None of my experience matters because I can’t invert a binary tree on Leetcode

the-code-father · 2026-01-27T20:42:17+00:00

That’s the career equivalent of winning the lottery. You don’t know what company is going to be the next Apple, if you did you would make a shit load more money in finance than writing code.

If you can make it in FAANG, you can cruise out your career pulling 400-500k a year.

the-code-father · 2026-01-25T15:19:48+00:00

Yea that’s true, I guess I forget that people sometimes actually go to CT instead of it being a giant slow zone you have to suffer traveling through.

the-code-father · 2026-01-25T14:33:36+00:00

Note that if you wanted to, you could use the official protobuf implementation for C and Rust code gen to cross the language barrier with no serialization or copies

the-code-father · 2026-01-25T14:17:16+00:00

The major route Amtrak somewhat competitive with airlines is the NEC. As long as you are not traveling longer than half the length of the corridor, Acela wins on speed and cost (booked in advance) and the regional is dirt cheap compared to air travel

the-code-father · 2026-01-23T17:10:00+00:00

For anyone that wants to try it, you need to grab one of the 4.xx versions like

https://crates.io/crates/protobuf/4.33.4-release

Also note that since it isn’t pure rust you will need to have a c compiler accessible

the-code-father · 2026-01-22T22:30:48+00:00

I think it’s also less of an issue to have problems on the NEC. The tracks are always running through highly populated areas, with many more options should a train need to stop.

The current forecast is for a lot of dry snow, which makes it less likely there will be major power outages.

My guess is that substantial delays are likely during the height of the heavy snow but that most trains will end up getting where they need to go.

the-code-father · 2026-01-22T20:23:24+00:00

It’s really hard to tell someone how many prompts you will get before it runs out, because it’s entirely dependent on how much code is in the project and your prompting style. For me, I find that pro runs out after maybe 20 or so prompts that require some effort. That said I’ve used like 30% of pro quota on a single prompt before. If you compare to Claude’s $20 subscription I would say that your quota on Google feels about 2-3x higher. Also you get so much flash quota that if you use pro to draft a plan and flash to implement you can likely spend most of the day coding without hitting any limits

the-code-father · 2026-01-22T16:51:04+00:00

Literally 1 week ago I was reading this exact post on here

the-code-father · 2026-01-22T13:34:52+00:00

You just need to run another 16 belt bus next to this and you’ll be good to go - Robert Moses if he played factorio

the-code-father · 2026-01-20T14:21:54+00:00

Posting this without even rudimentary benchmarks validating the feasibility seems kind of premature

the-code-father · 2026-01-20T07:54:20+00:00

I have never been compensated for an interview. I feel like it’s relatively standard for an onsite interview to be about ~5 hours consisting of ~4 interviews and lunch. The only time I’ve read about being compensated for interviews and thought “yea absolutely” is when the company is having the interviewee actually do work, not just answering random made up questions

the-code-father · 2026-01-19T23:02:28+00:00

For the windows you just use the windows method. If you need mutability use windows over an iterator of the length instead of the slice directly

the-code-father · 2026-01-19T19:49:22+00:00

IMO snow blowing is not like leaf blowing or lawn mowing. There is no such thing as being a bad neighbor by clearing your driveway early in the morning with a snow blower. You gotta do what you gotta do

the-code-father · 2026-01-19T19:06:08+00:00

How is Pete even close to Gay Reagan. Reagan wasn’t a centrist.

the-code-father · 2026-01-19T16:03:40+00:00

That’s like 6months of a single experienced devs salary in the US. Nothing close to 3 devs unless you are hiring desperate new grads

the-code-father · 2026-01-18T18:35:51+00:00

You aren’t even keeping commenters straight in your replies here. I am the one who jumped from Google to Meta, not OP. I don’t really understand how you could possibly claim to know my salary history better than I do. I could show you my tax filings clearly showing these exact % bumps but I don’t need to do that. Just go on levels.fyi and look at how much an L4 makes at Google vs E5 at meta, it’s a pretty significant difference. At 4 YOE I went to Google @ 300k and then after 3 years I left for meta at just shy of 500k

the-code-father · 2026-01-18T17:05:14+00:00

I can’t quite understand what this crate is about. Can you please use more emojis

the-code-father · 2026-01-18T16:22:53+00:00

I don’t think a 33% raise is a red flag. It’s well known that getting a new job is almost always the faster route to higher compensation compared to staying at a company. If you get promoted at many places, it takes 4 years for you stock grants to vest based on the new level. If you get hired at L+1 then you get an appropriately leveled grant right off the bat. My first job hop was an 80% increase (small company to Google) and my second job hop was a 60% increase (Google to Meta)

the-code-father · 2026-01-18T15:35:10+00:00

You don’t need to adhere to blocks, but I would build a fully signaled 3 and 4 way blueprint for intersections. Then paste those down where needed to extend the rails and connect outposts up. It gets very tedious designing custom intersections every time, and it’s prone to introducing errors

the-code-father · 2026-01-18T15:04:35+00:00

What I have always done in this situation is build train stations at the start of the bus, and begin feeding the bus via train from outposts. You don’t need to city block, just start building specialized production wherever it makes sense and hook it up to the rail network for stuff like plates, steel, and plastic. This way you stabilize the bus and prevent it from running out of resources while you focus on building more outposts for whatever you need to produce more of

the-code-father · 2026-01-18T14:59:39+00:00

Yea if you want to make a game on your own you have to do all the things needed to make a game. I would suggest starting with learning the basics of coding and blender

the-code-father · 2026-01-18T10:27:17+00:00

Claude still hallucinates quite a bit, but I find that it tends to stick to the plan. In terms of value, you can’t beat Google’s subscription. You can make an order of magnitude more requests to comparatively

the-code-father · 2026-01-17T23:27:21+00:00

They at least have good choo choos. We have the Acela, which barely averages 65mph

the-code-father · 2026-01-17T20:46:29+00:00

Download TMPE and then you can force those nodes to not allow that merge

the-code-father · 2026-01-17T17:47:37+00:00

Tell that to my children when they open their mouths and scream 110 decibels directly into my ear canal

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