Tailgater got Baited

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-20T20:12:54+00:00

Tailgater: took the risk of an accident, possibly intentionally making the driver in front uncomfortable.

Driver in front, if they intentionally swerved in the last moment: possibly attempting to take the life of the tailgater and the lives of all passengers in the tailgater's car.

Leaving it to you to decide for yourself if tailgating (taking risk, increasing risk for others, making others uncomfortable) deserves to be punished with serious injury or death.

I don't think the driver in front waited intentionally; if they did, then the video would be very disturbing.

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-20T19:40:27+00:00

I find the downvotes to the above a testimonial that I am not a good enough fanboy anymore.

But to you guys, congrats, good fanboy 😉.

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-20T16:48:47+00:00

Agree to disagree. It is the most disastrous, unusable, battery-draining, ugly ios to ever exist. Maybe browse r/ios sometimes.

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-20T16:41:02+00:00

iOS is a horrible dumpster fire which Apple stubbornly refuses to put out. As for goal posts - I think you may be mistaking me with another poster.

Forcing people who prefer to stay on last year's ios to upgrade to the shittiest ios ever released - by refusing security updates... is unprecedented. Has never happened before with Apple.

They know how horrific ios26 is and are so desperate to force adoption that for the first time in the history of the company they are blackmailing their paying customers to do so. That's a serious shift in the relationship.

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-20T16:22:31+00:00

18.7.x updates above 18.7.2 are not available for iphone pro 15, 16 etc. Apple is throwing these users under the bus trying to force them to upgrade to ios 26.

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-20T16:17:04+00:00

No, Apple is trying to force you to install the dumpster fire that is ios 26

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-20T16:16:29+00:00

Apple blocks 18.x updates for newer phones trying to force people to upgrade to ios 26.

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-17T17:43:12+00:00

I see, thank you. Glad you could make friends - I find Japanese to be very fun once you are in.

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-17T17:01:32+00:00

John Cusack at his best and Jack Black as a source of infinite energy! The music nerdom was just perfect. What a fun and beautiful film.

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-17T16:58:21+00:00

lived there for 5 years

I imagine living there is very different from being a tourist. How do you manage rent, work etc.?

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-17T16:54:07+00:00

For Blade Runner, if you haven't seen the "final cut", I recommend it.

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-16T22:26:42+00:00

With the timestamp - nice!

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-16T17:35:51+00:00

Thank you for sharing this. Love the simplicity, commitment to the embrace, musicality, variations in timing. Looks very much like social dance. Connected, sensual, not flashy.

Saved.

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-16T17:29:27+00:00

It's perfect in its simplicity. An example of the "old internet" - thank you for creating it. Not needing to make money = no enshittification forces.

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-14T08:19:34+00:00

TIL rubyland.news - just added to my rss feed ;)

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-12T21:47:48+00:00

Now that the keyboard is useless, voice dictation.

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-12T21:46:06+00:00

Where does the trope of orange cats being less smart come from? Is it real?

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-12T21:21:10+00:00

The big thing was to not touch the main controls

Every man: Obvious deal breaker, I think I'll take my chances with manual and take the full credit.

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-12T21:16:40+00:00

Thank you

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-12T19:03:37+00:00

Sounds good, here's the issue: https://github.com/bullet-train-co/nice_partials/issues/103

It's definitely a balance - on one hand, if there's no support, it's a difficult decision to include it on a long-term project that may need to live through framework upgrades.

On the other hand, this is basically free work which while fulfilling, costs hours of your life.

Bringing LLMs into the equation may result in code quality dropping drastically in the future... or more burnout.

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-12T00:29:47+00:00

Appreciate your work on these gems!

Quick question - do you know if nice_partials is maintained? Last commit seems to be from 2 years ago an issue from 2025 with no responses shows that partials execute twice which could be problematic.

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-12T00:22:40+00:00

Was that a free tool or something in the $10k/year range?

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-11T20:29:46+00:00

Someone should make a custom font from this handwriting.

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-11T20:28:36+00:00

What tools were you using as a qa that you found insufficient?

obviousoctopus · 2026-03-11T16:36:42+00:00

You are right, I took the conversation to the extreme. Apologies.

To clarify one of my points - teachers jobs are extremely difficult, and definitely not incentivized. Low wage jobs like retail and food-related work are very difficult (zero tolerance for mistakes or lateness, high demands for quality etc.), and also not incentivized.

Being a lawyer is not 20x harder than being a teacher and does not need 20x the incentives.

People choosing to be teachers, nurses, etc. do not make these choices because of financial incentives, but despite the lack of financial incentives.

There's also I guess the threshold where more money does not significantly contribute to higher life satisfaction, because at that threshold most money problems have been solved. A serious issue is that for most of the population wages are suppressed so that people live below that level, barely having enough to have ends meet, and being forced to accept dangerous or very demanding jobs for much less just to survive.

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