IncandescentGas (u/IncandescentGas)

IncandescentGas commented on Verizon outages reported across U.S. firstcoastnews.com/articl... · Posted by u/Scubabear68

Nextgrid · a month ago

If you’ve got 100k people to run something that should run essentially on autopilot, you’ve got much deeper problems where merely laying off selected chunks of people will no longer help. The whole company is rotten and the only way is to start from scratch and not make the mistakes that led you to accumulate 100k people.

I can't even begin to imagine what those 100k people actually do. For starters, none of the telcos actually develop their own equipment - they buy pre-made from vendors like Ericsson. Often that includes ongoing maintenance too. The only "engineering" is building the back-office and customer-facing UIs, and even that is often outsourced (as a rule of thumb, if something can be outsourced, telcos will do it: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/).

Customer service might be part of that number (assuming that too isn't outsourced), but even then 100k feels extreme.

10k is ok although leaning on the more bloated side. But 100k?

IncandescentGas · a month ago

Telco infra runs on autopilot?

IncandescentGas commented on Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card jpmorganchase.com/ir/news... · Posted by u/vismit2000

nomilk · a month ago

Hadn't even heard of Apple Card until now: https://www.apple.com/apple-card/ A credit card with

> No fees. Not even hidden ones

and

> 2% cash back when you use Apple Card with Apple Pay

and

> 3% cash back at Apple (and Uber, Uber Eats, Booking.com and a few others) when you use Apple Pay

This seems... really good. As in, it's essentially free money. Am I missing a catch here?

IncandescentGas · a month ago

Has none of the usual expected perks like rental car insurance or damage/theft protection on purchases. Guess purchase protection would be a threat to applecare revenue.

IncandescentGas commented on Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES relaxing.run/blag/posts/t... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

jordigh · 2 months ago

The information to properly land the plane is in the manual. The required air speed and altitude have never been a secret, if you read the manual (which I guess most kids didn't).

The real difficulty, not explored in this disassembly, is that the game has semi-realistic physics! My older brother was in flight school at the time and was able to easily land the plane and taught me how to do it.

As the article states, "Altitude and speed are both controlled by throttle input and pitch angle". So you can't just hit the engines or air brakes button to change your speed. If you lower the nose of the plane, you'll speed up and vice versa! So you have to carefully juggle your speed and altitude by altering both your pitch and your engines/air brakes.

My brother taught me that my speed wouldn't reduce if I'm nosediving, so raise the nose a little while opening my air brakes for a quick reduction in speed and then level out to maintain altitude. The game actually models this somewhat accurately!

IncandescentGas · 2 months ago

> if you read the manual (which I guess most kids didn't).

Most kids did't read the manual? I would rtfm for every game I got my hands on during the car ride home from toysrus or blockbuster. If Mom had several errands to run, I may rtfm a dozen times before I finally got home with the game.

IncandescentGas commented on I am just sooo sick of AI prediction content, let's kill it already verdikapuku.com/posts/i-a... · Posted by u/frenchmajesty

agentifysh · 3 months ago

The only prediction that I think is robust is: Those who use AI as tool today will replace those that aren't tomorrow.

Same situation with internet, we saw a bubble but ultimately those that changed their business around it monopolized various industries where they were slow to react.

Some jobs will be replaced outright but most will use AI tools and we might see reduced wages/positions available for a very long time coupled with economic downturn.

IncandescentGas · 3 months ago

Identifying the 1% of ai use cases that are useful and refusing to have your attention stolen by the 99% that is mild melting garbage will be the key ai skill for the ai future

IncandescentGas commented on When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/... · Posted by u/goldenskye

IncandescentGas · 3 months ago

I just got an invoice from ups to pay a $16 brokerage fee to jpmorgan for collecting a $0.60 tariff on a sticker included in a box with a custom keyboard shipped from Taiwan. Seems like wall street is making out better than the US on this arrangement

IncandescentGas commented on Obsidian Note Codes ezhik.jp/obsidian/note-co... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

Ezhik · 5 months ago

(developer here)

Thanks for the feedback! I guess this plugin is a bit specific to how I use Obsidian [1], as I don't rename my notes quite as often as others do.

As I mentioned in the post, my main use case is being able to quickly reference notes in my hand-written journal. I've also used it a few times in some personal shell scripts.

Probably not a very useful plugin if you already live entirely in your Obsidian vault, though - in there good old [[wiki links]] are much more useful.

I've left a few comments so far on the rename problem, but yeah, it's a hard one to solve. I'll try to think of ways to improve it.

[1]: https://ezhik.jp/hypertext-maximalism/

IncandescentGas · 5 months ago

Would you consider renaming the note to contain a reference to the generated code? Such as "Thoughts on Hedgehogs.md" becomes "Thoughts on Hedgehogs [AB-99].md"

This preserves your goal of having the system rightfully not need another source of truth outside the markdown files, but also lets the markdown file carry the identifier across renames without adding a YAML block.

And it lets you find the note in the "open note" dialog box by typing the code, so no other kind of search interface is needed. Or even to find the note with any other filesystem utility if you have your reference code.

Were you inspired by the Zettelkasten Method for your plugin?

IncandescentGas commented on Itch.io: Update on NSFW Content itch.io/updates/update-on... · Posted by u/panic

freehorse · 7 months ago

Pornhub hosted material featuring sex trafficked women for years without taking serious action. Other porn sites were doing the same.

I do not see how a game in steam or itch.io where everything is fictional is anywhere close to that or requiring such moderation. This is a totally different issue, in the same way that a game involving killing others is not the same as an actual video of somebody killing people. Shall we ban books featuring similar themes too?

IncandescentGas · 7 months ago

The payment processors have been held criminally and civilly liable in court for processing payments for pornhub. I don't see how we can expect Visa/MC to not censor their customers, if we also intend to hold them criminally liable for the actions of their customers in such cases.

If Visa spends years in criminal court because a book store accepted a credit card payment for an illegal book, then yes, expect Visa to start placing limits on card processing for bookstores.

IncandescentGas commented on Matt Trout has died shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/0... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

IncandescentGas · 7 months ago

RIP mst and thanks for all the fish. DBIx::Class and Catalyst are still a core part of how I pay the bills.