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BlueLake2

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Joined on 4/5/13
Level 38


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 Had a ton of money, then completely wasted it.

 Submitted a vast amount of content to SocialCu.be

 Joined SocialCu.be in the first year

 Super supporter! Donated $$$ to keep SocialCu.be up and running for years!

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I enjoy long walks on the beach.

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38BlueLake2 3 days ago
jesus christ I was originally marked as exceeds expectations for my performance review but my manager told me she had to drop me to meets expectations to match guidance because "I was only promoted a year ago," which I later learned is bullcrap since plenty of people on Blind are reporting they were promoted 6 months ago and still got exceeds. Now I got my compensation statement and it's a 0% base pay raise and a peanuts equity grant, which is also way out of band according to Blind. I'm seeing people with lower performance ratings in cheaper regions with already-higher TC getting bigger raises than me. I don't even know how to respond to my manager's "I really appreciate all the great work" message attached to it.
38BlueLake2 6 days ago
Literally the only reason I haven't bought a PS5 is because of the hideous Alienware-like gamer aesthetic that can't fit in any living room. I really hope the PS5 Pro doesn't make the same mistake
38BlueLake2 1 week ago
I have an irrational hatred of error messages that start with "oops!"

stfu you're not a person. you never will be.
38BlueLake2 2 weeks ago
My company's been able to approve using Github Copilot for a couple of months now and I'm generally pretty mixed about it in the IDE, but GitHub Copilot in the CLI has been a total game changer for me. I haven't had to Google any git, adb, or ffprobe commands in a long time, and it's so much better at explaining a command and its arguments than searching Stack Overflow for an explanation of each individual argument.
38BlueLake2 3 weeks ago
Ugh, apparently E*Trade doesn't include the right cost basis on my company's 1099-B forms which means I overpaid last year's taxes by over $3000. Filing an amendment is such a pain in the butt since I have to do it manually through the mail and this might affect this year's filing. I hate how tax filing works in the US.
38BlueLake2 3 weeks ago
I am the king of tax loss harvesting. Not because I do any of that bullcrap with selling losses while selling gains, but because I have so many losses that I am always offsetting any gains by default. I think I'm the only person that has lost significant money on NVDA calls lately, somehow.
38BlueLake2 1 month ago
ah screw it, I'm buying an $NVDA lottery ticket
38BlueLake2 1 month ago
I'm booking a trip to Japan, and trying to convert and consolidate rewards points from five different rewards programs for flights/hotels plus figuring out cash vs. buying points has got me feeling like

38BlueLake2 2 months ago
I was in the interview loop for Xbox and thought it was going pretty well but then suddenly got ghosted. I'm hoping these rumors of Xbox announcing leaving the console space next week turn out to be true and hope I was ghosted for restructuring reasons and not I-suck-at-interviewing reasons.
38BlueLake2 2 months ago
I just discovered you can bypass The Wall Street Journal's pay wall by using their text-to-speech accessibility option and it'll just read out the full article, lol
38BlueLake2 2 months ago
Palworld is really fun
38BlueLake2 2 months ago
Kids these days will never know the struggle of playing a console game at a friend's house or seeing it online/on TV, then getting "the same" game for the GBA or DS only to find out it's a completely different game on portable. It's wild that cell phones and the 7-year-old Nintendo Switch can run the same games as a PS5 with just lowered graphics and some limited functionality when we used to lose an entire dimension in our mobile ports.
38BlueLake2 3 months ago
Merry Christmas!
38BlueLake2 4 months ago
Why is the top-most node of a tree structure called the "root" node? Has Mr. Computer ever seen a tree? Trees have multiple roots, they're at the bottom, and branches/leaves don't sprout out of it. Branches come from one central tree trunk. Let's start calling it the trunk node.
38BlueLake2 4 months ago
I just had the sudden, overwhelming urge for the last week or two to entirely commit to getting my private pilot's license and got fully set up with learning materials. I think it's starting to fade now.
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