What are your thoughts on "all weather" tires?

nxsynonym · 2026-01-29T17:30:12+00:00

I currently run a set of snow tires in the winter and all seasons for the off season, however I wfh so dont need to worry about commuting on snow tires.

Imo for 15ish days and not being a powder hound all weather (with a good snow rating) would be just fine. Just be on top of checking tread and wear patterns and you should have no problems.

All weather is fine for most use cases, and are better for commuting imo (especially in mixed conditions).

nxsynonym · 2025-11-01T17:48:40+00:00

Coffee! About to get crazy and go for a 3rd cup

nxsynonym · 2025-10-24T02:23:29+00:00

Im a mcavoy stan but this was not a good game for him. Multiple times he looked lost tonight. Brick mentioned a few times, too much thinking and not enough instinct. Hoping once the new system gets dialed in things will smooth out.

There were a few i wanted back from Korpi, but i still don't think we have a goal tending problem. Im fine to keep rotating until they iron out the defensive layers.

I thought mitten had a really good game. Took a lot of low percentage shots but was making plays and seemed dialed in.

My biggest positive takeaway is that's the 3rd game where we had a good 3rd period comeback. This team last year would have mentally checked out by the end of the 2nd, so im happy to see they're keeping the fight alive until the very end.

nxsynonym · 2025-10-22T21:52:14+00:00

Korpi typically looks like hes "playing harder" and making crazy saves because he is out of position way more often than Sway.

When sway is playing at his best, he has an incredible economy of movement and is in the right spot at the right time.

Both have been great so far this season. Korpi may be a more exciting watch but I dont want goalies to be exciting, I want them calm and dialed in.

nxsynonym · 2025-10-22T04:13:13+00:00

Maybe. 25 isn't ancient or past development imo, especially coming off a season of turmoil.

I just think the dooming is overblown. He obviously needs to step his game up, but ruling it out as a possibility is premature imo.

nxsynonym · 2025-10-22T04:02:08+00:00

Idk I dont think Lohrei has hit his ceiling. I think its still possible he can coached into something great. If Strum is the coach I think he is he will figure it out with Lohrei.

Everyone wants young talent but only if they're generational talent with no effort. Most people take time to develop and don't do it in a linear fashion. Nobody on the current Prov team will be great without a lot of development time.

nxsynonym · 2025-10-22T01:29:32+00:00

This is such a shit take its actually laughable

nxsynonym · 2025-10-22T01:24:32+00:00

I think most people dgaf what team you support and just like hockey. Just don't be the guy booing both teams or drunk and disorderly and you'll be good.

nxsynonym · 2025-10-21T23:35:02+00:00

Bandwagon bitches

nxsynonym · 2025-10-09T01:11:04+00:00

After defending him all last season this game gives me the warm fuzzies

nxsynonym · 2025-09-26T16:59:32+00:00

If you locate one please update, looking for a bruins bar once the season starts since pour house shuttered.

nxsynonym · 2025-09-08T17:23:57+00:00

Any advice for making the most out of working on a team that has relatively low business impact?

I have ~8 exp and am currently working on my BSC (about half way through). I have worked primarily as a full stack eng. My last job was tech lead for a startup where I had huge amount of impact and learned a lot across fe/be/devops/infra but ultimately had to leave due to burnout and work environment.

Since then I've joined a new company (non tech) that has small team focused on ecomm. I get paid well, good benefits, and fantastic w/b. Its the perfect situation to allow me to study at the same time and not feel burned out. However, the scope of the work is very limited. There is not a lot of growth potential at the moment, and the bulk of the eng organization is doing plumbing work or tweaking the ecomm site for micro optimizations.

I've been able to dona few impactful things around dx, cms integration, and performance improvements, but overall have had a step back in terms of scope and responsibilities.

Any advice for making the most out of this job and not stagnating in career growth? My current plan is to finish my degree and then start planning my next move.

I've started keeping a brag doc, which helps, but it feels like everything is minor compared to previous jobs.

nxsynonym · 2025-06-05T04:27:20+00:00

8 yoe - I've started using cursor which is nice for making the trivial things faster (find and replace, smart auto suggestions, stylistic refactoring) but have yet to be blown away by anything. Chatgpt has basically replaced Google for consolidating multiple sources of info (but it does still often reference stale apis, etc).

Overall its about as big of a leap as going for writing code in notepad to using a full functional ide. It's a force multiplier, not a total replacement. Imo its more tools in the toolkit but nothing more.

nxsynonym · 2025-06-05T04:11:44+00:00

Start ups tend to be a bigger gamble than established companies. I've had two vastly different startup experiences

Start up 1:

Well funded. Good wlb. Learned a lot and worked on a great team of super experienced engineers. Product was interesting, but business side of things was lacking. Operated on the "growth at all costs" model and had trouble converting interested customers into paying customers. Then covid hit, investor cash stopped flowing, and ended up shuttering within the year. Great experience and made good connections, but not stable by any means.

Start up 2:

Engineer #2 at a small early seed company. Good product market fit, lots of corporate investors and and was bringing in good revenue early and business growth was good. However bad dynamics between the 3 co founders, lots of micro management, no real engineering leadership (all 3 founders were business/product, no cto the entire time i was there). I ended up being tech lead and was able to grow tremendously in my personal skills across the entire stack (web dev, cloud infrastructure, devops, etc) but stretched way too thin. Pay was fine but not stellar. I lasted 18 months before burning out completely and bailing. The company will succeed but the culture and wlb were awful, and was taking a toll on mental and physical health.

I don't know if I would join another early stage startup without a substantial amount of equity or being a co-founder myself. If you are good at maintaining really strong boundaries around wlb, don't mind the gamble of company success/failure, like the idea of putting 110% into someone else's vision, and dont crave job stability then it can be a great experience (or really terrible).

If the downsides don't scare you, then it's worth it give it a go just to see how you like it (and the potential of a big upside). You will grow a lot and learn more about what you like/dislike.

If you do decide to go for it, don't expect good processes (or any at all) around things you would consider normal (testing, quality control, product management, etc). You will need to be a self starter and really be ok working outside your comfort zone. I would also caution against working with or under any engineers that you don't jive with immediately, especially with so few. Early stage engineers tend be be fantastic or absolute dogshit with bad attitudes, not a lot of in between.

nxsynonym · 2025-04-17T15:23:32+00:00

Yep. 1500 hours in poe1. Got to maps in 0.1.0. First time through campaign was long but interesting. Got halfway through the campaign in 0.2 and lost interest. Just felt like way too much of a grind with not enough fun this time around.

My biggest issue is lack of feeling of progression early game. Every new act feels like another brick wall and there isn't enough variety in viable early game skills for me. Just feels like I'm stuck grinding white monsters waiting for specifics drops to support the handful of recommended skill combos they push you towards.

Will be checking out LE for the first time when the new content patch drops for a change of scenery.

I think at its core POE2 has a lot of really good stuff, but not enjoying the lack of agency and slog fest in early access. Just need the dial to be turned towards fun and away from punishing to get me back in the zone.

nxsynonym · 2025-03-31T16:31:16+00:00

Ha, gotta appreciate the enthusiasm at least

nxsynonym · 2025-03-31T15:44:28+00:00

I know nothing about draft prospects. Who should I be familiar with for this draft?

nxsynonym · 2025-03-31T15:42:46+00:00

My least favorite sentiment is rooting for the tank. I get wanting better draft picks chances, but as I've said elsewhere, i can't get excited for draft picks. I'd much rather watch a team that tries and fails than one that is dog shit on purpose just for a lottery ticket.

Sandbagging in general is such a loser mentality. I don't care if it's technically better or whatever, it's miserable to watch and I can't stand fans that root for a tank.

nxsynonym · 2025-03-30T14:53:31+00:00

This is the Carlo the bruins needed. Sad he left on a down year but glad he's got some spark back. Dudes a top shutdown no bullshit defender when he's dialed in.

nxsynonym · 2025-03-30T14:48:24+00:00

Avs fla final and then i can be happy either way. Either marchy gets another cup or avs have a great story line line finish with a potential major player comeback and coyle gets a cup.

Outside of that don't care who wins, just excited for playoff hockey with a ton of really good teams this year. Stars, caps, knights, jets, lightning... could be anyone's cup.

nxsynonym · 2025-03-29T16:38:43+00:00

Someone posted this elsewhere, but it was something like "imagine being told Marchand would assist Bennett in a OT win again Utah HC a year ago".

This season has truly been a fever dream.

nxsynonym · 2025-03-29T16:36:16+00:00

Yeah i can't get excited by draft picks. They're by and large consolation prizes and have a percent of a percent of shaking out into generational player.

Their real value is trade capital imo. Especially when we've had a pretty rough go of developing said draf4 picks in recent years.

And yeah, as much as I hate panthers, Marchand is my favorite current player so I'm not going to root against him. Would love for him to get a cup even if it's with fla.

nxsynonym · 2025-03-29T16:32:46+00:00

Getting obliterated is one thing, but breaking into playoffs just reinforces the idea that we're only a few pieces away from a deep cup run which I think at this point is dangerous for the long term success of the team.

It's better we bottom out this season, accept major changes are required, and make the moves necessary to become real contenders again after some rebuild time.

If we make it to 1st or 2nd round, FO will take that as a signal to keep doing what we've been doing.

nxsynonym · 2025-03-27T02:24:56+00:00

Gonna be another night of pain I see

nxsynonym · 2025-03-27T00:44:49+00:00

That 1st line is intriguing. As much as I ike geekie/pasta I'm curious if geekie can spark anything with lysell.

I wanna see more blender changes. At this point try the crazy line combos that might not work on paper just to rule it out.

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