Please share your triumph of the day

[james]

 

[CatsCatsCats]

Finally getting real internet to my house, fuck you dsllllllll

[bork]

We're going to have a healthy baby girl! 

[Svejk]

We're going to have a healthy baby girl! 

[MMaRsu]

I fixed my tv

[Nintex]

I managed to sign a client during this apocalypse 

[CatsCatsCats]

All the financial moves I made to prepare for splitting with my wife have put my credit score ~800 for the first time in my life

I mean, it’s probably not gonna mean shit here in a minute but I feel good about it

[BisMarckie]

An essay I wrote is getting approved to be published in a book that will maybe sell 100 copies

[chronovore]

America: EVERYONE STAY HOME NOW, even if you can't!
Japan: Whatevs, it's not like we ever touch each other.
 

Boss has begun transitioning workers to WFH, and I'm starting that tomorrow.

I can do it, I have done it, I am going to miss my office co-workers, but I will not miss my danger-riddled commute of 8 total trains/4 total hours.

[Raist]

4h commute?

Excuse me but what the actual fuck?

[team filler]

4 hours a day wasted and not even getting paid? 

[shosta]

Lost 3 1/2 pounds in two weeks. The quarantine diet is working

[shosta]

I'm really hungry tho

[bork]

Got a nice pay raise and additional bonus for doing well in 2019 being added to my next paycheck
 

I want to buy a nice new 4K monitor, but with my wife unsure of her job situation, dunno if I'm gonna be able to do that. Feels like a trivial thing so whatever.

[Ghoul]

Got a nice pay raise and additional bonus for doing well in 2019 being added to my next paycheck
 

I want to buy a nice new 4K monitor, but with my wife unsure of her job situation, dunno if I'm gonna be able to do that. Feels like a trivial thing so whatever.

Yeah my bonus fun money like yours has become, damn this is gonna go on bills and house stuff....

[Madrun Badrun]

Got a 'Doctoral Completion Award' today - this is for Phd students way behind in their studies and who are poor - so basically anti-merit based - but it pays for my tuition this year.  Pretty happy.

[CatsCatsCats]

Glad you caught a break, my dude

[Tasty]

Whenever I see toku's avatar I get Fukai Mori replaying in my head

[toku]

Whenever I see toku's avatar I get Fukai Mori replaying in my head

[Tasty]

It just happened again. I'm actually being serious too

[toku]

[Tasty]

"深い深い森の奥に 今もきっと, 置きざりにした心 隠してるよ"

[toku]

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bless up hope you smiled

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[chronovore]

4h commute?

Excuse me but what the actual fuck?

It's normally total of 3 hours, 90 minutes each way. That's not great, but previous to this I was living 500 miles away from my family, for a year and a half. So this is better for me.

[chronovore]

500 miles away from family sounds like an amazing job perk

Not in my case. I'm very family-centered, so it wasn't clear why I'd even need to be in Japan if I'm that far away from my family. I could just go back to the USA and make 50% more than my current salary. But I want my family to be here.

[Nintex]

Went out to the pharmacy.

Managed to keep distance from all other humanoids despite there being quite a few out on this warm spring day.

Years of training in Metal Gear Solid and Assassins Creed paid off

[nachobro]

just smoked up a fat one and ate an entire bag of doritos in one sitting 

[Tasty]

just smoked up a fat one and ate an entire bag of doritos in one sitting 

Relatedly, I just got weed for the first time in a while as well.

[Joe Molotov]

just smoked up a fat one and ate an entire bag of doritos in one sitting 

Relatedly, I just got weed for the first time in a while as well.

I smoked a fat one, then later also got some weed. 

[Ghoul]

Didn't have alcohol until 4pm. Small wins. (I did however order a fuck load of alcohol online at around 11am)  due in a week

[Tasty]

You'll get there breh.

[chronovore]

I somehow found one of the ear flipper things for your ear buds to help them stay in place that I had lost back in like...October...at the gym...but I found it in my yard, after I mowed, yet it was there and pristine.

I’m still looking for the JVC Bluetooth headphones that I lost four times and found. I guess the fifth times a charm.

[Raist]

Check Stro's backyard just in case.

[chronovore]

Check Stro's backyard just in case.

I would, but the Japanese PM just put my prefecture on lockdown.

[shosta]

Just found out my brother, who is pretty much a firmware engineer right now, has been interested in transitioning into systems stuff ever since he got back from a FB interview. Gonna give him a crash course in containers

[Madrun Badrun]

Finally bought some Sculpy after wanting to for a few years now. 

[CatsCatsCats]

Polymer clay is pretty fun, look forward to you sharing some creations

[benjipwns]

Was reading this random dude bitching on Twitter about how broken UE4 is because he couldn't create a pause menu. I said there is no way is this not in the guide and yep there's a whole step by step tutorial to make one, requiring zero code writing, etc. This led to me installing UE4 for the first time since it was in beta and messing around for a while. Managed to turn the FPS demo into a clicker game with different default geometry shapes as enemies that all spawn in the same spot in each other so it looks like garbage.



Also made a giant tower of default prop chairs that I put on top of a pyramid of boxes you can shoot and watch them tumble down each other until the engine automatically culls them because they fell off the "ground" into the void and there's no defined bottom. Yes, I spent time in Unreal Editor recreating Garry's Mod gameplay.

Then I put so many light sources all over the damn place that it said it was going to take an hour to recalculate the lighting so I said fuck that and quit.

So I will be delaying benjipwnsclicker to TBD from 20XX as my vision for the world design requires those light sources. With chair tower DLC exclusive to EGS.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

benjipwnsclicker currently does not have a pause menu

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[shosta]

wait, how is this a triumph

never mind, take my like

[benjipwns]

Been many a year since I had been able to do anything like that. I used to be able to make dumb dungeon crawlers in C let alone code up little tools or websites plus the decade of modding, then there were many years where I couldn't do much of anything outside of basic scripts (which still makes you a programming god in poli sci), but now I can make a clicker game just using the UE toolset. And nothing broke except for the part I figured would!

I realized that the light sources probably were not related to the light sources themselves but all the prop foliage I placed everywhere too, it has to calculate how the lighting bounces off of and through those instead of just the flat surfaces. When I made maps back in the day I never had this problem as lighting wasn't that advanced even in Source.

Plus I actually spent a couple hours on it to where the clicker mechanics were working semi-properly. Which is sort of a triumph of starting something randomly and "completing" it. I didn't really intend to "finish it" and make a clicker game necessarily, but I might keep tinkering with it and put stuff on the blog to show how easy it is to use UE these days. Maybe even try to make a more serious attempt at a benjipwnsclicker as a blog feature. I dunno, felt like a triumph when I compiled it and it ran exactly as intended.

[Nintex]

Just signed a new client for 18k in the middle of the biggest economic meltdown in history

[Tasty]

Got my cart, currently blitzed out playing Animal Crossing

[CatsCatsCats]

Got my cart, currently blitzed out playing Animal Crossing

Me for the last 3 weeks

[Madrun Badrun]

I started wearing a blindfold and earplugs at night - it's been a long time since I slept this good. 

[nachobro]

Got my cart, currently blitzed out playing Animal Crossing

Me for the last 3 weeks

same but with final fantasy


cleaned the office, blew out my pc, redid my cable management, vacuumed the house, and cleaned up the bathrooms this weekend. now back to smokin.

[shosta]

In less than three weeks I'm going to have satisfied general education requirements for every public school in California. In addition to that, I've had the lower division requirements satisfied for both Computer Science and Applied Mathematics for years now. GPA over 3.0.

I've been wandering the desert for years and I'm finally going to leave

[shosta]

but no matter what I do in life, nothing will ever erase that time I used to stan for Christopher Hitchens

[shosta]

Oh nice;  so you mean you can transfer to a CA University?  Or for post-grad?

Transfer to a CA university to finish my BS

[shosta]

I honestly think I might go for applied mathematics because my math grades are all As and I don't want to do upper division CS courses, even though I'm trying to get into software engineering. It's just having any quantitative degree that'll get me past HR, right? Plus that could be a bonus if I wanted to go the machine learning route.

posting this so someone can warn me and say NOOOOOO if my premise is completely wrong. I know for a fact that neither esch nor riotous have relevant degrees...

[Madrun Badrun]

Double major CS and Math (or Stats) and go into machine learning.  Make money.  Also, the upper CS courses are the good ones WTF you smoking. 

[archnemesis]

I'll echo the opinion above. Upper level CS courses are probably both the most fun and most useful.

The situation might be different in the US, but all of my friends who went into machine learning have a PhD.

Proven experience is a good alternative to a degree. A solid portfolio of software can convince employers of your skills.

[Madrun Badrun]

A PhD is not necessary but its a lot harder to get a ML job without either a Masters or a ML related internship.

[BisMarckie]

[toku]

Fixed my dt 770 with 3d printed parts. Better seal than factory parts too I think.

[CatsCatsCats]

Bought a plant identification app this morning and found a bunch of wild greens in my little wooded area that I’m totally gonna start foraging, as well as few invasive species I’m gonna nip in the bud. Cleared out a bunch fallen branches and shit. It’s like real life animal crossing, you guys 

[Tasty]

Google Lens does that I think. Not sure how well.

[Tasty]

Also, I'm extremely nervous still, but made the biggest career change of my life today. 😬 Well, I've been "making" the decision over the last week (lining things up, discussing it with family/close friends, trying to calculate every future variation like goddamn Rehoboam) but today was, like, "it."

Probably not the best time to abandon coding and pursue screenwriting but fuck it, if not now when? Been barely scraping by for the last year on contracts anyways and extracting payments from one of my clients was so excruciating I think it killed contract-coding entirely for me. And losing my 9-5 in 2018 killed that for me too.

That said, I know screenwriters are still the bitches of the industry and I'm starting on the bottom. But I know I can write, I know I can give notes, and I know I can produce short films. And I know that's a start.

Maybe in a year I'll be sucking dick in LA for crack but at least I'll have some scripts I can show for it.

[Mupepe]

Google Lens does that I think. Not sure how well.

Bing visual search works really well to identify plants.

[bluemax]

I honestly think I might go for applied mathematics because my math grades are all As and I don't want to do upper division CS courses, even though I'm trying to get into software engineering. It's just having any quantitative degree that'll get me past HR, right? Plus that could be a bonus if I wanted to go the machine learning route.

posting this so someone can warn me and say NOOOOOO if my premise is completely wrong. I know for a fact that neither esch nor riotous have relevant degrees...

My experience is that it comes down to the HR person and the hiring manager. I've had bosses who wouldn't hire anyone without a degree from a "reputable" school and I've worked places that didn't look twice at the name of the school or degree.

[Tasty]

Was really nervous today about sending over my first ever script notes, but the author gave my feedback a perfect rating.

I can actually say that doing my stupid one-paragraph movie reviews here has helped develop this skill a little. I felt myself basically going into the same "mode" when writing my notes. "This worked, this didn't, this could be better if X."

Just have to be a bit more careful since with notes, since you know there's one singular individual waiting day and night for your feedback on their possible life's work. Can't say "this part was fucking boring" as much.

His perfect rating and thank you note has really turbocharged my heart.