Reminder for everyone not to give your period data to sketchy apps, as it can be used to detect pregnancy and used to detect someone having abortion. Sadly this is realistic threat in our day and age.

I’m man and one of my favorite type of stories are historical stories with women who defy the gender roles of their time. Also in general historical stories from perspective of someone else than white guys. I find them empowering even though they are not about my empowerment. Also I just find the stories more interesting than watching just another historical war movie with almost all men except main characters wife at home or smth.

Although there is this “girlboss” archetype I see in movies I really hate. Kind of one that feels like a committee wrote feminist character because it sells. Well we are likely to see less of those with all the anti DEI stuff, so I guess monkey paw wish came true.

Most things aren’t very complex, if you divide them into small enough chunks. My niches are IT/audio/music. Many things in those can be initially offputting to newbies, but like 99% of what I know is not very hard in and of itself, it’s just hard because you lack the context of other things that are related but separate from that thing of itself, and those things are not that hard either. Most of the time all attempts to explain it to you have been just bad and convoluted, trying to explain several things at once.

When learned some music theory, I was almost angry at how hard my previous teachers had made some simple things made them out to be Like you could had explained that in like two or three sentences and elaborated on that, I would had understood immediately.

And many things even in seemingly unrelated categories share a lot of concepts, or at least similarities. Once you are knowledgeable about few subjects, it is really easy to build upon that, and learn other things quick, if they have any common ground with it.

Especially when you learn to make useful oversimplifications/heuristic thinking that are good tool to get a grasp before you dive into properly understanding the nitty gritty. This is dangerous if you don’t keep it in check, my manager seems to be only able to think this way, and doesn’t properly understand anything. But it can act as a filtering layer when presented with too much information, or incomplete, low quality information. I have done technical support and most problems are fixed like this, hence the classic " have you tried turning it off and on" default scenario. If it doesn’t work I actually engage my brain with it.

Thinking you are very smart, even if you are, is usually bad feature to build your personality around. Ofc it is good metacognitive skill to understand your strong features, and if intelligence seems to be one, more power to you. But smartness is just one thing, and you can’t objectively evaluate it. Plenty of “smart” but not wise people fucking shit up as it is, and you will likely have better luck with people if you don’t overindulge in this type of thinking.

I certainly have that, but have always also though thinking you are a fucking genious is counterproductive for ones learning and possibly social relationships, so I have tried to limit its hold of me, although not always successfully.

That being said, one last advice, most people are not very smart, and even if they are, they might be doing things out of external reasons, not internal. If you have at least modicum of intellect and lots of passion, it’s not that hard to be better than the most with just the power of genuine interest and longetivity.

Getting hired based on that skill is another thing, but if you truly care about getting good at something, you will soon realize many people aren’t even trying, at least on the standard for “trying” you have for yourself, and you will slowly but surely get better than them at that skill even if they are initially better. Not that it even matters as much to you as it does to them because you care about the thing itself more than their opinion.

While some things might need some natural ablities or benefit from them, most things can be learned with enough reps and continuous evaluation of your learning skills while at it.

Started college at 2020 January. Information technology. I did well during the time I was there but whole covid thing just made me hate my school and like I needed change.

We were going back and forth remote and in person classes, both of which were really bad in terms of quality of the teaching and I felt like if I am mostly learning from external sources and teaching sucks.

I refused to attend in person classes due to covid risks despite it being kind of mandated so I managed to negotiate that I just study on my own and take the exams. And my grades didn’t even get worse.

I’m not the type of person to keep doing something I feel like is useless for a paper that might give me slight advantage for getting a job. Education itself is free in my country but I just hated getting more and more student debt to cover other my living costs.

I decided "fuck this I’m just gonna get a IT job and teach myself and that’s what I did. I wouldn’t say that I’m at my dream job now but I feel confident I am able to progress on this career just fine despite dropping out.

I don’t want to be even in one meeting at a time without camera on.

It does but when you input error logs it does pretty good job at finding issues. I tried it out first by making game of snake that plays itself. Took some prompting to get all features I wanted but in the end it worked great in no time. After that I decided to try to make distortion VST3 plugin similar to ZVEX Fuzz Factory guitar pedal. It took lot’s of prompting to get out something that actually builds without error I was quickly able to fix those when I copied the error log to the prompt. After that I kept prompting it further eg. “great, now it works but Gate knob doesn’t seem to do anything and knobs are not centered”.

In the end I got perfectly functional distortion plugin. Haven’t compared it to an actual pedal version yet. Not that AI will just replace us all but it can be truly powerful once you go beyond initial answer.

Some fork of youtube-dl would probably do. Personally I use JDownloader 2 (open source) to download not just from youtube but from any other sites as well. It runs locally.

Hell yeah. Saw Bodom live like 5 times before Alexi died.

Oh damn, 28 weeks is far better movie IMO though. Scarier, and the concept of rebuilding after zombie outbreak and having another outbreak despite safety measures is much more interesting than traditional zombie story.

Not the movie itself, but once I downloaded 28 days later, and found Finnish subtitle for it cause at the time I still needed those. In the subtitles word “fuck” was translated to “hole bread” in Finnish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruisreikäleipä Also at the end it said “Subtitles by your Dad”

Other time I downloaded Children Of Bodom’s Blooddrunk before release and got Bullet For My Valentine’s Scream Aim Fire instead with file names renamed as Bodom’s track names. IDK why but now I like both bands.

Honesty as an aspiring indie dev myself, I wouldn’t mind you pirate my game BUT I just buy cheap indie games on sale without not being sure if I’m going to play them any time soon. Best case scenario I found new favorite game, worst case scenario, I just payed 8€ (-the expenses from the store) to some developer chasing their dream.

My wallet can take it and I like to support indie scene.