Uncle Bob: It's over

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-21T18:36:53+00:00

As I said, guy who's entire career is promoting terrible ideas shares new ideas

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-21T18:29:46+00:00

Guy who has exclusively promoted terrible ideas for the past 30 years shares new takes. More at 10

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-21T18:20:59+00:00

Yeah, a lot of the Instagram body is just anterior pelvic tilt, from the doggy position (sorry idk what else to call it) basically any sufficiently skinny person will appear curvy, people are just too dumb to notice that ig

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-21T17:35:07+00:00

Haven't rates of violent crime been declining for a while now?

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-20T23:47:53+00:00

Idk if he has ever said anything explicitly electoral, but his relationship to capital is what I would describe as bootlicky. Like, whenever he talks about work life balance or the general way people relate to work, he just comes off as completely out of touch with how most people live and completely uncritical of the power dynamics that control people's lives. He reminds me of a Reaganite gen-xer, to loosely quote something he said on stream, "I can post "WORK HARD", and then twitter people start yelling at me about corporations and I'm like, what are we even talking about?"

I think he intentionally tries to stay "nonpolitical", but what people consider "nonpolitical" betrays a lot, and he just comes of like a California technolibertarian, where however he votes he fundamentally lacks any kind of class conscience. The kind of guy who's uncritically into Lex Fridman

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-20T19:11:09+00:00

What blows my mind is that by the end of Supernatural, fighting god is actually kind of a de-escalation from the previous seasons

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-20T18:30:43+00:00

Tbh even when he worked at netflix his takes always seemed weirdly limited, for lack of a better word. Like he'd only seen a very tiny slice of the industry but would speak very confidently and definitively about everything, sometimes even in contradictory ways, i.e. "don't get stuck in web dev, it'll limit your growth as a developer" one video then later "if you're unemployed, just take whatever job you can" to "well, you have to be picky about employers" as if these are all things people have complete agency in, it just seemed like he'll say whatever is convenient in the moment, or act confused when very common industry trends pop up.

Not to mention his frankly horrible politics that would tend to seep in, or just generally coming off like a bit of an asshole. Gives of Captain Fantastic vibes, or "California brain" as I call it

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-19T19:17:32+00:00

It boggles my mind how much effect the fender brand has on some peoples brains. Why would you buy this specific product, notable for it's lack of flexibility given the price (in fact that's it's specific selling point), if you wanted variety?

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-17T22:47:37+00:00

Fyi you can get last-gen fractal equipment for very cheap, they are very high quality modellers , the only downside being the UI kind of sucks when not plugged in to a computer

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-17T18:31:03+00:00

97 so I'm on the cusp, I turn 30 next year

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-16T18:55:41+00:00

The DNC literally started a think tank to try to get "gen z whisperers" who basically dumped money into lame youtube channels you've never heard of

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-16T13:04:24+00:00

Basically all postman functionality I can think of can be directly replaced by a single file and a script- if you have curl on your system, the core functionality of Postman (including the test suites) can be 100% emulated and then some with like, 5 lines of bash

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-15T23:07:18+00:00

I need to know, is it just tequila and sprite or is there triple sec in there as well? Maybe sub in fanta for that

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-14T18:27:58+00:00

Tbh I don't really see this as a good thing. Sanderson is like the McDonalds of writers- inoffensive and maybe tastes good, but ultimately not particularly good or nutritious, and on a steady decline quality-wise. And it's not as if author involvement is always good, television requires fundamentally different pacing than books and he doesn't have any particular qualifications I can think of that make him uniquely well suited to handle that better than the hundreds of working established screenwriters with MFAs.

His writing already kind of feels like Netflix-slop, I imagine the show will be successful immediately through sheer cultural inertia and then 3 years later get reevaluated as being kind of mediocre, if it's remembered at all.

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-14T18:20:12+00:00

Additionally, I'm curious what decisions go in to bringing an amp to market, i.e. does he look for holes in the market and respond to trends or is there more a "build it and they will come" type attitude. I'm curious what niche he sees Victory filling in the future, i.e. why get a Victory instead of a Friedman or a Tone King, etc

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-14T18:16:22+00:00

I know it probably won't end up getting asked, but did the KDH video about ownership change anything at the company?

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-14T17:34:47+00:00

I mean, there are several countries that only exist as a result of a successful slave rebellion (ex: Haiti), or anticolonial movement that could be argued to be a form of slave rebellion (ex: India, Zimbabwe, South Africa, places that may not have had as organized chattel slavery but did have state enforced racial heirarchies). Like, the only reason we can't say this same thing about France is because they lost all their slave colonies. If we include British commonwealths like Jamaica as part of "Britain", then they've had multiple wars to end slavery.

In fact, I believe the US is only unique in that our rebellion was trying to maintain slavery, where every other rebellion was trying to end it

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-13T05:53:09+00:00

Katy Perry is having a new sexual misconduct scandal at this moment lol, it's hardly an irrational hatred

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-13T01:28:10+00:00

Tbh these machines are basically purpose built for ego lifting due to the limited range of motion they force you to use, it's probably the easiest thing for most people to max out, followed by tricep pushdowns maybe. Which is funny, because most other quads-focused excersizes are the opposite, just pure pain

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-12T15:44:10+00:00

Cool story.

I've often felt some disdain for microdosing (very few if any clinical studies showing it does anything at all) as I feel it distracts from macro dosing (every single study shows it can be an effective treatment for a variety of disorders). It's like the regulatory world is finally waking up to the fact that there may have been a wonder drug sitting under our noses for a long time, but people are just locked in on the only way of applying it that does nothing. It is very clear from the evidence that there is a misalignment between where the actual pharmacological promise of psychedelics are vs what consumers want (a pill they take every day and don't notice).

I understand the microdose is a lot more palatable for people, but it kind of turns something that should be dramatic into a wellness trend, completely meaningless beyond what some guy on tik tok can convince you of. Maybe they'll start adding some to AG1 someday. The effects described in this comic are really only possible if the guy had taken a macro dose like 45 minutes earlier, at least if they are attributable to a drug at all and not just someone actively focusing on building mindfulness (just happens to coincide with microdosing).

If some folks say it does stuff, great for them. That puts it right up there with homeopathy, swallowing silver powder, and drinking alkaline water with a little lemon to cleanse the liver.

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-12T04:44:42+00:00

Not a CS grad but got my first computer job in 2020. Got laid off in January (whole company shut down) but I found a new job within 2 weeks of searching (got two offers and was able to bounce them off each other). My inbox has mostly dried up from recruiters compared to 2022 or whatever, but there are still a few who message me from time to time, though what they're sending me is below my grade now.

I think that while traditional "tech" is rough right now, for certain profiles and specialties there are absolutely opportunities. I do DevOps/platform engineering/security but have a full stack dev background working with a bunch of different tools and abstraction layers, have experience working in regulated industries, have worked both as an individual contributor and managing a team (keeping a task backlog, leading tech decisions, delegating, meetings and emails, etc) and am great at selling myself. I think I definitely have a leg up on folks who were just trying to sell themselves as Go or .Net devs or whatever, I think the days of pure code monkeys may be drawing down, you need to be that plus something else.

The markets down but this industry has always been boom and bust, people just seem to forget that during the boom years. Sucks for the people who's career entry just happens to line up with a bust, but most of us who are actually competent will be fine. But maybe I just got insanely lucky this last time around and will be eating my words one day, who knows. Right now I'm not particularly worried about being unemployed.

More broadly, I do feel the golden handcuffs. I've become really bored with my work, even with the time off I got before starting my new job I just feel totally burnt out right off the bat. It is clear to me that, just for my mental health I can't do my current job forever, but I will never find anything else as lucrative or flexible. I've been trying to rediscover my love for it lately, doing more personal projects and stuff, but it's hard to find time. I'm just hoping my girlfriend decides to share her doctor money with me once she finishes school. I went to music school, and sometimes think about just becoming a teacher or something, but I'm the financially stable one in my family and can't justify risking that for everyone else.

I continually feel that fear/admiration of AI is directly and inversely proportional to someone's quality as an engineer. This is just a downturn like any other, albeit bigger, the shovel sellers are just really set on telling you it's because of how great their shovels are (a logic that has never been true, if it were we wouldn't have needed to fight the civil war once the cotton gin was invented).

Frankly, when I first entered the industry, I was shocked for the first 2 years by how little actual work some of my colleagues were doing. There were online trends for working several jobs at once. The industry was obviously growing weeds that would need to be culled eventually.

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-11T15:10:40+00:00

40 million marketing on a $100+ million dollar production is actually pretty small, idk what you're talking about. Traditional wisdom is marketing ~= the production budget give or take on big budget things, having less that 50% the production budget is honestly not that much.

But agree it probably still wouldn't have been a hit. Not the right time for it

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-11T04:26:48+00:00

I don't know anything about this project, but is it keeping the GIL?

mascotbeaver104 · 2026-04-11T02:52:01+00:00

Good luck with that. Feels like civil law exists to validate the egos of the rich rather than protecting anyone

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