Anastasia Lovelace

If you're going to cheat, may I recommend Ruby?

1. It's less likely to be your interviewer's primary language.

2. DO/END easier to copy than indentation.

3. DO/END easier to copy than {}.

Interviewing new grad software engineers was a lot more fun when it was "watching smart people think through a problem" and not "pretending to be oblivious while someone badly copies code from ChatGPT"

Bob is measuring the angles in a triangle. Angle A is 42.7 degrees, Angle B is 61.3 degrees, Angle C is 76 degrees. Side A is 9.4, B is 12.14, find C.

A) 138,835,373
B) 0.0000005
C) 13.44
D) Aubergine

Lots of sines, cosines and Pythagorean's theorem. Not enough reading the question and answers

My left lumbar epidural is tomorrow 😁

Then in August I can get my right radiofrequency ablation done.
Then in 3 months another left lumbar. And in 6 months, I can finally get BILATERAL RFA.

How many times can your job say "We're 100% not transphobic, we just accidentally did this thing that APPEARS transphobic, and we don't have an alternative explanation, and it caused you financial damage and anxiety. Sorry you mistook our blatant transphobia for blatant transphobia?"

A Lot.

This explains why the parade looked exactly like my high school marching band the year they didn’t let us march for homecoming because it would “ruin the field”.

It's (partially) because they think all women are bottoms. 🙃

We have security guys who think they’re cops. We have cops who think they’re soldiers. We have soldiers who think we are the enemy. Guns beget cowards.

Things that make me irrationally annoyed:

Naming input parameters after test cases.

`def myFun(list1):`

These are the same psychos who set their volume to 81%.

Those were maenads, clearly.

Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.

So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.

They opened the drawbridge to block them.

So they marched to a different bridge.

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I like when trans people tell me I'm fake and not really trans and I look like a man.

I mean I don't, it hurts my feelings.

But it's good to remember that "being an asshole" and gender are independent.

IID? Sure, ~50% of people are assholes and ~1% are chaos goblins.

If you’re not a homophobe, not a transphobe, and generally are able to treat strangers with respect, hooray! Please join us.

If you are one of those things, or can’t treat people with respect: you don’t belong, no matter how many letters you collect.

I’ve seen lots of posts about who belongs at Pride and who counts as LGBTQIA+.

Everyone*.

It’s not like there’s scarcity of resources and we need to buy up all the letters before the straights get them.

Gatekeeping is for losers. Welcome to the alphabet mafia comrades. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

*No cops

Feeling down today. I was interviewing for a job that was literally perfect. Four rounds, I thought they went pretty well. But they have moved forward with another candidate 😩

This has been a terrible job search lol

Had some Ema Datshi for lunch. Pretty sure they were trying to kill me 🔥🔥

I love spicy food. This was the color of mapo dofu and was functionally bowl-shaped bear mace over rice.

Made my tooth feel a lot better, though. Like when my grandfather used to pinch me to cure headaches 😂

I have a toothache 😞.

Good news: got an emergency dentist appointment in 12 hours.

Bad news: 2 hour drive each way 😂