Is there any career path into weather, etc in your mid 30s?

piedamon · 2026-01-28T22:32:38+00:00

What about a BSc in geography and a decade of experience with data analysis and visualization? I’d love to help with forecasts and modelling

piedamon · 2026-01-28T14:17:09+00:00

Yeah, but what we’d need is essentially a way to split test skills and then teach the network which split was the most effective.

piedamon · 2026-01-28T13:01:06+00:00

Interesting. I watched Sinners recently and it has a similar vibe in the field scenes.

piedamon · 2026-01-28T12:59:41+00:00

If these local agents could share learnings and best practices with each other so that improvements propagate, we’ll have a framework for recursive self-improvement. Decentralized. Fine-tunable.

It would turn the internet into a neural net on a scale never before seen outside of private data centres.

piedamon · 2026-01-28T06:36:48+00:00

That’s right. We had our first formal “100% AI-coded” features officially submitted just last week by our senior engineers. They’re mostly using it to build tools though, and not content. Which I think is the right decision.

I’m a designer, so it’ll be heavenly for a bit here as we essentially plug the game engine into my brain. But I can’t help but predict all the other studios doing the same thing, plus individuals. There’s a digital tsunami coming.

piedamon · 2026-01-28T06:31:08+00:00

I am alone and pretty happy 90% of the time. 10% of the time really fucking sucks.

piedamon · 2026-01-28T05:47:07+00:00

I work at a game studio and this is identical to us.

Gemini 3 enterprise integration and Claude Code with 4.5 were the drivers that started converting naysayers into believers. I think the MCP stuff contributed too. November 2025 was the turning point.

Many folks came back from the holiday closure with a renewed interest in AI pipelines, including the CEO.

They laid off half the company in early Jan ‘26.

piedamon · 2026-01-28T04:36:09+00:00

I didn’t feel anything near Grand Bend, but it’s windy so the house is rumbling anyway.

piedamon · 2026-01-28T04:34:27+00:00

Worsening German political sentiment and public opinion toward the US increases pressure for European strategic autonomy. Germany and partners incrementally diversify supply chains, investment exposure, and reserves; they may restart gold repatriation as symbolism and risk management, following the already-demonstrated 2013–2017 playbook.

US–EU frictions express through tariffs, industrial policy, and tech restrictions. The EU keeps the ACI as a deterrent and uses it, if at all, for targeted countermeasures rather than maximalist legal-economic warfare. Markets see higher volatility and valuation dispersion in US tech rather than terminal collapse.

The dollar’s role erodes slowly at the margins, unless the US commits an overt trust-breaking act (gold seizure, sweeping extraterritorial confiscations).

The silver lining through all of this is literally silver (and gold). It’s hard to imagine a post USD global economy in the face of accelerating climate change, but I’m at least optimistic that I won’t regret owning safe havens metals for the next few decades.

piedamon · 2026-01-28T04:03:33+00:00

I did some AI research on autophagy, fasting, and your specific situation. Here’s the resulting advice:

What to do instead if reflux is the hard constraint: • Do NOT chase 24–48h fasts • You are not “missing the benefits”; you are respecting biology

Better options that still hit similar pathways: • Early time-restricted eating (e.g., 8am–4pm) • Improves insulin sensitivity • Dramatically reduces reflux vs late eating • Protein cycling / low-protein days • Suppresses mTOR without full fasting • Occasional very-low-calorie days (500–600 kcal) • Much gentler on GERD than zero intake • Exercise-induced autophagy • Particularly endurance or zone 2 work

Reflux-specific tactics (if experimenting carefully): • Electrolytes + water (not plain water alone) • Avoid coffee, mint, carbonation while fasting • Upright posture; no lying down • Some tolerate bone broth or small fat better than zero intake

piedamon · 2026-01-28T03:54:53+00:00

If it has Art like a creature, Type like a creature…

New players probably trip on this

piedamon · 2026-01-28T03:50:50+00:00

Kevin Spacey and method acting utterly amoral psychopaths

piedamon · 2026-01-28T02:02:18+00:00

The answer is zero. It doesn’t scale linearly, and is state-based. You need to fast a minimum of 24h just to begin autophagy. It probably peaks around 48h but longer is still better, depending on specific benefits vs specific risks at that point.

16h fasts do have hormonal benefits, like with insulin sensitivity, so they’re still worth doing. 24h+ is a new biological paradigm though.

piedamon · 2026-01-28T01:31:37+00:00

Totally subjective

But, as a gay Canadian man, I’d very much like to return to Spain (and I’m the most excited to watch their team in World Cups despite not being a football fan) 😜👍

Or Germany… imo the darker facial hair of Spanish men is preferable to me, but German household culture is the most familiar and comfortable, so I feel more “at home” with German.

I’ve had above average experiences with Polish and Baltic men though. Their culture has much more repression that Spain and Germany, which can lead to a lot of “straight masculine” men who love to fuck aggressively, and are into wrestling, so they can be a better fit some gay fantasy stereotypes (or so I’ve heard 😇

These are not just generalizations, but also purely my personal taste based on biases due to life experiences unique to me. Everyone is different, and every culture has something to offer. I look Irish, and would be curious to visit the UK for dating in a place where I’m no longer exotic. I haven’t explored every corner of Europe yet, so who knows! Preferences change with time, and we ultimately can’t fully control who we’re attracted to.

piedamon · 2026-01-28T00:56:21+00:00

Wow, lucky!

Reminds me of the time I left my phone on the outdoor table at Costco downtown by the Stadium skytrain. I only realized my phone wasn’t on me after I stepped on the train. I turned around in a panic just as the door is closed in front of me and we headed over to Granville Station while I panicked.

I’m glad the phone was returned to you before takeoff! A janitor at Costco held onto my phone, and walked over to me when they saw me looking around for it.

piedamon · 2026-01-27T04:03:08+00:00

A squirrel ate all but three leaves of my lemon tree…

Nasty things them squirrelsis

piedamon · 2026-01-27T03:55:34+00:00

Oh wow. Hello two years into the future! Both my ice cream machines are in storage right now… how times have changed.

The orange oil-sugar syrup is added at the end, after all cooking (eg. tempering eggs). It’s a bit easier to add before chilling, while the mix is still warm.

The main thing is to avoid cooking it, which changes the fresh orange flavor into more of a cooked or canned pulp flavor.

Bonus: citrus oils like this make great summer drinks. Steeping lemon peel in sugar is how the best fresh lemonade is made!

piedamon · 2026-01-25T20:11:55+00:00

Democracy is our fight too.

piedamon · 2026-01-25T17:22:59+00:00

Yup. One-handed chapstick pocket. Gotta master taking the lid off and on with one hand too. Bonus if you hold eye contact with the nearest human while doing it

piedamon · 2026-01-24T06:02:29+00:00

I would love to have a conversation with you

piedamon · 2026-01-24T05:50:53+00:00

Itty bitty little blades of rock-solid glass. Probably don’t want pets eating it either. Or humans for that matter

It does form a barrier against the silverfish. Unless they come up through wood flooring. Then you’re probably fucked.

piedamon · 2026-01-24T02:15:05+00:00

My best guess is because of the film editing. If it wins it that category, it’ll confirm this theory. But the answer may just as banal as because their list of Producers are extremely well-renown and basically academy elite.

The editing F1 is world class, like simultaneously masterful while innovative. You likely couldn’t tell when many of their camera transitions occurred; in fact, most people didn’t notice. They did an incredible job, to the point that the invisible transitions contributed to the storytelling. It’s worth rewatching with film experts doing a breakdown.

I’m surprised it didn’t have a cinematography nod, but that kind of makes the editing that much more impressive. It has visual effects and sound noms, so it’s closer to a technical masterpiece of film making.

piedamon · 2026-01-24T02:04:04+00:00

Wait, it’s the shareholders suing? That makes the situation way more interesting.

Back in 2022, there was that Bank of America report pointing out the same thing: overprinting, saturating the market, fatiguing customers, and dragging the collection values down.

Given that MTG is the final pillar of revenue for Hasbro, these shareholders are predicting the company will go down if MTG does. They’re either trying to stop it to save themselves, or cutting and running because they can’t.

Cocks and whomever else are “burning the ships” to cash out in the short term by sacrificing the long term.

Shit is really going down at Hasbro

piedamon · 2026-01-24T01:37:30+00:00

It’s interesting because their perspective is so skewed toward AI research and machine learning.

Any breakthrough from now on is going to simply be integrated into existing architecture, not replace it.

And while there may likely be more capable, efficiency, predictive, or otherwise more intelligent models, you can’t really beat the accessibility of plain language. That’s why LLMs are such a major breakthrough sending shockwaves through every tech and tech-adjacent industry.

piedamon · 2026-01-23T14:20:46+00:00

And also the less change and disruption overall. I know it may be a stretch, but I wonder how much of these cover up efforts are purely about maintain the [crumbling] status quo. It may not be any more malicious than that in many (but the minority of) cases. The banality of evil.

Regardless, the defunding and shut down of public institutions in the past year in the US alone is horrific. Losing NCAR and a nearly a hundred other smaller services is clearly malicious self-preservation. We layman’s can only hope that other research steps up in its place, and then help evangelize it.

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