Lurker > EclairReturns

Forty-five, see. I find that I rarely have anything to add to the topics on here anymore, nor do I have any more aspects about my life that I tend to express my worries about. I also have some projects to keep me busy and such, and video games to help me to relax better. Nowadays, the only thing I worry about now is how much longer I must be stuck in unemployment hell. I sort of gave up on finding a career I am passionate about, because to be honest, it's just so incredibly difficult for me to express genuine interest in anything, anymore. I feel like nothing I do really matters, anyway.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

I must have these answers.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

deoxxys posted...

first thing I read

I see. It was not deliberate, then.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

deoxxys posted...

noo!

So it is a deliberate misinterpretation of the message, because the response you quoted might have pedophilic implications.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

I could have sworn that someone made a topic like this earlier this month. Did I imagine it, I wonder?
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

I most recently read these three books, in no particular order:

1. Calculus - Early Transcendentals by Guichard (lots of typos, but sufficient for calculus review)
2. Practical Web-Scraping for Data Science by Broucke and Baesens (for web-scraping project)
3. A Primer for Scientific Programming by Langtangen (for teaching myself basic [scientific] programming in Python)

Sahuagin posted...

The Clean Coder

Is that written for any particular language, I imagine, in order to compare 'messy code' to 'clean code'?
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

I hear that that is what the bird is.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

You mean the mouse and the bunny, respectively?
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

From the job description, I gather that I will be:

(1) Doing data analysis and something to do with Medicaid "wrap-around payment submission"
(2) Generating graphs and reports from data for analysis, presentation, and interpretation
(3) Gathering data into spreadsheets for analysis
(4) Submit data error reports and fix databases as necessary

I didn't exactly look over the degree and experience requirements, though, which I now see would probably be an immediate disqualifer for my hastily sent application.

https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=757780f46dc99f2e
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

wwinterj25 posted...

showing you've been doing something when unemployed is a lot more better than leaving a gap with no explanation

Aye, that makes sense, sonny.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

Note: This is for a job in an office setting, see.

I'm worried the employer will assume that I've just been doing nothing these past five months, and was wondering if I should correct that impression. Should I? It would save the trouble of correcting the lot over the phone, over e-mail, or in-person. On the other hand, though, the company might look at it and see that I've occupied my resume with stuff that only wastes space for more important things I could have added instead of that job experience.

I must have these answers.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

I fail to see any consequence that may ensue as a result of taking up the offer.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

So you are doing that thing that Peeves the Poltergeist did with Christmas songs, except with the American theme song for the second Dragon Ball cartoon.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

TheWitchMorgana posted...

evanescence

Ah yes, I do love their song about bringing her to life.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

DDirtyDastard posted...

What about 'em

Perhaps the lack of specification as to what aspect of the female gender TC is talking about constitutes part, if not all, of the joke meant to be communicated via this topic. Not to mention that this is a common phrase used by men whenever they feel that they have been wronged by a member of the gender that is being discussed here with a deliberate vagueness. This, in itself, could just constitute the whole joke.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

Kungfu Kenobi posted...

it's just what works for me

Thanks.

darcandkharg31 posted...

not having a part time job

Just to be clear, I complained about not having a second part-time job because I felt inferior to my classmates, most of which either had full class schedules, worked either two part-time jobs, or worked one full-time job. I felt, mostly, that I did not work as hard as they did, and chastised myself for having a weaker work ethic than them. In hindsight, it would have been silly if that were the sole reason I had sought out a second part-time job. Not being a full-time student during academia still bothers me, though.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

Surely, those lot arrested him for donning "black-face" make-up, which is considered by many to be offensive to the ethnic group that it poorly attempts to imitate?
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

TheWorstPoster posted...

186282 miles a second

I see. The joke is that you claim you drove at a speed exceeding the limit of not the speed posted for a given traffic zone, but at a speed exceeding the speed limit of the universe--the speed of light in a vacuum, in other words--which is widely known to be impossible by the laws of physics.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

SusanGreenEyes posted...

work

Tutoring. I guess I could explain to a potential employer that I have been exploring the educational field by doing this, or whatever, and continuing to do it for a source of income.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

I am currently self-employed, but I did not feel like entering social contact with anybody online, today, to tutor anybody. Nor did I feel like reviewing my calculus, or working on refining my programming prowess; I did not even feel like doing any fiction-writing. I feel like the only thing I did today was watch this movie with the janitor and the therapist, and lie in bed, thinking about how nothing I do ultimately serves any purpose or has any meaning at all. I'm planning on relocating in five months, but once or twice, thought of pulling the date back a few months, because I cannot stand all this stagnancy and such. Then I worry about explaining to a potential employer what I've been doing these past few months, and about how I will not be able to give a good answer during an interview, and such. Anyway, how do you deal with having unproductive days during which you have accomplished little, if nothing at all?

I must have these answers.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

makes the police
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

Lokarin posted...

British Pound

Oh, I see. It makes more sense, but to be honest, the title still seems inscrutable.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

I don't understand. Is the book about the entire staff of some dog shelter coming out of the closet because some island nation left the European Union?
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

faramir77 posted...

Chewy

Yes.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

Odd; I read the title of this topic too fast for me to realize you were not talking about that STEM major what used to post here.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

OniRonin posted...

nobody's going to take legal action and you don't need the owners permission
just rate-limit your script so that it doenst make a ton of requests per second and nobody will really care. if they do care the worst thing that will happen is banning your ip. if you want to get around sites disabling scraping, you can probably do it by just setting your user agent

Thank you for putting my worries to rest.

OniRonin posted...

https://serenesforest.net/robots.txt
this is essentially like asking the owner what parts of the site you can scrape

this one means anybody can scrape any part of the website, other than the wp-admin directory. although for some reason it does allow scraping some random php file in that directory.

I am grateful, also, for telling me about the robots.txt page, and explaining what this one in particular meant, in regards to scraping the site.

Kungfu Kenobi posted...

Just keep your rate of access to some sane level, like don't open hundreds of connections.

Thank you for the tip.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

the owner's permission? Of the first two sites I thought of trying on my own, the first returned a bunch of HTML and the second returned a 403 status code, which I learned roughly means that they received my request to query their site by that means, and that they do not authorize it. I am very new to the programming scene, and I initially got a book to learn about this because I thought it would be neat to have a mechanism to instantly fetch Fire Emblem data for instant look-up without entering stuff into the Mozilla Firefox internet browser in order to do so. I am aware that there I imagine that a lot of sites just deter web-scraping through certain counter-measures, followed by an error message explicitly stating that such measures are unsolicited, such as the second site I had attempted this on. I do imagine that if I were to web-scrape a site legally, I would need to ask the owner's permission first. But I am much too afraid of the repercussions that could be quite troublesome for me if I had chosen to go ahead without his or her expressly written say-so. I know that asking for permission before doing something with someone else's creation is common manners, but at the same time, I am far too afraid of the response I would get should I request permission to--for the lack of a better word--"violate" his or her web-site. What if the bloke feels threatened by me, IP-blocks me or something, and bars access completely? What if he feels the need to bring it into court? These possibilities scare me far too much for me to seriously consider continuing the data-gathering project I want to work on. At the same time, I feel that the consequenes would be less dire, and could possibly be non-existent if I had just screwed up the courage to ask the owner of say, FE Wiki (the good one) or Serenes Forest, if it is alright to scrape their databases. Anyway, if I scraped some bloke's website without his permission, is there a tiny possibility that he would summon legal authorities to investigate the matter, or am I simply being far too paranoid for my own good? I was already afraid of making this topic because I had feared that the mods--they would see this topic and cite it as a valid reason to terminate my account and possibly discontinue my further usage of the site. Anyway, what would be the worst-case scenario if I chose to query some website without permission, received a 403 message, and got the hint to cease my actions at once? What would be the worst-case scenario if I queried some website without that security measure, without their knowing, and accessed their site through that means?

I must have these answers.

Note: Sorry to those who were already typing a response, for deleting and re-making this topic; I was too paranoid of it being deleted by some moderator reading it.

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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

https://i.imgur.com/HQuiWwQ.png
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

Does Roxas' story as an Organization member count, or does it not?
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

I am new to the car market and I must have these answers.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

ninja_lootz posted...

P

It's a Vita.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

Either the person used a prescript e-mail with those infamous spelling errors, or the person was thinking of the pronunciation of "generation" (or some other word containing the string "gen" that is pronounced the same way, as the other posters have indicated) while typing up that e-mail, and subconsciously attributed the first syllable of that word to your name, despite possibly knowing that your name is indeed spelt with a "J" and not a "G". This is merely conjecture, of course, as I have no idea of what your e-mail pen pal is like.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

Lokarin posted...

instant messenger

You mean like the AOL variant.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

Are you getting it in order to play Vita games, or to do something similar to that thing RC did with her 3DS? How much did it cost?
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

No, I have better, more fun ways of wasting my time, thanks.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

Huh, I had never imagined Canada to be the sort of area on the continent where tornado activity is frequent.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

So it is a fried variant of the animals best known as the carriers of the Bubonic Plague.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

blu posted...

complete waste of money

You mean because of the exorbitant rent/mortgage?
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

In the city, in a high-rise apartment.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

Clench281 posted...

pewdiepie

You mean the bloke what was on South Park.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

other players hands

What if these players describe their hands to me, and make me feel like mine pales in comparison to theirs? Never mind; I've received advice on how to deal with my inferiority complex before. I have no business troubling you lot with answering my concerns yet again.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

If so, how do you spend the night not worrying, reflecting, and obsessing over it?

I must have these answers.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

I don't know why the most frightening thing about these scam e-mails is the terrible grammar and spelling. It scares me very subtly; almost subliminally, in fact.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

baby one more
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

wwinterj25 posted...

Enlighten me.

You mean like Xehanort when he summons those thirteen light pillars to attack Sora.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

'Twas the night
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

cattle after slaying
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

Anyway, I am struggling to see your point.

I mean, I am not saying that my response had any point whatsoever to begin with (it didn't), but I am struggling to see the point of the message to which I had responded previously.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.

Sarcasthma posted...

Ground-bound Shield.

If it is bound to the ground, then it is of no use, since you cannot pick it up and use it in order to deflect any attacks, which would negate the purpose of having a shield.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.