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Cake day: November 11th, 2024

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  • Having spent some time doing licensing work for an orbital vehicle, the reason the reentries are uncontrolled is pretty stupid bureaucratic bullshit. Because of the way the licensing process works, its much easier to get an uncontrolled reentry license than a controlled reentry license. The FAA claims to prefer controlled reentry so the debris comes down in some uninhabited part of the ocean, but because they make it way easier to get a license for an uncontrolled reentry thats what everyone does. Being the FAA it takes forever to change anything, so maybe they’ll change the rules shortly after its too late to matter.









  • Does anyone really care about that though? Some of the most popular games released in the past few years don’t have AAA graphics or even close. Honestly most games with crazy graphics it detracts from the game because the gameplay ends up being so fucking bad. People play games for the playing games part. As far as I can tell the only people who give a shit about amazing graphics are chuds or dipshit MBAs or both, and no one should really care what they think.


  • Fucking dipshit MBAs pull that in every industry. My previous job they treated people like machinery that could be moved around, thrown away, hired, and replaced like nothing. They did this to specialized engineers with years of experience on our specific project. Layoffs, moving people to work they didn’t sign up for with no plan for moving them back, doing nothing to address ongoing attrition of the best engineers, not hiring new people, attempting to lowball new engineers when they finally did hire, nonsensical schedules based on hopes and dreams, the list goes on. I was the only person on my team when I left, a team the project literally couldn’t be completed without, and I took the last of the institutional knowledge with me. The c-suite probably don’t even realize how big a hole I left because my work wasn’t sexy or flashy, just making things actually fucking work. I hate to say it because one of my best friends still works there but I hope they fucking fail.


  • I mean throwing bodies at a problem rately makes things faster, and it definitely makes them more expensive. It’s incredibly shortsighted and naive to think things are like this now because they have to be. C-suite cunts do far more damage than just being useless parasites. They usually end up making developers work materially worse through their draconian self serving policies, insane schedule pressure, and firing most of the team after the game is released. They are so good at destroying their workers productivity and creativity with their stupid policies you would think it was their job or something. Somewhere along the line the capitalists forgot that most of the value in any business is institutional knowledge, and proceded to do their best to destroy it at every opportunity.




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    We will never get the nerves back. It’s not just a lump of unfeeling skin that covers the glans. That’s what stops me from trying. Like yeah I can stretch it to cover the glans when it’s soft but I will never get the sensation back. That was stolen from me by people who were meant to care for me, and I will always have the scars.


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    I don’t believe there is any medically justified reason beyond what would require anything to be amputated. All of the “medical reasons” people tout are thin bullshit. Anything people have claimed could be accomplished with much less invasive procedures. I’m furious and deeply hurt my parents did this to me. The whole reason is to reduce sensation during sex because sex is a “sin”. My parents had the fucking gall to tell me looking at porn will impact my relationships after doing this shit to me.







  • In all seriousness using AI for codegen is at best shortsighted negligence. You know that problem huge long running software projects have where it becomes a nightmare to change anything? That’s some proportion of poor architectural design, lack of cleanup or refactor time, and poor understanding of the code by developers. Poor architectutal design can be repaired by cleanup and refactoring, so both of those issues end up being management/planning failures more than anything. Not understanding the codebase is much more complex. It can be caused by attrition causing loss of institutional knowledge, the code base growing faster than anyone can keep track of, the team being so large no one can stay on top of things, too much time passing since anyone has looked at or changed parts, lots of reasons. The only solution is doing a long audit and associated cleanup and refactoring. If you don’t it just takes forever to change anything because of all the knock on effects that no one can predict, meaning delays and bugs. When you use AI tools the code base grows very quickly, too quick to really comprehend, and you get shitty architecture to go along with it. You’re just speedrunning enterprise software or spending all your time reviewing slop code. It’s like a drug, the first time it does something fast and well you feel it’s so great, but it will never live up to that because it secretly sucks and can only ever suck. Best case it slows you down and you get good software at the end. Worst case you spend all your time wrestling with it and never get a finished product.