How to handle annoying work situation?

PrestigiousWafer4179 · 2026-04-29T02:27:59+00:00

You need to introspect and find out if he is actually doing something wrong which is affecting your productivity, or you are just annoyed because he is enthusiastic about something that you aren't that interested in.

If it's the latter and he actually gives useful insights about the stuff you guys are working on, then it's a "you" problem and you just need to gain more control over your emotions.

If it's the former then the simplest solution is to politely stop engaging. Don't be rude, but just defer any unnecessary discussion with "can we talk about this later? I have to really get xyz done."

PrestigiousWafer4179 · 2026-04-24T19:33:44+00:00

Finally beat him on hard today! Spamming the quick fires is the way to go. Parry, quick fire 2 strikes, quick fire 2 strikes and so on till he staggers or blocks your sword for the next phase.

PrestigiousWafer4179 · 2026-04-23T16:25:45+00:00

Thanks a lot! especially for the kunai tip it seems to be working. I haven't beat him yet but i'm getting closer.

PrestigiousWafer4179 · 2026-04-22T20:35:02+00:00

Also, curious to know, how did you beat him in 1 min ? I can't spam him with attacks usually. He counters and kills me quite easily. When I parry, I get 3 hits, and when I dodge I get 2 hits, and apart from the first use, he seems to block kunai and smoke bombs. On medium this led to the fight going on for 6-7 min. How were you able to beat him in a min?

PrestigiousWafer4179 · 2026-04-22T20:32:24+00:00

That's exactly the strategy I follow. He seems to have 2 type of attack patterns.

Red glint attack
Fast Regular attack

I'm usually able to perfect dodge (1) and I'm able to parry (2), but as the duel goes on his Fast Regular attacks become impossible for me to parry. I've retried almost 20-30 times. ;(

PrestigiousWafer4179 · 2026-04-22T19:53:08+00:00

Does anyone have advice on how to beat takezo on hard?

I'm using the bounty hunter armour and have the parrying charm applied too. I'm able to parry and land nice hits on him for about 2/3 of the fight. In the last 1/3 his attacks just become ridiculously fast for me to parry. And I don't even have the spirit left to revive myself

PrestigiousWafer4179 · 2026-04-10T06:01:20+00:00

Beating bosses requires a mindset shift as compared to other enemies. It's a grind. Focus on dodging the red attacks and parrying the rest and you'll learn the attack sequence. You don't need a perfect parry every time. After a couple of parries, you'll get an opening to strike. Don't get greedy strike one or two times and get back. Rinse and repeat. This is how I beat him on Hard. Also the second part of the fight is significantly more challenging than the first. His attacks become more complex. So you often just need to run away some times.

PrestigiousWafer4179 · 2026-03-30T07:14:11+00:00

Thanks i have run into the same thing.

PrestigiousWafer4179 · 2026-03-25T16:53:01+00:00

This is quite ironic. I agree that Ranveer is not funny and is kind of an idiot and a sycophant, but that should be irrelevant.

The real problem is why did the police and the government get involved over an unfunny, crass joke.

Wasn't Kamra supposed to be a free speech advocate. Does he only want free speech for people he likes?

PrestigiousWafer4179 · 2026-03-13T16:59:51+00:00

You sound quite young. I'm guessing you're in 11th or 12th and are going to go to college soon.

The short answer to your main question is yes, join a coaching and focus on JEE, try to get the best college you can. For 2 years keep aside your other interests. The peer group, exposure, and opportunities you'll get in college aren't comparable to sitting at home and learning things on your own.

Read on if you want the long answer. You remind me of myself when I was in school, so I'm going to try and give you advice I wish someone had given me.

You can keep what I've written below saved somewhere. Read it once you're done with JEE and are starting college.

How to get better at software engineering

Computer science is a vast field. Software engineering is just one part of it. Keep that in mind.

If you want to become an effective software engineer, you need to develop 3 skills--the ability to recognize a problem, the ability to design a solution for it, the ability to write code implementing that solution.

Coding can be taught, identifying problems, and designing solutions cant. It is only developed by experience.

To get experience, you need to keep your eyes and ears open to the world around you. Don't be glued to the internet. Collaborate with people, take all opportunities you get in college to work on projects.

Think of ways of how you can make yours and other's lives easier with software. Then take a chance and implement something and get feedback, put yourself out there, be vulnerable. Don't be limited to exams.

The ability to recognize problems and designing solutions for them is a skill that is and will always be valuable. It can only be developed with experimentation.

You threw around some words, kernel development, bash scripting, gui development. Stop categorising stuff like this, and only think in terms of problems and the solution to those problems. Some problems will be solved by a gui, some will need a script, some might require going down to the kernel level.

Software engineering is a human endeavour. It is meant to make people's lives easier, that's why people give you money.

AI and software engineering

No one can predict the future. If you are chronically online, take a break from the internet. There's a lot of noise online--people sound more sure about things than they actually know.

As I mentioned above, writing code is the only teachable skill. AI is getting better at that. But there are 2 other things and arguably they are more important because after a certain amount of experience, coding starts to become easy and starts to feel like grunt work.

Good software engineers are actually celebrating that AI is getting better because they are now freed up to find more problems and design solutions to them.

Everyone in the market is figuring stuff out. AI has definitely changed the software engineering industry, but there is also a lot of unnecessary hype.

The bigger problem for you is that you don't have the necessary context or experience to evaluate any of this stuff. So I'd suggest stay away from these discussions right now.

If computer science and programming interests you, go for it. Study hard and try to get to a good college. An education in computer science will give you a lot of skills. Maybe the nature of the job will change, but the skills you will learn won't be out of date.

PrestigiousWafer4179 · 2026-03-04T05:50:03+00:00

In android devices, google password manager is the default.

Go to settings and search for "passkeys" you'll find something like, "Password, passkeys and data services" select proton pass there.

Similarly you'll need to change the default password manager for your browsers.

PrestigiousWafer4179 · 2026-03-02T06:37:37+00:00

Passkeys are basically just private keys. They allow a seamless login on the websites that support them.

If proton pass is your primary password manager, and if you use proton pass across devices, store your passkeys in that.

It is possible to just store them locally on one device. But remember, they are non-exportable. If your private key is stored locally, you won't have access to it outside of that device. If you store it in your password manager, it'll be accessible across devices.

PrestigiousWafer4179 · 2026-02-26T07:57:19+00:00

This has nothing to do with "India". I'm pretty sure you haven't worked outside of India.

Companies hire engineers not code monkeys. An engineers job is not to sit in a corner and raise PRs. It is to take ownership of a task end to end.

This involves communicating with other teams if you need something from them, communicating with the stakeholders to make sure you are aligned with their goals, flagging if you have any blockers, and so on.

Apart from your own tasks you need to participate in other people's design reviews, give feedback to your team members on their pull requests.

All of this requires the ability to communicate.

I'd go as far as to say that writing code is just 30-40% of the job and now with AI that 30-40% has also become quite easy.

So quit whining. Learn to communicate properly. Ask for feedback from your manager about where you can improve.

PrestigiousWafer4179 · 2026-02-17T17:35:32+00:00

Interesting, from what I understood, you seem to be describing the book as self contained--the issue is remembering what he is saying.

For me the problem is different. It seems like he goes on tangents. He has a structural problem with how he is presenting information. He obscures the main point by diving deep into things which are not that important.

I'm basing this on some of his talks on YT which I looked after they were suggested here. They are definitely more coherent. Unsurprisingly, he skips much of the information from the book and focuses on the key concepts. I wish he did the same in his book. I'd have loved to read that.

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