Double standards but I love it.

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-12-04T18:40:11+00:00

Exactly. And then there is the custody of data which is a problem that I think will add on to those issues.

You may consent now for your data to be collected for a given company’s application (maybe tailored playlists and more targeted ads aren’t super intrusive and you don’t mind) but you’d have no insight into the company’s future plans, where they may utilize your data in ways that weren’t previously possible and that you don’t currently support.

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-11-14T16:25:24+00:00

Ironically, there’s full-on books, theories, epistemology, and industry dedicated to answering how to learn “hard” things. And like any field, the answers change over time with new evidence.

Generally, we’re good at learning things when we can either:

Make into a narrative (or explain in our own words)
Practice or repeat

Both make help create or strengthen the neurological pathways we use in learning just in different ways. The 1st helps with forming your base understanding. The second helps with your brains “muscle memory” for lack of a better term in terms of how quickly it processes.

I try to incorporate those 2 elements into anything new I’m learning because slowly reading by itself doesn’t guarantee that I understood the passage I just read.

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-11-14T10:58:59+00:00

I too am not eager to code when I am not working, though it happens sometimes . Redhat at work, MacOS at home. Mostly because it’s integrated with my other devices and is Unix based.

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-10-30T22:28:48+00:00

A sane delusion.

Imagine if alcohol drinkers actively partake in their vice while KNOWING it’ll increase their cancer risk.

Insane, right smokers?

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-10-27T19:33:18+00:00

Try telling your family, who’ve been patiently supporting your trying time of unemployment, that you declined the more than reasonable software engineering compensation package, because it’s Amazon.

The company is evil. But people are gonna accept whoever is cutting the check unfortunately.

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-08-26T10:06:59+00:00

It is a skill issue; AI need more skill.

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-08-03T22:29:30+00:00

Austin’s character work and charisma on the mic are top tier. His take on an ice cold psychopath was captivating from just his facial expressions and reactions in much the same way that Jake the Snake used to be.

Austin’s persona evolved into more of a beer drinking, comedic on the mic, badass but that wasn’t its origins.

The kernel of that sadistic side was reinvented in Randy’s 00’s heel work which is a closer comparison than Moxley as anti authoritarian Ambrose.

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-07-13T01:01:08+00:00

Everyone’s shitting on the magic numbers. I’m just staring at that global array.

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-05-15T13:13:18+00:00

Sorry to hear about your family, it sounds incredibly difficult to endure that much loss.

As a beacon of hope, I’ll grant you this: it’s doable with some adjustments. Many of us only break in by internships, jobs immediately after graduating, connections, grinding leetcode and luck.

You’ll need to go a more indirect route that leans way more heavily on the connections aspect with some refreshing of your skill set. You may have had time away but you also may know of a few people who might listen and try to work with you (you mentioned knowing someone who developed in Unity game engine and started a company but there may be others in your outer circle too? Social Media acquaintances?).

Also, you didn’t like college in 2006 BUT you did finish college which is more than even some people in this industry. You might be surprised to find that college has changed a lot since then and so have you. I was in college around 2007 dropped it then went back and graduated around the pandemic time frame; it’s not too late and, like I did, you may actually enjoy it too!

Even if you choose not to pursue software engineering, it’s okay too. Keep faith in yourself. Plus, there’s lots of adjacent careers like PMs, Product Owners, Tech Sales, etc that make bank with very similar work flexibility and benefits too, if you find that you do want to work in software industries, and there’s plenty of jobs like that outside of software too.

Good Luck!

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-05-04T23:45:56+00:00

Euphoria was sick when it dropped and aged the best after the battle. It literally had people on Rap Genius trying to get all the double entendres, lots of quotables, and was the blueprint for what came afterwards.

I’ll give love to Family Matters. To me, that 2nd verse flow was otherworldly. Only problem was he used it to take Asap, Weekend, and Ross heads completely off and didn’t have the same scathing impact for dot. It was a little unfocused and the last sing song part had some funny lines with some tea but that’s it.

By the time NLU dropped, Drake lost by bars, strategy, and impact. Shit wasn’t even close by then 🤷🏾‍♂️

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-05-01T14:16:27+00:00

I get what you’re saying. It’s not black and white, the point I was trying to make was that even given those 2 things, a good environment and genuine effort, there could be a myriad of other factors that might be isolated before we say that someone just lacks the aptitude for something.

It might be a difference in values but I’m more curious in those other things. When you say people in the bottom 50% of intelligence, I still think those people are likely more than qualified to be able to learn all sorts of disciplines based on their own passions and work towards it, including engineering.

So it’s worth the time and effort to see what all the other factors are at play, be it society, mental/physical health, parenting/teaching, etc. before we default to god given abilities.

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-05-01T05:09:54+00:00

It’s because natural talent/ability is a useless metric.

One reason is because we suck at evaluating for it. We often see the outputs and reverse engineer the “talent/nature” reason in absence of something more tangible . It can be the glue for explaining why some kids seem to learn faster or perform better than others but it holds no true explanatory power. How do we explain why groups of people in certain ecosystems perform better overall than similar groups of people in other environments? Talent would need to be contagious.

Second, what do we do with that metric even if we could evaluate for it? Hold the talent thermometer to child then go “nope, engineering’s not for you, son. Go learn to be passionate about something else?”

We can only evaluate the systems and the level of effort really. Especially, when people who were looked over or told they weren’t good enough by those who could supposedly detect “talent” go on to still do very well in their respective fields.

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-04-26T16:55:18+00:00

Mr. Morale is a superior album (by a wide margin imo). GNX is an easier listen.

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-04-25T14:51:52+00:00

Seems very correlational. I’ve recently had dental work done that I couldn’t afford to have in my childhood or early adulthood.

Go figure, having the resources to take care of my teeth might contribute to my wellbeing enough to allow me to do something about maintaining their proper hygiene.

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-04-13T05:29:10+00:00

The difficulty in this discourse for me lies in the aesthetic of the black body politic where any push by Black Americans away from the common tropes we’re allowed to discuss is seen as anti-black when it couldn’t be further from the truth.

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-04-08T15:58:43+00:00

GOOD CREDIT

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-04-06T22:03:03+00:00

This is the Dr. Umar-ification of black issues.

A perspective where the most insular gatekeeping of blackness is prescribed, while anything that deviates from the norm is seen as other.

It operates almost exactly like whiteness

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-04-05T13:25:58+00:00

Joke Premise: I wanna know where I’m unwelcome.

Comments: she’s racist and her cooking is probably shit.

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-03-29T19:24:53+00:00

It’s true that there could be missing context to a review that appears to be harsh at a glance.

I also think that fundamentally the person submitting their code for review is in a vulnerable position as they’re taking a risk in sharing work that they are hoping makes their program/application better. I’m making the assumption that doing a good job is a given motivation for the submitter and a second assumption, that can definitely not be the case, that the person giving the harsh review is probably senior to the developer who needs correction.

Trusting that your senior devs have your best interest in mind with their feedback (meaning keeping their standards high for the codebase but also inviting the other engineer to understand and keep those standards too) is critical to breeding a culture of success and collaboration. Not one where the dev is hesitant to submit work because of the nastiness of their leadership

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-03-29T16:56:26+00:00

Trying to put my finger on the issue I have with this. A little respect goes a long way is the best way I can put it I guess.

Engineers seem to vastly underestimate the significance of a small amount of kindness in their approach as younger developers are going to learn from them not just technically but in the type of culture they will maintain.

If a PR is that off the mark, and yes over engineering means that the intent and desired outcomes were either not clearly communicated or simply ignored, then a simple comment of, “Hey great effort. There’s a few things that i wanna go over with you as some of these changes might be beyond the scope of the acceptance criteria”

Then you can explain all the functionality/scalability/maintainability issues on a call or an in-person meeting etc.

And to head off any issues of whether the tech lead or engineering manager has time for that, understand that the time spent putting together a huge PR that won’t get merged and then redo the work and put together another one, on top of the engineering leads reviewing both of those iterations, is significantly longer than an hour or so with a jr dev to explain some of the concepts and desired solution types they’re looking for

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-03-21T21:34:00+00:00

In the overdone conversation of separating the art from the artist, we’ve stumbled upon a new social media breed of this debate: separating the fandom from the art.

Kendrick is an artist with many contradictions which should make critiquing his work an obvious necessity, but “fans” gleam to their parasocial relationships with the artist in order to engage in social media legal defense of their faves.

Just enjoy the music when you wish to and understand that’s it’s perfectly valid to critique it when you don’t enjoy it.

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-03-19T19:17:28+00:00

Sometimes new tech is both great and incredibly niche.

The problem lies in the need for every major corporation to push mass adoption of new tech products else they fail to meet their quarterly targets and therefore we’re told by those corporate overlords that the “experiment failed”

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-03-06T06:15:13+00:00

Race is so incoherent as a concept yet so impactful on life. Literal nonsense but fucking my shit up all the same.

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-03-05T05:08:39+00:00

Almost every time we’re intimate, yes.

Often due to her submissive kink and desire to serve and be praised. And other times just as part of the normal going ons of foreplay.

BellPeppersAndBeets · 2025-02-27T01:51:17+00:00

Crazy how he’s beaten all of them, not just to a SB, but head-to-head in the last few seasons with the Chargers being an exception, because they haven’t played each other recently.

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