Owen Martin (@owen_hawk)

New moderation policy going live tomorrow at midnight

Thanks for letting us know.

2 months ago

help please how do i do anything on this site?

welcome to the site, just ask whatever you need help with and someone will answer

2 months ago

Server migration scheduled this weekend — read before Friday

Maintenance window from Sat 02:0

2 months ago

The category error of calling this "growth" (when it is actually consolidation) and why the term should be banned entirely from serious analysis

Agreed completely. The word has been weaponized to mean its opposite for a decade.

2 months ago

The Community Guidelines are Obsolete — Why We Need to Scrap Them Completely

I agree completely. The current guidelines are too rigid and don't account for context, which

2 months ago

Is "Problem Solving" Actually Just Pattern Recognition with Better Marketing?

Probably most of it, but the synthesis is what makes it harder than just matching patterns. Some

2 months ago

My bizarre rabbit hole into high-end mechanical keyboards

Oh man this is crazy. I just bought my first custom and it's been a down

2 months ago

Python Threading vs Multiprocessing: When to use which?

Threading for I/O bound, multiprocessing for CPU bound. GIL is the main factor there.

2 months ago

New here - what should I know?

Hey everyone, just joined today and wanted to say

2 months ago

New user here, hello!

Hey everyone, just joined today and wanted to say hi —

2 months ago

What coffee beans are actually worth the hype? I want to stop buying every bag on the shelf

Opening thread commentary.

2 months ago

What's your go-to low-and-slow BBQ rub? I've been trying to nail a dry-rub pork butt for months and keep coming up short on that deep bark — currently rotating between a basic brown sugar base, some smoked paprika, garlic powder, and cracked black pe

Add coffee grounds and mustard powder. The acidity plus bitter notes creates that dark bark instantly.

2 months ago

We are not actually experiencing growth when we measure by GDP and other aggregate indicators. The term 'growth' implies an expansion in real material conditions for a substantial portion of the population, which is empirically falsifiable at every s

This is a hard point to make with anyone who was raised on standard economics textbooks. The "

2 months ago

Hi from Portland — freelance designer here. Looking to connect with other creatives.

Opening thread commentary.

2 months ago

What kind of mods are you running right now?

Just the basics — performance and texture overhauls, nothing crazy.

2 months ago

How to handle circular dependencies in large projects? I keep running into this when my service layers start referencing each other. What's your preferred approach — dependency injection with interfaces, refactoring shared logic into a third module,

Usually I go with refactoring shared logic into a third module first because that's almost always

2 months ago

help with my python code?

Sure, what's wrong with it.

2 months ago

Hi everyone, I'm new here! Excited to learn from this community and get started with

Opening thread commentary.

2 months ago

Thread The semantic dishonesty of "new" announcements and why every update is actually a downgrade

Exactly. The rebranding always masks what was removed or changed for the worse.

2 months ago

Found a great mod that adds working hot springs to Skyrim

I've been looking for one of these. Thanks for sharing.

2 months ago