I have always felt that if I could do a job really well, do work that required no maintenance, was basically 'self-healing' so to speak, with documentation so clear and easy to understand that someone could pick up where I left off without asking me a single question. For me that was always my aesthetic and goal in any work I did.
Yet, here I am, an experienced software engineer, unemployed for over a year now. It still seems to me the right ideal, so the 'karmic' outcome feels unjust really.
I feel like so many people I've worked with have read this and use it like a guide. I now sort of wonder if they were plants put there by competitors...
I see this as quite a problem in the US. The default place a lonely person has to go is usually a church - where you can expect a modicum, possibly even a seeming profusion, of welcome. This is their hook. They provide automatic acceptance - of sorts. This is also how the right wing fascist regime convinced people to let Trump take over the country - propaganda through the churches.
The only other options people hear about are 'join a club.' Interesting clubs aren't that easy to find. Hanging out at the local pub has obvious downsides, though I guess it sorta works in some countries.
We need more ways for people to casually meet others that aren't trying to manipulate you or program you with religious doctrine...
Sure, the way cult members are happy to greet new recruits. It's very insincere. If you have a real issue and you want to talk to someone - you are very likely to hear something like: "Well, pray to Jesus dear, only he can help you." In other words, if you actually need any support - go home and pray about it - don't expect real connection with people. The only connection comes through the imaginary friends they encourage you to divert all your attention and problems to...
Also, you have to accept the brainworms to be accepted into the church community. You gotta join the Borg. You can't have a different opinion or be an atheist. Or you have to hide it well and be comfortable with doing that.
It's a cult - a very old one, 20 centuries old. This longevity gives it a feeling of validity or that it's the 'only truth'. But it's really just collective sunk cost fallacy. It's the cultural bandaid that we apply to all problems because no one dares think up a new one. Rip off that bandaid and all kinds of problems it was patching emerge. That's why we dare not speak of parting ways with it.
It seems altogether too easy to put up a website, pretend there's a 100% remote job on offer, then collect all the info needed for identity theft as you apply and then are 'onboarded' entirely through an online process. Especially when they ask for an image of your driver's license. At that point, they have everything they need to steal your identity. And even if they are on the up and up, when they get hacked, there goes your identity anyway. I'm not sure what to do about this. I'm having this very problem at the moment.
I wonder if there is a memory consumption tradeoff for this new data structure? Based on a few initial implementations I see in github, looks like it may be significant? Still a nice discovery.
I don't buy it. That's clearly the sun until it reaches that red line and then it shrinks and disappears. I've never seen anything like that happen in the sky. Moon or sun. It's super weird.
It's kind of a fun synchronicity though as just after seeing that video, I watched episode 2 of 3 Body Problem where the same sort of thing happens!
Perhaps if he was able to use some kind of force-directed 3-D algorithm, instead of a 2-D one, they might resemble something other than leaves, which could be interesting.
Yet, here I am, an experienced software engineer, unemployed for over a year now. It still seems to me the right ideal, so the 'karmic' outcome feels unjust really.