The world seems more like a dystopia every day. It's another arms race, with AI being used by candidates and being used by corporations. Seems like the only way to win is not to play.
Personally, I would recommend to every young person (especially if they are smart) to find new ways to "hack the system" rather than "hack AI". Namely, find ways to work independently away from large corporations. Do something independent, and work at a large corporation only if necessary and only for a short amount of time to put away some money.
I get the feeling that's going to get more common. Bots on bots, so the human just gives up and hangs out in-person. Like, start going to meetup groups and job fairs. s
already seeing that with dating apps (as discussed heavily on HN).
> Personally, I would recommend to every young person (especially if they are smart) to find new ways to "hack the system"
9:30 wake up and check Slack. Most likely nothing on fire. If there's a message from someone important, reply immediately
11:00 at the office
12:00 lunch
13:00 finish lunch
14:30 coffee break with a coworker
15:00 going home
16:00 - 16:30 clean the bathroom while listening to the daily meeting
16:30 afternoon nap
Not planning to change my job. I focus on being perceived as a nice and cooperative person by managers, which is surprisingly easy considering how bad most people are. I used to be bad too, but I'm learning. I use my free time to watch porn because that's what I want to do in life. I'm also following the FIRE movement, my goal is to fail upwards in the corporate world until I have enough savings to retire to Bulgaria and watch porn all day long every day.
I would rather spend my time doing what I want instead of wasting it being where I don't want to be. My advice was for people who are like minded, not cogs who don't mind wasting the best years of their life.
I accidentally corrected someones use of a word on here and got downvoted so hard I was scared to comment for months. I guess what I'm saying is I'm surprised this very honest comment from hours ago never went grey. to be clear: I am just surprised.
When I was a kid I loved xtube. Sadly, the website got nuked during the entire Visa/MasterCard drama, but for a teenager going through puberty, that was basically a godsend from the heavens. That was "the old internet". I still have lots of videos downloaded from there.
When I started working remotely I spent most days on Fetlife. This is not a porn site, rather "facebook but about sex". If you're new, you can waste lots and lots of time browsing through various topics like "what's your perfect cuckold fantasy".
I'm very much into furries, so I visit furaffinity.net daily. Every evening it shows me new artworks from subscribed artists.
There used to be tumblr blogs with furries, but then tumblr hurt itself in confusion, and everyone and their daddy moved to twitter. Twitter as social media sucks balls, but there's all peculiarities to be found there, and it's searchable from google. I built my own client for browsing porn on twitter and the experience is just mwah.
Some people I follow on twitter also have JustForFans accounts. That's paid but when I'm horny and monthly subscription to one artist costs less than coffee with croissant in my local cafe and I can view everything that given user has ever posted... yeah, I'll buy the subscription and eat potatoes for breakfast. Of course I only pay for porn that is unique in some way.
Going back to furries, there's kemono.su. Questionable morals, in recent times awful download speeds, but if I want that drawing of a dragon cock in 8k and I'm too cheap to actually pay for it, then there's no better place.
Everything that has user content is a porn site, in particular dating sites, also sites that revolve around some fetishes. Go and explore.
Finally, I highly recommend having an offline porn collection, with backups obviously. I've been building mine for years, so there's always something to choose from.
For me, the issue with an offline porn collection is that I tend to watch more with it around, similar to how I can avoid junk food in general but once it gets into my home I will end up bingeing. I'm pretty vanilla in my porn tastes, hqporner.com, noodlemagazine.com, and pornohd.porn have been the best streaming sites I've come across so far.
I interviewed with FetLife way back when, if I recall correctly, their entire stack is on erlang which is what attracted me to them. Erlang and remote, back in the mid/late 2010s
What else did you learn from the interview process? Based on your interaction with them, do they seem like a cool company? Obviously I know that a lot of time has passed, but there's a chance that things didn't change radically.
I didn't make it past the first phone screen. I was a fresh college grad (about 2 years experience) with only java and php. I can't remember much about it, other than the recruiter beforehand making sure I knew what type of company they were and that I was okay with it
The world is full of possibilities. The negation of a fixed path is not a fixed path: in other words, there are "creative" solutions to life that just require some thought. Everyone trying something a little different tailored to their own personality will not be doing like others.
All it means in the corporate world is who you know matters far more than what you know. AI doesn't make this less so it makes it far more so.
Even if this "works", you still most likely will lose out to the friend of a friend of the hiring manager with a personal reference.
So you need to do this and randomly hope that no one has a personal reference or you are so amazing you can overcome the personal reference. Highly unlikely.
Personally, I would recommend to every young person (especially if they are smart) to find new ways to "hack the system" rather than "hack AI". Namely, find ways to work independently away from large corporations. Do something independent, and work at a large corporation only if necessary and only for a short amount of time to put away some money.
Get out while you can.