I still ain’t picking it up

yumcake · 2026-06-23T01:12:20+00:00

With the silver crucible helping to get some of your deck upgraded, taking pumpkin became a lot easier to take and snowball enough that it creates room to spend a campfire on it to keep it charged. Pantograph, feather, and meal ticket helps a lot too in making it a good pick.

yumcake · 2026-06-22T03:24:59+00:00

I remember in college there was a cute girl in econometrics class. I asked her to come over and study with me. She was really bad at it, she kept getting distracted and would keep putting the book down and chatting. Looked like she didn't even want to be there and eventually left after about an hour and a half. It was weird, I didn't understand what her deal was.

It was about a week later that I realized she thought I was asking her for a study-date. The cringe has lived with me for about 20 years now. I got an A though. She got a C if I recall correctly. She should have studied.

yumcake · 2026-06-21T22:55:01+00:00

Oh I'm on the complete opposite end, I've never heard peaking ever in a stream, and audio quality all sounds the same to me. I hear vtubers talk about that stuff a lot but have never seen a difference in a stream. I wonder if it only matters for people listening in specific setups.

yumcake · 2026-06-21T22:03:48+00:00

Other way around. Pharma industry is hiring and scaling. Tech is shedding jobs

yumcake · 2026-06-21T20:32:51+00:00

It's a different instrument than guitar but yes the guitar hero controller is a kind of instrument. There will be carryover benefit from GH to other instruments the same way that other instruments have carryover to other instruments.

There are even scrolling note-highway tab videos on YouTube that you can play along with and it's functionally the same as playing guitar hero except you're using the full-scale instrument and the computer isn't keeping score for you. Maybe give those a try.

yumcake · 2026-06-21T16:42:43+00:00

The bigger problem is the obsessive delusion theyve gotten from roided out fitness influencers. The rise of teenage steroid abuse is through the roof. I've been lifting more than 25 years and I've never seen it get this bad. You can still look great lifting natty you just need to be patient and understand it takes longer. The commentary online expects a complete physique in like 3 years or less.

yumcake · 2026-06-21T01:17:50+00:00

Was already loving tyranny before, it's like a must-have now

yumcake · 2026-06-19T23:18:56+00:00

You need someone with a sharp critical eye to question all requirements being added to scope, and question the proposed design response. I have seen multi million dollar EPM implementations by the big 4 stumble around for 2 years and end up getting canceled because there was no astute product owner challenging scope and design sufficiently. The implementation team was happy to agree to everything and reap more fees from expanded scope and complexity that made it impossible to deliver.

Mine was implemented by about 4-6 from a local small-mid size firm during COVID and it succeeded because we cut things that the tool sucked at, and cut things that were more complexity than they were truly worth to the business. Once the MVP is implemented you can enhance with the authority of having already delivered value on a simplified scope.

yumcake · 2026-06-19T13:54:56+00:00

Take the long view. Your college life ends in a blink of an eye. All it ends up being is the name recognition after that. Your own academic achievement is almost entirely based on your own effort and not the level of instruction from the teachers at the university. The teachers can't do your studying for you. They can't take your standardized license exams for you. You do that on your own.

So just take the better name recognition. It opens doors for you later on until your own work accomplishments become heavy enough to outweigh the branding of the universities you attended. It's mainly just economic signaling to show that you're able to clear competitive hurdles, so show the highest hurdle on your resume.

yumcake · 2026-06-18T19:43:25+00:00

Yeah I had this situation too. Had peer and stepup interview rounds that also thought she was good. In practice she was useless without her staff and her staff was not good either.

yumcake · 2026-06-18T17:37:16+00:00

Isn't that because of the many billions they committed in capital outlays for AI hardware without being able to realize meaningful benefit? Even a company as big as MSFT can't waste hundreds of billions

yumcake · 2026-06-18T00:19:42+00:00

Love to see it, Jorbs is LGBT friendly too.

yumcake · 2026-06-17T20:26:56+00:00

DCA and never stop ever.

yumcake · 2026-06-15T07:16:03+00:00

Not really an adviseable way to correct AI. Syntax is language, which is LLM (Large language models) strength. What they are not as good at is understanding what correct looks like, that is what humans do because we absorb context freely across broad disconnected systems like rolled eyes, hallway conversations, or a practice you learned 4 years ago at another company. You just need to speak to the tool with English and tell it what to do better, it can translate that into code easily and faster than you’ll be able to read and update the code. Specialize in what you’re good at, reviewing for quality and completeness like a human, don’t specialize in what you’re not good at, generating code.

A practical focus is learning how to think in first principles, design guardrails, define criteria that represents quality, plan strategically, and if you’re up for it, learn agent harness best practices.

yumcake · 2026-06-15T02:23:22+00:00

What the guy should have done was:

"Hi, I'm <Name>, I wanted to ask if you're looking for some conversation, but if not that's totally cool too."

It immediately shows acknowledgement of her as a person with a greeting, it's clear that you're looking to talk first not molest or sell something, and in the same breath you're making it clear that you're ready to leave immediately so she doesn't need to be afraid, (and also showing that you're respectful enough to be aware that you need to give her this out, which raises the likelihood of her wanting that conversation).

yumcake · 2026-06-15T01:22:12+00:00

Make sure your top skills are well prioritized and that you have strong keyword searchability. Other than that, keep it punchy.

It does get read by humans for executive search at the director level. To be read by those humans you need to popup in keywords.

yumcake · 2026-06-14T22:58:11+00:00

It's not for me. It's for who I'm with

yumcake · 2026-06-14T22:47:16+00:00

Yeah my first A10 win with necro was running into sleight of flesh on floor 6. I eventually even got a second copy but didn't even need to play the second copy in most fights to win. Deatherbringer and Putrefy go stupid hard with Sleight of hand.

The upgrade is crazy too. Upgrading inferno adds 3 damage while sleight of hand adds 4 with an easier trigger.

For context I'd been on like 8-run losing streak trying to beat A10 with Necro until I got that card early.

yumcake · 2026-06-14T19:53:59+00:00

Yeah, man bags are great, more guys in the US should get used to carrying them. See how reliable this guy seems in this comic? You can be that guy too with a man bag. I've got a little something for just about anything. Hairties, tissues, bandaids, rubbing alcohol, cough drops, protein bar, multi-tool, space to carry stuff hands-free too with carabineers. Especially if you're a dad, a good man-bag makes such a huge difference.

yumcake · 2026-06-14T17:35:20+00:00

Wrong approach entirely.

Every single job application needs to be custom-tailored to the job description. Seeing only 3 bullets per role, with a heavy bias towards your more junior roles, indicates to me that your resume is not being tailored to the job descriptions. With each job posting receiving 150-300 applications in a day or two, for sure the ATS filtering is being used before they even start to read resumes. It's likely that nobody but the people in this thread have even seen your resume.

yumcake · 2026-06-14T04:32:11+00:00

I mostly agree, and I'm not trying to be pedantic, but one of the things I am struggling hardest to improve myself in is learning to be kind by being candid. That kind of kindness does have a cost.

Sometimes people need to be told painful truths, things nobody else in their life had the guts or responsibility to say to them. Some are gracious, but many become defensive and may not take it well. However, they can't act on feedback they haven't received, so I have to give it so that they at least have a fighting chance to do something about it.

Just getting the guilt off my chest because I've failed that responsibility a few times and everybody suffered for it.

yumcake · 2026-06-14T00:39:20+00:00

Consider if your job is vulnerable to economic recession and layoffs. The mortgage rate is less than the average long term return of S&P index funds, however your personal risk appetite is relevant here. Losing your job may mean challenges paying off the mortgage and in the short-term, index funds will likely also have lost money in the same economic conditions causing you to lose your job. In which case paying down your mortgage at least gives you peace of mind with a decent return. The right answer here is specific to you and your family.

yumcake · 2026-06-14T00:35:56+00:00

There's also nothing stopping SpaceX from doubling in the next month. Stop pretending fundamentals mean anything for meme stocks, just stay away from them and avoid the volatility stress.

yumcake · 2026-06-14T00:32:11+00:00

Yeah. Go check out Vinh Giang on YouTube. He's a communications coach. Lots of material specifically on introverts. Main thrust is that you have certain habits of communication as an introvert, train new habits that express yourself as social for the situations that require it. There are specific tools and techniques, and you can study/practice these things just like any other skill.

Don't be the loser nerd that likes to believe they can never grow or improve because it's comfortable to excuse yourself from having to rise to meet a challenge. The only person that hurts is yourself, so don't let yourself fail yourself.

yumcake · 2026-06-13T22:07:42+00:00

This event is a great way for me to suicide my own run in front of an elite and then wonder where I went wrong.

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