CoderKat

Personally, I enjoy the problem solving. Debugging is fun once you're good at it (and when there isn't major time pressures).

Professional software dev is also waaaaay more than just coding, too. And the more you do it, the less coding you'll do. A junior dev might spend most of their time coding, but senior devs are spending a lot of time doing high level design, helping the juniors, and reviewing various kinds of things.

It's not an anger thing. I'm not mad when people do it. But it's a time wasting thing and I'm not gonna waste my already under-available time. This gets pushed a lot within my work. Senior devs get a lot of messages. I regularly am spending a substantial amount of my day dealing with messages asking for help, reviews, and more, so anything they can do to be more actionable makes things go better for everyone.

Also, there's some people that take "hi" messages to extremes, as they won't even send their actual message until you reply to the "hi".

They can and I had hoped they were gonna for me. But my problem must be heavily neurological. The cochlear implant did help some, I'm a far cry from normal hearing (I especially struggle with accents, low tones, and when sounds overlap).

Same, first 20 years of my life I disliked the idea of tattoos and thought I'd never, ever get any. Turns out all that was just society pushing puritan ideas on me and I just had to get over that.

I'm hearing impaired and would love if some brain implant could fix me. I already almost have this, with a cochlear implant (it's not technically in the brain, but it is an implant in my head). It's not enough for me, though, cause my hearing still sucks.

There's a lot of common patterns, but you have to understand how URLs work. You have to recognize which URL parameters are tracking ones or even just might be tracking. And that means you have to know how they work and that takes a moment.

In brief, URL parameters start after a ? in the URL and are formatted like key1=values&key2=value2. You can't usually remove all parameters because not all are tracking. To further complicate things, URLs can also have an anchor starting with a # character which will be after the URL parameters. You often don't want to remove that (though theoretically the anchor could in fact contain tracking details).

It's often trial and error to see which parameters you can remove. I do this a lot since I write a lot of technical documentation. Clean URLs make the documentation more compact and less likely to break. It's not just tracking stuff, but sometimes you need to remove temporal data that makes a page display data from a specific time when you want it to just default to the current time (etc).

Jeez, where do you live?

I'm in Canada and have never had to wait even remotely that long in any city I've been a pedestrian in. It's certainly a poorly followed law in that I'll regularly see people not stop even if they had tons of time, but the majority of drivers do stop. I don't think I've ever waited more than maybe a minute. I'd usually have to wait longer at a light than I would at an uncontrolled intersection or no-intersection crosswalk.

That said, the most annoying was in Saskatoon, where I went to university. There's a road going up to the university where there's a very long stretch with no controlled crosswalks until you get to the very end. I learned to just cross at the end (even if it meant needing to loop back) because crossing at an uncontrolled crosswalk in the middle was annoying. I would have often been on the top part of a T intersection and there were always parked cars, so being seen as trying to cross the road was the challenge there. But even then it usually wasn't more than a minute and crossing from the other side was a lot easier because it was so much more obvious that you were waiting to cross. It was also a 2 lane road, but usually when one direction stops, drivers in the other lane figure it out.

...is there no limit to summons? I realize I was actually assuming I couldn't use a summoning spell multiple times for the same character, but maybe that's wrong. I usually try to keep a single, most powerful summon for each character that has one (and for difficult battles, I've used summoning scrolls for other characters).

I considered a few times trying to see what would happen if I summoned more, but figured it'd make the game too easy, anyway. A lot of the summons are quite strong and they have a lot of health.

Is luminous armour really that impactful? I was using it till late act 2 or so but eventually swapped it out. It was one of those things I couldn't tell how much of a difference it made.

Shadowheart feels offensively really weak and has by far the worst accuracy. While my warlock player character gets consistently 95+% hit chance for her cantrips (and with eldritch blast, theres 2-3 hits), Shadowheart's cantrips are frequently <50% accurate and she only gets a single hit. I mostly use her as support only as a result.

When I want to do damage with Shadowheart, I usually use spirit guardians (mostly for when there's many weaker enemies), that retaliating summon (placing it well means doing I think 60 unmissable damage), or some other kind of summon.

I admittedly never respeced her and didn't look at what alternative cleric builds existed.

As a warlock, I try to use everyone a little.

• Except Gale. I just have no use for another mage. I figured I'd save him for another playthrough.

• I respec'd Wyl into a paladin cause I wanted to try that class out (and have a proper tank) and knew I'd never have a use for two warlocks. It took a while before I truly made use of him, but turns out paladins are incredibly powerful, so he's now a constant member of my party.

• The other two typical members are shadowheart (romancing her and it feels natural to always have a cleric) and Astarion (he's just hands down the best at lockpicking and I do that a ton).

• I've experimented with having Jahera (as a ranger) replace Astarion, but it makes lockpicking harder. Is there really no way to get companions more proficient with skills?? I actually hate Astarion as a person and don't enjoy rogues (too often I simply cannot get a sneak attack in).

• I've regularly swapped the melee attacker for any of the others (I love Karlak's personality, but found barbarian just isn't as good -- Laezel as a fighter is a bit better). Halsin was the best tank for the mid game, cause Owlbear is far stronger than anything else. Probably still is. Just feels kinda boring.

• Every now and then I've swapped Shadowheart out for someone. It feels weird to not have a cleric with me at all times, but I don't actually need her and she's so bad at combat. I'm probably making a blunder in using her so much, especially since I have a Paladin and so many healing potions.

• I tried respecing >!Minsc!< to be a monk to give that a try (I've had so much monk equipment and it's one of the few classes I've yet to use), but... I must be doing something wrong? The unarmed damage is utterly pitiful compared to any other melee character, even with the best equipment I've got. I decided to just bench him rather than figure it out.

• I only very, very briefly used a hireling, before Halsin joined my party proper cause I wanted to try wildshape (why does he take so long? I genuinely thought he would never join cause he spent dozens of hours waiting in my camp as an unplayable character).

Wait, is Karlak gonna leave over Minthara? I've been planning to do an evil playthrough, since my first playthrough was goodie two shoes, so naturally killed Minthara. But Karlak is the best!

Also, I kinda want as many companions as possible so I can see the different path I can get them to take.

Yeah, in colloquial usage, most people understand that China and Taiwan are two different countries and there's no confusion over which one is which.