"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

Null after talking about Indians

 

[Spergichu]

The best advice I can offer for your university hunt is to look at schools that have a large population of transfer students from community colleges. These are the schools that have pretty lax admission requirements for transfer students, in some cases being more lax than the requirements for general admission. You having your Associate's puts you ahead of most other transfer applicants because what happens is that the majority of transfer students will take a class or two at a community college then use those credits to take advantage of the easier admission requirements. By the time I transferred from my community college to my uni, I only had one more class I needed to take to finish my Associate's. Both the admissions officer and the advisor I spoke to during the admissions process were much more interested in the fact I'd be transferring with a degree than what my GPA was. (Which was pretty low, ngl) I'd recommend looking into my uni but I checked their online programs and they didn't offer any of the degrees you were interested in.

 

[Jomi]

Just as an Ebay fyi, it sounds like you have a favorable set of facts, though consider the following:

1) If you haven't threatened the seller with Ebay intervention to convince them to accept return and refund you, start there, since they of all people should know you have them over a barrel as a dissatisfied buyer. They might relent, they also might not, but it's a heck of a lot faster than the Ebay assisted refund process if they do.
---1a) If the seller seems to be stonewalling, they are; they trying to run out the clock on being able to file a dispute with Ebay. Just make sure you get that dispute with Ebay in under the limit if you detect stonewalling and that's all you need to do.
2) When talking to Ebay, especially emphasize the deceptive part and also make sure to use the seller's own words against them when possible. It's amazing what sellers say in PMs sometimes trying to convince you to drop it, thinking it won't be used against them.
3) The Ebay dispute process can take time, a lot of it. It may involve you attempting further good faith negotiations with the seller first which can really drag things out. My experience was dispute to refund took about a month and a bit all told, with the seller stonewalling. Response time from Ebay people seemed to be measured in days.
---3a) Ebay's website will sometimes balk over tracking information you attempt to provide for packages being sent back to the seller as part of the dispute, if it will not allow you to add tracking information ensure support is informed of this and what the actual tracking info is so it's in the system. A lack of tracking information can trigger a timer on your dispute nobody can do anything about apparently.
---3b) Directly related to the above, if the system tries to close things automatically due to time limits for anything related to your dispute on the backend, or does close things, complain to support to make sure there's a papertrail about it. That happened to me and the complaint ensured they didn't just let it drop with no refund, though there may be a worrying few days where it seems like a complaint got closed and nobody's doing anything about it.

Yes, dealing with ebay is a Brazil-like administrative nightmare of waiting, broken english, and systems nobody working there can affect or understand. But it will eventually spit out a refund if you have a decent case.

He bought fake gold from a fake brown Englishman. Easily bamboozled, even if he could effectively use this guide he doesn't deserve the help.

 

[ItCouldBeWorse]

Since Section 230 is a common topic on MATI and this possibly being of interest to Josh I have decided to put this here.

Recently, I have watched a video by the br*tish/irish(?) e-celeb Tentacrul (Known for being the guy who complained about Musescore so much that he became their design lead as well as one of the people blamed for introducing telemetry to Audacity) about the website SanctionedSuicide.org - a site meant for suicide discussion which also openly harbors a lot of people who both encourage and give instructions on how to commit the act.

The video mostly deals with the site itself, however in a later section he says that Section 230 is directly responsible for allowing websites which promote suicide to be hosted. Tentacrul implies in a very tongue-in-cheek way that 230 should be either heavily amended or abolished and that "we will be hearing a lot about 230 soon." He goes on to bring a few parents to tell their sob stories, a congresswoman who proposed the Stop Online Assisted Suicide Forums Act and finally a House of Commons MP who says that removing the "Legal but harmful" clause from the Online Safety Bill (which was a free pass to block anything the government doesn't like) was a bad decision.

While I do get the "core message" of the video, the shenanigans he pulls near the end completely butcher it. Abolishing 230 just because people have the ability to look up ways to commit suicide or participate in communities full of psychos who encourage suicide and mental illness is just stupid. I don't even think the question of what exactly causes depression or suicidal tendencies in people is posed in the video, almost like he insists that banning this website is all that needs to be done to solve the whole debacle. Massively fucking over the structure of the free Internet over this is a retarded move and I guarantee will do nothing to solve the actual problems which plague society and push people towards ending it all.

 

[Sumptinsfuckey]

@Null Non-ironically. How do I learn to code? For context I'm a 45 year old OTR truck driver, so going to a physical school isn't an option.


BTW university of pheonix online is accreddited and 100% online.

 

[Retink Retunk]

@Null Non-ironically. How do I learn to code? For context I'm a 45 year old OTR truck driver, so going to a physical school isn't an option.


BTW university of pheonix online is accreddited and 100% online.

Free Code Camp is a decent online resource but it's mostly html and java. Though it's designed for people in your position. I did some of their courses for things I knew already and they were alright.

If you want to learn a niche language, I found it easy to pick up Haskell from here: http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters

But whichever you choose, pick some projects you want to do, and then work towards building those things as that actually applies the skills. Free Code Camp offers projects for you to do at the end which is nice.

 

[GenociderSyo]

Humble bundle has a coding bundle at moment.

 

[DavidS877]

Non-ironically. How do I learn to code? For context I'm a 45 year old OTR truck driver, so going to a physical school isn't an option.

You just do it.

Sorry, that was unhelpful.

Start with the basics, in my opinion today that's probably Python. It's a shit language, but it's easy.

Simple: Download Python IDLE and start typing things in and making it go.

Medium: Download virtualbox and install a Linux Virtual Machine or install Windows Subsystem for Linux(depending on your computer) and play with that, Python and Visual Studio Code.

Find some youtube or other free materials and see what they say. Oh, look, even Microsoft has one: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/intro-to-python-development/

Now, everyone is going to pile on and suggest their favorite language of the day or whatever. But unless you understand the absolute basics first doing tutorials like "Build your first website with react and MongoDB" may as well be written in Martian. Sure, you could follow them and get something working but being able to cargo cult isn't going to get a job, or at least not a job you want.

And by basics I mean: Control Structures, Variables, Data Structures, Input, Output, etc.

The number of people I've interviewed for tech jobs over the years who have said "I know X" and when I ask them how X actually works and I get blank stares is too damn high.

I'll always prefer the person who can learn X because they've learned A,B,C,D over the person who knows X but has no idea what's behind it.

(Why yes, I have been doing interviews of shitty candidates at work lately.)

 

[Jomi]

I've just been reading some Twotter, apparently the Keem-trans alliance was bullshit. I missed the stream tonight so maybe it's been discussed already idk.

 

[Temperance]

Jewsh sniffing out some fake silver coins:

He enjoys Jägermeister and once drunkenly dropped his spaghetti threw a fistful of coins at a woman:

Unrelated, but I'll be sad when Ralph is gone. I appreciate how he organizes hilariously disastrous real-life events (next one in May!), as opposed to most lolcows who just sperg out on social media.

 

[Drama Fan]

Null has struggled to differentiate between Indians and African Americans in fictional media twice now: Life is Strange True Colors and now Velma. IDK why I remember that, but it's funny that it happened twice.

Does anyone know the outro song? It sounded like Exuma, but I'm not sure if that's who it was or what the song was. I really liked it though.

 

[Jomi]

Jewsh sniffing out some fake silver coins:

......

Unrelated, but I'll be sad when Ralph is gone. I appreciate how he organizes hilariously disastrous real-life events (next one in May!), as opposed to most lolcows who just sperg out on social media.

Ralph was a constant feature of the show when I initially discovered it. I must say I'm very glad, because the more I delved into the archives, the more I missed the Ralph drama, the fat chicks are really no substitute. If Josh had been talking about that fat Canadian woman (Shawty? Shotty?) at the time I first tuned in there's definitely no chance I would have stuck around to hear what he was saying.

 

[Pomniman]

Jäeger would be great if it wasn't so syrupy sweet. It's the kind of thing you drink when you're 19 or 20.

 

[Triple Flutz]

I remember coding my own Neopets userlookups because I wanted to make my own little terrible MS paint graphic and choose where the text box would go and what font and color would be used, and none of the publicly available ones really worked for me. My account's long gone because of the purges they did some years ago, but the talk from today is making me miss my little baby CSS and HTML online lessons.

 

[macrodegenerate]

@Null Non-ironically. How do I learn to code? For context I'm a 45 year old OTR truck driver, so going to a physical school isn't an option.


BTW university of pheonix online is accreddited and 100% online.

The 4 year degree program to become a programer is a scam, and you owe it to yourself and your future profession to stop engaging with it. At best it gets you credentials, but you can make up for that with certs from Oracle, AWS or A+. I'm not going to lie to you, Null has oversimplified the training required to get into this field as a professional. It will be hard to get good from 0, but I strangely want to believe in a man who manages to keep the world running.

As a coder, your job will be to solve problems using a programming language as a tool. Thus the easiest way to learn is to come up with a simple problem barely outside what you think you can do and solve it. Think of something easy now that would make your a day a little better even if it already exists. You will be working towards making it. Something dumb like a fuel expense calculator on a webpage.

You are starting from zero, so I would recommend that you add HTML/JS to your toolbox first. They will help you build a web interface that you can load in chrome and play with. Tutorials can be found here.

https://www.w3schools.com Search HTML and JS

Building that first application may make you feel retarded and slow, but we were all there once. JS is important because it will get you into backend stuff like Express.

If you can make that dumb thing, then you can further advance your skillset to get hired. Look at listings on Indeed to see what skills are in demand in your area or remotely and work towards getting them. Pick a route from the website below and go down it to get those skills. Web-dev is the most common.

Developer Roadmaps - roadmap.sh

Community driven roadmaps, articles and guides for developers to grow in their career.

roadmap.sh

Research certificates to prove your competency and acquire them. Getting your first job is the hardest, but if you really put your nose to the grindstone you'll make it. We're all gonna make it

Editne of the benefits of the 4 year program is an emphasis on data structures and algorithms. MIT has a free courses on those which I would highly recommend you read up on.

 

[macrodegenerate]

And by base number of people I've interviewed for tech jobs over the years who have said "I know X" and when I ask them how X actually works and I get blank stares is too damn high.

I'll always prefer the person who can learn X because they've learned A,B,C,D over the person who knows X but has no idea what's behind it.

(Why yes, I have been doing interviews of shitty candidates at work lately.)

Are you looking for senior level positions or entry? If senior, is talent really that hard to find these days. Are you sure you aren't looking for unicorns?

 

[Retink Retunk]

He enjoys Jägermeister and once drunkenly dropped his spaghetti threw a fistful of coins at a woman:

When spooked by a female, the Jewsh will deploy it's natural defense of surprise pocket shekels.

(No bully, this was 600 hours in MS Paint)

 

[SargonF00t]

Nice show

 

[An automatic clown]

About Southern New Hampshire University

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I believe they offer 100% online degrees.
Speaking of online degrees, does anyone know of an online accredited university or college in the US that accepts transfer credits and offers 100% online engineering degrees ? Mechanical engineering preferably. I never finished my undergrad in pol sci so I have a bunch of basic class credits I could transfer and I'd like a BA in engineering.

 

[DavidS877]

Are you looking for senior level positions or entry? If senior, is talent really that hard to find these days. Are you sure you aren't looking for unicorns?

We hire all levels. Generally the entry level people are most honest. The "Senior" people who have been doing the same thing for x years sometimes make it pretty obvious why they've been doing the same thing for x years. And then there are some who really are outstanding. It also doesn't help that what we hire for is not "Buzzword Compliant" so the people who only know about the new hotness are not often useful to us.