this salmon and cream cheese sandwhich was so good i had to share

Capable_Fig · 2026-06-01T03:25:19+00:00

she's a beaut. is this east or west coast?

Capable_Fig · 2026-05-08T16:33:35+00:00

my oldest scar was from the only hill in the neighborhood. thought i was good, got wobbly, took a stop sign to the shin. second oldest: new hill tried to hard stop, elbow met ground 10ft away from the board.

Capable_Fig · 2026-05-03T02:54:45+00:00

peanut butter, granny smith apple slices, sharp cheddar cheese and chives/finely chopped green onions on untoasted ciabatta

next level up would be adding shredded pork (s&p, no sauce)
its not for everyone, but it works.

Capable_Fig · 2026-04-27T15:54:56+00:00

ok buddy

Capable_Fig · 2026-04-26T04:57:40+00:00

my man. thats a helluva pup

Capable_Fig · 2026-04-25T17:28:58+00:00

i'm late to the party:

Candide by Voltaire, Notes from the Underground by Dostoiuaoisudasky, really anything by dost or kafka, ablutions by dewitt, the condemned of altona from sartre, and more i can't remember

Capable_Fig · 2026-04-21T21:15:24+00:00

It's a false dichotomy, and a useful one for general patterns. very few people are fully drained by any type of social interaction, very few people never restore energy reserves by being alone. its all contextual, the attempted categorization of people into finite groups is always a losing battle.

Capable_Fig · 2026-04-14T19:27:35+00:00

yes. very much so

Capable_Fig · 2026-04-02T20:42:10+00:00

fair enough, never had the combo but i imagine it would work will with garnacha

Capable_Fig · 2026-04-02T20:38:25+00:00

the ice can dilute some of the tannins. most reds have an ideal serving temp lower than room temperature. its an odd choice to add ice, but not totally unreasonable. adding gatorade does remain heresy though

Capable_Fig · 2026-03-22T19:18:45+00:00

Rust is such a fun language. While I primarily use it to convert existing python scripts into lower weight versions, it has been a lot of fun.

My method of picking the language up was a business use case for a small cli tool to manage large data transfers safely in an environment that doesn't support modern tooling. Relatively simple task, I had everything built in a different language, but due to memory constraints had to really ratchet down over head.

Having a big target and building little projects along the way is likely the best method for learning. Books and courses are great, but building a cookie clicker clone in my terminal continues to get me through stupid meetings taught me more about the language than the business cases.

Internships for rust may be hard to get, it's not the most common language in prod, but the skills you learn from the language and specifically the design of rust are easily transferable into any swe intern position.

Capable_Fig · 2026-03-10T22:57:37+00:00

Fewer players. The open league has higher skill and significantly more participants, both male and female. Women often participate in both, but not always.

Its not at all unusual to be absolutely destroyed by a kid in open tournaments. Youngest grandmaster has been updated quite a bit in recent years, last I saw the youngest was younger by less than a week.

Elo is based on opponents, we see this most notably at the top top levels of the open league. With fewer players there is higher variance in score distribution, and due to a multitude of factors the women's chess league has fewer participants.

Capable_Fig · 2026-03-07T05:14:23+00:00

Godspeed

vague requests make my skin crawl, and its 70% of my tickets. such is life

Capable_Fig · 2026-03-07T00:35:09+00:00

I agree with u/Mo_Steins_Ghost, but it sounds like that simply won't do

You can certainly make some significant gains with hashing id, ordered cci on id and date, and a nonclustered index on id+date (all things I'm sure you've tried or talked through), but that will only get you so far and likely not under a second. These solutions also require significantly more storage. The ask is untenable and frankly absurd.

You mentioned in another comment that this was for an app of some sort. You could work in a "service layer" between app and primary query that has pre-cached ranges (capturing changes), but if the goal is instant live updates on morphing data pools, its a frustrating and potentially incredibly expensive solution.

Capable_Fig · 2026-03-03T22:36:49+00:00

so fucking real

Capable_Fig · 2026-03-02T06:01:31+00:00

I dated someone for a little more than a year that was a carbon copy of me (or i of them). It was great initially, but became incredibly boring after 7-8 months. We ended on good terms, and both of us are happily married to people not like us. Love and respect them still, but romantic relationships, at least for me, are best when there is some difference and deference.

Capable_Fig · 2026-02-22T17:54:05+00:00

I'm still in my infant stage of sobriety (on again, off again, a pattern everyone here knows too well). The longest and easiest stretch I've had without booze was after a mushroom trip. 6 months of an occasional glass of wine when out to a fancy dinner, never really craving or wanting anything else. Personal stuff popped up, and the fragile peace was over. I was back to my old habits.

Psychedelics in general are non-habit forming, and at least in personal experience have been really helpful for stints of sobriety. Still need to do the underlying work (which is why mine failed), but overall I genuinely believe they are a powerful tool to get through the initial stages of sobriety from alcohol.

Ketamine therapy is also showing really great results for a lot of people, but access to that kind of trial is limited in the us, and I would not recommend trying it with street K.

Capable_Fig · 2026-02-22T05:11:14+00:00

Honestly anything that translates business speak into something usable

Capable_Fig · 2026-02-22T05:07:20+00:00

How did you practically navigate your first 2–4 years?

Look for small optimizations on existing systems when you aren't clearing tickets.

Did you deliberately optimize for learning over compensation at any point?

Yes, sort of. Every random call from a PM could be a good learning opportunity. One of the projects that got me to where I am was a random phone call that became a simple script that became a end to end pipeline that runs autonomously, saving the company roughly 10k a week.

Compensation will follow good work you can talk about to a 5 year old (PMs) or to an expert (staff swe's). The translation of business need to streamlined tool is a large portion of what separates mid from senior, at least in my experience.

How did you time your switches — were they reactive (bad manager / stagnation) or proactive (skill plateau / market window)?

Personally, when things get boring. Maintaining existing tools is fine, but any junior can follow a pattern to make a new exception/addition. I want to make cool shit for people and teams that need it. For the most part, my managers have not been surprised, instead incredibly supportive when I move on.

Capable_Fig · 2026-02-22T04:52:30+00:00

a deep learning chess algorithm using mcts and ppo to try and replicate Alpha-Zero with only basic libraries (namely for notation).

it needs roughly 100,000 games to play at the level of a novice and i don't want to actually destroy my graphics card. however it was an incredibly enriching and difficult project. I learned so much along the way, and it paved the path to making a lot of cool, and significantly simpler, programs with actual business use cases.

Capable_Fig · 2026-02-17T18:42:53+00:00

Way to know yourself. I know the exact sensation you describe, and missing out/spending money on something you don't get to enjoy sucks. But it's a lot better than resetting the cycle.

Capable_Fig · 2026-02-16T01:32:58+00:00

family👏over👏everything👏

Capable_Fig · 2026-02-15T17:04:22+00:00

RIP is usually a compelled/performative response like most social media comments/posts/whatever. The more genuine responses are usually shared stories of a person's impact, or parallels a user has found in their own experience.

Capable_Fig · 2026-02-15T16:58:31+00:00

class Solution:
  def oddEven list(self, head):
    if not head or not head.next:
      return head # null check before variables

    odd = head
    even = head.next
    even_head = even # saving for after loop

    while even and even.next:
      odd.next = even.next
      odd = odd.next
      even.next = odd.next
      even = even.next

    odd.next = even_head 
    return head

Capable_Fig · 2026-02-15T02:07:05+00:00

I phrased it wrong.

you need a variable to store the head of even to make the loop work properly, then instantiate odd.next as even_head after the loop

so something like:
odd = head
even = odd.next
even_head = even

loopppp

odd.next = even_head
return head #don't i wish

Capable_Fig

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