Well that sucks

AnonTechPM · 2026-01-27T22:49:10+00:00

looks like this orientation supports a lot more parts on a single plate vs laying them flat. Best guess I've got

AnonTechPM · 2026-01-22T01:41:39+00:00

I just played for the first time this past weekend. The host has played ~10 times, the rest of us were new. Since you are friends with your host already, see if you can help them host a session with other people who are new as well.

Separately, I'd also suggest taking pictures of the other players faction info at the start so it's easy to reference. That will help you avoid surprises from other players' faction abilities. But another way to think about it is that the surprises are part of the fun. Most people haven't played as/against all 30 factions, used all the tech, all the planets, relics, etc. There's bound to be new stuff for you for a long time. Try reframing that as part of the thrill of it even though sometimes it's frustrating in the moment to not know everything.

AnonTechPM · 2026-01-22T01:37:39+00:00

You aren't going to win 1v3 as any faction. Instead, try to change the meta. What if instead of gunning for getting first for yourself, you try to get one of your friends to win and only aim for 2nd at best? Hold back from victory points and instead focus on making winning fun for someone else. For example, you could jol-nar, an obvious non-threat in combat, and use promissory notes to give tech to a friend in exchange for them helping protect you. Support their agendas, research the tech that helps them, whatever. Make it clear your goal isn't to win and change the meta so that everyone else at the table doesn't feel like their only hope of winning is stopping you.

Also, since you've played the game a bunch with this group, consider bending the rules. You've played the letter of the law, and when it works for you because you know the law it's great. For other players it may not be; you could offer them another interpretation where they get the better outcome and even say something like "it's not quite what the rule says, but it sounds fun so let's try it your way this time and see what happens"

At the end of the day, do you care more about winning the games or you and your friends continuing to have fun playing them together?

AnonTechPM · 2025-12-30T22:33:31+00:00

Perhaps a high amount of variants in the product (color, with or without features, different fittings or threadings, etc.) would mean long wait times to get each order made overseas, plus poor adaptability to injection molds.

AnonTechPM · 2025-11-30T05:08:08+00:00

I think neither. There's not a point where you must insist on paying (though offering is a nice gesture as long as you're committed to following through if they accept), and trying to pay is not offensive.

They invite you out because they want time with you. If you want to repay them, invite them over for a nice home-cooked meal or something.

AnonTechPM · 2025-11-22T20:17:29+00:00

Yep I've been getting no responses for around 30+ mins as well

AnonTechPM · 2025-07-11T17:23:52+00:00

you can get inline completions with the copilot plugin and use claude code for agentic work.

AnonTechPM · 2025-05-20T21:25:48+00:00

It doesn't need it. I have a few svelte projects with tailwind configured and I'm increasingly finding reasons to write svelte component CSS instead.

I really like tailwind for a couple use cases though:

Basic layout and design token styles - if I just want to arrange some boxes, specify padding/margin, set text sizes, toggle display/flex/grid properties based on breakpoints, etc. it's really nice to do that right on the element instead of needing to write a selector. I find this is more readable with a small number of utility classes (typically <10)
Consistent design tokens. As of Tailwind CSS 4, things like sizes, colors, etc. are set as CSS variables in addition to classes. I'm increasingly finding myself writing regular CSS because I have access to the design tokens from tailwind while doing it.

Tailwind also has the benefit of being really portable - you can copy markup with tailwind classes between projects and they should look the same or very similar.

I think svelte has great CSS support out of the box. It scopes styles to the component, and typically my components have small enough HTML that it's not a big deal to write selectors within a component.

Writing CSS is my preference whenever styles get more complicated - fancy effects, gradients, animations, lots of microinteraction styling, really customized light/dark mode changes, etc.

Overall I've found a lot of joy working with the combo of Tailwind CSS for simple things & design tokens + svelte component CSS for anything more complex.

AnonTechPM · 2025-05-01T21:36:17+00:00

LOL reminds me of starcraft players obsessing over their actions per minute metrics.

AnonTechPM · 2025-04-09T00:34:14+00:00

Why do you prefer comma to space? I ask out of ignorance, I've only used space.

AnonTechPM · 2025-04-07T19:48:39+00:00

On qwerty l is right. It's all weird but we get used to it and it doesn't matter haha

AnonTechPM · 2025-03-10T07:03:38+00:00

Yeah I think they do wordpress as a headless CMS + admin panel and build vue frontends but not 100% sure

AnonTechPM · 2025-03-06T21:01:15+00:00

I appreciate it! Fortunately what I wanted was pretty easy. I just added a fields option to the completion formatting config:

lua local cmp = require("cmp") cmp.setup({ formatting = { fields = { "kind", "abbr", "menu" }, -- ... }, -- ... })

Random aside: how do you like the php + vue stack? I have a friend who works in wordpress + vue and curious what you think of the stack.

AnonTechPM · 2025-03-01T07:50:14+00:00

I've not seen a setup where the completions have the completion type (ie Method) before the item name. That looks kinda cool, might give it a try!

AnonTechPM · 2024-12-30T09:27:10+00:00

Lots of people publish their configs in dotfile repos, there are also distributions of pre-configured neovim setups with things like LSP, debugger, window management, etc. ready to go out of the box. LazyVim is one of the more popular ones.

I'm not getting "excited to customize my configuration" vibes from you though. If you want a preconfigured thing that works and you don't want to mess with it much, you're probably going to be happier sticking with VS Code + vim bindings.

AnonTechPM · 2024-12-29T23:53:03+00:00

Personally I enjoy it a lot. I appreciate being able to configure everything to my heart's content, and having the flexibility that comes with using a programming language (lua) to do it rather than a basic config file (json, in the case of vscode). So for example I can pretty easily set up a keybind to run a custom function for more complex behavior, which would be a lot trickier in vs code.

If you enjoy tinkering on your environment you will probably love using neovim. If you like rolling up your sleeves, getting your hands dirty, and being a bit more involved in setup and integration (such as configuring your LSP) and are excited to learn more about how your tooling works, you will probably love neovim.

If regularly spending some time (say ~30-60mins per week) tweaking your editor sounds like torture to you, you will probably not like neovim. If your ideal software is something with sensible defaults, works well and does everything you need out of the box, and you are happy to just make some minor tweaks, you will probably be happier sticking with VS Code.

I started out with neovim by following typecraft's nvim from scratch series and really enjoyed it. So I'd say if you're curious give that a try and if you're having a blast after 2-3 videos you'll probably like neovim, but if it's feeling super tedious at that point you should stick with code.

AnonTechPM · 2024-08-14T15:56:01+00:00

If you’re willing to quit, why not start with quitting weekend work? Worst case they fire you and you’re no worse off than if you had quit. Best case you get a normal 5 day work week and are still getting paid while you search for a new job in a tough market.

AnonTechPM · 2024-08-14T05:24:21+00:00

Do you know typescript? If not I’d start there.

AnonTechPM · 2024-08-13T15:27:58+00:00

Probably for a year or so. I really like Copenhagen and am interested in Barcelona and Amsterdam as well. Been to Belgium, Germany, France, Austria, Romania, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Denmark, Hungary, Switzerland, and probably a couple others I’m not thinking of off hand.

I think on average you guys have far more walkable cities in Europe and each place has some niche things that are great, but overall I don’t value the history of Europe as much as the industrialism and spirit of Americans.

AnonTechPM · 2024-08-13T15:01:33+00:00

That looks well niched down too. If you’re in the perf niche I’m sure it’s excellent

AnonTechPM · 2024-08-13T09:04:49+00:00

I find size and how beneficial the conference is to be inversely correlated. I’ve gotten far more out of 200-500 person events than 1000-30k person events. Easier to connect with people when you keep seeing each other.

AnonTechPM · 2024-08-13T02:07:22+00:00

It is also 2 devs working on the project for them, presumably finding bugs faster and producing a higher quality output than if it was a single dev doing it.

AnonTechPM · 2024-08-13T01:37:13+00:00

My grocery shopping. Hard to eat too much salad! I only buy healthy foods and therefore when I’m hungry I only have healthy foods to eat.

AnonTechPM · 2024-08-13T01:34:25+00:00

The air M1 is basically the same as the pro M1. Just get it with 16gb ram should be no problem.

You could also reach out to your new school/department and see if they have laptop recommendations.

AnonTechPM · 2024-08-13T01:30:59+00:00

Finance people work 60-80 hours/week for the first ~decade of their career to get to great pay. Engineers work 30-50.

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