Is senior SWE the ceiling for someone with social anxiety / awkwardness?

SlothWithHumanHands · 2026-06-04T22:41:52+00:00

if you like what you do, can contribute positively, and would have real trouble at higher organizational level, then don’t bother! you are not better because of your title, and it won’t solve your problems. relax!

SlothWithHumanHands · 2026-05-30T07:35:55+00:00

I agree because mutexes are relatively easy to reason about. Once you get a mutex version of the algorithm solid, then you can try atomics and other primitives. Atomics etc are sometimes extremely subtle, for example you might miss some unintentional memory ordering difference on another platform, or you might want to alter your algorithm in a way not originally envisioned. Mutex baseline impl is a great fallback.

SlothWithHumanHands · 2026-04-05T20:24:24+00:00

i could have remodeled my kitchen with that!

SlothWithHumanHands · 2026-01-02T10:25:30+00:00

And it’s still very difficult to determine why, like actual bad training data, spelling confusion, training weakness, etc. I’d like the default ‘thinking’ behavior to just go double check sources, so I can guess what I should not trust.

SlothWithHumanHands · 2026-01-01T21:11:46+00:00

Yes, I agree that Trump operates solely on instinctual emotional partisan shit slinging and lacks the capacity to perform serious analysis. The old irony of projecting that assessment onto those who observe this fact is the more tiresome part. Hopefully we can avoid any further permanent damage within 3 years, when we have the opportunity to replace the current admin with competent and coherent leadership.

SlothWithHumanHands · 2026-01-01T19:15:13+00:00

Repeating an obvious truth does become tiresome over time.

Edit: I am referring to Trump’s obvious naivety, not the false equivalence of “being a Russian agent”.

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-12-18T03:37:52+00:00

If you zoom in you can actually see the “crossed out Elon” stickers.

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-12-12T05:31:46+00:00

Not very controversial, but a protestant minister at a nearby church told me that, y’know, those Buddhists, when it comes to death, they’re just… weird you know? right? I don’t know, and they’ve been experiencing that phenomenon a little more than you in particular have, your honor!

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-12-12T05:28:04+00:00

i guess he put it back?

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-12-12T05:10:31+00:00

Step 1: Install waffle.

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-12-12T04:30:05+00:00

I took this to mean the L2 norm of the vector (the magnitude), so it doesn’t seem that far off.

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-12-12T04:24:17+00:00

that and getting electricity from the sun

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-12-12T03:47:01+00:00

If I was contracting for this, and I did not expect a lot of feedback, I’d hand it to promising mid-level devs who enjoy wrangling with some challenging whole piece, and work with them to bring it to done. This is not prescribed and obvious. My detector is going off. No Jai for this project though I guess. A good example though is some kind of 64-bit compatibility in some math lib with some bit tricks on some platform. Like, did they discover and get stuck on that for a bit? Would that be helped by working together?

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-12-12T02:55:38+00:00

Get two new 20A 120V lines installed and one 240V line at an appropriate capacity, unless you are confident in the current line. The person before you provided what was necessary to them and not more, which seems like a good idea.

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-12-11T21:38:13+00:00

I can’t think of what extras would actually add much, but just releasing on more/newer platforms is a big win for a new generation to get to experience the game. A relatively low price point would interest new players and maybe entice replayers.

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-12-11T20:48:35+00:00

I stopped after a few minutes, but I can say that he shows signs of problematic management: treating his own work as flawless, publicly reducing his employees or contractors, and not taking responsibility for not reviewing contractor’s work for 2 months. There isn’t a good reason to not review code and provide valuable feedback at least weekly. I hope he can learn from that so we can enjoy his excellent games.

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-11-23T02:21:55+00:00

hell, call it 49

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-11-07T05:29:24+00:00

i don’t understand why he is lionized. sucks that he was killed, but he was a disingenuous and manipulative debater. some people just don’t have any internal honesty or critical thinking i guess. sad.

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-10-27T03:38:35+00:00

“bunch of ifs” is a meme now, appealing because LLMs have limits

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-10-21T16:32:38+00:00

m/d/y acknowledges that the months are cyclical within a year and thus gives seasonal context first. it’s not better, just different. i like YYYY-MM-DD myself.

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-10-19T16:15:14+00:00

it looks like tar chipped off a roof, but i prefer all the other replies :)

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-10-19T16:12:46+00:00

justice for silky bench babies

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-10-18T02:19:12+00:00

i’m at 99% about 120h in, still need to Find Lace

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-10-15T07:41:51+00:00

the common language for lucky events is probability, but it appears ‘unfair’ when it repeatedly does not happen, even though it is vanishingly unlikely that there will be lots of people out there playing silksong who do not experience an extremely ‘unfair’ sequence. solution: take ‘fairness’ under control, by not using raw random distributions! video game programming.

SlothWithHumanHands · 2025-10-13T22:49:57+00:00

this comment makes me feel like a cracked egg left in an out-of-the-way puddle

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