Learning to Code

attempting to go into development was stupid. now i have burnout and an adhd diagnosis. i wanna be a technical writer instead

[quill-of-thoth]

The whole AI sphere makes me think that colleges need to engineer more opportunities for programming people to get their butts kicked, in their own sphere, by humanities majors.

[iwannabeawebdevv]

From what I've seen, all you have to do is find the programming folks who don't own a hammer.

[iwannabeawebdevv]

Okay, it occurs to me that out of context this might not make sense so...

A few months ago one of my coworkers finally settled on a bed frameand mattress system. So once he got the frame, he took everything out of his room and placed it into the common area and started trying to put the frame together. It was apparently a fairly standard metal bed frame.... but it took him two weeks.

And just when he finally almost had it done, he ran into a problem. There was a portion of the frame that he couldn't get into the piece it needed to go into. His roommate also a coworker and a bodybuilder couldn't get the piece into the frame either.

So they finally decided they needed a hammer to get it in. Neither one of them owned a hammer. [I am personally very judgey about them now owning a hammer. I can excuse not owning a drill, especially if you know someone who owns a drill, but not owning a hammer? sheesh]

So after some waffling about what to do, they decided to take the pieces of the bedframe and go to Walmart and see if Walmart had a handyman service who could hammer the piece into the bedframe. It did not.

So they decided that they would need to buy a hammer. Apparently they waffled for about 30 minutes over which hammer, and eventually settled on a two-toned rubber mallet. So they head to checkout and bedframe owner tells his roommate he can go on out and bedframe guy will be out in a bit.

Roommate waited in the car for about 30 minutes before going in to find out what was taking so long as the line hadn't been that long. It turns out that bedframe guy was walking up and down the front of the Walmart after checkout, waffling about leaving Walmart with the mallet because he was afraid of ...voiding the warranty ... on a rubber mallet.

...

So in the end one of the employees goes up to them finds out what's going on and why they keep going up and down the front of the Walmart and ends up hammering the piece into the frame for them. Bedframe guy thanks him, tries to tip him, and then heads to the customer service desk where he promptly returns the mallet.

[iwannabeawebdevv]

hilariously I have been told by a friend who works in construction that "he doesn't own a hammer" is a phrase commonly used by construction workers

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[ladyadrasteia666]

Reblogging to spread the luck and the good fortune

[emergentpattern]

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

Not apocalyptic levels of OhFuck unless you’ve sat through a Cat5, but shit’s been like this for a long time now. We just put up with it for far too fucking long:

Me: I need to go home. There’s a hurricane coming and my basement apartment is on the coast, so I’m worried about my cats. (To myself: And maybe needing to evacuate.)

Boss: Is your house and your cats more important than this job?

Me: YES.

Boss: …oh. Okay. Uh…see you tomorrow…

Different boss, several years later, a conversation that happened multiple times:

Me: Hey, it’s starting to really snow outside, I live on a steep hill, and I only have 2-wheel drive. If I don’t leave now, I can’t get home.

Boss: Is getting home more important than getting your job done tonight?

Me: Considering I value my life more than I value this paperwork being digitized? YES.

Boss: ….

Me: Bye. See you tomorrow.

Boss: Uh, yeah, okay.

Different atttempt:

Boss: Why don’t you just get a hotel after work?

Me: Do I get a raise so I can afford it?

Boss: No.

Me: Bye. See you tomorrow.

[the-haiku-bot]

Boss: Is getting home

more important than getting

your job done tonight?

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[notemily]

Haikubot aside we should normalize saying those things to bosses absolutely. It’s only going to get worse.

[scleroticstatue]

What’s crazy is how the bosses are so conditioned to guilt trip and then when they don’t get the response they expect, they don’t even follow through on the demand, like “oh, uh, I guess that’s okay then.” They’ve been trained, but when you break the training, it turns out they’re kind of real people.

[iwannabeawebdevv]

got snow, coming home in the snow slide a couple times. get an email from company -we need an update on where you are in regards to returning our laptop now that we've laid you off it's imperative you get it done immediately so it doesnt even end when you get laid off lol T_T

[iwannabeawebdevv]

welp. i got laid off.

imma go apply for what appears to be a glorified meter maid job

[iwannabeawebdevv]

sat through a meeting of one my company's partner companies talking about how they used ai to improve productivity. They were boasting about how they managed to drop something from costing the company thousands of dollars to a few dollars, and as i was listening i realized- they're talking about labor costs. They cut costs by having the ai do something humans used to do. I utterly loathe the word productivity now. No wonder I'm burning out.

Anyway I am now convinced that "Next slide, please" are among the sounds of Hell.

[technofeudalism]

definitely not an encouraging sign when a meteorologist local to Florida who has been doing this for a long time is crying on air about the strength and intensity of a storm that is 2 days away. if you're on the west coast of Florida and you still haven't gotten to message.. you need to listen.

[iwannabeawebdevv]

called out for work for second day in a row, imma about to go back to sleep to try to stave off the headache, but lol after i sent the i have to take another day of sick leave messages and shut the laptop my brain went "there. I quit!"

lol

sorry my poor brain we havent quit yet

but yes i am prioritizing myself and not trying to work when i feel like this today

[quill-of-thoth]

The whole AI sphere makes me think that colleges need to engineer more opportunities for programming people to get their butts kicked, in their own sphere, by humanities majors.

[iwannabeawebdevv]

From what I've seen, all you have to do is find the programming folks who don't own a hammer.

[iwannabeawebdevv]

Okay, it occurs to me that out of context this might not make sense so...

A few months ago one of my coworkers finally settled on a bed frameand mattress system. So once he got the frame, he took everything out of his room and placed it into the common area and started trying to put the frame together. It was apparently a fairly standard metal bed frame.... but it took him two weeks.

And just when he finally almost had it done, he ran into a problem. There was a portion of the frame that he couldn't get into the piece it needed to go into. His roommate also a coworker and a bodybuilder couldn't get the piece into the frame either.

So they finally decided they needed a hammer to get it in. Neither one of them owned a hammer. [I am personally very judgey about them now owning a hammer. I can excuse not owning a drill, especially if you know someone who owns a drill, but not owning a hammer? sheesh]

So after some waffling about what to do, they decided to take the pieces of the bedframe and go to Walmart and see if Walmart had a handyman service who could hammer the piece into the bedframe. It did not.

So they decided that they would need to buy a hammer. Apparently they waffled for about 30 minutes over which hammer, and eventually settled on a two-toned rubber mallet. So they head to checkout and bedframe owner tells his roommate he can go on out and bedframe guy will be out in a bit.

Roommate waited in the car for about 30 minutes before going in to find out what was taking so long as the line hadn't been that long. It turns out that bedframe guy was walking up and down the front of the Walmart after checkout, waffling about leaving Walmart with the mallet because he was afraid of ...voiding the warranty ... on a rubber mallet.

...

So in the end one of the employees goes up to them finds out what's going on and why they keep going up and down the front of the Walmart and ends up hammering the piece into the frame for them. Bedframe guy thanks him, tries to tip him, and then heads to the customer service desk where he promptly returns the mallet.

[quill-of-thoth]

The whole AI sphere makes me think that colleges need to engineer more opportunities for programming people to get their butts kicked, in their own sphere, by humanities majors.

[iwannabeawebdevv]

From what I've seen, all you have to do is find the programming folks who don't own a hammer.

[lordworm]

Reblog to make it die faster

[chilewithcarnage]

[chaotic-hypnotic-erotic]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[iwannabeawebdevv]

So the problem with genAI, at least in regards to company considerations in teh two majpr engagements ive been in is scalability and evaluation. There comes a point when you have figure out how to work around the costs and the time. There are ways and they are trying to figure out ways so the user doesnt have to deal with the time delas such as pnly using it for things that can be preloaded, but then you have to monitor and evaluate just how well it's working... and there's plenty of metrics libraries and such out there, but all of those are going to take time, and then somehow you have to make sure the evaluations are correct, right? So the thing is typically to check the llm answer, you need to have a ground truth to compare the answer too. But where does that ground truth come from? Well, in theory you can also generate the ground truth from the llm, but if you do that how do you check the accuracy of the ground truth? Well, a Subject Matter Expert (SME) is going to have to check it. Or you could just have the SME create the ground truth to start off with, but either way, if you're dealing with alot of data, that's going to take time, especially since the data could be thousands and thousands of rows of data. oh and while all that's going on, what happens if all that time it takes for the llm to do stuff hits the RateLimit? well then it wont go thru, so you can piecemeal it, but that means more calls. so. you gotta figure those out. if those get figured out, then llms will be used alot, but until those blockers are dealt with, it's not going to move much.

I am curious to see how long Microsoft props up OpenAI for. and when they finally give up on it[literally my bosses don't ssay if it fails they say when it fails and yet we're all working with AzureOpenAI lmao] I'm curious to see which llm will win out for the next bit of time.

Who knows maybe the EU will do some more laws that kill it. lol.

anyway I've decided I don't wanna be in development anymore. ive been told it's just the company i work for, but I am sincerely burnt out.

[librarianpirate]

[iwannabeawebdevv]

urks in the date formatter I set up that would do something similar if only given '22.

[only-tiktoks]

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

I gotta say, despite the fact that that’s a diverse collection of people every one of them looks like what I’d imagine a mathematician to look like (well except for the nun I guess)

[techcat]

@polwigle

[queriesntheories]

alright i am sick of yt to mp4 sites being shady and full of viruses and finding websites that seem to be working and then don't work (looking at you y232 (no hate, just frustrated))

so HERE'S HOW YOU DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOS WITH VLC!! VLC FREAKIN RULES!!

get your youtube link

open vlc, go to media > open network stream

paste your url in the box and PRESS PLAY!

wait for the video to open then go to tools > codec information

copy the entire file location (click the box, then ctrl-a to select all, then ctrl-c to copy)

paste into your browser of choice (i use firefox)

right click video and press "save video as", choose your file format if you want

DONE! NO VIRUSES OR SKETCHY STUFF!

the quality might be a little crummy but if you don't mind that, then shabam! video on your computer! then you can email it to yourself and have it on your phone too if you want! if you need a guide with pictures wikihow has you covered my friends

happy downloading and stay safe on the internet :D

[0x4468c7a6a728]

if you want videos in their original quality and can handle a tiny bit of command line stuff, there's yt-dlp!

GitHub - yt-dlp/yt-dlp: A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes - GitHub - yt-dlp/yt-dlp: A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

[cloversnotes]

This is my first coding assignment for my software engineering class that started today. It’s going to be a really good semester.

[cloversnotes]

UPDATE: I got my grade back and

“100″

[cloversnotes]

Since this post has gotten some attention, I feel like it’s worth mentioning that this was just the first half of the assignment.

The second half, which we weren’t made aware of until the day we were meant to turn this one in, was to trade USB drives with the person sitting next to us and MODIFY their “unreadable” code without getting any help from them.

This was to teach us two things:

1) In this field, you’ll spend more time working with code written by other people than you will writing original code from a blank slate. The people who wrote the original code will probably not be around to help you. Learning to read code is IMPORTANT, even if it seems unreadable.

2) There is a strong brotherhood/sisterhood among programmers and software engineers. Respect that bond when you’re writing code and documentation. In my professor’s words: “When you write code, pretend that the person who will have to maintain it after you’re gone is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.”

This class and professor are incredible.

[iwannabeawebdevv]

So far I've only done LC/NC stuff and new developments, but one of my coworkers? He got put on a legacy system and was working 12 hours a day, struggling to understand what in the world was going on with the code. He ended up getting put on a different team that is going much better for him now, but he said that it was really rough just trying to figure out what was going on in that system.

One of my other coworkers temporarily got assigned to clean up a small POC database, and the person who built the database didn't use standardization for naming practices at all.

[iwannabeawebdevv]

I've been put on a training/mentoring project where we're gonna work with Python and AI and set up some stuff that may be used to showoff for the company. I'm so excited!

As much as I enjoy automation it's so niche that I worry it's not enough to get by. This is going to give me some work that's not quite as LCNC as the automation and slowly start expanding out of it.

[nixcraft]

[iwannabeawebdevv]

LOL YESSSS I'm still technically a fresher but the project I was POC dev for, the actual app devs were literally still getting changing requirements the day of code freeze for the first delivery!!

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[beetlebrownleaf]

Yes! The whole point was they were just kids. They were kids behaving like kids. So Juliet is easily swayed and Romeo is a fickle teenager who falls in “love” at the drop of a hat. The point is that if their families weren’t sworn enemies, this probably would have played out very melodramatically with tears and teenage heartbreak. But no one would have died. The point was that this family feud took your average teenage love affair and made it into a big tragic mess. What would have been just a bad breakup for the both of them to get over in a couple weeks became a secret marriage and tragic deaths instead.

[iwannabeawebdevv]

it's been awhile so i may be misremembering but wasn't there some line from Mercutio that talked about how Rosaline and Juliet weren't the first girls Romeo pulled this "love at first sight" schtick with either?