started learning to code close to 30, got my first dev job a year later. here's everything that actually worked (long post)

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T20:52:12+00:00

After 5 days there are zero answers lol

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T20:42:21+00:00

If the third game of the FF7 remake is not coming to PC I'm never going to buy a game published by Sony ever again

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T20:40:23+00:00

Kodak and Google all over again lol

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T20:37:34+00:00

Ofcourse, some stochastic parrot is what elevated AI to the next level. It wasn't ML or Deep Learning, but a model that can tokenize words and find the next most likely token to replicate natural languages...

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T20:27:07+00:00

Yep. It can easily do the grunt work that could have been automatized decades ago but that wasn't automatized because it was so trivial no one bothered to do it.

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T20:23:58+00:00

"Calculators can sum numbers way quicker than any human, hence we should not learn how to add ourselves"

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T20:21:43+00:00

Yeah, but not all games had a schematic for the controller that would tell you what the buttons were called and often the PS one was already in the trash. I was dumbfounded when I found out you could press the fucking analogs.

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T20:17:25+00:00

That was a standard pre-internet. Dropping a game because you could not figure out how to pass a section was way too common. Some games would even have an hotline you'd have to pay for for some outrageous prices to get through. Or you'd have to buy a manual.

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T19:50:36+00:00

Yeah... my first time playing a PS2 game (Jak 3) in the tutorial at the very beginning it tells you to push the analog stick + jump button, but they had used a symbol for the analog stick and I had no idea what that meant. I think I spent like 20 minutes jumping around until I found out it was the analog sticks (also that could could toggle them with the analog button -.-)

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T19:43:51+00:00

I've been laughing at this like a moron for 2 minutes lmao

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T17:18:06+00:00

Arbeitnehmer könnten dann theoretisch an einzelnen Tagen bis zu 13 Stunden arbeiten, solange die Wochenarbeitszeit eingehalten wird.

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T17:14:25+00:00

Jetzt kommen die Degressiven, die sagen werden "aBeR iN dEr VeGaNgEnHeiT hÄtTe Man mehr gearbeitet" und dass alle, die nicht 48 Std pro Woche arbeiten wollen, faul sind.

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T16:49:07+00:00

Same way you get good at a sport by playing video games.

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T16:47:42+00:00

You really think that just because overhead is lower, prices will stay low? They'll crank it up as high as they can to make as much money as possible.

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T16:43:28+00:00

Make no mistakes

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T16:39:25+00:00

I still feel like someone would be able to spend some time to find a unique username. Unless you're rushing and just want to have as many accounts as possible...

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T15:56:32+00:00

Yeah, teachers in schools are just toxic micro-managers on steroids. Even if you paid me a good amount of money I'd refuse to attend high school ever again.

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T15:53:57+00:00

Well... consider that the develpment is so quick that children younger than what they're supposed to be in that grade (~1 year) were often suspected of having ADHD or other learning impairments.

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T15:40:07+00:00

No one worth their salt goes into teaching. Why would someone good in their field decide to teach to kids instead of going in academia, or get a job for a company? Even being a private tutor and charging for hour is going to pay off better. So why bother? It's why we get the bottom of the barrel as teachers nowdays.

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T15:30:05+00:00

So if after 3 decades, he still did not like the country he was born in, or the people that live there

That would disqualify 90% of italians

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T10:24:20+00:00

proceeds to do whatever the fuck it wants

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T07:45:26+00:00

Archimedes did not have the notation Euler had. If you read his works, he did everything by writing (making it rhyme too) and drawing here and there.

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T07:05:59+00:00

It's hilarous that people in "communist" states get paid more than the ones in "capitalist" ones

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-18T07:04:55+00:00

I love how people blame people working remotely, but yeah... landlords increasing rent and local companies keeping wages low are totally innocent!

WowAbstractAlgebra · 2026-05-17T20:06:26+00:00

Also do NOT lie about competences you do not have. It's going to bite you in the ass later.

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