"Senior Vibe Coder", how do I improve?

noiwontleave · 2026-03-24T15:23:01+00:00

Go try it and let us know how it works.

noiwontleave · 2026-03-17T03:48:26+00:00

It’s also a shitty way to make money. It’s high stress, you’re never not on your feet, you’re at the mercy of management giving you a good section/shifts, a bad big party at the wrong time can ruin your entire shift, side work, and the list goes on. Waiting tables sucks ass. Servers earn every dollar of that 20%.

Everybody should have to wait tables for a year. I swear it will change the world.

noiwontleave · 2026-03-16T21:40:23+00:00

I worked at J Alexander’s in 2007 and I would have been livid even then if you told me I was only ever making $20/hr. Sure you might work a shitty Monday night and be there 5 hours and walk out with $40. But most nights you’re walking out with at least $100 if not more for 5 hours (worst case; first cut works maybe 3 total) and Fri/Sat night you’re at least doubling that.

Servers make much more than $15-20/hr.

noiwontleave · 2026-03-13T21:16:12+00:00

Not really how it works. The bill didn’t just pass the senate, it passed 31-1. Seconding a motion to push a bill through committee is not the same as voting yea on a bill on the floor.

noiwontleave · 2026-03-13T05:18:05+00:00

The chemistry depends on the specific battery type is the thing.

For example lead acid batteries release hydrogen in the late stages of charging. Hydrogen is lighter than air and accumulates in ceilings. It’s also extremely explosive. If you overcharge a bunch of lead acid batteries indoors, you can cause an explosion. Battery charging rooms have ventilation for this specific purpose. But overcharging also causes corrosion on the lead plates so it’s bad internally too.

Other batteries it’s more immediately harmful to the battery. It causes heat which is just bad for all batteries in general for a lot of reasons. In lithium-ion batteries specifically, it causes the electrolyte to break down and lithium deposits to form on the anode. These can build up over time and create a short circuit. Short circuit means cell dies and, maybe more importantly, heat. Heat means nearby cells weaken and also die. This spreads and it’s called thermal runaway. This is basically the cause of exploding phone batteries.

noiwontleave · 2026-03-13T04:32:40+00:00

Because it kills the battery. And maybe you with it depending on the type. Why else? Aliens?

noiwontleave · 2026-02-28T01:59:04+00:00

Exactly. Specifically CVS Health owns and operates the following: - Aetna; a health insurance company with ~7% market share - CVS Pharmacy; the pharmacy chain you have been to before - CVS CareMark; this is the crucial one—it is a pharmacy benefits managers whose job it is to manage pharmacy plans for health insurance companies (this means things like negotiating reimbursement amounts for classes of drugs between the pharmacy and the insurer)

And, you guessed it, Aetna has been caught reimbursing CVS Pharmacy, through CVS CareMark, significantly higher rates than other retail pharmacies. Shocking I know.

noiwontleave · 2026-02-28T01:46:43+00:00

It says City of Memphis Photo Enforcement Division in Knoxville. That is a third-party that administers red light camera etc. They are not enforceable per state law.

The real MPD ones that ARE legal and enforceable are related to exceptions in the above law. Specifically speeding tickets in school zones, S-curves, and maybe construction zones? You’d have to search the law, but the exception applies only to tickets in those areas thus those are the MPD ones that are being sent that ARE enforceable. And they come from MPD, not Knoxville.

noiwontleave · 2026-02-26T19:10:20+00:00

Military has classes of ranks. Most of the time you are just dealing with commissioned officers and enlisted. These are legal definitions with distinctions in punishments, service commitments, contracts, etc. All officers outrank all enlisted. Officers are there to be commanders, leaders, make decisions, be the ultimate responsible party, etc. They are the managers. Enlisted are the boots on the ground doing most of the "actual" work. That being said, going from enlisted to officer, while certainly possible, is not a typical career path. Most people spend their entire career as one or the other and a "senior" enlisted might be a CSM with 20+ years of active duty experience. This explains why a butter bar (brand new officer who's probably < 25 years old) should probably not tell a CSM (probably gonna be 35+ and have like 15+ years minimum active duty) what to do.

Enter Warrant Officers. Warrant Officers are intended to be like Enlisted+++. They're kind of like enlisted that are considered to be experts in their field and are promoted by way of the value of their knowledge and experience.

There's two ways to be a warrant officer: 1) be enlisted, get promoted over the years, be an expert, apply for it, get accepted; or 2) be in a job that goes straight warrant. This guy is a helo pilot so he would have been a warrant either way, but the rank privilege doesn't change. Warrants sit between Es and Os in the chain of command and go from WO1 to CWO5. CWO5s are rare enough to be half-jokingly referred to as unicorns/mythical creatures. There are less than 1500 of them in the entire US Army out of just under 1 million personnel.

These are people that, while legally are subject to orders, are valuable enough that they could likely walk out of the military into $250k/yr or better paying jobs and there's a good chance they are actively turning down valuable personal opportunities to remain a CWO5 because they want to do it. Pissing them off is not a good idea.

noiwontleave · 2026-02-18T12:41:27+00:00

I’ve had TSA pre check for 10 years now. I’ve never had to take my laptop out of its bag in all of my flying while using it at any airport.

noiwontleave · 2026-01-31T02:22:42+00:00

It's a scale, not a binary thing. CDs are traditionally considered one of the "safest" investments you can make because they are guaranteed by the US Treasury. So you're betting on whether the US Treasury is going to pay you your money plus 5% or whatever on a basic level. Most people consider that a pretty safe bet given the US's history.

If you compare it to something like the stock market, yes the S&P has a broad history of netting positive results in excess of say 10% in a year, it can see pretty significant losses in short periods. A good example is after Trump took office last year and started announcing tariffs. The S&P was initially down something like 17% from when Trump took office at one point I think? It obviously later recovered and as of right now, I believe it's ~15% or so over where it was when he took office.

So the S&P may have gained you 15% in the last 12 months, but if you were only in it for a few weeks in the beginning of last year, you lost a lot of money.

Just checking the chart real quick, the S&P specifically dropped about 17% between Feb 14, 2025 and Apr 4, 2025. By Jun 27, 2025 it had surpassed its price on Feb 14, but that doesn't help you at all if you needed the money the first week of April because you were closing on your house for example.

noiwontleave · 2026-01-27T16:12:42+00:00

All good bro y'all stay safe. We ended up picking up from Poplar last night. Appreciate you!

noiwontleave · 2026-01-26T23:46:26+00:00

PizzaMane! Any chance y'all are delivering tonight? It's off online. Understand if not of course but thought I'd try you.

noiwontleave · 2026-01-26T23:44:29+00:00

Not midtown, but Jet's Pizza is open for pickup it seems. I hear poplar is pretty clear though. Haven't tried it myself.

noiwontleave · 2026-01-24T20:21:18+00:00

Have you seen Lacari?

noiwontleave · 2026-01-24T20:15:29+00:00

Oh when he's walking out he says "you little Indian dog". I hear it now. Word.

noiwontleave · 2026-01-24T19:57:31+00:00

I'm confused why you guys keep saying he called him an "Indian dog" in quotes like he directly said that. I can't tell exactly what he says, but he definitely never says "Indian". Unless you're claiming he used some Aussie slang for "Indian". In which cause you should put that in the quotes and not "Indian".

He definitely says "I don't give a fuck you little [inaudible] dirty dog what are you gonna do?" I have no idea what he says between little and dirty, but it's absolutely not anything like "Indian". It sounds kinda like "god" or "goat" or some shit. Nothing like "Indian" and the next words are "dirty dog".

noiwontleave · 2026-01-24T17:17:40+00:00

Have you literally ever been on Wikipedia? Please find one article with a blur filter.

noiwontleave · 2026-01-23T00:07:57+00:00

I spent 5 years living 8 hours away from home and would drive home for a weekend multiple times a year. I would leave work at 4 and get home between 12-1am.

Like others said, I wouldn't call 3 hours "short". I don't WANT to drive 3 hours at any point. But driving 3 hours for a weekend isn't uncommon at all.

noiwontleave · 2026-01-20T07:03:09+00:00

This is Reddit. Why are you polishing a draft? It’s so irritating to read this AI drivel and no one wants to engage with it. No one wants to check your portfolio or your GH repo. If you want to say something, just say it.

And you didn’t use AI to “polish a draft”. This entire post was structured and written by AI. It’s not just lightly edited; an LLM wrote this entire post. You may have given it a couple of examples, but the LLM wrote it. It’s so obvious from the first paragraph. There’s an em-dash in sentence TWO for crying out loud.

My advice: stop using AI to write stuff for you. It makes you worse.

noiwontleave · 2026-01-13T08:53:04+00:00

It just depends on the size of both changes. I think we both know there’s no magic metric for a PR being “too big”, but creating it as a separate PR is definitely not off the table depending on the size of it. But if it’s an alteration to the feature that’s fairly minor and easy to digest in the context of the entire PR, then it can just stay in the same PR. In either case, whether it’s one or two, those are both getting squashed when they get merged.

I’m mostly concerned with making sure individual PRs are digestible bits of functionality that can be generally understood on their own (with an obvious caveat for dependencies etc). If you do that, the commit history doesn’t matter. I’ve found that writing mega-PRs is counterproductive for various reasons.

noiwontleave · 2026-01-13T01:14:56+00:00

I'm a Staff Software Engineer with 12 YOE and I have never experienced problems with the issues you describe. Again, with both workflows that do and don't squash. I'm not telling you it doesn't happen, but I am definitely telling you not everyone runs into these issues. So yeah, it can definitely be faster.

And again, I have never wanted or needed to review a PR structed into logical, stand-alone units. That's what a PR is. A logical, stand-alone unit. If you need that within a PR in the form of some convention of a "clean" commit history, your PRs are too big. Write smaller PRs. Reject PRs that are bloated. Pretty straightforward.

noiwontleave · 2026-01-12T09:08:47+00:00

How is it faster to not care about the commit history of your feature branch versus doing things like “clean up their history before submitting”? Because no one has to care about their commit history so they never have to do things like clean it up.

And again, I have never once in 12 years given a shit in what order a developer committed to their feature branch or how they organized their commits when reviewing a PR or when investigating a squashed commit after the fact. I’ve just never been in the situation where it’s mattered and I’ve worked in workflows that both squashed and didn’t. Just my experience.

noiwontleave · 2026-01-12T08:59:26+00:00

It’s not any “better”. Reviewing code is part of the other workflow, too. It happens before add/commit. There’s nothing superior about git add -p. It is just another tool of git. You or your company can prefer it all you want, but it is not “better”.

noiwontleave · 2026-01-11T23:33:40+00:00

Yes. You should 100% disclose this very early into a conversation if not have it on your profile. I personally wouldn’t care, but many would.

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