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"can you explain this gap in your resume" oh yeah that's when I got transported to the pokemon world to

Actually I can't finish this joke bc it hit me halfway thru writing it how mind numbingly depressing it would be to go from living in the pokemon world as a cute little animal to having to do job interviews again as a human in the human world. I simply wouldn't recover from that.

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started reading Unwind and gosh, I love YA novels

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firefox just started doing this too so remember kids if you want to stream things like netflix or hulu over discord without the video being blacked out you just have to disable hardware acceleration in your browser settings!

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Noor Hindi, “Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying”

[text ID: Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies. I want to be like those poets who care about the moon. Palestinians don’t see the moon from jail cells and prisons. It’s so beautiful, the moon. They’re so beautiful, the flowers. I pick flowers for my dead father when I’m sad. He watches Al Jazeera all day. I wish Jessica would stop texting me Happy Ramadan. I know I’m American because when I walk into a room something dies. Metaphors about death are for poets who think ghosts care about sound. When I die, I promise to haunt you forever. One day, I’ll write about the flowers like we own them.]

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There is a word in Korean. In-Yun. It means "providence". Or… "fate". But it’s specifically about relationships between people. I think it comes from Buddhism and reincarnation. It’s an In-Yun if two strangers even walk by each other in the street and their clothes accidentally brush. Because it means there must have been something between them in their past lives. If two people get married, they say it’s because there have been 8,000 layers of In-Yun. Over 8,000 lifetimes.  PAST LIVES (2023) dir. Celine Song

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“Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep” – Mary Elizabeth Frye

Happy Pride 2019!

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your honor i love them

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Bitch the pot, sis

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I feel like smiskis need a fanbase, so I’m gonna pitch it to you:

These little glow in the dark guys live around you doing their regular ass things. Some of them make presentations, some of them play the flute, some of them take dumps. They kinda remind me of Tontu’s species from Hilda.

Not only that but there currently exists no fanbase so all the lore is ours for the creating. Rubber ducky smiski is dating megaphone smiski but hasn’t told their ex, thumbs up smiski??? We can give them names, elaborate backstories, trauma, you name it!

These lil guys also glow really hard. Like they glow like shit that in 10 years we’ll find out causes cancer. They’re so cute and they come in blind boxes and they’re my new favorite hyperfixation. I like hiding them around my room and pretending to be surprised.

Anyway if u like weird little naked enbies that sometimes watch u poop, pls consider joining our humble fandom (it’s just me). I also tagged this with a bunch of fandoms I’m a part of so this only will go to people with ~taste~

With a monthly donation of 1 reblog you too can help these naked little guys find loving homes. *sad ASPCA music*

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“It’s better to be your genuine self, and have fewer of the right kinds of people in your life, than it is to surround yourself with those who only accept you as long as you conform to their idea of who you should be.”

— Zero Dean

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sometimes your family is just

118 year old princess who will never find love

elderly transmasc gay man (+husband)

the barrel that you age whiskey in

cat

Giant Frog Named Nothing

Death itself

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SQL Refresher #1

What is a relational database management system?

A RDBMS is a collection of programs that allow you to perform operations not limited to CRUD in your database. An RDBMS is a relational db, which means all the data is organized into a table-like structure with rows and columns.

2. What is a table? What is a field? What is a record or row? What is a column?

A table is a database object. Data is stored in tables. A field is a data entity. A record is an individual entry in a table. A column is a vertical entity that includes all the data of a field inside a table.

For example, if I have a customer table that is populated with data for age, salary, name, address, ssn numbers, id, dob, etc.

A record would be an individual row of data.

The fields are age, salary, name... etc.

A column contains all the data of a specific field, such as all the names or all the ages in the customer table.

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SQL refresher

I started working on an SQL refresher for a Jr.SQL developer position. Just one mock interview made me realize how under prepared I was for an actual interview, granted I chose to go into this interview blind. My interviewer also mentioned that I cannot just memorize terms but I need to be able to teach the interviewer like they are 5 and provide examples.

Example questions I was asked are:

What is a primary and foreign key?

What is the difference between an inner and outer join?

Although now, I can look at these terms and feel confident. During the interview, I completely drew a blank and failed to articulate on simple questions like these.

I decided to go through the top 115 SQL Interview Questions

What is a relational database management system?

An RDBMS is a collection of programs that allow you to create, update, delete, and overall

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Internship Outreachy!

(Please girls read this)

(12/01/2023)

Hi guys, I was and am a bit frustrated and when I get like that I decide to look for job openings/volunteering to motivate myself. And then I went to look at Outreachy's website and I found out that this year they are going to advance the registrations (normally it only started in February) And I thought, "I need to share this with my mutuals."

I'm going to tell you very briefly what Outreachy is, but you can find all the information in more detail on their website HERE.

DEADLINE REGISTRATION:

01/16 to 02/06: Registration open + 1 selection phase

06/03 to 03/04 : If you pass the first phase, you start the contribution period by choosing a project/mentor

04/05 : Finalists announced

05/29 to 08/25: Intership

WHAT IS OUTREACHY AND WHO IS IT FOR?

outreachy is a paid, remote internship program designed for underrepresented groups in technology. They help introduce new people to the practice/world of open source and give a grant of $7,000. You can apply to almost any part of the world (there are some restrictions, take a look at their website, Cuba for example would not be possible)

They have two rounds from May to August and from December to March.

BUT WHO IS UNDERREPRESENTED?

They encourage people who face systemic bias or discrimination, such as us women (cis or trans), trans men, non-binary, genderqueer, people of color and people who have historically suffered from caste or tribe disadvantages.

SOME ELIGIBILITY RULES. (Check THEM ALL out on their website)

You have to be +18 or older by May 29, 2023

You are available for a full-time job, 30 hours a week from 05/29 to 08/25

Outreachy is open to both college students and non-college students. College students must have 42 consecutive days free of classes and exams during the internship period. Students must apply for the correct internship round (see rules).

You have not been an intern for Outreachy, the Outreach Program for Women, or the Google Summer of Code.

Applicants who have part-time or contract jobs are welcome. However, part-time jobs must be approved by the Outreachy organizers. People who want to leave their full-time job can apply. If you cannot leave your full-time job, you are not eligible for Outreachy.

HOW DOES SELECTION WORK?

If you are eligible, you will apply through their website and the first step will be to send an essay (you will answer a few questions, mostly talking about the discriminations in technology that you have experienced or seen occur and also what they are the other discrimination you face in your home country's system. (I recommend using data on this if possible)

Me for example, in addition to being a cis woman, I am part of the lgbtqi+ community in a country that kills the most people in the community (mainly trans), I am fat, poor and I belong to an African matrix religion in a racist country. So besides the discrimination for being a woman in tech (and yes men, it exists) there are other issues that affect me.

If you pass this first selection, you will receive an email and when the contribution period starts you will have to choose a project and get in touch with its community/mentor.

++I've read and heard more than one person recommend choosing 1-2 projects, because it seems like a long time but in reality it's not to make a significant contribution and you'll only move into the program if you make at least 1 contribution.

++ I've also read from former participants that it's good to continue contributing to the project even after the end of the contribution date, mentors evaluate this.

PLUS: 1 .Please don't lie. Be real about your struggles and if they don't exist, be real about that too.

2 .The organization does lives on twitter giving tips to candidates, so if it's your first time I think it would be really cool to hear it, it helped me a lot last year.

BUT Bea, am I experienced enough?

Here's what they say about it:

Outreach organizers often receive questions from applicants such as:

"I'm a second-year college student. I've already done a few projects in the X programming language. Do I have enough experience for this internship?"

"I'm learning Y through online courses. But I haven't worked on a big project with those skills. Do I have enough experience for this internship?"

The answer is "You must complete an initial application, regardless of your experience level."

Outreachy has many different internship projects. Each project will have different skill requirements. There is likely to be at least one project that suits your skills.

+++ My personal comment:

I really like this initiative, mainly because unfortunately technology there are many people (mainly men, cis and white) being prejudiced and / or aggressive with minorities. So having a space like this, with good projects, paid and with the security that they do their best there so you don't have to worry about facing things like that and if you happen to face it (the probability is minimal, but you never know) it will having true and genuine support is a very good thing.

Last year I passed the first selection, but I couldn't contribute to any project because I didn't have the ability to contribute code. *The program is NOT for code only, most projects are, but there are projects you can contribute to with Design/UI/UX, research and writing. In my case, because I'm not native or fluent in English I didn't think it would be a good decision to take responsibility for something that would be used by others using my English proficiency that still needs to be further developed. But this is about me.

I really recommend ALL women and people from other underrepresented groups to participate. It's a great way to get started in open source / gain experience to put on your CV and increase your chances of getting a good job. If you are going to participate, I wish from the heart that you succeed and that it is a good experience.

So,f you have any questions after looking at the site and I know the answer, I will help.

I wish you have a great Day and drink water.

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being accountable ain't easy, but we are here

this week, i worked on a developing blackjack in Java with @hudlion.

i haven't programmed in java since leaving tech elevator so it took a minute to relearn the syntax and get oriented with object oriented programming again.

For our blackjack game, we created classes: Game, Blackjack that extends Game, Player, Hand, Card, and Deck.

Initially, most of our code was written in main, but for best practice and separation of concerns, we are planning to refactor our code so main only continues logic to run the game.

i will discuss further on what logic each class contains, but for now, this is all i have the energy to write.