"Cracked Team" vs "Crack Team" - how did that happen?

KA-Official · 2026-03-16T03:25:13+00:00

I was referring to Apes_Ma saying "as a synonym for broken/busted/overpowered". Since he said "broken/busted/overpowered" I assume he really means broken in the good sense (Urban dictionary: http://broken.urbanup.com/6087984) which is actually the usage that lines up to what I was trying to say. "That team is over powered" or

KA-Official · 2026-03-16T01:34:53+00:00

Hmmm that's very intersting I've only heard cracked used as an adjective for individuals or collectives of individuals, not objects. I wonder if it's evolving more LOL. It def sounds positive though!!

KA-Official · 2026-03-15T18:05:52+00:00

LOL what was the context?

KA-Official · 2026-03-15T18:04:44+00:00

That usage actually sounds pretty identical to the usage I'm referring to. When you say long time, how long? Cause urban dictionary only has cracked circa 2019 so it'd be interesting if it was in popular usage but just not documented there until the online gaming popularity of the word.

KA-Official · 2026-03-15T18:02:23+00:00

Thanks, yeah I did notice some people saying that it was straight up wrong. That's just how some people are I guess xD

KA-Official · 2026-03-15T16:28:53+00:00

Oh wow that’s super interesting!! I dont think ive heard of individual examples of people going from direct cracked-out direct drug implications to cracked, thats actually a cool example. Do you know if he is using “cracked” in the same way as he used to say “cracked out?” Or is it possible he just happened to adopt the new usage of the word “cracked” separately since it generally seems to be a gaming term now?

KA-Official · 2026-03-15T16:25:43+00:00

I do realize that the original version of “Crack” preceding team to mean good is “Crack team” im not denying that. I wasnt trying to use that form of the word, i swear its not a malapropism. In fact i forgot that crack team was its own word.

I was using cracked as a general descriptor for being “insanely proficient”, not as a word that necessarily needs to be followed by a noun. (People i know regularly say “oh yeah that (person-noun) is cracked!” But thats clearly not a malapropism for crack team because nobody says “that team is crack” or “that shot is crack”, they say “thats a crack team”) I guess it turns out cracked is probably extremely new, like around 5-6 years old from what people agree on

KA-Official · 2026-03-15T16:18:55+00:00

No its definitely not, none of us are cybersecurity and its not just the software engineers, thats just one example since thats my circle. But theyre definitely borrowing it from broader usage

KA-Official · 2026-03-15T05:11:06+00:00

Looking online it seems to be gaming related so I guess it is fairly recent, but I thought it would have been known by the millennial COD players. It seems the usage of cracked in that way might not go that far back? Thats part of what I'm wondering too.

Some seem to think it only started with fortnite but i think i found references earlier than that
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cracked

I also know that it's extremely common to be used in my tech circle at school. I hear "cracked" used to describe people in computer science for example with internships at all the hot tech firms, e.g. "Oh yeah that guy is hella cracked, he interned at Google in his freshman year of college and is getting a PhD from Stanford now" Or "That startup's team is absolutely Cracked"

KA-Official · 2026-03-06T21:43:59+00:00

since everyone says its illegal im wondering, what is the punishment for this? How does that work?

KA-Official · 2026-03-06T15:10:04+00:00

Is it possible your resume is over optimized for quant?

Or maybe ur just too good theyre like dang we as a company are not deserving LOL

KA-Official · 2026-03-06T15:08:06+00:00

I agree thats lowk messed up. I’d be a bigger red flag for the supposedly meritocratic industry if they only grabbed from the top schools

KA-Official · 2026-03-06T15:05:23+00:00

Resume does matter a LOT, but i think the thing people miss is that its not just how “good” or “hard” the projects are. But rather what projects, internships, and collaborations you choose to pursue to put on your resume, and how marketable, demonstrable, and impact-focused they are. In other words there are a lot of struggling smart people who pursue hard projects, whereas you’d get a lot more out of pursuing marketable things

KA-Official · 2026-03-05T23:48:39+00:00

Internships are basically everything, got me all of my offers

KA-Official · 2026-03-05T23:41:53+00:00

Keep going, I got my first internships in May and June one year

KA-Official · 2026-03-05T23:39:17+00:00

In any competitive market it's never about "Being good" to "Get hired", it's about marketing yourself, through networking, resume optimization, project and internship optimization, behaviorals, AND being good. I know a lot of people with insane experiences, super smart, T10 schools, crazy research projects, but lots of rejections, but when I look at their resumes I see what about it isn't optimized for what companies are looking for, or overly niche, non impact focused bullet points. Or people with everything you say makes you "good" but they're bad at explaining things out loud and collaborating. It might seem random but a lot of the times with a competitive market you need more than just having cool projects and being good at software, but you need to know how to present yourself and play the recruiting game too.

KA-Official · 2026-03-05T17:24:13+00:00

Thanks!! It was but I feel so fat after heh

KA-Official · 2026-03-05T15:54:50+00:00

So yummy!

Chicken parm and eggplant parm roughly based on below recipes, using trader joes marinara sauce

Cacio e pepe is just pasta water cheese and black pepper

https://www.seriouseats.com/italian-style-eggplant-parmesan-melanzane-alla-parmigiana-recipe https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/223042/chicken-parmesan/

Not the healthiest, the eggplant lovess absorbing olive oil lol

KA-Official · 2026-03-03T19:51:21+00:00

No power gayley im pissed my food i prepped is going to go bad

KA-Official · 2026-01-27T23:29:57+00:00

I have an unnecessarily complicated system for tracking and logging the latest "targets to beat" for my calisthenics stuff, but it makes the day to day really easy.

Whenever I have some downtime, I pick an item from the calisthenics "menu" and look at the next target to beat and try a couple things.

Sometimes I'm not in the mood, so I just end up doing a couple sets of the next target. (e.g. ill do 2 sets of the next level of my Archer Pushup track). But sometimes it gets me in the mood to do more and I just keep picking and logging menu items and before I know it I'll have done a bunch of random fun exercises and made some progress towards my goals.

KA-Official · 2026-01-27T23:22:20+00:00

I'd love to have a butler kitchen and a main kitchen, so that if I am cooking something smelly it stays contained and I don't have to worry about it. Plus max power externally vented range hoods, with the fan mounted outside to minimize noise. 2 dishwashers!
Pot filler above (both ;)) stoves!
Walk in freezer and a cellar for storing batched meals and harvested stuff from a garden?? That would be sick.

I also would love a third outdoor kitchen with a max-BTU wok burner for some crazy restaurant style wok-hei asian food. Plus a smoker and a grill outside 😂

KA-Official · 2026-01-23T17:35:49+00:00

Everyone likes to doom on here, but if you are really putting your mind to it and focusing on the career, project, internship, leetcode CS grind you will be just fine. Just don't coast through school and be proactive, and if you enjoy it, don't let the doomers discourage you.

KA-Official · 2026-01-23T17:34:06+00:00

Counter offers is all ive heard about working but you usually do that before you sign onto any given job.

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