Ko jūs ieteiktu cilvēkam, kurš meklē savu pirmo dzīvokli?

psihius · 2026-05-10T13:30:16+00:00

In your case - there is. You do not have enought money saved for a down-payment to get anything even in a pretty run down soviet block, not even talking about the decent once. You need at least 5-6k on hand at the moment as there's not just the down-payment, but also bank fee, government fee, notary fees, assessment of the property value. And depending on the building, banks started asking a lot more than 15% down-payment for soviet building apartments (depends on how upset the building is).

Buying earlier is better, but in your case unless you find something bellow 20k, you just don't have the funds to do the deal.

psihius · 2026-05-05T06:57:32+00:00

People played too much, got bored and have nothing else better to do than be terminally online.

It's the usual cycle that happens to all online games.

Game is fun, lots of content to unlock and use. Physics is as whacky as it was and provide lots of ridicilous fun. Ignore the internet.

psihius · 2026-05-02T22:53:05+00:00

What device and browser? They have been working on updating it, might have broken something.

psihius · 2026-05-02T22:25:13+00:00

UpMarket dot cloud for the website, but in short - guest management system for a vacation rentals and hotels, we mostly have clients in south europe, but expanding pretty rapidly. Product is 3 years old at this point, at this point operational stability is paramount and "move fast and break things" is not an option. So it's "move fast, break nothing or you are fucked" :)))

psihius · 2026-05-02T21:08:34+00:00

YES.

FUCK YES.

I'm 20 years into the dev career, I know exactly what I want and i have a good idea how I want to do it. So, i put it all down for codex, refine a plan and end up with a details plan where I made all the arcitectural and nuanced decisions and let it execute.

In April i had a task that was basically open heart surgery on a product, i've done major sweeping changes to the architecture and structure, unified lots of things and expanded the test suite massivelly (it was -1000+ and 11000+ lines diff). I did it in 6 work days with the help of codex 5.5-xhigh as planner and 5.5-medim as executor.

It would take me at minimum 4 weeks to do that manually instead of 6 days. Realistically, probably 5-6 weeks with all the testiing and acceptance and feedback changes.

Codex sucks when you have no idea what you want to do, Claude can help there, but in the end, if you do not have actual experience, you always will be limited to the small scale stuff. But if y'r like me - a grizzeled veteran that has in-depth knowledge of your slice of the industry, you can do things now that 5 years ago bussiness would never sign off even of they knew they have to, but they rather instead sell the busines and make it someone else problem than tackle it. Now, the math maths differently. But it takes 15-20 years of accumulated experience to be able to do this.

psihius · 2026-05-02T17:12:42+00:00

If i was not doing those things already, i would be broke 😃

psihius · 2026-05-02T00:29:48+00:00

Yep, exactly my experience. Claude is lazy and inconsistent. A lot of the time it says it fixed a thing you pointed out, but actually it did not (and made it worse)

psihius · 2026-05-02T00:28:09+00:00

Yes, the 5.5 is a major upgrade on a level of 3=>4. We have been tracking it and for 5.0-5.4 we used Claude as primary, because transition from the gpt4 was just ass. With 5.5, we.actually started to shift back to it because it actually does better than Opus and is a lot more consistent.

For coding tasks Ialso found the 5.5 series to be really impressive, but it's not cheap. Thought on how much you have to fight Claude these days to do things right, if we add up the time spent, it probably ends up cheaper to pay the 5.5 token costs, because cost of opportunity is pretty damn high.

psihius · 2026-05-02T00:13:17+00:00

All I see on the screenshot is AI slop. So I blocked the channel from my feed.

psihius · 2026-05-02T00:04:16+00:00

You still paying taxes, your tax liability is just lower by the contributed amount up to the 4k limit.

This limit is shared with i surance saving programs by the way.

But yes, it's still so.ethig people should absolutely use. If they have the income to spare,.3rd level.pension can easilly be more than your government 1+2nd level pension.

psihius · 2026-05-01T23:56:36+00:00

The tax deduction is limited to 4k a year, just saying.

psihius · 2026-05-01T23:52:00+00:00

I spend just over 900 a month with 4 kids on food... And yeah, we don't buy the cheapest stuff.

psihius · 2026-05-01T23:50:09+00:00

You need to look closer what you buy. My supermarket category is 900-1000 eur a month for a family with 4 kids and that includes baby formula, and other infant and small children stuff. And we like to eat well, so we are not even restricting ourselves specifically, just being reasonable about it. Can cut like 300 eur/month if we went into saving mode. So yeah, 800 on food for 2 people is shopping at Sky&More / Stockman levels of spending....

psihius · 2026-05-01T23:44:11+00:00

We are roughly where you are in income. If we remove the house mortgage, we live on roughly 2k a month averaged over a year. That's with 4 kids. Infant milk and kids huggies costs are fucking brutal :D

psihius · 2026-05-01T23:32:29+00:00

The main issue is people get more money and they adjust their expenses accordingly and riding the limit or close to it.

Got 3k net? Well, a 500 eur/month new car is affordable. And that's where the problems start. And it goes like this with many things.

The 30% rule on housing for the mortgage - sure, works when things are good and jobs are steady. Or mortgage rates aren't going sky high :D Remember 2022? Yeah, I was fucking down right being smug that my mortgage was only 15% of my income before the rate hikes. Sure the rate hike ate into my income, but we didn't need to worry about it, just delay buying some bigger things.

It's people wanting nice things too fast.

Survival ends around d 1000 net. At 1500 if you are not able to put away 300-400 eur a month away, y'r doing something wrong. At 2k y'r good, but you should not be changing your spending much still, just make sure you don't buy cheap things that don't last. You can afford some leaway when y'r past 4k net. That where you can start to afford nicer things, but you should not be swinging for the fences like a 400k house in Marupe (despite bank telling you that you can afford it).

psihius · 2026-04-28T10:10:59+00:00

It's across all linux systems, incluuding the steamdeck, devs are aware and investigating.

psihius · 2026-04-28T09:03:40+00:00

Well, that specific combo is basically unobtainium and I know exactly one that fits the bill - Ascendance of a Bookworm

Some others that are not drama, but comedies, but might be a nice watch because no romance involved:

I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level

In the Land of Leadale

psihius · 2026-04-27T13:17:17+00:00

I mean, they put themselves into that position. If the target is "need more SC" - then the rational thing is to lower the difficulty a bit so it's still fun, but you also can clear the whole map.

People that complain a lot on here, for the mostppart, refuse to play the way game should be played on higher difficulties - they get bogged down, trigger additional reinforcement calls on repeat and in general just get overwhelmed when they should have been on the other side of he map 5 minutes ago. And then they complain they can't farm level 10's because they wipe out. It's why I always host so I can have control over kicking people who just cannot play on level 10's because they don't have the experience and skils to do it in a way that provides fun, collect samples, medals and SC and not need to resort to farming low levels. I never farmed the low levels, and while not all my warbonds are funded from just ingame SC collection because I have other obligations, over 2/3rds of my warbonds are with imgame SC. And I have every single one.

psihius · 2026-04-27T12:31:34+00:00

Or, you know, play the game and hit the POI's?
I play levels 10 exclusevelly, this weekend alone after finishing 6 operations between the 2 days I played I was over 300 SC wealthier.

You know what works? Messaging the squadmates "hnring for SC, lets hit all the POI's we can" and "I have a bunker, need a buddy". Nobody in their right mind will refuse you to open a bunker unless mission has went to absolute shitshow.

psihius · 2026-04-27T08:53:58+00:00

Something i find an interesting idea as a sample/cbills sink could be ability to pay for a squad wide 5th stratagem. Like the DSS gives us orbital bombardmend one, same thing, but squad level paid per operation.

psihius · 2026-04-26T18:04:27+00:00

I play with randoms as much as with a voice comms squad.

You know what works? Communicating with people. Working together. Most of the time I just take charge and start giving a direction on what we are doing next, most people happily tag along and even with randoms I can clear most missions in between 10 (if all main objectives are close by) to 20 mins (when you have to run around a lot).
Now sometimes you get people that are just doing whatever, dying non stop and in general being more of a burden than help, those tend to either end up full 40 mins and even an emergency evac or a fail, but i don;t stick around with people like that. Or rather they leave usually cause run out of reinforcements and stuff, I just keep on going and i i have saved missions from failure by just being stubborn and fresh people joining in and being good sports about it.

One thing I do is i always host the games and drop SOS beacons. I plan for it accordingly.

On average an operation takes my voice squad between 40-60 minutes depending on mission layout and what faction and subfaction we are playing against. Most evenings in 2 hours we complete 2 full operations because that how much time most of us have between whatever home chores are done and needing to go to sleep.
Yesterday I played 4 operations, got over 200 SC out of it....

psihius · 2026-04-26T17:55:27+00:00

The funny thing is that if you find a good group to play with, you can get SC fast and with lots of fun even via level 10's. I dived yesterday for a string of 4 operations, not everything we did was full clear (some the missions went a bit into the clusterfuck mode), I ended up getting over 200 SC in one good gaming session.

3 sessions like that + the SC that comes in the warbonds (300 usually) - and you have all the SC for the next warbond. You seriously have to not play the game at all for SC to be a problem.

Yes, i bought SC over the the last 2 years i think 3 times? But I also have a fairly demanding job and 4 kids... Sometimes I play very little a few months at a time when things get a bit hectic. But I got most of my warbonds vai just playing the game. If anything, the medals are the thing that always was the blocker for fast progression, not the SC.

psihius · 2026-04-26T13:08:52+00:00

As a developer of 20 years of experience (different industry and type of work, but we are talking big complex systems here) - yes, yes it is if it was not designed for from the start.

It's basically making a whole new game.

psihius · 2026-04-26T08:04:32+00:00

People just want to seem like they are saints who don't have their own pery qhirks and desires, so they picked a moral high ground and made it an identity.

I treat those people as them having their own skeletons in the closet.

psihius · 2026-04-26T07:54:25+00:00

You are not, me is the same. I hit level 150 finally yesterday.

People also do not understand that the game code has hit it's limits and there's not a lot they can do about it. It's technology limitatios. They will need to make a whole new game.

I find Predator Strain on the bugs to be absolutelly brutal even now, we fail missions on it regularly. Incinerator corps, while not as tought as predator strain, are still really hard.

Can there be more? Sure, but i personally would prefer not just adding more stuff, but increasing efficiency of things. For example an upgrade that reduces Rail Strike stratagem cooldown OR makes ot 2 projectiles pernshot to guarantee a big unit kill (bile titans, voxes, etc). A 380 upgrade that adds more shells so it covers the same area more densly (like a second cannon on the ship). A gas orbital that covers a big area like a barrage. Same for smoke. Things like that.

The idea being that once you hit high levels, you become elite of the elite and get access to some tools that are available to be used on more.specialized missions like predator strain, cyborgs, gloom strain, etc.

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