That’s a rather disrespectful thing to say. But I’ll play and assume you weren’t trying to be a jerk.

Sounds like you’re just still in the same boat as op.

I disagree. It’s a natural part of the cycle of learning new things, and when is software development not about learning new things?

Chill, hatred is too strong for this. Jokes are rooted in reality but that doesn’t mean that they describe the full reality.

I’ve been programming and tinkering with computing systems for a long time. Every time I start a new project with some new tech, I end up with 1000 tabs open in various mixtures of docs, AI, stackoverflow, reddit; and discord, slack; etc. hunting for answers or resolutions to similar situation to some particular nuanced problem I’m experiencing. It doesn’t mean that I’m an idiot just that I’m trying to do something that I haven’t done before.

It’s taken me many cycles to break myself out of the samsara loops of “I don’t know how to do this so I suck.” Imposter Syndrome is real but eventually we work through it to a healthy perspective of “I don’t know how to do this… yet, but I’m going to have to struggle through it to earn this knowledge.”

actually create code that works as intended intentionally, and not through trial and error / stack overflow.

When do we tell them?

Highlander, Inc. Where There Can Only be One^TM.

Militech, Arasaka, Netwatch, Biotechnica. And Mr. Kim’s Greater Hong Kong.

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And you just reminded me of a movie from a show and let’s just say I recommend both.

https://youtu.be/X1DcKBwliAw

Anything Goes!

My use case will be to remove the looping bland house music from tech product demos. I really don’t understand why every tech company needs to make me feel like I’m at a club when I’m just there to learn about a new feature in their product and how I can use it.

Sure, but $120k is definitely not FAANG-tier base comp in SF. Not even close. Maybe it’s on the low side of scrappy startup/scaleup comp.

Can you explain the math of the Millenium Falcon’s Kessel run record next?

The UPS driver that delivers to my home office a bag of electronic goodies every week couldn’t care less about what OS I use. I mean I even tried to tell him about all the awesome Minty Pops and Arches and all he had to say was “that Fedora looks fucking dope, bro. Say, do you listen to Hannah Montana?”

I relatively recently tried to replay Goldeneye. It was shocking—controller and FPS mechanics have evolved so much since then it was honestly not fun to play. While it was breakthrough tech at the time it just did not age well.

So many hours of fun into that game though; I’ll never not hold a special place in my heart for it even if it’s unplayable nostalgia now.

FPS keyboard+mouse shooters of that era have aged much better. I can still play Marathon (+2 + Infinity) (Bungie’s precursors to Halo) and have an enjoyable gaming session.

With a high-vis vest and a clipboard, you can get almost anywhere.

Fair enough. So pretty much ‘always war’ fits, no? We’ve been ‘at peace’ as a nation for less time than I’ve been alive and I’m not that old.

The schools will be dismantled until critical thinking improves.

Dude that’s awesome if those are real stats. Bravo. Can you further refine to include proxy wars?

You’re correct, it is. But when has Amerika ever not been at war with someone?

We’re all living in Amerika. Coca-Cola. Always war.

Careful, ese, la chingona don’t play!