writes innovative new software
ahh, fuck
I’m hoping the context implies that it only has to seem innovative to the kinds of people who can’t tell the difference between software engineers and tech bros.
Well, think about it. If you are writing software that already exists, it’s not innovative. But, think about how rare that is. Has anyone combined the business logic in your specific way before? Chances are no, because if they had, they already beat you to market or you can reuse yourself.
Yeah this customer-specific config flag is something like the world has never seen!
I’m gonna get replaced by AI, huh? 😭
Most of my stuff “it already exists, but its so horrible i can do it better…” now theres two shitty software.
But, it’s a different shitty way of doing it.
It might just cause the next iteration to be less shitty. If not there are then 3.
This is how Windows was made.
Depressing
Accurate.
Where can I get that open source pony-themed RPG dating sim?
I feel weirdly caught, because I had a time during college when I could actually say “the usual please” in our local subway (the restaurant not the transportation vehicle).
Also I did program on the calculator in like 7th grade and studied mythological origins of witches and their bogs last month for a d&d round.
Not that big of an innovator, though.
I kept requesting the transportation subway travel to my stop until one day I forgot to ask and it still arrived at my stop. That’s when I understood what it felt like to fit in.
studied mythological origins of witches and their bogs
Say more. Asking for … Umm … A friend. Yes, I have those.
Okay first of I actually meant hags not witches in general. (There is apparently a difference)
I found some weird ways of reproducing in DnD-hags, which I wanted to rework.
They reproduce (among other things) by devouring an infant and then giving birth to it… Yes, classical DnD.I devised a method of hags coming to live in bogs as manifestations of people who died there.
Parts of the souls then make up the character of the hag or become multiple hags with different personalities. Hence some hags may be friendly to strangers wanting to pass their bog unharmed and others try to “devour” them by killing them in their bog.
(That is the gist of it)
If I had not moved several kilometers away from my favourite bar, I swear some of the baristas would be communicating with me in grunts by now.
There was a period where me stepping in was followed by “The usual?” and a couple of times when they saw me out smoking just as the bar opened, so they just poured it without even asking me, as there was little point.
Life is too short to drive a Hyundai and eat the same meal every day though. Unless the Hyundai is one of their more performant EV models, in which case it can at least be fun.
Imagine not building your own router out of spare hardware.
WiFi? What’s that? I’ll just run some cat6 through my crawlspace
Cat6? You rich or something? We use cat5e around these parts.
I used to have an old beige box router with dual nics. It would hum me to sleep at night … I still have a box of wrt routers, you know, just in case someone needs one.
Everything I have that has an Ethernet port is plugged into Ethernet. I have two switches as well as the router.
pony themed rpg dating simulator 😭😭😭
Inherits ‘maintainer’ status on an open-source pony-themed RPG dating simulator
For anyone in the industry out there, if someone has ‘maintainer’ status on an open source project, hire that mofo right away. That title sounds so casual but is the most hardcore
The router may also have a giant fan screwed onto the back too.
Or just a huge box fan (as in, a fan used to cool rooms, not a computer fan) behind the thing, we used to do this back then
The wrt54g was a workhorse, but the cooling…
fuck, I remember now I unironically wrote code on my ti84 before I knew what coding was or how it worked at all
not that it’s complicated in any way
IIRC you write in “TI Basic” which is very human readable
Yeah I was reading that and I hit everything on the right side except, writes innovative software…
And that’s only because I’m not good enough at coding.
Yep! That’s how I started too. The student teacher installed a bunch of programs for us, and I started editing them and making my own games, like black jack. In high school, I modded my calculator with custom firmware that allowed you to cut/copy and go to lines when editing a program instead of holding down an arrow. I used this a ton as I was making a poker program that used the graph to draw the cards out. It took over half of the RAM, and I regularly backed it up. My calculator crashed hard and couldn’t boot up, so I wasn’t able to finish it.
I wrote a rudimentary roguelike on the TI Nspire
Money talks, wealth whispers dont only apply to financials…
This hit too close to home. I’ve been eating at the same place for the past three years, I just say “hi” and go to my usual table now.
Also the spider anatomy. I’ve explained the origin of Hotwheels sisyphus at least ten times now
If you made a spreadsheet to compare cars and ended up with a Hyundai your spreadsheet had an error.
Hyundai has some of the best EVs
Did a huge spreadsheet comparing electric cars that can charge fast, tow a trailer and are as efficient as possible. Ended up with a Hyundai Ioniq 6. Great car IMHO.
I made a spreadsheet to compare cheapo cars. Then my brother, who is a car person, went with me to car shop and insisted I buy a '92 Honda Prelude that was in pristine looking condition for 7k. He was very insistent that it was a steal even if I needed to put another couple grand to fix it up, so I bought it.
Unfortunately, I have indeed needed to put more money into it, its currently in the shop right now in fact.
I’ve never owned a fast car before, I’ll admit its a fun car to drive. All my previous cars were boring A to B basic cars. I wish it’s cruise control worked (still can’t figure out why it wont), that it had come with cup holders, and that its speakers weren’t so tinny.
How many miles on it? Because if it’s low mileage 7k is a steal. Those things can sell for over twice that. I don’t know that I’d suggest a car that old as a daily driver for someone that doesn’t do their own repairs. Old cars are always going to need a lot of repairs.
Yeah the car person here sounds like a “car enthusiast” to me, since preludes are still desirable for import racing and 7 is low, but no one who works on cars and knows how much work a car like that can be would ever recommend it to their less knowledgeable friend.
How many miles on it? Because if it’s low mileage 7k is a steal.
139k
I don’t know that I’d suggest a car that old as a daily driver for someone that doesn’t do their own repairs. Old cars are always going to need a lot of repairs.
Yeah that’s what I kind of told him, its age was a concern to me but he said that while I wasn’t the ideal user, that it’d probably still serve me well as long as I take care of it because he said old Hondas are very reliable. He was insistent it was the best option out of the cars we were looking at. He also loves Hondas though so I’m wondering if he was a tad biased and it was really just a car he’d like.
I’ll say I do feel some level of responsibility to making sure its taken care of because its like a cool old car and IDK if I want that sense of responsibility. But I also really don’t want to go car shopping again.
Senior software engineers drive old, beat up Tacomas with no computers.
I dunno about that. Hyundais are cheap, and until recently they were pretty reliable cars. I drove an '07 accent for 14 years with zero issues and minimal maintenance. I only replaced it in late 2020 because I was having a house built and moving to a rural area, and needed something that could handle country roads and at least light off-roading.
I compared a bunch of CUVs (compact SUVs) checked out all of them, and finally got it down to the Honda CRV, Toyota RAV4, some Hyundai (Tucson maybe?), and a Kia Sportage (I know, it’s basically a Hyundai, and vice versa).
Every single one of them had some caveat. The Hyundai had a high dash and infotainment blocking part of the view, the CRV had a low front end that caused issues with low obstacles a CVT that struggles with uphill driving. The RAV4 was nice, but cost at least 30-50% more expensive than every other car with few discernable advantages. Plus, several other cars I looked at were CVT with dual clutch, which can burn up and overheat just going uphill.
In the end, it actually was down to the Hyundai and the Kia Sportage.
I bought the Sportage because it was all around balanced, still had an ICE engine, AWD, and Kia Finance had a good deal I qualified for. I got the previous year’s model new from remaining stock with a zero interest rate. Sweet deal, total cost was like $24k. It’s been a good car. Some minor issues and a bit of recall work with the dealerships, but I haven’t had any major problems with it, and I barely have to do any sort of maintenance, just like the old Hyundai.
spreadsheet
Libreoffice Calc is neat
If you have to make a spreadsheet, yeah. But since I’ve started working in a company, I have seen things, which will make me avoid making a spreadsheet, even if it’s theoretically a good fit for the task at hand.
To be honest I thought tech bros are what you get when you fit into all of the boxes on both sides.
