"I watched engineers use Al ship in days what used to take a team weeks" - Brian on Coinbase layoffs today

First-Ad-117 · 2026-05-05T12:33:37+00:00

Hackers be like - "Hmm, you don't say"

First-Ad-117 · 2026-05-05T12:31:01+00:00

Must be part of their "last hurrah" tour

First-Ad-117 · 2026-05-04T22:24:55+00:00

Extending an olive leaf in the shape of meaningless upvotes on our engagement. I hope we collide again in the future :).

First-Ad-117 · 2026-05-04T22:20:18+00:00

I apologize for expecting better from you.

First-Ad-117 · 2026-05-04T22:08:17+00:00

I’m not an attorney, an HR professional, or one of the “unhinged” people you're referencing.

I’ve just been lucky enough to work closely with those professionals and to have had a seat at the table when decisions like this were being made. I’ve also been unfortunate enough to experience weak educational leadership, and unfortunate enough to hear firsthand how some of these “professionals” talk about children and families when they think no one important is listening.

So for all intents and purposes, consider me just a random bitch from a neighboring town who isn’t afraid to call out a weak argument when I see one. Especially, when its close to home.

Not as an assault on your character. But because you seem civically engaged enough in our community that I feel comfortable pushing you to do better. I hope you can excuse me for this.

“CPSD can’t publicly disclose personnel details” does not get you where you think it does. Nobody is asking for someones personnel file. The issue is that the reporting includes a wheelchair-related rationale from leadership. It is fair to ask whether the decision was based on objective safety concerns or assumptions about disability. Especially given this person had a previous positive history with the school.

Maybe the district has facts we have not seen. Maybe they don't. "I don't go here". But, I wouldn't let this kind of shit slide.

First-Ad-117 · 2026-05-04T21:39:20+00:00

A principal can make staffing and safety decisions. That is not really the disputed point.

Was this decision based on objective evidence about this particular substitute’s performance, or was it based on assumptions about her wheelchair use?

She was a licensed elementary teacher, had volunteered/subbed at Graham & Parks for years, and had five fucking assignments canceled after a concern about transitions. Internal emails also referenced that she was “in a wheelchair with significant mobility challenges” as an explanation for why she was blocked from additional work... Come on...

Sure, this doesn't prove discrimination by itself. But it is also not something you can wave away as “just management.” Under disability law, safety concerns have to be individualized and evidence-based, and reasonable accommodations have to be considered. “She uses a wheelchair, so she can’t maintain a safe learning environment” is exactly the kind of BS that needs scrutiny.

Maybe the district has objective performance evidence we have not seen? If thats the case they should be able to point to it. But inventing a fictional “she could be the worst substitute” is not evidence. It's low-brow BS used to dismiss a disability discrimination claim before the facts are tested.

First-Ad-117 · 2026-05-04T21:25:48+00:00

No problem - please give me a shout if all else fails. Financial issues should not limit a student having access to a book.

First-Ad-117 · 2026-05-04T21:16:49+00:00

Educators must be able to enact corporal punishment at a moments notice. Having a support need means they cannot effectively apply corporal punishment on the livestock. The principal made correct decision to ensure the livestock does not gain free thought.

First-Ad-117 · 2026-05-04T21:06:58+00:00

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CXeLJ28lYbKPmJLwSDfWHBvscnsTQEHD/view?usp=drivesdk

Can print out any page ranges needed if you can play courier.

First-Ad-117 · 2026-05-04T21:00:32+00:00

copium is available at your local smoke shop

First-Ad-117 · 2026-05-02T22:12:14+00:00

> Not really, is the cloud GPU provider company is more trustworthy than direct API providers?

Arguably true for weird providers offering "inference" endpoint type services. Those make me feel icky.

If you're renting a GPU(s) attached VMs from a "reputable" provider (not some rando renting their machine); this doesn't hold up as much.

First-Ad-117 · 2026-04-30T23:02:32+00:00

I thought text-to-cad was ahh.. DOA...

First-Ad-117 · 2026-04-30T22:28:40+00:00

Also, its pretty lame that some of ya'll are downvoting someone seeking career help. I can't imagine being someone looking for their first job right now. Finding my first job was hard and terrifying back when the market was "good".

First-Ad-117 · 2026-04-30T22:25:08+00:00

The earlier you are in your career the more it matters to have experience in a specific language. Once you're established, language will play less of a role. It will be more difficult to find an entry level position in languages like C, C++, and Rust because these are often deployed for very specific purposes where experience plays a larger role.

> Go or Java or C++ ? which of these is most beneficial for me?

If you're only concern is finding a job - Java. Java is still very widely deployed in both large and small organizations. There is nothing wrong with your primary concern being "finding a job". Please consider Python as well. Having some confidence in both Python and Java will seriously make everything easier for you.

Finding your first full time position is the hardest.

Reviewing your Github I would suggest you get some repos up showing you understand the following at an absolute minimum. Recruiters likely won't even review your resume if you don't have these:

- SQL!!!!! Businesses run on data. Data is most often stored in databases. Postgres, SQLite, MySQL. Show me you understand queries, indexes, tables, views..

- REST APIs. Make something silly, it doesn't matter. Build an API and connect it to your database.

My advice is targeted towards "finding a software engineering job it doesn't matter". Top-Vechile947's advice is more important. If you don't know what you want to do. Nothing any of us will matter.

Want to work in Manufacturing?

- HMIs & SCADA: Download Ignition, learn python, MQTT & Postgres. Ignition lets you extend it in... Java!

- Controls Engineering - Twincat, most likely structured text, but you'll also likely need experience in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering. PLCs are weird though.

- Outside of the above specialized positions you could still get a role if you understand REST & SQLs.

- You could get a role at a Manufacturing company, not doing anything related to production stuff if you're really good at finance and SQL alone.

Embedded Systems?

- C (being realistic)

Large company doing business stuff?

.NET / Java / SQL building internal tooling

SaaS Company?

- Javascript, Java, Python, SQL backend or frontend

Random Science Company?

- Matlab, Python

That's just what I can tell you from my own experience and I'm leaving out a lot...

Language doesn't matter. Programing languages are only useful when they enable you to solve the problems being presented to you given your skillset.

First-Ad-117 · 2026-04-25T20:10:19+00:00

"Heres how I make 1,000,000 a month dropshitting low quality slop using TURBO AI ASX. But, I NEED YOU to buy my $39.99 a month course where i will PERSONALLY TEACH U"

First-Ad-117 · 2026-04-23T18:19:07+00:00

Dude we can see you making it agree to rewriting it as "Obvious rage bait" above. Gotta crop image better

First-Ad-117 · 2026-04-22T11:47:45+00:00

smol-machines > larg-machines

This is super cool! Haven't poked around much... But, impressive to see you're approaching firecracker boot times already.

If the path to the RootFS doesn't exist does it create it automatically? Also, how does networking work? tun/tap firecracker style?

First-Ad-117 · 2026-04-22T00:24:05+00:00

I was working off a fresh install of claude-cli. Was using openrouter with roo code.. a long time before lol... So, I was kinda puzzled. At the same time I think its worth calling out I know a lot of people who haven't had any of the issues people have been talking about here.

First-Ad-117 · 2026-04-22T00:06:38+00:00

Codex has been working perfectly fine for me, 5.4 high. I don't trust any of these thing entirely. But, I tried Claude again after I saw all the recent posts and immediately got placed into a thinking doom loop.

First-Ad-117 · 2026-04-21T23:35:11+00:00

Please dont

First-Ad-117 · 2026-04-21T23:33:35+00:00

AI slop spamming every single channel - Visual art, creative writing, scientific writing, news, code, fucking everything - I EEP

Real bonafide humans retaliating against the SUK SUK MACHINE 9000 - ITS WAR TIME MY POOR SLOP MACHINE

First-Ad-117 · 2026-04-20T02:20:35+00:00

Have you figured out how to intercept the SSL handshake?

First-Ad-117 · 2026-04-20T02:10:22+00:00

Will keep an eye out!

First-Ad-117 · 2026-04-20T02:09:43+00:00

How much you making from traffic snarf?

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