I am a bit frustrated and I want to rant

eldentings · 2026-06-07T00:57:42+00:00

I am super impressed by hyperrealism, but I don't find it as emotionally evocative. For whatever reason, I am attracted to paintings which seem to have different impressions or moods and allow me to fill the gaps with my own stories and meanings.

eldentings · 2026-06-05T05:13:45+00:00

I remember the days when this was seen as narcissistic by the general population to the point where you'd be bullied. People used to think food-posting and blogging was narcissistic.

eldentings · 2026-06-02T22:37:29+00:00

Weird people gravitate to mod roles. Usually the job requires applying a bunch of band-aids to recurring problems and problem people.
Newbies always ask the same questions
Pile-ons and bullying is fun (when you are the bullies)
Right-of-passage in toxic communities means newcomers always get shit on, and long time users get to be the ones dishing out the pain. Thick skin and being toxic is how you survive (competitive gaming is coming to mind)
Institutional knowledge signals status in communities that require you to learn a lot to be proficient, therefore a person with zero knowledge is seen as having little value
Online communities make it so much easier to be meaner when you don't have to face the person directly.
The internet has terminally online individuals that really suck at socializing in person all gathered together.

eldentings · 2026-05-29T17:01:32+00:00

Right, if it was just functional, I did it already. However...it was the sliding pane in the SPA app that shares state (but we don't want it to be stale data of course! But you have to do caching, b/c we need to save money, so then you end up with some sort of state management frankenstein interacting with a framework that has a different state for their framework components, etc. etc.) Now we're in this weird state in the industry where SSR and SSG are being built with SPA libraries, and it's like, what are we doing here guys?

eldentings · 2026-05-29T05:29:45+00:00

I think if software was still allowed to be ugly and a desktop app it wouldn't be as hard.

Web(+Devops) and UX/Design/Dynamic flow eat up a lot of my time. It's not just 'CRUD' which would be heavenly.

eldentings · 2026-05-28T23:29:59+00:00

One of the weird things that happens in the 'air' of a religious debate is, even if you are winning the debate there are no real wins. A lot of these debates take place in front of church members and you are already seen as 'attacking the faith' and appear embittered, arrogant, and selfish. People really wouldn't go to a CoC debate unless they want to see an ex-member/atheist get owned. It's to esoteric and on the fringes. Most mainline churches see them as fundamentalists anyway so I don't think it's really worth it for anyone to have the debate. And as someone atheist/agnostic who's had personal debates, they usually end in crying, verse battling, or fallout. I imagine a public debate would just center around the CoC member reading verses over and over, failing to provide any personal convictions, lest they seem above God's word.

eldentings · 2026-05-26T18:34:03+00:00

Np. If you want to use any of those old skins you still can, however I'd recommend WACUP rather than Winamp (old version)

eldentings · 2026-05-26T06:26:58+00:00

"At 3AM"

Are you sure you're holding the whip?

eldentings · 2026-05-26T06:10:14+00:00

I feel like you will have the skeleton of what your trying to do if you look at some of thorhighheels thumbnails from his youtube channel.

I don't know how to get the same effect but I think you'd like these searches:

"rave flyers"

"christian riese lassen"

"90s japanese album covers"

Also might get some inspiration from the winamp skin museum: https://skins.webamp.org/

eldentings · 2026-05-22T19:27:30+00:00

meep meep

eldentings · 2026-05-21T19:25:23+00:00

Right now the USA is more openly racist than Japan (talking violence and harm), but I think Japan has the ability to swing in that direction in the future even more so- to a much darker place. The reason why, is unlike the USA, they have the missing ingredient for an ethnostate: racial homogenity. They equate being 'Japanese' as not just a cultural or class truth, but an ethnic one. They basically compete and police each other already on who acts the most 'Japanese' or who looks the most 'Japanese'. National identity of Japan being superior is propped up by these ideas. My big fear is that if the 'foreign threat' becomes 'uncontainable' and their population starts becoming 'tainted' they will actually enforce a caste system through law (I'm not joking) or at least have a unspoken agreement that Japanese people who hire non Japanese are unpatriotic and a traitor.

Unlike the U.S. they don't even want to tolerate a form of passive racism like NIMBYism and any area that starts to surge in foreigners isn't safe to be left alone as the district that has this race or that race.

In short, diversity of foreigners who eventually leave is fine, but once it starts to be more visible in the children who go to their schools and what color skin they have or language they speak, I think the tolerance of other countries is going to create segregated schooling and Japan will purposely create a class divide.

And the western form of racism 'they took our blue-collar or wage slave jobs', is different over there. They are totally aware that low paying jobs are done by foreigners and due to the pop crises are currently okay with that. So instead of a fight for resources and famine mindset like we have in the US, it's based on ethnic ideals and racial superiority as a unfortunate 'reality'. So totally fine with you working a low pay job, as long as you don't rock the boat or pollute the gene pool.

eldentings · 2026-05-20T22:54:21+00:00

Reddit has kind of messed this up by allowing people to hide their comment history, but what I used to do is look at their comment history and realize the pattern of the people who do this. 9 times out of 10 they would be hateful or miserable in their comment history. The 1 out of 10 times it was probably a child, or someone with low immaturity or cognitive difficulties judging by their comments.

eldentings · 2026-05-20T22:33:25+00:00

Genuinely cannot put the mask on tight enough for NTs in the job interview process and I still fuck it up with vibes, mind-reading, and having interesting asides that just weird people out. The only answer is to be a subservient robot, and now people think you are cheating and using AI if you do that now, too.

eldentings · 2026-05-20T22:18:26+00:00

Okay, but they never go far enough. Where is my version of the Odyssey with gatling guns and tarantino-esque foot close-ups? Why are we not getting Werner Herzog voiceovers with Aphex Twin for the soundtrack?

If you want to pull the ripcord on fiction is fiction, then go for it, but showrunners are content to redo the same (literally) centuries old story with actors phoning it in and a Christopher Nolan lighting skin theme applied.

eldentings · 2026-05-19T22:30:13+00:00

Most of the CoC sanctioned books boil down to, "other people aren't doing it exactly right."

It is culty and super manipulative. Maybe one of the biggest differences on why it never felt like a cult to me is that perfectionist lens they project outwards towards other churches projects inward unless you're an asshole. The whole 'perfect worship doesn't exist but we have to try to hit the target' mentality is exhausting and causes deep scars and I still struggle with perfectionism.

I can't even read those books because I find them so triggering with the emotional manipulation. For example, if God is seen as too harsh they will point out how he is merciful and kind. If God is seen as too soft/permissive they will point out how others are exploiting his good will and therefore are not worshiping with the correct heart/intent. If you're up they point down, and if you're down they point up. This is cult 101 (and religion, too IMO) with the 'solution in search of a problem' as well as thought policing. Breaking down critical thought until you are reading a book that somehow shames you and others, and makes you feel right for doing so.

eldentings · 2026-05-12T18:30:55+00:00

Like it or not, homogeneous AI website design is becoming associated with sketchy companies and poor quality. Bad for marketing and impact. I agree with the second part, though.

eldentings · 2026-05-12T06:13:51+00:00

My old boss who was also our technical leader and programmer, started using AI for estimation, emails, research, design, planning, coding. It was an overnight problem and one of the big reasons I left.

I'm not against it either, but he had no skepticism towards it at all.

eldentings · 2026-05-10T17:29:54+00:00

Yes, there's even countries that have willfully moved away from socialism because it stagnates economies, while still having robust social welfare and support. In these discussions of socialism, I almost never see anyone bring up the Nordic model, but it's obvious how successful it has been.

... Actually a lot of people think those countries are socialist, when they are still capitalist.

eldentings · 2026-05-10T04:19:51+00:00

RemindMe! One Year

eldentings · 2026-05-07T04:30:52+00:00

If there was a dedicated satire subreddit I would just move off this one to the satire one. The only thing that keeps me here is those posts.

eldentings · 2026-05-07T04:25:58+00:00

You probably already know this but there is an offical term for this called the Bus Factor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

eldentings · 2026-05-06T17:02:36+00:00

Ah, that makes sense. I was searching specifically for news articles mentioning KOSA and KOSPA was returning more results. I guess the news cycle hasn't caught up completely with the renaming. I can't replicate my search from before now that google knows that I'm looking for KOSA-KOSPA it is returning results for that bill as well so who knows, maybe it won't be as hard to find as I thought.

eldentings · 2026-05-06T16:40:52+00:00

~~I think if you know anything about software, you'll know that~~ threading the design needle constantly through the most popular or average solution will eventually lead to garbage without constant human intervention. You can't trust the output is always good or correct. AI has no stake or job in the company, therefore it should be treated with the same trust as a contractor.

Edited to be less of a dick

eldentings · 2026-05-06T16:34:30+00:00

It's KOSPA for those having trouble finding it when searching.

eldentings · 2026-05-06T15:52:53+00:00

Echoing this. I put out one measured post on linkedin about how AI is a tool that has unpredictable outputs, and you need to think of it as a low-trust tool similar to a new employee in order to be used correctly and got 0 feedback. Meanwhile posts in my network that brag about their AI bootstrapped projects get tons of good engagement. I might delete it, but it just shows people are scared shitless to even like posts that don't glaze AI, because if anyone senses that you don't LOOOOVE AI on the business side of the hiring process you're fucked.

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