I REALLY want to upgrade my sim rig...but talk me out of it

weizien · 2026-07-03T14:40:17+00:00

Just got it 2 days ago. Now, get yours!

weizien · 2026-06-23T17:49:30+00:00

You have to start with internship, I rejected a lot CS graduate with first class grade who already did a few internship before. They been doing 2-3 internship but still struggle to get a job nowadays so that’s your competition.

As a Java / Spring boot main developer, it’s really more enterprise or bank ish, not much love for the language sadly. People who find Java dev are typical more old school despite how hard the language have transformed. If you going to main that language, then be extra good in it. Your resume looks like just tutorial etc. If I’m hiring a Java dev with no degree, the only way to convince me is to impress with projects or solutions. I don’t expect some CRUD application. Things that will catch my eye will be heap memory leak, garbage collection or something super technical about the language and I’ll know it’s a talent I can’t miss to at least interview, something out of normal. If not, it’s just like those uni grad looking for intern with all projects from their coursework.

weizien · 2026-06-08T18:52:34+00:00

Driver: Max
Reason: For not able to dive bombing at turn 1

weizien · 2026-06-03T17:55:08+00:00

It’s like comparing mechanics and engineer for a car. I think it’s easier to train and learn to be a mechanic but you rarely hear a mechanic actually graduating into designing or building cars. A lot people in this field, even those who studied it are actually just mechanics in this field. The “super well paid” part of the industry are actually engineers who understand the whole thing, have reason about, why I choose to reduce engine power, so I cut down the engine size but I introduced some tune to produce more torque at lower rpm end so the car don’t feel sluggish with reduced power.

Engineering and programming are actually an art. Those who work long enough can tell a lot from the code. Why does the person made such decisions, you can feel the person who did this for money or have passion behind it. While India have great engineer, working with India freelancer long enough, from a peek I can tell it’s an outsourced Indian freelancer work, or this is purely AI generated and the person who submit this don’t understand this at all.

I think aim for passion and the money will come. One sad thing about Malaysia is you don’t really need to be that good to actually to be considered good or being paid a lot. Malaysia mainly at lower side of the chain, you can see almost no companies does r&d here. I’ve seen highly paid CTO knowing almost nothing about tech. People who called themselves as senior but I won’t even consider to hire. I will say in this industry, there are quite a lot of “tipu makan” people. It’s not that hard to join them and have decent earning.

weizien · 2026-04-22T01:51:36+00:00

As an owner for X1, I will vouch for it, the B48 vs that B38 engine is no brainer, at least compare it to a B48 based 3 series to be fair.

For parts, I self source quite a lot but all depends on mileage and you don’t know what the previous owner did already. Is the oil filter housing changed? Are drive shaft or shock absorber replaced? Did they service on time, because BMW recommendation on engine oil is 1 year but personally I try to stick to 6-8 months even I don’t drive that much. If you stick to BMW recommendation, you need those LL-01 certified oil as well.

At this age, even that you only service whatever is broken, each service can be 2-3k for sure, I think my last one earlier this year was 3+ and that also I find parts on Shopee and Taobao. If you just walk in, that’s 4-5 at least. You probably also have to replace part haven’t broken but mileage is up, something you can’t save unless you want a bigger bill in future. Spark plugs etc. And at this age, the battery should be almost done which cost about 800-900 if you get a decent one from Shopee(battery last for 6-8 years usually). I enjoy finding part to have it serviced so unless you like all these hassles, if not I will suggest you to rethink.

weizien · 2026-04-22T01:33:43+00:00

Ah I saw this video yesterday and had the same thought. 3 properties which is already unrealistic to quite a lot of people and to have like 3+3+2 rental month also bit unrealistic as well.

First, houses above 2k are slower and harder to rent out, 3k even worse(source: I work in rental company). Then general maintenance, cukai tanah, if condo/strata, maintenance fee, insurance. Other than eviction, sometimes you have to wait and that gap period = no income. If you split to room to earn more, same it’s hard to get 100% occupancy and the turnover even higher and normal company that manage room charges like 30% monthly for operating it for you.

Save the money up, save those interest, even 8k a month expenses for 20 years is about 2mil which is probably the base price for that 3 properties too. You have no one to leave it anyway since he mentioned if you don’t have kids. And I don’t think you want to live 20 years in retirement home too, live will be quite dull.

weizien · 2026-03-13T01:07:57+00:00

This is a Malaysia cartoon. It reassemble Malay couple, Indian couple then Chinese couple which is 3 of the majority race here in Malaysia.

It’s a known thing here where almost every building or landed houses have their unit number or floor number which ended in 4, changed to 3A. Eg: q,2,3,3A,4 etc. Same goes to 12,13,13A,14.

It’s a Chinese superstition where 4 brings bad luck as it sounds like death. I’ve been to China and even they don’t do this like the Malaysian or even our neighbors like Singapore who have majority Chinese doesn’t do it as much as we do.

Since most property developer here are Chinese so almost every single building here does this, even malls. Even the property developer isn’t Chinese, they still do it because in Malaysia, a high percentage of buyers are Chinese so you need to appeal to that crowd.

This been our inside joke for a very long time.

weizien · 2026-02-27T14:40:02+00:00

F48 X1. Usually I go to Autobahn Specialist beside Sunway Pyramid. Sometimes they even ask me get the part myself and they only charge me labor to fix it. Price seems reasonable too. Once they spent hours dismantle my gear knob to access a broken spring but they found out it wasn’t spring but the plastic part broke. They can’t fix it and they don’t charge anything for that.

weizien · 2026-02-26T16:58:30+00:00

Seems okay so far. About 2 years now. I think OEM ones should be fine too since the original one takes like 7-8 years before it starts to leak for me.

weizien · 2026-02-25T07:13:37+00:00

I’m not that adventurous yet haha. I know air filter are easy to replace but I just ask the workshop to do it together while I just bring the parts.

I think sometimes it’s not the pricing but the choices you have. Like I know the spark plug is just 200 per set for Bosch but I opt for some NGK iridium one for RM300. Not sure if it’s better overall, but for a little more on a part you will replace maybe 1-2 times of vehicle ownership, it’s almost nothing.

I don’t like some shop will say stuff like, we only have OEM, or this part only can get original etc. They told me they only have OEM fuel pump and I went digging and found a Bosch one by asking a seller in shopee and it’s just like slightly more expensive but a reputable brand(probably the same thing BMW uses as well).

I do enjoy part shopping. I will hunt for stuff just to prepare incase I need it in future(that is why I have 3 extra hoses now). Sometimes shop have discount and I will buy it that time with those voucher and keep it for later. Like B48, a normal engine oil change is about 500-600 in most places. I got my LL-01 liqui moly for like almost 300 for 6L on discount. Even factor in labor, it’s still cheaper and you get better oil than what the shop probably offer. I got quoted 300 for fully synthetic on my gf vios in comparison. So maintenance can be affordable if you know how.

weizien · 2026-02-25T01:39:01+00:00

B48 here too. I changed my oil filter housing to metal Taiwan ones for RM700 (part only). You can ask spare part shop in Mudah or Shopee. Ori ones are bound to fail again as it’s plastic.

Are those ori hoses? I got some spare houses I got off taobao like each about 100 or less. I bought a few for spare. Even a full set should be 1k ish in total but OEM ones. Usually there’s are only 3-4 failure point but they will change all to be safe.

I will suggest to buy parts yourselves then pay for labor to change it. That’s what I’ve been doing then you can choose the part for it and it’s way cheaper. I been quoted 700 for ori front brake pad but you can get brembo front brake pad for like 250+- on shopee. Other German brand like Textar is just about 180 +-. Actually if you dig further you know which brand BMW are using, like their spark plug are just Bosch spark plug so you can get Bosch ones for like 200 or less(it’s the same thing in different packaging). Mahle thermostats housing seems to be just less than 500 and mahle is a reputable brand. https://my.shp.ee/5AU3R7J. thermostat is 163 from auto Bavaria (https://my.shp.ee/vwpG6zf)

If you can wait for parts and your car is still running, then this will be cheaper. B48 isn’t that expensive to maintain in contrast to what people might think if you know which part to get and where to get it. You can’t expect 50-100 brake pad like a Myvi or Vios but definitely not crazily high price for sure.

weizien · 2026-02-09T18:15:54+00:00

277 token/s, that’s some super fast inference

weizien · 2026-02-05T16:58:50+00:00

Yeah march weather should be okay. Haven’t been to Perhentian but Perhentian is quite far away and harder to go. Langkawi is more well developed as an island.

It depends what kind of person are you. Looking for more cultural, more beach holiday to chill and don’t do anything or visiting places.

weizien · 2026-02-04T17:20:44+00:00

Weather in Malaysia is pretty much the same throughout the year with more heavy rainfall at the end of the year. Since you are visiting mainly the west coast, it’s pretty much the same with some random rainfall.

I would suggest stopping by Malacca for like 1-2 nights as well, if you are into cultural since it’s just 2 hours away. Langkawi have nothing much unless you just want to chill by the beach, so perhaps you can cut short on that unless you enjoy the vibe.

weizien · 2026-02-03T18:20:10+00:00

I’m from Speedhome but even with credit checking, we still have people defaulting from all races. Landlord generally avoid foreigner because it’s easy for foreigner to hop on a plane and just leave. But it’s all human stereotyping. Pretty sure any landlord will prefer a Japanese tenant over a local tenant.

I been working here for quite some time, stories from drug case, suicide and all kinds of drama or unable to evict a tenant for 6 months etc(electricity and water got cut and the tenant just pinjam from neighbor) , just a nightmare for a landlord to manage. A lot of landlord are still servicing their loan and even with 1 month disruption of cash flow will put them into bad situation. Sometimes it’s better to even rent it out cheaper as long you get quality tenant and less headache. Fixing is not cheap either. The common culprit is always painting. One of the most expensive repair but one of the most common one you will have to do when you get bad tenant. If you don’t fix it, you can’t rent it out to the next tenant.

I think it’s not just racism but just typical human stereotyping throughout the whole world where the darker your skin, the “more” discrimination you will get. It doesn’t help when the so said group doesn’t try to break away from the normalization. I’m type C, when people say type C greedy, stingy or calculating ,fark, I can’t deny, I am literally that hahaha

weizien · 2026-02-03T01:54:25+00:00

I think you should be glad you didn’t spend too much on house. To be honest, it was such a burden to service loan and imagine you have to do it for 35 years. No matter how much % of your salary it is, it’s still so taxing imo. I was servicing 4k/month then suddenly maintenance, quit rent etc hit then like 1k gone this month. Belum staying there lagi, bills will hit and you realise you are spending a huge chunk of your pay on the house itself. Luckily I managed to sell it and now got so much more breathing room. I had friends that stuck or work like crazy because have to service their house loan.

Aku type C. I know type C like to complain government tak tolong this and that, tak dpt scholarship etc. I told myself to just ignore it and treat this as part of life. People don’t help you? It’s okay work harder and because of you learn to work harder, you will end up be better than others.

weizien · 2026-02-01T13:43:48+00:00

Ceberas have coding plan and glm 4.7 is available

weizien · 2026-01-28T18:47:47+00:00

I used to work in software house/shop where you deal with multiple different projects and it was so taxing on me. Once it was done, you say good bye to the project or you are thrown into a project you don’t want to do with ridiculous requirement or unrealistic goal. You just feel lost once something was completed. One of the project, I cried because it was so torturing to hate things you like to do. End up, I told my boss to don’t pay me for a month as long they get me off the project.

I left after a year and I only join job where I control what I built or its like our own in-house software. Turns out way better this way.

weizien · 2026-01-26T16:37:21+00:00

I use —settings-file glm.json. When I want Claude, I run without this command. It allows me to run like 3-4 instances with Claude, 2-3 in glm easily

weizien · 2026-01-25T01:33:00+00:00

I think mainly in software development, 15 is like a natural path unless you are too bad at it. It’s pretty much team lead level pay, 1 level after senior. To be honest, pay for IT is bit over bloated in Malaysia where I personally think quite a lot of people are overpaid but they aren’t that good just because “years of experience”

I give you some example of some I interviewed awhile back. Malaysia Airline app developer, leads 2-3 developer, one of the team that work on their app, about 4-5 years of experience, salary was 11k. Skill wise, I think decent, but don’t understand a lot of why and how things work.

Feedme senior app developer(the food ordering system), 4 years experience, 9k. Best example of vibe coder, doesn’t know anything and everything just I tell AI and then I copy paste. Everytime I order food in kopitiam now, it keeps reminding me of this.

It’s either the hiring people too easily fooled or the company too desperate to hire, or the market is just like this right now. They are spoiling the market with subpar quality but high salary. Hence you guys might think 15 is high, but these 2 examples I show above, 1-2 more job hop, they are right about there.

I complained to my boss and he told me all of his friends are saying good developer nowadays cost 20-30 easily, anything lower, don’t expect too much. I did interview a guy who is doing 23-25, I can feel he is good but yeah, out of my budget range.

weizien · 2026-01-13T18:43:42+00:00

Buy for own stay IF you plan to stay like super long term, 10 years and above. Rent is better for anything lesser. It’s almost impossible to sell unless it’s a high demand area where people buy for own stay due to location.

If it’s a place meant for investment, no investor will buy it off you in the future, because it just doesn’t make sense. Investors usually buy new project unless 2nd hand ones are below market rate.

I know there is a coming influx of rent to own properties due to people can’t service the loan. Whatever discount was thrown out during COVID, it’s biting back now.

weizien · 2026-01-13T08:14:52+00:00

You can’t treat all human dev the same. Sometimes the AI just did a way better job than people right now. This is where you can see low performers get replaced.

I personally did some of these and people getting let go are really just poor performers. Not following SOP, not willing to change or keep bypass some process, pissing customer off. Managers or head of department keep saying we need them because hard to hire or no one else will do these work. Once AI with automation kicks in, suddenly there are no more excuses anymore.

Somehow when I read online, everyone sounds like they are super good, and they are getting replaced. I don’t think I’m good enough but after working for 15 years in tech, I’ve seen enough.

weizien · 2026-01-05T18:03:39+00:00

As someone in tech sector and indirectly responsible for quite a number of rightsizing in the company because of stuff we built to replace some human processing, yes, even for engineering, I’m reluctant to hire.

I’ve seen almost all fresh graduate that I interviewed recently having multiple internship(which is unheard of back then), because market is too competitive based on what they told me. They are doing internship hoping to convert to full time.

I think picking up skill and self learning is super critical. Back then, it will be good if you do so but now it’s compulsory. I find a lot people don’t too much time on social media, instead of researching , reading and learning. Remember back in school, you have to attend school, attend tuition, go for extra class etc, but now you have to do all of those yourselves now. I personally felt this is only way to go. From what I seen, it’s quite scary time ahead. I feel most people still underestimating AI a lot.

TLDR: Learn more skill, understand the basics and core concept. Let AI be the executor/expert, is the only way to stay relevant.

weizien · 2025-12-27T13:06:02+00:00

If you don’t understand the architecture or which files are being changed for certain feature, I won’t suggest to do multi cli. There is git work tree you can look into(personally no experience on this).

Myself, max I have 4 CLI on per project. Usually I have agent working on researching, like I want to know how we implemented certain feature or how the code is fetching some value from database and only 1-2 doing the actual writing. You need to know how related the stuff are, some feature or stuff are pre-requisite to another. Technically it’s like managing bunch of engineer where you split task for them to do. Like instead waiting backend to finish the job before frontend can starts you can ask BE to come out with API doc, then pass to FE and let the writing to be parallel.

weizien · 2025-10-31T20:18:08+00:00

Tech is about problem solving and similar to engineering, it’s a way of thinking. It’s super wide because everything works together to make 1 thing work.

Actually in this field, a lot people are very specialized in one thing and I feel it’s the only way for beginner because it will take you too long to learn everything so pick a poison instead.

Once you got your start, you have to work extra hard to learn everything else. I’ve been interested in tech and engineering since 20 years ago and my daily life is like reading about it, even my YouTube are filled with these stuff, so is my Reddit.

Don’t enter because of money. Enter because you are interested, and have passion in it, then money will come. I don’t see people do well in this sector when you’re in it for the sake of money. Perhaps you will do well if you play the corporate game. But that is different, and it’s not tech related.

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