Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 68

@Ricardus Ah.

@Ricardus Is there anything about what I said that makes you say that, or just observing my feed over time?

I lost my prejudices against JavaScript due to all the web development I've had to do. If you fully embrace all the new syntax in ES6 and later, it's almost unrecognisable.

@bhtooefr @Sir_Boops Now I want to which programming languages are represented on Mars.

We don't really know how the laws of physics operate on the scale of galaxies. Perhaps dark matter is just a law we haven't taken into account. Perhaps dark matter will cease to exist once the Grand Unified Theory is found, because gravity turned out to work subtly different from what we expected.

@Ricardus There's stuff there that's vaguely aspie-like but not to the degree that I'm above the diagnostic threshold. I seem to be in that uncomfortable spot where I can just about function around other people, but not happily or very consistently.

@Ricardus Aspberger would be a convenient explanation model but I'm not too sure about it. I can handle people even if they are exhausting to be around. I'm very detail oriented, but seeing the whole isn't hard to me. I'm a hard core nerd, but I have a sense of aesthetics, music and art too. However, despite my versatility, I'm extremely particular about the numerous interests I do have. Also, I freak out inside when plans are disrupted.

I've learned that I can't prioritise keeping a job over my job satisfaction. That option doesn't exist for me. This means that I never bend over backwards just to keep a job. It's a rather bold and fearless existence.

I'm quite lousy at doing things I hate on the long term. I can't function like that. I just implode and get fired if I try to overpower it and pretend that everything is fine. Did so repeatedly in my 20s. Now I just talk to my manager and tell him that the job isn't working for me, and if he can't change anything, we agree that I should resign, and that's that.

You could say that "Having a job that you don't like is how the rest of us get by, princess." and my reply to that would be "All right, so I'll just go shoot myself then, because I can't live like that."

Something tells me that, with all the stuff I seem to hate, perhaps I shouldn't be working in IT at all. It's just that I don't think I could find anything else to do with my CV, and what the hell would that be anyway?

I'm in a tricky spot, because I'm tired of development, but when I look at other IT job listings, it's always a mixture of lacking qualifications and knowing that I'd hate the job anyway.

I don't want to maintain Microsoft systems or Cisco networks, and that's basically what Norwegian IT infrastructure consists of, and the rest is AWS and Google Cloud, and I hate those too.

Also, there's stuff like Citrix and Aruba that I'm mostly clueless about.

https://youtu.be/JdxkVQy7QLM

The Pachebel Rant

Old but gold.

The fact that Comic Sans was developed for Microsoft Comic Chat makes it even worse.

It seems that nobody on the planet knows how to sell, not even the people who do so for a living. I've asked them how they find their leads and they don't seem to have a method other than making phone calls and possessing charisma.

@nobody Oh, in my case, I'm treating different floors as their own RF spaces, and the idea is to import floor plans and draw obstructions on them in a bird's eye perspective. It's a 2D simulator in other words.

@vfrmedia The floor plans can help you with finding all the rooms in a house with many narrow corridors, and they give you a very vague hint about whether or not a wall is concrete or not (they are usually much thicker than woodframe + drywall / particle board / plywood walls). Also, you can mark some spots to try access points in, and write down dBm measurements so you can compare them. Not completely useless, in other words, but not as useful as I had hoped either.

@nobody It's a simple simulator made in JS and it basically performs ray casting to detect obstructions and calculate the loss in dB based on how much material the signal must pass thorough, with loss coefficients for the various materials taken from scientific papers.