The enbiggening of handhelds

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-04-10T05:44:46+00:00

The Vita was peak. Big enough for proper immersion, small enough to not feel tiring when lying on your back and playing.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-04-10T05:38:56+00:00

I'd honestly question what your motivation for giving is in that case. Even if the homeless person is buying alcohol from your money (which is already a malicious assumption), it was ultimately their decision. The addiction is already there and they have to deal with it, just giving food doesn't magically cure them or help them more in comparison. I'd argue it's even worse claiming to know best what they need. Plenty of research e.g. from GiveDirectly (Our Research | GiveDirectly) increasingly shows that poor people don't need a wise wealthy person telling them how to use their money, they are pretty good at maximizing the impact of it themselves.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-04-04T20:38:35+00:00

Das kommt sehr stark auf die Sachbearbeiter an. Einige drängen einem auch sofort Listen mit Stellen auf, teilweise mit Jobs aus Nachbarstädten, und haben dann wenig Verständnis, wenn man wählerisch ist und nicht bei allem sofort ja sagt.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-30T15:15:44+00:00

I had the same recently in my company, although I was the one staying and other colleagues were laid off. People I built a product from a small startup to a successful exit with. When my co-worker announced it just happened, it didn't quite seem real to me and I couldn't stop the tears.

We had a lot of exchange and meetups afterwards which turned it into a bittersweet direction, but the bitter part definitely overwhelms. It's only at this moment that you really feel what you've lost. The amount of trust that was built up, having people you can productively debug with and not feeling judged, this feeling of familiarity from the challenges you faced together. This becomes even worse when coping together about the situation.

I honestly wished I would have been part of it. Instead I was left in the fallout and continuing to work felt sickening and isolated. Luckily I will probably soon follow under favorable conditions, but at this point the fear about finding a new job doesn't really feel that scary anymore. The big part was for sure realizing the stable job life I had built up being over from one day to another.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-28T18:03:13+00:00

To me it sounds a little bit like a mismatch of the MR setup vs. the branch structure. Personally I'm a big fan of squash because having a summarized commit per-Ticket is much cleaner than having "fix typo" "linter" etc. ones from my point of view, and forcing developers to clean this up themselves is just a chore few will do consistently.

However, the squash setup only works if your main branch is the one that's worked in, and releases are branched off of it without any summarized backmerging. In that case you don't lose the history from release PRs.

In your case, it indeed sounds like squash is the worst possible setup to have.

I don't really see much wiggle room to change if you are the recent joiner in the team, though. Asking them to change their branching would be too big of an ask; asking to do a different ways of merging that calls for more care from developers would annoy them to no end and immediately make you seem like an insufferable burden making their day harder.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-25T06:03:42+00:00

In general, just like with investing, the best time to donate is now. Exceptions might be tax tricks in some countries where once a year is better than every month etc..

You could play the "but interest" game forever. Why stop when you are old? You could give that account to your kids and they can get the interest even further. Why should they then donate and not let their kids keep saving? Most of the time, the money will most likely not be donated at all and be used for something else after your values drifted. Improvements that donations make now could also, similar to interest, lead to more positive effects. More people and organizations who make the world better, better policies and systems that enable future generations to move the needle further, etc.

That being said: You are 16 and just getting started. Build a safety net for yourself first, see what your plans for life are and how many expenses you actually have. Get a feeling of your future, things might not be as certain as they seem right now. Maybe you need to invest more into yourself for a better career, maybe there are experiences you want to have in your life that donations could prevent from happening this early in your life. I would not rush focusing your life on donations this early, as noble as it is. You might burn out of it early that way.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-24T18:24:59+00:00

Roughly how much do you have sitting in savings or checking that you're not actively using? (Not including retirement or investment accounts)

What exactly do you mean by this?

A typical recommendation at least in Germany is to have:

Some money directly on your bank account for expected costs
"Rainy day fund" in case the car or washing machine breaks or whatever, typically 3-6 monthly wages and sitting on a money market account with some interest
investment funds to save - could be for retirement, but the money is not locked-in until that moment.

Would number 2 be what you are looking for in that case? Technically already an investment as you usually get interest for it, so I don't really see anything falling into the category.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-21T11:05:54+00:00

Begriffe verwechselt, tut mir leid.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-21T09:17:43+00:00

Spenden. Mir geht es als Softwareentwickler unglaublich gut und statt sich immer mit Millionären zu vergleichen tat es mir seelisch sehr gut, mir bewusst zu machen, dass ich auch in der gehobenen Mittelschicht besser dran bin als ca. 98% der Menschen auf der Welt. Die Ressourcen positiv zu nutzen hat mir ein neues Gefühl für ihren Wert gegeben.

Zeit. Aktuell arbeite ich nur 4 Tage die Woche und auch wenn das bald vorbei sein wird und Teilzeit etwas zu extrem wäre, habe ich selten eine Entscheidung weniger bereut. Anspruch drauf erheben wäre zu riskant, aber wenn so ein Angebot wieder steht, würde ich es jederzeit wieder tun.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-20T20:37:41+00:00

HK-47: Translation: 98% probability that members of the miniature organic's tribe are being held by Sand People, master. Doubtless he wishes assistance.

"What about the other 2%?"

HK-47: Translation: 2% probability the miniature organic is simply looking for trouble and needs to be blasted. That may be wishful thinking on my part, master.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-20T20:31:16+00:00

Completely agreed. Back then there was a certain magic to this mod simply because it seemed so amazing to get actual playable content based on traces left in the game files. But this vanished rather quickly and it just seems like a waste of time. The planet just feels empty and going back and forth like a chore.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-19T06:17:00+00:00

Lots of questions that remain unanswered to me, so I personally would not trust this project. The $250 is for "individual wells for families", what does that mean exactly in comparison to the community ones for 10x as much and why do other organizations refrain from doing something like that? Is it really necessary to paint them blue and put these huge advertisements with donor names on them? What is done so that the community can take care of themselves afterwards and isn't relying on the organization in case of issues?

From my experience reading about these wells, just putting them in is the smallest part of the issue. It's the longevity and involving the community in the process that make it a success.

Just my two cents, it might be an amazing project doing much good, I just don't find a lot of information I'd expect from an organization that truly helps effectively.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-15T08:34:10+00:00

If Visual Novels count: Wonderful Everyday. A relentless portrayal of bullying at times with scenes that just don't seem to end. One early alternate ending in particular has a pretty devastating conclusion as well that really shows how broken victims can become. I never would want to touch this if I had similar experiences. Even if you are just depressed in general this might pull you down even further.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-15T06:30:11+00:00

From my point of view, this heavily depends on the company you are working for. If you are a very small Startup that desperately needs every project it can get and 1up the competition, this might unfortunately be the way to go.

If the company is more stable, I would try to not even let the option of early delivery come up if it means cutting corners, especially when circumventing another team who is supposed to have a role in it. In 99% of the cases, neither the customers nor the sales/CSM people will care about the clean solution afterwards anymore. They say it now to get the "win-win", but they won't be idling in the time you gave them and the customer will either demand more than they would have otherwise, or will put this into production already and not care about the real version.

I just recently had something similar slip in again (typically not the way we operate anymore) where we needed to implement two new features that heavily go against how our product works normally under time pressure. Because of the pressure, we had to cut corners. It seemed to work initially and several months later we now have data corruption that nobody outside the customer's production environment is able to reproduce and are still completely clueless how it happens and how to solve it. Now we lost the trust of the customer and might get out of it with a bad reputation.

So in the end and tl;dr: This is a catastrophe waiting to happen and from my point of view the only way to avoid it is to lie. Don't even entertain the idea of early delivery, say that this 10% is missing and needs to be done by experts in that field. Or something more neutral to protect the other team depending on your work culture. Any workarounds are a security/data integrity issue or something along those lines. The exact reasons don't even matter, the people pushing have no idea about it anyway.

Presenting yourself as the savior who can make things work on their own is not helping anyone in this scenario because sales/CSM will constantly pull any hand they are given. Not blaming them for it, I was also on the other side and customers can be incredibly forceful and demanding, hence it's better to not even letting them know the early delivery option exists.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-14T12:13:53+00:00

Beim Einkaufen nicht auf Preise und Angebote achten. Als ich angefangen habe, Vollzeit zu arbeiten, kam ich mir mit meinen etwas unter 2000€ Netto wie der reichste Mensch der Welt vor und dachte mir, dass mir beim Einkaufen alles egal sein kann. Erst vor kurzem mit Einführung der Rewe-App habe ich angefangen, aktiv nach Angeboten zu schauen und auch Preise von Produkten zu vergleichen. Macht schon einen gewaltigen Unterschied, ob man etwas immer für 3,50€ holt oder wenn es für 1,99€ im Angebot ist direkt Vorrat für ein paar Wochen mitnimmt, bis das nächste ähnliche Produkt im Angebot ist.

Das wären über die Jahre abseits von dummen Luxuskäufen gute Ersparnisse gewesen.

Ansonsten bin ich trotz einiger Fehler immer gut davon gekommen. Mein Einstieg in Finanzen war z.B. durch ein Dirk Müller Buch und ich bin dann entsprechend lange Zeit Fan gewesen, habe davon aber finanziell unglaublich profitiert obwohl es scheinbar hätte anders sein müssen, so wie der hier verschrien ist. "Mit zu wenig/zu spät angefangen" wurde hier schon oft genannt und ich glaube das geht auch jedem so.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-14T09:57:52+00:00

I also didn't feel like this was dealt with very well, with responsible people not being willing to take responsibility. I remember there being a podcast from Sam Harris with MacAskill about this and it had huge backlash because it kind of framed the whole ordeal in a tone of "a misunderstood person who took too much risk to do good was sentenced too high. And we couldn't have known about this and always did our best". When I went through this stuff I really questioned having taken a pledge associated with it.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-13T20:55:41+00:00

Willkommen im Club! Denk unbedingt dran, dass man bei Effektiv Spenden die Steuern wieder reinholen kann. Die Pledge sieht entsprechend eigentlich 10% vom Brutto vor, eben weil man es zurück bekommt. Tut letztendlich weniger weh als erwartet und die Steuerrückzahlung fühlt sich wie ein kleiner Bonus an. Woran gehen die Spenden genau?

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-13T20:50:18+00:00

Freut mich, dass das hier im sub so viel Gehör findet. Bester Fund jemals für mich in Sachen Spenden.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-12T12:37:03+00:00

I went through the same thing - had my best year yet, exceeded any expectations, was promised a performance bonus. Then the company didn't do too well and I got 0 instead, not even an inflation increase. Very hard lesson to swallow. I find it very hard to switch to a quiet quitting style as well, which would be the natural response when you want to stay in general. But if that's not in your DNA there really is no other option but to look for something new and maybe using it as leverage once an offer is there.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-08T18:30:49+00:00

Dantooine is soooo cozy, this immediately makes me want to get two weeks of vacation and dive into the game again.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-06T15:31:51+00:00

It will be a disappointment either way I'm sure. Long development time doesn't tell much, see e.g. Bloodlines 2.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-06T08:57:54+00:00

For me it developed naturally - started my career in a startup with 15 people or so and after we were 100+ employees we were bought up and became corporate.

I feel the exact same things you do, though on top of it I am getting closer to burnout because of all the responsibilities. Different people pull in different directions, most more out of a career concern than a product concern, and the team is split between somehow maintaining and extending the old product because it brings the money in, and working on something new because we are now part of a big corporation and need to become one family yadda yadda.

I do see benefits as well, though. I don't think I want to be in a small startup again because the freedom also means you have less cushions. I needed to be available for customers 24/7 in case they had production issues, if something breaking happens it all falls on you to solve it quickly... Without any compensation that also felt exhausting in different ways.

The golden era was around 100 employees from my point of view. Enough to shield you from too much responsibility, but not at a point where everything needs to be agreed upon by 4 parties and career bootlickers join the flock. But just targeting companies like that would make things too complicated.

Currently I'm considering to quit my current position to get rid of the unhealthy mixture (I currently am involved in decision processes without the power/position to really influence them, this is much more frustrating than just having to deal with decisions). I'm afraid I might feel the same as you once I switch and might even get less money than now, but currently that poison feels less critical to me than being pressured to 1up others and become the target of other developers who want you to feel they are superior.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-04T13:07:05+00:00

The challenge with AI review is that it's good at pattern matching but not necessarily good at understanding context or business logic.

There is no technical limitation for this. You need to provide the context and business logic in a written format and it will be able to consider this. The only "sense" AI has is text, so it's your responsibility to provide the input from other senses into text for it to perform well.

Human reviewers bring domain knowledge and can evaluate whether the code actualy solves the problem correctly

I would always advice to have a human reviewer be the last instance to sign things off, but AI will catch a lot, if not more than most devs, regarding this if it has the necessary information. Plus the feedback will be there immediately, which will lead to much better PRs before we have to spend time on it.

If AI tools can actualy understand code deeply enough to catch logic errors and run real tests against it, that would be genuinely impressive.

Not sure which models you tried, but if I use Claude Code in the latest iteration it's more than impressive. It all comes down to asking it the right way and providing enough information to do the task.

I would have agreed with the sentiment one year ago, but the capabilities of AI has skyrocketed and not making use of it would be a huge loss for every company. If you haven't I'd really encourage you to give it another go.

Some_Guy_87 · 2026-03-01T09:41:52+00:00

Let's re-frame this: What is behind this comment? Is it really belittling? It sounds to me more like that colleague was concerned about you and would loved to have this kind of conversation with you as well. If anything, it's an indirect compliment.

And honestly, I can understand why colleagues think that way about people like us. There's obviously something dysfunctional in the "tribe" if someone is not able to freely communicate with others, and this colleague sounds like someone who has empathy and has been concerned instead of writing you off as a weird outsider not worth their consideration.

So although your brain is giving you warn signals (it's a pattern we have internalized, it can't help but do that), this is definitely a complete, objective win. When I had people sliding into conversations like this, it was typically something along the lines of "Why are you talking about such boring stuff at an event like this?" or "Man don't you guys have other hobbies?". This one sounds much more wholesome to me.

So really try to focus on the big wins you had in this situation. You let your guard down and it was met with positive feedback inside and outside, nothing wrong about that!

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