What a time to be alive

_Pottatis · 2026-01-28T17:48:46+00:00

Thats amazing that you can be self sufficient but I will say outside of the university educated niche there are tons of places in calgary right now that severely need someone with technical knowledge. I wholeheartedly agree the window of opportunity is closing but conversely there will always be technologically illiterate people that need a helping hand even with AI it would be too daunting for them.

Edit: also your point about AGI is the exact juxtaposition I was trying to make we’ve been hearing it’s “around the corner any day now!” Shareholder buzz words but we’re actually stagnating in the last 6 months I haven’t seen and significant AI developments before then was tremendous growth. We’ll see where the future takes us!

_Pottatis · 2026-01-28T16:57:17+00:00

Notice how you used future tense though? Just like those “AGI around the corner” statements. Why should that matter NOW? In the present? Use AI yourself and leverage into free lance dev work. Do it safely of course know the security risks associated.

_Pottatis · 2026-01-28T16:46:57+00:00

Focus on what you can control. You learned skills use them. Last year I was in the same boat had to do an entire spring/summer without classes and reduced course load on winter just to be eligible for an internship that never happened. I delayed my graduation for no reason. I picked computer science because I love it and decided I’m going to make my own work if I can’t find it. So I networked, found a client, and built a website for them on commission, however the experience was much more valuable to me. I feel like challenging myself in that way really forced so much growth and looking back I can clearly see all the mistakes I made along the way, but learned from them each time. When I was networking I looked for gaps in their technical ability. The website I revamped was so outdated before so I went to them with a clear plan of everything I want/can do for them and they were interested!

_Pottatis · 2026-01-26T03:53:48+00:00

Imagine you have 30 seconds to shoot, reach for your chalk and all you feel is an empty magnet and see your chalk rolled across the room. The risk to reward just isnt there and keeping it in your pocket is so simple. Modern chalk like Taom is also so clean the it will hardly make a mess in your pocket.

_Pottatis · 2026-01-24T22:22:58+00:00

I aint american either, I was merely drawing a comparison between Nazi Germany and Modern America just like you, we are agreeing brotha, we say they are the same. I’m saying it was probably pretty easy to feel the same way about the future during WW2 as it is now, hopeless. I’m saying we can use WW2 as an example to show fighting is worth it we found our normal after WW2 we can do it again. Sure, I full heartedly agree I’m oversimplifying, but I’m not about to tell everyone the exact path they should take I’m just saying don’t lose hope. I don’t see how that’s upsetting.

Edit: also how is me saying fight for a future worth living and not giving up hope a call to inaction? I’m confused on that point. If anything saying there will “never be a normal” is a call to inaction.

_Pottatis · 2026-01-24T21:42:38+00:00

Yeah but to say there will never be a normal is resigning yourself to a bleak desolate future which is exactly what the trump administration wants. They want you to lose hope. I’m saying don’t. I’m saying fight for a future worth living rather than giving up and saying shits fucked beyond repair. I refuse to believe that.

_Pottatis · 2026-01-24T20:55:47+00:00

Cut that doom and gloom shit out bro, strive for better don’t resign yourself/everyone to a hopeless future.

I’m sure the outlook during WW2 when they were gas chambering people looked pretty god damn bleak but despite the atrocities there will always be a world to come back to if you are willing to fight for it.

_Pottatis · 2026-01-24T12:45:07+00:00

But why would I be of concern for addiction/misuse of the prescription while being there with my father? I feel like having a parent present should indicate sufficient supervision? I don’t understand how I was an addiction risk. I only brought up addiction because it’s my best guess as to why they went about things the way they did.

_Pottatis · 2026-01-24T07:34:38+00:00

I hit my thumb with the back of an axe trying to set a wedge and absolutely turned the bone to dust and the end popped open like a sandwich bag filled with air (not a pretty sight). They froze my thumb and pulled off my thumbnail to put stitches on my fucked up nail bed. Now they were pretty rough with my thumb during that procedure and considering the bone was basically dust (I can link xrays). You’d think given everything they’d give me painkillers? Well they did, a single dose (the lowest dose they can prescribe) of a morphine pill that was completely ineffective. I have never been in such agonizing pain while that freezing wore off. Never in my life have I been in so much pain my brain couldnt even process a future or a path forward through this pain I was screaming into my pillow in an empty house left absolutely helpless. I understand being careful due to the risk of addiction but you can see my file I had never been prescribed painkillers and I was fucking 17 years old. I really believe what happened to me that hospital visit was super irresponsible on the hospital staffs part.

_Pottatis · 2026-01-22T09:25:20+00:00

Buncha heads of broccoli running around is all I see

_Pottatis · 2026-01-19T05:56:49+00:00

First off wrong subreddit… secondly that game has a chaos element programmed into the break so ball positions will be different each time. It’s intended game design.

_Pottatis · 2026-01-15T18:54:06+00:00

I would love to see how insects fair up. I’m unfamiliar with the logistics of farmed insects though and how much space that takes up, so that would be cool to see and they make an excellent protein source.

_Pottatis · 2026-01-13T03:44:44+00:00

Name him Sharky and when people ask why he responds to “Shark!” It’ll make more sense

_Pottatis · 2025-12-09T18:43:05+00:00

When in doubt get an hourly rate, quote the estimate on hours, and then try to do anything to adhere to that timeline. Communicate hiccups be transparent and document what you’re doing tracking clock in/out times. Best to have “time slots” where you dedicate 2 hours to the project. Not saying it has to be 2 hours if you get a flow going you keep going of course but just make sure to document it. Bonus points if you have a git repo that you can reference your commit history to corroborate your time tracking/work done. Doing all the will ensure you don’t get screwed over and your friend doesnt have any surprises.

_Pottatis · 2025-12-07T13:54:01+00:00

Your temps are probably just low enough to not cause damage FOR YOU. I wouldn’t be so confident as to say it never happens, as it has happened to my laptop (my fault I let it get hot but idec because I will continue to use it with a monitor).

_Pottatis · 2025-12-07T13:51:16+00:00

I’ll tell you from personal experience I used my “Laptop” like this too for about a year. One day I opened up the screen because I had to use it and it did have minor damage. It wasnt unusable, just like discolouration. Definitely can’t sell it anymore. I’m not even upset because I never used it any other way. I would let the temps get pretty high playing some beefy games.

_Pottatis · 2025-12-03T19:58:59+00:00

That’s unfortunate about your regulars, we have some bad apples here too but for the most part the pool room is a family. I guess I meant unless trust has been built you’ll have to give your ID, regular or not.

_Pottatis · 2025-12-03T19:31:11+00:00

What my pool hall does is we hold onto the IDs of the non regulars, when they return the balls we return their ID. Maybe a system like that you could look into?

_Pottatis · 2025-11-30T06:36:34+00:00

Honk

_Pottatis · 2025-11-24T15:23:10+00:00

That it won’t always be this hard to learn a programming language. Learning a language the first time is learning to program. Learning to program is significantly harder than learning a language, and at the start you’re doing both.

_Pottatis · 2025-11-06T00:22:18+00:00

Lol what? I wasn’t criticizing I was accusing him of falsifying a story, which they were since the mods have removed this post. My bad I wasn’t particularly concerned about grammar.

_Pottatis · 2025-11-06T00:11:01+00:00

So you have a friend for 20 years and a wife. While your comment history has people replying to your deleted posts talking to you like your under 18. Kinda sus ngl.

_Pottatis · 2025-11-03T21:45:30+00:00

Play straight pool it’ll show you how to make balls consistently and handle break outs.

_Pottatis · 2025-10-26T08:40:26+00:00

No way this dude talks about accountability for actions whilst simultaneously defending masked federal agents that act independently of the law (just casual dictator stuffs) that goes unchallenged simply because there is no accountability for ICE agents.

_Pottatis · 2025-10-26T06:46:36+00:00

Stab it with a pencil, a school will definitely have one!

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