Jan Toorop, born in Java in 1858 when it was still a Dutch colony, soon came to Europe and studied at the Amsterdam Academy from 1881 before continuing his studies in Brussels, Paris and London. Receptive to the many aesthetic currents then running through Europe, he soon gave up Naturalism for Neo-Impressionism, before devoting...
After staying in the south of France, in Arles, and then at the psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy de Provence, Vincent Van Gogh settled in Auvers-sur-Oise, a village in the outskirts of Paris. His brother Théo, concerned with his health, incited him to see the Doctor Gachet, himself a painter and a friend of numerous artists,...
The London Houses of Parliament crop up regularly in Monet’s work in 1900. At first the artist observed them from the terrace of St Thomas Hospital, on the opposite bank, near Westminster Bridge. Monet’s London production, which includes views of Charing Cross bridge and Waterloo bridge, is in fact dominated by variations in...
This question was inspired by my hatred of Temporal Anti-Aliasing which, in many games nowadays, is poorly used as a performance bandaid. On lower resolutions it will smudge and blur the image and certain bad cases of TAA will cause visible ghosting....
I’m also a data analyst, so I sense sarcasm, but in case you’re not:
A big beef is excel can’t handle decimals larger than 6 places iirc. So if you copy/paste, it will delete your data accuracy. Is that not fucking insane? I mean think about that for a second… The most popular data table in the world will delete your data.
There’s a whole laundry list of other things I can complain about, but the bottom line is they bought it from another company, then stopped working on it. It’s Microsoft’s entire business model: Buy it, charge for it, ignore it.
I feel like Creed is this for me. I started really getting into it ironically, now I fucking love it unironically. My music snob friends will not even acknowledge it’s funny. Joke’s on them.
There are still things I use reddit for, but only because Google sucks so much now. Like if I’m looking for the best something to buy, I’ll add “reddit” at the end so I don’t get pages and pages of ads.
Otherwise, all my previously reddit-based entertainment comes from Lemmy, especially since all the activists seemed to have gone back. Lemmy is now fun again!
I would love the child of a Surfacebook with a Framework laptop; or A bare keyboard attached to a screen, that I could plug my phone (possibly running Phosh) and use it as a hardware for a laptop experience
So I was diagnosed with ADHD in my late thirties and before that I was a mess, job to job etc. then got lucky and worked for a company that afforded me the chance to study for my dream job without work pressure....
In my experience, there’s two ends of the developer spectrum.
At one end is uptight. They have all their shit on lockdown and the confidence that comes with that.
The other end is creative. They are developers because they enjoy creating, and development is a rare high-paying but creative outlet. They stumble through everything and get bored with reading too much documentation.
I have seen many cases of both of these, and another, underlying metric is their perception of their own intelligence.
It’s unfortunate, but a lot of them grew up in an environment where they were the smartest person in the room and were rarely challenged. Now, being in an environment with many other smart people, they only feel smart by making others feel less than.
They purposely show off their knowledge and when you give an idea they shit on it and make you feel stupid.
There’s also this thing where if you know a system really well, it’s hard to imagine someone not having the knowledge you have. This is just how memory works because our brains abstract things away and then we can’t recognize when others don’t have that abstraction yet.
This is all normal. Humanity has a lot of work to do to change this, but it’s embedded into how everything works, so it’s not going to happen in our lifetime. You can change you, but you can’t change anything else.
With that being said, here are some things I have learned, being from a similar background as you:
Recognize that you are smart or you wouldn’t be there.
Accept that others will make you feel stupid. The best response is to act like it doesn’t phase you.
Don’t make others feel stupid if you can help it.
Be enthusiastic. Any shortcomings you may have, will be forgiven if you show up with a big smile on your face.
Talk to your managers. Ask them what would make you better at your job, and ruthlessly pursue bettering yourself. This will give you a lot of confidence.
You will lose touch with your old party friends. They will die young, and you will feel sad. When you do get a chance to catch up, talk to them a lot and consider journaling it. This will help a lot when you lose them.
You will feel guilty because you are doing so much better than them. Accept it and move on and try not to brag about your new life.
You will feel out of place because your new friends don’t have the same background as you. Accept it and move on. Nobody else is worried about it.
Your new friends will probably not be as interesting as your old friends, and you will feel yourself becoming less interesting. This is the price we pay for our new life. If you want to stay interesting find a way to be in touch with other creative people: musicians, teachers, English majors.
I lost my best friend in February. It fucking sucks.
He was a big partier. Once he hit his late 30s he ballooned to probably over 300. He took a nap one day and had a heart attack in his little attic room of his friend’s house, where he had lived for 10 years. Our big friend group from back in the day is wondering who will go next.
A realist painter who often depicted his native NYC, Dinnerstein was a precursor to Bo Bartlett’s heavy-handed symbolism in the American Realist Movement....
Desire and Satisfaction - Jan Toorop (1893) (cdn.mediatheque.epmoo.fr)
Jan Toorop, born in Java in 1858 when it was still a Dutch colony, soon came to Europe and studied at the Amsterdam Academy from 1881 before continuing his studies in Brussels, Paris and London. Receptive to the many aesthetic currents then running through Europe, he soon gave up Naturalism for Neo-Impressionism, before devoting...
The Church at Auvers - Van Gogh (1890) (cdn.mediatheque.epmoo.fr)
After staying in the south of France, in Arles, and then at the psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy de Provence, Vincent Van Gogh settled in Auvers-sur-Oise, a village in the outskirts of Paris. His brother Théo, concerned with his health, incited him to see the Doctor Gachet, himself a painter and a friend of numerous artists,...
London, the Houses of Parliament, Sunlight Opening in Fog - Monet (1904) (cdn.mediatheque.epmoo.fr)
The London Houses of Parliament crop up regularly in Monet’s work in 1900. At first the artist observed them from the terrace of St Thomas Hospital, on the opposite bank, near Westminster Bridge. Monet’s London production, which includes views of Charing Cross bridge and Waterloo bridge, is in fact dominated by variations in...
What is something you dislike but still begrudgingly use?
This question was inspired by my hatred of Temporal Anti-Aliasing which, in many games nowadays, is poorly used as a performance bandaid. On lower resolutions it will smudge and blur the image and certain bad cases of TAA will cause visible ghosting....
Well, time to radically change who I am! (lemmy.ml)
Question to the ones that fully left Reddit
How has it been for you? Do you get FOMO feeling sometimes?...
What is the device you want, but that does not exist?
I would love the child of a Surfacebook with a Framework laptop; or A bare keyboard attached to a screen, that I could plug my phone (possibly running Phosh) and use it as a hardware for a laptop experience
I’ve been somewhat of a fuck up in life, now doing better but still struggle with things. More details below.
So I was diagnosed with ADHD in my late thirties and before that I was a mess, job to job etc. then got lucky and worked for a company that afforded me the chance to study for my dream job without work pressure....
What are some good Subs on Lemmy that we should know about?
Subs? Not sure if that’s the right term on here.
The neverending discussion about pasta, olive oil and just putting enough water... 10g salt, 100g pasta, at least 1L water e basta così ! No oil or you ruin the pasta/sauce synergy. 😃 (lemmings.world)
Bethesda - Harvey Dinnerstein (2008) (www.otdowntown.com)
A realist painter who often depicted his native NYC, Dinnerstein was a precursor to Bo Bartlett’s heavy-handed symbolism in the American Realist Movement....