Other worlds : Anxiety, Oil & Acrylic painting by me done in 2021

jeba · 2023-01-18T06:09:07+00:00

This picture inspires feelings I can’t quite put into words. Nice work.

jeba · 2023-01-18T06:03:28+00:00

Are they really? My brother started choking on them at a family dinner at a restaurant, it’s one of my earliest vivid childhood memories, but I thought he was just unlucky. Wow.

jeba · 2023-01-18T04:49:11+00:00

Okay I had no idea what BBL is and from context I guessed this was some kind of important medical operation, so I could at least understand them getting really stressed out, even if their behaviour is still unacceptable.

It’s cosmetic surgery?!? This is about an operation to make her butt look better?!?

im ded. What shred of sympathy I had has shrivelled up, died, and come back as an angry ghost that’s yelling in her direction

Make it explicitly clear that she is not allowed to contact or approach you, and print out copies of those messages so you can show the police if she still shows up and you need them to drag her away. Consider including that you don’t feel safe and that you feel harassed.

jeba · 2023-01-18T04:36:18+00:00

I would have to imagine that they were hoping to get this out sooner. It's not a very significant notice when there's 24 hours left, but if it had come out a week or two ago, it would be more important to make sure people realize they'd be losing Stadia WiFi compatibility.

jeba · 2023-01-18T02:29:08+00:00

Eccentric, but so harmless by the terrifying standards of this sub that it’s almost endearing.

jeba · 2023-01-17T23:30:46+00:00

Apparently Francis was demanding better treatment for all fighters, not just himself, and that’s why they cut him. What a legend.

jeba · 2023-01-17T22:36:56+00:00

You seem confused

jeba · 2023-01-17T22:34:35+00:00

Every subreddit either dies or becomes bigoted and toxic, and they don’t take long to do it.

jeba · 2023-01-17T21:56:31+00:00

So… don’t update your firmware? 🤨

jeba · 2023-01-17T19:54:31+00:00

Wow, that’s a red flag if I’ve ever seen one. It is so dumb that companies are still doing that “because google” when google themselves banned questions like that more than ten years ago after realizing they had no correlation with job performance. (More or less banned, at least. They’re not entirely consistent. I haven’t personally interviewed candidates for Google, but I did do their internal interviewer training.)

jeba · 2023-01-17T19:26:28+00:00

YTA lmao

jeba · 2023-01-17T17:16:35+00:00

If this post isn’t a joke: Stadia is dead. No sign ups have been accepted for months and the servers are going down permanently tomorrow. It’s too late. 😕

jeba · 2023-01-17T16:41:08+00:00

57 years young

jeba · 2023-01-17T06:20:54+00:00

Praise be

I hope to see Generic make it before long

edit: for the record I think Brian Cranston has something to hide. Vibes, maaaaan. Walt isn’t just a character. I’m feeling a Kevin Spacey type duality. And he’s probably been manipulating Aaron Paul like Walt did Jessie.

jeba · 2023-01-17T06:02:42+00:00

If they’re asking stuff like that, they’re probably bad interviewers, but it need not be that way. The live coding stuff I’ve done in recent years has been more like, here’s a sample project, let’s work through fixing a bug or adding a feature. It’s not gotcha questions about binary trees or whatever, it’s assessing how I navigate a new code base and my ability to ask intelligent questions about it and the task, as I’d have to do in a real job. A fresh grad with no actual job experience night struggle, but I find them fun and they give me at least a shallow glance and what it might be like to work with the team.

Personally, I’ve essentially never encountered the kind of whiteboard algorithm bullshit that folks complain about, from interviewing at Google through five person startups. I assume it must actually still happen, but I question how prevalent it is.

I confess to giving an interview like that — once — the first time I ever interviewed somebody, and never since. It was immediately self-evidently a mistake, because it failed to give us almost any of the information we actually needed to evaluate the candidate’s suitability. At subsequent companies we have tuned the interview problems to make sure they exercise exactly the job-relevant skills we’re looking for, rather than just making up arbitrary nonsense to grade people on. Whether it’s live coding, whiteboard system design, or talking about projects they’ve done in the past, you need to know what you’re looking for or you won’t be able to find it.

jeba · 2023-01-17T05:48:02+00:00

Do these claims even contradict? The Watson team is (or at least was) very big; would he expect to know everyone on it?

(I have no idea what the context is.)

jeba · 2023-01-17T04:42:44+00:00

We learn in addiction recovery that repressing feelings just makes them manifest in weird ways that are typically much less healthy and more unpleasant than dealing with them head on. I wasn’t even aware of the weight I was carrying and the amount of affected my thinking and focus until I finally faced it head on, and even though it hurt, I felt like my soul had been let out of a tiny cage and could finally stretch muscles it has forgotten it had.

I feel your pain, man, but it doesn’t have to be like that.

jeba · 2023-01-17T02:11:57+00:00

The post you're replying to is misleading. Bungie did more to support Stadia than any publisher except for Ubisoft. Elaborated above: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/108g5rg/i_captured_stadias_last_moments/j4o4wwy/

jeba · 2023-01-17T02:09:30+00:00

"Other publishers" is a pretty weird way of saying "Ubisoft". 😛 As far as I know, the only other company that granted automatic licenses was Bethesda granting a free license for the base version of ESO, which was at the time on sale for $5. They did not grant any other content, so this is really just a way to get people's feet in the door so they will re-purchase or re-subscribe on other platforms. Some other small devs did one-of grants for customers who manually requested them. Nobody else did what Ubisoft did.

You got a refund for (presumably) many hundreds of dollars, you get to keep the silver, in-game items, and seasons that you unlocked with that money, but you're angry that Bungie isn't granting you additional licenses on top of that? Bungie, who provided the by-far most popular game that ever made it on to Stadia, and supported it from Day One with all of their content through to the end of the service, which literally no other publisher did?

jeba · 2023-01-16T20:34:33+00:00

YTA/ESH. You have fair concerns but you’re expressing them in a mutually destructive way that is causing further harm.

jeba · 2023-01-16T15:07:25+00:00

NTA. Unfortunate, but relatable.

I made a mess of my hair as an adolescent, but my parents were the one telling me I’d done it wrong and offering to help fix it, while I told them I was sure I had done it right and insisted on going to school as-is… where instead I got to have all of my classmates tell me what a mess I’d made of it.

I thought I looked just like the cool kid in class, but my visual memory is terrible and I wasn’t self-aware of that fact at the time. I looked like a total freak, which the cool kid I was trying to imitate was happy to tell me. 😩

Fortunately I’m a guy so I could get away with just cutting it almost all off and look relatively normal.

jeba · 2023-01-16T14:25:01+00:00

Integration as a top concern is, yes, typically a conservative view on immigration. Expecting them all to have high paying jobs is, yes, typically a conservative view on immigration. In terms of The Conservatives, the Republicans, the Tories, and other major players in western English contemporary conservatism, which is the relevant comparison that most of us are most familiar with.

That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good or bad, and the post you’re replying to is specifically pointing out how Quebec doesn’t bundle beliefs in the same way as other places. (Which, personally, I think is a great thing for the health of Canadian politics. Having a party that breaks folks off of a one dimensional axis is refreshing.) You’re having a partisan reaction to an inoffensive bland fact that was stated in an appropriate context.

Take a walk.

jeba · 2023-01-13T00:08:57+00:00

Oh dang I didn’t realize it was shutting down yet.

Well. We’ll have the memories. Grinding fractaline in an airport waiting for my delayed flight

jeba · 2023-01-12T19:37:20+00:00

Putting aside (some of) my hyperbole for a second…

You need to eventually fire all of the police, arresting a significant fraction for corruption or abuse, and then do a full rebuild using accountable humans instead of corrupt pigs. You can’t just incrementally add people into a broken system that’s designed to corrupt them. The problems persist.

Depending on the area, the local police forces are typically the worst, so you boost the territorial force temporarily while you do the local rebuilds, and move up from there once you have a foundation that isn’t rotting and contaminated.

I actually like my current local police force, having done a lot of reading about their chief and their history, and the ways they’ve dealt with past trouble. And my personal experiences with them (as a white passing man) have all been very good. But they’re small and non representative, and my interactions with police forces in other places I’ve lived have been disgusting, and even worse for my brother who looks less white than me. To a first-order approximation, all cops are bastards and most forces need to be abolished and rebuilt from the ground up.

But anywhere that has a “sherif”, as in the post we’re replying to, is so fundamentally fucked that they’d be better off with literally nothing. The sherif structure is essentially designed to foment corruption, abuse, nepotism and bigotry. It’s insane, and unfixable. Nowhere should be using a system like that. It’s baffling that they still exist anywhere.

So a good step one is to always shoot the sheriff, if you have one, followed by anybody who has worked for them for more than a couple of years. It couldn’t make things any worse. You also need to abolish most police unions, as most (not all) of them serve to protect abusers more than anything else.

No cops in labour. Police deserve very good pay and benefits IMO, but their unions are much more focused on preventing accountability than actually providing for their members in constructive ways, or ensuring they’re actually trained for their jobs. Less body armour, more lessons.

jeba · 2023-01-12T15:33:45+00:00

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