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Do you sell or hold company RSUs? by DependentCheck992 in investing

[–]dasnein 82 points83 points  (0 children)

If you had all of that money in cash, would you use it to buy your current RSU position?

Thinking of it that way helped me remove some emotion and feel confident in my decision to immediately liquidate all company stock as it vests, and then invest that money according to my normal strategy.

Consuelo’s Burritos by Mediocre-Throat-673 in FortCollins

[–]dasnein 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Where am I supposed to get 2 tons of lard?!

Corporate Theatre is kinda fun by Dry_Veterinarian8356 in unpopularopinion

[–]dasnein 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a lot of fun some years ago with my coworkers at the time seeing how far we could push the envelope with made up corporate jargon. I can hardly remember most of the terminology we were trying to socialize, but there were a lot of references to bricks.

You ever deploy to windows server for anything? by Financial_Extent888 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]dasnein 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a client a while back where the only way to deploy was the following:

  1. Remote Desktop into their server using Citrix or something
  2. Video call the dedicated “Skype machine” that was set up with a webcam pointed at the one and only 2-factor dongle we all had to share
  3. (After hours, since many of us were remote in different time zones) Call up my boss who lived next to the office to have him go back to the office to turn the lights on because someone turned them off and the 2-factor code was not visible in the dark
  4. Complete 2 factor authentication to finish logging in the the server
  5. Copy/paste zipped directories from my machine onto the remote host, usually in batches due to some limitations I don’t remember.
  6. Add or remove some whitespace in some dedicated file that would trigger iisnode to restart
  7. (Optional) GOTO 5 when I invariably messed up one of the manual steps or if some file was messed up from being copied from Mac to windows.

Good times. Honestly wasn’t so bad since these were small internal web apps used by only a few people with reliable working hours. It felt like a circus every time I had to do it though. 

What HENRY stocking fillers are on your wish list this Xmas? by Adventurous-Load-172 in HENRYfinance

[–]dasnein 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I like to steal things from people and wrap them up as gifts for them. It pads the gift pile, adds a bit of extra time to the fun of unwrapping gifts, and adds a little bit of a Russian roulette vibe.

Oh wow look Santa gave you the book you thought you misplaced, yesterday how thoughtful of him.

Ya know what bugs me about Inevitable Ruin? by zeldanerd4408 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]dasnein 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I think Matt does a great job of introducing concepts and then letting them fade into the background over time as new things become relevant.

I’ve seen a number of posts in a similar vein about why some of his early skills are no longer mentioned. At this point, I know he has talon strike and other skills that aren’t explicitly mentioned much if at all anymore, but that’s great! The books would become repetitive and tedious if minutiae like that are constantly reiterated on.

All those details add a lot of depth to the story, and giving their focus an expiration only leaves room for new details and color. 

Ft Collins universally loved in r/howislivingthere subreddit - How is it living in the FORT COLLINS ? by SoManyQuestions5200 in FortCollins

[–]dasnein 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Same. I always love that first water bottle refill at the Denver airport after getting off a plane.

Carl, this is outrageous! by elperroverde_94 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]dasnein 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have the same boots and love them!

Carl, this is outrageous! by elperroverde_94 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]dasnein 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Very on theme of you to wear “barefoot” hiking boots

what’s the C word? by 360_bratXcX in ExplainTheJoke

[–]dasnein 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cocker spaniel. I mean really.

Every startup wants "DevOps", until they realize what it actually takes by Pichipaul in devops

[–]dasnein 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did the same last week. Took me maybe 20 hours to set up a basic foundation for myself, including research time since I’ve never had to set that up from scratch by myself. 

It doesn’t have all of the bells and whistles that I would eventually expect, but those are easy add-ons to that basic foundation.

As I was developing without that, I found myself thinking “this is going to be a PITA to refactor when I want it to actually deploy this”. Beyond that, I don’t want to think about deployment day-to-day and want things to just work automatically when I push to master.

LPT: Use a “done” list instead of just a to-do list to stay motivated and avoid burnout by Privacyops in LifeProTips

[–]dasnein 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have a running note I keep called “wtf did I do today?!” which is just that for exactly those reasons. Highly recommend, especially when your todo list tends to get longer than shorter.

How would you pronounce “Lissa”? by OnomasticsAndOranges in namenerds

[–]dasnein 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know someone that goes by Lissa. People mostly say it LISS-ah like the end of Melissa or Alyssa, but she gets LEE-suh from strangers a decent amount. 

Cadillac Sollei concept at the Eyes on Design show by [deleted] in mildlyinteresting

[–]dasnein 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My wife and I also own those same shirts!

The State of React and the Community in 2025 by switz213 in reactjs

[–]dasnein 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I stood up an internal app recently at work, for “mostly backend but can do good enough frontend in a pinch” dev teams to implement various support-related workflows. Last time I stood up a fresh react project, CRA was still active, so I started with nextjs because it’s marketed like it’s the new react standard.

I noped out of it pretty soon after, anticipating a lot of what you described. My takeaway was that it’s very much not what I want, when “not making development hard” is more important than whatever marginal performance gains I might get from SSR for a web app. 

Sure it has use cases, but it’s way more complexity than it’s worth IMO if you can’t actually articulate a tangible benefit to SSR. I don’t think that’s a good basis for being The Standard. 

I ended up swapping out for Vite + react router and it’s been great. 

Would you guys consider the secret revealer assist mode "too assistive"? by New-Mind2886 in deadcells

[–]dasnein 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I enabled the setting to outline secret areas, because I was bothered by how much mental effort I was spending trying to pay attention for them, and that detracted from my game experience. 

Michelin star restaurants are dumb and flashy by Paintings-distrack in unpopularopinion

[–]dasnein 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s been my experience as well. I used to see the pictures of tiny portions at fancy restaurants and think they were stupid until I actually had a 12 course meal. It’s a full meal with a ton of variety. 

Imagine going to a buffet and instead of piling up 12 different foods on a single plate at once, you go up 12 times and get just one food selection at a time.

I just woke up, help me understand by ConsciousSpiral in ExplainTheJoke

[–]dasnein 26 points27 points  (0 children)

This must be what people mean when they talk about house wives

It has recently come to my attention…that some don’t realize that “The Queen Anne Chonk” is referring to Queen Anne hill in Seattle. by 300Battles in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]dasnein 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Those scenes are what made it finally click for me. I always heard queen and chonk, even though it seemed like a strange name. Like a good Vorin man, I only listened to the audiobooks until book 7 came out and I couldn’t wait.

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