My creative output is programming demos.

I do enjoy the process. Changing a bit of code and getting immediate visual feedback is a very enjoyable loop to be in until I’ve achieved what I set out to do. And those heureka-moments when you make giant leaps are just the cream on top.

Most do. My social circle and family are spread out over the EU.

I had a SIL and FIL who don’t own, and are generally bad with money. I fear we’re going to have to take them in when they reach retirement.

Iran has a professional army with a ground force of 300k.

That’s about the same number of boots the US has. It’ll be no small logistic feat to get that operation a chance.

The president again boasted he has “stopped eight wars”

It doesn’t really count if you were the one who didn’t start those eight wars.

Personally, I’ve prevented nine cases of underage drinking this week.

Yeah, but I’m not gonna go mug shopping until I’ve had my coffee

Same as I do every morning. A big mug of coffee and a big shit.

No amount of money would change that.

I work at a startup that classifies and extracts data from often very fuzzy sources.

We are encouraged to use agents for development. We use models in our services for things like pinpointing Coca-Cola* cans in YouTube videos. We offer our customers LLMs to discover how Coca-Cola and Pepsi are presented on YouTube.

*Soda scenario imaginary. I don’t want to dox my niche, but it’s similar enough problems that we solve.

When I’m overwhelmed I lay off alcohol and pastimes.

It stresses me a lot to have things undone. It even affects my sleep.

It helps to write down everything that needs doing, so that I can detach from thinking about it at night or over the weekend. The note will be there on my desk/fridge in the morning so I don’t forget. Check of the easiest things first to reduce the cognitive load of context-switching.

Hobbit drinking songs.

You can drink your fancy ales. You can drink them by the flagon. But the only brew for the brave and true comes from the Green Dragon

I got drunk and bought a t-shirt on eBay.

It featured a rainbow unicorn with the text “HAIL SATAN”.

Posankka. Pig duck.

There used to be sites where people did just that. They’ve shut down their comment sections because of bots. Also, you can find them by searching for that particular topic because spammy sites with better SEO drown it out.

I hate what the internet has become.

Orange man already says that he thinks Iran did it.

So, I think we can probably take that as a confession from his part.

After just reading the title I thought orange man wanted to play with the documents on air force one.

Oh, I gave it about an hour before giving up. I expected more.

Would you recommend the other games in the series?

I’d be more discreet about my moonshine operation, that’s for sure.

I work at a scale-up. It’s a very busy season, and I’m a bit irreplaceable for a critical part of our business. I was close to hitting the wall at the end of last week after three weeks of non-stop getting hit up late at night, and also woken up at night. When putting the kid to bed on Friday I still had three things to wrap up before I could disconnect for the weekend. I slept all Saturday.

I’ve done startups for 16 years and I’ve fallen into the trap of being a hero before. This time I’m building a team that can work without me. This week my #1 is taking over being on-call after a few months of being on the job. I’ve got my notifications off, and he’s the only one I’d pick up the phone for. We’re gonna start looking for a #2 shortly and once he/she is on-boarded we’ll be smooth sailing with only being a hero every third week.

I usually manage to disconnect by just writing down what needs doing the next day. When the wall approaches, you just can’t disconnect enough to rest. You’ll wake up second-guessing if you did that one thing already or not.

Yes. I looked up algorithms for the last layer. After a few solves it stuck in muscle memory.

The first solves took a good while, but I was getting consistently under a minute after a week.

I haven’t speedcubed in quite a few years, but I spin the 4x4x4 a few times a week to keep those parity problems in muscle memory.

s/settlers/invaders/

When my parents were my age they had three kids and a house. Meanwhile I’m here with three houses and one kid.

My parents have passed, but I’d like to have more close family. We had a hard time making that first kid, and we’re not getting any younger.

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