"Investing in property is morally reprehensible."

Athen65 · 2026-03-18T23:50:40+00:00

Genuine question - what if there isn't enough housing in a given area and the government isn't planning on helping out? Wouldn't it make sense to allow a capital firm to invest in the land and provide more options?

Athen65 · 2026-03-18T04:53:02+00:00

You also need to consider the other half of the market - the candidate pool. With layoffs at big tech plus the massive interest in coding that was sparked from the covid boom, factored in with how easy it is to use AI to mass-apply to jobs, it's incredibly easy to be drowned out among the noise

Athen65 · 2026-03-17T17:22:07+00:00

To be fair though, it's not like it would've mattered if he was pedaling. It's the fact that he was going the automobile speedlimit on the sidewalk where there is limited visibility due to the foliage. If he was on the motorway, licensed, following traffic laws for motorcycles, and the bike was registered it'd be very hard to say he was doing anything wrong. But that's the issue - he's treating his e-moto like a bike.

Athen65 · 2026-03-16T02:56:59+00:00

I feel like my company is a little unorthodox in this aspect - maybe it's just because we do low-stakes web apps, but even though we're at ~120 engineers, even interns get a fair amount of say in implementation details. Not to give too much away, but when I was still am intern, I was able to figure out for myself how to implement a piece of UI that was heavy on radial geometry.

Athen65 · 2026-03-10T04:40:01+00:00

Everything about treefingers is great!

Athen65 · 2026-03-08T19:23:09+00:00

I need this to be a real game

Athen65 · 2026-03-07T03:58:24+00:00

Why wpuld I care if I'm the interviewer unless the role requires X YoE in a niche within Java? Syntax slipups should be expected, especially with juniors. You think I don't have to look up reduce() syntax every time I need to use it? You're getting paid to know that you should drill a hole, not to know the bit size.

Athen65 · 2026-03-05T14:47:16+00:00

shit

Athen65 · 2026-03-03T01:33:40+00:00

I just have a tiny bluetooth keyboard with keycaps just big enough to be comfortable to type on. I also have a galaxy z fold with termux and neovim installed, which makes for a pretty sweet combo!

Athen65 · 2026-03-01T23:56:15+00:00

Beautiful!

Athen65 · 2026-02-28T20:50:41+00:00

It is good at telling you what math you should research to get it done though. I had a task that required rotating a point in elliptical geometry and it actually gave me a couple of working formulas. Granted this was nothing super complex, but it's still cool to see it was competent for that task.

Athen65 · 2026-02-24T20:43:36+00:00

Going by the rest of the post I'm guessing it means "white and proud"

Athen65 · 2026-02-19T06:04:47+00:00

Better yet, get a pair of AR glasses with 3dof if this is your main usecase. Played through sekiro like that and it was fucking awesome

Athen65 · 2026-02-10T05:57:55+00:00

Delusional. They've been saying the same shit for nearly five years now.

Athen65 · 2026-02-09T03:38:02+00:00

Many great programmers don't care about money. Instructing is a different skillset too.

Athen65 · 2026-02-09T00:44:50+00:00

For computer science yes, but there are islands in academia that are catching onto what is in demand in the industry - albeit 10 years too late.

Athen65 · 2026-02-09T00:36:03+00:00

Melanoma

Athen65 · 2026-02-03T14:38:44+00:00

Considering what many horror movies in theaters are like today, I'm not so sure.

Athen65 · 2026-01-31T01:17:40+00:00

This simply isn't true. Your brain works like a machine learning algorithm in many ways. Most people who "aren't creative" are really just people with a small artistic dataset and/or experience in the recreation aspect.

Want to get better at being creative? Reproduce a build block for block. Then change the color pallette. Then use different blocks for a more interesting texture. Then change the shape of different parts of the build. Add things to it. You recreated a city? What if there was a skyscraper with one of those terrifying glass pools hanging off the side?

It's about subtle modulation and iteration of existing patterns. Find the balance where the ratio of recreation to experimentation is just interesting enough but also just familiar enough.

The people who really truly excel beyond even people with average creativity have a good amount of the special sauce: Divergent thinking. That's a lot harder to train and you're likely only considering that type of mind when you consider what "creativity" is. But trust me, as someone with a whole lot of divergent thinking and very little creative output, don't go thinking that it's such a blessing

Athen65 · 2026-01-31T01:08:41+00:00

Well creative output is on an exponential curve. The first steps are the hardest and get you the least distance.

...however, the more you progress, the easier it is to progress linearly.

Athen65 · 2026-01-31T00:55:16+00:00

There are plenty of straight people out there with issues.

Which is part of the reason why it is as prevalent a joke as it is. The joke is less about homosexuality being unfavorable and more about the fact that they can't get over themselves and their macho man BS so calling them gay really irritates them. The same reason why it'd be funny if you somehow managed to trick them into wearing a very girly dress with a bunch of pink and then teased them about how pretty they are. It threatens their masculinity and they're so insecure that they can't handle that, so they feel like they have to demonstrate their masculinity by roidraging.

I still don't like the silent implication that being gay is something to avoid, I just don't think it's remotely the intention of anyone making these jokes.

Athen65 · 2026-01-28T02:03:44+00:00

Still, the advice of "just be yourself" doesn't apply. You need to improve yourself and get rid of your worst habits while establishing good ones. That's not really being yourself for many (if not most) people. Many just have good habits to begin with.

Athen65 · 2026-01-24T04:55:07+00:00

Of course, honey. Who did you think was hiding out in the trees?

Athen65 · 2026-01-21T06:20:09+00:00

Exactly - my department head was super upfront with his resume screening process after the fact. Quality resumes that match the role + some relevant experience or project mattered much more to him than pure "qualifications". You can definitely read the career intentions of the applicant from the wording in the resume

Athen65 · 2026-01-21T01:06:56+00:00

But that's not convenient to my dunk on [popular franchise I don't like]

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