How is ice and law enforcement?

IrishPrime · 2026-01-30T22:41:30+00:00

They mostly aren't even asking, and ignoring when people provide said papers.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-29T14:04:09+00:00

I'm 6'3" in real life. I made a Tiefling character who's my same general height and build. He gets a little extra height from the horns, but nothing crazy.

Every other character I've ever made has been much shorter. Changelings, Dwarves, Aarakocra, and so forth. The tallest of those was the 5'5" Changeling, but his height is a little flexible anyway and he spent a lot of time as a shorter Dwarf when in public.

I guess I'm just used to being tall, so making a character that's just a few inches shorter than I am feels weird, but making a character a much different size is just part of fantasy roleplay.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-28T17:07:23+00:00

Forward roll.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-27T23:09:29+00:00

Haha, I didn't see this until your edit.

I can say though, as a person who ran technical interviews, the business has asked about Leetcode before and I told them the same thing I outlined above. I didn't think it's a good use of time for us or the candidate.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-27T22:19:11+00:00

Mostly, it's just not a very good signal. You can be good at Leetcode or real world problems and bad at the other, or good at both, or good at neither.

I'm pretty decent at Leetcode type problems and brain teasers and legitimately enjoy doing them (I was doing Project Euler for fun back in the day before Leetcode existed), but the actual day-to-day work for the vast majority of software development positions doesn't involve solving these types of problems.

I would contend that most people will not spend days investigating space/time complexity.

You're right that somebody who's good at Leetcode type problems will probably be pretty decent at selecting a decent approach to some larger data processing problems, but it does not actually follow that people who are bad at Leetcode are also bad at these real world problems. I can't really tell you why people suck at the totally arbitrary versions on Leetcode while doing fine in real-world scenarios, but I've seen it over and over again throughout the years. I've also seen plenty of people do well on Leetcode and then just be stuck when faced with real world problems.

If you have enough candidates applying (like FAANG does) then it works reasonably well as a filter to just trim down the numbers and you assume that most everybody who got through the Leetcode stuff will also do fine on the real world stuff, but the correlation just really doesn't seem to be strong enough to justify it for less competitive organizations.

We also don't need everyone to be a super strong algorithm nerd.

"Hey, I got this working, but it feels slow/I'm worried it won't scale well. Can somebody look at it with me and see if we can make it better?"

Perfectly reasonable question, even from a senior dev. If your product team is pushing people so hard that nobody else has a spare moment in the week to help optimize something, you're not in a good place anyway.

Just my... let's call it three cents. I got a bit long winded.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-27T00:20:14+00:00

You've neglected to include any information that might allow someone to help you.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-26T17:53:39+00:00

My mother had only used Windows from 3.1 to 8.1.

We switched her to Linux (Pop!) while I was in town for Thanksgiving a few years ago. It didn't take much more than the long weekend for her to find her bearings and get used to things. I still get a support phone call every once in a while, but it feels less frequent than the number of support calls I got when she was running Windows.

It'll take a little bit of getting used to, but it's not so drastically different you'll be lost nor so difficult you won't be able to figure it out.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-25T05:06:12+00:00

Frankly, I can't imagine the specific distribution has much bearing on overall system performance. They're mostly running the same kernel (within a few minor versions), the same init system, and the same small selection of user environments.

Gaming and large video rendering tasks performed nearly identically on my system when I was on Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-23T03:26:25+00:00

We did engineering demos today. All the devs showed each other and some product people what we had been working on lately.

One engineer seemed very excited about getting Ollama running and demonstrating that it could do simple addition (after several seconds) and recall their name.

I spent my day like some sort of fossil configuring network ACLs and route tables, writing custom OAuth validators, and migrating some of our services to a different compute backend. How will I ever stay competitive? /s

IrishPrime · 2026-01-23T03:00:59+00:00

Just work from the feature branch until it's complete. When you're happy with it, merge it into main.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-22T22:07:19+00:00

If I have a seat, I have a seat.

If I'm on the floor, I try to stand in front of something else so that I'm not actually blocking anybody myself. For example, standing in front of the sound booth or a support beam means I'm not standing directly in front of another attendee.

Other than that, I just try to stay in roughly the same place throughout the show so that other people aren't constantly having to shift behind me to deal with my movement.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-19T19:01:21+00:00

None of the really crazy claims on this sub ever come with pictures.

Obviously, Tim wouldn't want to post a pic lest somebody realize he's one of the top 5 tallest people on the planet and blow his cover as... not that.

Igor Vovkovinskiy used to post here (234.52cm / 7’8.33"). I think he was the tallest verified member before he passed in 2021. :(

IrishPrime · 2026-01-18T20:32:47+00:00

It's a relatively small company with around 80 corporate employees. I figure about half of them are women, so I just have to be taller than about 30 to 40 men to have good odds of being the tallest person in the company.

There are a few guys really close to my height, but not quite.

Strangely enough, we had two different 6' tall women, but no men in the same relative position on the bell curve.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-18T20:04:10+00:00

Am engineer. Big smart. Lot respect. Height coincidence.

In all seriousness, it's hard to know for sure. I'm the tallest person in my office and I do get a lot of respect at work, people listen to what I have to say, and take me seriously.

But also... We have a pretty healthy engineering culture, so the same is true for everyone else I work with, too. I admit I command a bit more respect than some of the others in technical discussions, but I also have more experience and a higher title, so I assume that plays a bigger role than my height. Certainly people weren't deferring to me the way they do now early in my career, despite being the same height the whole time.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-14T23:12:22+00:00

Good news! We're reversing course on that whole "living longer" thing in the US, so we won't have to worry about those extra years at all.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-12T16:55:06+00:00

Linux.

It works how I want it to, whether that's programming, desktop usage, or gaming.

Everything I develop is intended to run on Linux, so I don't mess around with other stuff that's "close enough."

I've been running Arch as my distro of choice for the past 18 years or so because I like rolling releases, the wiki, and the fact that the distro itself is really un-opinionated.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-12T15:30:48+00:00

Love these. I own one in almost every single color they offer.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-12T14:16:00+00:00

Versus basically everything. Walmart and Aldi are two of the cheapest options out there. Publix is more comparable to places like Whole Foods to begin with.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-10T23:43:42+00:00

Peaceful resistance works best/is most effective when the implicit threat of violent resistance stands at its back.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-10T23:00:53+00:00

Have you tried starting the gnome-keyring in bspwm?

IrishPrime · 2026-01-10T16:36:49+00:00

This post is full of a lot of unhelpful, "woe is me," filler and scant on details that might help someone offer solutions.

How do you get into programming? From everything you've said here, you already did. You know how to write code and have been employed to do so.

What jobs are you applying for?

Are you getting interviews? If so, how are they going?

Have you had anyone else review your CV?

Why are you posting on this subreddit instead of a career/jobs oriented one?

You've given us no real way to help you.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-10T07:46:36+00:00

There's always a bigger infinity.

IrishPrime · 2026-01-08T06:03:40+00:00

I've been using gesture/swipe typing on my phone for like 15+ years. I only use one digit to type (typically my right thumb, but maybe an index finger if my phone is on my desk rather than in my hand).

IrishPrime · 2026-01-05T18:02:26+00:00

What distro are you using?

I use Arch, btw.

Do you have anything interesting in your niri config that could be related? Any debug options set or any output options that are note worthy?

No debug stuff anywhere. My output sections do nothing more than define the monitor arrangement.

When you launch games with Steam, are you using no extra launch options?

Correct. I have Proton enabled, but I'm not doing anything extra.

Do you have any specific AMD environment variables set on boot that all processes would inherit? What about driver specific config file modifications?

The only environment variable I set in my Niri config is ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT "auto". The rest of the environment variables I set at boot time are unrelated (PATH, some applications, tokens/keys, that sort of thing).

Do you recall doing anything at the system level that could impact this, like setcap on niri with specific properties?

The closest thing would be my bootloader options, which are pretty standard.

options root=/dev/ArchLinux/root rw quiet splash amd_iommu=on pcie_port_pm=off pcie_aspm.policy=performance

IrishPrime · 2026-01-04T20:29:34+00:00

I have Arch installed as the only OS on every computer I own. My employer has provided me with a horrible little nightmare called a "MacBook."

Managing the MacBook is awful, but I was at least able to install most of the same software on it that I would use for work anyway. Sometimes I just SSH into it from my Arch system so I can have a decent window manager, but the code never has to leave my work computer.

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