- InsanityMerry Christmas HN! Whether you celebrate it or not, hope you get some time off to spend with friends and/or family!
- Saturnalia isn’t related to it other than coincidence of dates, no?
Either way, merry Saturnalia to you! (Off-by-one day :D)
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- Yikes. Notable that it rarely happens though!
Does mean that debugging and getting it back up might take more time as they aren’t necessarily “battle tested” for this situation.
- I’m by no means great at games anymore. But in these casually competitive games, you get matched against people in similar rank.
For anyone playing The Finals, I’m hovering around 30-40k ELO. Definitely mid-tier.
I play about 4h a week fwiw.
- Lol, fair enough, but I think this is a workaround rather than a solution.
- I should have clarified it, but you hit the nail on the head. I arrive home with little energy after a day in the office.
By the time I’m home it’s at least 6:30pm, usually a bit later. If I would work until 6:30 but from home instead of the office, I’d probably still be up for cooking.
Although you also need to get gym time in, family time, chores and other stuff…
- More traditional “French” cuisine is not typically ready in 10-30 minutes when starting from scratch (or I’m just incredibly slow).
Cooking a full meal would at least take me an hour end-to-end. As a sibling comment mentioned, it’s more that when I finally get home (6:30 -7pm), I rarely have the energy to put in that kind of time.
So I end up making a quick pasta or other such dish that is ready in 30 minutes.
- My girlfriend and I were talking about this the other day. We both have full time jobs and can only cook “real meal” in the weekend now that WFH ended.
It sucks, I enjoy cooking and want to eat at least somewhat health conscious…
- I’ll share this with my partner.
But as I’ve told her before: “games aren’t meant to be relaxing to me, it’s to compete!”
I do wonder how these results would translate to more competitive games like CS.
FWIW, I used to game competitively (in tournaments) more than a decade ago. Now I _technically_ play just casually, such as “The Finals”. But I only play the ranked mode with friends who used to be in my competitive team.
Some days when we play it’s just chatting and good fun (we’ve known eachother for almost 2 decades), but other days we get “in the zone” and it’s not truly relaxing.
- I've switched away from Nvidia around 2008 due to poor Linux support. Been on AMD ever since (now running the flagship model from a year ago, the 7900xtx or whatever it's called).
Won't personally miss Nvidia, but we need competition in the space to keep prices 'reasonable' (although they haven't been reasonable for some years), and to push for further innovation.
- Disagree, it's not _just_ practice. You can do something for 10,000 hours but never actively try to improve. Does that mean you're now more senior because you had more volume of practice?
e.g, let's say someone spends 10k hours doing just 'addition and subtraction' problems on 2 digit numbers. Are they now better at maths than someone who spent 0.1k hours but doing a variety of problems?
To grow as a software engineer, you need to have volume + have this be outside of your comfort zone + actively try to improve/challenge yourself.
Apart from this, I do agree it's not 'innate talent' that drives someone to become a senior engineer, and I think anyone with the right attitude / mindset can do so.
- “It just works” sadly isn’t true across the Apple Ecosystem anymore.
Liquid Glass ruined multitasking UX on my iPad. :(
Also my macbook (m4 pro) has random freezes where finder becomes entirely unresponsive. Not sure yet why this happens but thankfully it’s pretty rare.
- 19 mass stabbings in 2024 in China vs 586 mass shooting incidents in the USA. Per capita, that's even worse.
EDIT: I used ChatGPT 'thinking mode' to get that number for USA. Where mass shooting >= 4 people injured.
- Yeah, it's obviously a gun control issue. But the US has such a deeply ingrained cultural association with owning guns, and thinking that this means "freedom" in case the government turns on the people lol, that I doubt banning them happens in our lifetime.
- My background is in computer science and philosophy. But philosophy was always about pure interest and not career prospect.
If I had to pivot in 2025, I’d probably go for psychology. I’m interested in that, I enjoy the idea of more directly helping people and have myself been tremendously helped by psychologists the past years.
- I felt similar for most of 2025. Then at some point something clicked and now I work on side projects again without AI.
Can AI do it faster? Yes, but that’s not the point. The point is having fun.
The analogy I keep going to in my mind is chess. A computer can play chess on my behalf, or I can play chess myself, but only one is fun.
- Good catch, I didn’t read through the comments where it’s mentioned.
- The fact that Mein Kampf was mentioned so often in 2025 is saying something about the political climate lol..
Nice website though, I like it.
- Coincidentally was reviewing code yesterday that had a confusing/contradictory statement..
My comment on the CR was about this being an inherent contradiction and incredibly confusing to know if it's actually an error or a warning..error_msg = "xyz went wrong" log.warn(error_msg)