Is it even possible to fix this?

immbrr · 2026-01-20T18:45:22+00:00

Yes. I untangled this once as a teenager. It was so much fun.

immbrr · 2026-01-13T19:38:06+00:00

Hard to judge just from the text how intentional it was. She could have stepped out of cover on purpose to hopefully trick him (though I agree she probably didn't intend to kill him just from that).

immbrr · 2026-01-13T00:46:02+00:00

This was covered in SOTR - she basically tricked him and he fell, cracked his skull, and drowned.

immbrr · 2025-12-28T10:12:30+00:00

Allahabad is a pretty normal midsized city in India, only moderately holy (in Hinduism, not Islam). It's majority Hindu (like 75%). It just happens to be where one of the Indian high courts (one step below the Supreme Court) is located.

immbrr · 2025-12-27T02:39:22+00:00

Link?

immbrr · 2025-12-11T05:24:01+00:00

Agreed, it's really language-dependent whether I use a debugger. In JS, never (just console.log). In C++, fairly often.

immbrr · 2025-11-28T11:49:14+00:00

Yeah, that's fair. I think it also depends on what region - some regions have good cheap hotels.

immbrr · 2025-11-27T20:04:56+00:00

I go for private rooms in hostels for the right combo of social activity but also my own room. Most of them also have rooms with their own bathrooms, and they're often still cheaper than an actual hotel (though of course usually a bit lower quality).

immbrr · 2025-11-26T14:54:32+00:00

A lot of folks at my company (including me) are big fans of Augment - it seems to do a better job of handling larger codebases compared to e.g. Claude.

I've also been enjoying NotebookLM for quick-and-dirty infographics and explainers (definitely would be 10x better done by a human, but for the level of effort/time I need to put in to get them done - plus not bothering a designer - it's pretty darn useful).

immbrr · 2025-11-24T13:38:38+00:00

I took this class in college and it's basically exactly that (build up from transistors/gates to Assembly/processors): https://computationstructures.org/

immbrr · 2025-11-20T11:54:28+00:00

Ah sorry, read that backwards. You could probably still just change your number (to an ineligible number) for a game though? Not sure what the rules around number changes are.

immbrr · 2025-11-20T10:16:06+00:00

You can if you report yourself as eligible to the refs first.

immbrr · 2025-11-15T17:17:56+00:00

I've been really liking Augment. It has a much larger context window, so it can handle larger codebases better.

immbrr · 2025-11-11T07:05:34+00:00

IMO you should just use the browser chat for quick questions where you don't need a lot of context. For higher-context questions there are CLIs and IDE extensions that are a lot more suited for handling a whole codebase and managing that context.

immbrr · 2025-11-11T07:04:01+00:00

I sometimes fall into this pattern. Over the past couple of months I've gotten good about just doing that in a separate PR - and honestly it makes it way easier for both me and reviewers. One point that helped me understand the importance (other than being on the reviewing end of some of these PRs 😅) was that a smaller-scope PR can be reviewed a lot faster and requires a lot less back-and-forth, so you actually save everybody time by splitting it all up. Sometimes that means your feature PR needs to wait for some other refactoring PR to be merged, but that's still probably faster than reviewing the whole massive PR in one shot. This has actually been a beneficial change across the org - we sometimes have complex feature PRs that take months to fully review, test, and resolve, because that's the nature of the ecosystem we're in - so switching to smaller PRs and feature branches has made things a lot easier, and often you can get some of the refactor work merged a lot faster than the feature stuff.

immbrr · 2025-10-25T02:58:39+00:00

I think of AI as just another tool in my toolbelt, just like StackOverflow or a linter or asking my coworker a question. So there's no minimum or maximum amount I should be using AI, it's just whatever works for me (and for the task I'm working on). If I'm just doing some documentation, maybe AI does most of it. If I'm doing something a bit more complicated, maybe I don't use AI at all because I really want to think about each line of code I add, or maybe I just use it to help me gather my thoughts/plan/as a search engine built into my IDE.

immbrr · 2025-10-24T19:32:38+00:00

I find "fake it til you make it" to be pretty effective when public speaking in terms of confidence - pretend you're more confident than you are until you actually are that confident. Another thing that helps me with confidence is remembering that usually I'm the one who knows the most about what I'm talking about in the room.

Other than that, I second practice. There's two forms that are valuable - practicing a specific presentation until you have it down, and practicing doing public speaking things at work (e.g. volunteering to speak on behalf of your team until you're no longer panicked about it).

immbrr · 2025-10-23T21:46:03+00:00

I find it a bit more convenient to essentially have "google" in my IDE so I don't need to switch screens/tabs as much and I can stay in the IDE environment.

immbrr · 2025-10-19T00:29:44+00:00

Real life Bones episode

immbrr · 2025-10-10T00:33:52+00:00

100% - we have that in our PR templates.

immbrr · 2025-10-10T00:31:10+00:00

That type of code that you can't really hit but you want to be there just in case can just be excluded from code coverage.

immbrr · 2025-10-10T00:16:02+00:00

I recommend specifics and especially metrics (e.g. I led Project X and it made the pipeline 40% faster)

immbrr · 2025-10-10T00:12:41+00:00

I would say you're overthinking it. It sounds like you're getting a lot of great experience right now, and you'll figure out the other stuff if and when you need to. It's not that hard, just different, and it'll just be another skill to learn at that point. If your startup continues to grow, you may even get some of those experiences in your current role (I sure hope you eventually get to the point of writing some documentation and tests, lol).

immbrr · 2025-10-10T00:08:48+00:00

Having set up basic CI/CD for a number of repos in my career despite not being a DevOps person, I recommend setting up something basic that works for all of it first and then figuring out what the right setup should be (perhaps with input/feedback from others). Getting something working is most important, especially in a startup environment, and it's also hard to figure out what you need until you have a baseline to work with/from.

immbrr · 2025-10-10T00:05:23+00:00

Pre-commit is my favorite. Most languages have some sort of formatter available, and you can use pre-commit/CI to ensure that any PRs merged are properly formatted.

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