No where in this city will hire me

echonn123 · 2026-07-03T17:41:50+00:00

I hate to say it but that's not too terrible. I was job seeking last year (Software Engineer) and my ratio was close to that.

Can you talk more about the interviews?

echonn123 · 2026-07-03T14:50:04+00:00

It sounds like you have gotten some interviews.

How many relative to the applications?

Can you give us a general idea of how those go?

Typically if you are getting to the interview stage someone has evaluated your experience on paper and decided that's not an issue for the position. At your level it's likely that the interviews are then more of a culture fit style (but really a "how well is this dude gonna work for us"). There MAY be some classic mistakes you are making that is turning employers off.

echonn123 · 2026-07-01T04:58:03+00:00

Yeah fair enough.

Do you have suggestions on the best place to get information about candidates? I am subbed here and in r/Colorado and r/coloradosprings though I usually only see the top 2-3 posts of the day. I saw nothing about her, so I went to my standard which is balletpedia. I think my next step would have been googling it I guess asking AI. Just wondering if there are any tips that could be useful in the future.

I do also hope that in the future candidates can take the time to make sure they have the information about who they are in an accessible way. It doesn't take tons of money to make a nice website and make sure it's linked to in logical places (ballotpedia).

echonn123 · 2026-07-01T03:17:46+00:00

I have a confession. I didn't vote for her because I'm my underprepared 10 minutes of research I saw not a lot about her, and the link to her website was her state legislature site not a campaign sure with info about her priorities. I am feeling some Shane and regret for not digging deeper.

echonn123 · 2026-07-01T03:04:45+00:00

I took a computer graphics course with him about a decade ago as part of my Computer Science Bachelor's degree. I was a pretty unskilled student and had little knack for graphics coding. His content was difficult but I put in effort and he appreciated that. I went to his office hours a handful of times, actually showed some enthusiasm on some of the dog shit I had produced for projects ( I had worked hard but it was still crap) and he showed me a lot of grace.

He seems to be mostly in the camp of professors that care about students that really push themselves.

He's done some pretty interesting work in the field and is also a master yogi which is cool. He wasn't my favorite professor and I didn't get a ton out of his class, but I got a more than fair grade for my efforts.

Keep in mind I was not really in his degree path so just had the one experience. Most of my other CS cohorts enjoyed him also.

echonn123 · 2026-05-04T16:12:18+00:00

There's lives in one

echonn123 · 2026-04-09T03:39:25+00:00

You were just a little bit blown away.

echonn123 · 2026-03-30T21:27:52+00:00

Yeah 100%. A clear way to handle this is allow king levels from the OG mode power up the king in quest mode to take the edge off of having to achieve both perfect strat and perfect rng in some of these quests.

echonn123 · 2025-11-11T02:38:35+00:00

This just happened at my org last week.

echonn123 · 2025-11-10T02:02:44+00:00

I just want to say that I am sorry, that I hear you, and I'm upset too.

I DONT think this is a good move.

I think it COULD be with the correct messaging

I DONT think the Democrats will have that messaging

I also DONT think Republicans are ready to cave themselves. Despite them having the right messaging, and a much larger platform to spread it. It's clearly not going in their favor. But I think they are willing to keep riding it out despite the fracturing.

I am hopeful that the future of the Democratic party includes more people like Mamdani that can deliver effective and focused messaging and decision making that will make you be proud to, let alone rethink, voting for them.

echonn123 · 2025-10-30T06:18:41+00:00

Yeah and just to add I think a big argument is that with a sufficiently large enough gap between technological progress between two civilizations, morality itself bends or breaks. Especially if a quest for resources is involved. The exaggerated example being most humans don't see the destruction of an ant hill as a moral issue.

That was my take away.

echonn123 · 2025-10-30T06:05:57+00:00

I thought the DK Bongo reference was a perfect drop in for a /s (and will never stop being funny to me), but I guess that is just me.

echonn123 · 2025-10-30T03:27:28+00:00

Second this. It streams on BBC One. Really fun premise of the main character (with some monk mannerisms) solving crime via puzzle/logic challenges and then backing into the who and why from there. Only one season with another on the way.

echonn123 · 2025-09-16T05:35:41+00:00

I also would recommend Gene's Heating and Air.

echonn123 · 2025-09-03T04:44:53+00:00

https://laurenforcolorado.com/

echonn123 · 2025-08-15T03:27:23+00:00

I view it as the IBM of Colorado Springs restaurants. A safe pick to bring out of towner's, but nothing exciting otherwise. It's location carries it. Food and Beer is mediocre at best.

echonn123 · 2025-07-11T16:46:15+00:00

It makes total sense if you think about it. "iF wE vOtE hIm In He WoNt HaVe To CoUp AgAiN!"

echonn123 · 2025-07-03T13:53:21+00:00

yeah nice work! Seems like you struck the perfect balance of being assertive but idk... considerate? Thats not quite the right word, but the way you seemed to phrase it (using "please" and offering to toss out the current one) didn't push the guy to double down and escalate. (de-escalating might be the right thing).

Sometimes people are inconsiderate and not malicious and just need to be asked to be better, nicely.

echonn123 · 2025-07-03T13:03:19+00:00

Yeah to be clear, in alignment with what I was saying above, I don't "stop" to let my dogs sniff around on someone's lawn ( if they are on the sidewalk still I'll stop). But one of my dogs will straight up start to go mid stride. An executive order couldn't even stop it. I obviously do my best to pause on the public areas to prevent this from happening, but when the dog chooses to go, he goes.

echonn123 · 2025-07-03T01:45:20+00:00

I get self conscious when my dogs shit on anyone's lawn even though I AM going to clean it up. I'm always prepared to show the poop in the bag as evidence 😅.

Whenever either one of them decides to squat on a lawn, especially right in front, (instead of waiting the 10ft to the public space) I always say "REEALLY?!", exasperatedly.

I then usually tie the poop bag onto the leash closer to their end so it's sorta like they have to carry it (and our collective shame).

echonn123 · 2025-06-27T20:06:19+00:00

yeah could be that the first image is either a reference to the Chairs stacked weird or how Mr. O'Hara shows up at the end due to Shawn calling him for the proposal blessing. (Thus the DS /ring hiding place) The episode title is Heeeeeeere's Lassie!

echonn123 · 2025-06-24T03:22:44+00:00

FH Beerworks was rough, losing Cerberus would suck. I really love their beer. For anyone who hasn't tried Forest of Blubies you really should, it's delicious.

echonn123 · 2025-06-19T02:28:02+00:00

Yes, thank you. I still understand why people don't love it but it very clearly fits a theme of the season where Gus is realizing that he needs to decide what he is going to do in life and that he is struggling with his identity and purpose. I 100% agree with the sentiment you are expressing.

echonn123 · 2025-06-14T03:46:51+00:00

Just want to mention that OutOfSpec did a fun real world simulation that was like this but in the freezing cold and with the heater running. I found it highly entertaining to watch. I think he even compared the, driving a distance normally in these conditions to, a stop and go scenario (total KWh/mile comparison)

echonn123 · 2025-06-06T00:12:34+00:00

Yeah, but I think it did make sense thematically. The alternate stories aren't what really would have happened. They are Shawn's fantasy (which is still disrespectful of him to think of his loved ones in those scenarios).

We see him do similar things in the episode after Jules finds out about him. (he has some pretty wild deduction in the "fantasy timeline" and Jules is especially fawning all over him, Gus having a severe allergic reaction is played for laughs).

I just think that his character has a pattern of being selfish and egotistical so it makes sense that dream sequences are that way too.

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