my favorite was when someone offered to let us (this was myspace) use the desktop computer they had in their basement after one of our outages. I think we had about 1200 web and cache servers at the time. not counting DB. 'twas well meaning but most people REALLY don't know what goes into this stuff

and having done that means I will ALWAYS have sympathy for sites having scaling hiccups. there will always be someone saying "why don't they just []"? and there is always a reason why the simply and obvious solution isn't workable

it was sure fun making dot-net servers handle that much traffic
and I don't mean that sarcastically; it *was* a fun challenge. off the shelf tooling didn't exist like it does today. the challenges are very different now.

It sounds like campgrounds at Coachella got burning man’d
Some people are talking shit but - when you go to black rock you KNOW it’s camping in a dirt hurricane. The winds there were very abnormal. I have compassion for everyone who’s ez-up became hard-down.

Cucumber water is ruined water

I both like in & out pretty well and agree with this. The good things about it have never been that they’re The Best or Uniquely Good.

I haven’t posted anywhere but… fucking Dan dying. He was a legend and a friend. The praise he gave me always meant so much because we all knew he was a salty bitch but also the kindest soul. His sets never missed. Never. He’d been famous for decades and he still sewed the curtains for our art car.

That line existing would have changed my 20 and 30s - when I lived in SM and went to Hollywood all the time - substantially

Much of the time the initial steps are getting a good understanding of how the current sections of code work, and lining up work units with maintaining current functionality and readying for the future
I’m not seeing how the work to specify this and review the output would be worth it

I want to reduce complexity in our code base as much as possible. All LLM output I’ve seen seems to go in the opposite direction
If I see an example of an LLM driven refactor that reduces tech debt and complexity, it would change my opinion on its usefulness immediately

Far more people should know about Mia, and The Gits!

This surely adds up with my always getting compliments on the blueness of my eyes during sunrises at raves
A time when everyone is famously toxin free

That I’ve had! I’m bummed the place down the street that had it went out of business

I do not understand why Al pastor pizza is not A Thing

The way Bondi said "Culver City" sounded like she was talking about Mos Eisley
I am so confused as to how the fever swamp got ahold of that talking point
When a guy rummaged around in my back yard a few years ago he didn't even take a *bicycle* that was there

I felt like the Colin Robinson was very strong early on - which I was fine with, or even happy about! - but became more of it’s own character as it went along
I hope there’s more

I was once the person hammering far too late and felt soooo bad when I realized what time it was when yelled at
(They didn’t have to leave their home to yell, at least)

I wish I could enjoy vapes as much as I do joints
I know burning is worse! I do!
But knowing and feeling are so different

Also IDs! The assumption that Everyone Has The Thing is why it's hard to convince a lot of people that voter ID laws disenfranchise

This of course only worked because you didn't have to do anything but Be There, and the right walkie talkie style radio was plenty sufficient

This is very different, but I liked in the past when that big art party in the Nevada desert had zero cell coverage. Going a week+ being utterly unplugged was interesting!
For a while now the cell coverage is good enough that even during the event it doesn't go away.
Took away some of the magic

Nearly every social media post about games I like is bombarded with laugh reacts and bad faith derision. It’s exhausting. I only talk about games with a small group of friends who understand that taste isn’t the same as objective quality and people can like different things

I love that your Paul Bunyan relationship continues in your recent work

My snowboarding gear has 2 and 3 (not cloth, but grippy plastic)
4 is probably debatable but I like the orange
Problem is of course that it costs more 😔

I can’t remember how long our power was out in 97 but I know I was glad my dad always kept lots of firewood ready
The flood that followed in spring was months with utilities, but the whole city evacuated so we weren’t there for most of it

The late 90s were really A Time up north! I had to look this up to figure out if it was the same storm because the power line and tree thing was so similar www.weather.gov/bis/severewx...
I don’t have a band story but it froze my car so hard the wheels wouldn’t turn

I want to go to there

I feel like him claiming to like The Culture misses the point as least comparably! (Not trying to say you’re wrong, just that he doesn’t understand anything)

It sure has been A Week of blatant lies about things we’ve seen with our own eyes

Sure, some people paint their cabinets bright colors. But do they put a toy logo on them??