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  1. TJT

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Then retards will just say hurr durr AI will replace all that too! Odds of AI replacing the upper tiers are pretty much zero. Just within the context of this discussion Principal SQL Server DBAs and shit still earn north of 200k a year, you wont be firing them to have AI do that job.
  2. TJT

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    This is generally fine at the junior analyst level too. However this is also how you learn higher level database concepts like indexing or clustering, intelligent design patterns to ensure good performance, proper deduplication strategies. You wont be getting the AI to do any of that if you...
  3. TJT

    Investing General Discussion

    Do you have an actual gf now or is this that prostitute you monopolized a while back? Or did it just somehow turn into a regular relationship?
  4. TJT

    Investing General Discussion

    No no I support this. Blackjack is a superb retirement strategy! Maybe you can diversify into slot machines.
  5. TJT

    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    I lived in Texas for 14 years before I bought Cowboy Boots. I gave it an honest try and bought some ~$300 boots from the iconic Austin shop Allen boot on Congress. Those boots were so fucking uncomfortable I wore them out of spite thinking they'd break in and it would be fine. I gave up on them...
  6. TJT

    We Dont Need No Stinking Priests - Spirituality, prayer, meditation, new age, gnostisicm, consciousness

    You are not a mystic, holy man, or a monk. You're just another white collar-ish retard like myself bro.
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    We Dont Need No Stinking Priests - Spirituality, prayer, meditation, new age, gnostisicm, consciousness

    No. Because Christ is objectively superior to what you are proselytizing. Which is a variant of discard everything, embrace only what "mainstream" has cast aside, and look inward alone. Add in doing drugs now and again to achieve an enlightened state of mind. Along with reading Eastern...
  8. TJT

    We Dont Need No Stinking Priests - Spirituality, prayer, meditation, new age, gnostisicm, consciousness

    Bro, you're the one who keeps bringing up Gnosticism. The Gnostics were good because they defied foundational Christianity, or something. The core of your argument here seems to be that organization is bad, therefore no organization is good. Along with introspection being good, but only if you...
  9. TJT

    We Dont Need No Stinking Priests - Spirituality, prayer, meditation, new age, gnostisicm, consciousness

    That is not the argument here. The point is that you cannot be Christian and deny Christ's divinity. At that point you are not Christian.
  10. TJT

    Linux OS stuff Thread

    I smell weakness. Use AI here to determine the Kernel errors you are getting and how to resolve them. If you failed to boot it is a Kernel Panic. I straight overwrote my Win 10 with Fedora and booted just fine. Didn't even have to strip out much to get things working.
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    We Dont Need No Stinking Priests - Spirituality, prayer, meditation, new age, gnostisicm, consciousness

    I think you need to stop hanging on this idea that having teachers is bad and therefore the only good is to just figure it all out yourself. Additionally, your weird obsession with Gnosticism as being "good" completely ignores that the basis of their heresy was that they did not believe Christ...
  12. TJT

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Most Western people just lack context. Between Western nations there is very little financial friction. If you have regular people amounts of money and need to spend $50k on a major life purchase in another country. This is trivial and bitcoin is not necessary here nor would it make the...
  13. TJT

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Had an interview yesterday at a big corporate company. It just sounded sad to work there. They are effectively working in the stone age compared to what I've been doing everyday the past 5 years or so now. It would be literally stepping back into developing in 2010. Even for a sizable raise I...
  14. TJT

    Investing General Discussion

    This one of the more unfortunate casualties of AI retardation. If there was any one tool I knew of that would immensely benefit from AI integration. Its Figma. The tool itself is quite good as far as UX tools go. All you had to do was add in AI where you can have it alter stuff, add images, and...
  15. TJT

    Investing General Discussion

    This is the part that is hard for people to grasp. The only reason you have graybeard engineering sorcerers is because they spent decades learning it step by step. Just like any other thing. AI doesn't shortcut that because of general friction. Documentation is bad even when its better than...
  16. TJT

    Military Thread

    Reminds me of a joint base I was at for awhile. It was mostly Army, Marines, and Air Force for whatever reason. Myself in the Army and the Marines around the base just walked everywhere. The Air Force guys would not move more than 50 feet without using these oversized golf carts.They had dozens...
  17. TJT

    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    Gay.
  18. TJT

    Investing General Discussion

    Yes throw down your money into SPY,VOO,VTI,FTEC, FHLC... Really any of these. Fire and forget about it. Throw a small amount into FBTC (bitcoin based) for extra volatility which is good in a limited fashion. I am assuming you can just buy stocks like in the US market, or are there some other...
  19. TJT

    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    Liberty Safe did replace the key panel and all seems to be working fine. So at least they have decent support. Securam panels appear to be cheap trash though maybe I should buy a higher quality one at some point in the future. I tend to hold onto and use stuff I buy forever. I like buying...
  20. TJT

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I write a fair amount of code still but a lot less than I did 5 years ago. Despite that, I still have tickets in my name which remain evidence of my productivity. I still own the features deployed and various projects. So yeah, its more subjective but if you don't even have tickets anymore like...
  21. TJT

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Hell yeah! Are you expecting more pay than your previous role or about the same?
  22. TJT

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Even in this thread we have quite the spread of IT disciplines with very minimal overlap. Of the active posters lately we have: 1. Systems architecture. 2. Data infrastructure (called Data Platform more often lately) 3. Embedded (hardware level programming). 4. Traditional IT (keeping...
  23. TJT

    Dresden Files

    I honestly didn't like it.
  24. TJT

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Are you willfully trying to conflate "project managers" that were useless 20 something cuties that happened to work at a tech company with people who were actually paid to write code and engineer products? Marketing never gets axed first don't be ridiculous. What generally happens is...
  25. TJT

    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    I get that gripe sure but I don't really care as this safe is to prevent kids from being too curious not to keep the FBI out.
  26. TJT

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    You know what they say. A blowjob a day from the office cutie on staff keeps me working 12 hours a day 7 days a week!
  27. TJT

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Adding to that working at a startup is truly sink or swim compared to working at a big corp like General Motors. I was the 175th person hired at a company that has 3500 employees today and a billion in revenue. When I started we had just hit $30M in annual revenue. They sure did have a pingpong...
  28. TJT

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Okay but you're just being disingenuous. The tech industry isn't gone, it is totally robust and massive. American citizens are just being barred out of it in favor of foreigners. That is what is really happening. Not the automobile replacing the horse or anything like that. Big tech has laid off...
  29. TJT

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    And to really rub it in the Indian hires only have 2 interviews. The ones that require me to do the first stage anyway.
  30. TJT

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Bootcamps were extremely successful at training people to do frontend engineering in whatever flavor the month frontend tech stack there is. Then paying them half price for the job. The fact that frontend tech stacks completely change every year is a major issue in itself. Also one of many...
  31. TJT

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Thinking about this a little today. I realized that the interview process today for Mid-Senior+ is the same as it was for entry level now. Entry level tech jobs had grueling interviews. The one I did for GM as an entry level developer was 4 interviews, 2 of which were white boarding. While it is...
  32. TJT

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Dude, an excel sheet analyst was never, ever a tech worker. A spreadsheet developer was never a thing. This person was never an engineer. There are plenty of these people in tech companies. But there are plenty of them in any company. Keep being angry for no reason I guess. Today your shield...
  33. TJT

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Now that is something certainly feel. I still love tech, I still love programming and tinkering, but everything else sucks. I have some family obligations I need to meet with kids and college and stuff. But in 7 years I will be done. I am currently 14 years deep in this career. Already...
  34. TJT

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    I am glad more games are realizing how awesome blade deflection in Sekiro truly was.
  35. TJT

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Bro not to shit on you but the last time you discussed this the white collar workers you were around were all excel sheet jockeys. Yes there are hordes of them and AI + Outsourcing is getting rid of them even faster.
  36. TJT

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    IDK why you're so full of hate bro. The more senior you are the less coding you do. That's what happens. At the junior level you are coding all the time in a more narrow set of problems than exists in your organization. You gradually move into having to deal with architecture decisions, which...
  37. TJT

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    This isn't really accurate. The LRN2CODE stuff was legitimately funny but not because it was haranguing blue collars. It was all being done by journalists as stated. It was funny to me because it universally seemed to be targeted at the coding bootcamp crowd in execution. Whether or not you...
  38. TJT

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Just FYI Cursor indexes documents directly so this doesn't happen. https://cursor.com/docs/context/semantic-search
  39. TJT

    Pluribus

    IMO the very best part about the Andromeda Strain is the implication that the whole thing was simply an alien database system and they were trying to share information with us. But had no comprehension of technology was we understand it. Just that they recognized our satellite was an artificial...
  40. TJT

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    This looks like an absolutely batshit Nioh game. Which is saying something already.