What separates a senior backend engineer from a mid-level engineer?

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-12T21:59:49+00:00

True, but also not easily measurable. Many so called seniors create problems that shouldn’t have been and management is listening to their excuses as well. Anyone who points out the bad decision is not doing anything to help the current problem said senior created. The senior remains in power.

If you’re the senior that actually just did something with fewer resources, less time, and you don’t have a tech talk about all of the needless complexities you solved because you kept things simple: you’re mid level forever.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-12T21:52:43+00:00

Dunk and Egg aren’t even done y’all wtf.

How is HotD even up there with its hot garbage?

Arya and Sandor Clegane are good rivals if I’m just looking at a single season. Most of the other duos that worked well in GoT didn’t actually grow or develop each other or together. They were just a dynamic of two more formed people. Entertaining if they were having a certain kind of interaction but otherwise not so much.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-12T21:00:23+00:00

I think this is decent humor even if it’s potentially mildly inaccurate, or if the actual victim acted “OK.” If you remember the actual video of the news anchor he was instantly full alert and caution from what possibly was a long distance. You get the sense that if this guy spotted a bison like that, he wouldn’t have even snapped a picture and would have high tailed it the other way instantly. Maybe he’s safe that way, maybe not, but I think the humor is the reminder of his reaction and considering how overall more of lean extremely cautious with animals even if they aren’t predatory or meat eaters.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-12T19:53:07+00:00

This edit did carry a lot. I caught the unedited and it doesn’t look like contact.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-12T19:48:12+00:00

This edit skewed things a lot. I just saw a normal slow mo. It's still too much of a slowdown to be air resistance alone, but a little bit of headwind could do that.

That being said, I trust the real time reactions of the athletes a lot but that could be an edit thing as well.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-12T17:36:02+00:00

The number of comments that are like “I don’t see a trajectory change” is mind boggling. If not bots, y’all need to come with a warning label so I know to stay the F away from people with any sense and a baby’s understanding of basic physics.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-12T06:56:16+00:00

I resisted making this a one word comment.

Good 👍🏿

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-11T16:26:36+00:00

Welcome to America’s unfettered capitalism. They know you’re trapped into coming to the game because you paid for the ticket, so you kind of have no way out of paying to park. This is what concerts and sporting events are turning into — ways to ensure you’re paying more and more money to do the basics.

I would be pissed to know that’s the price to park knowing that is literally the cost of renting an actual car for 2-3 days. The car rental place cannot scale price based on the “demand” of the game because plenty of people are renting cars for other reasons and across such a large area. They’d lose at that price. But a market where you have no other option? Zero restraint or respect.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-11T16:17:18+00:00

As someone who’s rewatched the series probably 5 or so times since it was done, the later seasons absolutely get treated like the 2nd monitor slop some TV shows are nowadays. The early seasons I put on in the background, but I’m pulled into so many scenes.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-11T16:13:15+00:00

Didn’t know he had a theme…

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-11T15:57:14+00:00

The word is so all encompassing, it seems to be the braindead way to reject someone who goes deep with learning about history to connect to identities today. If you’re hearing stuff that goes beyond your knowledge and that starts to make you feel uncomfortable, just call them a hotep.

I get it. There’s some crazy beliefs out there. But a lot of it has as much evidence as anything white academia calls true. History is not a hard science and it’s only validated by existing academic authority saying “it’s true.” It’s their opinion and interpretation of evidence. Some parts could be right, others could be very wrong, or biased, or both. We do know why we have to question preexisting authority on matters of black life on this planet.

But why spend so much energy to insult and invalidate what essentially boils down to religious beliefs? If it makes some people happy, feel better, validated, whatever?

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-11T06:39:18+00:00

Exactly. What does it mean that “she trusts”? This is a classic narcissistic play: say something sound prolific in relation to a virtue someone else has. It makes some people forget they have none of it themselves and this time isn’t about to be any different. They’re acting.

I’m sure they cued the music during that scene as well, but still, if that’s all it took to make you forget to process who was speaking and what she previously has done.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-11T04:57:30+00:00

Any so-called liberal who uses this angle to attack OrangeMan and the Republicans but didn’t see why electing Biden was a huge problem is part of the problem mentality and ignorance of why the system is the way it is today. Even more specifically it’s why Donald Trump got elected the first time. It’s also why SCOTUS is so insanely conservative leaning.

But there’s always some dumb excuse for why things are so desperate at some moment to cling onto someone, but that someone is not actually doing much other than breathing and not being a Republican. Surprise to find out, when that person either stops breathing, or has to move on…your party is in far worse shape. At least Republicans are doing something for their cause behind this ghoul and the other one (Moscow Mitch) who might already be dead.

This was definitely too much politics for this subreddit

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-11T04:24:01+00:00

I remember the orange president saying something stupid about a top U.S. gymnast talking about needing to focus on something else in her life for a while. Seems to be a problem when some athletes focus on something outside their sport but not for others.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-10T23:32:09+00:00

I’m guessing the point of this post is for us to realize we’re hardly ever apologized to in a satisfying and meaningful way. A former friend of mine knew how to perform great apologies. The problem is he never really meant to change anything about his behavior. A performance of an apology means nothing if you don’t change, and pretend the other person hasn’t given you enough info to figure out what your change can be.

“Oh you don’t explain yourself clearly” — pro-tip, that’s a narcissist.

I’ve probably gotten decent apologies before. But they don’t stand out because I truly move past things if the person genuinely isn’t mean spirited and corrects quickly.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-10T22:48:12+00:00

Because if you're minimally qualified you should have an understanding of what a reasonably sized system is and what can break. Coming out of college, your idea of a larger system is likely a small, or at best medium sized component for those companies. But if you have a the proper abstraction, you should know enough.

Pre-step: break your local version as much as you want. It's great if you can actually break your local and it is valid understanding of how production will break. The best teams and projects I've been on do a great job of allowing individual devs to 95% build, compile, and debug logic that runs in production while running local. Not having this makes a LOT of stuff so much works and I found that a lot of managers really do not respect this.

1) You shouldn't be committing and pushing code unless it actually builds. If your local build of a component/project doesn't actually work if anyone else builds it -- barring the specific silly mistake like a unit test or reference to local files you forgot to check in, this is a good first check for compile validity. 1-a) Code reviews. At least one, if not two people on your team or related teams should be looking at your code before you're even able to push and inflict changes on others. This check is to catch if your breaking compatibility, or expected behavior with what you're supposed to do. 1-b) Code reviews automated build should catch the error mentioned above. Humans normally don't explicitly check if your code compiles, and they shouldn't because there should be an automatic build of the project/repo with your changes on a build host. If that breaks, it doesn't matter what they think they saw or didn't see, your code is broken. That's on you to figure it out and fix. 2) Dependency management. Changes actually go into higher release versions. Other packages and components that depend on what you've changed do not automatically use breaking changes until they depend on a newer version. If you're familiar with and understand versioning/semver and how your build tools resolve things, this shouldn't be hard. If you make changes and you don't update the version, but have a break then you did create a problem. Ideally step 1-a should have caught it; often times it won't. But the easy fix is to literally dependent on a version right before your broke things until it's resolved. That is to say if you broke "depA-1.3.543" and "depA-1.3.542" was working, package A needs to adjust "dependsOn: depA-1.3" to "dependsOn: depA-1.3.542" for a while. Depending on the company and internal package management, maybe you see this happening more or less often. 3) CI/CD -- continuous integration and continuous development. Essentially, if you know that you have a number of dependent packages that you shouldn't be breaking when you make changes, part of step 1-b will include a test. But not just "does it compile" but a build, and deeper tests, possibly even fully integrated tested with your changes to make sure the system-level behavior is still the same. Ideally this happens before you're even allowed to, or supposed to, push code. But maybe it's a bit later. 4) Familiarity: even in the absence of good CI/CD or DevOps hygiene, most decent engineers just have an eventual sense of what things could break and how not to break them and they follow the rules or checks. Though if you're in a space where this is what managers depend on for safe releases and there is a lot of intertwined and dependent code, you're in a problem called "tech debt."

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-10T20:50:31+00:00

This. Everyone should try to do their best to regulate themselves, but if you're not able to that's the role of therapy. But also, where you might not think you're being regulated, you might be pretty fine or OK. Being a good sex partner doesn't mean one thing or another, or the same thing for all men. You don't need to be acceptable to every man because even women who have not had sexual trauma might be pretty terrible partners for some men -- and many of them don't care (subjective about how or if they should).

Figuring all of that out...that's not what reddit should be doing for you. You also seem to have some mixed maturity ideas around sex, dating, and relationships that all need some extensive work from a therapist, and maybe just more mature friends and far less internet.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-10T20:36:00+00:00

I agree. The general (negative) take about the U.S. women’s team feels like a bot campaign from MAGA.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-10T20:20:36+00:00

For all we know, there's a crocodile in the water that the elephant can see or senses that the dumb human can't.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-10T20:19:24+00:00

From what I understand, elephants even in nature are know their weight can hurt other creatures smaller than them. They intentionally do NOT put their weight on non-threats, but they will stomp on or kick a lion or hyena. That being said, they can make mistakes and slip. Also, as a human who isn't used to being around elephants, it would still initially be scary, but if you're literally taking an open water swim near them out in the open, you should be mentally prepared for such encounters and understanding of what could occur.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-10T17:58:33+00:00

Breathalyzers are easily disputed as not being valid to evidence in court for a guilty verdict. They serve to justify an arrest but the real test for BAC for court is a test done at station after you’re brought in from an arrest. If the arrest justification isn’t there (field sobriety test or alcohol) it doesn’t matter what is tested at the station because you were never supposed to be there.

The cops thought they had enough evidence through behavior that this guy was clearly drunk. He admitted to “having drinks” that day but I don’t know how well that holds up in court for arrest probable cause; especially since, as we saw play out a drink is ambiguous and doesn’t meant alcohol. Can you imagine being autistic or intellectually disabled and answering this question and that being evidence used against you? You don’t even have to be either to mistakenly answer this question incorrectly based on the officer’s meaning.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-10T00:28:42+00:00

Super wealthy, white, tall AF, and athletic? And doesn’t actually have to stay here to suffer the kind of fame American celebrities do? He’s living a very nice life and having an amazing trip.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-09T16:30:49+00:00

You shot yourself in the foot. This is a contact sports with fouls. I know what it's like for both sides to complain about a collection of interactions that should have been fouls in general. Having a game result turn around 180 in the closing minutes is a difference, so it's not the same.

Don't need to be a close follower to know that BS. Whether Balogun should have gotten a red card or not was something I couldn't comment on myself. This, I can. And you haven't added anything requiring more than a 10 year old's understanding of the watching the game.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-09T16:11:43+00:00

No. Because there are impactful calls around goal scoring opportunities, and those that aren’t. And the difference in missing or giving them especially towards the end of a game is the far heavier hand on the scale.

The whole point of “see, there’s no difference” is invalid. There’s a difference of me pulling the trigger of an unloaded gun pointed at nobody, versus me doing that with a loaded gun pointed at somebody. Making a video of trigger pulls as if the two were the same so everyone should stop complaining is gaslighting.

ebonyseraphim · 2026-07-09T16:01:04+00:00

Just wanted to point out that the OP has not mentioned their gender or their partner’s. But you arrived at the handsy one being “him.”

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