J-dawg

Thanks for the encouragement. I'm going to try a little harder to do some 'self-marketing'

I'm a pretty useless developer who does about the same amount of real work as you per week. I also often don't understand the technical details other developers discuss in meetings.

I am generally quite open about my lack of aptitude, as I result I've never really been promoted, I've just bounced around between different junior roles. It always seems obvious that I'm the most junior member of any team I'm on, but I'm starting to wonder if that's all in my head.

Your post kinda makes me wish I'd tried a bit harder at bullshitting. Maybe I could've at least made a bit more money.

> Expecting simple and final answers to questions depending on a myriad of factors (some unknown or even unknowable!) is stupid.

I don't think "covid sceptics" are the only ones guilty of this. Far from it in fact.

Vocal believers in "covid orthodoxy" (can't think of a better descriptor right now) seem much worse at acting as if simple and final answers exist for everything.

Annoyingly necessary disclaimer: I am not a "covid sceptic" by any stretch, I am fully vaccinated and believe that many precautions are warranted. But I am sick of being told what to do based on uncertain emerging science.

Case in point: vaccine passports seem to be an example where the policy was concocted based on assumptions about the science which turned out to be untrue (the assumption being that vaccinated people wouldn't carry or transmit Covid.) I believe that most governments are only keeping them in place in order to inconvenience people into getting vaccinated. This is exactly the sort of thing that fosters more scepticism, even if a lot of it is misguided.

I don't understand how you could read the parent comment and decide that it's "blaming" teen girls, unless you are deliberately arguing in bad faith.

Teenage girls are predisposed to behave in the way described, and Facebook/Instagram is profiting by exploiting that. Nothing about the explanation above is blaming them. If anything the comment makes a stronger case for Facebook's actions being immoral.

On your second bullet point, did you mean to say

"but it's thermodynamically and metabolically far easier to cool than to heat"

Because that seems to be more in line with the point you are making. Sorry to be a pedant, I'm asking because your comment is very interesting.

I didn't really mean training as in pre-planned courses. More sitting down with someone more experienced and being coached through a feature or a programming concept. I guess I was wrong to expect more of this.

That’s interesting, I didn’t know that.

I wonder what is different now. The woke movement doesn’t seem to get any weaker, even as it adopts more and more identity groups.

> Can you send DMCA takedowns based on owning the NFT for an image?

I'm also curious about this. Does the buyer now legally own the image itself, as well as the NFT?

This is amazing, I'm noting this down for future use.

As someone said elsewhere in this thread, it makes you wonder what's really going on while we are distracted by this stuff.

What I find interesting is that there (probably? maybe?) isn't a shadowy CIA-like organisation promoting this stuff, this "tactic" is a naturally emergent property of the woke belief system.

I think I find this more frightening than if there actually were a shadowy organisation pulling the strings: here we have a philosophy, which many well-intended people subscribe to, that causes them to behave like a sophisticated intelligence agency deliberately trying to disrupt a foreign power.

I admire your drive very much. I too started programming in my 30s, but have always struggled with it and now wish I had pursued something else.

I cannot imagine having the mental energy or the enthusiasm to spend most of my evenings doing side projects and reading CS books. I'm happy for you, but is that what it takes to do ok in this career? Hours and hours of unpaid work, even after you've got a job?

It just makes me wish I had focussed on being a product manager or something. I'm pretty sure most of them aren't spending all their evenings reading management books.

Another one here who is really not that great at it. I also find my interest in getting better at it waning by the day, because I know I'll still be mediocre no matter how hard I try.

But right now it's a choice between software or an unskilled low paid job, as I have no other skills.

How does one actually get "checked" for ADHD? It's not like there's a blood test.