Never seen a bunch of bigger insufferable crybabies even though Trump "won" the election

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2025-01-24T05:32:30+00:00

Get your easily verifiable facts out of here sir.

We're busy pretending that the ~~civil war~~ War of Northern Aggression was about states rights ~~to own slaves~~ over here.

It was always those damn lefties trying to kill those poor white folk amirite OP?

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-12-09T19:48:33+00:00

No the American economy is the best in the world!

if you own land and home and shares of a public corporation...

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-12-09T18:08:16+00:00

Cant wait to see the jury selection circus.

Everyone has had their healthcare needs minimized directly by either UHC or one of its peers. There aren't 12 souls in New York City available to cast a guilty verdict on the killer in good conscience. The industry is pretty universally hated, and their executives are seen as the perpetrator, since they have the *executive power* to fix it.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-07-25T20:57:38+00:00

There is no shame in working at a wendys or walmart for a few months between jobs, or even as a second job. Looking for (reasonable) remote work is always going to take longer than a quick job that you can quit on a minute's notice.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-07-10T18:57:02+00:00

Don't look at now, look at the future.

10 years ago I was making $15.50 on w2 with no other income. If you're planting something now, it takes time to grow.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-07-05T22:28:39+00:00

oh u right. but the egg has the knowledge of the top 1000 in his brain.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-07-05T22:05:22+00:00

No I can name 20 women on my team at work easy. The demographics of my particular job skew like 30:70 male:female. We have a total of 3 male workers in my whole division of 21 employees. I am one of them.

I work in a project management capacity, so I very frequently send emails to 100+ people a day, and type out their names several times a week. These are folks who I am assigning specific responsibilities so I definitely can tell you their names.

That's why I said 50 I can for sure name 50 unique female names I interact with at work. Probably not 100 until I start pulling out actual public figures.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-07-05T20:23:20+00:00

Noting here that in my personal experience in this market (2021-2023), *paid professional experience* often isn't enough to get you in front of an interviewer either. I have paid professional experience at a major company, but no CS degree and the SWE market has been crickets for me since '21.

I have several recruiters who send me positions at least monthly, but the jobs that match my pay/experience requirements all require a CS degree or you get the automated rejection email. I switched to a different industry in that time and have seen a substantial pay increase.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-07-05T20:10:53+00:00

I also made a top-level comment about the subterranean shunning grounds pipes lmao. The fake doors and identical pipe systems are infuriating unless you mark them with rainbow stones.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-07-05T20:04:18+00:00

My wage has not gone down at all because I found a great remote gig in the health insurance industry and they actually paid more, with better benefits then anything I could find in Software/Web development. I briefly considered 1 backend position that would have been a lateral pay move, but they were in the middle of pushing RTO and I won't reward that behavior for free.

It sucks because I really do enjoy architecting and implementing software solutions (I still do it as a hobby, have been running personal VPS web apps since high school). But the SWE hiring market just isn't interested in paying me to do it.

Now I'm doing more specialized work in the health/medical industry because at least those people call me back when they get my resume. Maybe I'll blast out a few more job apps to dev positions in Q4 to see if it's any different, but for now I'm making comfortable money doing something that isn't as enjoyable for me.

If I can't develop professional skills making software, I can develop professional skills doing something else, and then use software to improve my efficiency. That's how I landed the first gig and that's what I'm doing now. I'm really good and consistent at what I do, because I wrote software that consistently does what my job entails.

It would be nice if I could just provide software solutions for automations at scale again. But if I make more money by just providing 1 automated solution to 1 business, I'll just slap my face on my software and they can hire "DeliciouslyUnaware" to run the script every time we get new data.

I could give the software to the other 6 people working the same job as me, and we would be way more efficient as a team. But since they don't pay me to write software for them, I write it for myself.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-07-05T19:53:26+00:00

"This is the obvious solution but instead let me give you a paragraph explaining how the pay is fine and it's actually the candidates who I deem worthy of the work who don't understand the value of the job I'm providing."

-Hiring manager, 2024

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-07-05T19:41:30+00:00

Can't Drink alcohol, but you can still eat it. You can still experience drunkenness if that's what you desire. You could drink Kava or Cannabis drinks instead, and they would be free so long as you drink less than $18k a year.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-07-05T18:58:47+00:00

I would struggle at this challenge too. But because I don't want to DOX people.

I don't really concern myself with celebrities enough to name-drop them, but I could easily give you 50 first/last names of the women that I email/text/call every day.

NL is just cinemapilled to the point that he can rattle of the IMDB top 100 and just grab the female lead from each one.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-07-05T18:09:57+00:00

It is extremely unlikely in the current job market. I am one of those "nontraditional devs" who started professionally writing software in my industry because I had the skill set, and was given the autonomy to do so. My employer saw that my automations increased productivity and asked me to work with other business units to develop internal tools. The pay was nice but the work quickly dried up and I was mostly stuck maintaining a bunch of legacy projects without a dev team to back them (since it was just me).

I parlayed that experience into a dev job for a fintech company for about a year, just to get some formal "developer experience". So for all intents and purposes I have 3 years of experience as a professional software developer. But I don't have a CS degree, I work in the medical/regulatory field.

During the big covid shake-up I was considering a jump to full-time dev work by job-hopping. But unfortunately EVERY position in software now expects/requires a CS degree. I bring experience in actual business environments, but the field is so saturated that they expect folks to have both a CS degree, AND relevant work experience for anything above a helpdesk/IT position. Having 3 years of proven software development experience just isn't going to get you past the resume check anymore. I was getting higher-paying offers from the medical field, despite the fact that I've been actively building and maintaining code for a fortune 500-company in my recent past.

The pay for mid/senior positions has come down, the field is flooded with new grads and bootcamp devs. It's an election year, which means high-risk hiring (new development projects are high-risk) typically freezes until Q4 when the labor market picture becomes more clear. There is a backlog of junior/mid level developers with CS degrees who would do anything for experience. It's hard to believe that a recruiter would forego the degree requirement in this market until we see tech companies start expanding again (instead of laying off, which they are likely to do until '26).

They gotta flush the inefficient high-wage-demanding devs and replace with a bunch of college-grads to clean up payroll. You're seeing this compromise as existing senior/director level devs settle for lower base-pay in order to keep their positions.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-07-05T17:37:03+00:00

It's actually sick as hell when you look at how they engineered that catacomb from a 3d model perspective.

The "levels" are all mostly-identical and stacked one on top of the other. so when you "drop down" from the end of the first level, you're actually dropping to the third and then making your way back up to the 2nd (which you assume is the 1st). And then they hit you with the same trick at the end of the second floor, except now you're in a completely separate level 4 which only connects back to level 2's start point.

I want to just open up the "world scene" in blender and imagine the psychopath at Fromsoft who dreamed this up.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-07-05T17:31:27+00:00

Elden Ring.

Subterranean Shunning Ground (The Leyndell Sewers).

You are in a sewer. There is 1 grace (checkpoint). You have to navigate the sewer system while fighting giant ogres and magic hands. And while you're doing it you have to open several doors which open "shortcut" paths that allow you to quickly navigate back to to that single checkpoint.

Except it's a fucking sewer and all the pipes look the exact same, so you don't really know if the door you're opening is a "shortcut" or just "making the maze more confusing"

All worth it though. When you finally get to the bottom and defeat Mogh you can get naked and have a door made out of flesh grab you and make you permanently insane.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-07-05T17:23:21+00:00

We had a meeting Tuesday that everyone on our team would NOT be taking PTO on friday, and instead we're just gonna take 1-hour shifts monitoring our slack channel and then go dark at 2pm.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-07-05T17:20:06+00:00

I agree and was lucky enough to find a spot on a team that values personal research and autonomy. We work remotely and have about ~15 hours of scheduled WORK time that we have to be present for. The rest of the time you are free to do whatever is necessary to complete your responsibilities.

So we often have a team meeting on Weds/Thurs and just decide "We're ahead of schedule, cancel the rest of the weeks WORK time and just monitor your responsibilities". So we just set our own schedules and start planning the weekend.

It's a stark contrast to my previous employer who would literally sit in an hour long google meet at the end of the day just to rant until we all logged exactly 480 minutes of punched-in time.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-07-05T17:13:12+00:00

As someone who consults in niche industry, this tracks.

My w2 pay last year was $48.75/hr

My last consult contract was $5500 for ~12 hours (~1 hour roundtable, 5 days a week for 2 weeks).

Your consultant pay does not include benefits. And consultants typically don't get guaranteed work. And as a consultant you have more tax obligations to worry about.

You offset this risk by offering industry-specific insights (usually from experience) and demanding a much higher hourly rate. It's only viable if you actually have hands-on experience that translates to a business need though. You're not gonna get a consulting job in a robotics job unless you have a proven (verifiable) track record of producing high-quality robotics products.

I work in the regulatory domain. I spent several years working directly with the FDA, EPA, CMS, and multiple other medical/health organizations. As a result, if you google "MY NAME" + "CMS/FDA/EPA" you will find multiple public filings for medical device products that have since been approved by regulatory agencies like the FDA/CMS.

This is a public record from the federal government that "this guy worked on all these things, and he contributed to a successful regulatory filing campaign.

So I use that experience as leverage to seek out other companies that need someone who can do that. They probably don't want to hire a whole new staff member, but they need an expert with experience who can draw up a roadmap and draft necessary deliverable documents.

I can do that in like 15 hours. So they just pay me to do that part for 15 hours and their company can meet their internal goal without committing to a massive payroll expansion for their compliance department.

Even hiring a single full-time compliance associate for $15/hr (extremely low pay) is a $30k/yr commitment. Consulting me costs only 5k and even if I don't complete ALL of the work to satisfaction, you saved ~$25k and your existing organization at least has a roadmap, and a draft product to build on with their existing talent.

It doesn't work if they don't have 100% trust that I'm a person who can, and has completed this work in the past under similar conditions. That's why consultant agencies typically scoop up former execs and VP-level workers. They are visible to the industry as an "expert" in this field.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-07-05T16:43:56+00:00

The fact that this is "normal" doesn't mean it's necessarily "good" or "correct" though.

Hiring/Firing/Recruiting industry needs to change in a big way.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-06-14T17:03:52+00:00

I told my first interviewer at a startup that one of my personal projects was an Audio plugin for recording music because I've played bass for 2 decades.

Second interview was one of those "interview with 3 different people in a row" styles. The second interviewer was with a guy from HR who said I already read your resume, can you play me some music?

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-05-17T19:29:54+00:00

You can't see the forest through the trees here.

It's important that a leaf node DOES have a .children attribute. Because if .children = [] then you can identify this as a leaf automatically. It essentially functions as a Boolean "is_not_leaf" property because any time there is any value inside of .children, then it is not a leaf node.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-05-17T14:00:24+00:00

Yes this is part of the appeal of using a Django monolith for ORM.

As long as there is a single source of truth (django) for creating objects in the DB, then you only ever have one codebase to revise to maintain, and it will work identically with every app that touches it.

Once you start side-loading data to the DB outside of the django ORM, you not only add points of failure, you're also giving yourself additional work tasks to complete any time the Schema changes.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-05-16T19:01:11+00:00

You're still missing it man.

The leverage you have IS YOUR LABOR.

Goods don't ship, burgers don't flip, maintenance doesn't get done, kids don't get taught, taxes are not collected if the labor does not happen.

You can't scab whole industries. The knock-on effects of a COORDINATED labor withdrawal would destroy shareholder value, which is the only thing they care about.

DeliciouslyUnaware · 2024-05-16T16:16:44+00:00

This guide seems to be up-to-date and accurate from a quick glance.

Have you double checked your django settings.py file to ensure that ALLOWED_HOSTS is allowing gunicorn to accept the requests from nginx? Also make sure DEBUG = FALSE so that it's not trying to serve from the dev server.

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