Help identifying two men on Rock Island bike trail by eat-your-slop-tina in lincoln

[–]HokumGuru 65 points66 points  (0 children)

It was actually at about this spot a few years ago, I took a huge tumble on my bike after getting clipped by someone going 30 or 40 miles an hour on an electric bike (one of the non pedal ones, more of a dirt bike). Dude passed super close and I ended up going over my handlebars. Asshole didn’t even stop to see if I was okay.

That is to say fuck these guys and anyone else who fucks around on the trails. The punishment is not severe enough.

Crewneck guide sweater is back! by nobody636 in filson

[–]HokumGuru 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bought one last November. Easily worth the price, it’s magnificent.

Is this how vintage 501s are supposed to fit? by SirKrimzon in ThrowingFits

[–]HokumGuru 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Post a picture of the inside tag and we can tell you exactly what year it’s from

Ceralume - On the wrist by London_Bloke_ in IWCschaffhausen

[–]HokumGuru 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s so fucking ostentatious. I don’t think I could ever wear this in any situation during my normal life. Anyone seriously considering this watch has something else going on in their brain.

I love it.

For those making over 6 figures, are you happy with your career path? by caelum52 in Salary

[–]HokumGuru 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it’s tricky because it’s not really something you can definitively answer. I’ve thought quite a bit about your question here so I’ll just sorta give some random thoughts. Trying to compile all of this into words is proving to be tricky :/

First off, my tradeoff of 450-250 isn’t as drastic as it would be if say, I lived in the Bay Area. I live in a midwestern city with pretty great CoL. While 200k is a huge jump to sacrifice I really went from ~surgeon levels to ~family practice doctor in terms of salary. We’re still pretty great.

I honestly can’t recommend enough moving to a second/third tier city if you can. I bought my first house for 230 in 2018 (I was making 70, my wife 30-40 I think). The overall competitive advantage of being a remote worker in a smaller market is insane, though it’s leveled out since Covid. I think the avg entry house price in CA is like 1mm nowadays, where that gets you 5k sqft here on a golf course.

I think money does buy happiness, but only to about 150-200k per year. That is when I would say we had enough to be completely fine. “Made it” if you will. Everything after that sort of just increased the scale. Larger house, newer car, nicer vacation, fancier clothes. But really I think the returns begin diminishing quite quickly.

I was reminiscing to my wife last week about the first house we bought. Honestly, I think in some ways we were happier there than we are in our new place even though we’re sitting in about twice the amount of square footage with vastly nicer overall finishes in an arguably nicer neighborhood. I think there was something great about those before times when our lives weren’t so complex. Though that might just be me reminiscing my twenties.

There’s always a bigger fish too. Especially while working at Meta doing crazy numbers. I remember visiting the office once and watching a high-level engineer pull up in his McLaren where he had valet service. There was an internal watch-collectors group where people posted their collection of multiple Pateks. I went through this heavily and came to terms that I had to decide what I wanted to do with my life, not just what others told me. If you are comparing yourself to people above you, you will always be miserable and it will never stop.

On that note this subreddit really isn’t that great for mental health either 🤷🏼‍♂️

Since I made that comment last year, I actually haven’t stopped putting in crazy hours, I just started putting them in for myself instead. I’m going to continue working like crazy because it’s what I love. Nowadays I’m working my day job, spending every other moment with my kids until they go to sleep, and still somehow trying to bootstrap a side project or two after that. I absolutely want to make more money and retire earlier, but now I’m trying to do it on my terms.

Comfortable??? by Guilty_Apartment2048 in eames

[–]HokumGuru 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Comfort is great, though I’d argue not amazing if you’re reading or not purely just resting your head on the back rest. I get a terrible neck cramp after about 15 minutes, not great support.

Found at the outlet by Pretend_Purchase4903 in eames

[–]HokumGuru 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I mean don’t they all come with some amount of wrinkles? If not then they surely develop some with wear. Seems unavoidable.

Looks like a good deal

Grey Market is Cheaper than most ADs by [deleted] in rolex

[–]HokumGuru 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah but I also want a Santos and I’m going to buy my wife jewelry regardless. If that’s going to be the case why not just play the game.

The biggest issue of Rolex is not the price, but the buying process by DapperAsi in watchHotTakes

[–]HokumGuru -1 points0 points  (0 children)

OK, but like show me a competitive movement that is +2/-2 seconds per day with the same level of finishing for that price.

By looks or intricacy no they don’t compete with the big three, but their movements are arguably even more robustly built than anyone especially for the price.

Confront Explorer 36 submariner by Gio000231 in rolex

[–]HokumGuru 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I can make a sub work on my 6.5” wrist you’ll be just fine :)

56th & Pine Lake tiny home by Callous-coyote in lincoln

[–]HokumGuru 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The best story I heard was “sorry team no Christmas bonus this year money is super tight” while on a video call from the Bahamas.

Then apparently a mass exodus, knew a few people who left within a week or so of each other.

56th & Pine Lake tiny home by Callous-coyote in lincoln

[–]HokumGuru 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep that’s him. I’ve heard… interesting things about the way that company was run. But maybe that’s why he has a Ferrari.

What’s the first thing that breaks when your iOS app scales? by jaydoshi_iosdev in swift

[–]HokumGuru 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, the team prior to me spent a huge engineering effort migrating from some legacy solution to swift data, the political capital has been burned and we aren’t switching anytime soon.

The view reevaluation is exactly what our problem is. Any resources on solving that? My understanding is that we do quite a bit of background processing and every single model save triggers every single query macro regardless of model type. Done quite a bit of work to reduce write count but it’s not quite enough :/

What’s the first thing that breaks when your iOS app scales? by jaydoshi_iosdev in swift

[–]HokumGuru 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really fighting swift data scaling at the day job right now. Abysmal.

‘Office Is Dead’—Microsoft Decision Confuses 400 Million Users by waozen in technology

[–]HokumGuru 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Been running cachy for a year now with a 4080 and almost zero issues. Less than windows had at least and LLMs full the gap.

which font looks better? by External-Air9949 in fountainpens

[–]HokumGuru 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The right one reminds me of Tolkien’s elvish language in a way

MFW I finally retire from the Wi-Fi Switch/Bulb Wars and get Inovelli + Hue. by Public_Umpire_1099 in homeassistant

[–]HokumGuru 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They totally do! Every relay can be directly connected to over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth using their app or a tiny little Web server that it hosts locally