@whimsical oh right.. I keep forgetting things people assume. there was no work. manager just kept putting you into meetings and having you work extra hours even though there was nothing to be doing

I liked working holidays because it's chill during holidays and you basically have the place to yourself and nobody stresses you out

so I'd save my PTOs for stressful times when people are unpleasant and I want a vacation. Optimization ftw

(ofc then they would cancel my vacations last minute even tho I had to request them 3 months in advance... which I guess should say why I was even doing this strategy)

shake in excitement for the coming

CIA

they say tech experts often want to forgo all of tech and return back to nature

sounds like they're gonna need to pay for an infinite support contract, hum hum hum

but what are you gonna do if not doing stuff though

edit: working sucked because the people were toxic and despite you never having any bugs in 3 years you keep having to do unpaid overtime and oncalls for literally no reason cuz your manager is just neurotic and powertripping. also sitting in meetings for half the day kind of makes you want to drool your brains out

sounds AI

at least you have a life!

technically conspiracy theory was coined by the CIA to discredit the JFK assassination theories. conspiracy is people conspiring. so it's not weird science or aliens. it needs to involve a group of people agreeing to do something together

right this moment my favourite conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theory is just modern word for "heathenous thought" lol. but that's a lame answer

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conspiring: elites pushing transhumanism for peak slavery

heathenous: humans are as dumb today as they always were during other eras -- everything from religion to bile theory of medicines, etc. reddit downvoted me savagely to like -80 for this once. we really get things wrong as much now as we did in any other era though

@Wisecrack uhhh what worse outcomes

bullshit lol

kingdoms of amalur was pretty dope

I don't remember if it had stats. combat was like action packed dark souls but with vibrant colors

I don't know if it was my build so much or what. it was a lot of guessing enemy coordination so if you went to new areas you didn't know how you'd be attacked. you'd need to beware of different things

later boss fights in the game basically if I missed dodging a npc at the wrong moment I'd die in one hit (there was some invisible assassin boss). or if I missed 3 NPCs rushing me at once I insta die (some queen and her lackey plant shooting me together? the plant was off screen and if it hit me I'd be stunned... the queen had a charge up attack that was easy to dodge but if the plant hit and stunned me then I couldn't dodge her charge up. omg. or I would just be rushed by the minions in quick succession -- they did mini stuns but if they timed it just right I could be stunlocked for long periods of time. goddamn)

@YourMom divinity original sin 2 is a RPG. better choose the right dialogue options or you die! cuz it changed things in the world with the NPCs and navigating the world NPCs was the actual game

I tried to refund it but it took me like 7 hours to get off the tutorial boat before I realized I didn't like the game lol

make impossible enemies

roguelikes allow you to break the game with their mechanics. it's kind of expected

and management rewards it (if you point it out, not just accidentally because the impression management worked) =]

actually in retrospect my achievements never got me anything, even when management full well knew themselves what they were, even made memes about me around the office. so it is quite interesting that the backstabbers get rewarded. because it isn't reward based on achievements... so it must be some other proxy

other than the scant computer fundamentals the things I learned getting my degree never came up again and I just had to learn new tech on the job

fundamentals are good because you can build a model of how things work under the hood and then when stuff breaks you can debug it because you know these things

there is some merit to learning things even if they're useless: people generally build stuff the same way with the same concepts. like if you learn one programming language you're basically set for most things in all the others. but the person hiring you will be upset you have to look up to know the exact method names which to me just seems like a nitpick

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the argument for school I heard is that despite the degree being useless it's still a good filtering mechanism. because it shows you someone who will stick to something and follow through on it

I think another part is someone who will follow orders and be obedient even though they may know better. which interview tests would do

this sounds human and not AI which is a little concerning

I have never found there to be a use for interfaces

they're an anti-feature that marries you to a specific architecture that then causes you to have to travel more / do more if you want to change code

I did use generics though, which has the same overhead as interfaces but you're getting features for the downside so it at least makes sense

oh lmao they said competitive pay... but at the end they actually say the amount

much confusing fire

typical

them thinking AGI will come is why they fired all those people though

turns out it's not just tech either

and the AI companies are pyramid scheme investing in each other to keep this evaluation circus going

@YourMom yeah but I wanna be in bliss

heroin seems too fast but I guess it's an option

sometimes I think my retirement plan should be buying 50 chocolate bars and eating them until I die of irony poisoning

edit: I'm told by AI it would take about 600-1700 chocolate bars. goddamnit

that's funny

I was using tomcat and websphere and stuff and those tools took 40 seconds minimum to boot even if they had nothing configured

then I touched JavaScript for backend and everything just ran in a fraction of a second...

older server software was waaaayyy slower. javascript ended up being a revolution in speed up

I never ate the gum under desks... uegh

though yeah sharing drinks and food was fine

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also younger generation has less sex. they also don't drink or do drugs apparently

my boyfriend basically is offering to be my agent (for job hunting)

I mean... that's very supportive but weird

sigh I think I'll just die

apparently I'm smart. my brain is still scrambled eggs and now I seem to be oddly morose all the time

being smart means people wanna hire you, right? lol

but I'm not motivated for anything anymore. also working sucked because people just said weird snippy things to me like I did nothing which was incongruent. but hey it's that or you die. so joke's on me for having quit like 6 years ago and wanting someone to prove to me that not all workplaces would be like that. I really don't have a plan

maybe I don't even know myself. at which point that also deserves dying sooo

duh

business business

b2plane? is that you?

@Lensflare I think it's called growth. you're too static and view it as moral superiority