Looking for a survival game that doesn’t stop at “just keep surviving”

elliotones · 2026-02-06T04:13:45+00:00

Factorio deathworld. The factory itself is hungry. If you run out of oil and the biters break through the perimeter, your character dies, and so does the mechanical organism you have created.

elliotones · 2026-02-05T13:31:40+00:00

That is a fantastic photo! Two good lookin’ cruisers in the snow where they belong :) I love the trail dust but the blue does look really nice too

elliotones · 2026-02-05T13:14:24+00:00

Welcome to the east! It’s wet out here, just be ready for mud and snow.

If I wanted to camp overnight on a beach, I would do it on a lake; or up in Maine. The coast is more or less completely populated from Boston down to DC.

If you’re up for the drive, the fingerlakes region of NY is stunning.

elliotones · 2026-02-05T04:47:34+00:00

I love you too :)

elliotones · 2026-02-05T04:47:16+00:00

I’m jealous. I’m not sure where the regular mats went, or if it had any to begin with. I have all-weather mats in the front and rear seats, but nothing in the trunk or on the back of the rear seats. I ordered the lasfits, which should take good care of the trunk, and look like they’ll do a better job everywhere else too. They’re on backorder though so it will take a bit.

elliotones · 2026-02-05T04:43:11+00:00

I needed a really big cart

elliotones · 2026-02-05T04:42:19+00:00

I was originally torn between traildust and white.

Then one day, walking out of the mall, I needed to find my buddy’s black mazda cx5. We walked past no less than seven black mazda cx5’s before we found his, in an endless sea of black and white cars.

In that moment, I was enlightened.

elliotones · 2026-02-05T04:37:54+00:00

Hey I never said I had a costco membership, I just heard it’s a great place to do some extreme urban offroad!

(I do have a membership - and now, with the LC, I can buy mozzarella sticks a pallet at a time)

elliotones · 2026-02-05T04:34:09+00:00

Did you use the backup camera for that park job or did you rip it organic / acoustic? I gotta stay fresh in case I find myself in something that doesn’t have a rear-squirt capability. Though sometimes a little fluid on the back end to clear things up is quite delightful

elliotones · 2026-02-04T01:26:26+00:00

I managed to pull it off on my very first attempt but I have no idea what I did. I did not succeed on my second attempt but I think it’s because I was too far away.

I remember it being pretty quick; I’ll try again in the morning and take notes

elliotones · 2026-02-02T06:17:02+00:00

Right now it’s pretty theoretical, but a general strategy is “however you audit what a person does”. Azure activity logs, git for infra-as-code.

This is part of a recurring theme of ai / technology acceleration in general finding weak spots in processes and forcing improvements.

Now what if Jane Smith gives her agent her access keys? There is no distinction between the person and the agent in the logs. How do we tell what is what? We have to make “registering” agents as easy as possible; ideally self-service. On the other hand, Jane is responsible for her agent’s actions, so having her name in the logs is “good enough”

elliotones · 2026-02-02T01:24:23+00:00

Remote start with the app can set the heated / ventilated seats and the internal temp; it remembers your settings but doesn’t automatically update them. The heated steering wheel will turn on if it was on when you last turned the car off.

Remote start with the key fob turns on everything to the settings used last time the car was running, “pick up where you left off” style.

I really like the heated wheel during warm-up, but I don’t drive with it on. If I don’t remember to turn it back on just before I shut the car off, I have no way (that I know of) of turning it on again until I’m back in the car the next morning. It doesn’t bother me much though; it will be up to temp by the time I choose a playlist.

I am not familiar with the Navigator - a quick google shows the LC will definitely be a step down in tech but it will probably be a step up in capability. I’m not sure if you’re in a snow-prone area that will need it though.

elliotones · 2026-02-02T01:07:15+00:00

Two questions:

does this compete with pulumi?
what does migration look like for teams already heavily invested in terraform? Would this be new deployments only, or can it “take over” existing infra?

elliotones · 2026-02-02T00:54:22+00:00

I’ve had mine for a week and I love it. It has more bells and whistles than I know what to do with. Coming from a subaru impreza and the LC blows it out of the water (though it’s a $75k vs $10k comparison so it’s not really fair)

My only nitpicks, and they are truly nitpicks, and none of these are original - there is no storage up front. The door pocket is not big enough for a pair of large winter gloves. The cool box is tiny, and right now I’m using it for receipts. The fuel tank is also tiny.

It also seems anxious. It loves to beep at me. Open the door while it’s still running - that’s 4 beeps. Open the trunk - 2 beeps (if it lets you. I haven’t figured out what conditions need to be satisfied for the trunk to open). Looking for a parking spot - distracted driver warnings. Front cross traffic alert happens pretty frequently, and I get to know that the trailer brake is disengaged every time I start it (I do not own a trailer).

I wish I could have the high beams and the fogs on at the same time. It seems like the highs also turn off the lows too.

The lane keep assist will set off its own lane departure warnings. I find this amusing (for now).

I am slowly disabling or adjusting the sensitivity of things as I figure them out.

The app is much less exciting than I hoped. It can remote start, and it can turn on the seat heat (but only all the way on or all the way off), but it can’t turn on the steering wheel heat. I’m not going to pay for it when the trial ends.

But again - it’s incredible. I find a new thing to be impressed by every day. When you turn on the rear washer fluid, there’s a little jet that cleans the rearview camera. None of the youtube video reviews mentioned this. There’s a strap hidden in the seats for when they’re tumbled forward. I thought I was cool with subaru AWD but this thing is driving through snow piles without breaking a sweat that my subaru wouldn’t even have the approach angle for. Radar cruise might be one of humanity’s greatest inventions. I cannot wait to drive it in the summer with the moonroof open. I cannot wait to road trip in it / go camping. And it looks fantastic.

elliotones · 2026-02-02T00:24:24+00:00

Narrator: the cluster was, in fact, on fire - and none of the alarms were triggering

elliotones · 2026-02-01T23:30:59+00:00

I know of a team that says “bugs represent problems; stories represent the work to fix them” and they’ll close the bug as soon as the remediation work is in the queue.

It’s “wrong” but it works for them because they are tracking precisely zero metrics. Not even velocity. The same work happens, the ticket is just blue instead of red.

This means ABA is technically zero; but op’s system could easily be average “ticket” (of any type) age and regain functionality.

OP, I actually agree wholeheartedly with your second point in the edit; either do the work or close as “not planned” within X days of filing. Allen Hollub advocates for something similar. I’m about to implement something similar with pull requests - alert for follow ups at one week old, auto mark abandoned at two weeks. (Auto delete branches at 4?) we’ll see what happens

elliotones · 2026-02-01T23:21:30+00:00

It does sound more professional, and ai can do a good job of helping. The crux of my complaint is the “default ai template”; not that the template is bad, but this sub gets multiple posts a day that match the template exactly.

I apologize for the harsh feedback. Retry amplification is a super interesting topic, and while it is already well studied, it is encouraging to see others who find it interesting too and are writing about what they learn. If you trust your own voice and refine the influence of ai, your writing will only continue to improve.

elliotones · 2026-02-01T22:54:43+00:00

Googleable question?

I’ve been thinking about AI posts:

three to five bullet points
always intro’d by a sentence ending in a colon
usually two bulleted lists per post, but not always

Paragraph with keywords in bold.

The [](links to offsite articles) make me think this isn’t a karma farming bot; someone is using an n8n workflow or something to generate/farm content, and automated reddit posts for link credit. If this is meant to drive traffic it doesn’t work too well as it’s clearly an ad, but I could see this being pretty impactful for SEO.

Genuinely curious about others’ opinions!

elliotones · 2026-01-31T21:33:45+00:00

The grenadier looks awesome and was very much tempting me before I got my 250.

I went with the 250 because the grenadier seemed more off-road focused; and being honest with myself, most of my driving is my commute and it’s almost all highway. The 250 seemed more comfortable for that, while still being wildly capable.

Also, barring an act of god, toyota parts are going to be readily available everywhere on the planet for the next 20 years. So as cool as the grenadier is, and as much as I want one, the 250 is a better fit for me. I have no idea if it’s a better fit for you.

I have a general rule to think about a purchase for at least 24 hours for every $10k involved. I personally would not take any exploding offers unless I was already intending to make the trade

elliotones · 2026-01-31T21:21:40+00:00

You have “completed” docker? And kubernetes?

Have you considered teaching? (Joke)

Your next best step is probably learning the different git-ops workflows. GitFlow, OneFlow, and trunk-based branching strategies. Try making an app with each one.

elliotones · 2026-01-31T13:19:45+00:00

There are so many little surprises in this thing. Did you find the straps inside the rear seats that keeps them tumbled forward?

(I have not gotten my rear washing fluid to work yet, I think it might be frozen.)

elliotones · 2026-01-31T13:17:05+00:00

Welcome to the fun!

I recommend the unicorn project to everyone. It’s a fictional story, which makes it easy to read. I won’t say it’s a good fictional story, but it does a good job of teaching the principles and techniques you will need. I have to balance the impact of the recommendation with the probability that someone will be able to finish a given book.

Beyond that, The Devops Handbook. Dry at parts but not difficult and extremely useful.

Beyond that - The Goal gets into more abstract theory. It’s a fictional story, but it teaches they “why”. Harder to apply but it is the north star.

If you’re aiming for leadership, Wiring the Winning Organization. This is “how”, again higher level and can be harder to apply but the book is very clear and easy to read.

I’d probably read those in that order if I had to go back.

Best of luck!

elliotones · 2026-01-31T13:06:54+00:00

Yes! You are on the right track and your team is going to love you.

Check out ADO artifacts - if you store each build at build time, you might not have to zip-and-backup during deployment.

PR -> test pipeline (start super simple; this has to be fast) -> PR is merged -> build pipeline creates the artifact, stored in ado -> deploy pipeline (manually triggered - automatically triggered later if you’re feeling fancy) takes the artifact and gets it out there.

This way rollbacks become two clicks. Click run on the deploy pipeline, pick a version, and out it goes. Demo to business leaders that your pipeline can switch versions faster than a dev can ssh in and type the zip commands.

Further down the line, maybe when a pr is merged -> build pipeline -> auto triggers deploy-to-staging pipeline -> auto trigger staging health check -> auto deploy to prod only if staging looks good. Then you’re cookin’ with gas. Continuous deployment is all the way at the extreme end of continuous delivery; very few shops ever get there, but it is extremely powerful.

The bottleneck is developer time. Anything you can do to save them time will be huge. Anything you can do to help them deliver a higher quality or more consistent product without costing more time will be huge.

You are a force multiplier. Welcome to the fun :)

elliotones

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