Low job prospects for environmental majors :(

“professionally” requires having a job, so that is very hard rn. (Someone hire me)

During Superbowl I was talking with a software guy working for a big shopping ( data) company, he was telling us how every interaction on their website is recorded for data analysis, and his own wife was shocked. It came up after I prompted for that conversation, talking about the license plate tracking in parking lots (which she didn’t know about).

I just explain but starting how you can email gmail from Outlook and such ( familiar concept). Then tell them you could email a Facebook account using username@facebook.com (this shows they were open to it at some point), that it was a default state of things because they wanted you connected. But then they realized they can make you sign up to their own website and make more money, so now we need account for everything. But imagine you didn’t, you could access different contents in the UI/format you want. You don’t need to share screenshots of different social media (shows why it’s useful), you could just follow different people from different websites.

So far this explanation has worked. I haven’t converted anyone, but they understand. Sometimes they try to install and see, then say “the things I want are not here” because we don’t have all the niche

I like radishes, raw and pickled. And it used to be very cheap food. But in US it’s really expensive. I wish we could just grow stuffs freely. Radishes are ready in 2-3 months if grown.

It is to ward off mammals. Their goal is to be eaten by birds, birds can’t taste capsaicin, so it’s just normal food. And birds distribute the seeds.

Sure, if we can share config like that it could work for many people. I still want to see something that dynamically downloads the shared libraries/dlls for tools you add, but that requires complete rewrite. Maybe we can do it with imagemagick scripts

Now I’m thinking why don’t we make an image editor that we can customize the simple UI. Like users choose which sliders and tools to put on the ui, it’ll be simple UI with like just 5-10 buttons/sliders/tools, but you van customize it to have basically anything. That way you can simply drag drop tools make new UI and then use it for specific use cases.

Maybe already existing tools have that options. Or maybe we need to make a new one, in that case, it’d be nice if we could just add all different tools in dlls or sth, so that you can only download/keep the tools you use.

In that case you can probably find someone for $100-200 that’ll check your excel logic and make sure it works on libre office. Or python script

How much do you pay? Maybe you can pay someone to write you a custom program to do those things. Maybe in libre office, or python, or some other language with gui and plots.

I like not seeing people’s pictures in discussions.

I feel like I get a diverse opinion from people of all age, race, and other background. And we are united on our common interests in the topic without an implicit bias.

It might have shortcomings, and my case is for not having your real picture in your profile.

I haven’t really gone full typst on notes. But honestly my notes are mostly just texts, so it doesn’t really matter what I’m writing it in. I should be able to get it to typst with a few find and replace for old one. Math will be easier in typst, so I’m at least writing the new notes in typst when I need those.

But I think for future notes I’ll do typst, specially if I have to share those notes it’s easier to send PDFs. Many of my colleagues get confused if I send markdown, so I had to export them to pdf for sharing anyway.

Mostly wing it based on my memory. But in some occasions, there’s a list of important stuffs. It’s mostly just 2,3 items like “we’re out of potatoes/onions/salt”, then wing the rest.

I think except for important and constant stuffs like spices, it’s better to just buy what’s available cheap and make your food from that. But that could be just me

Typst.

Best thing after LaTeX. LaTeX was still better than word or other alternatives for pdf generation. But for notes I just used markdown. Typst just took the best of two worlds. It’s fast, accurate, intuitive, little boiler plate, and flexible.

It gets fun though, because now you have context and can understand so many jokes that translators just put something else or don’t realize it’s a pun and translate literally.

Some lab animals escape, notable ones are octopi. They are also known to kill their handler (abusive ones, anecdotally)

I don’t know a lot about other fields but stat people are hired a lot by research institutions. A good statistician can reduce the number of experiments you need to do, being able to test a drug/treatment with 7 people instead of 100 means a lot. They save a lot of money.

Also being able to make inference from past data, incomplete data, use correct math (there is always different ways to solve things) so they don’t make mistakes.

And a lot of people with stat degree join either academia, or other fields that have actual problems and use their background to solve issues.

I guess it can go unnoticed, I use Arch so maybe that’s why I got more involved. I remember searching why auto completion didn’t work, then finding out I need to install bash-completions package. After knowing that it makes one curious about how it works. Then the next stage is writing it for my own programs because it obviously won’t come with bash-completions package.

I once wrote a shell (terminal) to watch anime, and I wrote auto completion for different commands on it, it was really nice to just type play then prefix and then tab for auto completion on anime names, and even for episodes I wrote auto completion give me last episode I watched + 1.

Whenever someone says they don’t really like terminal because they don’t like to type or remember commands. This is what I think “they didn’t use auto complete”.

Auto complete works for file names and paths by default, but the development can write it to only complete certain extensions. Like auto complete for image program only completes image files. Then you have completion for commands, subcommands and flags.

Auto complete is done through calling a bash script with currently typed line, and the bash script can call other commands. So developer can write a really complicated auto complete and make it available as a binary if they want, and just use that in bash. Or you can use many tools that will generate auto complete script for you based on your commandline args.

If you write your own scripts/cli binaries I recommend learning how to write auto complete for it. Makes it incredibly easy to use the tools.

You expected version should always be more than what you’re today. Not because you’re bad but because you’ll just get better anyway. Learn to be satisfied in life with little things and little improvements, those will slowly make things better.

Also I find that having little projects (in computer or real life) where you make things helps with mental health. When you build something, however minor, it gives you the feeling of accomplishment. And if you can focus on making something, solving those problems, then you are sufficiently distracted as well.