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InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad


Oh god no.

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InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
cjs: Figured out why this request was failing but not logging anything. It successfully goes through, after 27 minutes. Gonna be a fun day tomorrow.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
I can't stand the city, being around that many people stresses me the hell out

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
we forgot

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
Huh, going to look into that, would probably simplify my mess of cross-os configurations

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
I like Vim because I enjoy tinkering endlessly with my poo poo, in pretty much every aspect of my life. The navigation feels great once you get used to it too, and I can have like 6 files onscreen at once without issues.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
Or you can work from home, and enjoy having your work life and personal life bleed into eachother forever. Still beats commuting imo

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
Eh, it's not all bad. You learn to appreciate the little things, plus financial security in and of itself does solve a whole fuckload of other stressors you could be having. Having a team you get along with is a big help as well, makes it feel like less of a grind. I just know this is basically the only thing that I can do that I won't actively hate, and I actually enjoy the challenges and puzzles most of the time. I'm still pretty young though, so I'm just hoping that the spark stays with me as long as possible.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
Yeah doing what you love for a living requires a lot of compartmentalization to avoid growing to loving despise it over time. Haven't even put in an hour on the game I've been making since I started this gig, need to make some time to get back into that. This is pretty much the only thing Ive ever wanted to do since I was a kid though, so I try to make it work. Definitely have wrestled with spells of burnout though, although every time it's been other things in my life being hosed up that just manifested itself as professional burnout.

I think I was like, 3 or 4 playing a video game and someone explained to me that it all worked because of lines of instructions someone wrote and the idea that you could make something like that just struck me as the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. And that was that.

InternetOfTwinks fucked around with this message at 16:31 on May 23, 2022

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
Sorry, didn't mean to get sentimental. Just, love me some computer still. Don't get me wrong, I'm jaded about aspects of the business, but when it's good it still gives me a really amazing sense of satisfaction to do this. Really glad to be working a gig where I can take pride in my work again.

And yeah, that's why I don't work in games. It's going to be a hell gig until developers unionize which lol

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
I'm digging this gig for being cool with going the other way, I start at like 10 and work till 6 or 7. My brain doesn't fully start firing until the afternoon anyways and the extra sleep in the morning helps a ton. Can't seem to fall asleep for poo poo until after around midnight regardless of what I do for my sleep hygiene so it works.

I think my ideal would be doing remote for a west coast place and working like noon-8 local time to be honest.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
I pretty much only work OT if it's something where I'm in the zone on a problem and I know it's going to be a pain in the rear end to get back in the groove tomorrow if I stop at the point I'm at. Or if I'm avoiding something in my personal life but that's a whole other issue. Probably doesn't hurt if my managers notice I'm online later than my coworkers anyhow. Seems to be a good culture about respecting people's work life balance which kicks rear end.

I also find it's a lot easier to end up working a bit later when you don't have a 45 minute drive ahead of you that's weighing on your mind. gently caress I'm glad I'm not commuting anymore.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
Semi related question, how the hell do you meet people as an adult? I've got a decent friend group with my high school buddies, but they are all hundreds of miles away which imposes some limitations. Recovered alcoholic, so bars aren't the best idea, but that seems to be where most adults meet each other from what I've seen.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
Yeah, it doesn't buy happiness but it sure as gently caress keeps unhappiness away real well.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
I think my answer would vary heavily depending on the definition of contributing we're using. There's ways to contribute to society that aren't working a job after all.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
loving hell, today took a lot out of me. Got a bunch done, but now I'm ready to just chill for a while. This trip can't get here soon enough.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9XgvkkVmhM

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad

bob dobbs is dead posted:

no. you are effectively gettin paid a grand by the government to deal with their dog poo poo ui

Jesus you were not kidding, it's like 2003 internet with a concussion.

Eugh, god why? They *got rid of* case sensitivity to enable this stupid bullshit.



Aaaand the whole thing breaks if you hit the back button. I should get into government work.

InternetOfTwinks fucked around with this message at 17:35 on May 24, 2022

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
Same, but I haven't let that stop me from putting an entire quart of ice cream in my face hole every couple days lately.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
I only use bython

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
Even Unity gave up on Boo while they were still trying to make their JavaScript derivative work.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
It takes like 2 minutes to just throw some code up in a repository, come on. Now having said that I fully expect a drive failure to happen to me.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
Thinking about building a new machine, this one's starting to get a bit long in the tooth and I've been wanting to experiment with setting up a personal server for various things. Is Newegg still the place to go for parts or is there a better outlet these days?

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
Yeah definitely don't push company IP to github lmao

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
Anxiety over taking a couple days off and taking a trip out of town got me up at 2AM replicating my dev environment onto an old laptop so I can work on my trip if I need to. Worst case I've got a remote desktop solution set up and tested. I'm starting to think maybe I need to relax a bit.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
Had a dream where I posted something about work but it got mangled into me bitching about the 'the the the the' operator not being a thing and then there were several pages of me getting dunked on for not knowing about the 'the the the the' operator and how important it is for any programming task.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
I guess I'm going to start back up on the dumbbells today thanks to you guys. Was lifting daily in inpatient and felt amazing, but it fell by the wayside after a while. No idea why, lifting heavy poo poo is like my favorite feeling in the world.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
cjs: power outage got me out of the zoom meeting, hell yeah

Should probably start looking at getting a UPS soon though, any recs?

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
It gets funnier every time lmao

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
Ugh, fever, mucus, and cough like a motherfucker. Hammed it up a little during the stand up so I think no one will fault me if I just log off in a minute here and try to get some sleep. And maybe just a little Elden Ring.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
My motivation is in the shitter today. Still on the tail end of getting over being sick though, so I'll blame that. Got like 3 PBI's done already today though so they can't say too much if I'm phoning it in the last couple hours of work.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
I just live in a perpetual state of apathy so deep I can't be bothered to watch anything ever. Saves me a bundle.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
Yeah NHK is dope as hell. Is there a web stream available I've been missing out on? I seem to recall their youtube content being pretty robust iirc.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
I saw Tool finally a couple months back and while it was a bigger show than I'm used to, it absolutely loving slapped hard. So glad I was finally able to catch them, been trying for years but it never quite worked out until this time.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
NIN is definitely on the list, next though is probably Avatar which should be killer, and I think MCR in August, partner adores them and I like them a decent bit but I'm curious how they'll be live. Then I think Bauhaus in Brooklyn if possible, gotta be one of the last runs Peter Murphy has in him I imagine.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
gently caress, just realized I'm probably going to survive to retirement age. Time to start going hard on saving/investing I guess.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
Are your tools like, lanyarded to you or if you drop a wrench it's just "Whelp, time to climb down and see if I did a manslaughter"

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad


Finally managed to snap a pic while she wasn't paying attention.

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
That's finally starting to wane a bit for me at my new place, now just need to stay vigilant so I don't actually slack off too hard. Meeting/beating my estimates for the most part though so I'm doing okay right now.

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InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad

nudgenudgetilt posted:

cjs: might have massively hosed up.

requested a thinkpad instead of a macbook at the new gig, and am learning the day before I start that linux workstations might be verboten. apparently all PCs must run windows and be managed workstations, but had I gotten a mac I'd have been allowed to run it unmanaged.

Definitely ask about WSL, if they are going to be dicks about that too it's time for malicious compliance until they give you enough room to actually work. Don't beat yourself up though, I would have done the exact same loving thing.

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