That because I'm punk and a mosher I must be aggressive and do lots of drugs. i'm only aggressive to shit people who deserve it lol
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Mosh pits are surprisingly wholesome if you're not familiar with them. To an outside observer it just looks like a bunch of aggro idiots beating each other up. To the people in the pit it's an amazing shared experience of like-minded people, there to enjoy the same thing, having a great time and helping each other up when they fall. The right pit is a sea of positivity, community and endorphins.
I like peaceful hippie jam band noodly noodling nowadays. However, I was born in a mosh pit. There is a time and a place and appropriate selections when it comes to more ”Cerebral Matters” , shall we say. It’s all about keeping the positive vibe a go go! Keep it surreal, friendly and safe. Btw, ya’ll new kittens. Doooo Not! Forget ya’lls safe word(s).
What about the drug part?
never done illegal drugs but sometimes I get zooted on z drugs bc I have insomnia
Used to be that because I was an expert on Apple platforms, that must mean I can fix a Windows computer. I hadn't the first clue where anything was. I've since learned, however. Because of work. Oh well.
Did I know how printers work and can fix their printer.
Look, I have a computer science degree (utterly pointless qualification folks don't get one) and I work in cyber security. I haven't got a clue how those fuckers work, I don't know get a brother or something they seem to be fine.
Printers are so cheap nowadays that the solution to every problem is to buy a new one. Paper jam? Out of ink? Random pages coming out with grayscale pictures of demonic forces? Lost the power cable? Buy a new one
Skydiving
Skydivers are not adrenaline (epinephrine) junkies. Adrenaline actually makes you feel terrible. You know that rush and shakes you get when you get hungry? Yeah, THAT'S an adrenaline rush.
No, we go for the same thing runners do. Endorphins. Nature's own anti-depressant.
I assumed you guys did it for the view. I'd do it but I'm afraid of heights.
This is very enlightening. Great way of framing the difference between the two.
Software engineering.
Most people don't have a clue what we do. Especially management. Most people think we're code factory workers, just writing code all day. In reality, it is closer to being an artist than it is a factory worker. There's a ton of thinking, discussion, design, and unfortunately politicking.
Thats interesting. I am one of those people who assumed the job was pretty much just coding all day on some team project. What does your day to day routine look like?
It can vary a lot depending on the day and the company/job. Frequently there are meetings that are update/planning discussions, discussions with one or more other engineers on how to build a given feature, debugging existing code to figure out why it's not doing the thing we want (which is a different but overlapping skill set with coding).
Ultimately there isn't really a "typical" day because we wear a lot of different hats. My current job is more coding heavy because I'm at a small startup with only a couple of engineers. In a given week I'm probably doing 10% meetings, 50% coding/debugging/configuration, 20% code review (reviewing other people's code), and 20% thinking/designing/experimenting with ideas. Those numbers vary a lot though. At a previous job I ended up spending an entire week just doing project management to alleviate my boss' anxiety over a project (which was somewhat self defeating because it meant I wasn't getting work done on said project). That job in particular had a lot of politicking and communication which was due to micromanagement.
A lot of what people don't realize is that we aren't just building a feature. We're building a feature while thinking ahead to known or potential future features. How can we build feature A to enable making features B, C, and D easier/better/faster without also making feature E much more difficult or impossible? It's about building flexibility into the system while also balancing against time and cost restrictions. We as engineers have things that we see as necessary while the business wants more features and it's necessary to balance the two. At a healthy org that means that there's a negotiation of priorities between the two forces. If you only focus on the technical stuff, you won't ship features. If you only focus on the features, how fast you can deliver features will come to a grinding halt. Your system will also start breaking in unexpected ways which takes time away from building features.
It's kinda a rambly response to your question but I hope it helps.
Hey collegue!
Fully agree with you. People think anything can be done with Software. But often not really and we just create a work around. Its always funny to see people think developing is easy and then get shattered by reality. Sometimes you just sit there, screaming for why it doesnt work!...then you see you set the wrong variable.
Sometimes you are an artist, sometimes a high mathematician, sometimes a wizard and sometimes you want to get an axe and hack your computer
People assume programmers know all about hacking. Because we "know about computers."
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People are always amazed at how physically active embroidery is at an industrial scale. Everybody thinks it's just sitting around with an oldschool hoop, but I'm up and down the length of an 8ft machine all day, embroidering the same design on 6 garments at once.
I think the most I ever did was 300 garments in an 8 hour workday, but I put 17k steps on my fitbit and was dead tired afterwards.
Edit:oh heck it was more steps than that
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User end hands on IT for the elderly.
that it's hard. "Oh I could never do your job"
It's literally a customer service job with tech paint. Reboot the device. Don't yell at the decrepit person doing their best in a digital world. Collect check and praise.
The amount of times I've been called a genius for relogging into someone's email is greater than 7.
Yeah. Real hard.
Don't yell at the decrepit person doing their best in a digital world.
I think this is the part some people might struggle with
Every time it gets difficult I imagine cleaning week old fry grease out of the fryer with a coat hanger because it was so clogged. I was making less then.
I love context. It helps so much.
Honestly it's only bad when they come at it like they know more than you do. 1 out of 100 in my very lucky experience.
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"Accountants spend most of their time preparing tax"
No, hardly any time is spent on tax. Management accountants and auditors don't do tax work at all.
People praise me up for "saving the bees". Honey bees don't need saving. It's the other bees that do, the hundreds of species of bumblebees, mining bees, solitary bees etc etc. Bees that are outcompeted in some areas due to the number of hobbyist beekeepers and commercial bee farms. I'm one of the baddies.
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That I spend all day coding, I spend most my day reading. Code usually but still
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I actually do enjoy human interaction (to a reasonable degree).
And what do you do?
It’s tough to describe but I work in Theater & Performing Arts.
I'm having difficulty understanding what positions in theater and performing arts are stereotyped as anti-social, unless it's some kind of euphemism?
Let’s just move along and for clarity, no euphemisms or double entendres. I just generally have a disdain for people in general. When one shows a nanoshred of awareness & acknowledgement of others, I am turned on. I mean not aroused like in that way, but mentally turned on. Connections with unmet members of likemindedness. Big mind boner for sure! Way better than food when your hungry. *Here in the west, our interpretations vary by many degrees.
I don't know if you're flirting with me or telling me to shut up
I could possibly be mentally flirting. I don’t think it’s a crime yet. So, I’’’’m gonna say to ya’ll. *Do attempt this move while one is still free to express and exercise it. But getting back to your initial question. Quite possibly maybe or perhaps not at all. I don’t honestly know yet.
I'm either too high or not high enough for this. Just tell me what position to get in and let's get this over with. Lights off but socks stay on.
You just made me spit seltzer water everywhere. I’m high enough to think that your last comment is the funniest dang ol’ thing I read today. I’m still giggling and the seltzer just uninvitedly toolk the ⬆️ elevator. Thanks🙌 Now I don’t need to do sit ups tomorrow. Idk U but U’r a funny £#%¥!✌️G’night!
I have an urge to throw a towel at you and tell you to clean yourself up while I put my pants back on. Thanks for the ego boost and I hope you get some help with your drinking problem. I left the $60 on your nightstand, goodnight.
Thank you. I’m only feeling slightly less than I was 2 weeks ago. Calling it a win tonight. Was no sweat off my upper butt. I’m giving the 60 bucks to the local food bank. Conversely, Ima take waaaaay more than that during the times when the goods are getting doled out. It’s kinda like being and unlikely hero. Low hanging fruit I know. But I’m g’on grab it. B/c I’m tall & those short fucks are just up the creek now.
All this talk about upper butt, grabbing low hanging fruit, short fucks, and local food banks has me ready for round 2. Out of completely unrelated curiosity, how tall are we talking?
So uh the thing that measures that got broken by some dumb hippies trying to concoct some original ideas. I know it just happens every so often. Try’n to warsh the self righteousness stench is a chore in itself. But hey, whatcha g’on do? Give the kiddos a pathway & next thing they think they invented it.
You have a way with words. As in a way to put letters together in a seemingly correct fashion but trying to process the meaning is like trying to shove a vinyl record into a usb port. I like you
That USB shoving Vinyl is on the docket for our golf game. It has nothing to do with our golf round nor does our golf game have the slightest to do with this project. Will update w/ photos. If I don’t remember to take pics, I will faithfully, to the best of my knowledge, re create said pictures. Please be aware this may be a poor imitation of a hare brained subversive tech stunt. It would be annoying AF (but that’s the funny part). Hours & hours of shoving vinyl in to cassettes & CD players. Some really F’d up ADMSR 🤣
I don't know if you need your meds and a nap or if you're actually going to make a video of vinyl shoving
Somewhere in that Venn Diagram, lay the truth in unexplored realms of subversive endeavors. However, I actually enjoy an existence on this plane of what some call reality. I’m kinda like a misanthropic pragmatist with clairvoyant intuition & knack for puns. I do fancy myself a wordsmith & Wesson. B/c my first shot misses & the next will keep U guessin’. 🤟
Likewise Mio Amico!
🙌
Just trying to get the fuck outta my own way. Gotta just mention I’m 6’4 & I was heading out of SeaTac airport on Valentines Day earlier this year & my wife was checking a bag & everywhere I stood, people would just begin lining up behind me. At first I thought it was funny but then after a bit, I began to think to myself, this is becoming absurd. After that bs, I went outside & probably inhaled a vape pen in one draw. The rest of the day was ez pee zee. My hostility level reached subzero levels. It’s was a W for my wife b/c she had to fly with me.
I'm working with computers => I can fix their windows problems.
Nope. If I work on windows, and it eats itself for no reason, I call IT. I don't waste my time on that crap software.
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