This trick used to work a little bit about a decade ago but hiring managers/ATS caught on

Obligatory mention of CGP Grey and his fantastic animal kingdom voting series: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mky11UJb9AY

My ADHD makes it so I can’t read books for shit anymore, even though I would go through several every week as a kid. For anyone else having this problem, one thing that sometimes helps me is to listen to someone read the text while reading along. This could be an audiobook, but there’s also an extension for Firefox called “Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader” to get through pdf files.

With CS/IT, there have been tens of thousands of layoffs every month (in the US alone) for nearly 3 years straight. Too few jobs with everyone having to compete with new grads and all of those hit by layoffs equals a shit situation all around. I’m hoping to pivot into something like bioinformatics which, for the moment, still looks potentially promising as a job prospect.

Certainly not going all the way to PHD, but I might have the opportunity to go for Master’s on a grant that waives tuition. Not sure what else to do right now since graduating with a CS degree in this tech market has been a dumpster fire…

As someone who might be going to grad school soon to wait out this bullshit job market…ouch

Upvote for the Salvor Hardin quote alone

If you earned $10,000 per hour, every hour of every day since the birth of little baby jebus, you still would not have as much money as Musk did at the start of this year BEFORE he got even more tax breaks and subsidies from the government.

Tax the fuckers

Rip and knit until it is done

“What are you looking at, smoothskin?”

This method has gotten a bit further than I was, but hit a snag on the OS installation. Could I ask what iso version(s) you used?

Unfortunately I also need SwiftUI, which seems to only want to run in Xcode on a Mac. Virtual machines appear to be the only workaround for it that I’ve seen.

I’ll give this a shot, ty!

I forget where I heard the idea from, but I remember someone coming up with a similar idea, just way more sinister. Basically you get a bunch of these really cheap, battery operated speakers like they mention in the comic, but you put sounds on them like creepy children laughing or ghostly noises that are juuuuust loud enough to hear. Set them to have very long timers at random intervals, and scatter them inside someone’s air vents

I misread the title and thought it was a joke about how “I took beta blockers and it blocked all of my friends”

I’m not a physicist by any means, but I would hypothesize that the slowest way would be to somehow get the object into a slowly decaying, nearly-geostationary orbit around Earth, closer than the Lagrange point between Earth and the Moon. Eventually its orbit will decay enough that it will just fall into our atmosphere somewhat “straight down”, making it a matter of calculating the object’s terminal velocity.

I’ll probably be wrong about many things here, but it’ll be interesting to learn when someone corrects me.

Anything from RedLetterMedia though I don’t think it’s a good suggestion for others to listen to. Rich Evans’ laugh is a wonderful thing, but it’ll wake you up

At my first job I worked at a local grocery store as a cashier. Normally the store owner would have a playlist of modern pop that would loop at least once per 8hr shift, and he’d change up the playlist every few months. This sucked a lot, but at the time I didn’t know how much worse it would get.

On the closing shift on Halloween night, he started playing his Christmas CD. It was 80 minutes long. On repeat. Nonstop. Until halfway into January. To this day I refuse to listen to any Christmas music at all because fuck that.

Rare catch on Catachan. From what I remember, weren’t the nids killed off by the native flora and fauna so badly that they just left?

This is like a shot from “One Missed Call”