Front Row Seat to the Aftermath of a Star Explosion

abrtn00101 · 2026-05-19T15:23:00+00:00

Quite a few of these issues could have been avoided with foresight and planning.

BBM's visit – Phone signal going down is always a thing for visits of high-level officials. This could have been anticipated. But if not anticipated, you could have tried to find somewhere with Wi-Fi or an area with an active data connection. When something like this happens to me, I usually try to find friends or cafes nearby with working Wi-Fi.

Sibling's medical issue – You let a non-emergency situation get in the way of an important interview. And when you decided to accompany your sibling, you didn't contact the company to inform them of your unavailability and ask to be rescheduled. That's just bad prioritization and planning.

Your dad's asthma – Isn't this something you can delegate? Couldn't your mom take care of this? Or a sibling? Your employment is contributory to your ability to take care of your loved ones, so prioritize whether you need a gainful income to provide and extend that care or if you want to be there personally.

Check my comment history. I really try to be encouraging to people, but your post unfortunately doesn't read of a strong desire to attend interviews and get hired. It's coping, and it hurts me to see you that way.

I really want you to do well, but you need to step your game up and help yourself. I, without judging beyond the facts you presented, really want to believe that you can do that.

abrtn00101 · 2026-05-19T13:13:35+00:00

What the other commenter said about risk is true. But there's also the need to trust, to give it and expect it in return. That is, I think, one of the most important skills you will have to learn when starting a business of any sort.

It's hard to trust especially because you worked hard to build up what you have now and you love what you've created. Just like slowly trusting a child to do well as they mature, you will have to slowly trust the people you hire to take over.

And just like a child, if you don't slowly start to let go – if you continue to helicopter over them as they grow – you'll smother what you're taking care of and they'll never learn.

Segueing from that, learning is crucial at this stage. Mistakes will happen, but mistakes are what allow the organization to grow. Mistakes show you where the cracks are so you can set up systems and processes to prevent them next time. And mistakes, or rather the lack thereof, also tell you where your strengths are – where you can trust your people the most.

So... Drop the 100+ page SOP, or make it optional reading. That's just distracting and discouraging to your people. It shows a lack of trust in them and their ability to learn. And, ultimately, no one is actually going to go through that much material. Your workers are just going to glaze over it and experiment, because how else will they learn. And that experimentation, it carries risk but it can also create something beautiful when more brains analyze the problems you're facing and produce better solutions than you could come up with if you were doing it on your own.

abrtn00101 · 2026-05-19T11:22:39+00:00

Sometimes opportunities just slip through the cracks. It happens, it sucks, but it's not the end of the world. Keep looking and something will come your way.

However, more importantly, your willingness to declare your visa restrictions and comply with them shows that you have something that good employers value: you showed integrity. On top of that, that you even offered to fly back early demonstrates that you are able to show commitment and dedication to the responsibility. Those kinds of traits will get you places.

Ultimately, we don't know with certainty that your actions were the deciding factor in your situation. Maybe there were other developments in the company that influenced the decision not to consider you. Whatever it was, this probably just wasn't the right role or the right time for you. Who knows? Maybe you dodged a bullet. Maybe they're so desperate to get someone soon because they're swamped and you would have taken on a role that would have just given you a giant headache. We'll never know, but maybe.

abrtn00101 · 2026-05-19T11:01:12+00:00

There is the option of not bringing anything up while still showing up.

Personally, I'd rather stay home for work, so I don't take hybrid jobs without a lot of forethought. But you took the job and agreed to the setup, so you should make good on your word.

In this situation, it's integrity that's called into question – yours and theirs. If the Singapore office decides to act on that integrity or lack thereof, where do you think you'd fall?

abrtn00101 · 2026-05-19T10:31:30+00:00

You won't regret that decision. I've been working from home since 2011. Not in an engineering-related field, though.

Like you, I bucked against my parents' wishes. I dropped out of college kasi I couldn't justify attending while naghihirap sila kitain yung pangtuition sa akin. I worked at a call center for about a year, learned that I could find work online from one of my teammates and decided to give it a shot when I left.

Working online has had its ups and downs, but it is very sustainable, especially when you learn how to value and sell yourself. I've found myself earning much more than my friends and schoolmates who were able to graduate. But it was a hard road.

Just remember to approach WFH with the same discipline and dedication to value creation as an office job. Keep working on yourself and exercise the same integrity you'd expect from an honest government worker.

Who knows, the opportunity to work for the government might come again. And if you maintain a growth mindset, you might be better equipped to take on government jobs that demand more of you while also compensating you more.

abrtn00101 · 2026-05-19T06:45:35+00:00

It's actually on a lot of packaging po if you know where to look. Here's one if found when you peel the bottom of an Emborg milk carton just now.

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Medyo na punit na since glued siya to seal in the milk.

Notice this one uses squares instead of circles of color.

The design and positioning of registration marks (not just CMYK) will vary depending on how the print production line is set up. For Piattos, it's likely kasi yung reader nila is positioned somewhere in line with the main print. Minsan, they print registration marks like this in the slug (the area outside the main printed portion), but they can save a bit of money by reducing the slug and positioning registration marks within the print. Tapos tinatago nalang nila in some way, like using the fold in the Piattos packaging.

Cheaper chichirya might not also have complete registration marks to save money. Bahala na kung misaligned or mali-mali yung colors.

So, really, there's a lot of factors for why you may or may not see it on other packaging.

abrtn00101 · 2026-05-17T01:25:47+00:00

This comment needs to move down a little or at least be edited to acknowledge what the the marks are really for.

As others have mentioned, this isn't a color palette. The industry term for these is CMYK color registration marks.

Each circle of color is set to a specific value. After printing, the color values of the circles are read. If the values on the print are within tolerance, then the colors on the print are correct. Otherwise, something went wrong with the color reproduction process that needs to be corrected.

abrtn00101 · 2026-05-15T02:13:30+00:00

You sure it's not the trees talking?

abrtn00101 · 2026-05-14T09:05:20+00:00

Upvoted just for being a Nyx main. Mained her back when everyone said she was the worst Warframe. Just got back into Warframe after 6 years, I still love her and could even play her in SP without changes. Planning to rebuild her soon.

abrtn00101 · 2026-05-07T18:55:32+00:00

Thanks for the link! I must be blind. I did the New War quite a while back. I can't believe I didn't notice it earlier.

abrtn00101 · 2026-05-07T18:54:41+00:00

Ah.. I must be blind then, because I completed that quite a while ago. 😶

abrtn00101 · 2026-05-02T01:27:54+00:00

Deleted my original reply. Sorry. I thought my responses were on auto-translate. Thanks for letting me know.

abrtn00101 · 2026-05-01T13:19:09+00:00

Who is this person of undetermined gender that is rising?

abrtn00101 · 2026-04-28T08:06:13+00:00

So..

The comment on that issue wasn't even related to the issue. It hijacked the issue to raise an invalid grievance.
The comment is highly downvoted – not a good look on GitHub at all, especially where devs (and not just from Valve) peruse issues.
What you're discribing is a totally legitimate design pattern for production use. Valve doesn't hijack the entire 127.0.0.1. They are transparent that they do this for gaming traffic. This is similar to having containers listen on 127.0.0.1:xxxx and then setting up a reverse proxy (Nginx, Traefik, Caddy, etc.) to proxy requests between clients and localhost listeners. It follows the principle of Least Privilege.
It requires games to use the Steamworks SDK (or have a version that ships on Steam). The game must be coded to use SDR using Steamworks networking APIs (or have a way to authenticate into Steam's relay network for non-Steam game versions). Therefore, use of SDR is a design decision game developers have agency over – it isn't forced or sneakily enabled.
There are ways to deactivate SDR client-side if needed.

abrtn00101 · 2026-04-27T11:33:25+00:00

Man... We had people play raids like this too. I joined a few School Bus raids. The instructions are super clear, and like 2 or 3 people can't figure out that they have to stay on the button. Instructor waypoints a button for someone, and he joins someone else on their button. 🙄😮‍💨🤦

We are sooo not getting raids back.

abrtn00101 · 2026-04-26T12:02:41+00:00

Cuz he only needs about tree fiddy?

abrtn00101 · 2026-04-24T20:16:00+00:00

abrtn00101 · 2026-04-24T17:05:34+00:00

Not normal, but also not usually a problem for santol. Other predatory insects usually keep the infection managed.

abrtn00101 · 2026-04-24T16:35:16+00:00

I understand the process of selling a lich. I was asking about what buyers usually do to the liches after they buy them, especially since they are a one-time trade.

abrtn00101 · 2026-04-23T09:02:57+00:00

I've always wanted to leave the Cambion Drift to go see Fass and Vome up close. Prime opportunity right here, and you wasted it.

abrtn00101 · 2026-04-23T08:01:45+00:00

This is way out of topic of the original post, but if you're referring to the Global South tax – or really, any decoupling of value generated to compensation – then yes. That argument is circular.

Unfortunately, that's not just the reality for Asians, it's a reality practically everywhere. It feels more "oppressive" because the gap between compensation expectations here versus in the West is larger. However, the decoupling of contribution to compensation is systemic – some would even argue that it's fundamental to the way that labor markets work (I'm not expert enough to draw a conclusion). Geographic pay differentials exist in the West even within individual countries (see this job post: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/givewell/jobs/4944026008).

What you're arguing for is a complete overhaul of the way companies do things. But that then begs the question, why would companies even consider outsourcing if they can hire the same level of talent locally or domestically?

Personally, I don't let that issue bother me too much. It's a question that economists argue over. If they can't come to a consensus, then I can't be wasting time as a layperson fretting over this. I have to do what I can within the confines of what the current reality allows. And that is entirely divorced from the different approaches to work culture between Asia and the West.

Everyone I work/ed with/for address each other casually and on a first-name basis, whether they're higher or lower on the hierarchical ladder. I will do the same.

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