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Hey all,

I'm looking for advice on transitioning my career. I have a little over five years of professional experience. Two and a half years at a consulting company doing full stack development for energy clients. I then moved over to work for another two and a half years at one of those energy clients as a senior full stack developer.

I fell into these jobs as they were the best opportunities I had coming out of college, but now I am getting close to 30 and wondering what I want my career to be about. I really want to move to a technology company. Any of the big ones would probably be a good home: Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook or even some of the smaller companies would probably be great homes too. I just want to be a full time employee at a technology company and get out of the energy industry.I love tech and follow all the latest advancements. I see people all around the world creating awesome things and just wish to be a part of it and be surrounded by people with similar passions.

My job is important for my company, and I am paid very well, work life hours are reasonable, but I feel like my life energy is being wasted on things that I personally don't find interesting or care about.

Anyway, so I started looking and applying. I can get tons of recruiters contacting me about staffing me at other contract positions, but I keep getting rejected pre-interview at technology companies for full time positions.

I've thought about going back to school to get a specialization in something like AI, or perhaps an MBA. Something that I could use to act as a catalyst to get me into a company where I'd be part of the process of building some really cool things. I don't really care about the functional role (developer, manager, product owner, etc.) I just want to be part of something inspiring.

Additionally, my resume might be terrible. I've only updated it once or twice since I complete college, so that might be holding me back.

Here is an anonymous version of my resume for feedback if you'd like to help me out: https://imgur.com/a/F2zxxwj

What would you recommend?

I am really interested in categorization of things, and comparisons between very different things. One thing that I have been really interested in recently is different kinds of difficulty and how people relate to them. For instance, people say Dark Souls is hard, but how hard is it? Is it harder than Tetris the Grandmaster 3? Dodonpachi? Kill the Kamilia 3?

I recognize that these are fairly meaningless and absurd comparisons, but what can we say? Aren't there some similarities in how people relate to these games?

There are precedents:

• The Yosemite Decimal system for rating climbs. It gives you an idea of what kind of gear you need and how much experience you should have to attempt a climb.

• The tier system for rating surf maps in Counter Strike is similar. A tier 1 map requires basic techniques and has few challenging jumps, a tier 6 map requires a great deal of experience and has many difficult obstacles.

• Delicious-Fruit ranks their games on a 0 to 100 scale, where 0 is trivial and 100 is impossible. I Wanna Be The Guy is a 36.1, I Wanna Kill the Kamilia 3 is an 89.8. It's subjective and somewhat arbitrary, but it can serve as a sort of calibration, "what should I expect going in blind?"

When I'm grinding away at a star in OlliOlli 2, I often find myself wondering where I am in the bigger picture. Who has bigger problems, and who has smaller problems? Even if there's nothing objective to take from it, the perspective alone seems like it would be interesting.

Was he right? Is it just my autism making me interpret the question too literally?

Hey!

I've had depression a few years ago, and even though I currently feel differently, there are certain things that could be signaling depression or adhd. I have low motivation. I find it being hard to force myself to do the things that I know would be better. I have no drive, desire or ambition to strive for something in life, to achieve something. All I want to do on a daily basis when I'm at home is sit at my pc, watch videos, play video games, eat junk food, lay in bed and nothing else. Rarely anything seems exciting or interesting enough so that I'd go outside and do something.

Out of 7 days spending 16 hours per day living a lifestyle like this, maybe a couple of times I'd go outside for a walk that'd take like 30 mins.

Because of that, I have no idea whether it's a character flaw (like habits), lack of will power, or actually something like depression, messed up brain or so on...

I've been prescribed recently Bupropion. Today I've started this treatment.

I want to ask all of you, who have had or are still having similar issues- what has helped you in overcoming them? What has helped you to come to the place where, for some reason, you're able to force yourself to do the things that'll make your life better? If you feel no external/internal pressure to do something and have no drive, no ambition or desire to seek/achieve /develop something, how do you go about it? Maybe you've found ways to be motivated about life and find joy and be excited again about life?

Interestingly, my mindset and thoughts are quite positive in general. Since my last depression period, I have managed to change my outlook on life, lessen the negative thoughts, find some objectivity within my thoughts, detach from them and so on which helps a lot, but the lack of will power, being lazy, lacking any desire to go for anything in life does not look good.

The worst is that if I go down that road, I know what kind of consequences I'll be facing (which are health damages, less friendships or no friendships at all, worse relationships with family members, no meaningful or useful skills for myself and society, no achievements or success according to my own standards). Thus... I want to change it, but I'm often in a conflict with myself... Sometimes I feel like all these problems are simply in my head and I have learnt to believe that I can't force myself to do things and feel powerless, but sometimes I think that there might actually be something wrong with me outside of these

Ever since I was a child I never initiated any social interaction and only made actions to continue a relationship with one person.

Which means I'm now an adult with one friend. I know building relationships is one of, if not the, hugest actions I can take to heal and be okay. It's just very difficult for me to enjoy being around anyone?

How do you relate and differentiate?

As little as the difficulty setting right in the middle, with 3 below and 3 above, I find it impossible to get the Harrapans, Mycenaeans, or Nubians because with as few as 5 AI empires, those specific civilizations almost always get picked first.

After some 20 failures I decided to investigate. With a memory editor I revealed the map on turn 1 to see what they were doing. Some AI players are able to place an outpost immediately on turn 1 despite the fact they should not have the resources to do so.

I can try different maps and settings, save the game on turn one and explore and reload so I know the best possible route to collect the boosts.

I can even CHEAT as early as turn 2 to give myself a bunch of influence and still lose an early pick. By turn 2 or 3, like clockwork, at minimum 3 of the 5 AI players have already picked an ancient civ.

I know AI need to cheat to be competitive, but it would really be nice if they didn't kick in at the start of the game, because never even having a chance to do what you'd like to do really sucks.

Maybe the civ they try to pick is related to the leader and you can increase your chances by changing those up?

Does anyone have anything to suggest?

EDIT: While the AI does cheat (and it has to) it seems that game speed plays an even larger role in this, and the faster game speeds seem to accelerate the AI further, different from how it affects the player. Playing Normal speed the AIs don't seem to pick until turns 9-12. Even going down one speed to "fast" means they will get picks at turn 2 or 3.

my_qualifications: 12th passout 2021 95.4% CBSE

Ok so a little context, I have interest in pursuing an electronics but with my current percentile I ain't getting it in my desired colleges(DTU/NSUT). My options rn are Electrical at DTU(which I might barely get) or Electrical at NSUT and Engineering physics (it's majors in electronics and minors in various fields including robotics) in DTU.

I also have the option for getting ECE in the newer IIITs like Kottayam or Dharwad (both have their own campuses) and Electrical in Thapar through first round of counselling which might be upgraded to ECE and upper branches in subsequent rounds.

I also have the option for the new course ECE(AI +ML) at NSUT east campus but I'm kinda sceptical about it since even though from the reviews, the faculty there is good but I'm not sure if I'll get the same opportunities as those in the main campus or DTU

Personally I have interest in Physics and EP in DTU is a blend of physics and electronics based on their curriculum and what I talked through with students, but my major dilemma is right now what to choose, incase I'm not able to improve my score in the last attempt I have for mains.

Also to add on, I am 99.999% fixated on doing masters abroad in related fields(research based) and leaving this country ASAP after my bachelor's so I don't care much about placement stuff after my degree in india.

Till now what my parents and family acquaintances(a few DCE graduates) are saying that I should take up DTU because of the brand value and the opportunities I'll get there.

Yet I have trouble in deciding because I fear I might not be able to pursue masters in ECE due to coursework relevancy.

I need help in deciding because Thapar refund date deadline is a little early and troble with IIIT being lack of alumni network

So I’ve been fairly sure that I’m mtf over the past several weeks that I’ve started thinking about it way more but one thing that’s sort of held me back was that I still sometimes doubt myself and sometimes I have difficulty fully seeing myself as a woman, which I assume is because of my appearance and voice and because I’m treated like a man to the people I haven’t come out to yet and whatever, but I just wanted to ask y’all if that was normal? Or do you/did you always have a fully codified self perception of yourself as your desired gender expression (for example if you’re a trans woman do you/did you always fully see yourself as a woman or do you/did you sometimes inadvertently see yourself as male)? I just worry because I don’t know how much doubt is normal for a trans person or if me sometimes reflexively perceiving myself as a man casts doubt on the validity of my identity as a woman?

Going through stuff and want to see my desired....

Fighting the urge to reach out to him

He has a girlfriend now

I'm gutted

It comes in waves, its like one moment i feel like I need him in my life and another moment i dont need him and its bothering me so much how lopsided i can be. Ive been desiring things of the flesh more than him and my laziness has grown. Im in need of a fixup and need help. Please pray for me. One thing im also struggling with is desiring truth, seeing the truth of my situation, not being afraid of the truth and of having my deeds seen in the light. Ive also been having trouble with seeking God in scripture and having it speak to me for healing, it may be because my pride and my desire to be healed which needs work.

I’m consistently getting 70-80% on the medium tests on TTP. How confident can I be that if I perform similarly on test day that I will reach my target score, all other factors aside.

70% kinda feels like failure in my opinion.

Haven’t taken a practice test since last year. I’ll probably have an idea to this question when I take it again, but just trying to get through the last 8 Quant chapters currently.

Would like to get a gauge on how others felt it compared to their test results and what scores they were getting on TTP.

That’s how I feel right now and it’s honestly the truth.

I am honestly like that girl on crazy ex girlfriend but less funny

I suck so much and if you say anything kind it will just enable me and be because I manipulated you and forced you to say it

I’m a complete creep and everyone should stay away. I can feel the disgust and fear and maybe a little pity everyone feels toward me

How could I possibly accept myself? like this? No way.

I have a nice little Sony receiver that I want to install a pair of speakers into, and run my turntable into it. I am having difficulty understanding what the hell impedance is and whether or not I can use the speakers I am eyeballing.

My receiver: Sony STR-DH190 2ch 100W + 100W

Impedance info on receiver: use 6-16Ω

Speakers that I want: Pair of Sony SS-CS5 6Ω , 100 W

In my receiver instruction manual, it says when you connect speakers to both the Speakers A and B terminals, connect the speakers with a nominal impedance of 12Ω or higher. I have two questions:

1. Will these speakers pair up with my receiver? I believe the answer is yes, but I want to confirm before I drop money on the speakers.
2. Should I set the nominal impedance on my receiver as 12Ω since 6Ω+6Ω=12Ω (each speaker provides 6 ohms of resistance? Should I set it higher?

Thank you in advance! I don't know if I'm overthinking everything, but I just don't want to drop money I don't have if I can avoid it.

Hi everyone, I hope this is the right place to talk about this issue!

My partner and I have recently started to plan seriously for our first child and it is becoming a tangible event in the upcoming year or so if all goes well.

Recently, I opened up about my friends (all women) about this new chapter of our lives coming ahead (parenthood for my partner and I) and was met with what felt like contempt, which surprised me. They went on to talk about how having kids is a waste of your life, and that women who don't have children accomplish so much more, etc.

I knew that they were not interested in having kids themselves, but as long time friends I thought we could respect each other on that aspect. It was so surprising to hear them make jokes about ''shitty suburban life'' and ''stopping your life for kids'' and etc. I felt like they'd be happy to hear about our new ''era'' of life at best or neutral at least.

Honestly I felt like it highlighted such a huge gap between us, which I was afraid was something would come up havng kids. I thought that we'd drift a bit after the actual birth but I'm taken aback to hear all that on the mere idea of wanting kids.

The open disregard for family-friendly life and mocking of ''suburban moms'' made me feel like I was stuck with a bunch of teenegers, something that never happend before with them. I tried to brush it off but since this event, I judge silently their stories of showing their chest in a bar or getting spur-of-the-moment tattoos, etc. I'm thinking to myself ''how long can we run in circles? '' , I feel like I want to move on with life in general.

Did it happen to anyone else?

What was your experience, and how did you manage to reconcile these worldviews?

Is it selfish and condesending to feel like I'd be holding myself back by hanging out with them?

Did your friendships ultimatly survived this kind of in-between phases?

What level of difficulty do you think the devs should be aiming for in thier content? Do you think improving the hardcore/midcore/causal content or creating slightly more of it would benefit the game as a whole? And depending on the difficulty you desire, what existing content would you think needs this difficulty most? (Raids, Alliance Raids, Dungeons, etc.)

I took a job at a small engineering company that is often times asked by clients to handle software projects as well. Even though at the time they were not equipped to take on these projects but did anyways relying on a few of the mechanical/electrical engineer's ability in python and vanilla JS. However in the spring it became clear to my boss that they needed a pure software guy like me who is full stack for this most recent project that they are working on so they hired me.

Now my boss is an engineer/physicist with no background at all in software development outside any peripheral knowledge he has picked up on from clients and subordinates from previous projects.However he has a clear and distinct UI in mind with specific functionality. I'm covered by comprehensive NDA's so I can't get into it exactly, but he isn't satisfied with any of the android framework's built in UI components like recyclerview+cardview, and he hasn't liked my attempts at extending functionality from already existing UI components. Basically to do what he wants I'm going to have to create a very complicated and lengthy custom layout with a few custom widget's.On top of that I need to make sure it is properly threaded and that latency from the cloud is considered in the end users experience to prevent jittery or nonloading UI.

However he has no visibility to that difficulty and to him it's just code that is similiar to the code I write everyday without any issues and so in meetings it's been getting a little heated. As he tries to point out why he thinks it's easy ("WEll you are already drawing rectangles there you just need more here and there and they need to do XYZ"). So I was hoping for some advice to explain in simple terms why creating a custom layout will be difficult and time consuming please!

Edit: Wow this blew up! Thanks so much for the responses they were very helpful!

I did this with the recently released tetris game, tried the first level on expert and after about thirty seconds realised I had zero chance. I figured it must be like pro tetris players only who could conceivably finish it on expert. After struggling through normal mode, I decided to try on expert and found it easier than my original run on normal. It's a nice way to see how much you have progressed after the time you put in and feels extremely satisfying.

"In what sense is it reasonable to ask another culture to adopt practices that ours has only just recently taken on? The arrogance in looking down on a whole culture that already bends over backwards to appease the west for not doing it even faster. We can't even meet them halfway and learn their language, and yet we set their standards for them?"

"Japan still makes the best designed video games in the world. I wish these western studios could catch up to them in that regard."

"Human beings are tribal in nature and exclusivity is desirable. I think Dark Souls' extreme difficulty is not that different from belonging to an expensive, exclusive club, but here difficulty is the currency."

"Accessibility really feels at the moment as a thing that AAA devs can wank themselves off at having the budget to do."

"Accommodating sign language hurts deaf children by accommodating deaf extremists who choose to teach American Sign Language as their child's primary language and refuse to have them fitted with cochlear implants (luckily, most deaf children are born to hearing parents)."

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This week at Bungie, we got guns over here.

We have a lot to cover this week so I am going to keep this intro short so we can get into it. We have a new emblem for you, new Trials Labs info, a long list of weapon changes, a new fashion magazine cover, more Bungie Bounties, and a partridge in a pear tree. Actually, scratch the last one, it’s only November.

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##Back to the Lab Again

This week we are revisiting Trials Labs with Capture Zone. A quick reminder, Capture Zone is still Elimination, with the following changes:

• 30 seconds after the round starts, a capture zone is enabled. Players can capture this zone to win the round, or just eliminate the other team like normal.
• The capture zone has a waypoint from round start, including a countdown timer, so everyone will know exactly when and where it will be.
• The capture zone starts in the middle of the map in the first round and changes locatio

That’s how I feel right now and it’s honestly the truth.

I suck so much

I’m a complete creep and desperate and crazy and insane and everything about me is extremely unhealthy and unsettling and everyone should stay away. I’m one of those stereotypical insane girls in the movies. I can feel the disgust and fear and even pity everyone feels for me. I don’t want to look into their eyes.

Nobody could possibly love me. Not even my own mother if she didn’t feel like she had to. She thinks I’m disgusting and selfish too.

How then could I love myself like this? how could I accept myself?