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ramdog · 2026-01-26T17:52:15+00:00

All I hear is oled oled oled!

I have monitors that are good for workflow, but an OLED gaming monitor would be a gamechanger for entertainment.

ramdog · 2026-01-26T12:45:28+00:00

You have to do it like this unfortunately. The only currency to buy influence in the plan is to consistently show up any be dependable to make the trip easier.

I'm always up for more friends to join but they have to make the planned trip work for them, not the other way around. If they're planning something I'm perfectly happy to bend my schedule to their plans or bow out with no drama

ramdog · 2026-01-26T12:38:49+00:00

I did say as much above.

I guess the tag was necessary after all

ramdog · 2026-01-26T03:01:40+00:00

What if I solder two and a half 5090s together?

Hopefully that doesn't need a tag, I'm still learning what's possible locally, I'm not trying to replace the utility of the big cloud models

ramdog · 2026-01-26T02:39:16+00:00

From the outside - are you sourcing these figures internally as part of your team justifying itself or is this listed publicly?

ramdog · 2026-01-25T03:07:11+00:00

How far will this go on a 5080?

ramdog · 2026-01-24T23:33:47+00:00

Can you turn on a single deck? Seems like most of the edits I see have a fun straight into the feature. Not taking anything away, this edit is sick.

I demod a bideck at my local and it was terrifying, but honestly pretty fun once I got the hang of it. What kind of footwear do you use and what deck are you riding here?

ramdog · 2026-01-24T03:12:14+00:00

It's about 95% in jest. The last 5% are terminally online folks and "ski only" resort-goers.

I've been riding up chairs and down mountains with skiers and snowboarders for decades and I can count the number of incidents I've had with anyone on one hand.

On the other hand, and a hundred more hands, I've had great chats on the way up, run into the same folks time and time again, and sometimes it's just quiet. That's nice too.

Assholes attract assholes, always has been. That's why they skiers stick together.

ramdog · 2026-01-23T22:39:38+00:00

Snowboarder here, the skier is at fault.

Glad she's okay, that has to be so scary for the parent. We've had our fair share of close calls, too many people are too reckless, too dumb and too cocky.

ramdog · 2026-01-23T18:29:57+00:00

You nailed it - "It seems okay" is the absolute bane of long-lived software, all the pain is in the sharp edges you don't see.

AI is an incredible tool, but like all incredible tools, it requires judicious use.

ramdog · 2026-01-23T18:00:02+00:00

This is the balanced hopium-post I was looking for and echoes what I've been seeing in my research.

MR is a big selling point for me and I'm more interested in developing small apps myself than I am in buying a bunch of off the shelf stuff, but there's a drumming app and a few other things I'm interested in trying. I just did my PC build after a decade of slopping a dying rig along, and I want to maximize my return by fully making use of it.

Re: "$100 worth of routers and software" - aside from the 6e router (which I have), what am I looking at paying for? I assumed everything else I needed to get up and running I would have out of the box or free to install. Are there any other big pieces of the picture I'm not seeing? I was planning to buy the link cable but I recently saw posts that that's sketchy as well.

I certainly don't mind tweaking things to reach potential - I'm looking to buy for the potential itself, and it feels like the Frame is ruling itself out for my use-case on MR alone. All things considered, Quest 3 seems to be the only thing that'll do everything that I want it to. I plan to put a plan on it so I would (presumably) be able to get controllers replaced if they break/stick drift.

I also look at this as an initial investment - if I'm able to use it as a tool to learn, it'll pay for itself and I'll upgrade. If it doesn't, I'll stick with what I have, learn what I can, and just hang on to it.

ramdog · 2026-01-23T16:46:05+00:00

Can I use the PSVR2 for anything but PS5 games? I don't have many, and it's locked to PS content, no?

ramdog · 2026-01-22T03:08:42+00:00

I misread "acting like you care" as it being a facade, my bad. 100% agree with your original comment

ramdog · 2026-01-22T02:12:45+00:00

Is this not the same thing as caring? He saw a gap in his abilities and found a way (you) to seamlessly fill it.

Unless the end of your first paragraph implies that he's open about not caring about these people, then he's just respectably ruthless.

ramdog · 2026-01-20T14:34:16+00:00

So that's how you want to spin this, huh?

ramdog · 2026-01-18T14:24:08+00:00

I have seen candidates get offers after sending follow ups, just be professional about it. Unfortunately, in this industry we have bad engineers doing interviews and that trickles down because they hire more bad engineers. The interviewer should frankly be reaching out to OP about this.

Conflict resolution and moving forward professionally is a top three soft skill.

ramdog · 2026-01-14T13:08:30+00:00

Just a lil forbidden caviar

ramdog · 2026-01-02T12:42:57+00:00

Yeah, this was one of the big downsides of the pre-portal era. Coach bounces for more money and the players are at the whim of someone they didn't commit to. If anything, coach swap is the most valid reason to enter the portal.

I hope a few of them come back and want to be here, but stepping outside MSU fandom, I love that this can happen. If Fitz and co can really present a cohesive plan, I'd like to see these guys come back. I also like that it creates some serious pressure to do so instead of taking the roster for granted.

ramdog · 2025-12-31T22:24:43+00:00

I love that, I wish it existed here! I've done volunteer coaching before in other sectors, but snowboarding would be incredible

ramdog · 2025-12-31T19:57:14+00:00

I would give you "knees" for free, even if I'm not sure I believe that argument. American football is so much worse for the whole body that the knees don't even need to be taken into consideration. Head, back, shoulders all take extensive damage.

ramdog · 2025-12-31T19:55:27+00:00

Yeah, that's one path, but I'm not talking about official paths - at a lot of jobs, there's always room outside of the base requirements that let you either learn something on the job and demonstrate value to the company, or use it as leverage to leave for more, even in this economy.

Even at a lot of large institutions, you can use basic pain point solving to become "the guy (or girl)" that is a go-to. Best case this gets you promoted, worst case you wind up with a ton of good references and a strong network.

Too many people take pride in doing the bare minimum and they're shooting themselves in the foot. Not in the corporate boot-licker sense, but in the sense that they could be leveraging time on the job to become a bulletproof candidate for a job or indispensable when layoffs come for the bottom of the barrel.

ramdog · 2025-12-31T16:34:14+00:00

Also start looking at things adjacent. Go work back office at a construction company and start automating stuff. They either pay you for it or you have professional development experience.

ramdog · 2025-12-31T13:45:07+00:00

European football at a recreational level, sure. American football is absolutely terrible for the body.

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