Just practicing drawing isometric robot parts and exploring different concepts. Yes, there are some GLaDOS and WALL-E inspired parts in there...🫠

#pixelart #ドット絵 #isometric

One of the ways I'm dealing with AI slop at work is that when I'm giving feedback on the work I'm making sure to never assign the responsibility of the bad code to the AI. I'm directly saying that "this change that YOU made needs to be corrected". I'm always assigning the output of the AI to the person who put me in the position of reviewing the work. It is their responsibility to read the code that they're trying to review, they are responsible for 100% of the code, so they also get 100% of the blame when it's bad. If a change is confusing or nonsensical I'll ask "why did YOU make this change?". I'll never ask why an AI made a change, that we cannot know. All we can know is why someone thought it was acceptable to ship garbage, and we can assign them the responsibility for the garbage that they're willing to ship

@kasdeya
I suspect good tutorials
a. Pitch to the intended audience at an appropriate level
b. Pick ONE intended audience
c. Pick ONE concept/goal to use the tutorial to explain
d. Have a reference to the appropriate docs at the top
e. Put installing the product details in a separate tutorial and make it a link in the start of the main tutorial (eg make installing Nginx a separate tutorial from how to setup Nginx as a reverse proxy)
f. Make it obvious what version this applies to + a date
g. If there are different alternatives for parts of the process, then acknowledge that and perhaps describe how and why to choose and even have sub tutorials for not just your favourite. Eg there are many Web servers you could install.

Could go on, no doubt...

@mjustm I considered welding! it honestly looks pretty satisfying, but I’ve heard that it’s dangerous - maybe because the metal fumes from welding are harmful? but idk I’m kinda tempted to learn

@passocacornio oohh omg this might be a really good option! thank you

the weirdest part is that it’s only waterlogging certain signs and not others. the wiki is just like “yeah stuff gets waterlogged sometimes idk”. I don’t think anyone understands how waterlogging works lol

ugh I hate waterlogging as a mechanic. I’m trying to make a kelp farm in modern Minecraft and I thought it would be cool if the water was fenced in with signs stacked on top of each other, so I could walk right into the water from anywhere

but apparently as the kelp grows it’s waterlogging the signs for some reason?? so I have to encase the entire sign-kelp-water box with cobblestone and I’ll figure out how to get into it later

@rowan I extremely agree with her 💙

just discovered a useful trick: if you’re having trouble opening a pickle jar, try putting on rubber gloves

it seems like not being able to open a jar is not because of lack of strength but lack of friction between your hands and the jar - but latex is very grippy

@lycanmatriarch woahh that’s incredible. that actually sounds like a really good job tbh - I love cleaning things lol

@lycanmatriarch woah - huh! I wonder if there’s much demand for them. I think that would be pretty easy for me to do - especially if I had equipment that matched the pitch for me

@shijikori that absolutely sucks omg. I hope that you’ll be able to make it through this drought, and deal with your burnout at the same time. I’ve heard that any kind of IT job can be soul-crushing. employment is so hard for folks like us and it’s completely unfair and I hate it. like there’s no reason why jobs have to be this way - it’s entirely cultural and pointless

now that there’s basically no way to get a tech job in the US, what do y’all recommend as a career field for someone who:

• is autistic
• probably can’t get her hands dirty because of sensory issues (I might be able to learn but unsure) (I also considered wearing gloves whenever working with gross parts but I’m unsure how practical that would be)
• has crippling social anxiety
• is very good at quickly learning systems and dealing with numbers and other logical stuff like that

I’m okay with even low-paying jobs as long as it’s a liveable wage, but ideally I’d like something that doesn’t take too much unpaid training because I want to get some kind of income quickly

here’s what I’ve considered so far:

accountant: it seems like there’s an expectation for me to be “professional” (create a whole work persona and mask aggressively) which I hate, and I would also need to network. but I’m considering this

locksmith: I’ve always wanted to learn lockpicking, but I’m unsure how dextrous I am, and I feel like my hands might have to get dirty/sticky/gross if I did this

CNC machine operator: this seemed perfect for me at first (get to make cool parts, get to work with computers, minimal People Stuff), but then I learned that I’d still have to work with parts with my hands so my hands would probably still get gross and that would drive me crazy - unless I can wash them immediately after

boosts are encouraged!

@shijikori thankfully I don’t have to worry about this for a long time, and I might not even want to renew the DNS address (it’s for my resume website for tech work, but obviously the tech industry is Not Doing Well right now lol). but in another 6 months then I’ll decide what to do hehe. thanks for being willing to help though!

after we queers take over the world what’s first on our agenda?

@rowan that kinda tracks actually lol omg

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