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echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Valeyard posted:

Hell yeah payday

nice

when you get to the place I am in life, payday doesn't matter. money gets siphoned out of your account at such a constant and huge rate im equally poor every day of the week

# ¿ Oct 26, 2015 19:31

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 19:25

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

jesus fuckin christ

# ¿ Oct 27, 2015 07:41

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

the answer is post on yospos so you're doing the best you can

# ¿ Oct 27, 2015 22:44

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

i had to straight up own up to a cock up last night that wasted a lady maybe 10 minutes. gently caress

# ¿ Oct 28, 2015 02:47

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

bobbilljim posted:

decent, i only waste about 15 seconds of their time

nice

it was akwward coz the script was for clarithromycin 250 and i was liek "we only have 500s" and it was like 5:25 im amazed the dr was still there i sent the rx back and got doc to annoate and sign 500mgs (this took 10 minutes to get it back) and then get to shelf and realise i had misread, we had NO clarithromycin, only clindamycin! what a ning nong. but I owned up, said to the lady "sorry, i misread, we dont have any of it", but did the rest of the rx. what a ballsup

# ¿ Oct 28, 2015 08:11

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

same

# ¿ Oct 28, 2015 10:04

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

BANME.sh posted:

terrible programmer here. what do you do when you feel completely out of your element on a project. and it makes you procrastinate way longer than you should. and when you do try to work on it, you don't really make any useful progress. and it's too late to ask for help because everyone would know you just pissed away all that time. so its a horrible combined feeling that you're inadequate and a fraud.

what do you do.

besides drink i mean.

asking for a friend.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2015 08:08

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

lol at imagining you can be paid money to for something "fulfilling"

does it meet your salary expectations?
are the benefits good enough?
is the job security good enough?

that's it

those are the only things to ask about a software job

you've got points but you're forgetting that life is short and if your spending a decent chunk of that at your job .. well you can see where I am going. I'd like to get paid more but I have some really good human on himan interactions on a daily basis (that's what the stripper said)

# ¿ Oct 31, 2015 02:36

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

I laughed

# ¿ Oct 31, 2015 02:46

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

yeah, life is short

having a job is the problem

the only good job is no job

ive only got 60% of a job

# ¿ Oct 31, 2015 06:09

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

this is like saying it would be great to be a porn star so you can be paid to have sex all day

it doesn't actually matter what you are doing. sure, some jobs are worse than others, but all jobs are jobs. as you point out, someone else is deriving the gains, the "fruits of your labor."

no amount of "fun" or engagement with your work will give you your life back

parts of what you're saying is obvious poo poo to everyone (it would be better if you didn't haven't to work) but in general I think you're missing the point. not everyone is the same don't forget and some people really enjoy the day to day pleasantries and "what did you do on the weekend" and so a mildly satisfying job with satisfactory pay check is quite important compared to working their rear end off at something they hate for more money to free themselves: don't apply your ahitty worldview to everyone else

some people would still go to work even if they had no financial reason to, but I bet you don't get this. I wouldn't personally but I get it that others do

# ¿ Nov 1, 2015 00:58

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

i once spent several months without a job just for fun. i could afford it so i just decided to take an extended stay-cation and enjoy myself. my pattern of daily activities was actually quite similar to my day job. i spent a lot of time coding. i spent a lot of time reading about cool new stuff in the industry. it was genuinely fun and i loved it

doing extremely similar tasks for someone else is like pulling teeth. someone else chooses my priorities. someone else determines the requirements. someone else tells me where i should show up and what time. and that sucks. it's those qualities that make a set of tasks into a "job."

not surpsisingly you don't have any feelings of loss against not ever seeing other human beings

# ¿ Nov 1, 2015 04:02

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

what's the load of that lookup though it's pretty minor overall given it's gonna be an array of what bytes??

# ¿ Nov 1, 2015 08:38

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

64 x 64 is 4096 are you realy gonna stress about cycling through?

man you could make a lookup table every second and be sweet

this is 2015

# ¿ Nov 1, 2015 08:40

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

dude how'd you get that av

# ¿ Nov 1, 2015 09:19

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Symbolic Butt posted:

pretty sure BSD has some kind of depression/sadbrains and is trying to rationalize it with the marxist approach

I'm not saying this to be a smug rear end or anything

i think you';re correct too btother

# ¿ Nov 2, 2015 08:08

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

# ¿ Jul 9, 2016 18:01

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

so ue4 uses c++.. is it appropriate there?

# ¿ Jul 9, 2016 18:02

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

uncurable mlady posted:

go dependency management is awful yeah, but pretty much everything else is great

isnt go that language pram was in love with

rip pram.. any way I can get in touch with that glorious mothercucker

# ¿ Jul 22, 2016 07:23

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Luigi Thirty posted:

this is magic

sprite zooming in 1981 through voltage-controlled oscillators that generate sprite memory clocks at different speed lol

holy shjiot

# ¿ Aug 8, 2016 08:16

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Bloody posted:

this is really the thing that makes me most mad every time i look at a thing in python or javascript. p-langs (especially python) are totally fine to read (assuming a non-trash code base) because there's an a priori assertion that the code you're reading is valid, so all these magic function calls are correct, but writing them? literally kill me

i love writing in python

# ¿ Aug 15, 2016 02:11

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Bloody posted:

how do I add an item to a list? is it add or append? how many items are in it? is it count or length?

multiplied by everything in the language

it's completely unusable to me

idk? i've only learned it once. it was a joy to use. if I wanted to do something, I found a easy quick way to do it

# ¿ Aug 15, 2016 03:35

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

hackbunny posted:

you aren't really supposed to do COM in C. it's supported officially (see the tons of macros tool and poo poo), but microsoft assumed C++ at the very least. problem with that is that the C++ compiler has to create vtables with the layout COM expects, which is a really low bar to clear re. C++ ABI but still gcc for years wasn't compatible

anyway COM is kid's stuff, OLE is a whole another matter. what VB really helped with was OLE/automation. implementing OLE objects in bare C/C++ is not hard, just incredibly tedious (an embeddable OLE control means implementing over a dozen interfaces before you even start giving it some behavior) and even easier to get wrong accidentally. what's really hard (i.e. massively more tedious) is calling OLE objects, especially dynamically. in VB you don't even notice if you're calling an object statically or dynamically, the syntax is exactly the same. in C or C++, you have to look up the method name, build the argument list as an array of VARIANTs (looking up the ids of named arguments, if you use them), call the method, unpack the outputs from an array of VARIANTs. not to mention that VB can generate and consume type metadata natively while in C or C++ you have to write the metadata in IDL, compile with MIDL, and then use MIDL or your compiler's tools to generate the header files from the type library (jesus)

I need to find some trivial WSH script and try to rewrite it in C to show you just how much poo poo goes behind the scenes. I won't demonstrate how to write an ActiveX control manually because that strays into self-harm territory

nobody writes COM/OLE poo poo in C though, and who does it in C++ uses frameworks like ATL to make it a little less than ridiculous. I do wonder if C++1x can make it better though, especially now that we can almost do compile-time introspection

these hackbunny quotes are some of my favorite things in yospos

# ¿ Aug 17, 2016 13:56

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

don't project your ineptitude onto the language you can't remember how to use while you're using it

# ¿ Aug 19, 2016 01:07

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Bloody posted:

jobhunting

I have an interview on friday. I am so desperate. when the market is poo poo like this it sucks coz it means SO many people are going for such ordinary jobs. gently caress

# ¿ Aug 21, 2016 11:13

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

# ¿ Aug 21, 2016 11:29

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

though a python job would be cool

# ¿ Aug 21, 2016 11:30

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

there is just so few jobs. maybe one pops up every week or two?

# ¿ Aug 21, 2016 20:32

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

HoboMan posted:

maybe where you live is poo poo because i had at least one a day
(with an attitude that it's their problem to figure out if i'm actually qualified to do the work)

maybe? city of 400k? anyway can't move. might just have to start my own pharmacy

# ¿ Aug 21, 2016 21:54

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Symbolic Butt posted:

echi get a magento certification and become my code monkey

at least I can talk to you in english and you'll understand me, this is a huge plus

what is this? something forgeniers get to remote work from their hut in mongolia

# ¿ Aug 22, 2016 20:42

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Symbolic Butt posted:

yes

it's some e-commerce system made in php. it's... not very nice to work with but eh I've seen worse.

so what do ya do? janitor websites or handle transcations

# ¿ Aug 22, 2016 22:02

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

so loving future posted:

drinking, i imagine

lol

# ¿ Sep 8, 2016 11:06

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Luigi Thirty posted:

as usual, 1970s ataris have wacky video capabilities that other things of the time couldn't do

the architecture includes an ASIC that operates independently of the CPU which allows all kinds of video manipulation. it supports 16 video modes (5 text, 11 graphics) at resolutions from 40x24 to 320x192 and can switch between them at the start of any scanline. it can fire off interrupts at programmed points on the screen, jump to other display lists, all kinds of things. you put together a program and point it to the memory you want it to display. if you're in a text mode, you give it a pointer to a string. if you're in graphics mode, you give it an array of graphics data. it fetches glyphs or pixel data through DMA and sends the graphics data to the GTIA chip at the proper times, which is a direct improvement over the atari 2600 which required the CPU to do all that manually. it frees the CPU from shoveling graphics around and allowing more complicated displays than computers of the time, which were probably based on off-the-shelf display generators like the TMS9918 used in the MSX, TI/99, and even game consoles like the colecovision and master system.

so in your computer from 1979, you get a multi-resolution display, 4 independently-colored hardware sprites, and 2 missile graphics! what a bargain

if that sounds like the Amiga's Copper, that's because Jay Miner was also in charge of the video chipset for the atari 8-bits!

cool

# ¿ Sep 24, 2016 13:27

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

LeftistMuslimObama posted:

suicide doesnt have to be sad. it sounds like he ended his life on his own terms without suffering. celebrate the fact that he did what he wanted to on this earth and didn't linger longer than he wanted to either.

person should have discovered free sex and then he would live for the dizzying heights and subterreran lows of having lots of sex

# ¿ Nov 7, 2016 08:04

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 19:25

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

here's my tiling-within-iterm setup on osx:

emacs on top, shells on the bottom. then more shells inside of iterm tabs, with shell things going on inside them.

it works for me.

you seem like an incredible nerd

# ¿ Nov 29, 2016 08:58

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