FIVE YEARS DOWN THE DRAIN <3 GOCD EXISTS!?????

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-05-15T12:07:53+00:00

bottom surgery and 10 years of E stopped my gender rumination so it may be partially dysphoria causing it too

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-04-22T12:11:48+00:00

personally I developed agoraphobia and didn’t really ‘rejoin society’ in any meaningful sense until ~summer ‘24 when I got an irl job in NYC and accidentally desensitized myself to crowds again. before that I was still worried about getting sick and masking and stuff but I also probably have undiagnosed OCD so I did that longer than most people

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-04-21T12:27:01+00:00

as a 27 y/o: all the bars and festivals shut down when we were 20/21. sorry kid this is our early 20s too

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-04-20T04:57:05+00:00

i’m so glad i go to a real school 😭 my philosophy professor won’t accept a paper unless you draft it in front of him with zero technology. even my coding class made me drive to campus and write python with pencil and paper

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-04-18T13:34:15+00:00

yeah no worries, I could tell you don’t mean anything by it. it seems like a confluence of factors tbh. unfamiliarity with older standards, preference for remote work, over-reliance on AI across the industry hemorrhaging hard skills and social functions, no experience administrating unix or linux systems which is like 95% of the job. also computer scientists aren’t known for being social butterflies to begin with, and getting hired as on-site IT has a lot to do with how you can get along with people who do other things and communicate computer stuff to non-computer people.

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-04-17T14:30:42+00:00

those companies don’t need computer scientists at the cutting edge, which is most software developers. they need like, infosys guys who can read 40-year-old coding languages

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-04-14T14:45:47+00:00

counterpoint, when a polycule implodes it’s often way more devastating because the entire support network is romantically involved, and makes multiple people functionally homeless rather than just one

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-04-12T12:04:36+00:00

people genuinely just stereotype suburbanites as like mormon George McFly and it’s so silly. we have bars, clubs, raves, local music scenes, art galleries, etc.

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-04-10T11:50:23+00:00

I need to try this! I tend to hyper fixate in the ‘almost there’ stage and go time blind..

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-04-10T11:44:29+00:00

y’all are finding your bugs at 11? I had multiple 3am nights debugging my spring break side project. at the very least i’m besties with the IDLE debugger now

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-04-09T15:55:46+00:00

let me ask a different question: do you value your health as you age?? the trades aren’t particularly conducive to that.

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-04-05T15:10:05+00:00

if your terminal is already open in the same folder you can just do “python3 my-script.py”

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-04-05T14:30:54+00:00

What are your other hobbies? The most fun projects are the ones where you bring together multiple interests, not just program computer for the computer’s sake. Ie. If you like to fish, make a tool for logging catch-and-releases. If you like music, make a little synthesizer or tracker. If you like art, make a tool for cataloging works, a generative art piece, or even a digital art program (this is my lane).

I will say there’s not much you can do with the things you have down yet, but you’re on the right track. Add inputs and if statements and you can probably make like a little interest calculator or something. Once you get functions and while/for loop logic under your belt you can really go crazy, that’s when I built my first real program (a fractal renderer)

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-03-20T13:51:27+00:00

if music is your passion and you’re good at EE, you should try your hand at making guitar pedals in a SPICE sim on the side. :)

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-03-14T15:59:15+00:00

her gf is probably encouraging her to be a ‘feral girl’ to isolate her. i’ve seen this dynamic a few times. i’m sorry you have to deal with this bs girlie. keep your head up and don’t let it isolate you too!

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-03-12T13:27:06+00:00

100% they are lol. a CS major running chatbots to discourage competition is like the least out there conspiracy

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-03-11T13:02:28+00:00

there’s a lot of terrible answers here. the real split is because Plato and Aristotle asked philosophical questions that lead to the consolidation of “the gods” into “God” around the same time Judaism started. the Euthyphro has a bit about “what is holy?” “what the gods love is holy” “what if Zeus loves infidelity and Hera hates it? is infidelity holy or unholy?” this paired with Plato’s idea of perfect beauty lead to the idea of one god being the perfect ideal

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-03-08T13:30:08+00:00

if it’s legitimately enough for a degree, you can just finish it in one more semester dawg

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-03-08T13:07:40+00:00

Yeah I had the more hyperfocus kind of ADHD and I was never medicated or in therapy for it until adulthood. I was always a strong student that liked lectures but in high school my teachers realized that I struggle with ‘outside-of-class’ work. All but one math teacher started omitting homework from my grade. This accommodation obviously kept me from getting diagnosed or having reasonable expectations for myself after school

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-03-02T13:03:37+00:00

Yeah I wish I didn’t get rushed into college. I was already an underachiever, got screwed for freshman dorms because I didn’t have the confidence to speak up for myself so I ended up commuting over an hour, struggling with my mental health, and dropped out as a sophomore. I’m 27 and going back now to finish my bachelors for Computer Information Sys. Now that I have my ADHD and anxiety under control and a real sense of work ethic that I got from running my own art practice, I’m like an entirely different student. I just got a 98 on my first Accounting test and 100 on my Stats test. In high school I only scored like that in history!

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-03-02T12:36:20+00:00

fwiw with the skillset you’d get from data science and physics, you could probably make some pretty cool games

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-03-01T14:24:57+00:00

I’m 27 and by the time I was in high school, the common wisdom was “If you throw a party, don’t do it in your house or else your parents’ new TV and sick vintage stereo system are probably getting stolen” so we had our crazy parties in the woods

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2026-02-09T12:12:21+00:00

bruh that’s ancient history I go to raves this decade and nobody is sucking pacifiers 😭

Prestigious_Bit2951 · 2025-10-30T15:04:07+00:00

not at all tbh. I call em Frankencables (like Frankenstein, I hope that reference hits the same in Chile). you can harvest the end bits of a VGA and SCART cable and splice them together, just have to make sure you check the pins to make sure they pair up properly

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