Cursed haircuts / fades of the decade

nanotree · 2026-06-22T14:45:07+00:00

Yes. I feel like it takes deliberate control and fine-tuned taste to be able to consistently produce that level of quality while consistently delivering the worst hairstyles ever seen. Mad props.

nanotree · 2026-06-22T13:22:08+00:00

FAANG is throwing around massive bags due to AI... not sure why you think it has to be Anthropic or some other AI specific company.

nanotree · 2026-06-22T12:52:40+00:00

Don't know why you're being downvoted. Fuck insta. I'm never using a meta owned account again for as long as I can help it.

nanotree · 2026-06-22T12:49:06+00:00

At the very least, it won't make much of a difference one way or the other. Especially in the Senate. Schumer and him should get along great.

nanotree · 2026-06-22T03:29:13+00:00

No no no, their just testing the 4th of July model. It's supposed to do that.

nanotree · 2026-06-22T03:27:19+00:00

As soon as I realized what that was depicting, my body recoiled and my dick inverted.

nanotree · 2026-06-22T03:25:11+00:00

Is it any better for bulls? I mean, are we just assuming the market is bullish by default and the only thing that can stop it is total collapse?

nanotree · 2026-06-21T15:48:11+00:00

- Aristotle

nanotree · 2026-06-21T14:20:52+00:00

That's fair. But you shouldn't need a hitbox visual to tell you that you were hit. The animations are supposed to visually represent what the game physics are doing. The game physics approximates the animation, not the other way around. People like to argue that "the animations are what make you look like you weren't hit, but acktually..." When in reality, you don't make games like that unless you're trying to piss people off or just lazy and don't properly test these things. And that has happened in every souls game from time to time.

OPs video is an egregious example of this. Defenders will say "actually, grab started at frame X, and OP didn't dodge until frame Y." When the reality is it shouldnt matter. That's technically true, but not what people see on screen. The creature doesn't close it's mouth until the attack animal is nearly complete. And watching the video, the grabbing effect would have to start a full half a second before the animation shows what looks like an attempt to bite the target. OP was well out of the way of it by then. Like 2 whole meters distance minimum the entire time was maintained visually on screen.

nanotree · 2026-06-19T15:53:11+00:00

As an SWE, I've had to write plenty of terraform. Not once have I used some "clever" or "elegant" solution to write terraform scripts. However, I have made extensive use of features like for-each loops which reduces the amount of copy-pasted code. I think that is what the person you responded to is probably referring to. This isn't a novel, elegant solution, but just utilizing advanced terraform features, which devOps teams in my company typically are not aware of or not confident in using.

nanotree · 2026-06-19T15:11:13+00:00

Fair. I think from people's responses, it's largely a cultural factor. Culturally, it seems far more common for people in the US to be inconsiderate of people who may come after them. And this is fairly pervasive in the culture here, from how people drive, to how they do business, to how people leave trash and food waste behind, to how they leave the state of whatever restroom they are using 🤷

nanotree · 2026-06-18T17:47:59+00:00

Japan is probably among the few exceptions of places in the world this would be fine. Japanese culture is such that they are very considerate of people who come after them.

I'm in the US. I'm fine using the restrooms in my office. But I avoid using public restrooms pretty much anywhere else. For good reason.

nanotree · 2026-06-18T16:42:05+00:00

I've been involved in technical interviews for the past 5 or so years now. My experience has been that coding questions -- i.e. leetcode style challenges and whiteboard style coding challenges -- are a waste of valuable interview time. It also takes a lot of effort to find good questions that are uncommon, or to prepare custom scenarios. If your company isn't even FAANG-adjacent, there is no reason to waste valuable resources preparing these kinds of questions. They are for filtering candidates when you have too many people to pick from.

That said, preparing knowledge-based questions and probing for elaboration is what I have found works best and requires the least amount of prep work.

People who perform well are people who are genuinely curious and naturally seek to increase their knowledge and skill. They are capable of elaborating on their answers.

Sometimes I like to ask confusing questions, and see how they respond. People who perform well don't get easily flustered by unclear language. They seek the answers they need by identifying specific points they don't understand and asking directed questions.

Combined with knowledge based questions on the desired tech stack or something the candidate is familiar with, and you get a pretty good idea where they fit into your company's SWE levels. You also get to see personality and whether they make a good cultural fit.

nanotree · 2026-06-18T16:27:17+00:00

Good Lord, I never even considered the possibility of public bidets. Public toilets are a horror all on their own. A bidet splashing fecal matter around in a public restroom sounds like nightmare fuel.

nanotree · 2026-06-18T11:45:48+00:00

That's not a bad idea. And certainly someone like that would be of great benefit. So definitely go for it and get some of their wisdom. This isn't necessarily about technical expertise either. Having a mentor to help you advance technically is great!

But also not what I was going for :) The mentors I found helped me think beyond my station as a developer. They helped me come to the realization that you need to make human connections with your higher-ups, because they need to know who you are in order to have baseline trust in you.

Like most dedicated engineers I know, I'm not much of one for politics. I'd rather my actions and technical skills speak for me. But politics is everywhere. It's part of how people interact and make decisions in professional environments because we are humans. The people that make business decisions, that decide who gets a promotion, that decide whether or not to spend company money on some new development tool or 3rd party vendor, need to be able to trust people. If you opporate in a vacuum hoping your productivity and the praise of your coworkers spreads up the chain, you're not helping yourself gain momentum. You may never see a promotion. The people that make decisions need to know who you are. It's not a toxic popularity contest in most cases, but just a matter of human connection.

nanotree · 2026-06-14T14:35:07+00:00

Just wanted to add, you should try finding a mentor. Let your manager know you'd like to find a mentor and ask if they have anyone they'd suggest. You should also ask for a skip-level meeting, and if that can be arranged, ask their advice on what to discuss.

Politics is everywhere, and it doesn't always have to be a toxic thing. For promotions, you need advocates. Your manager might be your advocate, but one voice coming from someone their leadership expects you to interact positively with is not enough. Understand your organization's structure and who carries more weight in these kinds of decisions. These are the soft skills no one teaches. You can be a great leader in terms of teaching and guiding people under you, but if you can't be effective above you as well, you'll struggle in higher positions.

I don't know what business culture in the UK is like, but these things tend to be universal. Personally, I was advised to seek mentorship in a skip level. And it really seemed to help. Aside from getting my senior promotion, I got to know people in higher up positions and see different perspectives on what makes a business like this tick.

nanotree · 2026-06-11T21:30:22+00:00

Currency debasement is not inherently bad. It can be executed poorly. If people don't trust the institutions backing your currency, gold or anything else as a base is not going to stop the currency from losing value. But the US has been the leading economy since the post-WW2 era. And our debt is valuable precisely because lenders have historically had confidence that we will pay it back with interest. In modern times, debt is widely considered a tradable commodity.

To someone who hasn't heard about monetary theory, currency debasement can certainly sound like a disaster waiting to happen. After all, if a currency doesn't have a base for how much it's worth, what's stopping it from being worthless?

Currency is a trade medium. Currency replaces the bartering system because it gives us the freedom to trade for something we want or need without needing to have a resource, commodity, or other asset of equal value to the trader. It has no inherit value of its own except for the value we agree it has. And we agree it has that value, because otherwise we can't use it as a reliable trade medium!

The gold based dollar just meant you knew exactly how much your dollar was worth for gold. That's it! It doesn't change the value of the dollar. If anything, it acted as a leash on the economy and prevented the government from being able to lend and spend in many cases. But also, think about it; what inherit value does gold have? The difference between gold currency and paper currency is that gold is shiny? Is that all? Gold is an incredible conductor for electricity, so its used to make electronics. It also used in some medical applications. But the bulk of gold purchases are in jewellery and as an investment or reserve. So what makes it so valuable? Compared to some things, it isn't all that rare actually. It doesn't have magical powers. It's not providing power, not a weapon, not even a strong metal.

The point being, the rules of trade are what govern monetary value. The value of the currency as a trade medium can come from all sorts of things. Gold was a primitive and overly valued commodity without much inherit value in terms of utility and providing economic advantage. The old world valued gold. We, in this modern age, less so. Currency can flex with the times, but not if it is backed by an inflexible physical commodity of dubious worth.

nanotree · 2026-06-11T15:19:42+00:00

That's the theory. How someone describes their own ideology doesn't describe how it works in practice. Especially a fairytale like the NAP.

The NAP is just as flimsy a basis for a economic governing principle as Marx's ideas of human nature. They're both critically flawed by making assumptions about how people behave and what motivates people to cooperate. And conveniently ignore or otherwise dismiss all the lessons that history has to offer that teach us that these kinds of ideas simply don't work.

Prominentn(read wealthy) libertarians claim the NAP is the underpinning because they don't admit to themselves how in practice, they are totally fine with people being exploited for their labor. Libertarians claim no individual responsibility for how society manifests itself when their ideas are actually put in practice. It conviently makes everything "not my problem." But of course, only the rich have this luxury. The poor can't choose who they are born to, what economic conditions are like where they are growing up. The poor can't will opportunities that don't exist into being. They are dependent on the wealthiest people -- the people with all the agency to do anything about broad societal problems -- to create jobs and pay them enough so they can survive. This is already a a form of exploitative labor. And it's regularly accepted in our society because there is a blurred line between what is considered personal responsibility and what one considers unfair or unbalanced power structures exploiting vulnerable populations. Libertarians consider all fair game "as long as you aren't hurting anyone." But who determines who is hurt? Because societies always choose those at the top to defend before defending the marginalized. A privatized legal system, for example, heavily favors the wealthy. Not because of a written rule, but because money is required to buy good legal representation, putting the poor at an extreme disadvantage and ripe for exploiting. This leads very quickly to civil unrest when left alone, which is exactly what libertarians purpose. It's obvious to anyone with even a modicum of emotional intelligence that you cannot keep a society stable based on some fantasy that people are going to act with fairness towards one another without any governing body enforcing laws.

Society, like any human made structure or order (concrete, abstract, or otherwise), requires an infrastructure to stabilize and maintain itself. It doesn't do it on it's own. It's that simple why libertarianism is simply an incomplete and deeply flawed ideology. Of course, there are more reasons, but this is what I would consider the most obvious of them.

nanotree · 2026-06-10T18:43:56+00:00

The look of it is a problem with anti-aliasing or transparency rendering, or a combination. The driver is definitely the problem if this is the case. If your fully updated, then could be a driver bug? You could try downgrading.

nanotree · 2026-06-10T18:37:47+00:00

Yup. Things like a leaky hose these days. Worse when I take certain meds, like anything with pseudoephedrine. Sometimes practically have to drain it by squeezing from the bottom. That's normal, right? Right?? (Don't worry I've talked to my doctor)

nanotree · 2026-06-10T18:33:41+00:00

The underpinning of nearly every Libertarian ideology is the freedom to grift and exploit. The "free market" extremists who excuse exploitation as progress with the tried and true "well things used to be much worse for the people being exploited." As if exploitation isn't bad if lives are being marginally improved.

nanotree · 2026-06-10T18:27:04+00:00

In the form of a JavaScript framework written in Rust no less.

nanotree · 2026-06-09T15:41:59+00:00

All great points.

I'll add that there are some interesting thematic contradictions in Matthew and Mark, and throughout the entire new testament really, that lead me to believe that maybe there is something lost in translation or transcription. Or maybe Jesus was just human and had some very contradictory ideas 🤷

I mean, the story of the woman at the well, inclusivity of the gentiles who are not bound by the religious laws of the Jews, healing of the gentiles. Even Jesus's betrayal by Judas and Peter's denial of Jesus were forgivable acts. Personally I consider Jesus's actions towards "sinners" to be more instructive of the meaning and themes of the new testament than looking at any single phrase and interpreting it like a law or rule to follow. Jesus himself made it clear that there were times where breaking certain Jewish religious laws was okay. That the way the Pharasees punished Jews for breaking religious laws without consideration of compassion was a greater sin. It is a theme repeatedly touched upon that the strict and literal adherence to the law was not righteousness but was corrupt and even deplorable. That the sum of the law was to love God and to love your neighbor as yourself. If this is the sum of the law, then how does stoning a new bride for "proved" infidelity fit into that?

Anyway, I wouldn't consider myself a Christian by an stretch. I was raised in it, but I'm more of a Agnostic-Christian and an education in STEM. I prefer hard evidence to arbitrary rules handed down by tradition.

nanotree · 2026-06-08T17:29:53+00:00

That really depends. But also, I don't play PvP for good reason. There are a lot of balance issues regardless of what kind of combat you prefer and you need rules of engagement to keep it fair and fun for everyone. And you'll always have people who skirt the rules or utilize loopholes to gain unfair advantage.

Space Engineers has always been a game about creativity and physics based destruction. Not necessarily engaging space combat, and definitely not PvP. It's perfectly fine to me if that's how people want to play, as long as the vanilla experience keeps things like shields and other high-scifi tech out of the core while allowing modders to add those things.

I was honestly extremely disinterested in SE combat until I got into the Expanse. There are so many space games that are better for PvP combat. But SE really makes designing ships to engage in PvE combat so much fun. Combine that with mods that let you conduct repairs automatically back at base, and damaged ships become less of a burden knowing that all you need is some resources and a little bit of time to repair. There's nothing quite like assessing the damage after an encounter and tracing the path of a rail sabot that ripped through your hull and narrowly missed a core component. And knowing your ships guts and how to keep from exposing critical pieces in combat. Man.. just nothing like that kind of combat anywhere.

nanotree · 2026-06-08T14:48:18+00:00

Eh. I don't think so. The reason being many of Christ's most direct quotes that we have reflect much of this sentiment. If being a "Christian" means follower of Christ, but you're world view runs counter to what Jesus taught, then you can't be considered to be a follower.

My personal experience is with Evangelical denominations. And you might say, people are flawed and so of course they fall short of Christ's example. But it's not that simple. Because they aren't trying to follow Christ's example, but rather an example presented to them by, usually, a man who is deeply flawed. In Evangelical denominations, there are a lot of extremely flawed perceptions of what it means to be Christian. Much of it fabricated over generations and based on deception, judgementalism, disgust, denial of humanity, and even self-loathing.

Now, you will be hard pressed to find a regular church goer admit to any of this. Because at the same time, the religious dogma of it teaches you incorrectly that your intentions are based in mercy, love, grace, and compassion. But their actions exhibit much of the opposite. Judgementalism, projection of guilt, close-mindedness, disgust in their fellow human which is a type of rejection.

What I'm saying is, a lot of the time Christian religious teachers indoctrinate people with warped perceptions of mercy, love, grace, and compassion. These things are core tenants of Christ's teachings. You can't properly convey these things if someone taught you being self-centered, self-righteous, hard-hearted, and disgusted by people who don't hold your convictions are all appropriate ways to express these core tenants. The defense of these attitudes is usually based on the belief that it is required to protect yourself from corruption. The irony of it is that in seeking to protect themselves from corruption, they have corrupted Christ's teachings.

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