u/Anonymous_Coder_1234

Hey, I wanted to tell my story. I'm a native Floridian (US state of Florida), and I got a Bachelor of Science in Computer Scence degree in December 2015 from the best university in my home state, the University of Florida. I got good grades in my Computer Science classes. After I graduated, I aced the coding interview, including the LeetCode style questions, the behavioral interview, and the system architecture/design interview. I got multiple offers and I pit them against each other so they would bid up on my salary, and ultimately I accepted an offer for $150,000 a year (not including vesting stock) for a junior (SDE I - L4) position at Amazon AWS in Northern Virginia in year 2016.

Within my first month of working there, I noticed a problem. They expected me to learn the codebase over time, and I wasn't learning it at all. I knew I had no sense of direction, navigation, or location when walking or driving around, but I didn't realize this would lead to me not being able to learn my way around a codebase. It was a disability, a disability that they never tested for, and it made me unable to learn the codebase. I didn't realize this sooner because in my CS classes like Data Structures & Algorithms, I wasn't thrown into a large codebase that I didn't design and write. For two years I worked there at Amazon AWS, and for those two years I relied on my senior/mentor engineer to tell me, for every single coding task, where (which file, which class) in the codebase the code change needed to be made. I made no progress over time. Eventually, after two years of working there, my manager gave me a "mandatory resignation", which I accepted. After that I wound up on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) for brain-related, mostly psychiatric reasons, but I am thankful for Amazon for having paid me for long enough to qualify for SSDI and get the long-term government payout. I have been on SSDI ever since.

TL;DR - If you have no sense of direction, navigation, or location, you can't be a senior software engineer, even if you ace the CS degree and the coding interview.

p.s. I didn't know which flair to pick, but a flair was mandatory, so I just picked "US Job Market". Sorry if it's the wrong flair or if I am posting in the wrong subreddit.

Recently I replied to a Reddit post that was titled something like "iPhone vs Android: Which Operating System is better and why?"

One of the reasons I picked Android is that I like to be able to set the camera ISO and shutter speed, like for pro shots, and the iPhone camera doesn't allow that. One person replied to me saying the default camera app that comes with the phone is just a user app, not part of the OS, so it's irrelevant to this question.

That begs the question. Where is the dividing line between user apps and/or user processes and the OS? Like what exactly is technically inside the OS and what exactly is outside the OS?

Recently I replied to a Reddit post that was titled something like "iPhone vs Android: Which Operating System is better and why?"

One of the reasons I picked Android is that I like to be able to set the camera ISO and shutter speed, like for pro shots, and the iPhone camera doesn't allow that. One person replied to me saying the default camera app that comes with the phone is just a user app, not part of the OS, so it's irrelevant to this question.

That begs the question. Where is the dividing line between user apps and/or user processes and the OS? Like what exactly is technically inside the OS and what exactly is outside the OS?

Being with women in a close relationship exposes you to the worst parts of daily life—periods, bad moods, bad smells from periods, and rotting gas , stinky fart. Nobody healthy wants to deal with that unless they have a severe kink. That's why relationships should be at a distance or have clear boundaries to avoid all those horrible things as most as possible . I prefer women at their highlight reels, which is why keeping things separate is the only way to avoid the gross reality nobody wants to see or hear.
Can be worse than ww…💀

Take away sexual attraction, and a lot of what people call “interest in women” disappears

For many men, the fascination is heavily driven by attraction fantasy dating sex, and the possibility of sex Remove that entire layer and ask yourself

Would you still find women as a group inherently more interesting than men?

Not individual women you personally know. I mean women as women.

My unpopular opinion: for a lot of men, the answer would be no.

Can you imagine a straight man being like "I looked at an attractive man and thought I was gay".

This is my favorite cheese, gorgonzola:

https://imgur.com/a/0HvpNy4

It is a type of blue cheese because it has that blue edible mold growing on it. The blue mold eats the cheese and makes more blue mold. More cheese, more mold; less cheese, less mold. Mold is a lifeform, and like all lifeforms, its purpose is to make more of it.

Now, people. Like mold, people are lifeforms. Bigger, more complicated, more intelligent lifeforms, but lifeforms nonetheless. Like mold, the purpose of people is ultimately to make more people. That's the reason why the human sex drive exists, to make more humans.

Now, I feel that humans have lost their way in terms of their purpose. Instead of having kids, they are doing other, less significant things. Instead of preserving the planet for future generations, for posterity, they are destroying the planet. This is totally antithetical to the purpose of life, which is ultimately to increase the amount of said life, not decrease it. Global warming has the potential to significantly decrease the amount of life, including human life, that Earth can sustain, but humans are doing it anyway.

People have lost their way in terms of their purpose.

p.s. I previously wrote "Like mold, the purpose of people is ultimately to make more people. That's the reason why the human sex drive exists, to make more humans." Now I know people without a sex drive towards the opposite sex (gay and asexual people) exist, but even gay and asexual people can have kids. There are fertility centers that sell sperm and offer egg donation with surrogate mothers. Gay and asexual people can have kids too. This doesn't only apply to straight people. And I even see some gay people who can afford kids say "Meh, I would rather spend the money on something else". People have lost sight of what's important.

p.p.s. Some people may say "This isn't really an unpopular opinion". Trust me, if I told a feminist woman that her purpose as a person is ultimately to make more people, she would be irate and find that opinion very unpopular. No offense to feminist women, this is just what I believe, my opinion.

1. I've heard that modern AI originates from things like AlexNet (which is the basis of Google Reverse Image Search). Like with Google Reverse Image Search, I can take a photo of my cat, upload it, and it says "this is a cat", and it can even show similar looking cats on the internet.

2. With generative AI, it may have been trained on countless cat photos, and I can type "generate me a hyper-realistic photo of a cat" and it generates a new cat photo based on existing cat photos and user-feedback-based training. I've even had it (Microsoft Copilot) generate for me multiple different cat photos and then I picked the one I like the best.

What is the relationship between these two things (1 and 2)? Like is the latter basically the former algorithmically run in reverse somehow? Or is there no relationship between the two?

I hope my question made sense. If not, just let me know and I'll try to clarify.

I like to take very up-close photos of things like little insects. My old phone had a dedicated macro camera, but my current phone, a Galaxy S25 (128Gb, not plus or ultra), does not, so I have to use one of the three non-macro cameras on the S25. I tried the ultra-wide lens but that's garbage. I'm stuck between the regular wide lens and the telephoto lens on the S25 and I don't know which one to use. Also, is the zoom an optical zoom on both the regular wide lens and the telephoto lens? Or does only the telephoto lens have optical zoom? Should I use the zoom with whatever camera lens I'm using to get better super-up-close photos? Also, given that the S25 lets me choose between 50MP and 12MP when using the camera app with the regular wide lens, will I get better super-up-close photos with the 50MP setting on? I'm so confused.

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p.s. I also tried using the video function and extracting frames from the video. One thing I like about that approach is that I can have the torch light on the entire time, leading to brightly lit photos. On my old phone, with the macro camera, I could have the torch light on the entire time while taking photos, but when I'm taking photos with the Galaxy S25 that doesn't seem to be an option. Using flash that close up with the S25 causes the insect I'm photographing to come out dark for some reason.

Edit: I tested the photography various ways myself, and if the lighting is good, I got the best results with the zoom set to max (telephoto lens, 12M mode). If the lighting isn't great, I got the best results by using Pro Video mode, turning the torch light on (and it stays on), setting the zoom to max on the regular wide-angle camera, setting the focus to manual and minimal distance, and grabbing the frame in the video with the greatest sharpness. The torch light stays on and illuminates the subject of the photo.

T-Mobile user in the USA. I'm trying to choose between the Samsung Galaxy Xcover 7 Pro and the Motorola Moto G Stylus 2026.

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Comparison of the two phones:

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https://m.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone2=13780&idPhone1=14581

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Some of the pros of the Samsung that I like are that it gets updates for 7 years (the Motorola only gets security updates for 3 years), has an easy to replace battery (just remove the back cover like so ), and it is supposedly very "rugged", so I guess you can drop it and/or get it wet, that kind of stuff.

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Some of the pros of the Motorola that I like are that it has an old-fashioned headphone jack (I HATE wireless bluetooth earbuds, if I got the Samsung I would need to buy USB-C wired earbuds), it has an AMOLED screen (I've heard this screen is better although I don't actually know because I haven't actually tried it), and the stylus the Motorola comes with sounds nice for marking up screenshots.

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I'm not super concerned with the camera as right now I have a Motorola Moto G Power 5G 2023 and its camera is plenty good enough for me. I'm also not super concerned with gaming as the only videogames I play are 2D and not super resource intensive. I'm more concerned with "What will end up costing me less in the long term given how often I have to replace it", which is why right now I'm leaning towards the Samsung Galaxy Xcover 7 Pro. Change my mind.

I am currently an Android user. My phone is a Motorola Moto G Power 5G - 2023 - Unlocked, these are its specs:

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https://m.gsmarena.com/motorola\_moto\_g\_power\_5g-12219.php

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I'm really happy with it, but I'm no longer getting security updates for it, so I think it's time for an upgrade.

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A few things I love about it:

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1. It has an old-fashioned headphone jack. I hate Bluetooth earbuds, but I figure I could make a sacrifice and try a dongle or corded USB-C earbuds if the new cellphone without an old-fashioned headphone jack is worth it.

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2. It has a Macro camera. I love taking photos of insects like this bee on my window:

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https://www.instagram.com/p/DSXUISxkRym/?img\_index=1

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👆🏼 With the Macro camera, I can take up-close photos like that.

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3. I really like that my Android camera comes with "Pro Mode" where I can manually set the ISO, shutter speed, and focus. It's good for taking photos of things with tricky lighting like the craters of the moon or constellations of stars. Recently I discovered that Apple puts out an app called "Final Cut Camera" and also there's a free iPhone app called "Blackmagic Cam", and they seem to be able to do custom lighting in video, but I can't figure out how to take a single individual photo with them. If anyone knows how to do that, that would be appreciated. I don't want to spend money on a pro camera app.

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But yeah, if anyone can address my concerns, it would help me in the process of shopping for a new phone. Help evaluating pros and cons would be appreciated.

I use T-Mobile in the USA. My current phone has an old-fashioned headphone jack and I love it. I hate having to use wireless earbuds or a USB-C-to-3.5mm-jack dongle.

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Someone previously recommended a Motorola Moto G Stylus 2026. Are there any other good Android phones that come with an old-fashioned headphone jack?