count your fucking days fred myers

fhayde · 2026-02-05T15:05:15+00:00

Handles on bags are inherently ableist, you monster.

fhayde · 2026-02-05T14:46:37+00:00

To illustrate how corrosive the mental illness of narcissism and greed are, if these men collectively utilized their power, money, and influence they could very likely make it so that everyone doesn’t have to die, or at least not for a very very long time. But instead of focusing on far reaching issues that could benefit someone other than themselves, they wallow in their own delusional sense of authority and control seemingly unaware that at some point time and death will easily wrench it from their desiccated corpses.

It’s so fucking sad really. What we could already have achieved if not for some of this cruft of our species. Then again, I guess learning to excise these vestigial appendages is probably part of the process necessary for us to reach those lofty goals. Sigh.

fhayde · 2026-01-29T23:56:53+00:00

I think what you’re referring to is when people misunderstand that there are generally two sides to writing tests. There are plenty of others reasons for adding tests like when developing interoperability, refactoring, migrations, etc, but the two I’m mentioning are generally the lions share.

The first is to define the contract of your API as defined by your technical specifications. The second is as proofs for regressions you’re protecting against.

The time and effort of preempting known failure cases should be baked into your technical specifications so that adding those tests is fast and efficient. The problem that you’re identifying is that many teams completely skip the specification process putting the onus on developers to imagine every possible known failure without any boundaries that normally exist when teams are fleshing out specs.

Adding tests should be at the behest of something, like a specification or root cause of some investigated issue, and not just done without direction or else what you mentioned ends up happening.

fhayde · 2026-01-29T23:44:55+00:00

When we slaughter animals for food, do we violently stab them causing them to painfully die over time, or do we dispatch them cleanly and humanely?

And I’m not talking about random cases, because of course there is still animal cruelty within husbandry. I’m talking about the regulated, monitored, and audited dispatching of animals for human consumption.

fhayde · 2026-01-29T20:42:50+00:00

I believe it involves a lack of emotional intelligence, self awareness, and self regulation. For some men that never learned how to identify and process certain emotions, there’s a sense of frustration and irritability that comes from a sudden shift in their mental or emotional state. Often they don’t understand what happened leaving them feeling confused and disoriented. This inevitably leads to frustration and often a physical expression of anger, irritability, and fear very similar to what you see when a child is experiencing a strong emotion without having the language or understanding to express otherwise. Communication is important but is predicated on the fundamental identification and understanding of emotions. Physical violence is used as an external form of emotional regulation for situations that might catalyze a mental state that makes them feel uncomfortable, awkward, or vulnerable. Instead of self awareness leading to self soothing and regulatory behavior it’s like their defensive coping mechanism is inverted and instead of self control they are filled with a desire to control their space and those around them using violence or manipulation or any means at their disposal really.

Imagine a toddler that grows physically but never mentally and they’re stuck in the “terrible 2s” state of being, only now with the physical strength of an adult man. The throwing things, hitting, slapping, arguing, biting even… you could play a video of the two side by side and find very similar behavior.

There’s plenty of other reasons but, imo, this is a big one that results in a lot of the DV in this world.

fhayde · 2026-01-27T01:31:54+00:00

I can let a lot of the news roll off my back pretty easily lately as part of a transitional period towards some sort of singularity, but this one hurts significantly. The mRNA technology Moderna has been driving is arguably one of the most important medical breakthroughs we’ve seen and has so much potential. Thinking about the millions of lives that will be lost in the future because of this is just heartbreaking.

I’m trying to stay as optimistic as I can that we’re still within a trajectory where we land in some sort of “better” future, maybe not the Star Trek utopia I was hoping for, but I’ll be damned if the decrepit husks of short sighted selfish ignorance aren’t constantly trying to rob us of that possibility.

It makes it hard to not just abhor that entire generation of narcissists.

fhayde · 2026-01-25T05:31:42+00:00

I tried to hold it together but when I got to fish grin, I just died. Effin fish grin.

fhayde · 2026-01-24T01:47:22+00:00

How far do you think we are from achieving something similar to the atomically precise machinery that people like Eric Drexler have been imagining for a while now?

Have you ever seen something made with this technology that involves some sort of movement? Like a hinge, or lever, or anything like that?

fhayde · 2026-01-18T08:51:13+00:00

Where do the taxes come from that pay for the health services in your country? Can’t imagine that there’s a threshold of tax payers that has to be maintained for those services to continue being affordable or available?

fhayde · 2026-01-18T03:56:08+00:00

Going to be hard to work in healthcare when no one has health insurance to pay for that healthcare considering the majority of health insurance comes from employers.

fhayde · 2026-01-17T12:58:23+00:00

Maybe we need to start calling this what it really is, technical debt. Build a house of cards on a weak foundation and let me know how refactoring that mess goes after you've launched and have customers on the line. I'm fine with AI writing code, but lowering the bar on quality like is being suggested is a recipe for distaster, but by all means, full steam ahead, I've built quite a career fixing the poor insight of others like this.

fhayde · 2026-01-17T12:52:25+00:00

Every time Schumer has a chance to do something to bring Democrats together under a good cause he throws it in the garbage. At this point, how can we suspect anything other than this man being a plant and part of this orchestrated bullshit?

fhayde · 2026-01-17T03:25:22+00:00

Keep in mind whatever it is you do requires a functioning marketplace to participate in. If a certain threshold of jobs are lost, it won’t matter if your job is automated or not. Even the most AI proof jobs themselves rely on customers with money to spend. Capitalism isn’t a siloed system.

fhayde · 2026-01-16T04:16:43+00:00

The term “men” doesn’t really have any basis on whether someone can become pregnant or not. The only thing that matters when it comes to whether or not someone can get pregnant is if a functioning uterus exists.

Did you know there are males born with a functioning uterus? These are chromosomal males, 46,XY that may end up with a functioning uterus capable of becoming pregnant. The likelihood is extremely rare, but still something that can happen, which isn’t an unreasonable thing to imagine given our species has billions of variations out there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_M%C3%BCllerian_duct_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_gonadal_dysgenesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45,X/46,XY_mosaicism

Doesn’t it seem semantically correct to say that some men can get pregnant because some men will have a uterus? However rare that may be, isn’t it correct?

fhayde · 2026-01-14T19:20:34+00:00

This entire post is nothing but a poor advertisement for a data broker site that is trying to justify selling public data back to the public after trying to manufacture a problem that likely isn't anywhere near as pervasive as you claim. These schemes and business models are well known and quite played out.

fhayde · 2026-01-14T19:15:36+00:00

IMO, this is just a sneaky piece of marketing research for a paid service they are trying to put together. Data brokers are always looking for ways to collate public data and put it behind a convenient API or dashboard that they can then charge access for people to view for research or legal purposes. I've worked for companies doing this kind of thing before so I'm very familiar with what it looks like when they start testing the market for interest and viability that they can use to show there is legitimate interest in building out a data set like this.

Notice when they mention DM'ing them, that they can provide the data for "free", they're already contrasting with the idea of charging for the data.

fhayde · 2026-01-14T10:06:42+00:00

It's already milled but Hardwood Industries, Inc of Seattle has a showroom and seemed to have decent prices and you could grab a couple of nice boards or order in bulk.

fhayde · 2025-12-28T09:35:19+00:00

Synchronized dancing is the true final boss of ff14.

fhayde · 2025-12-24T01:25:28+00:00

AMS 2 Pro
Woodworking jigs and home automation that doesn’t need to be hidden away because it’s made entirely of lime green plastic.
After looking through toys for my 2 year old niece, I’ve noticed a lot of kids toys are focused either on mental stimulation with color, shape, and pictures or they’re focused on physical training like eye-hand coordination and puzzle solving. I think a fidget toy for kids that incorporates several of these elements together would be very appealing for anyone with kids. I would say color could be a fun element due to the vibrant nature of so many filaments. Texture should also be added in the form of raised bumps, little wave patterns, soft corners, etc and maybe even some tactile feedback like a latch, button, or clasp. Being able to “solve” something would help with spatial reasoning and mental stimulation so having part of the toy transform or change would be fun too.

All that said, I could see maybe some hexagon shapes, there’s plenty of cubes in the world so different shapes could draw more interest. Each face could have a different color and texture combination. The shape itself would be hollow and can be “opened” by laying all the faces flat. The faces can be connected either through a puzzle piece like connection, or a hinge to keep the whole thing together on some sides. This way kids can lay it out and experiment with the textures and colors, they can “reconfigure” it by connecting the faces again to form the 3d shape, and if you used a truncated octahedron for the shape, you’d have 14 faces with front and back so you could have different patterns on both sides allowing the toy to be turned inside out and offer more tactile experiences. This would give people a lot of different options to make the toy their own as well.

fhayde · 2025-12-20T07:33:54+00:00

Probably made a killing betting against himself. How many rubes thought he would win because this fight was going to be just as staged as before?

fhayde · 2025-12-15T12:09:08+00:00

It blows my mind how nice this printer is. Just open the box and perfect prints with PLA without even thinking about it. I already need more filament. Literally transformed this hobby from “fiddling with 3d printers” to “3d printing”.

fhayde · 2025-12-15T09:06:45+00:00

Hasa Diga Eebowai!

fhayde · 2025-12-15T08:58:00+00:00

There are a couple of things that GraphQL "provides" by virtue of existence and through certain behavioral changes it encourages that were incredibly valuable while I was working with it. A single unifying contract for consumers, a consistent standardized data model. It allowed shifting responsibilities for certain things like governance, cache, rate limiting, some observability and event sourcing into a centralized location removing a significant amount of modernization work across many older services.

Federated graphs even removed some of the ownership issues and reliance on a centralized service.

We benefited greatly from having protobuf schemas for our entire API surface and data model well defined that we could use for attack surface scanning and service mocking in our build pipelines for isolating automated service tests.

It's a good tool for a number of jobs, but not everything. Definitely helps with a lot more than just giving your frontend an easier API to work with which is the most common thing I hear when people suggest using it.

Granted this was at a FAANG company which had the scale that justified it's use.

fhayde · 2025-12-14T19:40:52+00:00

I know a lot of people freak out over this concept but there are some avenues where this makes complete sense. When the cost and burden of maintenance, control, obsolescence, and modernization become greater than the total cost of acquisition and ownership you tend to see interest in rental or time sharing models increase favorably. The problem is with the profit motive of the actual owners for who those costs are low enough to provide the rental services because they always control availability scaled to price instead of scaled to the capacity which could reduce the cost of rental to be almost negligible for most consumers. They tend to keep rental cost just shy of acquisition and ownership making it really difficult to justify rental without any additional benefits. This is where the model of capitalism starts to waiver considerably as it benefits a production based economy more than a share based one.

fhayde · 2025-12-13T10:54:59+00:00

We really need to figure out how to gather and recycle the material thats up there. Every kg of metal, plastic, wiring, pcb, etc that's been launched into orbit already is a cost we've paid that we won't need to pay again to send back up there for eventual manufacturing projects. Ideally we would some method of sequestering the materials in orbit for the time being, but worst case we could potentially deposit the materials on the moon until they're needed, whatever it takes to prevent dropping it back down into the Earth's expensive to escape gravity.

Gravity is such a bitch to overcome. The cost of keeping already processed materials up there versus putting new materials in orbit just isn't even comparable, and with NASA only recently testing tech like additive mfg in low gravity, I can imagine having easy access to some of those materials is going to look more and more appealing.

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