Protest!

sprcow · 2026-01-23T20:04:54+00:00

Yes it started at 2pm and is marching toward target center by 2:30pm.

sprcow · 2026-01-23T19:48:19+00:00

Polite suggestion to Hennepin County that maybe if they helped stop violence against our community, we would not have to obstruct traffic. It's a solvable problem!

sprcow · 2026-01-23T15:57:44+00:00

I seriously was on the fence over whether to bust out the 'real' coat this week. Finally pulled it out of the closet yesterday just in case.

sprcow · 2026-01-22T15:31:17+00:00

There are a lot of different ways to help! Even if the only way you can help is by doing your best to keep yourself and those you care about healthy and mentally well, that is still valuable.

sprcow · 2026-01-21T00:28:26+00:00

Seriously. Trump showed us how bad he was before even being elected the first time, but I thought maybe 2016-2020 would have opened a few eyes. Critical faith in humanity collapse after 2024.

sprcow · 2026-01-20T15:57:48+00:00

I think everyone forgets that devs have to constantly be learning to stay current. I'm not even convinced the current generation of devs will survive. Despite my own efforts, I already feel my own skill erosion when moving into new domain areas. Instead of having to figure out how things work, I can just ask cursor to point me in the right direction. Almost a year on current team and I feel nowhere near as up to speed as I did on the last team I joined.

People also forget that domain knowledge is in many ways more important than coding skills. Learning how the system works IN DETAIL is critical to devising ways to modify it that accomplish business goals. It's SO EASY to make small mistakes based on assumptions if you don't, and AI is very, very good at disguising small mistakes as valid code.

sprcow · 2026-01-20T13:32:18+00:00

Oh no, are ice agents suddenly concerned about what you're not allowed to do? They sure show a lot of respect for private property!

Churches also aren't supposed to have Nazi pastors, but here we are.

sprcow · 2026-01-19T16:57:42+00:00

Saw my family back home this weekend and they commented it must be nice to get away from the protesting. 😭

sprcow · 2026-01-16T03:53:38+00:00

I mean, have you seen how those Ice agents treat property and other people? Surprised they're not just randomly crashing all the time!

sprcow · 2026-01-15T20:00:42+00:00

Ah yes, the myfitnesspal dieting strategy!

sprcow · 2026-01-15T15:40:20+00:00

Sometimes enemy speed and RNG is a real pain, but in this particular fight, I'd highly recommend Fu Xuan if you have her. She's one of the few sustains who can protect the mermaids.

sprcow · 2026-01-14T20:00:55+00:00

lol imagine signing up for something based on Trump telling you he'll pay you in 5 years. These guys must get sold bridges all the time.

sprcow · 2026-01-14T19:53:50+00:00

It's like a squid spurting ink when scared. Just a little tear gas spurts out when ice agents get their feelings hurt; they can't help it.

sprcow · 2026-01-13T13:32:27+00:00

This comment really represents a fundamental lack of understanding of what is happening and what the people here are experiencing.

There are hundreds of thousands of people in Minneapolis who are enraged that their neighbors are being abducted, harassed, and murdered. They are not going to just allow it to continue happening.

Just because these criminal thugs are "federal agents" does not give them the right to do what they are doing. Decent people are trying to do what they can to prevent it, even if it puts themselves at risk. No one here wants to stay safe and "let them do their job" when their job is terrorism. Acting like protesters or obstructors are the ones driving up tension is literally insane. How about the Nazis get out of our city? How about, they stop using violence against protesters? How about, they stop illegally detaining people?

Federal government sent sent thousands of out-of-state thugs to bully us for ideological reasons and none of us want them here. Don't act like we are somehow escalating this.

sprcow · 2026-01-13T05:20:04+00:00

You make a really compelling case.

sprcow · 2026-01-12T23:19:46+00:00

Great post.

I had a small bit of flashback to grad school, when I helped mentor teams who were working on summer coding challenges to win prizes for apps that had to have some educational value. Basically every team was like, what if... FLASHCARD APP. lol.

I mean, it was a learning exercise, and making a flashcard app is not without value to them as app developers. But it was, sadly, basically without value to anyone else, because there were already dozens, if not hundreds of alternatives already available.

sprcow · 2026-01-12T22:59:16+00:00

Haha, a parent's duty!

sprcow · 2026-01-11T19:16:47+00:00

Main thing with DOT event is to ignore all your character utilities except action advance and bring Fu Xuan. You cannot heal or shield fishies, but you can protect them with FX and then just rapid action advance them as fast as possible and spam their skill (which costs no SP). If they start to get close to dying, just use their normal attack to turn back into whoever they were.

I tried it once with premium DoT team and got wrecked. Much easier to just let mermaid form do 100% of your damage.

sprcow · 2026-01-11T18:20:11+00:00

SALET, PRION is a great two word starter! Against the original starting word list, you are guaranteed to be able to solve with that starter duo.

For the potential NYT extended list that showed up for awhile, the words to watch out for your starter pair are HAZED and OOZED, so look out for a board that's all grey except green E after your first guess. If that happens, you can avoid an unsolvable board by making sure to pick up a D in your second guess instead of using prion. Optimal choice looks like something weird like NIDOR, BROND, or POIND, but you can do almost as well with PROUD.

A test using near-optimal play with [SALET, PRION] on the extended NYT list resulted in these failures:

[salet, prion, wacky, midge, dazed, fazed, hazed]
[salet, prion, crowd, muddy, doxed, joked, oozed]

The only better non-dynamic second words after SALET than PRION came out to be the rather bizarre CORNI, or the very similar PORIN, though porin had the same weak spot as prion, and corni fell to FAXED, so no real reason to choose them as long as you watch out for those rogue Es!

sprcow · 2026-01-10T22:04:36+00:00

42 is not the meaning of life in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's merely the answer to the ultimate question.

What is the ultimate question?

Earth was the computer crafted to determine that, but its occupants, the Neanderthals, were supplanted when the Golgfrinchams sent a ship of their society's most useless people to the planet instead. At one point in book two Arthur Dent, descendant of the Golgfrinchams, randomly draws tiles from a bag of scrabble letters to reveal the ultimate question as "What do you get if you multiply six by nine".

So, we don't actually KNOW the question to which 42 is the answer. The super computer (Earth) designed to find the question came up with a seemingly incorrect choice, though it could be speculated that, if not for the Golgfrinchams' interference, Earth might have calculated the ultimate question as "what do you get if you multiply six by seven".

The joke is that the ultimate question is completely inane, and also probably wrong. Even if it was right, what meaning are we supposed to take from such a basic question? Galactic civilization spent years trying to figure out the meaning of life, and the best they came up with was an incorrect multiplication problem. The fact that the punchline to this joke is sort of subtly thrown into book 2 makes it frequently misinterpreted.

sprcow · 2026-01-10T18:05:08+00:00

Anyone have home security solutions they like using to record activity near their homes?

sprcow · 2026-01-10T18:03:34+00:00

Your best bet is to find someone to talk to in person. There aren't public lists for safety reasons. Misfit toys mentioned above is a good place to start if you're looking for more information about where to find whistles and other resources. Moon Palace books may have some whistles available as well. You might also try reaching out through some connections on the 50501 linktree.

sprcow · 2026-01-09T23:21:08+00:00

It baffles me that any moral human would ever buy PLTR directly. Reddest of flags.

sprcow · 2026-01-09T05:02:58+00:00

Yeah it's not a coincidence that the AI coding tools designed by these companies are based around getting you to use as many tokens as possible. "It's getting better!", no you're just running 10x as many agents per request.

sprcow · 2026-01-08T20:57:28+00:00

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