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Damn, I’m sorry man. I graduated at the height of the great recession and after scrambling for a job for a year before caving and taking something maintaining some dumb custom PHP inventory system for a small business. Only got my previous job (doing driver development) through sheer dumb luck. It was as close to my dream job of OS development as was probably possible, and the company made a real physical thing instead of another pointless app. But the place really did a number on me, and I feel less capable then I used to be.

The job market is also worse in some ways now than it was then, which is crazy. There may be more jobs available now than then, but the ones now seem shittier and the job search process is somehow even more degrading. Im considering joining the local brick layers union. Wish you the best of luck, and I wish good tech jobs didn’t fall into either the dumbest product you’ve ever heard of, or working for some of the most evil forces on the planet.

This is upstate erasure. Suburban/rural upstate is full of psychos.

Uggh. I occasionally browse r/haskell since I like using the language for personal projects. Someone posted a job offering from Andruil and literally everyone in that shitty subreddit except 1 guy was gushing over the idea of working for them. Tech workers are fucking hopeless. On a totally unrelated note I quit my developer job recently due to burnout and am doing some soul searching because I don’t think I can work in the field anymore without losing my sanity.

If you hit “Ctrl-Alt-F1” after you get to the graphical login, does it drop you into a non-GUI terminal (virtual terminal) where you can log in? Does logging in work there?

I like how the title to that post is just describing property taxes that every home owner already pays.

I think we’re in an age when nuclear deterrent is actually less effective because the West is very unlikely to use anything like a nuclear bomb, whereas our adversaries might

Anyway, good luck on that three front war

I got really into ants for a while, and sometimes I think that capitalism is our species’ equivalent.

Even just people on the street. There are surprising number of nooks and crannies to hide in a city. Are the counters going to the 5th floor of an abandoned industrial site? How about along no longer used rail lines that are now heavily wooded? Are they going into culverts?

Maybe, but the way homelessness is usually counted aka “the street count” always massively under counts. Even a bullshit statistical model will probably get closer to the actual number.