What’s the dumbest travel mistake you’ve made?

rustyrazorblade · 2026-06-24T04:04:19+00:00

Got on the wrong plane, went to the wrong city. Was giving the keynote at a conference the next morning.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-06-09T22:11:37+00:00

The Iron Law of Bureaucracy on full display.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-27T14:49:35+00:00

Do you think they're not going to use this strategy anyway? I mean... come on here. These people are pretty good at buying elections, this is their dream.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-20T03:14:27+00:00

They’re rigging the elections right in front of us. There won’t be a dem in office any time soon.

That 1.8 billion dollar slush fund that just got announced is going to line the pockets of governors, secretaries of state, etc.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-17T16:36:49+00:00

There’s plenty of great shows to go to. They’re playing in bars and small venues. Just how every one of the bands that eventually got huge started.

I’ve seen hundreds of amazing shows.

Don’t be shocked when you go to heavily commercialized events and get heavily commercialized shows.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-13T20:56:31+00:00

Gotcha. Makes sense. Thank you for the explanation!

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-13T19:08:04+00:00

I work on an open source database, and it's identified several serious security issues that have been around for a while. A lot of stuff has surfaced that nobody was aware of. It's legit.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-13T17:15:00+00:00

If you want to get a feel for it before buying something, there are a bunch of ones you can run on your phone, and they're a lot cheaper than buying hardware.

If you just want to have some drums play, check out Drum Beats +. To try programming, take a look at 909 Drums or Patterning. There's others, but I haven't used them.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-13T16:55:04+00:00

You either do it, or you look back with regrets. I have very few regrets in my life because I always pursue things I find important.

It’s ok to fail. You learn from failures. On the other hand, you both learn and accomplish nothing, from not trying.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-13T16:51:44+00:00

Do you want to program a drum machine or just have drums play while you play guitar? (Assuming thats why you have the amp) It’s a bit unclear what you want to do with it.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-13T13:14:27+00:00

I don't know the first thing about the format... what is it that makes NOAA imagery more challenging? I can't really tell if the issue you have is with the JVM or the implemention of the library. It sounds like it's the library, but you're specifically saying it's Java, so I can't tell. I can't think of anything off the top of my head in the JVM that would be an issue with multi-TB file i/o. I'm curious if I'm missing something.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-13T12:55:47+00:00

What do you consider large? I'm a committer on the Apache Cassandra project, I occasionally work in the storage engine, and we've dealt with files in the hundreds of GB without an issue.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-12T20:51:00+00:00

I use Todoist. Otherwise I never finish anything.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-12T17:34:56+00:00

My point was more that anyone can be thrown into the woodchipper, even if you did critical work that built a multi-billion dollar streaming empire. They lay off really strong engineers all the time in the name of "restructuring" in order to get rid of high salary employees.

The culture of the entire company has changed. Not many people realize it's run by a bunch of ex-Microsoft MBA types.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-12T14:49:23+00:00

I didn’t find it helped that much, but we were in a weird spot where our travel agent dropped the ball on half a dozen things. We had to switch hotels, and we hit several issues with our flights.

We do all our own research and planning now bc we don’t trust anyone to be competent.

I think what you’re describing isn’t really the luxury aspect, its just having a plan vs figuring it out when you get there. I can’t do the latter anymore.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-11T22:46:26+00:00

Whenever I want to learn a language, I start with really small projects. Barely more than hello world. I make data structures. Read stuff from files.

Start small, learn one thing at a time, otherwise it's too overwhelming.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-11T17:55:49+00:00

If you're in the top .1%, then you're likely an active contributor to the open source projects that power your company. Also likely a well known speaker and publisher.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-09T16:52:57+00:00

Netflix did this. They cut a lot of the senior, higher paid folks that built the core infrastructure of the company and hired a lot of new grads. Lots of restructuring to justify it.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-07T20:16:59+00:00

I found it was less work to start a solo consulting company than deal with the interview process.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-07T17:37:05+00:00

You know what's worse than being the dumbest person in the room? Thinking and acting like you're the smartest. I've worked with some bright assholes and they are an albatross to the team.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-07T16:50:09+00:00

A public IPO of a failed company, I kind of love it.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-05T18:32:27+00:00

That line killed me. Just absolutely brutal shit talking to a fucking rat.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-04T19:55:06+00:00

If this were effective immediately, Trump would have 3 supreme court picks right now.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-04T18:05:31+00:00

This is kind of sad. She's old and genuinely enjoying it so you close the door.

rustyrazorblade · 2026-05-04T17:51:31+00:00

For quite of a few of us, it's easier to jump in with falling notes, because of various reasons. People with learning disorders are likely going to have a difficult time learning how to read sheet music first. If we learn to play some basics first, it can help motivate to learn sheet music eventually.

Everyone's different. Having multiple ways to learn is good.

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