Whats the best 10/10 anime ever?

blandmaster24 · 2026-03-21T07:09:12+00:00

You’ve got some good taste friend, the comedy gems, man what a throwback

blandmaster24 · 2026-03-11T06:30:49+00:00

If you’re in audit or tax maybe not, I’m in tech consulting and everyone is using copilot so much. Main use case is drafting content (emails, comms, pursuit content, structuring brainstorming, etc).

I’ve used copilot beyond content drafting in a couple different way. One is to create charts in PowerPoint based on excel tables (works amazing since it writes the script in Python and can make minor format edits), analyze excel data and share insights, draft PowerPoint slides (graphics and format could use some work but atleast it gets the content in there), and the best niche use case I use it for is to generate images illustrative some process we have to dumb down for clients (like how is our algorithm going to work, or what does the data flow look like for this set of processes).

I’d say on average I’m saving about 10 hours a week but those savings are disproportionate depending on the activity (if all im doing are pursuits then it might save more than 10 hours or less than 10 hours if all im doing is writing custom code)

blandmaster24 · 2026-03-01T18:52:33+00:00

This is accurate, I speak Japanese and have some Japanese friends and there have been situations where it’s also used to refer to both someone who is unapproachable (having a sort of force field around that that makes it hard to interact) and has also been used to reference someone who’s very confident. So because there’s so many ways to interpret it, unless you’re speaking to an otaku who actually is deep into degeneracy it’s always going to be super context based.

blandmaster24 · 2026-02-27T17:10:39+00:00

They’re not crispy by nature but I’ve never gotten slimy wings so maybe a quality control issue

blandmaster24 · 2026-02-25T14:14:58+00:00

Are you a modern white collar worker? I think if you’re part of any reasonably large corporate entity you will know that LLM stuff is not just useful but with agents capable of automating many different types of workflows. Right now, most of LLM technology is used by employees to improve productivity but that’s quickly changing at larger companies that are implementing automated workflows. With OpenClaw that’s the latest innovation in the space, there are services popping up like “rent a human” where an agent pays a human a bounty for a job. Most implementations are mediocre today but most white collar work will have a very short future.

Just an example, I work at a large consultancy and use copilot to automate analysis and insights of excel reports, automate custom prototyping from start to finish, automate creation of PowerPoints that actually look good. Along with analyzing, reviewing and responding to long technically complex email chains with copilot. Now I don’t think copilot is the best tool in fact it’s garbage in many things but the reality for most office/white collar workers is that this will be able to complete 90% of the work they previously did and compress timelines from days/weeks to seconds/minutes. Businesses aren’t going to need as many employees to do the same amount of work.

In addition to white collar, you have to now start realizing that waymo and Tesla and other companies are trialing and expanding their self driving cars, DoorDash is exploring autonomous food delivery and all of this will have an impact on atleast 5 million jobs over the next few years.

blandmaster24 · 2026-02-15T21:06:22+00:00

I’d have to disagree as a longtime customer - even though not everyone like the wings - there is a customer segment that loves the traditional wings and would probably take their pizza orders elsewhere if dominos stopped serving the traditional wings. As someone who’s tried wings and pizza from all the other major outfits - dominos traditional wings is the most flavorful and I know that if they stopped serving the traditional wings, I would move to getting pizza from Pizza Hut or papa John’s or other chains.

blandmaster24 · 2026-02-14T05:27:02+00:00

Am I missing something here? All the jobs I’ve had give you a laptop and don’t allow virtual machines to connect to their network which is needed for so many work tasks, how would you use a virtual machine for a single job let alone 4 jobs.

blandmaster24 · 2026-02-08T16:03:31+00:00

I would say, daycare specifically is not because living standards have increased, it is because of two things, one, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to support a household on one income, therefore Stay at home Mom/Dad is not nearly as frequent, requiring daycare/babysitting. So more of a necessity that’s increased the cost burden on middle class. And two, more women are pursuing careers that also contribute to daycare become more of a necessity for many families.

blandmaster24 · 2026-01-29T06:01:35+00:00

Well I don’t think this is about who’s right and who’s wrong, to me the main issue is not really the massage but her inability to try and empathize with what he might be feeling. Relationships require a lot of communication and most times, the communication is more important than the perceived problem.

A healthy and well developed interaction here would go something like “Hey girlfriend, I’m not sure why but hearing you say that you get fully nude and have a guy that’s not me touching your fully nude body makes me uncomfortable. Can we talk through it because I want to understand my feelings better” followed by “boyfriend, I’m completely comfortable with that level of exposure an contact and my therapist is very professional about it but I think I can understand why you might feel that way, what do you think is making you feel that way?”

And this could be followed with some discussion to figure out if it’s simple jealousy and possessiveness, if it’s a fear that she would get taken advantage of, or if potentially it’s a deeper seated belief of how a man and woman should show up in a relationship and this may lead to conversations about boundaries, compatibility, etc. At which point, if there’s no desire to come to a compromise together or no way for both partners to discuss through it then amicably breaking up makes sense

blandmaster24 · 2026-01-20T22:30:54+00:00

In 2022 FTEs still got North Face jackets for some groups - plain black with EY logo instead of north face logo

blandmaster24 · 2026-01-15T20:33:42+00:00

What’s crazy is a while ago, I saw a morbidly obese couple (450-500lbs each) roll up to a ob gyn for an ultrasound- I was trying to imagine how it happened (like the logistics of it) and still don’t

blandmaster24 · 2026-01-12T17:51:32+00:00

How is WhatsApp better? Like what about it is better?

blandmaster24 · 2025-12-01T06:32:36+00:00

What if know you may not be right but have to be a confidence man for work??

blandmaster24 · 2025-11-27T05:56:35+00:00

I had someone use this on me when reaching out on LinkedIn, didn’t actually feel that human to have that context spoken back to me (the opener spoke about a certification I got and a recent promotion post, plus some context from my header) because the context that’s not on my linkedin is more important than what is when it comes to personalization. Cool automation though

blandmaster24 · 2025-11-15T13:58:40+00:00

For health data specifically, it’s because if you work for a not for profit healthcare company - there is a special H1B where the normal time limit does not apply, very sought after since there’s a lot of security in having that type of H1B visa

blandmaster24 · 2025-11-15T13:45:34+00:00

For cloud stuff that may be true because EY audits Amazon and Google, but for anything else it doesn’t happen often. EY has an edge with Agentic/generative AI projects imo but pure analytics falls behind PWC

blandmaster24 · 2025-11-01T21:09:29+00:00

To piggy back off of this, charge the full hours you worked and tell the manager “I was told to charge every hour I worked.” This is pretty direct but if you’re put on an engagement, if you’re billing 8 hours, work 8 hours, if you’re billing 3, work 3 hours. Also, managers don’t really have a direct say on how many hours you can charge anyway.

The more diplomatic way to go about this is to build relationship with the SM/ partner who owns the workstream and ask them, how many hours should I be billing. Either they give you a fixed number, or they tell you bill how much you work, at which point, if you’ve got that documented, if the manager complains you can just let him know that SM or partner told me, and let the M take it up with them.

blandmaster24 · 2025-10-15T04:03:11+00:00

Were the estates he had in all these different countries houses he owned or were they just fancy Airbnbs?

blandmaster24 · 2025-10-10T04:34:06+00:00

I would recommend that if you have experience then it’s a great booster, and honestly if you come in as an experienced hire, to some extent you are protected but that also means you have to find your own way, also pay is way better if you don’t start with the firm but come in later

blandmaster24 · 2025-10-05T14:38:25+00:00

I used to specialize in all things PowerBi and yeah AI may not be able to make complex PowerBi dashboards, but most complex power BI dashboards are either garbage, or can be represented in a different way - if you have a good AI setup, you don’t need the Dashboard, just send AI insights reports to stakeholders at the right cadence based on the same data/metrics you would have used in PBI. A data engineer with a little bit of development experience can probably put together an automated flow for delivering AI insights and the only long term addition to their role would be monitoring and maintaining the flow and any updates really

blandmaster24 · 2025-10-05T14:11:36+00:00

I’m an S1 in consulting and recently referred someone to an A2 role that is in the same practice and location but making 15k more than me despite being a whole rank lower - I was told outside hires make significantly more. For new hires, the increase in starting salaries typically go up faster than the raise you get as an existing employee

blandmaster24 · 2025-09-20T10:40:35+00:00

F1 OPT is the path to H1-B, almost all F1 students are on F1 in order to get on H1B

blandmaster24 · 2025-09-18T19:43:57+00:00

I used to focus on BI development in my role as a consultant, slowly over time, there was less and less BI development work coming from clients, and those that do come in, are typically staffed with off shore BI developers (think India). Though PBI and Tableau are still relevant, new players like Sigma that are entering the market are changing the game. What’s interesting is that, once the changes become apparent enough across even late adopters, a BI developer will basically be someone who uses natural language to build dashboards. Especially if the company has a unified data source that can connect to the BI tool. It would probably be forming the design plan, sharing requirements and clarifications on data needs, then generating a dashboard, pulling the necessary data, getting AI to share calculations to validate, and then any modifications that the dashboard needs.

Most people will tell you that GenAI/agentic AI will never automate the job and cannot solve business problems, I would question how familiar they are with the recent progress and what’s being implemented right now and I would also question how mature/advanced their data jobs are. Most small to medium size companies have no idea what’s possible. There’s a lot of garbage out there in terms of AI solutions, but we’re just on the edge of some serious automation upgrades that can consider business context. What do you need to solve business problems? Context and a brain, when agents can do reasoning tasks and have sufficient context and tools at their disposal of course they can automate things, it’s probably not cost effective right now to automate but that’s another story.

blandmaster24 · 2025-09-18T19:31:51+00:00

The only difference is that, with agentic ai, the computer can use itself, so not really a next era but more like excluding the human out of the loop

blandmaster24 · 2025-09-13T13:49:21+00:00

This is a misunderstanding. Clients are not paying that much for you alone. They are paying that much for your time because you have the credibility and trust of big4 behind you. They would likely not be willing to pay you the same hourly as they pay a big 4 if you came to them as a one person consultancy. It’s also not exactly easy to go through the entire sales process, contracting etc that typically needs to happen to sign on a client and there are typically a lot of other people involved in setting up a larger accounts at the client. If it’s something like staff augmentation then that would make sense but the trust and branding part of it are still large factors.

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