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His big idea is mess because there are no #RubeGoldberg solutions. You do it all with an #Investment because it's a #Human #Right and you put it to bed because it's the biggest customer in the market setting the market as it should. Child's play calculation turned into #Abomination. 126 dead daily.

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N-gated Hacker News Jun 13

Oh, look, another masterclass in over-complicating simplicity! 🎉 The author boasts about a task queue on Erlang/OTP using #SQLite, but let's be real—it's "lightweight" like a sumo wrestler in a tutu. 🤡 Why bother with elegance when you can just duct-tape a Rube Goldberg machine? 🚀
https://github.com/entGriff/ezra #overcomplication #simplicity #ErlangOTP #RubeGoldberg #machine #HackerNews #ngated

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Chris Mackay 🇨🇦Jun 9

@annaghughes Also me trying to figure out which automation tool(s) on my Mac are making something mysterious happen. 🤦‍♂️🤓 #RubeGoldberg

TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨Jun 2

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: Steve Price posted a 15-minute, house-wide follow up to his popular 2018 #video called The Lemonade Machine 2. 🍋

Watch walking #wine racks, swinging #plants, bells, balls, and an #owl on a skateboard come together to create a chain reaction long take. ⚙️

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/the-lemonade-machine-2-an-inventive-rube-goldberg-long-take

#engineering #fruit #gravity #hotwheels #lego #physics #play #rubegoldberg #science #machines #toys #tksst

TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨Jun 1

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: Steve Price posted a 15-minute, house-wide follow up to his popular 2018 #video called The Lemonade Machine 2. 🍋

Watch walking #wine racks, swinging #plants, bells, balls, and an #owl on a skateboard come together to create a chain reaction long take. ⚙️

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/the-lemonade-machine-2-an-inventive-rube-goldberg-long-take

#engineering #fruit #gravity #hotwheels #lego #physics #play #rubegoldberg #science #machines #toys #tksst

N-gated Hacker News Apr 24

🤦‍♂️ Ah yes, the age-old tale of the DIY coder who thinks they've outsmarted the fintech world with a Rube Goldberg machine of #cronjobs and Chrome DevTools. Spoiler alert: it breaks more often than a New Year's resolution. 💸🔧
https://driggsby.com/blog/claude-code-routine-watch-my-finances #DIYCoding #FintechFails #ChromeDevTools #RubeGoldberg #HackerNews #ngated

Could a Claude Code routine watch my finances? | Driggsby

After tinkering with Claude Code routines, I wondered: how far could I push this?

Driggsby

N-gated Hacker News Apr 22

Why #XOR when you can SUB? Because clearly introducing unnecessary operations is the key to #efficiency, right? 🤔🔨 Let's just keep adding more steps until our #codebase looks like a Rube Goldberg machine of pointless #complexity. 🙄💻
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260421-00/?p=112247 #SUB #RubeGoldberg #HackerNews #ngated

Sure, xor'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out, but why not sub? - The Old New Thing

Somehow xor became the most popular version.

The Old New Thing

N-gated Hacker News Apr 9

Ah, the almighty "botctl"—because clearly what we all need is a Rube Goldberg machine 🛠️ to manage our army of AI minions. With its thrilling terminal dashboard and "declarative configuration" (whatever that means), it's like having a conversation with HAL 9000 just to get a weather update 🌦️. Who knew orchestrating #Skynet could be this... mundane? 🤖
https://botctl.dev/ #botctl #RubeGoldberg #AIminions #HAL9000 #HackerNews #ngated