So uhhhh…what am I supposed to do in the meantime while waiting for a job?

Real talk, this is a bit of a crapshoot but it can work, it’s worked a couple times for me.

Go hard on personal projects.

Make what you want to make, rewrite it when you’re done and realize how stupidly you wrote it the first time. expand it, connect it to other projects, put it all on github, put a decent readme of the whys and hows of this project, it doesn’t matter if you’re the only one who uses it, that’s called internal tooling.

When you run into an issue with a library you’re using, learn to contribute to open source, file a pull request, get a feel for it.

Put your github at the top of your resume. Prune your top repos so people see what you want them to see first.

This wont be a silver bullet but if you apply to smaller shops that like/support open source, it makes the nerds interviewing you like you more. I’ve skipped programming challenges completely because I was able to talk in depth to the designs of my personal projects, so they knew I actually wrote it because I understood it. So if they wanted to see how I wrote code, they could trust I wrote what they’re seeing.

The benefit to this approach is you also get a lot of experience. You’re forced to learn to architect your stuff from first principles, you’re forced to learn from all your mistakes.

This market sucks, these projects will feel like a full time job, but it can pay off, and its a better bet than waiting. Nerds like working with other nerds. People on projects like working with others who can break down problems and figure things out, even if they don’t know the solution immediately.

There is hope.

To be honest, I don’t think it’s enough reason for me to stop playing with the thermal printers anyway. A printer that never needs ink, what an invention.

damn I’ve been playing with thermal printers and custom cutting sheets from larger sheets. Not the thing I wanted to see.

They’re gonna wish they did a Xiajiang style re-educate and release style program. Boys have been born in this camp, aged out of the women and children camp, and put straight into a prison with adult men who were doing actual terrorism.

Basically an extremism factory, almost as if it was done on purpose.

A lot less money than I would have thought tbh.

I don’t really have an issue with the community mega threads in general, I think I mentioned it because when I log on, it’s basically half the front page which might be hiding activity overall. But yeah, there’s ways I could improve my experience. I think I just don’t stay on long enough to actually figure it out.

I don’t know if this is a grievance or what tbh. I’ve been on here since basically inception and generally, I think I’ve lost interest.

I don’t know if it’s a case of too many corners being rounded off or what, but in recent times when I’d log on, I’d see at least 3-4 posts on the front page just running an inside joke into the ground, 7 pinned threads, and basically crumbs for activity outside of that.

I guess over time this site has formed to fit the needs of its dedicated users and lost a bit of the charm it had post subreddit. I just feel like I’ve walked into a friend group’s discord server as opposed to a forum, and it sorta bums me out. There’s a lot of really cool people on here but it feels like the site is losing wind and I don’t know where the fault lies.

I think the obsession with individual users and entire struggle sessions over one user’s behavior, to be re-litigated multiple times over, is a net negative on the site. If you scroll here, there’s multiple comment threads about specific users with citations about behavior and I don’t know what there is to do about that. Like one user not disclosing being a vet, like I thought the point was anonymous leftist escape from the chud filled real world? Just argue with him ffs and send ppb if he gets too annoying.

Every time I get on there’s some new struggle session about some user that everyone seems to know about. Either we need less banning, or more banning, but either way I think it’s cancerous to a site’s user base for every ban to be litigated for sport. It genuinely feels like we’re in the hold of some psy-op meant to stop any productive conversation. It’s just non-stop bike shedding over and over and fucking over it’s exhausting.

I really miss coming to this site and hanging out, I don’t expect it to change for just me though.

“I hope that’s a clean wet!” flashback to the urinal

> carrying around my crossbow. Has a rapid reload rate of 1 bolt per 10 minutes

> in a field made up of ~90% cow shit

> shoot my shot at the english sporting peasant during this season’s duke’s entertainment battle

> miss.jpg

> that’s okay, let me get out my crank dohickey for 60 revolutions to reload

> english sporting peasant has long bow

> he just notches an arrow and pulls back

> I receive an arrow to the breathing humor

> mfw my tactical crossbow was insufficient

the first THUG game felt old during the 360’s time, that shit is hard retro by now.

I just remembered the second part of this story.

Originally I had just 1 top one removed, I wanted to do top and bottom separately.

By the time I got around to the bottom one, it righted itself and was no longer dangerous to rip out. I cant even remember which ones I got out at this point, I know I only pulled 3/4. That’s how unproblematic the fourth was. I only got the other pulled because they were getting cavities from their bastard positioning.

The dental surgeons looked at me with disdain when I didn’t fund their car payment on unneeded work. Simply waiting made it go from “very risky” to non-issue and not a single dentist/surgeon thought of it as a possibility for me.

I had a dental surgeon tell me with a straight face that a non-problematic wisdom tooth with nerves wrapped around it should be taken out, and there was a very real possibility I’d lose feeling in my jaw for an indeterminate amount of time.

I told him leave it there and he was full

I tried to buy candy yesterday and the candy canes had already replaced the halloween candy. Awful.

If you tried to discuss it with anyone you would be ridiculed and sometimes even physically threatened.

I don’t know if this is true. You can read plenty of early/mid 20th century books where characters will outright talk about how they don’t believe in a god. Sure certain areas you could get away with it more, but I think there has always been some prevailing strain of people just going along with the community aspect and not being a believer.

Its sadly either an IT degree with an emphasis in looking at PCAPs and hardening servers, or its doing nationstate level hacking. For the latter, the degree doesn’t do much unless you do a TON of hacking shit in your free time and teach yourself to dream in assembly.

Don’t forget taking some of the worst photographs known to man.

What on earth are these discord servers. I don’t understand why someone would hang out on a place like that.

Well said, I think you’re right honestly.

CMV: the failures of democrats can be directly correlated to libs being cringe af and making anyone with any self awareness check out of politics.

For the CLI commands: https://www.nasm.us/xdoc/2.16.03/html/nasmdoc2.html#section-2.1

Have you seen this?

I haven’t written asm in years though, so I cant whip up a putc loop example.