birb_cromble
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birb_cromble
16hr ago
Try not to wear a sweatshirt with a zipper when you do that. I had a zipper tab-shaped bruise for over a week last time I pulled a roll of shame while I was doing incline bench.
birb_cromble
18hr ago
not clear that the sticker-price is something being seriously argued, rather than an opening-bid. It's a... very aggressive argument
Sometimes I feel like I might be the only person on the planet who slogged through The Art of the Deal. This has been Trump's negotiating MO for decades at this point - the only real difference is that this time it's in a court house and not a conference room.
birb_cromble
21hr ago
Recently started a Running With Rifles campaign with a bunch of friends. It's great for drop in/drop out play.
birb_cromble
21hr ago
I genuinely don't understand Microsoft's long term business model here.
It genuinely seems like they think customers are obsolete, and they can sell B2B services forever.
The problem is, compared to a lot of other providers in the space, they are pretty terrible. If it weren't for the ball-crushingly-tight vendor lock in that they have on the desktop and office suite space, I don't know if anyone would ever use them. Despite that fact, it feels like they're at best neglecting those two moats, and at worst actively trying to kill them. It's baffling.
It feels like they're in the early phases of what turned IBM from what it used to be to... whatever it is now
birb_cromble
21hr ago
At least part of why Trump wants to lower the rates has to do with housing. He's been flailing around a lot on the topic lately, trying to find something that might resonate with younger voters without causing a meltdown among people who have a significant portion of their net worth wrapped up in property.
6 - 7% interest rates when prices are this high is pretty brutal. I'm not sure how it compares in real, day-to-day costs vs the bad old days of the 1980s, but it sure hurts.
birb_cromble
21hr ago
It's Friday. Maybe I'll write something in the fun thread today.
birb_cromble
22hr ago
My current theory is that Warsh told Trump what he wanted to hear.
birb_cromble
23hr ago
In news that is not about Minnesota, president Trump is pushing for Kevin Warsh as Jerome Powell's replacement at the he'd of the Federal Reserve..
Jerome Powell was picked by Trump during his first term, replacing Janet Yellen. His tenure has been marked with volatile markets (both up and down), high inflation, the end of ZIRP, and more recently, political turmoil.
That last bit is unusual. The federal reserve is allegedly an independent body, and the chairman is nominally apolitical. In the last few years, this set of beliefs has begun to fray, particularly on the right. Powell and Trump have always had disagreements about interest rates, but that came to a head during the election of 2024.
Trump says Powell was too late to raise interest rates to fight inflation in 2022, and has claimed without evidence that a half-point rate cut ahead of the 2024 election was an attempt to throw the vote to Democrats.
Rates have remained high since then, although cuts have occurred.
Since then, the administration has called for Powell's dismissal, and a recent investigation has caused enough strife that Powell has announced that he will be stepping down from the position.
Trump's replacement, Warsh, has previously served as a Fed governor during the 2008 financial crisis. Historically, he has been very concerned about inflation, as well as the effects of printing more money. This seems to conflict with Trump's stated goals of lowering the interest rate.
What is going on here? Has Warsh had a change of heart?
birb_cromble
1d ago
I absolutely hated the idea of obtaining an actual friend or a romantic partner only to be constantly forced by that person to do random things in which I had no interest
I do things with my partner that aren't my cup of tea all the time. She gets so damned excited that I participate with her that I can't help but enjoy myself. If it's the right person, it won't feel like you're being forced at all.
birb_cromble
1d ago
From the op:
I seriously tried to puzzle out if my brother was in the closet
I'm a little confused here. Is extrapolating from a point made by the OP himself, in good faith, worth a warning now? Or is it just that it's not eight paragraphs long?
birb_cromble
1d ago
I had a typo. I meant 2027.
Thanks for the advice though.
Is there a better option for storing cash for 9-12 months than a HYSA right now? I'd like to stash money for my 2027 Roth IRA contribution away in somewhere with better returns than my savings account.
It looks like CDs can get marginally better rates, and SGOV slightly beats the savings account yield. If those are my options, I'm not upset, but I'd rather not miss out on returns just because I didn't ask questions.
birb_cromble
1d ago
My brother posted some weird screed on Facebook about how handsome Pretti was compared to the ICE agent who shot him, how healthy Pretti looked, how educated Pretti was compared to the typical ICE agent.
Maybe your brother is into dudes and has a type.
birb_cromble
4d ago
Best bang for my buck purchase I've ever made: a house.
Rents around my area have more than doubled since I bought it.
Best cheap bange for my buck: a Victorinox fibrox bread knife.
birb_cromble
4d ago
Sorry, I'm thinking back to 2007 when he nuked a pro immigration bill.
The years seem to run together these days.
birb_cromble
4d ago
Does 2016 Bernie Sanders count?
birb_cromble
7d ago
I used to have a 55 gallon tropical aquarium, and one of my favorite fish to keep inside it was an armored plecostomus. They get pretty big, and most other fish leave them alone. They also do a great job of keeping the tank clean as part of a larger system.
birb_cromble
7d ago
Anything that can serve as a nucleation point will fuck up carbonation.
I've tried to use cider in my carbonation rig before just to see what would happen.
What happened is that I ended up cleaning cider off my ceiling.
birb_cromble
7d ago
My brother has harangued me into finally reinstalling helldivers 2 after yesterday's patch.
It's still a comically broken pile of spaghetti code that's holding together with nothing but a hope and a prayer, and it's clear that the developers still revile their player base, but in spite of all that it's still fun.
birb_cromble
7d ago
I'm pretty sure that solid white canned tuna beats chicken by a small margin, but it's not the most pleasant thing to choke down if you're eating it plain.
birb_cromble
9d ago
We do have one feature that is:
- Very small (less than 5,000 LoC. Only using one external library)
- Totally isolated (only communicates with the main project via a few API calls)
- 100% c#
- Very new (maybe six months old)
- Meant to stick to ${CURRENT_YEAR} best practices as much as possible.
- Connected to a linter and formatter so everything is highly consistent.
- Single purpose
For a toy project like that, Gemini flash 3 does reasonably well, with one glaring exception. If you have methods that have similar names to methods from a library that you are using in the same project, it will develop an obsessive certainty that your methods are the library methods, and that you're using them wrong.
birb_cromble
10d ago
90% of the backend is Java. 90% of the front end is JavaScript.
We tried flash early on and it resulted in significantly worse outcomes. My favorite was when it couldn't get the code to compile so it modified our build scripts to make the compiler failure return code a success code.
birb_cromble
10d ago
It needs a human to find errors for it and it needs clear human instructions for what to do or else it makes up its own vision for your software.
We should really come up with an exacting, formal language for communicating with the AI so that it generates deterministic outputs.
While it can share certain keywords with natural language, correctness is important, so we should really add in constructs to clearly delineate flow control, Boolean logic, assignment, and mathematical operations.
It's a vaguely cartoony, multiplayer WWII simulator where each person plays the role of a single soldier in large engagements. You die a lot, and the game has a fairly unique system of deciding whether you're dead. It's mostly coded by one guy
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