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I play Pro Drums mode on Rock Band 4 on my Roland kit. It's like...85% like real drums, which is close enough to when I just want to play along to something and turn my brain off. …

My network has gotten me every job over the past 10 years, and probably will get me the rest of the jobs I'll ever have. I am fortunate to have gotten into the industry when I did …

I am when I have a deadline and tangible work to do. If I don't, I am incredibly lazy and have pretty bad executive function issues. Right now I have some pressing tangible work to…

I turned off recommendations to try to reign in my screen time a bit and it's worked tremendously. My feed is exactly what I asked for, if I don't see a video worth my time then I …

This has been my thought all along, not sure why I don't see it more. I'm not scared about being left behind, none of the tooling looks crazy enough that a few weeks of dedicated l…

You will run into thundering herd/hotspotting/pre-warmed caching issues when you have to restart. There's generally not an easy to way to switch these sorts of systems on and off, …

I am employed (which, fair or unfair, seems to always look better to recruiters) but opportunistic. So far I have interviewed 3 times in the past year, every single one being a ref…

I work for a large video game company. I believe in escapism, it got me into computers as a child and ultimately into my career. I specifically left B2B big tech work and took a pa…

I've already been working at it for a few weeks now, but I want to swallow my pride and stay up-to-date on interview skills (thankfully I'm safely employed but want to make sure I'…

Medicine, ideally Oncology. I only made that realization as an adult though.

I did _exactly_ this 3 days ago after I hit a random keyboard chord on accident and brought up CoPilot (which I don't recall installing). I had held on to Windows for gaming just b…

I know the remote aspect is important to you, but having done this exact switch (general backend services dev -> backend dev for a big game company) this requirement is almost cert…

I don't understand why you're being downvoted, you're not wrong. I think Suno being successful bums me out, I really hate it, but people that are not me love it. I can't do anythin…

My knee-jerk reaction is "No" if your goal is an easy-mode career that will give you a high salary right out of college, I think that dream is (largely) dead. If you really do love…

I have 13 years of experience and a Senior title, but I'm not sure if that means much. Really I have just worked on web-related problems for the last 10 years (first 2 were LinuxRT…

My team ships with a multi-hour CI pipeline that works 50% of the time and effectively zero local development. It's awful in almost every way developer experience-wise, but rock bo…

This is awesome. It also brought back some anxiety from >10 years ago in college that reminds me that computer graphics and my brain do not agree whatsoever.

Golf. I understand the image it has, and it's somewhat well-deserved, but the munis are teeming with fascinating people from all walks of life. I've made more friends in the past 5…

In my experience: definitely not, still plenty of the same leetcode tech screens I've seen over the past decade. But I could see more in-person interviews + white boarding coming s…

Credible in terms of respected by people who want to pay you money for work: yes, absolutely. The reality is a random person who watches too much youtube who thinks college is usel…

Well I suppose in my current position there isn't much that is cognitively heavy, it's just...a slog. In previous jobs I had a bit more financial motivation when I worked on diffic…

In terms of depending on anybody (I don't have an entrepreneurial bone in my body).

Depends on the adversity. If it's slogging through the work week (which is my main adversity these days): My toxic tendency to remain completely independent is about all that motiv…

Not sure why you're being downvoted, we in the US are certainly not special in that regard.

I wish I hadn't worked 2 jobs while getting my CS degree. I have lots of acquaintences and friends in my mid-30s, but no friends from college or earlier. I have a lot of memories t…