You can just check yourself if they are going to throw you under the bus. Call up and pretend to be some other business doing a reference check on you. If they tell you anything defaming, sue. If you are somewhere with one-party consent, record the call.

Yeah, I too, have had a frobinator™ for the past two years, and it has been a really great purchase. It has done the thing I bought it to do and delivery time was super fast. You should get a frobinator™

Jump out of the bushes while furiously masturbating. Scream at them to “KEEP GOING I AM ALMOST THERE PINCH OFF THAT HAWT STEAMING LOAF DADDY”. Pretty sure one of two things will happen: Either they freak out, pull up, and high tail it out of there never to be seen again, or they lock eyes with you and maintain that connection through a slight squint and some grunts. Make sure you record it and post this to the internet.

You still need to seed and once the thing has been distributed, odds are good the clients will disconnect among the normies. Bittorrent only really works if everyone contributes space and bandwidth because you’re really joining a community and curating data. And not everyone is nerdy or tech savvy enough to do that which means products aren’t really going to be built around it.

2.8 billion-ish adult women on this planet. Even with all of the internet porn you’ve seen, people you’ve met in real life or ever seen on a screen, is such a tiny drop in the ocean of humanity. Even if you refuse to internalize the great advice all up and down this thread that boils down to “have empathy”, it is still a game of numbers in your favor. No doubt, if you didn’t change, there would still be a fantastic chance of finding someone broken enough to get into a co-dependent situationship with sex with you. So chin up, bro.

Pray harder and maybe the incel-ness will go away?

Keeping all of my blood inside my neck.

This is dumb. (I’m not insulting your typing style, it’s my signature snark style.)

Yes, but it is typically used for milk, like so:

The kind that requires this implement:

Okay cool, just making sure you covered all your bases 🖖

I’d carefully consider using email for this. If you’re hosting the service, you might need to use one of the bigger email providers that already have reputation (unless you already have good IPs with good rep). Otherwise, you risk the emails sitting in spam and people’s switches being flipped. If it is self-hosted, you’ll probably need to explain the risks to users.

Given today’s world of pocket computers, you might consider using push notifications of some kind. Or have a companion client that pokes an API and there is some kind of challenge/response.

Are your users technical? If not, crontab syntax is definitely to be avoided. Instead, I’d offer some simple options like daily, weekly, monthly, etc. Then convert that syntax into crontab syntax.

I glanced at the repo, but there is no content in the README.md to get a sense of what your project is actually doing.

For processing cron, you should consider just using cron. You can setup a user specific to the process, use that user’s crontab, and manage the entries. If the source of truth will be from the database, then you don’t even need to read the crontab itself, only (over)write it on demand.

Like they’ll test me on frameworks or ask me some very archaic questions which is just so frustrating to get through like I haven’t had that much experience that they’re demanding from me even in entry level positions it’s been like that.

Unfortunately, there is probably someone in the same boat as you but has a passion for the field and is able to answer all of their tricky questions. Be the best at what you do. Did you immediately go home after these interviews and study everything they asked that you didn’t know? As an early career technologist, you’ll need to put in a lot of hours studying and applying knowledge. You’re at a disadvantage because you need to prove to them that you will add value to their organization. A CS degree isn’t enough. I’ve interviewed and rejected plenty of MS degree holders too. What matters is demonstrated ability. If you’ve not setup a portfolio of personal projects, or contributions to FOSS, you need to do that. And I’m not talking about vibe coded slop, but your own blood, sweat, and tears. That will demonstrate practical skill. Getting involved in a FOSS community can make a big difference in increasing your network and getting you exposed to others that might be looking for hands. Plus, it is cool and you’ll meet really smart peeps. If you really want to be RIF proof, you need to be really good and have a very good network of people that would love to work with you.

TL;DR: git gud

The incident still appears to be a professional hit (as of this comment).

A professional hit would have had some plausible confusion if it was suicide, such as defenestration that the ruski’s like to do. Or he simply would have disappeared. The US has no shortage of gun enthusiasts and youtube is a great teacher. It doesn’t make sense for a business associate or rival to inflame the masses and increase the likelihood of copycats since it directly affects their class. All of these fucks are in it together and they protect their own.

Nothing but empathy for you here, bro. Try some drugs. Not the shrink drugs, but some psychedelics. There is some inherent risk with HPPD, but you’re already wanting to opt-out of life, so that could be acceptable. Read up on set and setting, do the prep, find someone experienced that will trip sit. And be prepared to feel overwhelmed, possibly from profound thoughts, and for some very honest introspection and soul searching. Totally okay to sob your heart out. Psychedelics are not a panacea, but they can be a tool to help you out of the local minimum.

I think “slur” also requires a component of direct offense for it mean anything. I don’t think it is valid to be offended for somebody else if that somebody else isn’t actually offended. If I make up a slur on the spot denigrating some aspect of your person that you do not find offensive (eg. Flumplenook - for a person who’s a bit clumsy), is it really a slur?

So if you call someone retarded, and they do not have the mental faculties to be offended, is it really a slur?

For slurs to have any meaning, any power, they need to be understood and internalized as offensive.

Why is work so important for you? I think you’ll find that a large number of people simply go through the motions because the stakes are low and their lives outside of work are more interesting. To them, it is an exchange of labor (that isn’t valued anyway) for (not enough) money. Why push yourself at work when it simply doesn’t matter? And what will drive you nuts later is that people from that “lazy” group will eventually end up promoted over you. The work is ultimately inconsequential, but the relationships built matter.

I don’t really have an answer for you other than to introspect a little bit on your work ethic.