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most of these options are gonna be 13" or smaller.

IME, older folks typically gravitate toward larger displays.

08.02.2026 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

extremely cool that this is all overlapping with the brink of an employment crisis, because mass unemployment of young men has never correlated with social unrest anywhere before.

08.02.2026 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They're honestly too rich to do as an all the time thing like snacking on raw carrots but... Man, I may have to go to the store tomorrow now that I've thought about them.

07.02.2026 06:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sous Vide Glazed Carrots Recipe Cooking carrots sous vide ensures they never turn mushy and that they are packed with carrot-y flavor. Our recipe works every time.

Cannot recommend Kenji's sous vide glazed carrots hard enough.

Absolutely amazing. Even better if you add in some of the most overlooked root veg: parsnips.

07.02.2026 05:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

On the one hand, the fact that American BBQ has deep roots in African American culture going back to slavery suggests her food takes might not be motivated by a weird racial component after all.

On the other hand, it would solidify her food takes being organic dogshit regardless.

07.02.2026 05:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd agree it's disregulation either way; it's mostly a question of what meters out that sweet dopamine.

I just think it's going to be important to delineate types of disregulation as we learn how people respond to these things. i.e., I think we're *already* seeing multiple classes of AI psychosis

07.02.2026 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

eh, I'd say AI psychosis can be triggered by a similar type of feedback loop, but I don't think it's the quite same thing.

there is a class of AI psychosis where smart people fall into accepting AI output uncritically that can run very parallel to it, though.

07.02.2026 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the tools are SO good at the kind of fast feedback loop that the ADHD brain craves that I can easily spend 12+ hours just grinding through problems to make myself useless for days afterward

07.02.2026 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

combine this with pretty severe ADHD and it's incredibly easy to unconciously fall into complete hyperfocus for hours at a time in a way I haven't experienced in years, which just accelerates the process of burning myself to a crisp lol

07.02.2026 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's on XBGP.

played a little bit earlier. It didn't instantly hook me but it feels like one I'll need to spend some time with to decide whether I like it.

Initial impression is that it feels like it's in a weird space between complex and abstract for a TBS.

06.02.2026 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

jesus christ.

a skythread instantly pivoting from minor pasta holy wars to "lol, OP literally drinks their own piss" proves not even a month hiatus could possibly dejuice skythreads.

06.02.2026 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Reddit OP crashing out bc not every pasta shape cooks uniformly.

Sometimes, having a little variation in texture is the point.

There are a million pasta variants because there are a billion possible uses for pasta if you don't box yourself in to thinking it's a single thing.

06.02.2026 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like either the Trump or the bin Laden stories would have made the 2011 WH Correspondent's Dinner an infamous event. The fact that they overlapped is pretty wild.

06.02.2026 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That WH Correspondents Dinner is such a weirdly central event generally.

It's also where Obama casually laughed off bin Laden-got-away jokes knowing he'd given the order for Neptune Spear the morning before and that the raid would happen the next night.

06.02.2026 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

oh yeah, front line gruntwork is doomed.

it's going to be hilarious watching people come up with really elegant solutions to the wrong problems, though

05.02.2026 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

LLMs don't solve the problem a lot of consultancies are meant to address: people not knowing what questions they need to be asking in the first place.

05.02.2026 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fast food also had to contend with sudden labor shortages and labor competition after the pandemic.

The cultural touchstone of a minimum wage job now pays significantly above minimum wage almost everywhere.

05.02.2026 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

These four rules (and slight variations on them) are popular because they follow a swiss cheese model: there has to be a failure of *multiple* rules in order for an accident to be catastrophic.

04.02.2026 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

there's something really striking not just about the destruction, but what it says about the people of Ukraine that they chose to replace the broken windows with art.

04.02.2026 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

from a quick skim, of the accounts I see that are even kind of gender-coded, they're *all* male.

03.02.2026 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

lol, lmao, lmfao, etc

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03.02.2026 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

lowering the bar so that they can try things faster doesn't mean that the bottomless well of backlog gets exhausted and Work is Overℒ️-- but it might mean we get to start taking on more complex and interesting projects!

03.02.2026 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

sometimes I feel like the fact that most of my career having been spent in areas of tech that are directly (internal) customer facing colors my perspective relative to people in pure tech roles.

the business *always* has more things that they'd like to do or try than there are resources to do them.

03.02.2026 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I didn't realize "prolifically illiterate" could be an accurate descriptor for a person and yet

02.02.2026 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The code side was mostly field mapping and translation and I ended up building a small internal library to handle it because HL7 is like semi-standardized CSV on crack.

02.02.2026 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I used to do HL7 interface integration in healthcare and it was a weird amalgamation of light coding (data transformation), networking, and system ops.

I didn't really think of myself as a developer even though it was a decent portion of the job.

02.02.2026 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I solved this problem by owning at least a half dozen sets of calipers so that there's always at least one or two within arm's reach.

01.02.2026 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Part of what I was describing is the fact that the systems side in particular traditionally hasn't *had* a firm educational pipeline. (Slightly less true for developers).

The field tends to be heavy in autodidacts, which certainly contributes to some of attitudes you see.

31.01.2026 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I do think you're right that education is the key!

IME the reluctance in the industry is a mix of indoctrination and fear that they'd lose getting recognition/compensated for advancing themselves.

The latter is the low hanging fruit and opens the door to addressing the former.

31.01.2026 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd also include the systems/ops side of things.

Part of it is those fields have traditionally moved very quickly, so there's also been a resistance to professional standards (since they're obsolete as fast as they're defined).

It's ended up breeding some of the more toxic meritocracy belief there

31.01.2026 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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