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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
7m ago
Where do you live that programmers are earning $50k?
Start job searching for an actual industry job. Again, really unappealing to me. The thought of presenting such a false image of myself as someone competent is quite repulsive, and I don't know that I have enough actual accomplishments on my resume to get any chances. I almost feel worse off than when I graduated, but I actually can't say I regret my decisionmaking.
A good industry position is quite cushy, although obviously not without the usual downsides that come with working for a big company. Who knows what will happen in 10 years.
What do you mean by "presenting a false image" of competence? If you write stuff you did on your resume, why is that presenting a false image?
fmac
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8m ago
given this place has always been more disaffected liberals than anything else
I think I probably fall into that bucket but it's funny because I've been turbo posting here for a week due to an injury keeping me indoors and I absolutely feel like my political/etc views are a minority
Maybe this is a recent development, but this place strikes me as profoundly right wing with a strong pro-natalist/Christian lean
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
12m ago
Do you already have a bachelor's degree in CS?
I have not found that the CS bachelor's degree syllabus is particularly useful for becoming a good programmer, much less becoming a good software engineer.
I think the best way to become a better engineer is to find a good engineer and work with them and learn from them. At least, that is what I have always been able to do, and that is what I have found helped me the most. If you are the best engineer around, it's time to find a new role.
The job market right now is not good, and while I don't think it's a permanent downturn, it's not easy to move around. If you have connections, leverage them.
fmac
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15m ago
Putting everything else aside, flexing your upvote count on someone is profoundly cringe
Especially as this site has a pretty strong ideological bias, and like literally every website with voting, voting is 100% indicative of in-group/out-group agreement/disagreement and is largely unrelated to comment quality
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
16m ago
But your entire premise is wrong. The "far right" and mainstream conservatives both prefer people not to have premarital sex. (Okay, non-religious rightists only disapprove of women having premarital sex.) I don't think you are actually distinguishing between them, as evidenced by the fact that you label "most people on this website" far right. I realize to leftists, "far right" is anyone who votes Republican, but it's still a nonsense categorization.
They're stupid by the standard of Supreme Court justices. The late RGB, although I ideologically disagreed with her, could actually argue the case for a living, prescriptive constitution. Sotomayor and Ketanji are unashamed diversity-hires whose dissents are so embarrassing that I'd credit them to their clerks to save face.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
25m ago
I've participated in some dynamic, interesting stories while dreaming. I've threatened imagined entities with destruction if I choose to wake.
Nevertheless I agree with your main point that cognitive ability at any given point in time is not the sole criteria for judging right to life. Many are capable but evil and should be killed.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
25m ago
A significant portion of MAGA agrees that the issue with enforcing immigration restrictions are business attempting to cut costs. It's not a direct contradiction if his argument, there are several factions in the GOP, but the tension between them does make it a bit awkward for the theory that "the heart of the GOP" has zero interest in immigration enforcement. Vivek found out the hard way that it's not so simple.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
26m ago
Can I just register my annoyance with this kind of boo-light? Yes, I am just as annoyed by "radical feminists" and "extreme leftists," which 9 times out of 10 is used to refer to normie feminists and center-libs.
If you read my comment more carefully, you'd know the whole point was to contrast mainstream conservatives with the far-right, who I recognize as distinct groupings.
fmac
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28m ago
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters
They have, continuing a trend that started over a year ago
fmac
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35m ago
I would like to present one of ChatGPTs greatest works, it's also like chatGPT 3 or 3.5.
Shooty shooty pew pew pew!
Let’s all learn what guns can do!
Liberals in the USA
Love to nod their heads and say,
“You bought your guns from a store!
You can’t fight a civil war!
Fight the army, you will lose!
They have jets and tanks to use!”
That’s not where the story ends!
They have homes, and kids, and friends!
Tyrants threaten you with bombs?
Just remember: they have moms!
You can’t live inside your jet!
Can we find you? Yes, you bet!
You’d send soldiers and marines
Up against AR-15s?
They’re outnumbered ten to one.
That is why I need a gun.
Don’t forget, because it’s true:
Government is scared of you.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
38m ago
Fascinating! I also had to memorize the Middle English Canterbury Tales prologue, and can still rattle off the first few lines. I always thought that was a unique quirk of my generally crazed junior-year English teacher.
fmac
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44m ago
Have competent technocrats in positions of power? And then have them do competent things publicly
The Canadian liberals just did this pivot, although we'll see if they can follow through
I will note that since mechanisation, you kinda need militia to have tanks and MANPADs in order to provide a credible deterrent to tyranny.
What's your understanding of how the GWOT went? That's what it looks like when the American military goes up against a determined adversary armed primarily with small-arms and scrounged explosives.
Now, you might argue that America's heart wasn't really in it. Is their heart going to be more in it when it's their own homeland they're burning and shelling? Also, in the GWOT, America's military operated in a foreign land, while their entire support structure, industrial base, and their soldiers' friends and family were perfectly safe on the other side of an ocean. Try to picture how this goes when it's not just a soldier's fellow squaddies getting mortared in their barracks, but their kids' preschool.
This claim that government overthrow requires nation-state resources appears to be unkillable, and it will never cease to baffle me. There is approximately a zero percent chance that America as a going concern could survive a significant portion of its population concluding that they were being ruled by actual tyrants. Things would go so bad so fast it would make your head spin.
fmac
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48m ago
I think his point here is that repeatedly having sex, if left to run it's natural course, will result in a baby.
So repeatedly having sex and always using birth control means you've deviated from the natural course in a way that prevents a baby from growing up
BreakerofHorsesandMen
48m ago
I recall memorizing The Charge of the Light Brigade and The Destruction of Sennacherib as a yoof, and have had cause to pull out lines from each as the occasional pithy bon mot. I’m sure that if I had memorized more, I would have more pithy bon mots at exactly the right time, which does have a certain value socially. Even among Red-Tribe!
fmac
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1hr ago
don't have premarital sex
How is convincing western populations not to do this going?
Follow up question, does abstinence only sex education show any efficacy in preventing pregnancies?
rverghes
1hr ago
Two things:
- You can interview with other companies while employed.
- You don't have to take an employment offer if you don't want to.
Start applying to jobs and interviewing. Don't restrict yourself to embedded, you can pick up other skills/languages. You don't need to lie, just present yourself fairly. You'll get a much better appreciation of your standing, and what other companies are looking for. Also interviewing is a skill, and it's worth practicing on its own.
After a few months, you'll be able to make a much more informed decision. Also I echo the others saying that embedded development generally signals competence in our field.
fmac
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1hr ago
Because 1 clearly doesn't work?
Remember all the abstinence only culture war stuff in the late 2000s / early 2010s?
Pretty sure abstinence only sex ed resulted in the highest rates of teenage pregnancy
self_made_human
C'est la vie
1hr ago
There is an obscure Indian poem that got engrained into my skull during second grade, and somehow never managed to fall out again. I can't really do much with it, because it's a poem for second graders.
Tanista
1hr ago
Yeah, one wonders how much of the Democrat's lack of dominance in new media is just cause the new media that'd parrot the party talking points are just...the old media. So you look at a scary chart where the right is routing Democrats but it doesn't account for the people who just still trust the telly.
Left-wing new media has to spec to capture dissatisfaction with the Democratic status quo which is why there's no unanimity. Right wing media can at least be united by being against the left wing culturally.
I provided an example of how they differ, which you ignored.
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