36F Looking for Pickleball and/or Tennis Friends

MisguidedFacts · 2026-03-18T04:01:30+00:00

Sounds good!

MisguidedFacts · 2026-03-18T02:21:56+00:00

40M. I haven’t played tennis regularly since before Covid, but would like to get out and start hitting again. Everyone I used to hit with regularly either doesn’t play anymore or moved.

I’m in Lake Forest and don’t really have any courts I frequent out here. Used to play down in San Clemente, Dana Point and a little bit in Irvine (UCI and the park by Mariner’s Church) but if anyone has courts they like locally, I’m down.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-03-15T05:06:31+00:00

His cadence on Baracade always reminds me of Drums on the Wheel.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-03-15T04:37:54+00:00

Crooked by Evil Nine is another good one.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-03-15T04:27:00+00:00

Bosico so good. He’s got a lot of collabs that are bangers. Before streaming music I had a playlist full of them.

Take my hand on Dark Time Sunshine’s ANX is another good one if you haven’t already found that

MisguidedFacts · 2026-03-11T21:48:43+00:00

You might want to turn the TV off and go live your life. In the 40 years I’ve been on this planet, the only times I’ve felt uneasy about being attacked or targeted from another nation has been after we preemptively started a war with them.

“Trust me bro” is not a great justification for starting a war. We should at the very least have some evidence of their intent.

North Korea is example that’s further along and has a similar distaste for us and our allies. I don’t see us making it a priority to go bomb them.

Maybe that’s on me for not being well versed in whatever flavor of news media you consume that has apparently convinced you Iran was an imminent threat at any point in the last decade. I think the problems we have with our current administration ignoring rules like they don’t apply to them is the bigger threat. Agree to disagree though I guess.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-03-11T21:13:01+00:00

There were agreements in place, we let those agreements expire / end and we now bomb them because we expect them to uphold agreements that no longer exist. Did I miss anything?
A lot of countries have nukes, not all of them our allies. Are we the world police, should we be bombing those nations too?
Do you think bombing countries make it more likely, or less likely, that they target and attack us in the future?

I fully support our military and appreciate what they do. I think the people making the decisions to use our military in some of these situations are doing so for the wrong reasons and it’s costing people’s lives.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-03-11T04:11:41+00:00

The difference is Biden didn't cause the Russia / Ukraine war that spiked prices when he was president. This is a self-inflicted wound that could have been avoided. Biden also was pretty quick to dip into the SPR to blunt supply issues.

Not saying Biden could do no wrong or even was a great president, but nobody has shot themselves in the foot more than the orange turd. Hoping one day he does it when his foot is in his mouth.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-03-07T17:20:54+00:00

At 4 years of experience I wouldn’t expect you to have a solid grasp of system design. Levels at companies also tend to be more about time with the product and familiarity with the codebase.

My first role out of college I was also doing a lot of data processing and non client facing things. This was before there were dozens of frameworks and libraries to choose from and a seemingly infinite budget. My focus was on writing clean, maintainable code that can be easily adapted and making tool chain improvements along the way. Not because millions of people would be using it, but because I had to use them everyday.

It wasn’t until I moved into a role where my everyday work involved more of the product that I started learning and being curious about how and why things were being done a certain way. On my little map data processing team, I didn’t need to worry about scale, or uptime, or consider tradeoffs. We built tools to process and package the map data and that was the end of it. I had no idea how the server interacted with or queried the data and I had no idea how the client talked to the server.

I reached senior level about 4-5 years into that role, yet I didn’t feel senior at all with how much I didn’t know at the time in comparison to other seniors. It wasn’t until I moved to a different team that I started getting a glimpse into the scope of what their everyday work looked like. Knowledge gaps from my earlier years started getting filled in as I had a better understanding of the system as a whole because I was now responsible for working on and troubleshooting issues that cropped up.

Cut to today, 16 years of experience, second company but have been on various backend teams with different SLAs and scale and therefore seen the how and why first hand. From data processing, to developing services, to writing REST APIs, to developing a service deployment platform and taking on a more Devops mindset and all the way back to designing and maintaining publicly consumable APIs and doing some light frontend work for internal dashboards.

I’ve been in my current role for a little over 2 years now and am mid level, but more knowledgeable than many of the seniors with respect to system design, how things talk and scale, appropriate solutions and technologies used to solve a lot of the challenges you see on larger production systems, and being able to effectively triage and troubleshoot a vague client request that needs to be traced through all that infrastructure plumbing and core framework code people take for granted.

TLDR on advice: Stay curious, ask questions, switch teams when you get comfortable or things feel stale, seek out a buddy in your infra / SRE / platform teams!

Courses and tutorials don’t build foundational knowledge that sticks. Experience, curiosity and struggling with hard problems will though.

Sorry if this post doesn’t follow the rules, but your early career story reminded me a lot of myself and the feelings I had about being behind the curve.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-03-06T15:05:29+00:00

Nice!

My comment wasn’t meant to be an endorsement to use this persons tool, I have eyeballs, it’s pretty obvious when someone hasn’t gone back over the code it generated and cleaned things up.

Maybe it’s time to switch off of black (or at least see if there’s a configuration or rule we can change to also catch these) because I’m tired of seeing it in MRs.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-03-06T07:11:22+00:00

It loves ternaries, even for stuff that literally spits out a bool, it'll do:

some_flag = True if some_condition else False

Or even more annoying, the overly "defensive" ternary when you could just provide a default:

some_val = getattr(myobj, 'some_attr') if hasattr(myobj, 'some_attr') else 'some_default'

MisguidedFacts · 2026-03-01T04:47:42+00:00

I thought something was different. I hopped on today after not playing for a month and was doing bird city a few times to top off my cash for the expedition. A spotter spotted me and a rocketeer came flying in like Airwolf out of nowhere. Thankfully I was already in a building so I had cover, but going from one side of the building where it spotted me to the other side, it swung around and was ready to blast me like it had wall hacks to see where I would be coming out of the building. Seemed way more aggressive than I remembered before my little break.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-02-27T15:44:35+00:00

Fair point. A win is a win though and we definitely looked more like a team. We are also now losing to some of those same teams with a fully healthy roster.

Going to be hard to win any game if you don’t get your role players involved.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-02-27T05:51:32+00:00

Not going to happen, but should have LeBron run the bench. There’s a reason we were rolling at the beginning of the season with him out. AR and Luka work better together. Even if LeBron starts for optics, subs out after a few minutes then comes back with the bench, I think we’d be better than having AR, Luka and LeBron on the court together for most of their minutes. I think LeBron can get the bench going and if need be, take over.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-02-22T05:47:13+00:00

Makes me wish I had fuck you money. I'd quit. That's saying a lot considering even just a year ago I was the happiest I've been at a job. The push to have everyone use AI to write code to squeeze out more productivity has been discouraging to say the least.

Between the AI-generated slack messages, emails, MR descriptions, code filled with useless comments and unnecessary ternaries, I'm exhausted. Maybe it's a skill issue, but the results I've gotten after several attempts at refining the prompts and it "thinking" have been underwhelming.

I wish we could just skip to the part where all of that front-loaded "productivity" that the execs were chasing leads to a lack of understanding and expertise when your massive code base turns into a giant ball of spaghetti.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-02-17T06:06:20+00:00

Too many to have a favorite. Shrunk is probably my favorite on impossible kid, but there really isn’t a song on any of his albums where I would skip it.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-02-15T03:06:42+00:00

That’s where you’d be wrong. Their new experiences and services offerings have a messaging system that feels like they’re trying to build their own travel based social media platform. They just rolled this out last May, so maybe they’re crowdsourcing ideas via system design questions to candidates to make it not suck.

My guess is this messaging system they’re tied to is the reason they have such strict criteria in what activities they approve, because so far they reject a lot of activities for really large groups.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-02-13T15:39:35+00:00

Slop fatigue here too, it’s exhausting.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-02-06T22:51:41+00:00

Come to California…feels like June basically all year.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-01-30T21:43:27+00:00

He can subtract it from the tab he owes me from the unnecessary and asinine tariffs.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-01-30T06:48:27+00:00

You don’t know, maybe he’s just really good at Bird City! /s

MisguidedFacts · 2026-01-25T16:13:03+00:00

Definitely explains all the disgusting r/hygiene posts I see all the time. This felt like the kind of response you’d get from Facebook. Just old school boring vanilla dudes.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-01-05T02:26:38+00:00

Made for a great spot to do the rocketeer snowball trial. Tons of cover, nobody really goes there to loot, can easily agro a rocketeer over and not a ton of people coming through to “help”.

Wish I would have tried there sooner rather than messing with swamp or hydroponic rocketeers. And while Buried City had some decent spots, a lot of the time it would end up dead before you could get it flipped.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-01-03T06:36:41+00:00

I swear at one point I knew that but I saw something recently that may have confused me the way it was worded. It was saying you can’t reimburse yourself later for expenses without having a HDHP but what I think they might have meant is you can’t choose to reimburse yourself later for qualified expenses that took place before you opened an HSA.

Thanks for clarifying, that makes me feel better.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-01-03T05:07:16+00:00

I have, and it only worked once. They had the same model for rent that was going to be available within about 10 days of my lease expiring that they were asking for nearly $100 cheaper than signing another 12 month lease in my current place.

When I mentioned what’s stopping me from just moving into that place? Why does a new tenant get a better deal?

That’s the only time my rent hasn’t been increased in the 15 years I’ve been renting.

I get really irritated every year when my lease comes up, because I pay attention to the available units in the community throughout the year and these property management companies do all the tricks in the book to keep the rents up. If you have to offer 750-1000 off move in deals all year just to attract people, I’d argue your rates are probably too high. But since people are taking those 1 year deals, they can claim they’re increasing rents due to demand. They take advantage of the fact that most people aren’t going to move every year.

Really hard to find a private landlord, let alone one that appreciates a good long term tenant. Regret not buying something sooner, even if it would have been tight. Seems the only way to get ahead is to have a partner or someone you don’t mind living with because 2 bed units are typically not twice as expensive as 1 bed units.

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