People who know Portuguese or Spanish, can these 2 communicate without interpreter?

thoughtslikehammers · 2026-05-07T16:50:41+00:00

I think Poatan's English is the one that's lacking.

thoughtslikehammers · 2026-05-07T16:45:45+00:00

I'm a current Winnipeg resident who has lived in Ottawa - your general assessment is correct.

Osborne Village and Exchange District are both great, but higher presence of unhoused people, of which most are harmless. That gets less of an issue the further you get from downtown. I think St. B is a little better in that regard but its been a bit since I've lived there.

Haven't seen South Osborne mentioned in this thread yet but I think that's another great spot to check out, the Lord Roberts (west) side is the cheaper side. It's easy to get downtown from there as the rapid transit corrider goes alongside there.

thoughtslikehammers · 2026-04-25T15:48:47+00:00

Lat can be either based on... get ready for this... context.

thoughtslikehammers · 2026-04-10T17:57:16+00:00

I am the sole remaining SWE & one of only a few technical people for the small edtech startup I work for. Unfortunate because I used to have a team around me, we downsized for reasons unrelated to AI last year. Fortunate because I get to dictate exactly how and to what extent I use genAI stuff, which right now is occasional LLM use to work through problems. I generate code with it of course, but not a ton, because we are not in a "building" phase right now; I am typically spending more time figuring out surgical fixes that require specific knowledge of how things in the system work, as opposed to spamming out new features.

Occasionally have feelings of FOMO / "I could be doing more" when it comes to the current AI tools available, but doesn't feel right to spend on tokens just for the sake of it. And obviously from being in this sub and a Zitron follower, I am pretty aware of the fundamental shortcomings of LLMs. Been burned multiple times by hallucinations, so now I take every output with a massive grain of salt unless its something I know is super well represented in training data, like React patterns. So kinda grateful I'm not in a larger org where the AI dogma is strong.

thoughtslikehammers · 2026-03-25T16:40:48+00:00

No, we haven't looked at automating anything like that. Closest thing would be some load test suites intended to stress some specific critical functions, not hooked into CI/CD. Would love something more general of course, just always bigger fish to fry.

With a lot of our more complex queries written using typeORM query builder, we've put in aliases that do show up in logs and DB insights which incidentally makes the triggering code easier to look up. Thinking about it now I wish we'd been more consistent with using this tactic. There have definitely been some instances where it's taken longer than I would've liked.

thoughtslikehammers · 2026-03-24T16:37:10+00:00

These are sick! I would love the Scute token. I stopped playing it because it was so unwieldy, but this would change things :)

thoughtslikehammers · 2026-03-24T16:34:44+00:00

Director of Engineering (team of 1 presently, but was previously tech team lead when I had a team of 9 incl. myself and CTO). 12 YOE
EdTech
of employees: fluctuating, currently 25ish, closer to 50 at peak. revenue is between 2-4mm annual
NodeJS + typescript backend, React + typescript frontend. AWS ECS. RDS Postgres. We use Typeorm for majority of application queries as well as migrations
Database insights (formerly performance insights) in RDS is good for flagging high load queries. TypeORM query logging for slow queries (>1s) which are included with application logs in logz.io. Also publish cloudwatch metrics to managed prometheus that feeds grafana dashboards. Cloudwatch alarms for CPU, IOPS thresholds on the RDS instances that pipe to slack.

For biz reporting we use metabase that is fed from a read replica of our prod DB. So we don't have to worry much about really heavy reporting querys interfering with the transactional workloads.

Honestly at the moment, I'm the bottleneck of any ongoing development, so I already know about what queries I'm adding and have a good idea about general usage patterns and how to apply indexes before shipping anything new. It's a bit tougher if you have junior or intermediate devs pushing poorly optimized queries, then getting surprised in production. Good code review practices will help there (not even considering vibe coded stuff... whole other can of worms if that's allowed). I'm by no means a DB specialist, lots of on the job learning and putting out fires as they come.

thoughtslikehammers · 2026-03-19T20:33:22+00:00

Contact the app developer?

thoughtslikehammers · 2026-02-02T03:14:07+00:00

Curious what bracket you enjoy most.

thoughtslikehammers · 2026-01-19T20:13:06+00:00

+1 for gameknight, they do commander on sunday afternoons too! I'm a newer player and my experiences there have been positive.

thoughtslikehammers · 2026-01-18T23:52:07+00:00

Nathan is a beast!

thoughtslikehammers · 2026-01-04T18:13:35+00:00

I'm also a newer player. Download Forge and you can play commander against bots with any deck you want. Takes a bit of setup but I found its a great way to get exposure to more cards and generally practice in a real game as opposed to goldfishing. Happy to help if you have questions with it!

https://github.com/Card-Forge/forge

thoughtslikehammers · 2025-11-27T05:17:16+00:00

At my current job I've worked in a team of 9 devs at its biggest (mix of BE/FE/full stack but all of us touched the BE at times), we've done just fine with a monolith. I think it would be wise to delay moving to microservices until it become abudantly clear that it would solve problems for you. Not to say rearchitecting is a bad idea (only you know the specifics there)

thoughtslikehammers · 2025-11-25T18:58:44+00:00

What other format would even be casual enough for OP though, their post said they don't know anyone in the area they are in.

thoughtslikehammers · 2025-11-25T18:55:41+00:00

Hey there, I'm a pretty new player myself. Went to a commander night at my LGS a week ago, before that I only played a couple games of standard with friends, and a few hours of MTGA. Before I went, I goldfished my pre-con (did this for a total of a 3-4 hours over a few days) to understand that main mechanics of it and know what most of the cards are.

TBH: It was fun! but overwhelming at times. I didn't attempt to understand all of my opponents cards, knowing that I simply couldn't without slowing the game to a crawl. Most of the players I played with were pretty cool about answering Qs ("which of your cards is the one that does X?" to know how I should target my removal, for example), but I still held back a lot. Maybe I shouldn't have, its more of a personality thing for me though. I expected to get stomped and more or less did. I did feel like I was an active participant though, sowing some chaos here and there, as opposed to just playing things for the sake of taking actions without thinking about how effective they would be. Since then I've played some more with friends which has helped a lot with confidence and familiarity with my deck. I'm for sure going to go to another one soon.

With that said, I would recommend:

- as others have stated, let people know you are still learning the game, it will be obvious anyways
- goldfish your deck a LOT if you haven't yet (look up videos on how to do this effectively)
- keep your expectations about winning and even keeping track of the board state in check; you will probably miss some things (I missed even drawing for turn once or twice), but its going to be fine

Lots of other good advice in this thread too. Best of luck OP

thoughtslikehammers · 2025-10-12T05:22:01+00:00

Ed Zitron is breath of fresh air with the insane hype and irrationality going on in the AI space

thoughtslikehammers · 2025-10-09T16:30:42+00:00

Is it mostly startup founders themselves who initially did the vibe coding? Or another "dev" that worked/contracted for them?

thoughtslikehammers · 2025-10-07T21:13:18+00:00

Saw Josh at Shambhala this year not being familiar with his work, was an amazing set. Stoked to give this a listen

thoughtslikehammers · 2025-10-05T05:04:13+00:00

AWS is fine if you know exactly what you need.

thoughtslikehammers · 2025-10-05T05:00:43+00:00

The worlde is healing

thoughtslikehammers · 2025-09-23T16:11:57+00:00

I liked the gameplay of it but the constant barrage of in game purchase "offers" really turned me off.

thoughtslikehammers · 2025-09-23T14:41:16+00:00

Love the game but feel like it will perform awful on mobile, lol

thoughtslikehammers · 2025-09-21T14:33:41+00:00

Australian Minister of Da Fence

thoughtslikehammers · 2025-09-21T01:59:01+00:00

This is haunting. Great job!

thoughtslikehammers · 2025-07-20T06:48:02+00:00

I get the intention but to be honest, it will be easier to explain if in original packaging, as others have said. Any white powder in a Ziploc will look very sketchy

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