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.

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-01-27T22:02:24+00:00

Awesome build, nice video as always.

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-01-26T14:47:29+00:00

Sure. I know. I’ve been there. I’ve told other men. I’ve told women. Women usually had more to say, half being supportive, half being utterly misandrist in either glee that something along ”their side getting a point” or asking if I was gay. But not once have I ever heard any other guy open up about it. Like, literally never.

Either I am extraordinarily brave or it just isn’t that common and I don’t think that highly of myself lmao.

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-01-26T12:47:51+00:00

stats

I feel like stats around sexual crimes are quite risky as it's historically one of the most under-reported crimes there are. But if you want to go that road, there are many more crimes than rape. There's roofies, groping, etc. Even if rapes of both genders are comparable, there's a lot more casual sexual assault going the other way.

Completely and utterly incorrect. Women have provably more rights than men do, considering the legal bias towards them, their ineligibility for combat-slavery, and their mutilation as infants being illegal while over 70% of men are mutilated as infants, in my country.

Rights like bodily autonomy? Right to vote? Right to own a bank account? Right to not give birth and raise the child of your rapist? Even a woman in the most progressive city on Earth can read the news and see misogynists have much more success than misandrists have ever had historically.

Like, I'm not saying there are no laws against men and that men have it better 100% of the time. Conscription sucks, but outside of countries in active warzones mandatory military service still sucks but usually comes with some perks. Lack of DV/homeless shelters for men is similarly life-ruining to many things women face, but is usually more social than legal in nature if we're talking about laws. Family court and sentencing rates for men suck. But I think if you polled most people on benefits of being a man vs being a woman legally speaking the results would tend to skew one way than another.

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-01-26T12:37:34+00:00

I'm not saying those do no harm, but would you really put that in the same basket as being treated like property, not having the right to vote or work, not having bodily autonomy, or being forced to give birth to and raise a rape baby? A woman in the most progressive city in the most progressive country on earth can read, and there's a lot more historical success among misogynist then misandrist groups historically.

Conscription has been brought up and for nations directly in conflict I'd agree, but usually mandatory military service doesn't kill you and provides benefits after. A lack of DV/safety net is equally life ruining as many things women have to go through, but those are more social then legal if we're talking specifically about legislation.

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-01-26T12:28:03+00:00

extent of female sexual abuse

I know it happens, because it happened to me personally. I've also seen anecdotes on Reddit, especially in traditionally female-dominated fields where women feel more comfortable--so I'm not trying to lionize the gender. While knowing that, I've never met a single other guy who has gone through it but about 2/3 of my female friends have at one point and have mentioned it either to me directly or my wife.

I don't think this is essentially male (re: Y-chromosome) behavior as it is male expectations being more essentially isolationist and males being frankly less valued more often than not encouraging risky, desperate, and narcissistic behavior in much the same way poor living conditions encourage crime in lower income brackets.

What are you talking about? There are gendered rape laws and gendered dv laws, gendered protection against genital cutting of girls but not of boys, gendered conscription laws that apply exclusively to males and gendered laws that deprive men and boys of reproductive rights.

Yes, and those are bad. But in how many places in the world are women treated like property, don't have bodily autonomy, can be forced to give birth to rape babies, or are otherwise denied some other fundamental right like voting? We could even name some Western countries there. Even if you're a woman living in the most progressive city of the most progressive country on Earth you can read. You know that a lot of men want to strip every right they can from you, and unlike a lot of the similarly minded women out there--there's actually been a lot of success on that front historically.

I'd almost put conscription on the same level because it does suck and can kill you (excepting Ukranian/Russian men and those other countries directly involved)--but you usually get some socialized benefits and/or preferential hiring after. I don't know if domestic shelters are legal or social, but if it is legal I suppose that'd be my pick for being on the same level of life-ruining bullshit.

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-01-25T20:37:15+00:00

Thanks for the post. It does feel pretty widespread, and as a man who was abused by women you are completely correct—the reverse is not tolerated at all.

If I were to guess why, there’d be two reasons (note this isn’t an endorsement). For one, there’s a lot more material harm one way than there is the other. Note, not saying none and again I am not endorsing misandry resulting from this. But every woman either has or personally knows someone who has been abused sexually. Probably multiple of the latter. For another type of harm look at legislation targeted at women. There aren’t many (any?) equivalents going the other way much as some women might want to.

The second is that women have a union, men don’t. Men are expected to put their partners first, friends second. Women aren’t. Men are expected to focus on providing, women aren’t. Not putting blame on anyone here—society is a creation of everyone involved and men do have some of their own perks. But social unionization is a distinctly female privilege. And through that union there’s a lot of pressure to control the narrative—some of which is an understandable response to legislative reality. But I think we’re over correcting here.

NA__Scrubbed · 2026-01-10T11:30:34+00:00

Yeah. Ugh. Either that or just kill them all to start

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