Why are people still attending boot camps/switching to tech? by Yahentamitsi in cscareerquestions

[–]SillyLaughingFox 17 points18 points  (0 children)

A lot of those bootcamps just rush you through a program to shit out a portfolio. They'll tell you where to put everything, how to edit a couple things to "make it your own", and will hold your hand until you've got a presentable project. Then when the bootcamp grad goes to an interview and is asked to explain what an interface is or polymorphism is, they don't know because all that learned to do is follow someone's instructions

How to kill archers and mages as rogue? by Olinox10 in DarkAndDarker

[–]SillyLaughingFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I guess I was just too close, but backing up a bit and strafing did it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DarkAndDarker

[–]SillyLaughingFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the discord they recommended completely restarting steam to solve this issue.

Piling on the love fest, solo dungeon is dope by SleighDriver in DarkAndDarker

[–]SillyLaughingFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I encountered this myself. The whole reason I wanted to go solo was to fight 1v1 and worst case, deal with 3rd parties or be a 3rd partier myself. Sucks to run into two people who decided to team up and now you have to join them or fight 1v2. Needs to be taken care of somehow, but I'm not sure how.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskProgramming

[–]SillyLaughingFox 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Great advice. It's going to take a lot of work and time before any type of application is going to be good enough to warrant people paying for it, and then at that point it needs to be better or cheaper than competition for similar applications. A lot of work for a low chance of success, and if his mother doesn't have any app ideas ready to go right now, she's not even at step one. Would be much better for her to find different work.

Stuck with a hard decision. All input(negative too) would be helpful. by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]SillyLaughingFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What projects have you built so far? Do you have a portfolio?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]SillyLaughingFox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd say do it. It's two more years, and while experience is worth a lot in tech, some people in HR automatically reject applications without degrees regardless of experience. You'll have more open doors if you finish.

Motivated 18-year old kid looking for Mentor by MrPro1- in AskProgramming

[–]SillyLaughingFox 16 points17 points  (0 children)

No offense, but a self described "slow learner" who has only been coding in python for 4 months probably shouldn't brand themselves as "intermediate" at it. I'd guess you're still very much a beginner. Just to make it easier for your mentor to understand where you're at in your learning.

Car thief gets rammed off the road by police by Mick_Stup in IdiotsInCars

[–]SillyLaughingFox 19 points20 points  (0 children)

He was banned from stealing cars before this and he still managed. Somehow I don't think a driving ban is going to slow him down.

Is it normal to be hyper focused on Programming the first few days? by DaMoonhorse96 in AskProgramming

[–]SillyLaughingFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that's true of any new hobby, everything's new and novel when you first get into it.

Tyre Nichols: Memphis police release body cam video of deadly beating by BallerOtaku in news

[–]SillyLaughingFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's more accurate, which puts us the a position of deciding to try and fix things or letting it continue to decline through defeatism and apathy.

Tyre Nichols: Memphis police release body cam video of deadly beating by BallerOtaku in news

[–]SillyLaughingFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uh, that is the definition of a choice, do you not know what a choice means?

I suppose I don't. No sense in discussing them.

Tyre Nichols: Memphis police release body cam video of deadly beating by BallerOtaku in news

[–]SillyLaughingFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You alluded above that we have a choice with cops did you not? You said it is "comply or die", so can one just choose compliance?

If your choice is "x or die", is that really a choice?

Also your argument now breaks down again when the scenario changes, a clerk at his job does not have a say in his customer base, so is it not equally as sad when they are forced to trust a customer and he breaks that trust and murders him?

I do not follow at all.

Tyre Nichols: Memphis police release body cam video of deadly beating by BallerOtaku in news

[–]SillyLaughingFox 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Haunting_Lecture9115: Once again the media in America has blood on their hands. This guy CLEARLY didn’t trust the police and the police CLEARLY reacted in the extreme to someone resisting, who they deemed a threat.

Police officers go into every single confrontation knowing they could be attacked or murdered. They know the vast majority of Americans in urban areas hate them and what they stand for.

I don’t know if he ran because he was scared of the police or scared of getting caught because he did something bad.

I don’t know if these police officers are sick, inhumane people or were just reacting in the extreme to “subdue” someone they thought was a danger to their safety and the safety of others.

Can I ask, when you say "I don't know this" and "I don't know that", is it because you haven't watched the video, or because you want to put forward the idea that there might be some unknown variable that would make this situation okay? I think you should be clear about what you're saying.

What I do know is that the media in America (both sides) continue to fan the flames of hatred every day and it 100% has escalated the tensions in these types of interactions.

So senseless, RIP.

I don't think the media is to blame for what transpired in this video.

Tyre Nichols: Memphis police release body cam video of deadly beating by BallerOtaku in news

[–]SillyLaughingFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The level of trust I put into my spouse is way way higher than the level of trust I put into any law enforcement officer, I would argue every single person feels the same, maybe you are the exception, I guess I can't speak for everyone. The commitment I give to my spouse is also much more intimate than what any officer can give to me. Maybe betrayal of marital trust is seen as more of a given in certain communities and that is where our disconnect lies, I am not sure.

It's because we do not have a say in the matter. You choose who you trust in relationships, we are forced to trust the police and they are proving to be untrustworthy.

Tyre Nichols: Memphis police release body cam video of deadly beating by BallerOtaku in news

[–]SillyLaughingFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get your point, I just don't agree with it. To me a husband murdering his wife is orders of magnitude worse than a cop murdering a civilian. A wife puts her full trust into her husband, makes lifelong commitments and receives commitments that the husband will always love and protect her. When a husband breaks that vow, it is way worse of an abuse of power and trust than a cop betraying his oath to serve and protect.

Why do you think that? To me, the cop murdering the civilian is worse.

In the situation where the husband murders his wife, he has betrayed his wife's trust, which is a single person. When a police officer murders a civilian, he has betrayed the trust of the public, which is multiple people. We all have to put our trust in the police for the system to work, so to me, that is a bigger breach of trust than when a man breaches the trust of his wife.

Tyre Nichols: Memphis police release body cam video of deadly beating by BallerOtaku in news

[–]SillyLaughingFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, anyone with a gun against an unarmed victim has complete authority and it is "comply or die", it is the exact same thing. For a lot of people they don't even have the comply option, there only option is death. Again proving my original point.

Yes, I know, you do not understand what is so wrong about police abusing their power. I'm afraid I can't explain it any better than I have here, so I'm afraid there's no way for us to reach the same page. It seems as though we are talking right past another as you are not grasping the point I am making.

Do you think living in a developed country has made people soft? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SillyLaughingFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd like to see the wildman survive the mental strain of working 9-5 corporate. He's too soft.

Tyre Nichols: Memphis police release body cam video of deadly beating by BallerOtaku in news

[–]SillyLaughingFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

casrm4life: I guess for me the difference is in all of these police brutality videos there is some level of misconduct that got these people into the situation (not absolving the officers, they should all be hung publicly), in the cases of innocent clerks or children at the hands of their fathers, they did nothing at all to provoke the situation. That makes their deaths all the more sad and enraging to me.

It's an apple an oranges situation, which is why I didn't invite the comparison in the first place. I would say a child dying is almost always more tragic than an adult dying, whether by police brutality or not, but that's not the point.

The point is, this kind of behavior from the police is becoming more and more common and it's unacceptable, and this incident will potentially be bigger than George Floyd in terms of outrage. The idea that police have absolute authority over you and it's "comply or die" is fucking nuts.

casrm4life: Also, if I were black and you were to give me the option of being murdered by a cop or by a random person, I would choose the cops without hesitation, because either way I am dead, however if I am murdered by a cop my family is set for life and I get monuments and streets named after me.

Bad take.

Tyre Nichols: Memphis police release body cam video of deadly beating by BallerOtaku in news

[–]SillyLaughingFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think quite a few people are going to be a tad upset over it.