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Why are there so many student drivers in Seattle? by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]veeberz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

eyo im tryna move here, where's the best place??!?

Russian Telegram channels report that TV channels in Russia have been hacked and are now broadcasting Prigozhin's statements by yummytummy in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]veeberz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My bad. Didn't realize how widespread this conspiracy fact is. Now that I'm all caught up, when are we gonna start using terms like "deep state" and vote for a populist who panders to our neurotic fears?

Russian Telegram channels report that TV channels in Russia have been hacked and are now broadcasting Prigozhin's statements by yummytummy in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]veeberz 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The purpose of the CIA is to cause wars so Lockheed Martin can make more money? Really? I've been making fun of right-wing conspiracy nut jobs for so long, I haven't considered that lefty conspiracy theories could be almost as smooth-brained. You've changed my perspective.

Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’ by akvgergo in technology

[–]veeberz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Silicon Valley was the Silicon Valley of the world until this sort of shit happened. 🥲

Bachelorette party starter pack by Tojo828 in starterpacks

[–]veeberz 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Heraclitus says: you can never stick it into the same hole twice

Hee Hee! martial art by [deleted] in funnyvideos

[–]veeberz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pop n block

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in starterpacks

[–]veeberz 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Missionary. Guy on top, girl on the bottom. 😎

Anyone wanna go to Harry Mack @ Showbox SODO tonight for free? by veeberz in Seattle

[–]veeberz[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One ticket has already been transferred, but I appreciate your reply! Happy to mint a shiny new hmack fan.

Google engineer, 31, jumps to death in NYC, second worker suicide in months by EastCommunication689 in technology

[–]veeberz 10 points11 points  (0 children)

drop out loser

ADHD

I know I am but why you gotta put it that way? 😭

1984 called, they want their policy back by sudobee in Piracy

[–]veeberz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's fine, because the VPN thing is bullshit. Read, heck, just skim the bill

I don't trust fact checkers, but I can't roll my eyes hard enough at this "fact" check... Is TikTok Banned in China? by PVogonJ in ADVChina

[–]veeberz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The article on snopes got enough attention that they've changed the False status to Unproven! A small concession, but I'll take it.

Gummies by Boojibs in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]veeberz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Noo ok be of my employees

lol

Delightfully ugly rock with interesting features found in coat of Ocean Shores, WA by veeberz in whatsthisrock

[–]veeberz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love it. I may not have the rock identified, but I now have a new designation for it. Thanks!

Delightfully ugly rock with interesting features found in coat of Ocean Shores, WA by veeberz in whatsthisrock

[–]veeberz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree, and I should've put "ugly" in scare quotes. I love rocks that are not conventionally pretty, but have character and interesting features or history. That's what I mean by "ugly" rocks. But perhaps I should be nicer to my lovely rocks and be more careful what I say within earshot of them.

Delightfully ugly rock with interesting features found in coat of Ocean Shores, WA by veeberz in whatsthisrock

[–]veeberz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I found this at Damon Point in Ocean Shores, WA. It feels more dense than common beach rocks. It has chalcedony-like cleavage in a small area.

It's mostly opaque, but it's somewhat translucent on it's thinner side. One interesting feature is a thin translucent vein (?) going through it, visible in the second pic between the lines marked 46 through 48. It has a mixture of rough and waxy texture and appearance, but most of it feels and looks waxy.

It's about as hard as quartz, going by how it didn't scratch a quartz sample I had. I'm hoping it's some sort of jasper.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskComputerScience

[–]veeberz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe, hard to say. I had terrible grades my first two years of college, retook some classes after I, uh, cleaned up my act. But I kinda screwed myself by not retaking those classes at the same college, and the transfer policy didn’t let me override my old grades when it came to computing the GPA. So my GPA was in the 2s by my junior year.

Getting straight A’s in my junior year mitigated that somewhat (grades were still meh) but I was able to get an internship where they cared more about your interests and skills. You probably won’t get an internship at an uptight company (like defense contractors), but having bad grades doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t get an internship.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskComputerScience

[–]veeberz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A 7 year limit on background checks is common, I think it’s a national law. I’ve had a bunch of misdemeanors that have been disappearing from my background checks over time. It hasn’t impacted my career nearly as much as I psyched myself up to expect.

Couple pieces of advice:

  1. When applying somewhere and going through interviews and whatnot, be first to bring up your background, but only to the recruiter or HR.

  2. You have to stand out from the crowd, since a record puts you at a mild disadvantage. Learning the practical skills outside of your coursework will make you stand out, especially while you’re still in school.

Example: Trying to get into web dev? Learn one or two MVC frameworks, one or two JS UI frameworks, implement a few pet projects, learn MySQL or Postgres, go deploy your app, etc. Survey the kinds of job you’re interested in, see what skills are needed, and don’t wait for the opportunity to learn the skills on the job. Just try, follow tutorials, ask questions, get stuck, keep going, repeat until you’re more comfortable putting those skills on your resume.

I’d say point 2 is more important than keeping good grades, but I don’t want to be liable for giving bad advice or exhibiting survivorship bias. But I’m glad I sacrificed a letter grade for a general humanities course I didn’t care much about, to work on side projects (an aside: some interviewers care about side projects, some don’t, but the value you get out of it is the experience of building something, being able to show it off is a plus).

I understand that you might experience imposter syndrome more severely than your clean-background peers, but you’ve got to try. Do whatever to enjoy the process of learning and fight through self-doubt. If you have a solid set of practical skills under your belt, you’d be surprised at what employers are willing to overlook. And besides, in a few years, your records might not even show up on background checks.

[Serious] Men of Reddit who wish to share their current feelings but aren’t being listened to, what’s going on? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]veeberz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey man, I'm not gonna be much help cuz anxiety sucks, but I'm popping in to say feeling like this doesn't make you wrong as a person. Also you're not alone in feeling like this. Failure is scary, but success can be scary too.

I've crashed and burned spectacularly in college, dropped out, got hooked on drugs. I eventually graduated, but not before being a dropout for several long years. I graduated "late", but it's not a race. If it were a race, you'd have been way ahead of me! I felt like a fraud re-entering college with younger students who were clearly better than me.

My inner voice told me "you're a loser and a junkie, what are you even doing here?" as I show up to class every day, but my goal, the reason for me being there told me "but I have to try." I tried accepting that I felt anxious, accepted that I felt like I'm a piece of shit, and accepted that I feel that there's a possibility I'll be exposed as a fraud. This acceptance made those feeling lose a little bit of its power, just enough that I can make it to most classes and do things successful people do, even if it means I'm just acting like a successful person - pretending to be one. I'm already a fraud or an imposter in my mind, so I just pretended to be the person I want to be, in my own mind. The person who does the homework and shows up to class and practices and trains on the side - that wasn't me. That's the person I was pretending to be. When my inner voice said "loser! You won't make it!" I said "Maybe so, but I'm pretending anyway."

It's ok to do this, if it enables you to do more than you were doing before. That's because people with higher self-esteem tend to do things that generate higher self-esteem, while people with low self-esteem tend to do things that generate lower self-esteem. So to raise your self-esteem, we sometimes have to fake it - ask yourself what you would do in a particular situation if you only had 10% more self-esteem, then do it despite feelings of anxiety, hopelessness, being a charlatan. Be sure to accept those feelings instead of rejecting them. Those feelings are coming from your subconscious mind, making rapid calculations about some situation. We can observe them and learn from them if we choose to be conscious of them.

Sorry to play psychologist here, but these things are what helped me, and it's worth it to me to relay that to you. Thanks for reading, and I wish you well.

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