#software engineering or something

[rememberwren]

wait what subjects do profs riley and mactavish even teach

Hopefully psychology because they could use the mental health support.

[ttrpg-smash-pass-vs]

If tumblr does go down for real this time, find me...nowhere. I'll be free! But seriously, we all know I talk way too much to survive anywhere else that has polls. Like maybe I could start a blog anew elsewhere but half the fun was knowing what the community I've loved for 13 years thought. Even if I could rig something up on bluesky why do I care what they think, especially without queueing XD Like I'll still be making D&D and Pathfinder videos at @goblinuniversity and such. But if this place dies, so does my social media life. There's no other social media I find fun.

[insert-game]

in a lot of ways i feel like i should have gotten a different degree because i feel as an adult my interests are much more creatively driven. but the culture insists that you decide your fate at age 17-19 and then have to stick with it for the rest of your life

[judeiscariot]

every day i mourn the fact that i do not have the type of autism that makes you money

[that-gifted-girl]

And I will keep going. Because I deserve this. I deserve this degree. I started this fight and I'm going to finish it. I can do this. Depression is lying to me. I am capable. YOU are capable.

There's something to be said about the video game analogy with the struggle of success. Recently, I beat a major final boss in a video game. I won't go into detail for spoilers' sake.

My first attempt, I got obliterated on turn two. I looked up a guide and tried again. I thought I had figured out the pattern, and still got taken out several turns into phase one of a three phase fight. So I backed out, and decided to max out my party's levels and unlock all their skills.

I stepped back from the seemingly impossible situation, and spent three hours grinding. It was boring. It was tedious. But it was necessary, and I knew that. It was all going to be worth it in the end.

There was a point during this three-hour period where I said "The enemies I have to actually fight give me more EXP than the lower level auto-battles, so even though they take more time I'll go for those, too."

I went back to the boss after maxing out everyone's levels and skills, and while I still had to focus and think about my decisions in battle, I won. And there's a really cliche sappy life lesson in that.

This is super freaking cringe and I will not apologize. My ramblings must be freed to the hellsite so I may share motivation or whatever. You can do it, nerds.

[myfriendtheurbanlegend]

Harold Finch was completely in the right to place restrictions on the Machine. His great humanitarian crime was making the thing and handing it to the US government. Placing constraints, making it tamper-proof and refusing to trust its output and by extend its interpretation by unhinged psychopaths Root is neither violence or evil, that's just what a good, ethical software engineer does.

[hallowed-somnolence]

too much techincal stuff i dont understand my head hurts orz

[capt-curlsuke]

sometimes I feel like a caged tiger at work moving buttons around on silly little websites. why did I need advanced level calculus, physics and algos for this

[bmpmp3]

(guy who never finishes her 80% done vocal synth projects voice) i need to practice with asterian 2... do my dearest asterheads have any hashtag song suggestions

[lostlibrariangirl]

You can't forget your first mansplaining...

June 3, 2024

Yes, another post today because I've been through my first heavy mansplaining, and it was so surreal!!! First, six men were with me in a Teams meeting, my boss called me to present, and my tech lead started talking while I was speaking... OK. Then, after some minutes, I said something and the guy from another team made a mess saying he didn't understand what I said (he told us that 5 times, at least), then, my tech lead told him he would explain it telling THE SAME THING I DID... the guy understood it all, promptly!!! I felt so small!!! I must admit I was so lucky with my previous teams, even suffering from a stupid bureaucracy, and an "old as hell" legacy code, I have never been through mansplaining so disgusting. The tech area still needs more education and awareness regarding this kind of shit! I will not give up, but I am sure that my shields will be harder and more alert for this kind of bullshit. God! We need to be tougher and tougher to live.

[benetnvsch]

I saw smosh games and jojosolos on the same poster and nearly blacked out holy shit

[alsoanyways]

since I’ve seen like literally no one talk about it: You have to prove that you drew what you drew in order to get access to glaze/nightshade. So like. Fuck anyone who doesn’t keep that proof or screen record their process. God forbid you don’t have a consistent art style.

[wakebymoonsleepbysun]

Had to throw away a wholeass project I was working on because what I was trying to do wasn't viable in html/js the way I wanted it to be.

I could probably remake it in Unity pretty quick. (As in, over a weekend.) But y'know. Fuck those guys.

So I'm finally attempting to learn Godot because indie game dev is one of my many backup plans for when I inevitably get laid off and this seems like a simple enough project that I can start ramping up on that before trying to make, y'know, a wholeass game. (Even a small wholeass game.)

All this to say I have a Play button in Godot now.

[lizclipse]

the more i use my computer the more i just want to basically be a netrunner from cyberpunk. having to move my arms around to switch between mouse & keyboard is quite annoying, but you have to use a mouse for a ton of GUI interactions and, once you've switched to using a mouse, it can be a lot faster for many things

specifically - i want to be able to move my mouse around my entire desktop quickly and precisely. there's a headtracking feature in macos but it's quite slow and clunky, and i can't really figure out a good alternative

a full implant in my head that i can just plug into my computer and control shit with i think is the ideal, but no corpo is making an open source implant like that to my knowledge and i honestly wouldn't trust most of them anyway. an eeg headset would be the next step down, but they seem expensive and likely would need a lot of training and i doubt could ever be very precise

eye tracking mouse control seems like the best way to do it without implants, but finding an open source library to do that escapes me for the moment, and it'd need to handle head turning & multiple desktops, and that's a tall order honestly. well, i'm sure someone's done it, but i really want to look at an element on my desktop and have my mouse immediately go to that exact point, and that is a tall order

there is facial detection libraries, but that means i'd have to spend a while picking them apart and piecing together something myself, which would take fucking ages. whatever i'd make would also need to be super quick & precise otherwise it wouldn't be useful, and that would make it even harder

corps like tobii do eye & head tracking hardware, but it's into the hundreds for i think the base consumer hardware and it's got a very strong gaming focus (not exactly giving me much hope for hacking something together with it)

it's kinda frustrating tbh, since it feels like i can get so close to getting something great working but the puzzle pieces are either dlc-locked or hidden in someone else's drawer. anyway, back to using the mouse & keyboard like a normal person

[wickedhawtwexler]

y'all the data scientist job market is so bleak. like 75% of companies are just looking for people to write chat bots 😭