Prompt questions:
What do you do for work, or what are you studying towards
Musical recommendations (bonus points for metal)
Useless tidbit you know (bonus points for citing sources)
Best meal you’ve had
Best place you’ve visited
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I’m an Asian (Hongkonger to be exact) and I speak Cantonese. I love sharing about my culture, most of the time including language. People don’t quite like it tho.
Meanwhile I study CS, make vector arts, play piano, and stream.
A proper Chinese always knows how to piano
Of course I do, like half of my friends
Just out of curiosity, is your username your name in Chinese?
Nope, but it is in some way related
International buyer for performance exhaust system manufacturer.
My foster child is also my niece
LOVED Belgium. Visited St Truiden, Ghent and Brussels. I cried for a week when I left I missed it so much.
I have every album by Radiohead, Bela Fleck and Medeski Martin and Wood.
That’s really great you took your niece in.
Never been to Europe and kick myself for going to Asia instead.
I’ve never had to do a job interview. 5 different jobs, all word of mouth.
amazing, but how?
My first ever job was running a wood chipper under my uncles tree business. Did that almost every weekend for a number of years. Even sometimes in the winter. I wasn’t even a teenager when I first started this job.
Second job was working in a warehouse at a company my mom worked at. They really needed weekend help.
My third job was doing landscaping over the summer at a smallish company where my brother in law worked at. The owner loved to hire students for cheap.
Fourth was a few software development internships ran by a research group at my college. I had a friend who was part of the group and vouched for me.
My current job is my first true career job as a software engineer. The project manager from one of the internships I had actually got a job as CTO at this company. Offered me a junior position there out of college. Been there almost 6 years.
I have applied to places where I certainly would have needed interviews, but I was never offered an opportunity.
To make this even more awesome is that I’ve interviewed candidates myself at my current job for junior positions.
I would also like to know where people network to find jobs. Haven’t had any luck. I just want a help desk role.
A lot of it has been family and college. The college I attended has a research group that allows students to do internships.
The college also runs job fairs every one in a while. Those kinds of things I huge.
Conventions of any kind as well, where you can speak to people in booths, or even any of the other attendees.
I’ve been to college job fairs and went to conferences. Didn’t really help.
I really enjoy butterscotch and scotch
Im the person who’s been “chosen by the people” to do “IT stuff”. Family, friends, teachers, and neighbours reach out to me for the simplest tasks. Stuff they could probably figure out on their own, but insist I do for them.
I’m a nightmare for my school administrators, as I know my way around every blocking and monitoring thing they’ve set up on the school equipment.
I’ve also caused headaches for the entire city wide school system, as I got cloudflare to (unintentionally) block traffic from our ip address, and since all traffic is funnleded trough a VPN to a central gateway (all schools in said city use the vpn) ,meaning I blocked 66k kids from using the internet for 15m. ( I didn’t get in trouble :3)
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at my place, there’s a food name Saksang
its a pork cooked with its blood…
I’m going to a King Gizzard show next month, pretty excited.
Best meal I probably had was an emotional support curry I made for myself.
I’m also excited about restarting my D&D campaign after a small hiatus.
Currently I’m pretty tired but I’m also going though some revenge bedtime procrastination…
I’ve never actually sat and listened to Gizzard. On my list, but my free time is chronically limited.
Curry is love. Curry is life.
What are you going as for DND? I don’t play, but know enough to be dangerous. Also, I’ll make an AI drawing for you if you like.
Example:
Goblin Cleric
Hope you rest up. I burn the candle at both ends so I know the feeling.
If you’re a metal fan give PetroDragonic Apocalypse and Nonagon Infinity a try. Their other albums aren’t metal but pretty good nonetheless.
I’m the game master actually! So I play as all the NPCs lol.
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I have total Aphantasia. There’s no internal voice, ever. I’ve never pictured anything in my mind. No taste, touch, or smell can evoke a memory or whatever it is other people have. My husband says he battles negative voices from his past? I live in absolute peace.
Incredible
not today, nsa ,👁👄👁
nice try, fbi
Not on your lives, MI5
Sorry guys in 5 eyes
I’m just bored, talk about what you want.
I work as a Java programmer, which means that I spend about 50% of my day complaining about Java. Why doesn’t it have enums like Rust? Why are there no tuples? How many goat sacrifices do the Java gods require to support named optional arguments to functions like Python? In the remaining time I have meetings, write docs, write tests, and sometimes even code. Nothing to complain about though, seeing how we are treated compared to people I know who work as taxi drivers or in elderly care, we programmers are basically treated as gods.
As for music, I like Hardstyle and Drum and Bass primarily. Examples: “Phuture Noize & Devin Wild - Waves”, DnB: “Telomic & Susan H - Underwater”. I’ll be visiting the DnB festival “Liquicity festival” this weekend so I’m very hyped right now
Really? Come to the C# side… We have all those, and concise code too.
I work in a makerspace, that’s in a public library.
What are your tips for a library opening a tiny maker space? Some libraries near me have been given grants to have a “tool library” section, with some work benches and basic hand tools, that can be borrowed.
I think my biggest suggestion might be to try to avoid the huge industry of companies selling “makerspace” stuff to libraries, i.e. GlowForge, etc. All of it is wildly overpriced and underpowered, at the supposed tradeoff of having a lot of support. It’s a bad trade, the support isn’t worth it.
Try to build your own open source equipment, like Voron for 3d printing, OpenFlexure for microscopes, all the Precious Plastics designs for plastic scrap processing, etc. Building these from scratch is ultimately cheaper. Also, it means you’ll know how to fix anything that could possibly go wrong, since you know it inside and out
Don’t worry about not having the necessary skills/experience. It’s all very learnable by anyone, and also there are definitely members of your community with those skills willing to help out. On that note, you really want the community running this thing more than the library admin. They know what they want/need.
Pay attention to the environmental and health consequences of this stuff EARLY ON, before you invest in something terrible. Use easily compostable materials like PHA and hempwood, or post-consumer recycled stuff like PETg from used soda bottles. Get into making/recycling your own materials if/when you can.
That’s what i can think of for now, hopefully that’s at all helpful.
What types of metal do you like? I can try to aim if I have an idea of what you’re into.
If I’m going just for an out of the blue rec, maybe try Emptiness - Not For Music if you’re not already familiar. Belgian black/death band having turned toward the avant garde have left nearly every indication of their more extreme roots on this album, and it’s fantastic. All the tracks are great but if you’re looking for the “single” maybe try the track Ever.
This is right up my alley; it’s going on my collaborative playlist called ‘forks in a blender’ which is just me and my bud making a playlist.
I really, really like Vvilderness. Huge fan. Also like panopticon, Unreqvited, Witchcraft, Nordic Winter, Skrm (I think?) Elderwind. Psychedelic Witchcraft and Blood Ceremony are up there too.
Ok, I can work with that. If you are a Panopticon fan you may already be familiar with this, but if not it’s worth a listen: Eneferens. A little more toward the VVilderness vibe, but essentially purely folk, check out Ekstasis. And to go with the psych vibe, if you haven’t heard Hexvessel - Dawnbearer then give that a spin and thank me later.
God, how have I not heard any of these metal bands in this thread? I listen to metal every day, most of the day. Such a huge genre.
I’m going add these to the list.
Holy shit I’m in love with Eneferens and I listened to about 40 seconds. Thanks. Checking out the others .
They do a Kettering cover? Fucking wow
All of this. All of it goes into my and my friends joint playlist (forks in blender)
If you care to, let me know what you think of these. I think I’m on the right track, but I’d be curious to hear how these strike you.
Eneferens is top notch. That’s going to be a deep rabbit hole with associated bands, once I have time to sit down and explore.
I liked hexvessel and Ekstasis (in that order). Again, need to check out more before I really pass judgement, but they have a lot going on that I like
I’m not sure there’s much in the way of branching off from Eneferens. I thought you may have heard of them due to label affiliations. At any rate, glad you are receiving these positively. And yeah, trust that the Hexvessel album is worth some deeper dedicated listening. That’s a special album imo; I don’t know of anything else that’s quite like it.
My 2nd and 3rd toes are webbed up to the first “knuckle” on both feet
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