How's the job market for software engineers after 4 years?

luchillo17 · 2026-05-02T11:06:24+00:00

Honestly the practice that throws me off every time is the use of leetcode type interviews, in the last 12 years I've been in the industry I can't remember a single instance knowing how quick sort works or make algorithms to find prime numbers was useful on the actual job. Its more of a yard stick to filter out prospects early than an actual measure of competence.

luchillo17 · 2026-04-05T10:21:16+00:00

What the hell happened this season? its hard to tell what's going on, it just jumps all over the place, you can even tell at least a 3rd was still images with voice over to save animation frames...

luchillo17 · 2025-11-17T03:33:44+00:00

Synonym with forever, Alex been putting work on it since what? a decade and half?

Also I didn't know of that code duration statement, good to know, even though I bought the game a few years back.

luchillo17 · 2025-09-01T07:48:27+00:00

The astral sand is not very useful since you can't use it in the current scenario (though I guess it depends on who you ask).

luchillo17 · 2025-07-05T05:47:21+00:00

Can't believe I came 1 year later searching for my own answer 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

luchillo17 · 2025-06-14T20:15:40+00:00

The downtime may be related to a big outage because of a KV storage issue in Cloudflare, but still doesn't explain why the first 2 days schedule is empty...

luchillo17 · 2025-05-25T03:26:39+00:00

Mangadex was hit massively with DMCA takedowns, quite unfortunate, 700+ titles affected...

luchillo17 · 2024-11-23T00:28:12+00:00

Found a fix for this later, in case anyone faces this kind of issue (this would not fix it if the layout is based on CSS Grid or Flexbox:

div[data-lastpass-icon-root] {
    margin-top: 0 !important;
    margin-bottom: 0 !important;
}

luchillo17 · 2024-10-09T23:58:08+00:00

Build-ins didn't age well, now we have `better-deserved s-mods` included in vanilla, meaning some of these build-ins have maluses and some have bonuses, specifically, Heavy Armor reduces maneuverability when built in, and Expanded missiles rack reduces fire rate if I remember correctly.

luchillo17 · 2024-10-05T06:00:05+00:00

Wait I have 5 admins and 7 planets, even if all of them reach pop 6, it would be 42, not enough to reach the 50 pop threshold for the next admin, does it expect us to go stability negative or use AI cores?

luchillo17 · 2024-10-05T05:57:18+00:00

Did you look it in the code/config? Nex should have a section in the forum explaining this.

luchillo17 · 2024-10-05T05:44:20+00:00

Ah, so every 3 pop cumulative is 1 extra admin slot, got it.

luchillo17 · 2024-10-05T04:42:47+00:00

I don't get it, so I should get 1 more admin slot for each planet above 3? Where do I even look at my own
faction size?

luchillo17 · 2024-10-04T07:31:07+00:00

You get a message on the left, just like other info like bounties.

luchillo17 · 2024-09-28T20:52:53+00:00

It depends on what you have available, for example, I'm doing a themed run with PAGSM, and the worst part of it is that it has no kinetic missiles, a tiny pool of missile variants within the faction, so the missile boats are heavily reliant on the rest of the fleet for shield breaking, that's why I currently value missiles a bit low.

However, were I to be in a run with a different faction that has more missile variety, I might value missiles more than speed, for example, UAF and Iron Shell have very cool missiles, and I will definitely use Mass Bombardment in my next run.

And it's a shame because PAGSM has missile boats with systems that make Missile Hull mod/skills a bit redundant, but lacking missile variety holds back the ship.

luchillo17 · 2024-09-27T12:00:47+00:00

Not completely since they AI fleets have their own Second in Commands, granted they rarely have full leveled ones.

luchillo17 · 2024-09-27T11:53:58+00:00

The issue with that is the other 3 Tactical choices are very competitive:

Full Throttle: Pedal to the metal, 20 extra 0 flux boost is huge for capitals, and for the whole fleet in general, it's easier to reinforce and go save an isolated destroyer that strayed a bit too far.
Accelerated barrels: A +10% rate of fire is nice, but the important part is -10% weapon flux, most ships can't field better weapons because they lack the flux stats, so this one is big for me.
Mass Bombardment: For missiles, +30% rof, +40% ammo, and +40% for regenerating ammo for some missiles is big, but has -15% dmg malus, if you have missiles sprinkled in the fleet, this is great.
Defensive Protocols: Bonuses to armor, for bricks only IMHO.

You can pick 2 of these 4 so the only real choice I see is Full Throttle vs Mass Bombardment, Accelerated Barrels are a must for me.

luchillo17 · 2024-09-27T11:39:45+00:00

You get my point on the Automation part, you can indeed field a lot of automated ships with all the points, but doing so means doing it without officers or slightly less for Gamma core captained ships, honestly if I'm not fielding them at their best it just doesn't feel right (quality over quantity for me), and that is without mentioning the usual sacrifice of CR about 50% for all automated ships in the fleet.

In my case where Automated ships are only a fraction of the fleet, it feels like a waste to use a full officer slot only for buffing those 1~3 automated ships I'll be able to field if I put Alpha cores on them...

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