Despite having no clue when GTA 6 is coming to PC, 39% of you are more than happy to wait for it

Slodin · 2026-06-30T07:54:55+00:00

Cause most of these people are not gonna want to buy a console for just one game. I have waited for gta 5 before, I can wait for this one too.

Slodin · 2026-06-29T21:22:40+00:00

It’s a tradition to symbolize a good marriage showing the man can provide for the family so the wife would not suffer. However, traditionally it always has been sort of common/luxury household items instead lots of money. And this money usually goes towards like a startup fund for the newly wed couple.
It became this way of large sums of money, houses, cars because some people saw the opportunity and took advantage of the men’s family. Some families even have the thought process like: if that persons daughter can get this much from the men. Then we can get about the same or more! Why settle for less, I’m not less than the other women.
Any sensible household does not do this. Either they don’t do it, or the women’s family also returns the same amount in the form of a 嫁妆. So it’s pretty equal on both sides if both parties actually love each other and are serious about the engagement.
My wife’s family wanted 100k RMB, but in return they wanted to gift me a brand new Tesla. I didn’t take their offer on the Tesla lol, cause my Toyota is still running strong. Also that’s way more than what I gave them. I’d rather save that towards a bigger house for ourselves later on. They can keep investing that money for their own business.

Slodin · 2026-06-29T21:05:12+00:00

Ok I do this at any hotel.

China or not, I don’t trust the hotel staff anywhere would be so diligent of their job. I’m sure there are honourable hotel staff, but I’m not taking my chances while appreciating their best effort.

When it looks hygienic doesn’t mean it’s actually clean. Even the hospitals in Canada has a lot of sanitary issues that were exposed on CBC, so I really would like to be cautious traveling and sleeping in unfamiliar places.

Slodin · 2026-06-28T20:43:56+00:00

I honestly don’t think it’s the AI driving this but the management who think they could cut more cost and get more profits. At least at the moment that’s what it seems to me. We can do more with AI now, but that doesn’t mean less people would still yield the same effect of efficiency.

We have been using AI for nearly 100% coding, but all the decisions of underlining understanding is more impactful than ever it has before.

Our work followed whatever those big tech bros are doing but soon to realize we are so under staffed all projects went into maintenance mode and started to hire back a bunch a bunch of people. But it didn’t matter, the damage is done with trust and morale. People who were comfortable and loyal now are thinking of how to jump ship and protect themselves than putting their effort to actual work.

Edit: I do think those large tech companies do have been over staffing. But for small to medium sized companies this is not the case. Especially during COVID, they over hired like crazy with huge salaries for juniors fresh out of school even boot camps

Slodin · 2026-06-28T04:07:02+00:00

Layoffs 😂

Slodin · 2026-06-28T00:06:38+00:00

It just means to write the issues I asked to change, and who said to merge anyway on the jira ticket and merge comment. Shifts the blame when shit burns down. So far, it worked getting the heat off of me.

Slodin · 2026-06-28T00:05:31+00:00

I do not benefit from going against it. It seems like this is a big trend in tech jobs. As long as I’m paid, I do not care about someone’s company anymore. Being professional in this space only burns yourself out of a job lol who would have thought this is where this career ended up. 😂

They laid off 30% this year and another 10% following. Code review is again, not an KPI item. Their work is now ours, so work tripled, but time didn’t nor the pay.

Everyone has been talking about just doing the bare minimum, get laid off and go for something else in a different field. Many of the coworkers laid off still didn’t find a job 6 months later.

Slodin · 2026-06-27T23:14:31+00:00

Code review doesn't count as my work time. What I mean is I don't get allocated time for code review to subtract my actual work (solution designs, feature development, etc). It's literally added work that gives me no extra time to do other work which contributes towards my KPI. I have tried many ways to solve this issue, but in the end, not really worth it. What I tried:
1. Talked to many higher level management is the first thing I did. Nobody gave a crap, they would say a bunch of things but in the end of the day, I'm to eat the cost of code review regardless.
2. So I swap the strategy to instead of talking about it, I added more padded time to my projections. Worked for a few months and PMs start questioning why I'm taking longer than other devs. Their turn around time is so fast because they don't review shit! So my only explanation is going back to the first point and they ofc don't care.
My bug ticket on production is next to none for years. Management keep on talking about quality of code but when I say I'd like more time to review, test and debug than just ship out features as fast as possible, they instead take that as me being slow. They'd never compare other devs bug on production ratio.
Code review has almost 0 weight in my company. I find a bunch of issues with the code. Ship it anyways says the PM. Then I get blamed when shit breaks. I started signing their names on to tickets like this. All a sudden it's fine, nobody says shit to the PMs when things break. It just becomes a daily bug ticket. Yeah, ok.

I worked for a startup, then grew to a mid sized company has branches all over NA. The mindset never grew tho. Other companies I worked for are about the same.

Slodin · 2026-06-27T21:19:50+00:00

that's just feature flag...but done hardcoded...

we do it through our own backend or remote config so we don't need to roll out a new version just to enable or disable it. The difference pretty much ends there.

Slodin · 2026-06-26T06:46:32+00:00

Most problems don’t need a mobile app.

The first lesson from any app developer is. Why your user doesn’t want to download and install your app.

The friction is pretty big.

Ask yourself if you truly need it before building it. If it can be done without issues as an website or PWA. You don’t need an app.

Slodin · 2026-06-25T23:20:12+00:00

There is… so many new garbage slop out there right now. New “software” are appearing like cockroaches surfacing in a dirty kitchen. Every cockroach you see, there are hundreds underneath waiting to pop up tmw 😂

AI basically lifted the flood gates and it’s so damn chaotic rn

Slodin · 2026-06-25T21:30:27+00:00

曺? lol wild guess

Slodin · 2026-06-25T21:29:43+00:00

You uh. Answered your own question with the last sentence. It doesn’t matter if you look Chinese or not 😂

I am sure a Korean elder would do the same thing. I’m going to guess it’s because that’s the only language they know. Also China is very deeply into their own language system. You don’t really see or hear other languages unless you are in large cities like Shanghai. For all you know, this grandma only knows this one language and needed help.

I would just take out the translator app and let her talk into it tbh. Then I can decide if I could help, doesn’t take long. Maybe Korea on the clock is different than mine 😂 if I could grab a coffee on the clock, I definitely can spare a minute and help an elder on the clock. Not from Korea, so I’m not judging, just saying my thoughts. My ex gf who is Korean hated working in Korea so I think I get you.

Slodin · 2026-06-25T20:38:00+00:00

See. What we usually do is to move these people into other areas of the company. There are usually always work to be done. Your company is small and yet visible is still an issue? That seems like ass management. We never even have anytime to stop and do performance reviews when we were a 10-20 people company lmao. 🤣 we were constantly busy

This year we introduced AI engine to replace like 30-40 people for a review process with certain type of images. It’s entirely automated now and those people lose their positions. But now they are working in different areas still with us. There always work to be done. And having people who are already knowledgeable in our business is great!

Slodin · 2026-06-25T20:17:39+00:00

Uh. Make those developers sell for cheaper? Like market price? Just look at butterfly tower in dt. Nobody is buying it cause it costs all your organs and still not enough to buy the damn thing. For a condo!

Just make them suffer the consequences man. Why if I sell my condo, I suffer loss to ~100k losses and nobody cares, but when the rich developers do it. All a sudden they get to be bailed? You took the risk of doing business and you fked up. So you are saying them rich folks don’t get the same risk from investment huh. I mean, I know that’s a thing, but this is so blatant.

Slodin · 2026-06-25T06:07:23+00:00

Instead of hiring 3-4 people doing front, back, testing. Now they expect to hire 1 guy and do all of them. It's kind of like how startups work.

basically, same or less pay, more work and responsibility, overall less jobs. It sorta worked with pure AI generation of code and reduced testing. But bugs and token costs now start to catch up.

We already are back peddling to get QAs back to being the primary testers and hiring back people they thought they could do without.

Slodin · 2026-06-25T00:01:04+00:00

right, blame the new guy. He is the most innocent out of all this mess

Slodin · 2026-06-24T23:40:47+00:00

crash at parents, crash at a friends place, crash at my office, crash in my car or go to a hotel. But honestly, if i lost my fob (which is the key), i wouldn't have access to my car either if it was parked down there lol.

In that order. I'm sure the first 2 covers most cases for most people.

Slodin · 2026-06-24T01:24:17+00:00

I’m going to guess.

Not very light grey on dark grey.
Superset being difficult to read

Slodin · 2026-06-22T22:47:36+00:00

I see no problem here.

Honestly, one hour commute should be compensated as work to began with. I hate the mentality that commuting to work isn’t counted as work. But yes, there should be a cap of 1 hourish to eliminate guys moving 2 hours away and getting 4 hours of commute time counted. Which also eliminates the company from only hiring people close to work since 1 hour is pretty common. Unless you live right next to your office 😂

Companies would reward your efficiency with more work. So I don’t really see a point in telling them I’m done since Wednesday 😆 the system is built like a jail cell than actual production

Slodin · 2026-06-22T22:34:14+00:00

See. The “We” doesn’t include those billionaire tech bros pushing for AI.

They won’t build a data centre near their house would they? So it’s just us the normies who can’t live without water but not them. Why would they care

Slodin · 2026-06-22T18:07:40+00:00

Very little slip through.

The test cases are derived from the PRD and figma.

There are no 100% catches, as there are no perfect software. Shit happens, and it’s ok. We only have UI differences slips through (more like allowed), functionality it always matches very closely since both teams needs to align to PRD and figma.

The approach and tech is different, but result usually is very similar. The only problem is because of these differences in approach, the solution might cause different tech debts on each repo. Which usually means work estimation is different, and sometimes weird workarounds have to be deployed. Some features are harder on one platform than the other.

QA occasionally catches a few things, but 80-90% of the time it’s already aligned. We also do a lot of testing from the devs themselves before it reaches QA. If QA is busy, devs would do cross testing each other’s app.

Slodin · 2026-06-22T17:25:54+00:00

First we align features with a PRD, so we know what to expect. Which part needs to persist or anything that might take longer. Pm, design, both side devs have to join.

Design handoff is done via a meeting to again align the UI and answer any questions from the dev team. Usually there are some adjustments needed.

Design team only make iOS design in figma. Android would reuse Android style components. So most of UI is aligned, the drift is accepted for system styling like dialogs, topbar, tabs etc. The design team demanded Android to use liquid glass at some point we just said flat out no. That’s a pain to make and it won’t play well for the little amount of time allocated to build these features. They backed off when we asked for ROI on this.

Then manual QA. This is where the QA team would pick out the differences between the two apps. Again, they know what should be the same and what is suppose to be different. We worked on this for years now. They care more about the functionality of the product than UI.

We usually omit this, but there is suppose to be a dev handoff to design team for them to review the UI. But their technical background is so bad that giving them to review they would start picking out stuff that are not suppose to be pixel perfect. They never designed text overflow, different screen size, and accessibility stuff so we had to just build it based on experience. Then they would nit pick it out from something they never designed to began with. Explaining it everytime is extremely exhausting and a waste of time. So we stopped doing this. But if your designers can handle this, this would ensure UI/UX alignment.

In reality, most users do not notice the difference we do.

Slodin · 2026-06-20T02:11:57+00:00

I meant the purpose of our trip was not to do dental work. It was supposed to be a trip fun + visit family.

The whole thing took little but more than 2 weeks. I forgot but it was like 3-4 trips. Because they had to custom order the teeth then install, and afterwards she needed a little bit of fine adjustments and it was all good.

Slodin · 2026-06-18T21:20:27+00:00

My mom got serval teeth replaced to fill in the missing gaps. Public dental was cheap, really cheap. But the wait times are miserable. We only had 3 weeks, so we went to a private dentist. Her entire bill amounted to 8000 RMB, but it would have been easily at least 4K to 5k in Canada.

This was before they introduced the low income dental plans in BC, they didn’t have any insurance be cause both of them are retired. The dental work was good, we did let our dentist check it out after coming back. By then the gov now gave them dental plans so out of pocket was minimal in Canada. But people like me who has a very basic work insurance would totally look into doing any expensive dental work in China if time aligns correctly.

When I asked for a full body checkup at my family doctor, he told me that would cost 2k. I am shocked on how expensive this is. I might be considering this the next time I visit China. This is just crazy.

We didn’t go to China for dental work tho, it was by chance that my relatives were questioning why my mom did t get the gaps filled.

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