corodra

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by corodra 8y ago
Are you socially intelligent, emotionally stable and like having interesting conversations about a wide gamut of topics that don't involve tv shows and games? I know what career field you SHOULDN'T enter!
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by corodra 8y ago
Independent trucks don't. Company trucks do. However, the company does not get fined, the driver does, personally.
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by corodra 8y ago
Meh, it's a bit out on a limb, but there's some validity bringing it up. To be fair, the dev market has the luxury to be a forefront in addressing sexism issues properly. Essentially, we're all suppose to be level headed, con
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by corodra 8y ago
As the salty guy that sparked off this whole thing that use to do truck driving, I would honestly say that a lot can be fixed on labor demands if a few things were fixed and not change pay all that much. A lot more respect has to be thrown
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by corodra 8y ago
Yea, but the difference, the likelyhood of you dying from such a rush is minimal. Truckers die often from sleep deprivation mostly due to bullshit haul times. Google "trucker deaths per year".
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by corodra 8y ago
Haha, I see what you did there.
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by corodra 8y ago
Okay, but truck driving is a job. You don't do it for fun or as a hobby. Not like dev, graphic design or anything else on the computer. Here's a better example. No BS recruiter. Some salty old recruiter, on their last day before t
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by corodra 8y ago
Not sure that I follow. Can you explain?
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by corodra 8y ago
I'm currently a programmer as well. Yes, at any point, I can go "I should take a 5 min walk around" or just stretch my legs, which I do relatively often. Most "sitting" jobs have that luxury. Even just stretching yo
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by corodra 8y ago
A particular load I'm talking about, Seattle to LA. I remember this because I threatened to make a formal complaint about this and got my shit together for it. Roughly 1100 mile haul. Industry standard base time is 55 mph. Some states
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by corodra 8y ago
Well yea, inspectors of any agency are terrified to fuck with the IBEW lol. They only do so when they have their shit squared away. I love how on big job sites, they would have their reps, banners and make sure all their guys have IBEW blin
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by corodra 8y ago
Compressed discs mostly but you start to learn what muscles in your back really need full body movement regularly or that weakening starts to kick your ass. Without some expensive surgery that I still can't afford, I've been fixin
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by corodra 8y ago
Thank you. Got to love folks who think a "startup" can save the world when they have no clue how the real world works. They totally missed the fact that truckers earn peanuts. So add more cost on top of a meal they can't real
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by corodra 8y ago
I'm loving reading all these folks talking economic reasoning on this situation. Look, I'm a developer for a DOD contractor. I'm roughly not an idiot. Smartest cat in the room? Nah, there are plenty of folks I look up to that
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by corodra 8y ago
After my 3rd LA delivery, I didn’t think it was that bad. But I also didn’t drive during rush hour. Grapevine sucks big time on a heavy load. Siskiyous can be scary when you are super green. Cabbage over in Oregon, first downhill route, oh
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by corodra 8y ago
I got 2 weeks on i5 and liked it over my desert routes. Matter of relative terminology. I also like trees. I hate the desert... so much. East coast would have been nicer if I wasn’t so constantly freaked out for low overpasses. I5, for me,
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by corodra 8y ago
At a rough point in my life, I was a truck driver for CR England and Knight Transportation for a few days short of 7 months. You don’t start at 80,000 a year. That’s such a lie. You make about 600 a week to start, roughly, depending if you
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by corodra 8y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean just "spending money". When I mean stupid money, it's mostly there's an exorbitant amount hoping to get rich quick. Someone that researches a company, industry and the geopolitics involved and i
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by corodra 8y ago
Absolutely agree. But the best progress made on how the brain works was to learn from people who received major brain damage/trauma. It's just slightly frowned upon to inflict brain damage to a healthy person for science. [Insert
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by corodra 8y ago
An octopus doesn't have any type of parent. That's the problem. No one teaches them, at all. That's why info doesn't move around with them. They start from scratch every generation. Now, if you want to make a real argume
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by corodra 8y ago
If you've raised a kid, a lot of these things are really obvious with just a few gaps of understanding here and there where a good book on learning comes in handy. Watching a tiny human go from knowing virtually nothing more than how t
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by corodra 8y ago
I wish I could remember the book, but I originally got it because it's title was something like "Understanding and improving learning", something like that. It ended up being more about the first 10 years of life's learn
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by corodra 8y ago
I’m not a fan of marketwatch, at all, but I do agree. I’ve been noticing way too much stupid money being thrown around at tech lately. Too much hype. Too many over promises for really immature tech. Too many firms are constantly doing pr an
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by corodra 9y ago
This just in, water is still wet and cows moo. I don't get the profoundness here. I mean, if you're one of those stereotypical hollywood jocks from the 50s that's never read a book in his life until the age of 60...I mean sur
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by corodra 9y ago
Yea, suicide rates are just as bad too. Same with medical malpractice and just getting an antibiotic resistant infection. Bad things will always happen. An issue here is control. I have an amount of control on the road as an active driver.
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by corodra 9y ago
Agreed. There’s an article of a remote hijack of I think it was a Jeep using Ulink or whatever it’s remote interface was. Scarey with its limited capabilities. To be fair, I won’t even blame the auto industry for having vulnerabilities in t
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by corodra 9y ago
That's a good point.
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by corodra 9y ago
Always wondered about that whether Asian countries actually like twitter or if the character limit was debilitating. Cool to know, thanks.
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by corodra 9y ago
Agreed, but also storage requirements I would imagine. Those extra 140 characters add up quick in an environment like Twitter. It's estimated at 500 million tweets a day. So UTF-8 characters take 1 byte. That's an extra 140 bytes