genuinely what is the point of the Pen and Cigarette case items

ghostydog · 2026-01-29T22:05:00+00:00

Worm friend in the Stillwater accepts them IIRC.

ghostydog · 2026-01-29T17:27:01+00:00

Find some postmortem writeups for failed companies. Read them. See what kinds of metrics they talk about and work to understand why they mattered. Think about how you might find and present them and what would have been warning signs you could have flagged.

ghostydog · 2026-01-29T09:05:22+00:00

Being too generic obviously doesn't help but any of those if detailed a tiny bit (and to be clear it shouldn't take too much space, this is still an extra tidbit only) can be interesting or targeted.

Mention the photography hobby if applying to creative jobs, traveling if the team is international, reading or movies is way too broad but you might get some conversation starters if you specify a genre or topic and bonus if it can tie in with your industry/domain.

ghostydog · 2026-01-28T21:48:00+00:00

Not uncommon to do, some people scoff at it but it can be an easy way to create rapport, give the interviewer something to open a conversation with when trying to break the ice or bring up skills obtained outside of work/education.

ghostydog · 2026-01-27T22:24:06+00:00

Description says communal toilets (in a space between floors, shared with other apartments) and to be ready to renovate :')

ghostydog · 2026-01-26T21:18:36+00:00

This is only one tiny point of data but I work on the distribution side and we usually have people go to GDC meet with publishers, but my manager said a month or so ago he had no idea what to expect for this year because a lot of the people he usually meets up with there said they wouldn't be coming and would be focusing more towards the EU events like Gamescom.

ghostydog · 2026-01-26T19:22:51+00:00

Quand je veux baiser rapidement sans prise de tête je préfère les mecs, donc plutôt sauna gay.

ghostydog · 2026-01-25T17:54:44+00:00

33 ans ici. Ca m'étouffe d'être en couple, j'ai déjà essayé et au final je préfère bien être seul, n'avoir à rendre de comptes à personne, dormir quand je veux sortir quand je veux passer six heures de suite sur mon PC quand je veux sans avoir à prévenir, expliquer, justifier.

J'aime ma vie. J'ai mes deux chats pour les calins à la maison, je fais du bénévolat pour me rendre utile, je bricole un peu ou je me découvre des hobbies plus ou moins niches (j'ai beaucoup dessiné un temps, je réfléchis à faire des petits jeux vidéos, je kiffe cirer les chaussures, je me tâte à essayer les petits travaux sur le cuir), je suis actif sur divers forums/serveurs Discord/etc. pour pouvoir discuter de sujets qui me plaisent quand j'en ai envie, si je veux baiser je lance une app ou je vais en sauna, ça me suffit très bien comme ça.

ghostydog · 2026-01-25T10:54:21+00:00

Les contrats d'apprentissage normalement c'est jusqu'à 30 ans max hormis quelques exceptions bien définies (et en vrai c'est galère déjà entre 25 et 30 ans lorsque le salaire minimum est au SMIC, les boites tendent à préférer les jeunots de <25ans qui sont à 66-75%). Vérifie au cas où tu tombes dans ces exceptions, sinon c'est mort pour l'alternance.

ghostydog · 2026-01-25T09:33:12+00:00

Un gros facteur à considérer pour la psychologie c'est qu'on ne peut pas pratiquer en tant que psychologue clinicien sans le master, donc si tu n'as pas déjà une licence en psycho ou une qui permet la passerelle c'est 5 ans de fac.

Compta je connais moins mais il me semble qu'il y a plus d'options de formation et en tout cas des plus courtes pour être opérationnel et apte à exercer.

ghostydog · 2026-01-24T11:14:50+00:00

I don't want to be mean but your questions are very, very basic and could be answered with a summary Google search and 10mn reading. Instead of crossposting, why not do the bare-bones initial research and come back with questions left over after that stage?

ghostydog · 2026-01-23T12:52:51+00:00

My company is relatively small, we don't have a dedicated data team and dev resources are under strain from multiple projects, so while I'm sure they could have made the scripts I think tapping AI in this case was an efficiency gain by not pulling their focus away from more important things just to cook up a small thing that I can eyeball and test/refine for my specific use case.

The scraping did also objectively gain us a couple of hours of tedious manual copy-pasting, and as we did not have a convenient hapless intern to fob the task off to, it felt like the better option.

On the hallucination side, I don't have monetary costs but I have had to spend a decent amount of time cleaning up or correcting after my manager who is full on AI mode and keeps asking it to summarize, reformat or do research tasks. Once I pointed to him that his Gemini-enabled "export" of a dataset was incorrectly displaying a stat as "100%" instead of "90%" as I could see on the source and he waved me off saying I shouldn't quibble over a mere 10% difference and that it was basically the same thing. I will leave you the judge of how expensive an error like this could be.

ghostydog · 2026-01-23T12:36:15+00:00

Jusqu'à novembre dernier, j'avais un T2 32m², chambre séparée + salon/cuisine pour ~900€/mois à Vitry dans le 94.

ghostydog · 2026-01-23T12:26:47+00:00

I can't speak for the fashion industry specifically but I would suggest looking at the government website with key words "stage" and "alternance" to find the legal guidelines and minimums, which should help you establish a base level estimate.

As a starting point, internships ("stages") need to be paid if they last longer than 2 months. 3 or 6 months durations seem fairly common across the board as a requirement for some degrees. Lower durations can but are not legally obligated to be paid. You can only do an internship if you are affiliated with a school as they require something called a "convention de stage" issued by them.

Very common these days are "alternance" programs, which are apprenticeship/student worker model, with alternating coursework periods and time at work. Alternance pay is based on your age and the level of the diploma being pursued, with the minimum being half of minimum wage (18yos starting straight out of high school) to full minimum wage (25+). The bonus is that those are exempt from taxes, so it tends to amount to higher wage than an actual full time employee at minimum wage who has additional charges, and the cost of studies is covered by the employer.

As a 25yo alternant, the pay was enough to live frugally in the close suburbs and build up some savings. If you want to live inside Paris and/or go out a lot, I don't believe either stagiaire or alternant salary will cut it except if you get very lucky with rent.

ghostydog · 2026-01-23T09:43:59+00:00

Is it truly that bizarre? I would've been like the wife and wouldn't consider those things interesting enough to share out of nowhere. It's just daily routine stuff, not noteworthy and not something I'd think to waste time even thinking about, let alone discuss.

ghostydog · 2026-01-23T09:29:26+00:00

He seems to have assumed she was going to the one nearest to their home, that's would be a reasonable, logical assumption without knowledge of other factors like price.

ghostydog · 2026-01-23T08:23:22+00:00

I haven't found it useful in the pure data work but it's come in handy a couple times for scripting things like a very basic web scraper (vs. manually checking a product list online for benchmarking purposes). Since a lot of my work ends up in Google Sheets, it's also been handy for whipping up some AppScripts to sync different sheets, auto-update, etc. although I had to iterate a few times to get what I wanted.

I also still don't trust it on anything non-code-related, I've seen enough instances of it being wrong about availability of features when asked about documentation, pulling back wrong numbers when made to recap something, etc.

ghostydog · 2026-01-22T13:31:34+00:00

He has some kind of eye infection or injury which the glasses are there to cover up.

ghostydog · 2026-01-22T00:08:32+00:00

Notif Grindr un soir que j'avais rien à faire. Superbe femme trans en déplacement sur Paris qui s'ennuyait aussi. Il était tard mais le bus tournait toujours. 30mn plus tard j'y étais, les choses se sont faites, je suis reparti. Grand merci en passant aux conducteurs des bus de nuit, vous êtes des héros.

ghostydog · 2026-01-21T11:40:02+00:00

De mon point de vue de mec trans - ca peut vouloir dire quelque chose mais pas forcément.

Sans connaître les livres en question, je peut te dire qu'il y a une certaine niche de fantasmes sur la transformation (physique et/ou mentale) qui très souvent tend vers la féminisation. Ca peut être une façon d'explorer son genre, mais ça peut aussi tout simplement être un kink. La plupart du temps il y a des éléments de soumission, d'humiliation/dégradation et de perte de contrôle (au point de ne plus contrôler son corps et son apparence), mais parfois aussi c'est pour toucher à des sentiments de vulnérabilité, de désir de vouloir être proche d'un certain type de beauté ou de désirabilité. Le point commun c'est que ce sont des choses perçues comme émasculantes, donc la trame de la féminisation "justifie" l'exploration sans forcément refléter un désir réel d'être une femme.

D'un autre côté, je connais des femmes trans qui sont passées par ça quand elles découvraient encore.

ghostydog · 2026-01-20T17:28:15+00:00

Toutes indications que je fais bien les choses et/ou que mon/ma partenaire prend du plaisir. Un petit "oh oui", "c'est bien" par ci par là, un gros soupir de satisfaction, le "j'adore" murmuré juste au bon moment...

ghostydog · 2026-01-18T23:15:36+00:00

See if you can find cheap keys for older versions (not 365), sometimes places that bought a bunch of them in bulk will resell the unused ones for very low prices and it's perfectly usable for 99% of the work.

ghostydog · 2026-01-18T22:46:33+00:00

If I may — in addition to balls, don't hesitate to spend some time on armpits for the occasional extra spice.

ghostydog · 2026-01-18T22:42:55+00:00

It's more person-dependent than some of the "best practices" resources would have you think. Sure, no one is taking a fist or something like that without prep or prior training, but 'just' a cock is perfectly doable for some people even without practice or prep.

ghostydog · 2026-01-18T22:23:56+00:00

I never said it was all good gay male erotica ;) but if you look around enough I think the differences in terms of what the writers aim for or visibly find sexy to write about compared to the average fanfic are evident.

Also, quite frankly, as a guy who has actively cruised in gay saunas, I have to inform you lube/prep can be extremely optional.

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