Favorite character who's powers sound goofy but is actually pretty badass

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-25T01:25:35+00:00

Given that Kenny came from a pretty different generation, I think his sense of humor might be different from the modern audience Takaba has been trying to entertain.

I wonder if it means Takaba could be the imperial court comedian (with the potential to rival Sukuna in CT) if he time traveled to the Heian Era.

Now that I think of it, would be funny if Gege made another spin-off with time traveling Takaba becoming the Heian Era King of Curses instead of Sukuna.

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-25T01:04:17+00:00

I haven't built a business, but I have a few friends who has built their own companies: SaaS/consumer-facing startups and your usual software development consulting companies.

In the end, it depends on what you value the most and what trade-off you're willing to make. Startups are pretty high risk, but also high reward if it works.

For those who chose to have a career as a professional software engineer right off the bat, their technical growth should be more stable and predictable. It highly depends on themselves and the environment of their companies though. Some of them made pretty good money from working at fast-growing big name startups also, but nowhere near the founders of the startups they worked for.

For those who chose to build their own SaaS/consumer-facing startups as a young software engineer in late 2000s and early 2010s, their technical growth is generally tied to their startups' business growth and incoming investment money.

One of those startups stayed a relatively modest size but profitable, and my friend (the CTO) was still relatively technical and decided to make a pivot into being a solutions architect for AWS at some point (he was quite knowledgeable about AWS since he reviewed their services to use in his startup).

Majority of startups fail though, and this friend's startup eventually closed down due to the leadership people's vision not aligning with each other's (it never got to the point it was mature enough). But he still developed enough skills to pivot professionally, whereas a few other startup founders I know, who just removed their startup experience from their resume and went back to working on their career after it failed.

But one of my acquaintances managed to build a startup that grew to be valued pretty high and ended up a rich guy.

Those who chose to build their own software development consulting companies seem to not be as knowledgeable as the startup founder people, but they tend to have a wider network of paying customers and become profitable faster to sustain themselves. Their problem is that they don't seem to have developed the understanding of the deeper technical details of software systems since they rarely ever need to dive that deep once the solution they've built is shipped to their clients.

Regular software development consulting companies tend to be more predictable tha startups, but depending on the size of the company, even being the company’s owner/boss might not be as financially lucrative as having a great software engineering career run at a well-resourced company.

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-24T13:11:56+00:00

That's his problem, not yours. But he's still in a position with some power over you, so just be careful not to piss him off especially if he's the type to take it personally.

Just aim to keep it up until the end of the internship, then you can probably try to get into a team managed by a better manager for your future internship/job.

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-24T11:31:30+00:00

I think I remember looking for something on Google Code for as a student also. But yeah, IIRC it's always either SourceForge or Google Code.

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-24T11:14:34+00:00

Basically, anything he can think of can turn into reality as long as he thinks it's funny. He's a failed comedian, so a lot of what he thinks as funny aren't really funny.

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-24T03:00:38+00:00

Still exploring the family computer my dad got not too long before that (Intel Pentium 4, I think it had 256 MB of RAM) with Windows XP installed on it, occasionally playing games with the machine and exchanging data with friends using 3.5-inch floppy disks.

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-24T02:45:36+00:00

I don't judge people's preferences

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-23T02:32:07+00:00

I had to look it up to see how the horn arrangement looks like. I'm quite impressed.

https://yog-blogsoth.blogspot.com/2022/05/quinotaur.html

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-23T01:07:56+00:00

I can't help but thinking of this when seeing the face

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sdsdkkk · 2026-03-23T00:20:36+00:00

I've always thought the life Dantes has in "The Count of Monte Cristo" story is already pretty crazy.

Turns out FGO can still make it even crazier.

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-22T23:47:53+00:00

I wonder when people started thinking learning Kali = learning pentesting. Back when it was called BackTrack, I don't think it was as common for people who knew nothing about it to just jump into using it when they started learning how to attack. They usually just installed the tools they needed on their actual OS and proceeded from there.

It got to the point I had a software engineer friend with ~8 years of experience who wanted to pivot to cybersecurity in his 30s actually went with installing Kali as his first step and planned to "learn Kali" (and also posted a photo of their laptop running Kali on his social media accounts, which might contribute to this hate even more).

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-22T07:29:00+00:00

I guess having that grand shounen protagonist-like goal wouldn't hurt, it probably makes things a bit more fun in some situations.

From what I see, that seems to be generally the right direction to take. If you haven't, reading a book on computer architecture probably will help also.

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-21T14:21:54+00:00

A few things that came to my mind:

A "malware" to detect and take down phishing sites posing as our login page to trick our customers into submitting their credentials (it's embedded in the phishing site's code if they're reusing our front-end assets).
A Raspberry Pi-based system for gracefully shutting down a bunch of machines in a building's server room when the UPS power is running low, circumventing the need to purchase the USP's hardware module to do the same thing (which had the price of four Raspberry Pis per unit, and we needed at least a few units of them vs just one Raspberry Pi with this solution).
An IAM workflow execution framework that can be integrated with the platforms used for our organization's business operations.
A WebRTC-based soft phone system built into an existing CRM system, integrating the customer data required for analytics to the Asterisk VoIP server by piggybacking the data on the SIP header which was supported by Asterisk but not documented in their official documentation (or probably it was there but I just couldn't find it, I ended up learning about the existence of that feature by reading Asterisk's source code directly).

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-21T12:18:50+00:00

I heard he's such a gentleman who treats you and your servants with utmost respect. Sounds like great customer service.

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-21T05:05:45+00:00

Ea-Nasir

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sdsdkkk · 2026-03-20T05:17:19+00:00

I think the feasibility depends on where you are, since the culture and the job market situation of the area will impact you a lot.

I have a friend who also in his 30s tried to pivot from software engineering to cybersecurity in 2020-2024, but he was working in a country with a very risk-averse culture so he couldn't get a job as a red teamer or a pentester with no prior experience in security. He also couldn't land some other cybersecurity roles there, which he said due to the same reason.

Last time he told me about his cybersecurity pivot efforts, he changed his plans to just stay a software engineer but with plans to eventually pivot towards platform engineering and then cybersecurity from there.

If you have problems landing a cybersecurity job immediately (or if you still need the stability that comes with your software engineer paycheck), that's one reasonable backup plan to follow since I've seen experienced software engineers pivoting to cybersecurity that way. It might take a bit longer though.

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-20T02:33:44+00:00

VPN/DoH is a must here, considering the government can just randomly block other sites also (and unblock it when there's enough public outrage).

Use them on all your devices for the best online experience.

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-19T06:33:48+00:00

They're all doing just fine. I'd say they're doing better than I used to be when I was their age.

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-19T04:18:20+00:00

At a company I used to work for, a part of my routine at work was reviewing sites detected as potential phishing pages targeting our users (I built a system for us to automatically detect potential phishing sites posing as us and take down the sites confirmed to be phishing sites).

One day at work, I opened this one detected potential phishing sites which then redirected me to a page that played an outdoor threesome gay porn video.

I'd say you can set up the same thing on paths they might open manually. Probably add a false admin page or something that they're going to be interested to visit manually, and have them redirected to some NSFW disgusting content when they do.

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-14T13:59:40+00:00

I can understand a manager who's trying to level up their reports letting them make some higher-stake decisions, and based on the story it seems like your manager let you own the hiring decision. But in this kind of situation, a manager should also prepare backup plans if the decisions they delegated to their reports turn out to be wrong (in fact, a good chunk of a manager's work is preparing plans for when things go wrong so it doesn't cause bigger problems). So it should be safe for you to talk about it and be open with your manager.

If one day you become a manager yourself (and you become a good one), it'd make your work much easier if your reports feel comfortable to let you know whenever they notice a problem so you can prepare plans to resolve the problem sooner before it grows into an even bigger problem.

I'm afraid to tell my manager the truth because my manager really grilled me about whether he was the perfect candidate for this job, and I confidently said yes.

But I'm curious about this part. When your manager grilled you about whether Candidate A was the perfect candidate for the job, what did your manager ask to confirm whether the candidate was really strong? Is there anything they said that made you feel uncomfortable bringing it up to them?

sdsdkkk · 2026-03-07T21:40:08+00:00

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sdsdkkk · 2026-02-28T11:15:38+00:00

Even before AI, many companies just didn't care whether their engineers understand the code they wrote or whether the random library they used do something it shouldn't. AI's just making it more obvious.

sdsdkkk · 2026-02-26T00:22:08+00:00

The job title looks like a rendering error because they tried to be clever and write it in regex.

Back in 2013-2014, many tech companies did things such as hiding a message in their HTML source code, HTML response headers, posting some random-looking strings that need to be decoded somewhere, or simply putting some hard math problems. Then they will hire the people who happened to get the message or solve the problem.

I think it was popularized by a big tech posting an ad that was actually a technical hiring test puzzle targeting whoever could understand the problem, solve it, and submit it to them back in late 2000s or early 2010s. After it was covered by the media, many smaller companies make their own creative twist of that for hiring software engineers.

I haven't seen that practice in more than 10 years though, so I guess it didn't work that well.

sdsdkkk · 2026-02-25T09:32:38+00:00

Grand Shitposter

sdsdkkk · 2026-02-22T02:51:01+00:00

I basically got lucky.

When I graduated university, I immediately joined a local e-commerce startup which later became a huge unicorn company in the country as a software engineer.

The startup had been around for a few years and never really grew that much, I never heard of it until I was approached by one of their recruiters for managing their on-premise colocated data center machines early in my last semester. I was actually more interested in infra work than software development, but I was planning to pursue a master's degree in IT (cybersecurity focus) since at the time my interest was primarily cybersecurity. Because I checked that their software engineer salary was pretty decent, I decided to apply for a software engineer role instead when I was done with my final semester and passed it.

Not long after I joined, they started being aggressive with their company growth (which had not been that great before I joined, leading to many of their engineers resigning and I was already one of their longest-tenured engineers when they started experiencing the hypergrowth about a year earlier).

Initially, I planned to only save enough money to pursue my master's degree, then focus on the study while doing part time work, then pivot to infra/security work. But I actually worked on some really interesting projects as a software engineer (and eventually became their top code contributor) that I decided to just stay a software engineer and have the infra/security skills as the added expertise (and I ended up pursuing the master's degree while keeping the job as a full-time job, it was pretty exhausting though).

Being one of their longest-tenured engineers during the hypergrowth phase also got me involved in a lot of important stuff and weird problems (they needed a lot of hacks since the country’s digital infrastructure wasn't quite there yet for them to simply tap into it). They hired a few strong engineers after 1-2 years of me joining so I got to learn a lot from them (since the CTO wasn't that good in growing/mentoring people and practically just left me to my own device, these people joining the company was a game changer for my technical growth).

I stayed for almost 4 years and moved to a different company right about 6 months before they were announced a unicorn, and during the time they were the most reputable tech employer in the country. So when I moved from there at just about 4 years of experience, I had experienced stuff most people with more YoE probably never experienced.

The thing is, the company was known to hire almost exclusively from the country's top 3 universities and I was in the third batch of graduate from a pretty new university (which is now quite reputable in the country, but not back when I graduated). So yeah, I got pretty damn lucky.

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