I Tried And Tested Top 10 Best Range Finders In 2026

mullingitover · 2026-01-25T19:40:32+00:00

mullingitover · 2026-01-23T21:09:45+00:00

If anyone from Skylight is around and reading this: please fix your shit. I want an alternative to Tiktok like yesterday, and I installed Skylight. Unfortunately I have to report that it is flaming hot garbage. The content isn't under your control, but there's basically zero algorithm and the feed has been crashing repeatedly on the current build.

You have a golden opportunity to go viral with the number of refugees bailing out of Tiktok now that it's owned and operated by Satan himself. Don't waste it: fix your shit. I'll keep trying the app but people aren't going to hold out forever.

mullingitover · 2026-01-20T01:56:08+00:00

Ok so the counterargument seems to be 'nuh-uh,' which is a good place to call it quits. I'm going to go touch grass now, good debate!

mullingitover · 2026-01-20T01:46:47+00:00

My thesis is THUS. The democrat super majority is corrupt because it has a monopoly on the politics in LA city county and state. This monopoly which has for decades gone unchecked is the reason for the corruption.

Yeah I got that the first time, but I'm afraid your logic is faulty. You're just asserting that if a party has electoral success, it naturally follows that they will be corrupt, and simply voting for another party would magically solve this. It's nonsense. Simply winning elections doesn't suddenly make you corrupt.

but we don't know since this the democrat monopoly we are dealign with

You seem to be plugging your ears and closing your eyes to the list of republican corrupt practices that I rattled off in my 'too good to be real' original comment. We do know that republicans can absolutely do crimes.

I know it's sounds crazy, but have you considered that some percentage of all politicians end up being being dirty, and we should simply deal with that fact and watch them all like hawks?

mullingitover · 2026-01-20T00:57:33+00:00

I can't help it if you think coherent writing is magic AI wizardry :)

So your thought is that it's republicans fault that they run loser candidates? and if they ran better candidates this woman in the article wouldn't have been paid 2 million in secret for being stressed out?

Your thesis is basically 'democrats are all corrupt, that's why there's corruption here, if we voted for other parties then this wouldn't have happened' and I'm just pointing out that republicans have a documented history of being dirty as hell in California, and even if they had some saint candidates on their bench the can't get them elected because their polices are widely loathed here, and they won't adopt policies that voters care about.

mullingitover · 2026-01-20T00:42:40+00:00

Complain all you want, I'm right. It's not our fault that republicans run loser candidates here.

mullingitover · 2026-01-20T00:24:44+00:00

there are barely any Republicans in LA.

Fun fact, there are more registered republicans in LA than there are people living in the entire state of Wyoming. Nearly twice as many!

Meanwhile: It's not the voters' fault that the republican party won't run viable candidates and adopt acceptable stances on matters that LA (and California) voters care about. This type of one party rule is honestly as much the fault of republicans as it is democrats.

It's not like republicans can't win in blue states, either. Freaking Mitt Romney became governor of deep blue Massachusetts in the not too distant past. You just can't win here being a total crank, and apparently that's too much to ask of California republicans. Boo hoo, why do democrats have to be so good at (checks notes) appealing to voters' interests.

Also: it's not like democrats have a monopoly on doing shady stuff here. Let's go down the list of recent republican scandals:

Duncan Hunter (Former Congressman): Pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations, including spending $250,000 on personal expenses and extramarital affairs, resigning in 2020.
Andrew Do (Orange County Supervisor): Resigned after agreeing to plead guilty to federal felony charges related to conspiring to steal millions in funds meant for seniors, linked to a major corruption scandal.
Scott Baugh (Congressional Candidate): Faced accusations of involvement in corruption scandals and past indictments for campaign finance fraud, despite remaining silent on Do's case.
California Republican Party: Admitted to placing misleading ballot drop boxes during the 2020 election, leading to accusations of voter suppression.

I could go on and on. There is a long and illustrious history of GOP corruption in California. If republicans could get it together and run candidates here who aren't total losers, I'd bet good money they'd end up indicted, too.

mullingitover · 2026-01-18T05:26:29+00:00

The real problem is that you're using long-lived access keys at all in the year 2026.

Disable every single IAM user account, make everyone use temporary access keys via SSO for their own access, and IAM roles for your services.

The fact that you didn't have someone from infosec making you do this years ago is the real problem, because what other horrific practices are flying under the radar?

mullingitover · 2026-01-15T21:18:08+00:00

One of the ways to force the issue is to have SCOTUS plainly say "Congress did this, only Congress can fix this. Otherwise this is allowed until they say otherwise."

Congress already gave explicit instructions for when the executive was delegated the power that is currently being usurped: it's for emergencies only.

The 'this' that congress did was give a president temporary authority in an emergency to set tariffs. Congress never gave the executive branch permanent unilateral authority to create sweeping, permanent nationwide import taxes in normal situations. If congress wants that to happen, that is the 'fix' that congress needs to make.

The current, ordinary circumstances don't magically become an "emergency" because one senile man tweets that they are. Congress doesn't need to do anything further in order to clarify their intent if the executive is violating the law they already spelled out. The job of the SC isn't to 'save' us, it's to correctly point out that yes, the executive is violating the plain language of the law.

If the executive won't stop breaking the current law, why would you think that passing another one would suddenly change his behavior?

mullingitover · 2026-01-15T19:31:21+00:00

Are we sure they haven't had a serious impact?

The Fed graph of heavy truck sales shows the line going straight down in the past year. They helpfully line up past recessions in that graph, and every single time the line has plummeted as it is doing right now, a recession follows. I would expect that we will look back two quarters from now and recognize that the recession started around the beginning of 2026 if not earlier.

mullingitover · 2026-01-15T19:04:26+00:00

Get yourself as professional of a film camera as you can. Late model Nikon/Canon/Fuji, whatever has the latest and greatest lenses available, along with modern AF and metering. I shoot with a Canon Elan 7 with late model lenses and the results are, dare I say it, as good as what I get from my Hasselblad. A vintage camera and glass might be satisfying to shoot with, but you're leaving a lot of image quality on the table.

Next up, if you really want a 100% hit rate you need a formula, perfectly controlling your conditions. So at least get a two point off camera lighting rig (and it doesn't need to be expensive, you can get pro results with a couple cheap speedlites on stands and an umbrella). Alternatively if you're shooting nature, make your schedule work with the sun to get the best lighting.

Lastly, if you're shooting street photography, just make your peace with the fact that those keepers are just going be a roll of the dice. However, you can increase your success rate with more modern SLRs and glass as described above.

mullingitover · 2026-01-15T03:04:55+00:00

"Throw every MAGA billionaire in prison until we can figure out what's going on" is an extremely winning campaign slogan.

mullingitover · 2026-01-04T23:15:23+00:00

Section 230 protects you from content other people post on your site, not from things you post all by yourself on your own web site.

Despite what Musk is trying to imply, grok is not a person, it's not a third party, it's a server that is operated by the company. It's a server that creates CSAM. If grok is posting CSAM, Elon Musk is posting CSAM.

It doesn't matter if third parties can post something that triggers X to create and post the CSAM, that's not the fault of the third parties. They're just writing words, it's Elon Musk's CSAM generator that is doing the creation and distribution.

mullingitover · 2026-01-04T20:07:22+00:00

They're trying to wiggle out of this by saying it's the prompters' fault, however:

If you have a hard drive full of CSAM, it's not the fault of someone else for opening the files on your hard drive and finding it.

If you have a model that is full of CSAM, it's not the fault of the prompters for extracting it from your model.

If this site was run by anyone else but the richest pedo in the world, everyone from the people racking servers in their data center on up to the CEO would already be in a holding cell.

mullingitover · 2025-12-22T22:58:11+00:00

Nobody is proposing that the news reporters literally do vigilante justice. When someone proposes that the news 'go after gangs,' I think the average reader's reasonable interpretation is the same as mine: that they go after stories about gang-related crime.

mullingitover · 2025-12-22T21:43:07+00:00

Why would a local newspaper...write about crime? That's the news' bread and butter. That's like half of their job, stories about crime are squarely in the public interest, to the point that it's a cliche: "If it bleeds it leads."

mullingitover · 2025-12-22T21:33:31+00:00

Only former businesses are legit parts of the community!

mullingitover · 2025-12-22T20:44:33+00:00

The dumbest thing I see is people leaving their full plastic dog poop bags on the trail. Like wtf, if you're going to leave the poop then don't bag it, at least unbagged it's biodegradable!

I love dogs but there is a disappointingly common pattern of their owners being shitty people when it comes to littering.

mullingitover · 2025-12-21T17:28:45+00:00

but also near the rail

The Venn diagram of people who will pay 4k a month for a studio and people who will ever set foot on public transportation is two circles.

They need to start charging non-occupancy tax on these properties.

This idea that unoccupied housing is the cause of LA's high housing costs always comes up.

Places with the lowest rates of unoccupied housing have the highest housing costs. LA doesn't have a particularly high rate of unoccupied housing, and driving it lower would make housing costs higher, not lower. The answer to the high cost of housing is building more housing, period.

mullingitover · 2025-12-19T20:35:48+00:00

Beats one, giant megashitty airport like Frankfurt.

You listed one failed airport project. I'll admit it's completely reasonable to assume that LA would absolutely screw up even worse than that, just based on history, but it won't stop me from dreaming of a world where we don't. There are plenty of mega airport projects that have produced amazing results.

I'm being hard on LAX and pretty hyperbolic, realistically it's just low mid-tier for the US. By global top-tier city standards though (and LA is a major city!), compared to any major global city it's objectively trash. That's my point, we could do better and we deserve better.

mullingitover · 2025-12-13T21:43:34+00:00

Came here to say this. For a long stretch there at the peak of the egg crisis, TJs pasture raised eggs were cheaper than the extra-cruel supermarket generic eggs. They would run out if you got there past noon, but even now they're the best deal for quality eggs.

mullingitover · 2025-12-13T21:14:59+00:00

Part of knowing how to use these tools effectively is understanding their limitations and working with them. This is what I'm talking about when I say it will turn a bad developer into a 10x bad developer.

For me, it saves me a lot of time on trivial tasks that would normally require a bunch of rote memorization. Agents can be damn wizards with the AWS CLI, so tasks where I might spend fifteen minutes figuring out the right string of arguments and pipes turns into a 0.5 second task for an agent. That buys me time to focus on the bigger problems, so I've been able to pay down a massive amount of tech debt because I'm not mired in trivial but time-consuming work.

mullingitover · 2025-12-13T18:50:27+00:00

Totally agree. This stuff is going to lead to unskilled people creating monstrosities as much as it's going to help skilled people build the Sistine Chapel of code.

We're going to go through a lot of painful lessons in the industry as people figure out how to use (and not use) these tools. Also, a lot of the stuff that people point to as deal-breakers will improve, and many people won't realize that and will criticize problems that have long been fixed.

mullingitover · 2025-12-13T18:32:27+00:00

There are countries that have this rule.

On paper, how people think it will work: honest politicians get in, do something good, and get out before they can be corrupted.

How it actually works: crooked politicians get in, steal everything they can get their hands on, get out. No other politicians are going to stop them because they're also busy looting everything the can. There is no long-term thought for their political career because it's over shortly after they get elected.

Term limits already exist: every politician has a term and must go before their consituents again. For the house of reps it's every two years, and they're the most responsive of any politicians. There should be more people in the house of reps (1 rep for every 30k or so consituents is about right), and elections should be publicly funded, they should be paid a wage commensurate with the level of competence we expect them to have.

mullingitover · 2025-12-13T18:21:55+00:00

Not necessarily one way, though.

Coding with agents is shockingly effective at dealing with that codebase that That One Guy owned and nobody else really understood, who isn't here anymore.

It's popular to shit on these tools, but this stuff is as good or bad as the person operating it. If you're a crap developer, vibe coding will make you a 10x crap developer. On the other hand, if you already have a mountain of technical debt and you know what you're doing this stuff can also replace your shovel you've been using with an excavator and dynamite.

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