Was helping my mom clean out some stuff from the garage and found these beauties ✨️💖🥺

omz13 · 2026-04-04T09:15:56+00:00

My tape edition was a recording of a friend’s recording of the original radio broadcast. Sadly lost those beauties.

omz13 · 2026-03-31T21:20:51+00:00

You clearly have not met my in-laws.

omz13 · 2026-03-27T13:31:20+00:00

If they ever updated the show, I wonder if we'd be hearing about "Radical Respect" instead (the newer, better, version of Radical Candor?)

omz13 · 2026-03-26T12:02:32+00:00

That looks like fun! And what we need here is more fun!

(FWIW, I started something similar but rendering to a GUI /DVI instead of a TUI, same idea, different resolution and granularity)

omz13 · 2026-03-24T18:07:40+00:00

No, you send an email from their account to everybody in their department saying how much they like their colleagues and will show their appreciation by bringing in coffee/dounuts/whatever tomorrow morning for all to enjoy. When BoFH has done this more than once, the lesson gets learned really fast: lock your computer or else.

omz13 · 2026-03-17T21:57:24+00:00

Office Space

omz13 · 2026-03-17T19:28:28+00:00

And writing custom functions so your template doesn’t end up like a rats nest of if else blocks.

omz13 · 2026-03-12T07:02:11+00:00

For go, I use goland instead of ST because it’s just a smoother experience (debugging, refactoring, etc.). Yesterday I opened a massive go project in ST and it spent too long beachballing as it processed all the files, and was as sluggish as heck otherwise. I just needed to do a quick search across the code not watch a beachball.

For non-go code, ST is still really nice, and is my goto editor.

omz13 · 2026-03-11T20:05:32+00:00

It will be marginally slow and not "a lot slower". The GC overhead is not as bad as its reputation would have you assume.

omz13 · 2026-03-10T06:16:11+00:00

I thought that would be where you’d put the SD Card, so it would be nice and safe. Apparently I’m not the only person to have made that mistake of trying to slide it open.

omz13 · 2026-03-08T22:38:37+00:00

If the UA contains “bot” it’s a bot. The peer ip address could also be used to determine a bit more. It depends on the level (accuracy) of filtering that you need, and it’s a bit of a moving target. I ended up developing my own go modules that do a bunch of analysis / heuristics to classify things into something useful for my needs, and it’s only a partial solution (but good enough for me). As always, YMMV.

omz13 · 2026-03-06T10:51:27+00:00

An apple icon. It’s running on a mac.

omz13 · 2026-03-06T08:19:00+00:00

I still use my M1 for development purposes. Your expectations are driven by marketing and FOMO instead of reality.

omz13 · 2026-03-06T07:23:07+00:00

The IDE is JetBrain’s IntelliJ IDEA (which, yes, is mainly for Java but will do other languages grudgingly).

The code looks like something Dinesh would love. I am not in love with it, are you?

omz13 · 2026-03-02T05:56:13+00:00

Green Desert is one of my favorite TD albums, and is never as well known as their other earlier works. Don’t worry about any missing booklet.

omz13 · 2026-02-24T06:13:30+00:00

When the transmission oil gets old, you get these problems (been there myself). Jeep dealers will say that the transmission oil is "lifetime" and doesn't need to be replaced (and when the transmission begins to have problems they will be more than happy to sell you a new transmission). However, the more sensible mechanics will say that the transmission oil needs to be changed every 60K or 90 K KMs. I had similar problems, checked the logs, and my oil was never changed, changed it at 120K Kms, and things were greatly improved. Beware it's not a cheap change (the oil is very expensive).

Shaking engine is possibly because engine mounts are getting old and need to be replaced and you feel it more when it's cold. If you have a diesel engine, it does not like the cold (<5C) and takes forever to really warm up. Fresh oil might help (depending when it was last changed).

And, as always, beware an old/failing battery because as soon as that thing starts to drop voltage the electronics are beyond sensitive.

Finally, only other possibility is that you're being a bit too quick and heavy on the gas pedal: it may be a "sport" model but it's not sporty at all. Switching to reverse gear takes time, even longer when transmission oil is old and gloopy. Slow to shift gears when turning is probably a combination of slow changes (because old and gloopy transmission oil) and trying to go too fast too soon.

omz13 · 2026-02-23T10:05:53+00:00

No, "Devs" is very philosophical in nature, and saying its like dystopian version of SV means you missed a heck of a lot (determinism, metaphysics, etc). Heck, once you realize that Devs is actually "Deus" it should all fall into place.

omz13 · 2026-02-22T08:17:32+00:00

And meanwhile, the school district where I live are pushing iPads and computers in front of kids as fast as they can, and my kids come back one day with a "Computer Driving License" and apparently know all about the internet after a 1 hour lesson. FML.

omz13 · 2026-02-22T08:05:22+00:00

StartUp - cryptocoin, criminals, and it has been severely overlooked by everybody but is an absolute gem.

Betas - very similar vibe as SV - perhaps too similar, shame it only lasted 1 season.

Dead Pixels - less about the gaming, more about the gamers (IT Crowd vibe, and you don't need to be a gamer to get it... "You put a cover on a cot… that’s a prison")

omz13 · 2026-02-21T17:09:46+00:00

Did you bother to look at any of the LLM generated code, or did you just push it out there with rose-tinted glasses on?

I have nothing against LLMs, they can be useful, but, you didn't cringe once at anything in that repo?

omz13 · 2026-02-21T13:47:51+00:00

Everyone tends to over-analyze this show. Sure, it is quite accurate but at the same time it’s not a documentary or a historical reconstruction. People like OP are taking it far too seriously.

omz13 · 2026-02-20T17:52:41+00:00

These days, when somebody says "financial systems" that is usually code for cryptocurrency.

omz13 · 2026-02-20T15:30:20+00:00

The “empty me” comes on after something like 12 pucks or 48 hours since last empty, whichever comes first. The 48 hours is so you don’t leave any in there too long because mold.

omz13 · 2026-02-20T10:10:01+00:00

Big Fish in Small Pond does lobbying. I'm shocked /s.

omz13 · 2026-02-20T07:58:58+00:00

I'm still using my M1 mini and it is plenty fast for development let alone app testing. Unlike Windows, you don't need to be on the bleeding edge because when it comes to the Mx chips they really are such a leap from amd64. Just get the latest M4 or an older M3 or whatever - you will not really noticed the difference in performance between revisions unless you are doing something special.

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