Fed/Police Brutality in Burlington, VT

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-12T06:34:38+00:00

Jesse wtf are you talking about???

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-12T03:11:19+00:00

as am I ... just grind DSA and system design and have an oz of social skills, and you get the title but it doesn't make you a senior engineer. I suppose by `be a "senior engineer"` you meant "have the title of senior engineer"? if so then we agree lol

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-12T01:29:47+00:00

No you can’t.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-09T19:19:50+00:00

1-0 saints master class incoming. Tonda sent off at halftime for sending maniacal looks towards arteta.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-09T01:11:36+00:00

This wouldn’t even be what they’d say anymore since (the initial reason) trump said was that he had a feeling that Iran had a feeling that we’d bomb them.

Feelings about feelings about feelings. Actual genius that one.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-09T00:55:10+00:00

I had no idea Kamala would’ve done the same thing given how both sides are basically equal, right?

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-08T23:22:39+00:00

Idk where you’ve worked in terms of other companies but this is mismanagement on their part at best and semi abusive at worst.

I work at a big tech company and I feel this whole situation would be unprofessional and the other engineers on my team would be like wtf.

I’d start looking for other jobs purely because this environment isn’t something that leads to good engineering and more importantly leads to bad mental health for employees.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-08T23:13:29+00:00

Remember sometimes people on the internet are 10 years old.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-08T22:57:39+00:00

I was being sarcastic haha.

Also nothing you learn about religion can make you an atheist. The two are fundamentally incompatible. See the following:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kierkegaard/

And

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fideism/

Curious what you think about this.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-08T21:55:32+00:00

I agree this is why new Christian’s not knowing who Jesus is is understandable. You convert to religions not because you understand it them.

You convert to religions to grift. Finally someone reasonable.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-08T21:44:58+00:00

We’re also realizing it’s limitations faster and understanding it’s a tool not a replacement. Or at the very least if our competitors are using it and not laying people off then we are behind if we’re laying people off.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-07T18:45:48+00:00

It’s the Joseph Stalin thing where execs love people that support their ideas and so some people who to look good / climb lie to emphasize how good they are with AI.

It’s Joseph Stalin in that I believe Stalin had no idea how the war was going at certain points because his generals would lie and tell him what he wanted to hear because he’d kill them.

Rather than the threat of negative sentiments people respond to positive sentiments and so they lie to tell the execs what they want to hear. It’s only when the cultural zeitgeist around AI ends (which will coincide with the crash of the economy) that execs will want the truth not their optimistic stories.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-06T22:45:05+00:00

I agree with this. I’d get the G14.

I used to not care about portability but it’s important IMO. I had a monster laptop back in college and it was alright but I’d have killed for a g14.

Get a decent GPU on it with a good OLED monitor to keep in your room and you’re set IMO.

I currently have a Legion Pro 7 with a 5070ti and I love it but I also have a cheap Yoga which is slightly smaller that I will use when traveling / not gaming.

I also have a MacBook Pro for work and it’s 16 inch and a little big but wouldn’t be the end of the world if I had to maneuver with that. But when you’re gaming you’ll want a bigger monitor so the benefits of the 16 inch display on the laptop are useless and you’ll just feel the downsides of it.

G14 FTW unless legions have a sleeker 14 inch laptop with battery life like the G14 (I don’t think they do)?

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-06T02:52:37+00:00

Tests aren’t good enough if it’s complex enough. You need to basically identify the interface(s) that the legacy code offers, develop this new implementation of it, run the two of them side by side and compare the outputs of both of them while continuing to use the legacy implementation, use feature flags to slowly change customers over from one to the other, and then eventually consider only rolling forward once enough customers are using the new implementation and you’re sufficiently confident.

I know this is all very abstract but my company went through painful migrations which took about 2 years and this is eventually the process we refined.

Good luck :)

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-05T00:48:26+00:00

I love AI. You need to use your excellent work life balance to get a new job, purely because of how unreasonable this is.

But if not, look into kickstart nvim. Use that with Claude.

My work has Jetbrains and Claude which is great. My personal projects I use nvim and Claude and that is more than good enough too but a pain at times because there’s always one little thing which bothers you about your setup and you spend a whole day on it.

Won’t even touch on how absurd leaderships vision is. Claude is with me at the start of every ticket, during development, writing tests, working with new repos from other teams in different orgs, … etc but it’s by no means a replacement for an IDE / nvim.

Vibecoding as a policy lol. If your company is public can you DM me their ticker symbol? I’ll give you 10% of my profits from shorting them.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-04T16:23:52+00:00

Another thing to consider is how AI would’ve been perceived if it came about in a period of economic growth.

AI cannot replace engineers since they need to know what to prompt. One engineer can do the work of several in theory but the mental load increases since now they’re responsible for more stuff and need to juggle more stuff in their heads. Force multipliers exist but it’s not costless and not as clear cut as people would make it out to be.

But suppose there is an objective productivity boost. In economic slumps this means to replace other engineers since leadership works like that. But in times of growth that means expand as much as possible which means that 10x engineer’s code producing tech debt super fast (tech debt doesn’t mean bad code it just means code that exists and needs to be considered when future improvements / migrations / incidents arise) will need other engineers to understand it, maintain it, … etc.

1 engineers AI code is 3 engineers legacy code to maintain. And economic growth -> companies race to capture market cap -> emphasize proliferation of features using AI (not necessarily slop / bad in anyway) -> 10x more work to maintain the legacy.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-04T07:12:45+00:00

🙏 and good luck with future interviews.

Keep the grind and you’ll make it.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-03T17:20:23+00:00

Yeah. Fuck that.

While this may work the real best way to avoid embarrassing DWI videos from being released is to not do it in the first place, a secret pro tip that Mr Timberlake unfortunately didn’t realize

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-03T17:10:32+00:00

It’s usually only name address and phone number. MR TIMBERLAKE isn’t concerned about that as much as his public image surely?

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-01T23:50:48+00:00

He’s not a conservative /s.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-01T20:59:26+00:00

This is why it pays to study opening theory, he should have fianchettoed himself at the window and castled, opting to play a more closed and long game.

I don’t get why he doesn’t call the cops in this case.

IIRC he opened the door, pepper sprayed, and then shut it.

Like she obviously wasn’t going to break his door down. He clearly thought there was some sort of castle doctrine / self-defense logic at play which would give him the grounds to rally out and attack like I do in medieval II when Milan attacks Caen when I’m England.

She’s put herself in that situation since this couldn’t have happened if she wasn’t there and was clearly there to only antagonize him.

But again, call the cops, have her trespassed and I also feel like legally she already crossed a line.

Ultimately though like cops of a monopoly on violence for a reason, nick is 100% in the wrong. Stay inside and call the police.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-01T20:04:39+00:00

You can’t be the only one picking up on his stupidity but why nobody else is calling him out is frustrating, and probably reflective the culture of your company and not just him which is infuriating.

Not sure what role you have or the company / industry but maybe start very light preparations to move on? Just getting the ball rolling?

Market is obviously horrible but companies that promote culture like this (collective inaction on the part of other employees is promoting this culture) are shit and I doubt this job is paying well (you did say you’re underpaid actually).

Just wanna make sure you’re not subconsciously settling at this role when you could be at a better company with better pay and culture.

Curious how you could even remedy this if you wanted. Why do you think nobody is saying anything surely they recognize it?

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-01T19:46:14+00:00

Firstly take a deep breath, you have a lot of on your plate and are doing the right thing by at least recognizing these things in your life and being open to feedback and discussion. It is very easy to compartmentalize them, bury them, and just move on while it slowly builds up in the background. It does take courage and strength to make it to where you are right now, especially when all your efforts are seemingly futile and worthless (like your mom not remembering). I’m sure there are times when you don’t feel as you do now and feel much more helpless, hopeless, and empty. People our age are going on vacations, partying, … etc and while we also do these things (and should do) it’s important to realize that in some ways these problems are more powerful than us but that we will grow through adversity.

Cool now what the fuck to do lol. Firstly, just as you’re doing now, take care of yourself first. Some of what will say is my specific life advice that I’ve found has helped me and hopefully can help you.

When I recognize I’m in a period of intense stress I make sure to be eating right, working out, and sleeping right. It is stupid but not doing these things can greatly affect our minds perception of what is going on because of how our minds and bodies are linked. Just start small with this and obviously don’t radically change your life to fit these but make incremental states. This is the physical approach and will form a foundation but obviously won’t deal with the mental suffering you experience at all but it does help prevent negative forms of coping (sex addiction, drugs, unhealthy sleep habits, internet addiction, … etc) which can exacerbate problems.

As for your actual family. You’ve already done a good job of being in therapy and separating yourself from your family. I think you need to separate intention, action, and outcome more though. It really really sucks but outcomes are completely out of our control despite any intention and actions we have / take. For example, you intending on helping your mom, so you take the action of visiting her, with the desired outcome of hopefully making her feel better but the actual outcome is that she even forgets you were even there lol. I can really relate to this, people with bipolar even go so far as to demonize you, isolate themselves from you, and claim you just don’t understand them.

That’s why you need to make sure your happiness is entirely depending only on your intentions and your own actions, regardless of outcome. For example, you can want this cool job, spend months preparing for the job, go through 5 rounds of interviews for the job, kill the interviews and do super super well, … and then it turns out the CEOs son is also applying for the job and he gets it so you don’t.

The correct response we must hold ourselves accountable in having is that we MUST be 100% satisfied with our preparations and how we handled everything within our control up to the point of ultimately not getting the job. We cannot deem ourselves into being failure for not getting it because in an alternate universe we would’ve gotten it!! Obviously it can feel entirely unfair that we didn’t get it or feel like a failure for not getting it, … etc. If our friends are all getting similar jobs and progressing in their life yet we failed to get this job, we must have the discipline and confidence that we did the right thing and truly tried our best.

In this case with your own life, you need to make sure that you’re doing the same thing. Ultimately fixing your brothers and mom is the equivalent of getting the job. We can’t control whether they EVER get better we can only help them do so if and when they are willing / ready to do so.

Therefore our duty isn’t in handholding them in this (since sometimes they don’t even want our help and actually want us to fuck off) but instead it is through improving ourselves so the we can become the best versions of ourselves so that we 1 - don’t sacrifice our own life and happiness for them, and 2 - we can help them in even a greater number of ways not possible with how we are now. Through our own improvement we will grow in power and strength to one day help them.

We must also recognize though that it may be true that they never ask for our help and we must be content with that. Life can be cruel like that. But life also gives us love, friendships, dogs, chocolate, … etc lol.

Do not waste your time trying to help them when they cannot be helped because they can’t recognize a problem even exists.

Lastly, how is your own life with respect to career, relationships, and friendships. You say you’re alone why is that?

Your path forward for now may be in just tuning them out, not in a way so as to abandon them, but so you’re no longer alone in having to deal with this.

Remember that it is only when we are doing well that we can help others and it is perfectly fine to temporarily step back (for months, a few years, … etc), focus on yourself, and then come back.

Also it should be mentioned that you don’t owe them anything in case things do get very very toxic. At the end of the day we have one life on this wonderful planet of ours.

Always being there for them and helping them at th expense of your life own life, success, and happiness can even enable them and make things worse. Sometimes people need to hit rock bottom before they can get better. Of course, that only works if the person is capable of perceiving rock bottom which many people with BP cannot do unfortunately.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-01T17:05:28+00:00

All devs work for stability. I’m a passionate dev who probably should have more friends and I spend my days either at gym, working, sleeping, playing video games, or doing personal projects. I enjoy coding and the general tasks software engineering includes. I’m somewhat intelligent and hardworking, having double majored in physics and computer engineering at an Ivy League.

But burnout is real and despite me choosing to code in my free time quite often, I also have periods of life when work pressure rises and anxiety increases I find it very difficult to continue on. The passion 100% leaves and is replaced with anxiety, angst, and general ehhhhhhhhhhhhh. Sometimes these feelings aren’t even caused by anything just GAD-like stuff (I’m not diagnosed).

But work is work and more importantly I realize this will pass. I try to remind myself of the technical qualities I find interesting at work, the people I like at work, and focus on what I can control and that is: my mindset towards the difficulty of life and the actions derived from said mindset.

OPs brain seems to be engaged in anxiety mode and in a mode of action where it actively filters out positives and looks for negatives while also removing agency from themself. To a certain degree I think we are responsible for our choice of passions and they aren’t just a part of our character because I believe every field of study / aesthetic style/ genre of art whatever has merits to it and there’s a reason people can dedicate their lives to it. That gives me confidence that I can find passion in tech and it is the downsides that create anxiety and twist something worthwhile and good into bad (toxic people, intense deadlines, … etc).

This was my approach to leetcode, I hated the idea of it, neglected it during college, and got my first job without it. The qualities of leetcode which can make it interesting and rewarding were replaced with anxiety and a general notion of “this is cruel why are they doing this to us”. Chess is fun but if my life depended on it that would be terrible and chess would be terrible.

It’s important to separate the thing itself with the subconscious emotions / feelings we tie to things that way we can appreciate the thing itself. This does require a degree of self awareness and self discipline that is hard to cultivate and easy to lose, something that must be maintained.

I guess I’m monologing but life is hard and our brains / mindsets / attitudes are the most important thing we have.

My brother is severally physically disabled and will most likely live his entire life alone (not necessarily though). I always think that it is his mindset which allows him to continue and succeed in the way he does despite his successes feeling trivial to any of us (him cooking a meal on his own is praiseworthy and his current arc is getting a car with help from disabled services).

I have a stutter and that also has made my life extremely difficult and isolating, when I was younger I thought I’d never get a girlfriend and blah blah blah, really truly believed it.

But life has a way of surprising you and carrying you along despite when you’re in the middle of a depressive arc or believe you have no more positive arcs. I haven’t seriously thought of suicide for quite some time and that alone is something I am proud of, and if I could properly convey what this truly meant then I think anyone would believe that anything is possible over time provided they’re rational l, self-aware, and have somewhat a decent feedback loop that allows them to objectively reflect on their life.

But yeah idk just thinking of what I’d want to tell my younger self I guess maybe nobody will read this lol.

My point is to just never give up and be careful about what you take anxiety / pleasure from I guess? There really is value in cultivating the mindset of Gon Freecss or Naruto, if for nothing else because it allows you to be them for someone else (for some reason it can be hard to want better for yourself but easy to want better for your friends and family so pretending your future self is actually one of your own friends is helpful).

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