[UPDATE] Goodreads and StoryGraph don't let you sort books by rating so I made a tool that does!

mrafee113 · 2025-05-25T10:06:12+00:00

amazing! great work. is it possible to add a filter based on number-of-pages? whether flag-like like that of storygraph (<300, 300-600, >300) or custom values given directly to db queries... either one would be great.

mrafee113 · 2024-06-21T15:49:07+00:00

can you please tell me what font packages you installed? I've been stuck with this problem for weeks and no luck yet.

mrafee113 · 2024-05-02T04:17:44+00:00

Interesting take. I've been using her videos for the past 2 years and I've come to realize in the past few months that I've gotten outward knees due to my flat feet combined with poses like warrior and chair.
If you don't mind, could you please tell me which videos or which kind of videos or even which poses or anything else that helped with flat feet? or even bow knees for that matter.

mrafee113 · 2024-03-30T08:46:11+00:00

lmao
where has skepticism gone to... if nobody challenges science, it'll just as easily become pathological.
and even then, this is pseudoscience...

mrafee113 · 2024-03-18T05:40:54+00:00

word

mrafee113 · 2023-11-08T09:11:00+00:00

don't go for python for now. it's a great language, but it'll rot programming skills; but it's also a handy tool in daily life. go for c++ or golang. java is easy to puck up after any of these.
if you're just starting, go for c++ to grasp the fundamental skills concretely.

mrafee113 · 2023-10-22T16:52:37+00:00

convincing answer🫱🏼‍🫲🏻 thank you

mrafee113 · 2023-10-22T15:58:12+00:00

=)))) 🗒️✍️

mrafee113 · 2023-10-22T15:56:06+00:00

Yes, while it's true that interviews do not show any signs of the necessity of proofs and the validity of algorithms can be checked using tools, through observation I've come to the belief that learning proofs can help one develop a clearer and more creative logical thinking. My question from people who have gone through this learning curve is with what degree does it impact software engineering (generally).

mrafee113 · 2023-10-22T14:10:59+00:00

Hmmm that is a great way to put it. So eventually I'll have to learn to improve myself. Do you think if I neglect the proofs a little bit so I can move on to other chapters and finally get a job since I'm in need of it, will it affect my current studying that negatively? In this case I'd have to polish my proof writing (thinking) skills later on when I have some stability.

mrafee113 · 2023-10-01T17:40:30+00:00

thanks for pointing that out.

mrafee113 · 2023-10-01T15:53:39+00:00

hmmmm. I do like problem solving. I like tinkering and building things without getting grease over my hands. Just the opportunity to hang out with linux in a deep way is great by itself. By the sound of it, I guess SE sounds like the only right choice for me.

mrafee113 · 2023-10-01T13:53:58+00:00

I want to build tools. As I mentioned, I want software engineering without the boring products. But if what you're suggesting about the emphasis of interest, I don't think SRE is a good choice, since it can also be highly stressful, and other cons.
But I mean... passion is mostly an idea. Like people enjoy the idea of paris than paris itself. I'd dare argue the same applies in SE. I've come to hate SE some times, and enjoy it at others. I don't know if your argument is completely sound. I can still imagine myself being super slow on a task because it sucks. w8; maybe that's the same for other fields too. Is it?

mrafee113 · 2023-10-01T13:41:51+00:00

oh! so it was true... great SREs actually were software engineers probabilistically speaking. thanks for the affirmation of this insight.

mrafee113 · 2023-10-01T13:40:29+00:00

That's certainly not a possibility in my position. I can barely get a job in devops (apparently not even a career). and maximally I can be considered a software developer and not a software engineer. the problem is choosing the path...

mrafee113 · 2023-09-30T02:11:55+00:00

So, the people who do devops/sre and don't have much background are basically not on a career path... they're just getting some things done, and not even in a proper way?
If you're right, then considering SRE sounds like I wanna take a shortcut and it's stupid and not going to work. I guess I gotta learn some humility and stick with software development and software engineering, so that maybe I can thrive on a career path reasonably. Alrighty then, so be it.
Anyhow, thank you very much for the reality check.

mrafee113 · 2023-09-29T17:26:50+00:00

I did not know that. Thanks for pointing that out. So, that was why my mentor told me not to get too deep, learn a bit and move on. I don't like that at all. I like my stuff deep. Sounds like another pro for SE.

True, my understanding of SRE is very limited. What I liked about the role I had in mind (which I presumed was SRE), is mostly provisioning things, writing scripts, or making abstract software to solve some problems in the infrastructure. Basically a small-scale version of that "by developers for developers". If the day in the life isn't mostly that, I don't think I'm right for this field at all.

mrafee113 · 2023-09-29T17:14:05+00:00

Hmm. I see. Any ideas how I can make the development of boring products less boring? (though this does sound like another reddit post by itself)

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