Learning to Code

A few months ago one of my coworkers finally settled on a bed frameand mattress system. So once he got the frame, he took everything out of his room and placed it into the common area and started trying to put the frame together. It was apparently a fairly standard metal bed frame.... but it took him two weeks.

And just when he finally almost had it done, he ran into a problem. There was a portion of the frame that he couldn't get into the piece it needed to go into. His roommate also a coworker and a bodybuilder couldn't get the piece into the frame either.

So they finally decided they needed a hammer to get it in. Neither one of them owned a hammer. [I am personally very judgey about them now owning a hammer. I can excuse not owning a drill, especially if you know someone who owns a drill, but not owning a hammer? sheesh]

So after some waffling about what to do, they decided to take the pieces of the bedframe and go to Walmart and see if Walmart had a handyman service who could hammer the piece into the bedframe. It did not.

So they decided that they would need to buy a hammer. Apparently they waffled for about 30 minutes over which hammer, and eventually settled on a two-toned rubber mallet. So they head to checkout and bedframe owner tells his roommate he can go on out and bedframe guy will be out in a bit.

Roommate waited in the car for about 30 minutes before going in to find out what was taking so long as the line hadn't been that long. It turns out that bedframe guy was walking up and down the front of the Walmart after checkout, waffling about leaving Walmart with the mallet because he was afraid of ...voiding the warranty ... on a rubber mallet.

...

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

Me: I need to go home. There’s a hurricane coming and my basement apartment is on the coast, so I’m worried about my cats. (To myself: And maybe needing to evacuate.)

Boss: Is your house and your cats more important than this job?

Me: YES.

Boss: …oh. Okay. Uh…see you tomorrow…

Different boss, several years later, a conversation that happened multiple times:

Me: Hey, it’s starting to really snow outside, I live on a steep hill, and I only have 2-wheel drive. If I don’t leave now, I can’t get home.

Boss: Is getting home more important than getting your job done tonight?

Me: Considering I value my life more than I value this paperwork being digitized? YES.

Boss: ….

Me: Bye. See you tomorrow.

Boss: Uh, yeah, okay.

Different atttempt:

Boss: Why don’t you just get a hotel after work?

Me: Do I get a raise so I can afford it?

Boss: No.

more important than getting

your job done tonight?

A few months ago one of my coworkers finally settled on a bed frameand mattress system. So once he got the frame, he took everything out of his room and placed it into the common area and started trying to put the frame together. It was apparently a fairly standard metal bed frame.... but it took him two weeks.

And just when he finally almost had it done, he ran into a problem. There was a portion of the frame that he couldn't get into the piece it needed to go into. His roommate also a coworker and a bodybuilder couldn't get the piece into the frame either.

So they finally decided they needed a hammer to get it in. Neither one of them owned a hammer. [I am personally very judgey about them now owning a hammer. I can excuse not owning a drill, especially if you know someone who owns a drill, but not owning a hammer? sheesh]

So after some waffling about what to do, they decided to take the pieces of the bedframe and go to Walmart and see if Walmart had a handyman service who could hammer the piece into the bedframe. It did not.

So they decided that they would need to buy a hammer. Apparently they waffled for about 30 minutes over which hammer, and eventually settled on a two-toned rubber mallet. So they head to checkout and bedframe owner tells his roommate he can go on out and bedframe guy will be out in a bit.

Roommate waited in the car for about 30 minutes before going in to find out what was taking so long as the line hadn't been that long. It turns out that bedframe guy was walking up and down the front of the Walmart after checkout, waffling about leaving Walmart with the mallet because he was afraid of ...voiding the warranty ... on a rubber mallet.

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I am curious to see how long Microsoft props up OpenAI for. and when they finally give up on it[literally my bosses don't ssay if it fails they say when it fails and yet we're all working with AzureOpenAI lmao] I'm curious to see which llm will win out for the next bit of time.

Who knows maybe the EU will do some more laws that kill it. lol.

so HERE'S HOW YOU DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOS WITH VLC!! VLC FREAKIN RULES!!

get your youtube link

open vlc, go to media > open network stream

paste your url in the box and PRESS PLAY!

wait for the video to open then go to tools > codec information

copy the entire file location (click the box, then ctrl-a to select all, then ctrl-c to copy)

paste into your browser of choice (i use firefox)

right click video and press "save video as", choose your file format if you want

DONE! NO VIRUSES OR SKETCHY STUFF!

the quality might be a little crummy but if you don't mind that, then shabam! video on your computer! then you can email it to yourself and have it on your phone too if you want! if you need a guide with pictures wikihow has you covered my friends

The second half, which we weren’t made aware of until the day we were meant to turn this one in, was to trade USB drives with the person sitting next to us and MODIFY their “unreadable” code without getting any help from them.

This was to teach us two things:

1) In this field, you’ll spend more time working with code written by other people than you will writing original code from a blank slate. The people who wrote the original code will probably not be around to help you. Learning to read code is IMPORTANT, even if it seems unreadable.

2) There is a strong brotherhood/sisterhood among programmers and software engineers. Respect that bond when you’re writing code and documentation. In my professor’s words: “When you write code, pretend that the person who will have to maintain it after you’re gone is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.”