The ol' Hug of Death has brought the site to a crawl. Dark Lord willing, someone will produce a torrent and link to said torrent.
This is me. I have made some very expensive fuck-ups at work and lost my job several times because of my forgetfulness or missing details. Thankfully I'm medicated now, but the fear and anxiety is still deeply ingrained in me. I am the livelihood of my family. I pay our bills, the mortgage, car payments and insurance. Any mistake could mean my family and I will need to start hunting for the nicest bridge to live under.
In the mid 10s, I worked as the engineering director for a consultancy. My boss would openly brag about being able to hire women for a fraction of the cost of a man. I was so offended by this that I created a partnership with a coding academy for at-risk and underrepresented individuals just a few blocks away from our office. I made it my mission to hire as many women junior engineers as I could, just so that I could train them up and find them better paying jobs elsewhere.
Women engineers are out there, and I hope I've made the dating pool just a little bigger for you.
Does it taste like Bud Light?
Howdy-do, fellow minute-man!
If your dick can't do the walking, let your tongue do the talking.
Never get into Modular Synthesizers.
Some email services will let you append arbitrary strings to the end of your email address with a +. Whenever a sales associate asks for my email to sign up for discounts, I give them email+spam@provider.com. I love the looks I get for that.
I have been laid off from every job (5 in total) since the pandemic. We are a subhuman commodity. Companies that are hiring now are exploiting the market by offering lower salaries.
Meta and Amazon are in their hiring season and they'll start their layoffs again next spring or summer. And somehow, everyone forgets this fucked up cycle keeps happening in perpetuum.
We need to stop being afraid of mentioning the U word. We need better protection and rights as employees.
Engineering is a skilled trade. We need our own union like every other skilled labor group.
Welcome! I was 40 when I was formally diagnosed with ASD and ADHD.
The ADHD diagnosis was a godsend, as I was finally able to put a label on why I couldn't sit through hours-long meetings without completely rearranging my office, or feeling like a complete failure because I couldn't understand or learn a new programming language.
The AU diagnosis, while completely expected, hit harder because it was not only validating, but also hardened the fact that I truly do have difficulty with social and executive functions.
I'm glad communities like this exist where other neurodivergent individuals can feel represented and validated.
There are only 3 reasons employers force RTO: control, real estate, impending RIFs.
Not that it's Linux fault, but access to and compatibility with popular creative tools like Ableton or Adobe products.
Sure, it's feasible to use Wine to run these products, but not in any professionally usable manner.
Yes, I am aware there are Linux-friendly alternatives, but they lack the plugins, compatibility, features, and quality of their industry~standard counterparts.