Evan Reilly

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@staysaasy why does being a cog in the military machine yield more fulfillment than being a cog in the email factory?

As I approach middle age, my friends who have found fulfillment from their careers are exclusively *successful* startup builders, doctors, and members of the military. The people following those 3 paths alone seem to be more self-actualized due to their jobs.

Overheard in Silicon Valley: "my dating criteria is beautiful, brainy, and if this were 17th-century Salem they'd be burned as a witch"

@TheLastFarm quit being dramatic we had similar wheat levels in 2018. I still get frozen red baron on sale for $2.99 a pizza.

The current price of a slice of pizza is the lowest it will ever be for the rest of your life

@animalologist women posting risque pics with unconventional proportions asking for reassurance and its an avalanche of positive attention, people celebrating their sexuality. Its not all morally questionable

@animalologist I feel like there are two sides to this. One is the industry and all the baggage that comes with it and the other is the stuff on reddit where individuals and couples explore and share for the love of the game. You can tell they actually enjoy/love each other.

@designcoursecom you can also get q lot of this without all that setup with railbird.ai

I've dedicated months to a project that might be entirely a wasted venture. The pool projection thing is a very big ask for each customer. - They need a pool table. - They need a suitable projector mounted above it - They need a suitable camera mounted above it - They need a PC with a GPU - They need to train a model on their balls in their environment Even if it goes no where, it's alive in my studio and it's by far the coolest thing I've ever built, and it's going to turn me into a monster pool player.

You’re not my port in a storm, I’m a storm in your port

@gnkazeles @Andrew_Semenza did you assign human beauty to looks or did I?

@verymidengineer @Andrew_Semenza Beauty there is in nature, because what you see is what it is. With people, even the most beautiful person outwardly can become ugly by merely speaking. It's not just looks that makes someone worthy of pursuing.

it's bizarre how people describe romantic entanglements as if they are a default state. I wont talk about myself here (I could be insane), but the majority of my close mid-20s male friends have never experienced a whiff of romance, and they are all handsome & thoughtful people

@ForgetNights @Bootymobster10 @Andrew_Semenza yeah you start by just connecting with them, and if an attraction occurs, sharing it in an unbothered and “I’m unashamed that I like you and I have no expectation, I just wanted you to know” kind of attitude. Ambiguity and lack of owning your feelings kills attraction

@verymidengineer @Bootymobster10 @Andrew_Semenza I can't force a girl to like me. Wouldn't do it if i could, wouldn't feel right.

@ForgetNights @Bootymobster10 @Andrew_Semenza men will chew glass to get into their chosen profession or afford the latest gaming pc but will dedicate nothing to social/physical improvement and rage about women not wanting them

@Bootymobster10 @verymidengineer @Andrew_Semenza Am i supposed to ask out every woman i see, even if i don't find her attractive in the slightest?

I don't think enough people realize we're about five years out from people going to rehab for phones

@ForgetNights @Andrew_Semenza The best baseball hitters in the world only get on base 30% of the time. The pinnacle of the sport 7/10 times they strike out. How often are you getting up to bat? How have you tried to improve yourself?

@verymidengineer @Andrew_Semenza The women who decline to date me.

@ForgetNights @Andrew_Semenza so you develop feelings and feel driven to chase yet you’ve never been on a date? what is stopping you?

@verymidengineer @Andrew_Semenza I have done both of these things and I've never been on a date.

@Uaitniu please share more I want to Don Draper so badly (minus the emotional unavailability)

I’m getting interviews for things that were inconceivable a few years ago.

@suchenzang also they may be truly legendary in their skill and exploits but be morally bankrupt in all the rest of their opinions/experiences

at some point you realize there's often very little merit to fame amongst the tech elite, just people who well positioned to soak up talent around them, and are extremely adept at rewriting narratives to build their own legends after "the work" is already done for better or worse, there's somehow always a heavy selection bias for fantastic story-tellers everywhere, and the peak will never truly live up to the image they've created of themselves or in other words, never meet your heroes

@NatPurser its has to be fully in office or it doesn’t work. I cant stand going into the office to be on zoom all day

talking to young people who wish their jobs were fully remote makes me feel like i’m losing my mind. you’re at the point in life where you could most benefit from in-person relationship and knowledge building … but … you wanna get some errands done,

@sleitnick How much of the wall is the logic vs rendering?

Stress-testing 100k agents. FPS dropped to 60. I had to move most of the logic to C++ to make this work. I could only scale to ~10k in GDScript before hitting a wall. Each "agent" is also just a cube here. Nothing complex. My goal is to get this stable at 144hz w/ 100k agents.

@devahaz @somewheresy I can assure you the people on here are dumber than you think

Sometimes I think about how the average person walking around in real life is probably even dumber than most of the people I interact with on here and that’s a real depressing thought for the state of our society

@johnloeber yeah its unfortunately very common to be average, hope I can continue to speak for average people

@verymidengineer your username of “very mid engineer” says all that needs to be said

On interviewing: Candidates, please don't prepare too much. Come as you are. When the company has a realistic understanding of you, they will be able to best slot you in on the team. If you overprepare, you might end up with a role that's not the best fit for you. And conversely, as a candidate you want to know and be fully confident in the fact that the company bringing you on understands your capabilities -- strengths and weaknesses and all. (If you even slightly suffer from impostor syndrome, then this is really important for your well-being!) You should be slightly well-prepared, of course. Read up on the company, understand it, brush up on your relevant skills. But getting hired should be a consequence of a lifetime of good preparation, not last-minute cramming.