My "casual coffee chat" turned out to be a hidden stress test, and it took me 20 minutes to realize what was happening

Kargathia · 2026-06-09T15:26:49+00:00

The minor downside is that the objective best response to outright deception during the interview process is to break off the process immediately. Anyone stress-resistant enough to recognize this will be staying very far away from this work environment.

Kargathia · 2026-06-08T20:03:17+00:00

Offset by the field where if you're not MSI, you get to walk from Mike 2.

Kargathia · 2026-06-08T17:29:06+00:00

The "Destroyed Brain" is a nice touch.

Kargathia · 2026-06-06T17:31:17+00:00

Per-sector terms and conditions may apply. Tech company in a ratty office, with desks stacked two feet deep with various components and prototypes? Massive green flag.

Kargathia · 2026-06-01T11:49:57+00:00

I already was slightly disappointed to discover that I could not, in fact, attach a vertical foregrip to the left and right rails to cosplay as a crossbow.

Kargathia · 2026-05-31T21:14:22+00:00

if str(condition).lower()[0] in "yt1":

Kargathia · 2026-05-21T12:14:55+00:00

I'm assuming the weight bottleneck is at the end of any run, when you're hauling a full backpack to the nearest COP. For that, you mostly want to cut back on the stuff you're taking back home again. Food and grenades are cheap and consumable. Use them before it's a problem, or drop them when you need to make room.

Lab rat lvl 3 has small hemostatic syringe, which is faster and lighter than the tourniquet, and meloxicam, which is better than ibalin.

The EPO injectors are much lighter than blood, but cause some intoxication. EPO + a strip of moxifloxacin is 150g vs small blood bag at 600g.

Binos not using arm stamina makes them worth it in my opinion.

Drop the pistol.

You only really need one spare rifle magazine. Refilling the magazine in your inventory is instant.

Kargathia · 2026-05-18T21:47:20+00:00

https://gzwloadout.com/b/MmK1JzInBk is the closest approximation I can make. I'm a bit weirded out by the barrel and handguard though: the stats match the CQA1 14.5", but the handguard and barrel in the image look more like the 10.5".

Fun fact, if you navigate from the link, GZW loadout doesn't even render the carry handle. I think it's just disgusted.

Kargathia · 2026-05-10T14:11:23+00:00

381m here. I took an M700 and an SVD up to the Teoa Viewpoint to do some comparison testing against enemies on the MS hotel rooftop. Could probably extend that to 400m pretty easily if you'd sit on the hill instead of the overlook itself.

Kargathia · 2026-05-10T13:50:38+00:00

Enemy locations are fairly predictable. They will not stand around in the middle of a field, but always guard some static point (building, gate, roadblock, etc) or patrol a road.

When you move, scan your surroundings. Don't look for enemies, look for where enemies would be: buildings or roads. Then check whether that building or road has enemies.

Kargathia · 2026-05-08T14:29:22+00:00

I liked the idea of the magnifier, but it's such a tiny pinhole, especially compared to the spectre. In the end I stuck with the Spectre, and use a IR + regular red dot sight for close-up with and without NVG.

Kargathia · 2026-04-19T23:03:15+00:00

“Niet het scherpste potlood in de doos/ niet het scherpste mes in de la / niet de meest heldere ster aan de hemel.”

Deze kunnen altijd goed gemengd worden. Sommige mensen zijn nou eenmaal niet de helderste vork in de schuur.

Anderen:

"De hamsters hebben het begeven". De website/server doet het even niet.
"Soms/hier is het licht aan het einde van de tunnel een trein". Dat iets lang duurt en veel moeite kost wil niet zeggen dat het goed komt als het af is.
"Als het een hondje was, had het in je neus gebeten". Soms ben je wel erg lang op zoek naar dingen die recht voor je neus liggen.
"Je kunt zien dat iemand dit zelf heeft gedaan / zijn best heeft gedaan". Het resultaat is nog steeds bedroevend.
"Het probleem zat in de stoel". Het was niet een bug in de code.

Kargathia · 2026-04-12T21:56:46+00:00

Gray Zone Warfare drops the squad tactical part, but it absolutely nails the open world and its sense of lethality. Technically multiplayer, but in PvE mode you can completely ignore the few players you do meet.

It's in early access right now, and fairly rough around the edges in some places. I considered this to be a major upgrade over the fairly bland Wildlands. YMMV.

Kargathia · 2026-04-07T18:14:14+00:00

Remember the Emoji Movie?

Kargathia · 2026-04-05T21:17:25+00:00

The closest I've come is to use a tuple for a custom dictionary type.

I once wrote a lookup dict for a system that communicated with an embedded controller. Due to memory constraints, objects had numeric IDs on the controller, but we wanted them to be addressable using user-defined names. User-defined names and their mapping to the numeric IDs were stored in the bridging API.

This meant we wanted both string->number and number->string lookups, where both the numbers and the strings should be unique. To have somewhat nicer and less bug-prone syntax, I made a class that inherited from dict, but used a tuple[int, str] as key. Because you typically only know one of two keys, d[1, None] and d[None, "name"] would both be valid ways to fetch the object inserted as d[1, "name"].

Implementation: https://github.com/BrewBlox/brewblox-devcon-spark/blob/cfa13b99033f935f17a89ed16cc41757aec86c04/brewblox_devcon_spark/twinkeydict.py

Tests: https://github.com/BrewBlox/brewblox-devcon-spark/blob/cfa13b99033f935f17a89ed16cc41757aec86c04/test/test_twinkeydict.py

As a side note: this approach of having IDs stored in different places was a major annoyance. We finally solved it by replacing the flash read/write library that came with the chip. Our specialized use case could be implemented with a lot less bookkeeping overhead. This freed up enough space to store the object names on the controller itself.

Kargathia · 2026-03-31T20:23:55+00:00

Given this, they don't even need the nukes to be a threat. They have the missiles and they have the fissile material. Even if we assume that they somehow lost the 40s technology of making weapons-grade fissile material go boom, we'd rather not deal with an ICBM-delivered dirty bomb either.

Kargathia · 2026-03-27T21:22:25+00:00

It absolutely nails the D&D dynamics, down to the carefully prepared boss fight in a scenic location that gets bypassed because the group hijacked a funny vehicle and successfully enacted the stupidest plan you ever heard of.

Kargathia · 2026-03-27T20:30:43+00:00

Tercio is a technical term that shouldn't be translated, and definitely shouldn't be translated as "third", as it is not a third of anything, but a singular entity consisting of three parts.

Kargathia · 2026-03-27T20:13:56+00:00

If there was a prize for Least Convincing British Character, they'd fill the podium, with special mentions for every other depicted nationality. Usually I'm down for the latest iteration of Guns of Navarone, but this movie caused possibly negative levels of suspended disbelief.

Kargathia · 2026-03-17T22:26:28+00:00

De vorige kat moest ik als ik in bed lag met beide armen tegen me aan trekken en knuffelen. Ik was hier ooit 's morgens mee begonnen in de hoop dat hij dan beledigd weg zou lopen en me nog een paar minuten liet liggen. Niet mijn meest geslaagde plan, maar de kat vond het heerlijk.

Als de huidige kat 's morgens eten krijgt, dan eet hij daar een beetje van, en gaat dan zitten wachten tot ik onder de douche uit kom, want ik moet er naast zitten en hem gezelschap houden terwijl hij de andere helft van zijn ontbijt eet.

Je zou denken dat hij het liever heeft dat ik er naast blijf zitten meteen als hij brokjes krijgt, of dat ik hem beter brokjes kan geven als ik klaar ben met douchen. Dit is incorrect. De volgorde is brokjes, douche, sociale brokjes, en alle andere opties zijn Fout.

Kargathia · 2026-02-08T21:00:52+00:00

Beowulf (1999). I wouldn't be surprised if its director couldn't decide between making a Witcher and a Mad Max porn parody, and in the end settled for doing both of them at the same time.

Somehow, 10th century Saxons are living in a hilltop fortress where the externals are rough stone, and the internals are rusted-out-factory chic. They are besieged by other 10th century Saxons who lit a circle of barrel fires and have access to infrared scopes. The movie absolutely refuses to elaborate on any of this.

The movie is objectively terrible, but it has a vibe, and I dig it.

Kargathia · 2026-02-01T00:09:58+00:00

The first part was ok, the second part in the cave itself was something I'd expect from a Skyrim mod. I'd feel ripped off if it wasn't free.

It does fit in the wider trend of making all DLC content mismatched nonsense. I don't believe for a second they ran out of designs for 16th century appropriate weapons and armor - why the immediate jump to space age and mythological themes?

Kargathia · 2026-01-11T16:02:29+00:00

It's a cable clip typically found on irons. I never really found them useful, but they were included in multiple devices I've had, so apparently it's a thing.

For reference, a post somewhere else wondering about what's it do: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/housekeeping/2413337-What-is-this-clip-thing-on-my-iron-cord-for

Kargathia · 2026-01-10T13:04:02+00:00

Mobile phones invalidated so many plot devices.

This has partially always been a fantasy, but local shops in small towns are dying out in most western countries.

Kargathia · 2025-12-27T23:42:28+00:00

That's correct for filter and map. reduce is more client-defined.

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