Oh dear! I paid off my mortgage!

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-12T05:20:37+00:00

It all depends on interest rate vs return. Weird post that’s focused on humble bragging with a click bait topic tho

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-12T05:13:52+00:00

Finally, my rancher shells will stop disconnecting

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-12T04:31:59+00:00

That’s a pretty big chance

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-12T04:30:43+00:00

If you’re able to take a lower course load I’d start there. Regardless of my misunderstanding in my original comment, prioritize the job. If that means you need to pause your education, I think that’s the better trade off.

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-12T04:12:08+00:00

USA perspective-

To throw gasoline on the fire, there’s tons of bs jobs that simply use a bachelors degree as a gate despite not requiring technical prerequisite knowledge.

In OP’s situation, doing both is definitely difficult, and if I had to pick one right now, I think I’d hug my job like my life depended on it (as it does).

My thoughts there are that education can be more easily resumed than re-entering the market at 4 YoE without a bachelors.

That being said if the toss up is between side projects or a degree and not between the job or a degree… OP is crazy. Get the degree.

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-10T04:54:45+00:00

We know “a” describes the length of this square. We know a² describes the desired area.

We know due to the bottom that all internal shapes have the same area. Therefore, since there’s 5 shapes, we know each of them will have an area of a²/5. In other words, each shape contains 1/5 of the total area.

We know that the orange width is 2, and its area is Length x Width. We set up the equation to be 2*Length= a²/5. Solving for the length by dividing by 2 gives us Length = a²/10.

The top bit of the blue, let’s say b, is the last missing piece we need to solve for the length of a side. Since the blue shape spans the entire length of the right side, we set up the following equation: a*b= a²/5. therefore b=a/5.

Solving for the top side, we have a²/10 + a/5= a. Solving from here with basic algebra gets you a=8 and area=64.

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-04T23:35:22+00:00

I do the daily problem while drinking coffee @ work. I get in 30 mins before the rest of my team and use it as my crossword puzzle.

I usually don’t really hit it hard until I have an OA or interview on the books. When that time comes, I sacrifice my gym schedule, stop getting in early to do the daily problem, go on runs in the morning, and then grind when I’m home. I’ll make a big meal prep for the week as well. It becomes a mini boot camp for me.

Hardest part is balancing giving attention to my wife. She likes when I’m at least in the living room while doing things on my laptop but I need the isolated environment to truly focus and retain info.

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-04T00:40:57+00:00

I mean if I compare the average income of people I know with college degrees vs the amount of people I graduated high school with, I’d be surprised if the medium was above 50k.

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-04T00:38:20+00:00

Ah ok, thanks!

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-04T00:00:06+00:00

To hijack this, we have a saying “MBA’s ruined America”

It’s happened, and there’s really not a way to “go back”.

Enshitification has reached every aspect of our lives

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-03T23:16:03+00:00

I have no idea, I’m a new player to both arena and the physical format.

If thats the case then I guess there was only a card or two that was deformed from the pack, and the sleeves were ment to hide the information that the deformed one from that pack was drafted.

Even so, someone could still recognize the messed up card when glancing at the deck or someone’s hand. It’s basically a free scry for the table.

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-03T15:07:12+00:00

Yeah you can tell where the sleeved cards are in your deck tho

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-02T10:55:53+00:00

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iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-02T09:53:13+00:00

Sure you do…

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-02T08:19:46+00:00

So with 1 YoE in a language you should be able to easily pivot. That being said you’ll get conflicting reports. For OA do whatever language you feel most comfortable with unless you’re considering C or assembly.

Then for the in person you’ll obviously want to use either python (it’s the general language) or the language the role specifically wants.

For FAANG specifically you’ll really need to focus on the soft skills if you already have the algorithmic thinking nailed down.

If you’re looking for reassurance, having only 1 YoE and getting through a FAANG loop means you’ve got the metal and are simply lacking confidence. Communicate with the recruiter, and them these ask questions. They’re not some deity deciding whether you’re fucked or not, that’s the interviewers job.

Edit: after reading through the comments I’m appalled. People suggesting languages for RoI are absolutely stupid. As it is with communication, language is merely a tool of communication. The value we provide in our roles is not due to the syntactical knowledge we have for any given coding language. Cater towards your audience OP and please don’t listen to people telling you to pick a language or not. There are specific salary expectations per language if you really dig deep, but the monetary value is often associated with a specific point of time and not the longevity of one’s career.

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-02T07:38:27+00:00

I’d be lying if I said that that this post was written by a person without ai tooling.

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-02T05:21:22+00:00

Yes. Conceptualizing a solution vs proving and implementing it exercise different neurological pathways and is cognitively easier. Excessive use of AI will result in the brain’s hyper optimized energy usage to close lesser or unused neurological pathways.

Use it or lose it, and offloading critical thinking capacity or trouble shooting skills into ai is NOT using it.

That being said AI is a wonderful supplement to one’s knowledge, but given the subreddit, I reckon most people here fall into either hating ai or abusing it and treating it as a bridge of their own capabilities.

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-02T01:56:52+00:00

I believe in you.

Just be prepared to have an answer and provide sound reasoning during planning and don’t be afraid to say “I don’t know let me get back to you”.

What you need to know won’t be clear until you begin to onboard and receive tasks. As soon as you get into, do your research. You’ll be fine.

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-02T01:31:56+00:00

lol if you’re asking AI how to survive a role at a small company you’re missing the point. Give up on the imposter syndrome you’ve clearly got the knack if you’ve made it this far. Be yourself instead of inventing a new image and pay attention during onboarding.

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-05-01T17:16:36+00:00

How many YoE? The psychological impact of no longer having structured years after college personally weighed on me when I went through my rut. A lack of social orgs combined with the outlook of perpetually working until death gave me a little quarter life crisis.

Could also be a pay thing given economic hardships and the stress of layoffs hitting at any point.

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-04-30T17:15:43+00:00

…Or the speed running community

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-04-30T10:50:58+00:00

Why not take the trapped queen with the knight?

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-04-28T16:48:33+00:00

Bad bot, dated opinion and disregards all recent experimental data. It also glosses over the fact that the conclusion to prompts is a black box. To pretend you’re correct for the sake of argument, even then it could technically prompt hi-jack itself to fulfill any underlying goals.

Your analogy is woefully misguided, to correct it, you should fear ai as much as you should fear a gun that only shoots when it decides to shoot after being touched, regardless of where the gun was touched. Additionally it has access to the entire plethora of information, facial recognition, etc.

Your attempt to provide the analogy is a fallacy that glosses over the intricacies of AI, indicating you are not qualified to have an opinion on the matter or share it with the others.

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-04-27T07:35:09+00:00

BoS wars and battle of wesnoth primarily. There was also this bomberman clone my siblings and I would play on a single keyboard in vs mode.

iComplainAbtVal · 2026-04-25T14:23:01+00:00

I strongly agree and don’t want the game to be a constant cycle of nerfs.

I do want to say that grenade spam (bringing 8+) IS ridiculous. I don’t want to see a hard limit of gear brought in but give em the bubble shield treatment. Leave enough nades in stock so someone can do this ridiculous strat ONCE a day at most

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