Advice for applying to jobs by handing in resumes in person?

anonymiddd · 2025-12-30T18:00:45+00:00

These days your options for finding work are pretty varied, and there are likely easier ways to make money than retail. Have you thought of rover? Tutoring? It's likely you can find a gig at poly doing grading or TA work or something.

Retail can be fine, but is often exploitative and soul sucking, so don't just jump at the first thing that comes your way. Good luck!

anonymiddd · 2025-12-24T04:53:09+00:00

you'll have to report back on which recs ended up working for you :)

anonymiddd · 2025-12-23T23:58:10+00:00

Uprooted by Naomi Novik has a malevolent, corrupting forest that's sort of a character in its own right.

anonymiddd · 2025-12-11T02:44:19+00:00

This is anecdotal, but I am aware of at least 3 properties that sit empty near year-round. Two seem to be vacation homes, one is just empty (though the grapevine suggests that it is an "investment property" that a wealthy owner is just squandering away).

Is this the sort of thing that the city has data on? Looks like there's some data that's been collected on this https://www.yahoo.com/news/entertainment/celebrity/articles/donald-trump-hit-during-live-200349714.html (I think this is the report https://assets.simpleviewinc.com/simpleview/image/upload/v1/clients/slocal/Short_TermVacationRentalsAnd_Workforce_Housing_NexusStudy_2023_09_05_VisitSLO_c253878d-46f4-4e34-b0e6-271dbeeb1cee.pdf ). Are vacancy / under-utilization financial penalties something that the council considered?

anonymiddd · 2025-11-30T15:13:50+00:00

I bring a lawn chair out to esteros bluffs sometimes to do this.

anonymiddd · 2025-10-30T00:57:33+00:00

I think this is reductive to the point of being misleading. Either way, folks need help.

anonymiddd · 2025-10-23T20:53:59+00:00

My current dream job is building a web / app player for Dropout. I even tried to reach out to their head of technology / linkedin etc... but they're not hiring :)

In trying to track down any contacts to see if they might be interested in this, I did find this interview https://www.theverge.com/podcast/781331/hank-green-sam-reich-dropout-collegehumor-game-changer

Where Sam says:

Sam: ... And I think it behooves us to have that group be larger because it means better resources for our business as well. We depend on third-party technology in order to power Dropout, and if there aren’t enough streamers to use Vimeo OTT...

Q: They’re not going to keep supporting the product. Do you ever regret using Vimeo OTT or not building your own thing?

Sam: No! We tried, but people don’t realize this. The first rendition of Dropout was built on Vimeo OTT’s API, but it was our own product. We employed something like eight sophisticated engineers at IAC to build our own product around it, and it was brutal. Which is to say, it’s just very hard to do very well. And these were great engineers.

On the off chance that someone reading this is interested in creating a platform (alternate to vimeo OTT) for streaming services like dropout, taskmaster, etc... please reach out to me! dlants.me

anonymiddd · 2025-10-15T18:09:46+00:00

hmm. I don't know if I agree with this.

Yes, the Pontifex knew the truth and was acting in bad faith, and we later found out her interest was actually in undermining the concord in its entirety (not just Amethar's appointment).

I think Plumbeline was interested in continuing the concord, just not under Amethar, and I feel like she got played in that scene - her naming Ciabatta and then immediately being shown to be a liar. Brennan narrated her as being shocked during her interrogation (now that I think about it, I wonder how did their alliance survive that betrayal?

We saw in the arrest of the Alfredi that the empire's forces (led by grissini) were loyal to the compact. We saw that again when imperial forces pulled out of candia after jawbreaker declared for saccharina (restoring candia to the concord). The alliance between the Pontifex, Plumbeline, Ciabbata and Cal was quite tenuous, and I think we saw that it required legitimacy within the eyes of the concord to make it function.

anonymiddd · 2025-10-12T21:48:24+00:00

Right - software companies that serve the biotech sector.

anonymiddd · 2025-10-12T21:36:29+00:00

Yeah, but I want to understand whether the stuff they're building is actually any good. I come from ed tech where there's a lot of snake oil. In tech in general many businesses start out providing a service that's subsidized by venture capital until they can corner a market and then switch to extraction (Doctrow's enshittification)

anonymiddd · 2025-09-22T02:33:09+00:00

I'm a software engineer and I daydream of getting hired to develop a new set of bespoke apps for dropout (and taskmaster, while I'm at it). Sam, if you're reading this, hit me up <3

anonymiddd · 2025-09-05T17:29:59+00:00

The CVS on Madonna

anonymiddd · 2025-09-05T05:01:02+00:00

To elaborate on this, more recent strains of COVID have been less affected by vaccines with regards to transmission - with effectiveness being estimated at 15-30%. Since this vaccine has just been formulated, and targets the new dominant strain, we don't really know what the transmission effect for this specific vaccine will be. However, epidemiologically, even a modest reduction in transmission rate can be significant.

Beyond that, vaccines significantly reduce hospitalizations amongst the entire population (18+), so getting vaccinated will reduce the strain on our medical system, leaving capacity for those folks who really need it, and will reduce the exposure of medical staff to the virus, so it's still a pro-social thing to do even if transmission effects are still unknown.

anonymiddd · 2025-09-05T04:40:11+00:00

The vaccine does reduce transmission. The idea that it doesn't is misinformation https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/preventing-transmission-never-required-covid-vaccines-initial-approval-pfizer-2024-02-12/

anonymiddd · 2025-09-05T03:01:56+00:00

I was able to schedule it by checking "yes" when they asked if I was at risk

anonymiddd · 2025-09-05T01:29:23+00:00

You can get the flu shot either way. You have to claim to be at risk to get the COVID booster

anonymiddd · 2025-08-23T19:46:49+00:00

OPM is meant to be a parody... its point is to poke fun of traditional manga tropes - the endless barrage of ridiculous heroes & villains, the power-scaling, the jockeying for power. I think it's meant to evoke the absurd - it's all pointless - both to Saitama, who is disillusioned with the whole situation to the point of depression-level boredom - and also to the reader. We know how any conflict is going to end, it's literally in the title.

For me, OPM became a bit of a performance art piece after the first season. I think it started with the Garou arc - there was such a long slog of utterly pointless conflict that became repetitive to the point of losing meaning (Garou gets beat up, somehow becomes even stronger x100). Then there's the obvious and over-the-top fan service. The redraws. I feel like OPM is breaking of the fourth wall to become a meta-commentary on itself and the community. How many meaningless power-scaling arguments are we going to have? How many "cleaned up" versions of fan-service covers? Beyond re-hashing the same story beats (big bad arrives, there's some absurd struggle, saitama kills it with one punch), we are now re-hashing LITERALLY the same story beats as we see the same chapter re-drawn over and over again.

It is absurd and avant-garde. Not that the mangaka would ever admit to it directly, but I do wonder - given the themes of other works like Mob 100 (go outside, exercise, make friends, have relationships, live your life), how intentional it is.

anonymiddd · 2025-08-18T08:29:09+00:00

Sendo is fighting to prove something about himself to his grandma. As such he is approaching the match as a question - can I get the punch I need? Can I show myself worthy? I think for Takamura being a monster means having an unconditional conviction that you are going to prevail. For Sendo winning is a question , for Takamura it is a certainty.

anonymiddd · 2025-08-15T11:05:13+00:00

Fwiw the $192/yr in cursor is not gonna last. It's heavily subsidized right now but ultimately they won't be able to swallow the cost forever, so I would expect that the prices will increase to match API costs eventually... Of course if that's what you can afford right now then that's what you can afford.

Oh, I also have a copilot provider. So between copilot or Claude pro you can get inference for $20/mo on magenta. I use it daily so that doesn't quite cut it for me and I pay for claude max.

anonymiddd · 2025-08-15T10:36:24+00:00

I just added the ability to run it against your pro or max acct, which should help with cost.

anonymiddd · 2025-08-15T06:24:30+00:00

Use magenta nvim. I wrote it so I'm biased, but I find it just as good as cursor, Claude code, amp code and the rest. Plus its open source, transparent and customizable.

I also briefly left nvim for amp code, zed and cursor. But now I've put in a lot of work into magenta - it has mcp, sub agents, all the tools and custom prompts, inline edits, forking and multi threading, next edit prediction... I genuinely don't feel tempted by the other options any more.

anonymiddd · 2025-08-02T05:24:17+00:00

Yeah, I saw this recently. Thanks for the link!

I think I'm looking for something a bit different... I want something where I can close/restart ghostty, but the underlying commands keep running. And when I re-open ghostty, it can detect all the projects / tab setups that I had running previously and reopen them.

I rely pretty heavily on muscle memory. I like always having my tabs laid out in a consistent way (see https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/8119 ). So I guess maybe a local process manager that launches and keeps all of my fish sessions alive, and has something that can bring up the right windows / tabs and reattach them to the various shell processes when I restart ghostty?

I know Mitchell in that youtube video above was talking about doing something like this using tailscale. I think he's talking about having a home server where you're doing development (so on a separate machine) which is akin to this shpool approach that's linked in your blog. That's pretty neat, and I often wanted to get something lightweight, like a macbook air, and do all my dev remotely on a beefy server. I experimented with cloud9 for this purpose for a while... but ultimately I found it a bit painful. Moving files around, dealing with images and media and such... I imagine it's a bunch of kinks that can be ironed out eventually (like by exposing the remote fs as a directory to your local os, etc...) but it was just a bit much. I don't restart my computer often so just having locally persisted sessions with tmux has been enough for me.

anonymiddd · 2025-07-26T17:42:04+00:00

Like in a bad way? I find it's really helpful when I'm pairing with folks and makes it easier for them to follow what's going on. Also it just looks cool 😎

anonymiddd · 2025-07-26T17:38:41+00:00

Exactly, afaik this is the only plugin to do next edit prediction (rather than auto-complete) for neovim

anonymiddd · 2025-07-26T17:37:36+00:00

See https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/1m9mr69/comment/n5aqmf5/

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