@CaptainRant ha at least it was to the point instead of cryptic

I get some weird underhanded comments like "you have too many projects because you're trying to do things that are too challenging for you" when the guy couldn't even understand a single project I had... then sent me html weekly newsletter links like my 20 websites means I don't know how html works

@CaptainRant didn't like context switching either. my ADHD or something makes it TERRIBLE. having to switch from something I'm focused on to some nonsense is literally the most painful thing

I saw some people advocate that they need focus time or set themselves on busy on slack to denote when they're in focus mode, and it seemed to be respected

for me I can handle a little bit of shallow conversation without dropping everything but if someone wants to have an extended conversation for 20 minutes out of nowhere where I have to load up their context it was pretty bad...

I think "deep focus" is an acceptable excuse at workplaces though and they might understand the need for that. I only had issues with interruptions when I was in an open office and management thought it was so great anyone could drop by to ask me about anything... text doesn't knock me out but someone physically wanting my attention does 😭

also i'd only do emails morning and before I'd leave, slack also

@CaptainRant oh I had a really bad slack problem also... that situation didn't work out. my lead went at me saying I needed to be aware of everything that was going on in every slack channel... but I didn't even have context for what project each slack channel was about so that was useless and management backed the criticism which made no sense...

it's good they communicate importance. I've been in situations where that is not communicated and then I got blamed for it again. sigh

if people from lesser projects ping you mention you're currently working on the more important one. when I had multiple managers and a less important person wanted my help I said "I'd have time to do this at X but if it's important and you want it sooner you should take to Y manager whose work I'm currently focusing on", so then they can fight it amongst themselves like that, and that worked to keep people happy at the time

@CaptainRant I don't like agile. too many meetings

I got free reign before management stepped in. just go browse and assign yourself as the dev on the ticket. you didn't need to have meetings. you could just do this anytime

then I'd assign a tester to the ticket when I was done. and documented everything in the ticket. and if they had questions they dropped by to ask.

meetings themselves sound like the worst way to do anything. everyone just wants to escape the meeting and everybody is awkward, and there's always someone who wants to tell everyone else what to do or try to force some kind of "this is the way we do things here" which might not fit everybody. like I can't remember what I did yesterday. but I can write notes of what I'm doing and reference them. once an event is passed why would I devote mental energy to keeping it around? I just move on.

but in agile you have to devote mental energy or you're viewed badly which is ridiculous

@CaptainRant well for example my contract said I can't go work for a company doing the same stuff. but legally non competes apply within 150 miles here... and they can't bar me from being a web developer at another webshop. that would be ridiculous

and for non competes to be enforceable they also typically need to pay you severance. so for example my contract said I couldn't work somewhere with the same skills for 2 years. for that 2 years to apply they have to give me severance for that to be legally binding. otherwise the court throws it out because you can't just make a former employee unhirable anywhere else when all they're doing is using generic industry standard tools. the non compete was too broad and utter bullshit. I read it and it made it sound like I was to be a slave and if I ever left I would have to work as like a waiter that meet my bills and can't do a tech job for 2 years, and there was no compensation for it at all

@SoldierOfCode oh I don't think that's a virus... same thing as in humans. if it spreads by parasitical insects then it's like what tanks immune systems of humans that gives them "flu-like" symptoms (like aphids are basically vampires on plants)

kicker I never get the flu around people with the flu... but for example I get "the flu" if I over-exercise. I also get "the flu" if I eat too much sugar... and AIDS people always have "the flu", but it's "not the real flu" they claim. think this is just your immune system malfunctioning and they call it "the flu" when no such things exists...

only thing I ever caught from a sick person was a stomach bug (which are bacteria caused). but never a flu or cold. and I used to get flus and colds a lot as a kid... but never when others got them which was strange

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breeding for health will be the same as "breeding for virus resistance". ur more likely to breed out inbreeding for example. don't clone ur plants if you have fields (even tho easy)

I always found that funny

@Demolishun yeah I know there are databases that claim to have sequenced viruses but they can't actually sequence viruses... they sequence floating proteins and then try to "guess" how they all fit together

the guy I was watching who was smart and I like found a database with the covid virus and realized stuff like "whoa this is the part of the virus that does X" but I don't think that's right...

I never did finish that video (was like 16 hour Livestream). dunno why he was even trying to sequence covid. kind of wonder how it all ended raaghh

if you're put on many projects and overwhelmed, focus on one project at a time until you acclimate to them

also have management tell you the priority of projects, tasks, etc (and their schedules, like if they have release plans or demos for clients etc), so you know which is important for them and when

and if they're irrational then schedule out your projects/work and share your schedule with all the stakeholders so they can be aligned

I had 3 managers once and like 4 projects. I liked it though but I am ADHD. I also collected the projects slowly over time instead of being thrown into them all at once... once you know a project it's not overwhelming but if they're all new your brain could mistake one project for another. organization skills might be required for this but I never lacked them

I'd be fine with this

my company barred me from working on other projects... to go work on a project that had no work

I also hate it when I just have one ticket. why can't I just take tickets out as I want to. I'll assign myself to them and do them as a batch, because I generally pick ones in the same area of code. it's so highly efficient. why the hell did we have whole meetings so they can give me 1 ticket to do over 3 days??? and it's like some super simple REST endpoint or something omg

and if I burn out on one project or there's no work, then my time can be overflowed to other projects...

but noooo. irrationally management regarded me as "too important". hate it

well they also have to pay lawyers and file court documents (and pay for them) and then go to court to then prove that those notes are theirs and not yours

and the courts won't penalize you very much (they'll throw it out actually because that's a joke) unless you made profits off that information

and just cuz they write something into a contract doesn't mean it's moral, or even legally binding. that's the kicker. they will write things in there that are actually not legally enforceable... and they won't tell you because you believing it is in their best interest

if you want a book to really help you with the stress of this nonsense, because I used to actually get really stressed about the irrational and self-contradictory prison-cage of these contracts, this explains our current world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

probably a joke to get us interested and nothing happened. trollololol

but I'm the 1%!

@CaptainRant I think you have the personality of being a perfectionist so you're stressing yourself a lot more about this than the average person would (and are probably susceptible to this sort of "persuasion" from people)

I also disagree with earlier posters who said you can't train yourself into skills. you can. and math skills in particular are a very good thing to train yourself in because math is universal in the universe so it would be an extremely useful skill no matter what you end up doing in life afterwards

younger people have an easier time with math because their brains learn faster, so in certain cultures they try to capitalize on neuroplasticity of childhood to teach them math skills quickly (and then it also makes organizing later concepts easier). in the western world that is not something they do though. so it's not that you're being left behind, but you have very high ideals, which is fine but I want to make you aware of it

@SoldierOfCode show?

@Demolishun do you have a link?

I saw a very smart guy find the virus in a "database", and try to reverse engineer it like code, but... is what's in there what's really in your body?

and viruses not existing lines up with sooooo much

@CaptainRant both!

*ADHDs* yes

i just tried to teach a fellow dev some logic and as always he's resistant to it because he would rather not take blame than become more intelligent. he literally came to me saying he wanted me to view him as intelligent... but seems he doesn't want to put in the work I guess

I think it's more important to him to seem blameless

I think with people I ran into in the past it's always something like this. they just simple don't want to learn. they could but they just don't want to. I've never seen someone not learn if they actually genuinely wanted to. just find everything you don't know and study it, play with it. eventually it will become second-nature to you

I also find it wild when people judge me for not knowing something automatically. you have to actually teach me it. point to it existing. answer my questions about it. just telling me there's something fundamentally wrong with me as a human because I don't already know it is so toxic. surprisingly it happens in this field

@TrayKnots "one nation under blackmail" by Whitney Webb was a good compendium

@TrayKnots Epstein was with the CIA and mossad crowd

you only get into those orgs if you are 140+ IQ, it's part of the assessment test

they're not always competent. actually they're often very nuts as people -- their emotions are wicked because intelligence means you can outthink your friends and therapists and remain in delusions much longer than others, without reality showing you humility on the matter because you can calculate the future a bit better

I'm not sure if it would require competence persay. get someone to diddle a child, tell them you have video of it. put that in a cabinet somewhere. where's the incompetence going to turn up? even if you lose the video they still think you have it. and fear is a motivator that even the incompetent make sure to follow -- it's very primal and overwhelming.

I do know a lot of places you can report pedo activity to seem to just never go after it also. we don't need the Epstein client list -- the evidence already exists actually

the funny thing is the most toxic dev I met was in such a person rating system and simply just removed anyone politically if they didn't mark her as having good people skills on the reports to the corp...

once you start officially rating this stuff it becomes a gameable system and I definitely did not want to be playing that game. I didn't even mark her badly I just omitted handing in the report because I was busy

happens on Android also

@TrayKnots you're only allowed to rise to power if you first fuck kids and someone has records of it so they can blackmail and leverage you

it's called an insurance policy, so you'll be loyal to them

and only then are you allowed to rise

so basically every politician is a pedo. and if you're not a pedo they won't let you rise to power as a politician, because they can't control you so you're a problem character and should be slandered

pretty sure everyone just lies on those things. nobody knows what they're doing anyway and they won't learn

I saw one of those in person and thought I was tripping

@lorentz that's very complicated and not the same

I'm not here to deal with someone's compatibility fuckup anyway. I paid money to have a specific experience, not do more work and be pissed. I can do that at my work job already. don't make recreation into a job. you pay them money to do the job and if they're not doing it then they're not worth the money

@lorentz it implicitly tells you what it's going to do

I time my gaming times with how serious an update is going to be for a game for example

I won't necessary stay on an older version, but I'm more likely to start playing a game when they release a major breaking change. then I create a new world and I'm good to go for a few months until I get bored again
but if then they decide to do changes in a minor patch I'd be pissed... cuz then the world I committed to is outdated so I'd just quit playing and probably not come back when major releases happen because of the bad taste and their unpredictability

(I do similar things when choosing when to build projects)

@retoor *dated a jew... he was in debt because of how much he couldn't stop spending money... maxed out credit cards immediately as he got them, even got credit lines and did that extra fast also*

but how else to format the idea if not "green text style"