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Cake day: September 20th, 2023

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  • basically one computer science lecture later, I still haven’t told anything about my workday.

    ahaha

    I can try to leave out such words, like “we had to roll out our software onto a really old computer”, but then I can practically only say “that was really annoying”.

    Tough. Try my best with analogies, tailored if possible, but still tough.

    “We had to try to translate our app into a language this ancient computer could understand. It was as easy as suddenly switching to Shakespearean English halfway through this conversation. Or like if you drove your car to a mechanic who’d been cryogenically frozen for the last hundred years. He doth protest much, methinks.

    Overall, it was like putting together a thousand-piece puzzle, except the box came with a million pieces and most of them were useless!”

    Good thing your mom was surely impressed with you all the same 😉


  • Frustrating!!

    Since there’s no way to fix the incorrect assumptions (a t-shirt proclaiming “I explain granularly to men too!!”?), best bet is probably to get ahead of the assumption with a disclaimer & offer to be receptive to feedback.

    Someone could still be upset I guess but can’t please everyone!

    Discussed a bit below.