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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • “Which is bad news for developers”

    Nah, we’ve been through lots of iterations of community for developers, irc, maillists, forums, stackoverflow, etc. Most of my complex questions go through specific discord communities now. I’m not trying to spend a year editing a single post because some swamp ass weanie on stackoverflow has his nose covered in rule dust.

    Yes ai has changed the game a bit, but it is not removing community, it’s mostly just cutting down on the question duplication

    My most recent foray into a new technology was working with vulkan in rust on a mac, stackoverflow is useless compared to the vulkan discord.


  • Binary search, there are so many instances where problems in life can be solved by eliminating half of a given set repeatedly.

    Blender broken? There are only so many things that can go wrong, analyze the situation and try to find something that cuts your problem in half.

    1. Is the light on? It’s not electricity and that’s a huge chunk of what makes a blender work.
    2. Light not on? Well now you’ve eliminated (temporarily) mechanical systems and electrical remains. Further splitting that part of the blender means either house power or internal blender power, check the outlet with another machine

    This approach involves further splitting the problem into 2 as evenly as possible each time. It doesn’t make sense to whip out the multimeter if the on light isn’t shining, you don’t need to check on your house’s breakers if the light is on, etc.

    This system works for troubleshooting almost anything, all you have to do is find chokepoints and identify sections of your target. Toilet not flushing, faucet not on, car not starting, neck pain, allergies, it’s almost harder to think of something it doesn’t apply to.


  • Life is often not about how hard you work or how good you are, it’s often just about how lucky you have been. Were you born fortunate, were you lucky enough to get the job you needed, lucky to have been taught and understand financial literacy, lucky enough to avoid major health complications, lucky enough to be “smart” etc.

    Frankly it’s incredible that we live as long as we do with the utter lack of compassion and community in the world.

    I’m not going to financially contribute to your cause, which makes me complicit in your suffering, I’m sorry for that. I hope that your suffering is reduced and that your “luck” improves.