This hit too close to home. I’ve been eating at the same place for the past three years, I just say “hi” and go to my usual table now.
Also the spider anatomy. I’ve explained the origin of Hotwheels sisyphus at least ten times now
Both of these people sound insufferable. (And I’m autistic)
a little rude considering one of them isn’t actively hurting anyone
I will fully admit I’m more than a “little” rude on this account. This the account I use the vent my depression, self-loathing, and misanthropy. Maybe sometimes I’m nice on here as a treat.
no hate just calling ya out :)
Where can I get that open source pony-themed RPG dating sim?
The engineer here definitely has ASD or ADHD and I’m fucking down for it. Way better than narcissistic tech bro syndrome.
Edit for context: I’m teaching strengths based pedagogy regarding neurodiversity, it’s on my mind lol
Lemmy is slowly shifting from “Communism, Linux, and Beans” into “ADHD, Linux, and Beans”
We should bring back some socialism into that list, bean-friend
Anarcho-Communism or bust
How do you think Beans became a thing?
I’ll tell you, if we were all on my Adderall 24/7, beans, beef stroganoff, stock photos, etc would all be a weird eyebrow raise before onto the next post.
I have an adhd engineer coleague. We don’t give him large or complex tasks, that doesn’t work, but he gets all the little things and bugs done before anyone else thinks of picking them up 👌
Shit! I love my job as a software developer and my employer is amazing, but I wish they would do this for me. Also ADHD and I have an existential crisis every time I’m on a larger task with little direction.
I love the small things or when things are spec’d out in to small parts. Currently have to extract this sick calendar my boss coded and repurpose it in an application I am creating for them and man it’s not as easy as it sounds when you get overwhelmed.
My ADHD friend is a software engineer but he’s lucky he gets hyperfocus when on new projects that he’s interested in. Works an absolute fuckton on it and then the rest help finish off the job after he tires on it, with him giving them guidance in zoom (while playing steam deck on my couch lol)
It takes good leadership though. It’s unfortunate managers don’t get the same kind of lessons we teach teachers. There are so many ways to accommodate your work method.
Hey, I do this. Sort of. Makes me wonder if I added my deck into the routine if it would be more effective.
Work that no one has done before and is an interesting problem I can dive into and become a wizard on in no time. Only problem is I rarely get the time required to do it, unless I sacrifice personal time or maybe a goat
What strengths are associated with NPD?
NPD doesn’t get the same treatment since I don’t think it’s protected under ADA (and IDEA in schools) but even then, there’s a school of thought that it comes from an overabundance of high self esteem (rather than a fragile self esteem). If you follow that logic, then things associated with high self esteem, such as confidence, is it’s strength.
Mind, I teach non-narcissism high self esteem as both good and bad. On the one hand, you have confidence and are more likely to take action. On the other hand, you’re more defensive and it’s likely to accept criticism, plus if you think you’re awesome you tend to also have contempt for others. Take that to an extreme and you’ve got narcissism.
Americans are usually taught self esteem as a universal good, so just bringing it up like this raises eyebrows, but there is actually some research to back it.
What if you think you kinda suck, but also think most other people are way the fuck worse?
Well, low self esteem is shown to be more accurate about the world, so that kind of tracks.
If Americans are taught self esteem as a universal good, how come they hate people with NPD so much? They think every abuser is a “narcissist”.
fuck, I remember now I unironically wrote code on my ti84 before I knew what coding was or how it worked at all
not that it’s complicated in any way
IIRC you write in “TI Basic” which is very human readable
Yeah I was reading that and I hit everything on the right side except, writes innovative software…
And that’s only because I’m not good enough at coding.
I wrote a rudimentary roguelike on the TI Nspire
Inherits ‘maintainer’ status on an open-source pony-themed RPG dating simulator
For anyone in the industry out there, if someone has ‘maintainer’ status on an open source project, hire that mofo right away. That title sounds so casual but is the most hardcore
writes innovative new software
ahh, fuck
Well, think about it. If you are writing software that already exists, it’s not innovative. But, think about how rare that is. Has anyone combined the business logic in your specific way before? Chances are no, because if they had, they already beat you to market or you can reuse yourself.
Yeah this customer-specific config flag is something like the world has never seen!
I’m gonna get replaced by AI, huh? 😭
Most of my stuff “it already exists, but its so horrible i can do it better…” now theres two shitty software.
But, it’s a different shitty way of doing it.
It might just cause the next iteration to be less shitty. If not there are then 3.
This is how Windows was made.
I’m hoping the context implies that it only has to seem innovative to the kinds of people who can’t tell the difference between software engineers and tech bros.
Imagine not building your own router out of spare hardware.
WiFi? What’s that? I’ll just run some cat6 through my crawlspace
Cat6? You rich or something? We use cat5e around these parts.
I used to have an old beige box router with dual nics. It would hum me to sleep at night … I still have a box of wrt routers, you know, just in case someone needs one.
Everything I have that has an Ethernet port is plugged into Ethernet. I have two switches as well as the router.
If you made a spreadsheet to compare cars and ended up with a Hyundai your spreadsheet had an error.
Hyundai has some of the best EVs
I made a spreadsheet to compare cheapo cars. Then my brother, who is a car person, went with me to car shop and insisted I buy a '92 Honda Prelude that was in pristine looking condition for 7k. He was very insistent that it was a steal even if I needed to put another couple grand to fix it up, so I bought it.
Unfortunately, I have indeed needed to put more money into it, its currently in the shop right now in fact.
I’ve never owned a fast car before, I’ll admit its a fun car to drive. All my previous cars were boring A to B basic cars. I wish it’s cruise control worked (still can’t figure out why it wont), that it had come with cup holders, and that its speakers weren’t so tinny.
How many miles on it? Because if it’s low mileage 7k is a steal. Those things can sell for over twice that. I don’t know that I’d suggest a car that old as a daily driver for someone that doesn’t do their own repairs. Old cars are always going to need a lot of repairs.
How many miles on it? Because if it’s low mileage 7k is a steal.
139k
I don’t know that I’d suggest a car that old as a daily driver for someone that doesn’t do their own repairs. Old cars are always going to need a lot of repairs.
Yeah that’s what I kind of told him, its age was a concern to me but he said that while I wasn’t the ideal user, that it’d probably still serve me well as long as I take care of it because he said old Hondas are very reliable. He was insistent it was the best option out of the cars we were looking at. He also loves Hondas though so I’m wondering if he was a tad biased and it was really just a car he’d like.
I’ll say I do feel some level of responsibility to making sure its taken care of because its like a cool old car and IDK if I want that sense of responsibility. But I also really don’t want to go car shopping again.
Did a huge spreadsheet comparing electric cars that can charge fast, tow a trailer and are as efficient as possible. Ended up with a Hyundai Ioniq 6. Great car IMHO.
I dunno about that. Hyundais are cheap, and until recently they were pretty reliable cars. I drove an '07 accent for 14 years with zero issues and minimal maintenance. I only replaced it in late 2020 because I was having a house built and moving to a rural area, and needed something that could handle country roads and at least light off-roading.
I compared a bunch of CUVs (compact SUVs) checked out all of them, and finally got it down to the Honda CRV, Toyota RAV4, some Hyundai (Tucson maybe?), and a Kia Sportage (I know, it’s basically a Hyundai, and vice versa).
Every single one of them had some caveat. The Hyundai had a high dash and infotainment blocking part of the view, the CRV had a low front end that caused issues with low obstacles a CVT that struggles with uphill driving. The RAV4 was nice, but cost at least 30-50% more expensive than every other car with few discernable advantages. Plus, several other cars I looked at were CVT with dual clutch, which can burn up and overheat just going uphill.
In the end, it actually was down to the Hyundai and the Kia Sportage.
I bought the Sportage because it was all around balanced, still had an ICE engine, AWD, and Kia Finance had a good deal I qualified for. I got the previous year’s model new from remaining stock with a zero interest rate. Sweet deal, total cost was like $24k. It’s been a good car. Some minor issues and a bit of recall work with the dealerships, but I haven’t had any major problems with it, and I barely have to do any sort of maintenance, just like the old Hyundai.
Senior software engineers drive old, beat up Tacomas with no computers.
The router may also have a giant fan screwed onto the back too.
Or just a huge box fan (as in, a fan used to cool rooms, not a computer fan) behind the thing, we used to do this back then
The wrt54g was a workhorse, but the cooling…
Money talks, wealth whispers dont only apply to financials…
Accurate.
spreadsheet
Libreoffice Calc is neat
Depressing
