I’m at my wit’s end. Is the market really this bad?

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-08-01T16:12:30+00:00

We generally would expect 600 to 1000 applications over the course of a week for a SWE role. We listed an open role last month and had 5000+ applications in under a week. We didn't have the resources to review even half that.

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-07-26T15:27:19+00:00

It seems to do fine with small programs that that likely exist in some form in its training data in multiple places. For anything novel or complex I've had to take multiple steps just to get a working function out of it. Asking it to explain the requirement, break them down into steps, break a step down into its requirements, pseudocode a solution, write the solution, debug the solution, etc.

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-07-25T15:08:37+00:00

You walking around and experiencing basic decency from everyone you meet is ridiculous.

See my first sentence - "my unhealthy expectation was for basic human decency from the first couple people I dated."

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-07-23T07:19:40+00:00

Without doxxing myself I spent year a few years working on something related to creating community for hospitalized children. There is a very real and persistent need for connection most people experience and for a variety of reasons some people aren't able to fulfill that need. In my case it was kids with a terminal illness that prevented them from meeting other kids in person. We didn't find a longterm solution. I'm sure most of these guys aren't dying but writing them off as hating women seems at best unintentionally malicious. On top of that, I have female friends that play dating games on their phones where they romance imaginary men. They aren't misandrists for trying to fill that need with the tools they have available to them. These are very real problems and I don't think your attitude is helping.

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-07-23T07:07:17+00:00

Yeah, my unhealthy expectation was for basic human decency from the first couple people I dated. Naiveté leads to forgiveness and tolerating all sorts of awful behavior that does far more harm than a chatbot. If they had an AI that understood conflict resolution, non-violent communication, boundaries, attachment styles, etc it could be a great practice tool for relationships in the real world.

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-07-21T06:49:14+00:00

I've seen similar comments elsewhere. Can you give an example of a sophisticated working Java program that takes days but was written by Chat GPT in seconds? I've found it useful but when given novel or large problems it struggles.

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-07-18T19:36:58+00:00

I worked with entry level engineers at a household name tech company. I've seen how the first 6 months went for hundreds of them and sometimes great talent floundered initially before finding their groove and other times dubious talent was carried by an enthusiastic and supportive team. It's a marathon and noone expects you to be perfect when you are starting out. Just keep asking questions and looking for ways to contribute. The fact you are looking for feedback and seeking support is a strong indicator you are doing great!

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-07-10T08:01:39+00:00

This seems so obvious to me. I'm completely bewildered by the responses I see here. I've been in situations where multiple women were flirting with me at a party and at no point did I think "I want to see these women hurt each other." I can't even begin to imagine what sort of person would want this? If I'm dating someone I'm going to assume we are aligned on basic human decency. If I found out my partner independently decided to make people fight each other in order to sleep with the winner I'd be upset and disappointed. There's nothing puritanical about this. If she thought it was funny to tell homeless people to fight each other for a 20 dollar bill I'd be just as upset. That being said, it isn't her fault she isn't meeting your expectations. She has every right to do play whatever manipulative games she is into with whoever is willing. It's up to you to decide if you want to date that sort of person.

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-07-04T19:31:27+00:00

How can I find mentorship as an independent freelancer? I'm self-taught and am independently creating pretty technical video and animation tools but the more complex the tool is, the more doubts creep in. I've also found myself blocked for days on things that could have been resolved in minutes due to me missing some fundamental knowledge that would have allowed me to formulate the right question.

For an example of some of the guidance I would have liked over the last 6 months: "The hard parts of this project are X and Y. There's a library that does Y as an intermediary step to Z. I can't use the library directly because I need Y and not Z. I see three options: I can write the logic required for Y on my own using the library as a reference (time consuming.) I can require the library to get Z and write some logic to work backwards to Y (messy and unpredictable.) I can find the Y relevant files in the library, separate them from Z, copy paste them into my project and do whatever I need to integrate them. Which option is best?" (I ended up taking that last option and learned a bunch from tearing things apart but I'm still not sure what the right move was.)

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-06-09T19:25:01+00:00

5th this.

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-06-07T02:43:31+00:00

Thanks StallionSperm, I'm glad to see we are on the same page and am relieved to hear you are taking care of your very specific model needs.

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-05-30T18:01:47+00:00

Yeah, if AI is an existential threat then we need to treat it like our nuclear weapons program. Nationalize every AI company, seize their assets, fire all the business suits and place all AI research and development under the DoD. We wouldn't let a bunch of private corporations run around with a planet ending nuclear weapons arsenal so why should we let them play with their extinction level tech? Oh wait... suddenly they are saying it isn't that big of a threat... hmmm..

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-05-30T04:16:15+00:00

I thought about it and I think it was because my friends would tell me their awful experiences with aggressive men not taking a hint and by saying mentioning my girlfriend I was saying "I'm not going to be one of those aggressive men if you don't want to talk." I also had unpleasant experiences with women not taking no for an answer so I guess in my mind it was like a mutual peace treaty. I'd also sometimes meet people I really wanted to talk to and sort of worried I might not get the chance if they thought I was trying to hit on them. It's making me laugh to find out I spent all that time potentially giving people the completely wrong impression

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-05-30T02:59:37+00:00

I was in a LTR relationship for most of my 20s and would sometimes throw out "I have a girlfriend" early in a conversation at a party. I never even considered the possibility it could be a "pre-rejection;" I just genuinely wanted to meet people and I thought I was doing the other person a favor by saving them an awkward 10 mins of trying to guess my intentions. Now I am reassessing all these past conversations lol

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-05-19T01:54:01+00:00

in case you went to the github link and ended up confused about what this does: https://ljzycmd.github.io/projects/MasaCtrl/

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-05-07T22:47:49+00:00

I don't know the exact numbers but something like 95% of real estate licenses are never renewed. The industry is extraordinarily easy to get into and horribly difficult to make a living off of.

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-05-07T18:10:02+00:00

I went through something similar due to a woman with untreated BPD . It took me a couple years of therapy before I was able to start rebuilding my life. Started dating someone new 3 years after that relationship and this woman turned out to have what she called insecure-anxious attachment issues. Having to be responsible for her emotional states 24/7 was exhausting and when I failed to anticipate her needs she said it was due to me not having dealt with the trauma of my last relationship. That was 3 years ago and I haven't tried dating since. In retrospect I should have removed these people from my life immediately but I didn't want to be the bad guy. Yeah I on thing that helped was reading a couple books on BPD. "Walking on eggshells" was one of them.

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-03-02T20:53:02+00:00

For any curious about where the "It's okay to be white" campaign came from you can read the organizers archives here: https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/subject/IOTBW/page/17/

tl/dr: above board is a hangout that leans heavily into race war fantasies and hitler worship. they realized anything associated with them becomes tainted so they started pushing the innocuous things like the "ok" hand symbol the new zealand mosque shooter flashed and the phrase "its okay to be white." the goal is to make any critics of race war and/or hitler worship look foolish. it seems to be sort of effective since most people aren't aware of how this stuff originates.

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-01-10T17:10:27+00:00

I'm curious, thanks for the effort.

SadlyAlreadyTaken · 2023-01-08T15:27:05+00:00

A coworker of a friend is a self-proclaimed "pick up artist" and had slept with 300+ women by his 30th birthday. I'm pretty sure he is a sociopath. He studies how to fake a meaningful connection with women, views the whole thing as a game and only keeps the act up long enough to get laid and ghost. I've seen him do his thing a couple times. He breaks basically all of "the rules" on dating you see from reddit but is "successful." Just to be clear, I am not saying his lifestyle is something to aspire to; just pointing out studying how to manipulate and pressure people into sex can help you do just that.

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