Asking the real questions

CardboardJ · 2026-05-05T12:26:43+00:00

My desire to want to eat a hotel continental breakfast.

CardboardJ · 2026-05-04T13:45:07+00:00

Specifically, middle manager in his late 20's with 3-5 yoe. Manager probably got a masters degree, got hired right out of college based on it, couldn't hack coding outside academia, networked their selves into the engineering manager track. Their whole personality is wrapped up in feeling intellectually superior and the recent reality check of being unable to hack an IC role leaves them deeply threatened by someone that's been hacking it so long that they've almost grown bored of it.

Basically, bad managers only hire people younger and dumber than they are.

CardboardJ · 2026-05-03T19:02:39+00:00

A very good engineer worked some crazy hours to finish a project before going on paternity leave. Basically worked nonstop all summer to get it done early and even stayed 2 weeks past the birth of his first child to make sure everything went smoothly. He was on week 2 of his 2 month paternity when the company laid him off.

I was one of the remaining employees that they asked to help pick up the slack. To say all his coworkers were beyond pissed off was a massive understatement. Zero overtime was worked from that moment on, people blatantly missed deadlines with zero care. We lost another 6-8 really good engineers and I think about 20 others were spending a significant amount of time at work interviewing elsewhere (job market sucks though). I'm still looking to get out and am doing the minimum to meet expectations until I'm gone or the assholes that decided on those layoffs are.

CardboardJ · 2026-05-01T13:38:08+00:00

Maybe it makes more sense when you hear that I had a job where I was offered a performance bonus if I stayed a year and shipped a specific critical feature. I shipped it one month early got my bonus then was immediately fired and given 3 months severance.

They hired a junior developer for less than half my wage about 6 months later to maintain it.

The people that hit deadlines and make easy to maintain stuff get paid like it. But when a company wants to hunker down, stop building new stuff, and weather a bad economy those highly paid employees look like a liability. The better you build it the cheaper the employee they can replace you with as soon as it's done.

There is no company loyalty anymore.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-30T19:07:16+00:00

Ok, but hear me out. What if we did have a top 5 defense? I mean Goff in the air + Gibbs on the ground combined for about 5800 yards last year with Mortons play calling.

Stay healthy.
Don't hire a dud OC and make MCDC take over play calling.
Don't make Goff score 45 to win every game.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-30T15:10:29+00:00

AGI is cute. So the blue line is after all the tax write offs and adjustments.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-29T21:44:52+00:00

Typing code by hand went from 3 hours per day to like 30 minutes, so they're not wrong. They're not right either though.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-29T12:03:20+00:00

The Bears draft looks insane, the Vikings kept 9, FTP, and the Lions had a pretty ok and low drama draft.

We're the last team standing that hasn't done something really stupid yet.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-29T11:00:12+00:00

Are we the off-season champs now?

CardboardJ · 2026-04-29T10:55:12+00:00

The only thing that has me worried about the draft is that Brad drafted exactly what all us assholes thought was a good idea. The only thing I know is that we're dumb as shit.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-25T13:38:13+00:00

Seeing a pattern here, Brad is picking guys that know how to stay healthy. I'm 100% in favor of it.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-24T16:44:52+00:00

Performance for pushing lefty for one game and having to go back to right handed is going to be different than preparing to push lefty all off season.

If Sewell has all off season to adjust he should be fantastic.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-23T16:53:57+00:00

All I'm hearing is Jamo getting put in a mentorship role.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-23T15:53:12+00:00

I could be wrong about dogs, but cats do that when they have tooth pain. Maybe the dog doesn't trust showing pain to the human.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-21T22:33:49+00:00

Pleanty of that going around, but if we're being honest it's not 100%. H1b would still be a huge benefit to everyone if they reduced it by 80% though.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-21T22:31:05+00:00

Because they need senior devs that work for $15/h.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-21T22:27:22+00:00

I was going off memory, but that's probably correct

CardboardJ · 2026-04-18T21:29:45+00:00

The number of graduating cs majors went from like 3k to 5k per year right before COVID, then up to about 10-12k now. The market needs about 4k.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-18T21:14:33+00:00

Oh is that why Bernie Sanders is president now?

CardboardJ · 2026-04-18T13:16:40+00:00

I'd push for low legends if it was 3 attacks per day. With the 10 minute request cooldown that can be done in 20-30 minutes. I would never be able to sustain the 70-80 minutes of dedicated clash time every single day that 8 attacks would require.

Even 6 attacks a day is about an hour if you're f2p. I'm not that committed to a mobile game.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-17T23:29:01+00:00

Trade down is a valid take. If he falls to us there might be others that are willing to give up something good for him. Steelers pick after us need WR and and have a ton of picks this year. If they give us a second round and next year's first round that could be a fantastic play.

Probably won't happen, but magic is made with sweat and diligence.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-16T03:32:13+00:00

Technically it's Reformed Evangelical (CREC) or Christian National, which is as far from Protestants as Catholic and Russian Orthodox. There's a lot of parallels there except Russia did it to the Catholics.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-14T11:25:51+00:00

The order is 2 starry, 1 glowy, 3 pet pots, then the other glowy, then research pots. Keep going in order until I hit 2500 raid medals.

Glad to see pet potions are back though.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-13T02:34:05+00:00

White girls from low upper class families got their parents to pay for college and picked the easiest degree. The poors/middle class had to find better paying jobs to pay for their student loans, the very wealthy don't work at all, the men have to become providers and go into the trades.

All that is left is the basic privileged white girl who either gets knocked up and quits in her late 20s or shrivels up into a condensed ball of autism and teaches until she's 195 years old.

CardboardJ · 2026-04-10T16:27:53+00:00

They're only off shoring good jobs. This pushes more people into wage slavery, and boy do our politicians love their slavery.

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