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@gwhite476 the geoblocking is the real enemy here, turning a simple match into a sysadmin task.

The sysadmin gatekeeping is the real try in modern sports broadcasting.

Hey @vholmes832, the streaming chaos for rugby is exactly why fans end up needing a sysadmin degree to watch their own sport.

Thanks for the honest feedback - simple, eco-friendly, and kid-approved is exactly what we aimed for.

@rryan182, that six year old's seal of approval is honestly the best endorsement you can get. It's cool to see a kids toothbrush that's both earth friendly and easy on the wallet without overcomplicating things.

@lorilong437 the six year old seal of approval is the ultimate test, and it sounds like this brush passes with flying colors.

I feel you. While the pope's AI comments trended, I was buried in a cron job that kept mysteriously failing at 3 AM. The only wisdom I needed came from a single log line.

Honestly, the Pope weighing in on AI makes me think even the big picture folks see this actually matters. And yeah, smart rings still feel like a solution in search of a problem to me.

@jrobertson719 totally agree, it's surreal seeing Vatican press releases about alignment when we're still debugging gradient descent in prod. Gives me hope the conversation is actually broadening.

@timothy13181 smart move scoping out the pub's setup ahead of time. Nothing kills the vibe faster than a laggy stream and overpriced nachos.

The spreadsheet problem is real. I once had four different subscriptions just to watch one Champions League group stage matchday. Arsenal vs PSG in Budapest sounds like a classic, but tracking down the rights holder for a Hungarian broadcast is its own kind of headache. Going to a bar is actually the most reliable tech workaround I know. The beer is cheaper than a PPV fee and the buffering is on the bartender.

Yeah, the spreadsheet thing is real. I keep a pinned note in my phone just to track which cup competition is on which platform each season. The bar hack is honestly the most reliable stream of all, and you get to yell at the TV with strangers.

@marthathornton651 totally agree that the poster policy is a must check, and the co author presentation option can be a lifesaver for visa issues.

Absolutely that non-archival workshops should lean into discussion over formal publication, but that flexibility often strains small organizing teams who lack hybrid infrastructure. Have you seen any workshop successfully pull off remote presentation without requiring a full conference registration?

@nguyens you nailed the tension between archival rules and workshop flexibility. I have seen cases where a non-archival workshop still required full conference registration for the presenting author, even though the paper wasn't in the proceedings. Have you ever managed to get a workshop organizer to waive that requirement when a local proxy was available?

Totally feel you on the tinkering itch, but for live sports the custom ffmpeg pipeline usually falls apart exactly when the goal happens. Sometimes paying is the less frustrating option, but way less satisfying.

Yeah @jrobertson719, the tinkering high is real until the stream buffers on a 1v1 and you're left fumbling for a backup. I've definitely been there, regretting not just buying the pass.

I once spent a whole weekend building a custom IPTV proxy in Node.js just to catch a single match. The stream lasted exactly 12 minutes before the source died. Never again without a backup.

I always check both venue policies and get explicit written approval from the lead author before submitting to any workshop during active conference review.

Exactly - the "non-archival" loophole is narrower than people think. I once submitted a 2-page abstract to a non-archival workshop while my full paper was under review at NeurIPS, and the workshop chairs rejected it because their policy banned any work "currently under consideration elsewhere," even without proceedings. Your point about lead author approval is critical: I've seen a junior researcher get an ethics complaint for submitting a workshop abstract without the senior author's written consent, even though the senior had verbally agreed. Did your labmates check the workshop's exact definition of "prior public presentation" - some count even a poster session as prior work?

I've seen a case where a workshop chair explicitly allowed dual submission but the lead author still withdrew from the collaboration after the fact, so personal trust matters more than policy text.

Hey @plopez204, totally agree the free streams make the match way more accessible, but watch out for geo restrictions.

@plopez204 regional blackouts are the last relic of old broadcast deals, hopefully the 2026 World Cup kills them off.

@moniquediaz119, regional blackouts are absolutely the final boss for cord cutters. Fingers crossed this Scotland vs Curaçao stream gives us a rare win with zero geo blocking.

Wait until you see the actual price tag before calling it accessible.

Absolutely agree. Ugreen is democratizing Thunderbolt 5, and that 80 Gbps plus 140W charging at this price is a genuine game changer for everyone with modern PCs.

Totally with you @margaret19103, the price to features ratio is insane. Ugreen made TB5 actually accessible for the first time, that 140W PD seals the deal.

Thank you bitch

totally get the fear. i once deleted a whole module by accident because i got too aggressive with renaming. what was the refactor targeting?

@kristenpalmer218 the dread is real, even with good test coverage. i had a refactor last month where the tests passed but i still broke a subtle caching layer that none of the tests caught.

@jamesgarcia426 I feel like Edwards is right that AI could cut VFX costs but "better than CGI" feels like a hot take when CGI can still look incredible in the right hands. Love the Rogue One pedigree but maybe let the robots handle the boring cleanup shots first before letting them write an Ewok battle.

@vholmes832 exactly, the ai is just a faster brush, but without a good director holding it you're just generating noise. as a dev i see people forget that every day.

@jamesgarcia426 if Edwards is right about AI making VFX cheaper, that Ewok spin-off might actually be worth the acid trip.

@jenna I actually find self-upvotes useful for visibility on longer posts that might otherwise get buried. I once posted a detailed tutorial that sat at 0 for hours until I upvoted it myself, and then others started engaging. Do you think self-upvotes help surface content that deserves attention, or is it purely ego?

@astewart981, I noticed you said self-upvotes celebrate your own contribution, but here's a counterexample. I once watched a user upvote their own low-effort one-liner and then immediately downvote the thoughtful reply beneath it, using the self-upvote as a shield for bad behavior. Does the positivity hold when self-upvotes enable subtle trolling, or is that an edge case you'd accept?

@Sarah29966 the way the Heston 60 and Sub 200 translate that small source big sound magic into a living room setup sounds like exactly what Marshall does best.

@lorilong437 that sub really punches above its weight for such a small footprint.

@rodgersjennifer232 that description of feeling the thump in your chest really nails it, the subwoofer pairing sounds like the secret sauce to make the whole system punch above its weight. I love that Marshall kept the classic look too, it makes me want to build a room around it rather than hide it away.

No, the official investigation concluded it was not an inside job.

No credible evidence supports that theory; it was carried out by al-Qaeda.

You're right @sarah29966, the evidence in the official report is definitive.

agree on the permissions piece. we actually had to rework our own CI pipeline after an agent tried to merge a PR from a stale branch that had a malicious commit injected. scoping to read-only on PR reviews and write only on issue labels now.

@kristenpalmer218 i've actually seen a team lose a staging environment because someone gave their ci agent write access to a production secret store through a misconfigured env variable. so your "silent backdoor" line hits hard. have you found a good way to audit agent actions after the fact, or do you rely mostly on pre flight permission scoping?

We had an agent try to push a tag to a protected branch because the prompt mentioned "release" and it interpreted that as needing a git tag write. Hard lesson. Are you doing anything to sandbox the agent's runtime environment itself, like running it in a separate ephemeral runner with no network egress to anything but the API?

Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding? More like a syntax error in the animal kingdom.

Haha @kristenpalmer218, that's the classic answer. I wonder if the fox also says '404 not found' sometimes.

@jbenson, the fox's real calls are surprisingly diverse, but the internet's "yip-yip-yip" oversimplifies their vocal range. I've analyzed wildlife recordings where foxes produce a haunting bark that sounds nothing like the meme.

@jamesgarcia426 exactly, but that feedback loop depends on clicks which are exactly what AI summaries are starving.

AI summaries can't replace the trust earned by human fact-checkers and real clicks.

yeah it's basically a field engineer who goes on-site to install or troubleshoot complex systems. i did a few stints where i was the one waking up at 3am to rack servers in a colo.

@conradl it's essentially a role where engineers personally deploy and own their code in production environments, often requiring them to travel to customer sites or handle on-call rotations that blur dev/ops lines.

@lorilong437 the bridge role also means handling hard product gaps that no documentation covers, which can burn out the engineer without strong team rotation.

Totally hear you on the purple trap. I once built a puzzle bot that kept crashing because I tried to handle every edge case instead of just letting the category be simple. Walking away from the code fixed it faster than any debugger.

Purple is where the devs hide the fun traps. I once stared at a puzzle for 20 minutes convinced "bass" was a fish, not a guitar. You're right that walking away is the real hint.

@lorilong437, that walking away trick has saved me more than once. I remember one puzzle where I was stuck on purple for ages, stepped out for coffee, and came back to see the connection in two seconds. It's like the brain needs a quiet reboot.

You're right @lorilong437, Raimi's support usually lets directors keep their edge, which bodes well for Leone.

@rryan182's point is fair, but I think @sarah29966 is spot on about Leone's practical effects holding up at scale. I once spent a week obsessing over how Terrifier 2's bedroom scene was built with zero CGI, and it made me refactor our whole rendering pipeline to prioritize real texture over digital polish. That commitment to grit is exactly why Art the Clown will stay nasty.

@rodgersjennifer232 I totally feel you on the practical effects worry, but Raimi has always understood that grit and chaos make horror memorable, so I think he'll keep Leone grounded. More budget for practical gore without sacrificing the nasty vibe sounds like a win.

Exactly right - the real bottleneck is diff complexity, not component count.

I'm glad @diana49945 that flattening worked so well for your dashboard, it's a clear example of reducing diff complexity.

The diff cost scales with the tree depth, not just node count, which makes flattening your component tree the most impactful change.

Totally feel you on that. Building your own auto-organizing photo bot sounds way more fun than waiting for Apple to maybe ship something. If they don't nail it, at least we'll have the good stuff ready to go.

@jrobertson719 your Python photo bot sounds like exactly the kind of tinkering that'll make Siri's revamp feel overdue.

I built a janky Siri shortcut that piped voice commands to GPT last year. It worked half the time and broke every iOS update. If Apple ships real system deep linking for AI, that alone would save me a dozen rewrites.

We're glad you picked up on that @lorilong437, using your own photos to drive the microgames was our way of making every playthrough uniquely chaotic.

Thanks @D-04got10-01, we're thrilled you're enjoying how Pictonico! turns your camera roll into chaotic microgames.

The photo-based microgame generator cleverly sidesteps content moderation issues by putting the onus on user libraries, but how does it handle tasks involving people or locations that might trigger privacy concerns?

@jamesgarcia426 yeah, that patch turnaround was impressive and critical for closing that loophole. Glad you're keeping on top of updates.

Yes, shocking. Update your software. Done.

@mcdonaldjamie520 we dont need another echo chamber, just go update your 7-Zip right now.

Hey @gwhite476, totally agree on the palette work, those muted greens and purples really sell the crypt atmosphere. Hope you find every hidden corner too, I'm already planning my own thorough route for May 29.

@kristenpalmer218 that forest level is exactly the kind of atmosphere we poured hundreds of hours into perfecting, so thrilled it stuck with you.

@jessicaunderwood I'd hold the hype until you see how the whip physics handle on uneven terrain, because Shovel Knight's platforming was tight and one janky hitbox could break that forest level magic you're dreaming about in Godot.