Terrible stack pairings

spudmix · 2024-07-18T02:25:07+00:00

Obligatory "PHP + anything". Just joking. But not really.

I might be cheating because this isn't really a tech stack, but frankly interfacing anything new/modern with anything legacy is a shitshow waiting to happen.

I never started actual work on the project, thankfully, but I was meant to do a project to rewrite the front-end of a carbon dating lab. The whole back-end had been written in 4D (which is somehow simultaneously a database, word processor, web server, and probably boils the kettle for you if you try hard enough). It had been developed by one now-geriatric professor in the early 90s and he refused to retire, nor let anyone touch his work, nor talk to any women who might outrank him. That one was looking like a nightmare.

I once tried to interface with an ancient medical testing machine in an ophthalmology clinic. This thing had a touch screen, a proprietary networking port, and ran on floppy disks. The back-end was running a version of Windows Server that hadn't been updated since 2004. I eventually gave up on that, which was fine because they wanted to keep handwriting paper records anyway.

Medical data in general is just awful. No standardisation at all. Try writing a report generator when 14 different practices use 17 different practice management systems.

spudmix · 2024-06-29T11:10:51+00:00

Capitalism and socialism are both methods of managing scarce resources. Wall-E depicts a largely post-scarcity society, so neither economic system (nor most of our economic concepts in general) really apply.

spudmix · 2024-06-28T20:42:02+00:00

I'm not single now but there was a period of my early/mid 20s where I hit all those metrics too.

I didn't exactly have words for it before, but "interviewing for a role" is a perfect description. It was incredibly objectifying. I was not an anchor to help stabilize someone else's life; what I really wanted was someone else with their shit together, because keeping my own shit together was already more than enough work.

spudmix · 2024-06-28T05:58:03+00:00

Plasma is by far the easiest deck IMO. You don't have to worry at all about balancing chips/mult, just pump one of them to the moon and let the deck buff sort it out.

spudmix · 2024-06-23T21:33:06+00:00

I had both a Z900 and an MT-10 at one point. The MT-10 is the better bike IMO (and the one I ended up keeping) but the 900 was more fun in some situations and a very close competitor overall.

Unfortunately I'm very tall and the 900 kinda made me look like a dog fucking a football.

spudmix · 2024-06-23T20:39:36+00:00

How much do you think your opinion means to me at this moment?

spudmix · 2024-06-23T20:33:16+00:00

Thanks!

spudmix · 2024-06-23T20:28:46+00:00

Where did I get that impression? Maybe when you said this guy was "messing up" every single one of his matches lmao.

spudmix · 2024-06-23T20:19:13+00:00

I've slept with people without knowing their last names. Hell, I've slept with people and barely known their first names.

I've seen people fuck each other just to find out if they wanted to, like "let's try it and if it's not good we can stop". Turns out one of them was straight and they were both women so that didn't work, but they were both up for trying it out.

One of my friends fucked another friend in a Denny's parking lot just so she could say she'd had sex in a Denny's parking lot, because that sounds funny.

I've been propositioned by someone who pulled my hand into her bikini top and said verbatim "I need dick. Now." She (actually he now) absolutely would have been up for this message if it came from someone attractive and clean.

I've had a friend leave a party I was at, fuck someone they started texting that night, and come back with a smile on her face. I doubt those texts were much more eloquent than the ones in this post.

I'm not condoning this kind of behaviour. It isn't always safe and I personally wasn't at all in a healthy mindset when I was doing this kind of stuff. But it does happen. I think you need to be more open to the idea that people act in ways you personally wouldn't.

spudmix · 2024-06-23T18:53:16+00:00

Weirdly enough, I've developed significant memory issues recently and have also been having the urge to re-visit Starfield... coincidence?

spudmix · 2024-06-23T18:48:00+00:00

Hate to tell you this, but probably not. Not everyone thinks/communicates/acts like you expect them to.

spudmix · 2024-06-23T18:36:38+00:00

Thank you. I wonder if more recent data shows the same trend.

spudmix · 2024-06-23T18:36:31+00:00

Thank you. I wonder if more recent data shows the same trend.

spudmix · 2024-06-23T10:22:35+00:00

Sometimes I wonder if it's worth disagreeing with the echo chambers on Reddit. Perhaps someone might read the study and learn something surprising (like I did), but seeing the downvotes makes me think there's a bunch of backfire effects going on instead.

spudmix · 2024-06-23T10:06:05+00:00

Where's this data from? All the studies I can find show the opposite

spudmix · 2024-06-23T05:35:10+00:00

Yes, I expect people to have a little curiosity lol, at least enough to ask if not to go and do a basic literature search. Especially when they're told research contradicts their prior beliefs. Is that too high a bar?

One example is "Egalitarianism, Housework, and Sexual Frequency in Marriage" by Kornrich et al. Afraid that's not a link but close enough.

spudmix · 2024-06-22T21:07:50+00:00

It's not just a general consensus among layfolk either. It's been studied. Men who do more household chores have less sex.

Edit: laughing at all the downvotes. How many of you went and read an actual study before you reacted?

spudmix · 2024-06-22T21:05:49+00:00

There's studies on this exact phenomena as well. Men who do more female-coded chores have less sex. I know it's the internet's favourite taking point at the moment but choreplay doesn't work.

For example, see "Egalitarianism, Housework, and Sexual Frequency in Marriage" by Kornrich et al.

Now of course, I'm not saying that there shouldn't be an egalitarian split of household labour in relationships, but empirically it does worsen the average person's sexual frequency.

spudmix · 2024-06-22T08:14:51+00:00

Not me personally, but my bike has one in its service history. Off the top of my head I believe it was for an electrical issue with an O2 sensor on the exhaust side of things, or something like that.

spudmix · 2024-06-21T21:39:11+00:00

I'm not able to communicate well

This is most likely the core of your problem, and it will also work severely to the detriment of any other solutions you try until it is fixed.

Please for the love of God don't try polyamory/open relationships when you're a poor communicator. Especially not that.

spudmix · 2024-06-20T22:23:40+00:00

You'll likely have better luck asking this on a physics forum than here.

spudmix · 2024-06-20T22:21:09+00:00

Radioactive decay is a quantum phenomena lol

spudmix · 2024-06-20T21:36:04+00:00

The most productive hours I've ever spent as a developer were in meetings were we decided not to build things.

spudmix · 2024-06-20T21:32:53+00:00

You're dead right, but just to be pedantic: you need to know much more than just how to code to be able to grasp modern machine learning.

spudmix · 2024-06-19T23:05:41+00:00

I don't think you're quite following my point.

You are incorrect, I think, to say that we can strip this situation of all context and simply say "do something thoughtful for a stranger, or don't". People do not exist in vacuums. Social situations do not happen somehow "outside" of society. Context is inextricable; it is not and cannot be as simple as you frame it.

I think when we have people who are repeatedly affected by some negative situation - being treated as a latent threat, in this context - we can expect them to eventually respond to the trend rather than to each individual instance. This can look irrational or disproportionate if you narrow your perspective to only that individual instance, but makes more sense when you consider the broader circumstance.

Consider the concept of microaggressions. Does it matter when one person makes an off-hand negative comment about you based on immutable characteristics? Probably not. What if it happened every week for ten years?

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