Kalphite
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Today my office had an offsite and all went to a baseball game, so I basically didn't have to work. I don't really give a shit about baseball but there was free food and beer and it was super nice and I got to hang out with my friends so that was a pretty good time!!
Also I saw an author I really like give an awesome presentation today! Her name is Yaa Gyasi. She wrote a book called Homegoing that I really adored. It follows the lineages of two half-sisters that never meet on the Gold coast in Ghana around 1750 and follows through 8 generations of each of their children. One of the sisters is married to a white slaver, while the other is taken as a slave and kept in his castle and shipped off to America. It gives an incredible portrayal of how slavery shaped the lives of generations of people from their own perspectives rather than the glossed over one covered in history books. Super fascinating read and I blew through it in a week. She was interviewed by a local poet and answered a bunch of audience questions about the work and did a book signing after. It was super cool to see and to get to meet her; her process was fascinating and it blows me away that she started this thing when she was 20. Can't recommend the book enough.
I'm about to go visit home for the first time since christmas tomorrow morning though!! Which I'm super excited for, it's very overdue. Deeeeeeefinitely needed this break from work.
Also @ everyone going through the shitshow that is the CS job hunt rn, I interview interns and fresh college grads at my current job so let me know if there's anything I can help with. (Though I might be switching jobs sooner rather than later but that's a story for a different time lol)
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One of the first actually incredible albums out this year to me. I must have listened to this at least 15 times since it came out last friday, this is just gorgeous
Edit: damnit videos aren't working?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKFFZWDg_bE
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I'm also a member of the failed-two-driving-tests-before-I-got-my-license club
Just got back from a vacation to Arizona that was super dope! My Grandma spends the colder months out there and my parents were visiting her so I met up with them there for the weekend. We went and saw the Grand Canyon which was absolutely gorgeous. I'd love to go back there again someday and do one of the hikes to the bottom of the canyon.
Also met up with one of my old college roommates who lives in the area now. Holy shit I had no idea that the nightlife was so insane out there; going out is so much better when you live somewhere where people actually go outside and it was absolutely ridiculous how many gorgeous women there were there (being right near Arizona State helped a LOT). My friend had some other friends who work as promoters at one of the bigger clubs in the area and we took a party bus there and got free admission / "bottle service" (shitty vodka and kool-aid lmao but w/e it was free). Still not super big on clubbing but it was still fun to see that kind of thing; Seattle's nightlife isn't really the greatest unless you're not straight and I'd never really been out in a place with that good of nightlife. Definitely could not do that environment all the time though lol.
But yeah, just was a super nice feel-good time and it was cool getting to see my family since I don't really get to spend much time with them since I moved. Coming back to 40 degree weather after a weekend of 80 degree weather and sunshine is [bleep]ing HARD though ughhhh
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yeah I had a course in my CS program that tried to actually teach sane software design principles and design patterns, like we'd take a project and then have to add features to it that involved some pretty intensive refactoring . The professor would handgrade all the code for style too which was weighted more heavily than the code actually working (though he wouldn't grade it unless it could pass the autograder). Super intense class at the time but I'm super thankful for the instinct for code smells that class taught me lol.
but yeah every fresh grad needs to read clean code tbh. such a gamechanger for writing code other people can read
A close friend of mine that lives in Utah visited last weekend and ended up landing a job interview that brought her back for an on-site friday and she ended up getting an offer. They want her to start in early april. So she'll probably be moving here within the next 3 weeks which has been pretty unexpected but pretty damn rad tbh
hope y'all had some great st patty's days
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yeah @ ring you definitely should be able to putting on weight faster than that for at least a month if you eat enough, when I started out I added 10 pounds to my squat every workout from starting with the bar until I hit about 185, then 5 pounds after that and my deadlifts progressed at a similar rate, and I'm only like 5'4 lol so your body will probably be able to keep that up for longer. but yeah that routine worked until about a 220 squat and 245 deadlift, rock those noob gainz. my bench was always disproportionately awful though, peaked at about 150. Haven't been to the gym in months though, I have a lot more fun running and that way I don't have to pay $55/month for a gym membership lol
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OMG that youtube hq thing might bring the what are you listening to thread back to life
Also @Randox the youtube videos not loading isn't a code bug, its because the tag tries loading the videos over http and chrome / possibly other browsers block loading of http scripts over https connections. So if you can fix the normal youtube embed to use https it should fix things. Youtubehq tags seems to correctly load videos over https so hopefully it isn't too rough of a fix
Getting fillings is such a miserable experience. I tried getting a milkshake after to make my day a little better but my tongue is still numbed and I can only taste it on the not numb side lol :(
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new S Carey is so good it inspired me to kick this thread in the corpse
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It can be kinda weird from the other side cause you never know how people will react though. Like in Seattle a bunch of people HATE Amazon / how it's changed the city over the last few years and are dicks if you say you work there, and there can be judgement towards all the Microsoft employees here too. Also some people can act really weird when you bring up stuff about your job sometimes. Makes it a lot easier to just kinda shy away from the topic. But then when you talk to people from back home you forget that people from outside where you work are legitimately interested in hearing about it and its easy to just stick to not bringing it up unless it really comes up.
I just got back from a trip to San Francisco for the weekend!! It was super fun. Nice and sunny and clear and 65 degree weather felt SO great in February. Did a bit of tourist stuff with my friends who hadn't been there, rented bikes and went to wineries in sonoma (reinforcing my opinion that there is no need to spend > $20 on a bottle of wine lol, idk there is just not a big enough of a difference after that point to seem worth it ), and did a hike through the Purisima Creek Redwood Reserve. Also ate SO MANY BURRITOS holy shit I've been deprived
Sucks though cause my phone battery took a massive dump right when I got there. I can't open uber, snapchat, or the facebook app without my phone going into a restarting loop that can only be broken by popping the battery out lmfao. made it suuuper hard to get in touch with people once I was there. I basically have to keep my phone attached to a portable charger at all times which is pretty obnoxious. I need a new phone so badly lol but I dont wanna give up a headphone jack and it feels like all the other options have other weird stuff wrong with them so I've been procrastinating like crazy
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I finally bought Rune Factory 4 after much uhming and ahhing. I normally have no interest in Harvest Moon-style games but this one sort of enticed me as an entry to the genre.
Have you played stardew valley at all? That was my first exposure to the genre, I never thought I'd be into something like that but then I played like 30 hours in 3 weeks lmfao it's ridiculous how addicting these kinds of games are
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Did you have to stash food outdoors to save it?I'm finally going to have a fridge again after it's been broken for 2 weeks and I cannot tell you how excited I am to eat something that isn't a premade meal from trader joes
Lol unfortunately it's not cold enough in Seattle for that to work. Had to dump my entire fridge and start from scratch ;_; I've never seen so much moldy cheese in my life
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you might be a couple years late for that train unfortunately
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maybe 2018 will finally see the crowning of miss hottie 2016
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never saw rogue one, I enjoyed episode 7 for what it was when it came out and thought this new one was a step down from that though. if you already didn't like episode 7 I don't think there will be much for you in the new one tbh. but plenty of people loved this one too so opinions man, depends what you didn't like about episode 7 but this just didn't really feel very much like a star wars movie to me
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the new star wars was pretty and I really liked parts of it but I came away from it feeling like I just watched a marvel movie in space and there were parts that reeeeeally pissed me off
[spoiler=spoilers]leia levitating back into the ship after being blasted out was very weird and confusing and also kylo ren's personality switch after snoke died felt so ridiculously out of character that it was hard to enjoy the rest of the move after that
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yeah any interview question involving heaps or dynamic programming is useless bullshit (...definitely not just salty I lost my return offer from Google because of a heap question. who the [bleep] even uses heaps for anything?). I think linked list / array / tree / hashmap based questions are totally fair game though. I do like the idea of the "fixing an actual bug / feature implementation" kind of inter view you were describing, though it would take a lot of extra work to try to figure out how to cram something like that into 30 minutes.
I ended up picking a question about copying a linked list where each node also has a pointer to a random element in the list and preserving that ordering, which is nice because it has multiple levels of solutions to it if the interviewee has enough time. I got into work early because the interview was scheduled before I normally come in only for it to be cancelled because of an admin issue like 15 minutes before it was about to happen ;_;. Basically just showed up to work 1.5 hours early for no reason. I want my sleep back...
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yeah I agree with the general consensus here. my game of choice is melee. If I go to a tournament I can generally take a couple sets but not make it out of pools, which I'm totally fine wiht because I most play for fun with a bunch of friends at the same skill level, and if I'm playing with people that don't play competitively I can play some of the shitty characters and still have fun. I start to hate any game that I actually have to take seriously and I don't really practice because of that, its just a hobby and I have no desire to take it to any further level.
Conducting a job interview for the first time tomorrow which is pretty weird to wrap my head around. It's a software development intern interview, so I have to just ask about their experience / figure out how much is bullshit and give a coding question. I thought I'd have the weekend to try to find a good question to use but then they just sprang this one on me instead so I'm using a question from someone else on my team and hoping it works out. It's just weird because it still doesn't feel like it's been that long since I've been on the other side of this. They scheduled it for 9 am too which I'm not looking forward to lmao but hopefully it doesn't go to terribly
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Finished reading 1Q84.
First book of Murakami that I've read, it is pretty magical indeed. 1150 pages of awesomeness. Took a lot of time, but once picked up, was hard to put down.
Definitely a recommendation.
Oh dope, I just read Kafka on the Shore by him a couple months ago and it was gorgeous, definitely looking to read more of his stuff once I finish the last batch of books I got lol. But yeah I'd definitely recommend that one if you're looking for more murakami to read. I'm looking at norwegian wood or the wind-up bird chronicle next, 1Q84 is still just a bit intimidating size-wise for me at the moment
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we had ~95% in seattle. The crescent shadows on everything were dope, the water got a bit darker and some of my coworkers had glasses so I could see the crescent sun but I still probably wouldn't have noticed it if I didn't know to expect it. I didn't realize that the especially crazy parts only happened at complete totality, otherwise I would have made more of an effort to make it out to Oregon or something. Ah well
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The new brand new album is everything I ever wanted it to be
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Yeah Chester Bennington's death [bleep]ed me up at work today. Linkin park were just so important to me when I was growing up and were such a massive part of forming my music taste. Like they basically got me into metal which was all I really listened to all the way through high school. I spent my whole day listening to Hybrid Theory and Meteora again and with hindsight its so sad, like he was basically singing about this stuff for his entire time in the band. Just messed up to lose him and Chris Cornell in the same year.
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lol it must be so nice living in a low COL area. I'm trying to move into a one bedroom here and and most of my options here would be around $1700-2000 a month. average home price is like $700k lmfao. I wish I didn't have to spend so much renting but homes are just so ridiculously unfeasible
Realizing I haven't really checked in here in a while but this last month has been such a whirlwind. I've had a bunch of really fun times- a really fun trip back home to see a bunch of my friends, followed by Sasquatch music festival which was absolutely incredible (I've had few moments as utterly joyous as getting to see Slowdive play a perfect set at the peak of an acid trip as the sun set and the full moon came out) , followed by my birthday weekend which culminated in a party that had like 50 people show up to my apartment and got shut down by the cops at 2 am. On the other hand, I didn't get promoted at my job over some complete bullshit and I've decided its time to start job hunting again. My lease is almost up too and I'm over having roommates so I'm dealing with trying to find a new apartment too, as well as planning a couple trips that are coming up this summer. So definitely a lot going on but a lot of its exciting at least and I've been feeling a lot more comfortable with my relationships out here now so I'm pretty positive about things overall!!