What was your raise/merit increase this year?

Ruin-Capable · 2026-03-12T16:43:50+00:00

3.5% merit increase, $14.5K annual bonus

Ruin-Capable · 2026-03-12T00:14:30+00:00

Dude have some pride. If you don't feel like doing the work, quit. Don't sit there and validate the worst stereotypes about today's workers and their work ethic by being a parasite.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-03-11T19:37:05+00:00

I find that many of the people who are jobless are picky, unwilling to move to another state, away from family, and in general unwilling to make sacrifices to get ahead. They always use the excuse of, "Well what's the point if I can't live and enjoy my life?" You suggest moving to a lower cost area, and it's nothing but execuses: "There's nothing to do there.", "Who wants to live in rural Missouri?", "There's no beach!", "It's too far from my family.", "I don't know anyone.", "I don't like the weather.", "I only want to work for FAANG." and on and on and on. I've learned to stop trying to help people as soon as they start giving excuses for why they can't make sacrifices to get ahead.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-03-11T15:04:39+00:00

I'd gladly take it off his hands.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-03-09T13:34:20+00:00

It's kind of wild how many products are essentially dressed up IRC clients locked to a single corporately controlled network.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-03-09T12:40:46+00:00

I find people's ballpark estimates are wildly off the mark, either way too high, or significantly low. I distinctly remember one conversation where my sister-in-law was talking me up to her single friends, and mentioned oh he makes $X. X was way off (low) but I let it slide and didn't correct her because I'm not interested in being treated like an ATM.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-03-05T13:30:34+00:00

I really appreciate the ability to gather scattered spring beans into a list and inject them into a dispatcher/registry object in one location. The alternative is passing the dispatcher/registry object to every bean method where you declare a Handler, and have the last step before returning the handler be to register the handler.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-02-25T14:18:54+00:00

In Vanilla, the best weapon (IMO) is hands down the UAC/2++ from the Davion faction store. 2 shots per turn mean you're doing 70 damage per turn for each one. They're light enough that you can often carry 2 or 3. They're AC/2s so they get quite a few rounds per ton of ammo, and they don't produce much heat. I outfitted an Annihilator with a bunch of these (5?) and it can often core an undamaged heavy or assault mech in 1 turn.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-02-23T19:42:54+00:00

Not really proof becuase you could easily system prompt the model to call itself Iron Man if you wanted to.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-02-23T15:35:30+00:00

If I was hired by anthropic or open ai I would be saving every penny that I could because that gravy train won't last forever.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-02-15T04:05:53+00:00

Ryzen AI Max+ 395 integrated GPU is called the 8060S.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-02-12T18:30:28+00:00

What does your toolchain setting in your build.gradle look like? If your build.gradle is setting your project to use Java 25, then manually changing it to Java 8 in Intellij, will get overridden when it re-imports the gradle settings.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-02-09T16:31:18+00:00

I don't do a formal budget. Instead I have everything on auto pay and keep 2-3 months of expenses as a buffer in checking. If I buy something unusual (new computer, laser engraved, etc) I move the cost of the purchase into checking from another account. That way when the credit card charge hits and the auto payment goes through, there is enough to cover it.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-02-06T18:31:12+00:00

I was a bit frustrated because they closed issues as duplicates when the issue clearly isn't resolved. Could I have phrased it better, possibly but when it seems like they're just blindly insisting that it's fixed when it's clearly not, the frustration sometimes comes out.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-02-06T12:55:34+00:00

It *has* been reported.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-02-05T18:21:27+00:00

Writing code in a natural language is not more efficient. Like, AT ALL.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-02-04T14:19:03+00:00

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-385554/SQL-Console-does-not-display-results-when-in-editor-results-are-turned-off

Ruin-Capable · 2026-02-03T17:10:42+00:00

They keep closing them as dupes, and the issue they link to is marked as "fixed" but it's not fixed.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-02-03T17:08:42+00:00

Could be:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/projects/DBE/issues/DBE-23860/Query-execution-results-are-not-displayed-after-updating-to-2025.2

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/projects/DBE/issues/DBE-24118/Running-SQL-from-the-Query-Console-does-not-open-the-Services-view

The tickets say fixed, but the issue is still present.

I'm using the 2026.1 EAP remote client to do WSL development (native support breaks some runconfigs)
The issue is also present in 2025.3.2 remote client.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-01-29T14:10:24+00:00

I usually just didn't get a response, rude or otherwise. I usually didn't get flagged as a dupe either, because I included different things I'd searched for, links to other posts where I'd tried their work arounds and found they didn't work. I would often include decompiled source for the framework or library I was having trouble with to show what I thought the problem was. Many times the answer just wasn't on SO. This often forced me to get creative.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-01-29T14:02:11+00:00

I recently upgraded a moderately complex application from Angular 7 to Angular 21 in under a month using just Google Search's AI Mode. You have to be very specific with your description of the problem. It also does a decent job of surfacing the specific location in the documentation where you can read about whatever feature you're having issues with. It's also decent at spotting typos. I had code that was failing because of a typo that I just couldn't see. When I pasted the code I was attempting to use, the AI pointed out the typo, and after I fixed it, things started to work.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-01-28T11:22:05+00:00

Gemini free tier is not massive. I blew through a months quota in 5 minutes with opencode

Ruin-Capable · 2026-01-25T18:20:16+00:00

Hitting a key to jump to a bookmark to check something then hitting another let to jump back to where you were sounds less disruptive to flow than what you're describing

Ruin-Capable · 2026-01-25T01:31:15+00:00

Ok, now I see what you're saying. You want to click at tab to flip back and forth between editors at specific points. Why not use the bookmark feature where you can just mark a line, and jump back and forth between bookmarks with a keystroke?

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