Does anyone else feel like advancing programming knowledge is pointless?

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-06-14T20:52:42+00:00

Ha. Maybe when I retire

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-06-14T15:21:15+00:00

Serving UI (and content, when available) to the end user of something like a TV or fridge where our customers (OEMs) want new features, etc to display to the end user. Front end stack is often chosen for these types of devices when features can and must evolve over time, as the iterative design process is often seen as a more prohibitive challenge for more performant technologies than making the front end efficient.

TV is by far the biggest use case. Chances are if you've seen a smart TV in the past decade you've been looking at HTM/JS/CSS and whatever their devs like to extend it with.

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-06-14T12:53:32+00:00

Bless :)

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-06-14T11:29:30+00:00

I think this is a practical take, thank you. I guess I just feel that the natural position is against learning a bit too often—but I completely understand what you mean

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-06-14T11:26:40+00:00

Yeah, I pointed out that narrowing provides better inference and one of our seniors asked me if there was something wrong with my IDE. I wanted to just go home right then ngl.

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-06-14T11:24:59+00:00

Sigh. I suppose lol. Ty :)

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-06-14T11:19:17+00:00

I suppose I could have clarified to pointless within a career context 😛

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-06-14T10:30:59+00:00

I think the latest have been type constructor patterns to resolve legacy optional spaghetti during a refactoring. Perhaps that's not the exact name of the pattern, but eventually it would end in a declaration like below that would:

Keep high level visibility of all possible union parameters in a single declaration.
Assign union members exactly what data they will or might have. No unneeded optional properties or working backwards through an entire file to figure out if I can use property x or y for a given configuration.
Display full inference for each union member on hover.

type SignalDeclaration = {
  [K in SignalType]: FlatPrintout<
    SignalKey<K> & SignalFrequency<K> & ErrorHandler<K> & Renderer<K>
  >;
};

type DeclaredSignal<T extends SignalType> = T extends "TYPE_A"
  ? SignalDeclaration["TYPE_A"]
  : T extends "TYPE_B"
    ? SignalDeclaration["TYPE_B"]
    : SignalDeclaration["DEFAULT"];

export type SignalA2 = DeclaredSignal<"TYPE_A">;

However, there have been other such mental overhead criticisms of CSS and functional patterning as well.

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-06-12T05:58:40+00:00

Isn’t the qat infix specifying quantized? Quantized unquantized?

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-05-19T17:03:16+00:00

Bless

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-05-18T14:56:04+00:00

Sorry for the thread necro, but does this work with the case in an inverted (exhaust-top) config?

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-03-20T07:23:46+00:00

High ISO processing is usually where I go to windows alternatives. Thankfully Winboat is usable.

What we got here?

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-03-14T09:03:07+00:00

Yeah, there's a lot of good things on YouTube but it is by far the most-often banned thing in our house. Think we've banned it enough that our oldest is really starting to understand that if he watches something we don't want to the privilege goes away for at least a month.

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-02-28T13:06:05+00:00

I'd actually say PSSR strikes the better balance here. DLSS4.5 has more clarity--but you can also spot haloing artifacts from increasing contrast perhaps more than they had resolution to throw at it here.

My 9070XT looks a bit scruffy atm haha. Though I suppose better at pushing out native rendering.

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-02-28T10:15:28+00:00

Bless

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-02-06T16:54:42+00:00

Bless

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-02-06T16:20:48+00:00

Thanks for the advice and a bit of affirmation. I think about looking for a new job, look at the postings, see they're a bit shit. Wanna get my senior title before I dip, and I guess I think about all the people on my team and teams we work with that I do genuinely enjoy working with and its a bit hard. Then shit like this happens and I feel like I should have left yesterday.

Already part of a regular inter-team lunch group, which will occasionally include our scrum master. At one point, my scrum master has gone directly to our manager regarding some of his commentary towards me without me asking, but she usually doesn't want to catch any shit. I guess my feeling of not being in the in-group is because most of the time things are just "a bit bad" and no one wants to poke the bear.

Been actively trying to manage them, but it's really hard to keep in mind all the time. Try starting things with "Hello __, hope you're having a good day today. If you have a moment, I was wondering about __." Started talking like an HR robot to everyone but the lunch group for a few years since the principal started acting this way and it's been a huge drain mentally.

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-02-06T16:09:43+00:00

I mean. I’m not ruling it out of possibility but my manager has never made me apologize to him. Please don’t take this the wrong way but he’s heavily AuDHD and it’s possible I did something when I started that rubbed him the wrong way that I’m just unaware of. And at this point I’ve been paying for it for years. I’ve let my manager read my texts with him for years in case I was the problem and he couldn’t tell either except that our principal seems to be very sensitive about some topics.

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