sunbleachedfly @ sunbleachedfly @lemmygrad.ml

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I went to the sea last week, got an air conditioner finally, & commissioned a crop top shirt from my friend that says "DYKE". I'm also gonna make a crop top out of an internet explorer shirt I got from a tech conference years ago that says "I have standards" lmao

صور جميل! بحب البحر، ذهبت الأسبوع الماضي

Ohhh that's interesting, how did you feel otherwise?

Added progesterone to my hormone regimen & all I wanna do is sleep & cry. On the other hand I went to a trans pride event & it was fucking awesome

"not for sale" the jokes write themselves

Whoops I meant at LEAST one month

Happy Pride, everyone in the world is now gay for one (1) month

You're right that you're probably overestimating the basic competence. If you have proficiency in one language, you can end up pretty easily learning another, as every programming language has similar concepts, they just implement them all in a different way.

As for the practical day to day, understanding algorithms isn't really needed. Most languages & frameworks have already implemented almost all problems you've come across with methods like sorting & things like that, but it's helpful to know generally what the performance of something is just in case you end up working with a large dataset.

I feel you on the HackerRank problems, they're annoying & pointless & don't seem to translate well into day to day work, but unfortunately they're used most often for technical interviews. I always had the toughest time with them & I still resent them to this day lol.

I find there are two different areas of skills needed to break into tech:

• Interviewing
• Actually doing the job

Interviewing is much more about solving problems in front of people which usually feel very self indulgent and pointless. There are some that are awesome interview processes but 80% of the time you'll get some bullshit problem to solve in front of them. I find not passing these is its own form of filtering for yourself, because the engineers that think of them or design these interview processes are usually egotistical & have a lot of pull within the org.

Doing the job is much more about collaboration, practical aspects of working together (source control like git, understanding the agile process, knowing who to go to for specific types of knowledge, code reviews, etc). There is a lot less hypothetical knowledge needed unless you're working on critical systems that require high performance & have strict memory limits.

As for whether or not to work in video games, you're definitely right about them being the most exploited. But if you're hoping to work on a unionized team, the video game industry is just about the only one who has any sort of organization effort toward getting unionized & have close to the only unions in the entire tech industry. So it's a trade off. I have tried unionizing in tech start ups before & it has been incredibly hard to get people together for it, I've only gotten small cores of people willing to do it before getting laid off or leaving.

Hope that helps. You're welcome to reach out any time if you want more insight, I know breaking into tech can be daunting.

What kind of coding are you thinking? It depends quite a bit. Remote stuff is viable. It has gotten harder to break into since the waves of layoffs in the tech industry, but is not impossible. I always say getting the first job is the hardest part.

I did this a little over 10 years ago & that was when the tech industry was in full swing with 0% interest rates at the time so it was a bit lax.

What kind of coding do you do? Language, part of the stack etc?

I second this tbh. I worked in the industry, start ups especially don't vet

Thanks for providing the distinction!

The phrase-bandying Trotsky has completely lost his bearings on a simple issue. It seems to him that to desire Russia’s defeat means desiring the victory of Germany.

This makes me think of Russia-Ukraine right now, or even "Israel"-Palestine. Maybe it's just the general way that war is framed in the US. It has been used to an even greater degree in Palestine imo, where they've bent the word Hamas to mean "anything vaguely against the genocide". Even if the working class doesn't actually carry out treasonous acts, they'll end up being criminalized anyways.

On closer examination, this slogan will be found to mean a "class truce", the renunciation of the class struggle by the oppressed classes in all belligerent countries, since the class struggle is impossible without dealing blows at one’s "own" bourgeoisie, one’s "own" government, whereas dealing a blow at one’s own government in wartime is (for Bukvoyed’s information) high treason, means contributing to the defeat of one’s own country.

I like this, as it expands on the previous quote. I see this logic a lot when it comes to criticizing the gov or demanding anything at all from them, like our class is supposed to deprive ourselves in support of some war instead of seeing it as a time where our gov's grasp on authority is weaker & more vulnerable.

Congratulations on getting approved!!! Very exciting, I hope it works out.

Sounds quite annoying to have to answer a bunch of questions abouut something you don't want to talk about.

That documentary was absolutely fascinating, thank you for posting.

I was particularly interested in the plants second half with the usage of cyanobacteria to create lycan & stabilize the soil, & also with the plant they planted in the salt lakes. That feels like knowledge that could be used elsewhere in the face of desertification.

Yes. They used multiple arguments that were straight up genocide denial (human shields, Hamas actually blew up those hospitals, etc)

I am personally very sad that the main line of argument that Democrats have taken against criminalizing trans women is "this will hurt cis women", because who the fuck cares about trans women right??

I didn't expect much & was still disappointed

College literally made me realize that just because one person belongs to a marginalized group doesn’t mean that they cant been huge assholes and liberals in other ways against other marginalized groups.

Yeah, this was what I learned making the switch from Twitter to open source social media a few years back. Twitter was becoming worse & worse specifically with harassment campaigns by white queers against Black queers so I ended up trying to find a better space that was more open to talking about racism. I thought I was fine if I found a specifically LGBTQ server but most of them have huge racism problems. The only corner I found is mostly Black & they are constantly being accused of shit, being called unreasonable or aggressive, etc by white queers. I also noticed they have a lot of ableism in those spaces. I usually see them parroting State Dept talking points too.

Local Discord banned me & called me a Nazi for defending Hamas lol. It's everywhere.

Fedi is very liberal. Support for Ukraine is a foregone conclusion generally, & I also found out the server I was on (an LGBTQ server) was moderated by a zionist when I started talking about the genocide.

I did find a corner where disability justice, imperialism, & trans liberation were the baseline, but it took a while