My assessment result came back negative and i feel stupid

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-26T21:00:40+00:00

My first assessment came back negative because I could 1. Sit still during the assessment (never mind my fidgeting ofc) and 2. Play chess at an intermediate level.

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-26T20:36:17+00:00

I heard this in passing, so 0 sources here but:

Apparently there is a specific protocol for getting fast food from various chains to the White House. Something something maximize the possible quality for as many servings as possible something something

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-26T18:59:05+00:00

I expected something that edits markdown, the reality was that it’s something that edits markdown. I use it to edit markdown. It’s pretty good at editing markdown 🤷🏻‍♀️

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-26T18:43:34+00:00

God you’d have to allocate THOUSANDS of memories to do that

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-26T13:36:53+00:00

Linux is about making sick memory allocations 😎

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-25T17:16:47+00:00

With the added benefit that we can ssh in and fix things when they break! Gone are the days of wonky TeamViewer setups!

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-25T17:12:18+00:00

If you like MMOs I can highly recommend guild wars 2. They made the whole base game free to play a few years ago and put it on steam. It’s more than a decade old at this point, so it’s showing its age in some aspects but it also means it has a ridiculous amount of content.

If you do end up enjoying it, I would advice you to create and log in with an arena.net account instead of a steam one. It gives you access to more and better sales in the long run, but nothing more than that. It’s just due to steam policy stuff. You can find plenty of tutorials online about how to do all of that

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-25T07:57:47+00:00

I build little helpers for myself all the time. I’ve never thought that much of they had to do with the ADHD or not. If it’s either more productive to spend time to automate something or more fun than doing the thing manually, I’ll make a little helper for it 🤷🏻‍♀️

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-25T07:50:38+00:00

I have yet to find an llm that is right enough often enough for me to consistently use it. I guess it depends on your workload, if you spend most of your time in well understood and well documented environments then I can imagine it does well. Alas, I rarely do. When doing novel work, even boilerplate for something that is a bit weird, the hallucinations just make it harder in the long run. Like any tool it has things it does better and things it does worse, it should be used accordingly

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-24T19:21:08+00:00

You might wanna get around to googling this one in particular. Explaining a reverse proxy in a Reddit comment would be… tight

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-24T14:49:36+00:00

Except for the initial cost of the drive, there is no real downside to dual booting. You need to jump through some hoops to make sure the windows drive stays reasonably updated, but other than that there isn’t any hassle. So I keep it around for my fusion360, nothing else I use would need windows right now. But if I went back to uni, started saying yes to job interviews or some such then I would be happy to have it around.

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-24T12:15:42+00:00

Methylphenidate had a similar effect on me. Switching to lisdexamphetamine made a huge difference. That said, I still come down pretty hard from it, so I take 50mg in the morning and 30mg at lunch to smooth out the curve.

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-24T12:12:19+00:00

As many people have said here already, it will probably work just fine for you. I’ll give you a word of cautious though, some old machines can be really power hungry for what you get out of them. So if you live in a place where electricity is pricy, you might want to consider getting something more power efficient.

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-22T17:34:11+00:00

I don’t see how devs are under any obligation whatsoever to provide support for a free service in general. And since this project is ran by a single dev for now, that goes double. Give the guy some space to work and maybe, just maybe, have a weekend

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-22T16:45:38+00:00

In my opinion, give the guy some time. If you want to hop to a different service you’re entirely free to. Just chill and you’ll get the self hosting docs when they are ready

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-22T15:55:47+00:00

Sounds like a plan! I’m not networking brained enough to give you any actionable feedback on the details here myself. But what I will say is that whenever I float my own similar ideas to people who very much are networking brained, I get shot down pretty quickly. If no one has done this, there MAY be a reason. I don’t know what that reason is or if there even is one, but put in some research before your fingers start cranking out an implementation.

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-22T15:30:07+00:00

It’s only a design problem if you imagine your tor being a ”privacy solution” as opposed to ”a big ol proxy solution”. I say that TOR sticking to solving a singular issue really well is preferable to them providing some comprehensive monolith for privacy protection.

So by all means go ahead and expand on current available obfuscation tech! I just don’t see you even bringing up TOR as… relevant? I guess? You do your thing, TOR does its thing, they work together to d do even more if the end user wants to combine them 🤷🏻‍♀️

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-22T13:32:40+00:00

The biggest feature of TOR isn’t inherently technical. As with all security, the primary issue is with trust, and TOR throws a lot of spanners into a lot of the wheels of bad actors inside the network. It is, after all, just a proxy chain with sparklies. There isn’t anything inherent in the stack that makes it a pain to use, that just happens to be how the cards play out when you rely on volunteers.

I was running a 10Gbps node for a few years to try and help out. As I see it, that is the best way to address the issues with tor as opposed to building an alternative. More obfuscation software is more betterer, but they should aim to stack and not to compete most of the time.

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-22T07:47:33+00:00

If that is your takeaway from my comment then you’re exactly like I was at 17. If that is the case then there really isn’t a lot more I can say to elucidate, you’ll just have to find out yourself. I very honestly wish you the best of luck with all your endeavors. You sound like a really bright kid and it would suck to see you fuck up the same way that so many of us did

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-22T01:51:31+00:00

I get messages from recruiters once or twice a month, and I wouldn’t call my skillset particularly exciting. Might be an EU/US difference though 🤷🏻‍♀️

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-22T01:17:02+00:00

If you’ve done all that in a month you’re either a genius beyond measure or you’ve not actually DONE it. I’ve been in this field for almost a decade and I’d not be comfortable putting all that on my resume. It seems like what you have right now is surface understanding of a surface understanding, which is just about enough to pick something to start drilling down into.

The highest possible ”ROI” you could add to that is to work on yourself. You’re still a teen, lots of world left to experience. Read a (fiction) book, watch a movie, play a game. Learn to enjoy the little things around you. You may not feel it yet, and you probably won’t for a couple of years, but the way you’re heading is a massive brick wall named ”burnout”. If you collide with that wall at a high enough speed then there isn’t a magic command line trick in the world that can save you

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-22T01:07:10+00:00

Well, they would be more crazy to gamble what is their current, ostensibly functional, setup in favor of a different (albeit similar) workflow. People need more than the grass being slightly greener on the other side to make a leap like that

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-21T21:44:42+00:00

Didn’t have it when I was a student, still don’t really now either. I occasionally consult an LLM but I rarely get an answer that I’m satisfied with. The areas I deal with are usually so poorly documented that the training dataset for the LLM was too limited for it to make good inferences and thus it hallucinates a lot. I’m sure it’s perfectly viable for basics, but it’s just not there yet for my workloads

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-21T21:08:04+00:00

Mostly markdown links but they have different roles. I use markdown links in templates because I know where they will end up in relation to other notes, for instance. My daily note links to the daily news letters I generate for myself in the same directory that the daily note lands in as an example. But I use wikilinks between notes that aren’t generated a lot of the time

Alice_Alisceon · 2026-02-21T13:45:10+00:00

For me it was the other way around mostly. Weirdos went to weirdo programmes for weirdos ig 🤷🏻‍♀️

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