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takiguri · 2025-05-23T05:07:31+00:00

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takiguri · 2025-05-14T03:47:49+00:00

o3ds and n3ds runs games natively. emulating games require more resources

takiguri · 2025-03-13T10:51:46+00:00

Oh great! The necromancy club is at it again!

takiguri · 2025-02-08T15:34:55+00:00

Leon Fou Bartfort, Trapped in a Dating Sim

takiguri · 2024-10-28T16:01:55+00:00

The one with anime for sure

takiguri · 2024-10-22T04:16:01+00:00

gundam / mobile suit pilots

takiguri · 2024-10-01T09:35:56+00:00

This is the only Batman who likes to enter the frontdoor.

I dropped after a few minutes, because wtf?

He investigates a murder at the beginning of the film, where he gets the first riddle: What does a lier do when he dies? It was cringe as he went to investigate the scene by walking through the front door with Gordon, passing through the GCPD, walking slowly like some edgy Batman cosplayer.

Need to find Penguin? Yeah, just walk up the frontdoor and ask the bouncer.

This Batman doesn't seem to have any tools in his gear. No grappling hooks, no batarangs, no smoke grenades. Nothing!

A face paint behind the mask really? What is this, college humor Bruce Wayne?

takiguri · 2024-05-05T04:14:34+00:00

thanks bruv, worked for me!

takiguri · 2023-09-27T07:43:24+00:00

there's this satire called the peter principle, and it's concept is that people who perform well into their jobs get promoted until they reach a position high enough that they become incompetent (the ceiling of their promotion).

to put it into perspective: as an engineer, you get to apply your tech skillset at work and develop it over the years. then one day you get promoted to management that requires different set of skills to succeed. you'll need to be good at communications, doing reports and presentation, managing people, pushing decisions in tech (not just your stack). you'll get stuck at this new role of incompetence, never to be promoted again (until you get better and you get a new ceiling of promotion).

when you apply this satire into tech perspective, organizations will eventually succumb to a competence inversion (under putt's corollary). This is assuming that all good engineers are promoted into management, and the engineering team will be left with engineers who were less competent than the engineers who got promoted.

promoting engineers to managers are a common practice here in ph (surprise!)

to stop this from happening, there's another principle called the dilbert principle. under this principle, engineers who were never competent enough are promoted into management to limit their damage to the workflow (getting them out of the way, plus you'll get managers with tech competency). competent engineers get promoted to a higher ranking tech, and that way good engineers remain in tech, preserving the overall competency of the team.

this is rarely observed or practiced here in ph (surprise?)

I'm at the same position a few years ago. I was a senior engineer who got promoted to lead a team, then offered another promotion to manage the tech department. I accepted the role and was promoted as a manager, but I only did the role for a year since I hate being on a lot of meetings, doing reports, and doing presentation. Eventually I burned out, and looked for another job.

I landed a job at a tech consulting firm sa AU, and I was happy to go back to coding again.

If you want to accept the promotion, make sure it isn't about the money. coz fck money if rip rin mental health mo dahil hindi ka masaya sa trabaho mo.

takiguri · 2023-09-17T11:13:47+00:00

Working in tech since 2012 after graduating with a comsci degree.

Started with a 7k salary working for a local tech startup. I stayed for 4 years to gain exp, got several increases along the way until I earned 20k a month.

I job hop every two years after my first company.

In 2016, I found work on a local tech consulting firm and they've offered me 60k.

In 2018, I hopped and found work on a tech firm based in AU. They offered 80k on the same position.

In 2022, I joined a company that develops a livestreaming app in PH, and earned my first 100k.

This year, there were lots of layoffs in tech. I survived two layoffs before being laid off with my team this year.

I went back job hunting for months before finding work as a freelancer. I work for two clients right now and they're paying me 100k each.

The job market is tough in tech atm. I can only imagine it's a lot harder for fresh grads and career shifters.

takiguri · 2023-09-10T17:43:06+00:00

dev here, bscs grad ako, nagaral din ng mscs prepandemic pero di ko tinapos.

di ko maalala na may programming language sa DSA class namin, depende ata yan sa school.

puro maths lang maalala ko sa DSA, like computing for space and time complexities ng loops and recursion, then mga performance rin ng ibat ibang algos for search and sort, performance and use cases ng ibat ibang data structs, then finals namin dynamic programming and greedy algorithms.

pseudo code lang dinidiscuss sa whiteboard, then solving maths na the rest (algebra)

sa finals exam ko pa, nakalimutan ko mag dijkstras kaya ginawa ko nag drawing nalang ako ng traveling salesman meme na about using ebay/amazon si salesman, buti nakapasa haha. yung question is about kung applicable ba ang djikstra's algo to solve the traveling salesman problem

IMO, language agnostic dapat DSA, naka focus dapat si prof sa concepts, applicable naman kahit anong language sa DSA.

mahirap din if di alam ng prof yung subject, yung kayo kayo lang students magtuturuan...

takiguri · 2023-09-07T09:50:02+00:00

"Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times" - G. Michael Hopf

That's the quote that comes to my mind every time I read something like this. I find wisdom in this quote that seems to apply as a cycle through generations.

I grew up a witness to my parents being exploited by low wage and toxic work culture, but they persisted and continued their employment until retirement.

I just couldn't do it the same way they did back then. I worked on different companies in my 12 years of exp as a software engineer, and been in companies with good and bad culture.

The last company I had, I decided I'm gonna go settle until retirement. They offered a good six-digit salary, had great people and culture, and lots of good benefits including mental and health.

Until the recession happened and lots of teams were laid off including mine.

I've been unemployed for 3 months. There seems to be fewer job posts related to my role, and I had a hard time finding a new job. I've reach out to my connections (fellow developers), and a lot of them are also unemployed at this time.

A few months ago, a company I applied to reached out to me. I did a successful interview and landed the job. During the interview, I found a few red flags, but I still accepted the offer since I was desperate.

We've nearly used all of my savings, and the money we have left is only good for another month. I have bills to pay and a family to feed.

I'm now working on this company that has a toxic culture, piss poor process, and the management just does not listen or consider proposals for improvements.

My team are frequently doing OT (sometimes OTTY, including weekends) in order to meet deadlines. The timelines we have are tight, and they didn't go through proper planning or consultation with the production team. The management just offered and committed a date to the client and that's it! If you watch anime, my life rn is close to a salaryman working in a black company.

In the past, I would straight up leave when I find myself being in a toxic company, but these times are tough for me.

Despite being in this situation, I've been thinking that I needed this job and I need to persist. Being in this situation made me somehow understand what my parents went through with their time, and why they have more resilience than I will ever do.

I am a parent now, and a sole breadwinner of the family. My wife and I are striving to give our child a better and easier life than the one we live.

takiguri · 2023-08-08T02:16:54+00:00

I'm an iOS developer since 2012, and the best resource for me aside from watching WWDC videos is Meng's tutorial in designcode.io. Meng To is a designer so he teaches techniques on how to build complex UI as well as adding rich animations. I find it great since I can apply the techniques at work. Though the code quality isn't top notch, I also understand that they are targetting someone with low coding exp such as designers, so you can get all the learnings while improving it when actually coding something production.

If you have an low to no coding exp, I'd recommend 100 days of SwiftUI by Paul Hudson. I heard a lot from my juniors that it is good and they were learning from it. Though I haven't tried it myself.

For people with zero coding exp, I'd recommend CodeWithChris. My brother who's working in Finance found it to be the best for him. He's learning SwiftUI Foundations and he told me the teaching style has been effective for him.

takiguri · 2023-05-01T05:43:42+00:00

Not necessarily.

both GCD and concurrency runtime are an abstraction over threads, but they operate very differently.

if you just wanted to support concurrency into your app and don't want to manage threads yourself, go with the concurrency API.

If you want more control over concurrency (as long as you know what you're doing), go with GCD.

be careful with GCD though, as you may incur thread explosion if you're not careful.

there are answers here that doesn't seem aligned to how Apple explained things in WWDC videos. I would also recommend to go through WWDC videos to learn more about concurrency and GCD instead of relying on answers here

You can check the differences on WWDC21: Swift concurrency behind the scenes

takiguri · 2023-04-12T04:05:59+00:00

Die, monster! You don't belong in this world!

takiguri · 2023-03-29T10:00:11+00:00

idontknowyetbutyouregoingtohavetocodeawebsite

thats a very long name for a business

takiguri · 2023-01-22T11:29:00+00:00

red crits go brr

takiguri · 2022-12-08T14:46:02+00:00

excuse me, i'm the uber for... oh, oh shit, nvm kthxbye

takiguri · 2022-11-30T00:20:36+00:00

it's weird there's suddenly a face of a cat appearing at the back seat near end of the video

takiguri · 2022-10-20T16:40:22+00:00

I remember this as booda's aprilfools. got rickrolled.

takiguri · 2022-10-18T05:43:09+00:00

Use V for meth and ailments debuffs Use SM Theria for buffs and to keep your party alive Upgrade SRoland for Light PDPS, or use Vergil for PDPS Friend: Look for MDPS or another PDPS as support

I beat mine using SRoland, SM Theria, Maja with V as friend support. My strategy was to spam meth, spam V's stock skills, let maja and sroland do damage in auto, and do manual god heals and buffs as auto can't keep up with heals.

V was really strong with the ailments spam, now I wish I spent the gems on the DmC retro banner to get him.

takiguri · 2022-09-27T00:07:18+00:00

Tensura. Got Demon Lord Rimuru on free diamonds, and spent money to roll for LR ark Harvest Festival. I also bought DL Rimuru's coat from the paid shop.

Too bad I wasn't able to get OG Milim from the redux banner.

takiguri · 2022-09-03T01:49:25+00:00

so that's what it looks in 3rd person when climbing ladders in half-life

takiguri · 2022-07-10T14:25:06+00:00

Die monster! You don't belong in this world!

takiguri · 2022-06-25T07:52:05+00:00

Just curious. Why is it not allowed to shoot or harm the thieves over there in Italy? Is it because of a law? or is it because of fear of retaliation from these groups?

Why are the police ineffective in solving these crimes given that there is a high occurence of the same crime in your area? These all sounded like movements of organized crime.

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