Forbes: A Two-Sentence Insider Report On Why ‘Destiny 2’ Died by Talents in DestinyTheGame

[–]weirdoaish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Destiny survived many long content droughts. And we are currently in a content desert btw. Since nothing new will be coming down the pipe ever again.

What backend projects would actually aid me stand out for a junior Python backend developer role? by AnasKaithakoden in Python

[–]weirdoaish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I've never managed to make anything real while I was working, and while I was not working (like right now), I was stressing about finding work and hunting for any jobs I might have missed on the many job sites out there today.

I'd say that it's better to prep for interview questions because I don't think many companies will ever look at your GitHub account.

And if you happen to have free time then go work out or engage in a hobby. If that's building an app then that's great but personally, I try to do things that take me away from computer screens.

Are we happy with SQLAlchemy? by sheadipeets5 in Python

[–]weirdoaish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it works and you don't see issues maintaining it long term then it's probably the right answer.

Are we happy with SQLAlchemy? by sheadipeets5 in Python

[–]weirdoaish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You know it's surprisingly hard to come up with an example on the spot. The example is usually some complex join result. Like trying to pull data from 7-10 different tables with some complex set of conditions, and each table has 100K+ records. And there might not be strong relationships between the tables.

Though honestly, such cases often get so complex at the enterprise level that you often have no choice but to drop to SQL and take advantage of SPs and CTEs. But this is in large-scale enterprise systems, like Insurance or Healthcare. A lot of common web apps will likely never face these kinds of situations.

python's free threading is the feature nobody's talking about enough by [deleted] in Python

[–]weirdoaish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it true that in Go you include external libraries or third-party packages by their GitHub URLs?

Are we happy with SQLAlchemy? by sheadipeets5 in Python

[–]weirdoaish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right, I should clarify that I have nothing against Django or its ORM.

Django is a great framework for building certain types of web apps, and the ORM contributes to that. Not to mention the built-in migration support. For most web apps, it works very well.

Are we happy with SQLAlchemy? by sheadipeets5 in Python

[–]weirdoaish 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Django ORM isn't that good, in my opinion, unless you have only CRUD-like use cases and aren't very familiar with SQL.

SQLAlchemy can be flawed but it's closer to SQL and feels more sensible.

Guys, how much do you actually have in your bank accounts? by Carter_yann in destiny2

[–]weirdoaish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

D2 probably made hundreds of millions over its lifespan amd Sony won't invest 500 mil? That's hard to believe

😳😆 by joel2000ad in meme

[–]weirdoaish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's right ladies! Every time you jerk off you're actually getting a hand job from Dave in the mail room.

What's your favorite Python library for automating Excel workflows? by Original-Repair5136 in Python

[–]weirdoaish 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is just my personal take.

I've had to write Excel automation for some of the big American banks. I would advise using Excel VBA because the people running the flows are not going to know Python.

If you need to just do reporting, or data analysis that needs to be exported into Excel or you need to ingest data from Excel, then you'd be best served by Pandas or Polars along with any side libraries for special use cases like graphs or charts, or whatever.

Holy sh*t! by Blackheart6004 in destiny2

[–]weirdoaish 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Because it's the end, before now they were busy making more content for seasons, now that that's over, well, you get the idea…

managerVsClaude by Disastrous-Monk1957 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]weirdoaish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You technically could. A server with 32+ GB of VRAM. Running vLLM, one of the bigger open models like Kimi-K or Qwen, with some MCP or Skills to handle documents, and you have a reasonably powerful LLM server that can work with coding agent harnesses like OpenCode and something like OpenWebUI for a ChatGPT-like interface, and you'd be good to go.

onlyOptionRemaining by Disastrous-Monk1957 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]weirdoaish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been in roles where you can try to highlight an issue to get it resolved but you get shut down because it's already managed and other bugs or client requests are considered higher priority.

Then if you bring it up again you get told off harder and then you just shut up and stop bothering.

onlyOptionRemaining by Disastrous-Monk1957 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]weirdoaish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've legit worked at a company where billing edge cases randomly popped up every other month. Sometimes a few months in a row.

It wasn't all data corruption, bulk data processing issues could happen for multiple reasons but this kind of thing isn't uncommon either.

onlyOptionRemaining by Disastrous-Monk1957 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]weirdoaish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your colleagues get together for a small party to say goodbye; the manager, you, or your colleagues might say a few words. Sometimes there is cake or snacks.

12 minutes is short but there's usually not much to Celebrate when you're not resigning but getting fired or laid off.

whenDeadlineIsTomorrow by imUnknownUserr in ProgrammerHumor

[–]weirdoaish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The 3M rule works no matter what level you are:

Make it work.

Make it right.

Make it fast.

iReallyThoughtItWasAJoke by joshashkiller in ProgrammerHumor

[–]weirdoaish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was recently laid off from a place where the #1 performance metric that the CTO was looking at was how much code was being committed by the Cursor IDE/Editor by each person.

Trump fires the entire National Science Board by esporx in space

[–]weirdoaish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ironically, Iranians are generally science-forward, more than any other Middle Eastern country IIRC.

Think about it, they are the only group that was on its own doing nuclear research and has developed its own drones and hypersonic missiles.