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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games
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Comment on Pinch, punch! First day of the month. in ~talk
Noox LinkI had no idea you guys did this, but it's cute hah. Us Dutch have a tradition at exactly noon on the first monday of the month: For about 1.5 seconds we collectively: 1) Worry the Enemy is About...I had no idea you guys did this, but it's cute hah.
Us Dutch have a tradition at exactly noon on the first monday of the month:
For about 1.5 seconds we collectively: 1) Worry the Enemy is About to Invade the Nation, 2) Quickly scan the room to find a clock and confirm that it's noon, 3) Mentally check that it's a Monday, 4) then go "huh, guess it's a new month already".
For (some much needed I'm guessing) context: Our air raid sirens go off at 12.00 on the first Monday of every month :p
This Dutch tradition now comes with a wonderful bonus jump-scare, in the form of your phone losing its absolute shit at you too:
BEEP BEEP BEEP NL ALERT TEST NL ALERT TEST NL ALERT TEST BEEP BEEP BEEP
Edit: In case you're curious what the air raid alarm sounds like
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Comment on What do you actually do at work? in ~life
Noox (edited )LinkI work for a 'Full Service Digital Growth' agency (which is pompous-speak for a marketing agency that has all the stuff you need in-house and doesn't need to hire e.g. external designers) in Data...I work for a 'Full Service Digital Growth' agency (which is pompous-speak for a marketing agency that has all the stuff you need in-house and doesn't need to hire e.g. external designers) in Data Management / Governance.
My background is in psychology, and then I did my masters in User Experience / Human Computer Interaction.
I really like my job! I'm now officially at senior-level, and expecting a lead-role in January. That means I get to start running my own team, BUT I'm not stuck in a 'manager' career path. A teamlead is, in my experience, considered the person with the most technical experience, who is also organized and assertive enough to direct their team's capacity and time - who, together with upper management, helps prioritise the work-requests the team is given.
My actual work is essentially dependent on how 'full service' a client wants to be. Most of our clients are companies with 100-500 employees, that may or may not have their own marketing department. A marketing department is a lot more complex than, I dunno, people sitting around trying to think of a silly slogan to come up with. A lot of it is actually Data Analysis - where the behaviour of their consumers is investigated by looking at e.g. how they interact with the company website; how quickly their customer service handles issues, how aware their general target audience is of their brand etc.
This can be quite a lot of work, and usually a 'normal' company won't have all of the people they need in-house. That's where my company comes in, and me with it. The client will ask for help with e.g. having more people complete a purchase on their website. My job is then to look at how they currently 'analyse' their customer behaviour, and help my own team with whatever solutions they come up with. Then it's on me to make sure the data is as pure as possible, as well as try to get all the data centralised in one place. A company will usually have a tonne of different software they use for different ends. E.g. Payment software for their website so customers can pay for their transaction; software where (if you're a chain of restaurants for example) all the customer reservations are saved in), software for your customer service calls to be registered in, software for your website analysis etc. etc.
I'm responsible for creating integrations (connectors) so that we can get all the data from the softwares in the same place, and then be able analyse their client base behaviour much better now that we have ALL the information. A lot of my job revolves around speaking to the developers of these software's, speaking to the various people at the clients company who control individual software-parts for the company, etc. and then making it all understandable for my own team and the client.
Long comment but it's a neat job and you get to be in tech without being a software developer! It's also a very good field to be in. Data Analysis in itself is sometimes a little difficult to find your place in, but if you toss in the ability to create the connectors/integrations yourself, you'll get recruiters banging at your door up the wazoo in my experience.
Edit: oh and daily life: 40 hours that I make sure stays at 40 hours and not 60. I work from home 2 days a week, and at the office 3 days a week. My day consists of checking where we're at with each client-project in the morning, and then deciding what I'll work on that day. Because my work is so interactive, I'm often waiting on people to get back to me. So, it's really important for me to balance deadlines - if I mistakingly think I'm low on work and take on another project, that will come bite me in the ass when the people I was waiting on an answer from all come back to me expecting an answer from me, but I've overcommitted myself and can't get back to them in a timely manner. I need to be well-liked and thought of as competent by external software people, or I run the risk of being stonewalled if I need to ask for a favour or a difficult technical question for my clients setup. I'm also a woman and in a heavily male-dominated field (tech I mean, not marketing as that's 50/50 leaning to more female dominated in my experience), so that means I'm unfortunately judged harder on being disorganised, as it's socially expected of women to be better at that (read up on Emotional Labour if you're interested). It's not an issue almost 90% of the time, and it's probably what's made me be a great candidate for a teamlead though! Just something to keep in mind if you're wanting to be a fellow woman in tech.
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games
Noox Link ParentWas literally about to suggest the same - overhead would be pretty cool - could use walls or fencesWas literally about to suggest the same - overhead would be pretty cool - could use walls or fences
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games
Noox Link ParentOh i totally forgot to take it down haha - apologies I moved my armadillo to my new base and needed a safe way to get her up there LOL I'll get rid of it tonight when I'm on!Oh i totally forgot to take it down haha - apologies I moved my armadillo to my new base and needed a safe way to get her up there LOL
I'll get rid of it tonight when I'm on!
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Comment on What are online courses could you suggest for starting UI/UX design? in ~design
Noox Link ParentSo I found some cool courses, but the best of them do cost some money. I found this course that seems to have been well received and i think would be a good introduction:...So I found some cool courses, but the best of them do cost some money. I found this course that seems to have been well received and i think would be a good introduction: https://www.udemy.com/course/figma-ui-ux-design-essentials-training/?couponCode=SKILLS4SALEA
The strangest thing happened to me though, my cat ran across my keyboard and typed out "https://1337x.to/torrent/5978507/Udemy-Figma-UI-UX-Design-Essentials-Training/"! I, of course, would never endorse piracy. But my cat clearly does, just in case your friend wants to save 10 bucks ;)
My cat couldn't find a link to Daniel Walter Scott's UX UI figma essentials unfortunately, and that one is also rated quite highly. So I'd suggest your friend starts out with the first course I linked, and if he enjoyed it I'd recommend maybe paying for the advanced course Daniel Walter Scott also gives :)!
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Comment on What are online courses could you suggest for starting UI/UX design? in ~design
Noox LinkThere's some great courses on Udemy for this sort of thing. I'd recommend seeing if you can find their course videos for free online, if it's popular enough people sometimes upload whole courses....There's some great courses on Udemy for this sort of thing. I'd recommend seeing if you can find their course videos for free online, if it's popular enough people sometimes upload whole courses. I'm on mobile at work so can't really link you directly, but I found them quite helpful when I was looking for some intros on designing professional looking Power BI dashboards, and I'm a 100% sure I saw UX/UI in the course lists too.
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games
Noox Link ParentThere's the leather / stake farm at the community farm already setup if you didn't know already, might help you get some leather faster too!There's the leather / stake farm at the community farm already setup if you didn't know already, might help you get some leather faster too!
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games
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Comment on Which content-recommending algorithms are actually good? in ~tech
Noox LinkSpotify has pretty much nailed my music tastes, to the point where if I hear any song that I haven't heard before, there's a 70+% chance I'll like it enough to plop it into one of my playlists (or...Spotify has pretty much nailed my music tastes, to the point where if I hear any song that I haven't heard before, there's a 70+% chance I'll like it enough to plop it into one of my playlists (or at least my liked songs)
Their podcast recommendations though, jeeze louise! I'm SO easy to recommend to - ALL I listen to are true crime podcasts (and whatever Keith Morrison is hosting cause I could listen to that man read the phone book)!!. But what am I recommended by Spotify?? Weird freaking Dutch influencer podcasts about AI, a podcast by two well known Dutch singers, random people from the Office US show who are doing podcasts about the Office US show??? I might be Dutch but I've literally never listened to a Dutch podcast in my life, and I couldn't give a rats arse about the Office US. Spotify, in the words of my favorite True Crime podcast 'Small Town Murders': SHUT UP AND GIVE ME MURDER! /rant
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Comment on Advice for networking at a conference? in ~life
Noox LinkAh and one more: Linkedin add the absolute SHIT out of people. Seriously, the second you walk away send a linkedin request to that person.Ah and one more: Linkedin add the absolute SHIT out of people. Seriously, the second you walk away send a linkedin request to that person.
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Comment on Advice for networking at a conference? in ~life
Noox LinkOh and actual networking tip: If you like the person you're talking to but you've already gathered that they themselves can't help you further, maybe ask them to look over your CV for pointers....Oh and actual networking tip: If you like the person you're talking to but you've already gathered that they themselves can't help you further, maybe ask them to look over your CV for pointers. They'll at least know what kind of stuff the company is looking for, even if whatever position they represent isn't relevant to you. Might get you some tips about what to put in your cover letter to the company, or ideas on how to tweak your CV to appeal better - and not feel like time wasted at least!
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Comment on Advice for networking at a conference? in ~life
Noox LinkIf you need an opener or dont feel fully comfortable stepping up and just immediately launching into network stuff: At every place like this at least a few stands / gather spots will have food or...If you need an opener or dont feel fully comfortable stepping up and just immediately launching into network stuff: At every place like this at least a few stands / gather spots will have food or coffee. Simply just engage about the food/drink for a sentence and it'll flow from there.
Seriously I've gone from "is that a sticky cinnamon bun?!" to "Yes absolutely, let me mail you my CV and we can chat next week about what's opening in your department" in the span of 5 minutes.
Also remember that the people who you want / need to talk to are usually either 1) the most extraverted people who their company knew would do well at this conference, so they will absolutely be happy to talk to you and at the very least refer you to who you actually want to talk to; or 2) the actual technical people who are not used to this at ALL and are probably pretty terrified of screwing it up, so if you go up to them and just be nice they'll already be thrilled with you!
And yes I know there's extraverted tech people - I'm one of those myself - but by nature we're extraverted people who like to talk nerdy to other people so we're like labradors in a sea of tennisballs at a conference like this any way LOL
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Comment on The LLMentalist effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con in ~tech
Noox Link ParentThat's a really great way of describing it. I have the same alarm bells going off. It's like "whoever wrote this did not put any human care into it". Funnily enough for me it didn't ring a bell as...That's a really great way of describing it. I have the same alarm bells going off. It's like "whoever wrote this did not put any human care into it".
Funnily enough for me it didn't ring a bell as like how a conman would talk to me. For me I always feel like I'm reading canned responses from an underpaid customer service agent.
Like they sortof read what I asked about, and their answer is vaguely helpful maybe, but mostly they just looked through their canned-response-database and picked whatever matched sorta to what I said.
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games
Noox Link ParentIf you want, you could plop down a chest near the community board for now and label it For Arena Materials - then people can just plop in whatever is still open (maybe having a book there to...If you want, you could plop down a chest near the community board for now and label it For Arena Materials - then people can just plop in whatever is still open (maybe having a book there to record what you need wouldn't be a bad idea either)!
I'll be on in a bit and can get on the obsidian collection for you - I wanted to go refill the ender chests anyway :)
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games
Noox Link ParentI voted for Steppe - I prefer further away from town and I like the biome!I voted for Steppe - I prefer further away from town and I like the biome!
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games
Noox Link ParentThere IS a witch farm - i just dropped off a stack of tedstone BLOCKS in the community storage, but there were at least another 8 stacks of BLOCKS there! The Witch farm is on the Dyn map, its one...There IS a witch farm - i just dropped off a stack of tedstone BLOCKS in the community storage, but there were at least another 8 stacks of BLOCKS there! The Witch farm is on the Dyn map, its one of the skull icons!
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Comment on Snow White | Teaser trailer in ~movies
Noox Link ParentHonestly I'm not a 100% sure myself - just turned 30 so it's a little ways off thankfully. What your friend went through sounds like my absolute worst nightmare though hah - I do know you can...Honestly I'm not a 100% sure myself - just turned 30 so it's a little ways off thankfully.
What your friend went through sounds like my absolute worst nightmare though hah - I do know you can absolutely still get pregnant in the early stages of menopause, so I'd be hesitant to say goodbye to my IUD unless I get 100% confirmation I'm no longer fertile.
Not sure if "fake" hormones would cause any issues with starting menopause, or with taking menopause postponing drugs. So I might switch to a non-hormonal IUD to keep the pregnancy protection but stop the hormonal interference.. ugh I hate how stupidly complicated this shit is.
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Comment on [SOLVED] Help me find a website in ~tech
Noox LinkWaldo is actually literally in there - and responds if you click on him 😄Waldo is actually literally in there - and responds if you click on him 😄
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Comment on [SOLVED] Help me find a website in ~tech
Noox Link ParentThe first things I noticed was the weirdly high amount of sexual situations / or sexualisations of characters...? Like, why is there such a high focus on sexual nudity or like sexual versions of...The first things I noticed was the weirdly high amount of sexual situations / or sexualisations of characters...? Like, why is there such a high focus on sexual nudity or like sexual versions of outfits..?
Mind you I'm no pearl clutcher - I just find it confusing, like I'm missing something?
Edit: literally randomly swiped around and landed on this lol, like what the heck
Hey thats-a me :D
Thanks for these creesch, fun to see!