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lord I am so exhausted of applying to dozens of jobs every week without getting a single response other than your application wasn’t selected. my current job is wrecking me and I am so burnt out and just want a job that pays well and doesn’t make me want to die 24/7. im at my wits end like who do I need to pay to make my resume/linkedin stand out because how do people hear back from jobs??? what am I doing wrong
#all I can do is cry#im so exhausted#corporate work is so hard and soul sucking#except for the people who have good corporate jobs how do they get those and why have I submit over a thousand apps within the last year#and heard back from maybe 3#im so tired#if only I had gotten a degree in fucking computer science lol#the only industry that pays well and doesn’t require you to sell your soul and life#i’ve been trying to teach myself sql and python but im failing miserably#if I had just done coding in college and not stupid fucking finance :)
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Advice for making stuff work well in Debian?
Hmm, most of the troubleshooting I do is weird architecture issues that won't impact anyone running Debian for x64 but off the top of my head
If you know exactly what package you want, command line package manager use is just fine, but GUI frontends are pretty nice for searching through things if you want to actually read some details on what you're installing. Yeah you can just use debian's web-based apt stuff but it's not convenient to do that. Using a frontend is convenient.
This is non-debian-specific advice but most of the time if I need to do something more complex than like, crop an image or maybe put a color filter on it, I just use photopea because it being online means it works on just about anything. It's not quite as advanced as Photoshop but most of the capabilities it lacks are rather small and niche, as opposed to like "You can't do outlined text" (thanks GIMP) (Also you can run whatever image editor in wine if you want and if you have a better computer than I currently do (rip to my good one) it's worth giving a go. Sometimes you need to do some config but lovely linux users on the internet will often give you the exact settings you need to get the program working :))
MComix is a good CBZ viewer
If you install imagemagick, it may change or mess up your settings for default image viewer. imagemagick is a divine and beautiful program but its image viewer totally sucks so change it back if it does this.
This is mostly fairly specific huh.... Most of the time my computer Just Works for me. I can do troubleshooting for a great many issues but generalized advice is a little harder X'D
#sometimes java devs cause me problems though#i thought python devs were bad but at least they have compatibility ironed out they just suck at writing readmes#java devs are like 'please sequester my .jar that requires antiquated dependencies from anything new or it will break' okay why though#why is java dev like that#um but that's not exactly a linux problem and i don't know how to fix java development i only use like c family and asm
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Go is a bad programming language
I need to take a minute to rant about the go language and a few of the many, many things wrong with it.
1. Unused variables are compile-time errors.
So if you're debugging this:
x, y := foo()
doSomething(x)
doSomething(y)
and you decide to comment out doSomething(x) in order to check something, then hey, your code doesn't compile anymore! No, if you want to comment out a few lines while debugging, you also have to go up and make sure you also remove any declarations or assignments to variables that are only used in that block.
This is absolutely infuriating, and is one of the least developer-friendly features I've ever seen (excluding languages that were explicitly designed to be terrible).
So why did they do it? Why would the designers make such a ridiculous decision? The answer is simple:
2. Go doesn't consistently distinguish assignment from declaration.
Some languages distinguish between declaring a variable (e.g. int x) and setting it (e.g. x = 12); others don't bother and just let x = 12 be declaration if needed. There are pros and cons to both, but Go manages the difficult task of achieving the worst of both worlds.
You can declare var x int and assign x = 12, but you can also combine the two with x := 12 - the := implicitly declares the variable being assigned.
Fortunately, go IS smart enough to not let you double-declare something - var x int; x := 12 is a syntax error.
But go also lets you assign multiple values. What do you think this does?
var x int = 1
x, y := 2, 3
fmt.Println(y)
fmt.Println(x)
Did you guess that this is a syntax error? Wrong! It prints 3, then 2 - the := operator is fine with the fact that x already exists, as long as at least one of the variables you're assigning to does in fact need to be declared.
What about this:
var x int = 1
if true {
x, y := 2, 3
fmt.Println(y)
}
fmt.Println(x)
If you "the same thing", you're wrong! This one IS a syntax error! Why? Because now that it's in a separate block, that := is now declaring x instead of assigning to it! And the new x is unused, so the compiler can't let you do that! Note, though, that if the first print printed both x and y, the compiler would not have caught that for us. The code would just compile fine and be wrong. That is the golang experience.
So why would a language allow a := that changes meaning but only when there are multiple variables? Simple! It's because:
3. Go has no error handling whatsoever
No exceptions, no maybe monads, no anything. Just a convention that functions that might fail should return a pair of (result, error).
This means code that in a sensible language might look like
print(foo(bar(3), baz("hello")))
in go instead looks like
a, err := bar(3)
if err != nil {
return err
}
b, err := baz("hello")
if err != nil {
return err
}
c, err := foo(a, b)
if err != nil {
return err
}
fmt.Println(c)
Yay boilerplate!
So obviously you need := to allow some things to already exist, otherwise you'd have to give all those errs different names, and who has time to come up with that many variable names?
4. Don't use go.
Anyway, these are just three of the many, many things I hate about go, which also include
Switch statements for values vs for types have almost-but-not-quite identical syntax (they should either be the same or be different, preferably different).
Type switch naming is stupid (sensible languages let you name the variable in each case instead of just renaming the variable once at the beginning).
Unused imports are a compile-time error (so incredibly stupid and frustrating).
Capitalization distinguishes public values from private ones (result: APIs cannot use capitalization in a meaningful way, because by definition every member of the API must be capitalized).
Extremely limited type system (terrible type inference, no generic methods on objects, no co- or contravariance among functions or objects - a function that returns a Square is not a function that returns a Shape and cannot be used as one).
Any public type can be instantiated with a "zero value", so every object method must do something sensible if the object is completely uninitialized (I saw some code in one of go's own built-in libraries that represented "any nonnegative integer or undefined" as a pair of (val int, isZero bool); a value of 0 is undefined unless isZero is true, in which case it means 0. I don't think that would pass code review in any other language at all).
Surprisingly awkward and unintuitive concurrency support for a language that claims to have been built with concurrency in mind.
Weird and inconsistent special magical cases (e.g. if g() returns three arguments and f() takes three arguments, then f(g()) is fine; if g returns two, you can't f(1, g()) or anything like that).
More things that I won't spend any more time writing up, I just needed to get this out of my system.
#it's not often that I use a statically typed language#find errors#and think to myself 'python's type system would've caught that'#also side note I don't think the reason unused variables are a syntax error is actually because they thought about the case I described#I think they just thought 'well production code probably shouldn't define variables it doesn't use so we'll make that a hard requirement'#go was clearly developed by people who don't have a lot of respect for the language's users#Rob Pike (one of the inventors of go) described the target audience of the language with:#'They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software'#unfortunately they failed at that too#I have yet to see anything written in go that I would actually consider 'good software'#it's always bloated and full of boilerplate and hard to follow and frequently concurrent when it doesn't need to be#rants#ok I feel better now that I've ranted about this
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I have been researching Animatronics and it is oh so very very fascinating. The arduino boards vs something complex enough to use a raspberry pi, the types of servos, how you can build a servo without using an actual servo if the servo would be too big, etc etc etc.
The downside is now I look at fnaf animatronics and figure how they may mechanically work and you know what? The Daycare Attendant, if they were real, would be such a highly advanced machine. Not only is the programming and machine learning and large language models of all the animatronics of FNAF security breach super advanced, just the physical build is so technically advanced. Mostly because of how thin the Daycare Attendant is, but also with how fluid their movement is. One of the most top 10 advanced animatronics in the series. (I want to study them)
#fnaf sb#fnaf daycare attendant#animatronics#in about a month i could start working on a project to build a robotic hand#i want to build one that can play a game of rock-paper-scissors because i think that would be SO cool#mostly just want to build a hand. plus super tempted to get into the programming side of things#i want to see how the brain-machine interface works because if it is accurate it is theoretically possible to make a third arm#that you could control#also getting into AI machine learning and large language models#im thinking of making one myself (name pending. might be something silly) because why buy alexa if you can make one yourself right?#obviously it wouldnt be very advanced. maybe chatGPT level 2 at most??#it would require a lot of training. like SO much#but i could make a silly little AI#really i want to eventually figure out how to incorporate AI into a robotic shell#like that would be the hardest step but it would be super super cool#i already know a fair amount of programming so its moreso that i need to learn the animatronic side of things#strange to me that a lot of the advanced ai is in python (or at least ive seen that in multiple examples??)#what if i named the AI starlight. what then? what then?#<- did you know that i have dreams that vaguely predict my future and i have one where i built a robotic guy that ended up becoming an#employee at several stores before making a union for robotic rights?#anywho!!#if anyone reads these i gift you a cookie @:o)
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Florida wildlife conservation raided a facility and killed over 30 snakes. Even went out of the way to kill the legally owned boa, incorrectly, causing it to suffer for at least 20 mins before passing. This is after being told repeatedly not too by the caretaker that was presnt. Made a bloodbath of the floor.
The officers were having so much fun.
This is animal rights
#guy had permit for burms and retics#law changed#was told to rehome animals but had only made it through 70% by the year#and the fwc arrests him and requires he doesnt rehome the animals due to the law restricting transport#and thats why the officers came in on a random day to kill his remaining pets#ara#animal rights#and no im not exagerating#just google florida python killing#theres both video of the happy officers and photos of the aftermath#dead pet#dead animal#animal death#fwc#herpetoculture#aras want ur pets dead#because they think its better than being owned
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looking through the syllabi for the semester and in a term where I'm taking 3 challenging stem courses the scariest of them is the .25 credit ballroom dance class
#the second scariest is the physics with calculus one but only because this course is taught by an insane man.#'all assignments must include a narrative explaining your problem solving process'#'you are expected to complete additional challenges to get a B or A'#'some of your homework problems will require visual python'#^ the teaching methods of a man who has long since abandoned his humanity
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also sorry abt the infrequent + low-quality Poasting, i am once again in demo hell at work so im just like. completely braindead in the evenings. especially since over the past two weeks i think i've rewritten like half the robot driver + firmware. which is supposed to be the hardware team's responsibility but the hardware team does not currently have any programmers and i DID write the first drafts of both of those before handing them over to Andrew The DM (now living at a nice grad school upstate), who handed them over to another guy, who also quit and handed them back to me (with only a little wear and tear).
but like... do i really want to be working on higher-level robot behavior stuff during a(nother) demo crunch? no the fuck i don't!!
#the trashcan speaks#jorb#not all of this was in support of demo requirements#some of it was just refactoring Because I Was Theah#and space... is theah.#we go to the moon and do these other refactorings not because they are easy#but BECAUSE THEY ARE HAHD#ESPECIALLY when we have to do horrible things with c++ templates.#the python version of What If We Could Define A Struct And Automatically Compute The Packet Format#took me half an hour and maybe 20 lines of code. the C++ version took 2-3 full work days and tears of blood. and functors.#but it will definitely save time later!!!
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#gn o/#sorry ALL i did was talk abt my bot all day#it is literally all i did today#bc guess who has coviddddddd wooooooooooooooo#dont have many symptoms rn other than Tired and I Am Sore and hopefully it stays that way#i dodged it for 3 years even tho my parents have had it multiple times#we dont know where it came from it just Appeared. couldve been ppl at work or school or even just the grocery store who knows#¯\_(ツ)_/¯#but yeah all i've been doing is laying around and coding bc i cant focus on anything else lol#i played skyblock a bit this morning and hopped on for an hour with ark too#but turns out Talking Sucks bc trying to go from thinking to talking is barely working lol#typing is fine tho. so python has been fun#skyblock has the major downside of needing lots of attention so it was too hard to bother playing for too long#but in python i open the dude. make a command. run it. go stare at the fridge. rinse and repeat 👍#minimal attention required#chat
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This is why they kept Terry Gilliam in a cage most of the time
#it’s for his own good#no more beans#Monty Python#his chaotic energy#dear god please keep him supervised when he’s free#adult supervision required#terry gilliam
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roast my code
#it's ~200 lines of python meant to be a major set of building blocks for a hack-like game#i'm at the stage where actually getting to something impressive will probably require doubling the code size#so i would really like to refactor#but unfortunately my code feels like my baby; this is why i must kill it
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accepting that the month of June is a month where there is nothing I can do about anything is..... a lot
#waiting to find out if I got a scholarship. waiting for my final grade. where will I go for my msc?#will x still accept me if I miss the offer by 1% as they said in their offer letter?#will I find anywhere to live in either x or y city?#if I do get into x will I be capable of moving there alone?#if I get the scholarship for y will I be more capable of doing a course that terrifies me bc at least no financial stress?#missing the offer by 1% means that x will 'reevaluate' my application and offer me a place if there are any left which#sounds like waiting purgatory hell too#so it would be nice if I just met that requirement#but I don't want to be disappointed if I don't get that grade. I told myself I would not *aim* for a 1st#but even if I do meet the requirement for x if y give me a scholarship it seems like a no brainer#take the money and go there even though the course is super intimidating#I am but a baby learning how to make a pig latin translator and an object oriented card game on python#either course I end up doing I'll be able to create software by the end?? absolutely wild I feel like I tricked them#anyway this is just what my brain has been looping for like a solid week now and will until the 30th of June#like I just do not know where I'll be in September but either way I'm moving somewhere new by myself
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Gonna be really braggy about something for a sec bear with me
Interviewer at my technical interview: Alright, here's your first coding problem. Write a function that does xyz.
Me: Cool. I forget, can you use sorted() on strings?
Interviewer: Yep.
Me: Okay, solved that in a one-liner.
Interviewer: Great. Next problem: use that function to write this other function.
Me: Right, I'm gonna use a list comprehension inside a dictionary comprehension, so gimme a second to write all that out.
...
Me: Okay, done.
Interviewer: You made a small mistake.
Me: Woops, you're right. Okay, I added an if statement, that should fix it.
Interviewer: Yep, that did it.
...
Interviewer: I'm gonna be honest, I've never seen anyone solve this problem that fast. It usually takes people like half an hour. We have a lot of time left but I don't have any more coding questions, so, uh, let's move on to the part where the other interviewer asks you about stuff on your resume.
Me: ????!!!???!!??!!!?!?!?
#it wasn't??? a hard problem????#like in the last interview they were asking me about Python stuff like the async.io library and generators#which were both things I've heard of but never used#and I had to admit I'd never used them and I was like oh god oh god I'm definitely not good enough at Python for this#but then they gave me these problems in the technical interview#and one of them was like a Classic coding question#I might not have figured it out so fast if I hadn't previously encountered it#but if you do enough programming courses and technical interviews and stuff you're gonna encounter it EVENTUALLY#especially if natural language processing is your specialty#the other wasn't one I'd seen before but it was really straightforward or at least I thought it was??????#I hope I'm not like... way overqualified for the role or something#maybe the role just doesn't require a lot of complicated programming#be a shame if so cause I like that kind of thing#but I'll take it anyhow if I end up getting it#I can always keep my coding skills sharp with personal projects#still wanna implement that Eldritch Horror graph algorithm someday
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just submitted my class choices for the second part of autumn term and i’m nervous. what if i picked wrong. what if they have to go down my entire priority list because my grades suck and i don’t get in anywhere so they stick me in advanced calculus where i’m really not in a good place to be (maybe next year but dear lord please not right now)
#she speaks#cth adventure#i might not even have to do advanced calc at all#it depends on what master's i want to do#i'm down to two and one of them requires advanced calc but i have no idea if i'd even enjoy it#it's either 'software engineering' or 'data science & AI' and naturally the data science & AI one requires calc but i don't know if i'd#even enjoy data science because i haven't tried it#so my first choice for next study period is 'introduction to data science & AI' which apparently has a super low fail rate actually#which is always nice#and then i put down physics because we have to do one natural sciences class to graduate and that one seems the least terrible#advanced calc is at the bottom of my list not because i don't enjoy calculus but because it has a 50% fail rate and#i can't handle that right now. i can best a 50% fail rate i've done it before but never when my bad brains have been THIS bad#(and then i stuck 'advanced programming in python' in the middle bc it's particularly inspiring but it sounds nice and isn't too difficult#judging by the grade statistics)#god i'm on my third year can you believe it#also on my third year of lousy mental health. and i still haven't killed myself. go me
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ahaha what if I did a compsci minor
#I’m like. im genuinely enjoying learning python in my current compsci class#and I just looked at the minor requirements and I’ve already done most of the math#and then my degree has a lot of room for electives#so like. I could defo do it#maybe this is stupid idfk
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So bored at work might just create my own tasks and write some code to do them
#It is the team lead’s job to assign us tasks based on what we need#And he creates our spreadsheets of required tasks using python and I’m like. Hmm I could do that.#I mean what I’ll be doing is what the end goal of the task I’m currently working on#So I’m just skipping ahead a little with a subset of data#(I’m not finished the task I’m currently working on but I’ve enough to be getting on with for now)
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