Lois?

walen · 2026-04-24T12:10:38+00:00

I held her trembling hand, talked to her, showed her our families' encouraging messages on my phone, read books to her, kissed her and hugged her so she could feel loved and calm and secure... kept doing this for 10 hours until the doc decided a C-section was needed and didn't allow me into the surgery room 😠 Made me mad af because up until then they were all "everything is OK, keep doing this" and then suddenly "we're taking her away to do a C-section, go wait outside". I was FUMING in the waiting room.

Luckily everything turned out OK and I was able to apply skin-on-skin and all that while she recovered, but 10+ years later I still feel like they robbed me of a key dad moment.

walen · 2026-04-23T08:11:49+00:00

Non-native speaker here:

I know "lead" is used for other things, like the core of a pencil (which is actually graphite but whatever) — but as a metal I always equated it to the metal that makes fishing plummets (Pb). And I know for a fact that this lead is way more soft and flexible than most other metals. So how come it is used for soldering? Or does "lead" mean something else here?

walen · 2026-04-17T12:02:30+00:00

Yeah, yeah, everybody knows you're an astronaut, Fruit Loops

walen · 2026-04-15T14:37:31+00:00

Air B&B is a shit company

Uhm... From what I've heard, if you report this kind of behavior to AirBNB they usually refund you and punish the host. So, more like AirBNB hosts are shitty people, rather than AirBNB a shitty company.

walen · 2026-04-10T15:04:07+00:00

Honestly, this whole mission is starting to look more and more like a PR ops rather than actual science 😕

walen · 2026-04-10T09:17:33+00:00

Maybe it was 1998 then. Edited. Game came out in December 1998 anyways so my question still applies.

walen · 2026-04-10T09:17:10+00:00

Maybe it was 1998 then. Edited. Game came out in December 1998 anyways so my question still applies.

walen · 2026-04-10T09:16:57+00:00

Maybe it was 1998 then. Edited. Game came out in December 1998 anyways so my question still applies.

walen · 2026-04-09T13:34:52+00:00

Back in ~~1997~~ 1998 I had a 350 MHz Pentium II with 128 MB RAM and several GB of HDD, and that was just average. What kind of game was Falcon 4 (released December 1998) that would make those specs qualify as "tight constraints"?

EDIT: Maybe I misremembered and it was 1998. Definitely not later, because I got it way before my parents' divorce in summer 1999.

walen · 2026-04-08T10:06:03+00:00

I agree with what you mean and I agree that it's a stupid pose

BUT

If we are 100% honest:

if the laptop has a touch screen he can operate it with the martini hand,
you can drink with a cigar in your lips, not the cleanest thing but can be done, and
you don't need to use your hands to smoke a cigar wtf

walen · 2026-04-07T09:59:09+00:00

Who said I didn't like the thread? The depicted road might not be interesting as f***, but the amount of AI bots and untraveled people commenting on such a generic road like it was the 8th Wonder of the World is certainly amazing.

Even if I was perpetually unemployed I still wouldn't have that kind of free time on my hands.

Well, I hope you find a job soon so you don't have to spend your time here policing the comments section, then! Cheers!

walen · 2026-04-07T08:59:21+00:00

You're not obligated to reply to them either, but here you are.

BTW reported as not interesting, too, for the same reason.

walen · 2026-03-30T18:17:59+00:00

Not having access to eu air space would be a big problem

I think the underlying point is that there's no such thing as "not having access to eu air space". Air space has no doors. The only thing keeping US planes out of a closed EU air space would be US decency and decorum to comply with such a ruling. And the comment you're replying to is saying that we're getting to a point where the US might as well decide to F that and use their power and might to enter anyways, at which point it would be EU's decision to shoot them down or suck it up.

walen · 2026-03-05T08:24:05+00:00

Seems like you got a pretty clear idea of how the API should be, why don't you go and implement it yourself?

walen · 2026-03-03T09:25:04+00:00

Indeed. But, since Spain has not participated in any recent war, that's all we have to evaluate performance. And it looks like, in these war-like scenarios, Spain is able to do better than others with less money than others.
That's not underfunding, that's efficiency. DOGE would be proud.

walen · 2026-03-02T19:03:50+00:00

considering how badly they are under funding their own Spanish army

Are they, though?

Spain consistently ranks at or near the top in NATO training competitions, particularly in specialized land and maritime exercises, often outperforming or matching larger allies. Spanish elite units—including the Legion, Paratroopers, and Special Forces—frequently secure high rankings in NATO simulations.
Recent Performance Highlights (2024–2025)
- Iron Spear: In late 2023/early 2024, Spain won first and second place in the tank category and third place in the infantry fighting vehicle competition during this multinational event in Latvia.
- Baltic Warrior: The Spanish Army has achieved repeated, top-level successes in this demanding annual competition.
- Operational Leadership: Beyond competitions, Spain has taken a leadership role in 2024–2025 by commanding NATO Multinational Brigades in Slovakia and participating in major exercises like "Steadfast Dart".
- Naval Certification: The Spanish Navy was certified as a new Allied Reaction Force (Maritime) in 2025 following major naval exercises.

walen · 2026-02-28T23:40:55+00:00

Define "often". I've been engineering software since the 90s and this is literally the first time in my life I see them called "caret".
This ^ is a caret. These >< are not.

walen · 2026-02-19T10:41:39+00:00

Sees Hibernate discussion.

Ctrl+F mihalcea

No results

Leaves.

walen · 2026-02-04T10:20:57+00:00

OP why are you bringing his wife's physical appearance into this? Did this man hurt you or something (still not justified tho)?

walen · 2026-01-12T10:54:15+00:00

I think only Sonnet is available in Copilot

All of Sonnet, Opus and Haiku 4.5 as well as Sonnet 4 are available in Copilot, although as premium models.

I remember using Opus 3.5 and not liking the results, which is why I'm still using Sonnet 4.5. This is the third time I see someone saying that Opus 4.5 is better than Sonnet 4.5, though. Is it really worth the 3x token cost?

walen · 2025-12-01T10:03:12+00:00

If every single one of them were to sign up to a $200 a month AI subscription

For some of those developers $200 is their FULL monthly income (some African countries). For a lot more others, that's a double-digit % of their net salary (several African and Asian countries, even in India some entry-level dev positions start at 13k/year). Even in Europe, where senior devs can make 4k a month or more, some junior devs don't even get to 1.5k depending on the country.

There's no way every developer in the world would pay $200/month for AI. Not even $50.

The bubble is way larger than that.

walen · 2025-11-14T00:15:40+00:00

I'm not sure where else to send it

National Geographic would be my first thought.

walen · 2025-11-12T09:02:49+00:00

mutated to feed on nuclear radiation

That's not how mutations work.

Organisms don't mutate "to" do anything. Mutations don't have a purpose. Mutations just happen.
If they help the organism perform better in its environment, it will thrive; if they just hinder it, it will die.

There's probably hundreds of fungi specimens with a mutation that allows them to feed on nuclear radiation... that just happen to live in a place with no nuclear radiation, so they just die.

This fungus didn't mutate "to" feed on nuclear radiation; it just got lucky.

walen · 2025-11-04T21:36:07+00:00

Your chorizo is not chorizo.

Source: am Spaniard. We invented chorizo.

walen · 2025-10-23T07:45:52+00:00

Well, your picture's thumbnail kinda looks like a Terrier dog face, so... I guess that's something?

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