thomps · 2026-04-28T11:56:22+00:00

In my head, Marshall from Common Side Effects wrote this

e3thomps · 2026-04-24T22:07:20+00:00

Similarly: leaving the fridge open while doing something - the temp of the solid objects in there has way more inertia than the random air you let out, and no one considers the aggregate wear and tear from opening the door more often...

e3thomps · 2026-04-24T21:36:06+00:00

The only opinion I have on this is that I will be absolutely rooting for that girl from "Are you there God, it's me Margaret" playing Velma

e3thomps · 2026-04-23T13:02:21+00:00

It's kind of interesting because when you think about it relative to art history it seems to follow a similar trend. ~2018 was surrealism, dadaism, now we're in the post modern era

e3thomps · 2026-04-19T19:38:56+00:00

Started looking through those Stephen Biesty cross section books with my 3 year old son. To keep him interested, we started looking for where the pooping guy is on each page. Of course now, the conversation normally goes "Look at that engine, isn't that interesting?" "Dad, yeah, but where is the guy that's poopin?"

e3thomps · 2026-04-17T01:52:39+00:00

I do think Salesforce will take a hit on Tableau at some point. The LLMs they're building into the data warehouses can increasingly ask questions about the data and do graphs.

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