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by ja27 5y ago
It's missing paid holidays which are probably 8-10 per year so almost $4k more employee benefit. Two weeks of vacation is kind of minimal. I'd figure at least three. Health insurance varies a lot. For me it's a whole family a
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by ja27 5y ago
Not exactly but I've been mashed, crushed, cut, scraped, shocked (static), etc. many times by the FIRST robotics team robot I mentored as code ran haywire.
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by ja27 5y ago
I grabbed a used X270 right before lockdown here. I’d intended to get one for vacation as a “beater” laptop for vacation instead of my MBP. Wound up using it a lot around the house, porch, and yard. Less worried about rain and dust with it.
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by ja27 5y ago
I mostly use Apple Books (formerly iBooks) for this. Can highlight, add text notes, and bookmark pages. Syncs those and reading progress across devices. Also somewhat works for PDF books. Sometimes the sync screws up but mostly works. Googl
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by ja27 5y ago
I use mine a lot but have had to do two rounds of replacements due to hardware issues. The battery life is unsurprisingly short (right about 4 hours now) which only comes up on looong calls without a break. They'd still be on my maybe
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by ja27 5y ago
I really wonder how many performance cores they could pack in a Mac Mini before the thermals broke.
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by ja27 5y ago
Apparently as many buckets, totes, or even plastic bags as they can fit in the trunk :( Here in Florida, there's always a run on gas as tropical storms approach. Just everyone making sure they have a full tank at the same time is a big
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by ja27 5y ago
When the first Raspberry Pi came out, I remember digging up benchmarks and - if I remember correctly - the $35 Pi was at least 4x faster than the SparcStation 20's we all fought to get neural net training time on in our grad school lab
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by ja27 5y ago
When we had someone in for an interview, I'd often circle back and ask the office admin (that also covered reception) what she thought of them. It was pretty informative and eliminated a few candidates. I've seen someone give the
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by ja27 6y ago
A few things that help get me moving: - Make a pretty fine-grained list of tasks that are likely 10-30 minutes - Put my task list on an index card or whiteboard - Maybe use a Pomodoro timer - Change my physical environment - take a laptop o
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by ja27 6y ago
In the mid 80s, my high school used a similar setup on a TRS-80 with I think 8 serial terminals for their COBOL classes, replacing a Burroughs minicomputer with an actual cardpunch and card reader. It was cool hitting college already knowin
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by ja27 6y ago
There's about a 50% chance I won't even click a link when I see it's to medium.com.
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by ja27 6y ago
For visual line-of-sight flight, it's helpful to have different color LEDs on the front and rear so you can tell which way it's pointed. Certainly sounds like a photographer job.
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by ja27 6y ago
I'd previously used AirServer for this. I don't remember bad quality but had a little lag and they got bit by some OS compatibility for a while. https://www.airserver.com/Mac
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by ja27 6y ago
My 2 cents: Avoid competing with 20-somethings coming out of local coding bootcamps. Here there are multiple groups churning out React + (node or ruby on rails) web devs. Just learning Angular instead would set you apart. Pick one thing and
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by ja27 6y ago
Around makerspaces, mesh networking plans rank slightly above perpetual motion machines. It's not impossible but there are substantial challenges. Ask any ham involved in packet radio for the past 40 years.
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by ja27 6y ago
Back around 2006, I did a crash project on IBM 4690 OS. At some point I got into the included editor and by the second time I hit control-K, it all started coming back to me. That project also had to use 16 bit small memory model which brou
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by ja27 6y ago
Buy a $25 Visa gift card, spend $20-ish of it elsewhere, and use that for the account. They may post a charge of $1 or so to initially confirm the card. (I've had success with this in the past but apparently results can vary - some ser
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by ja27 6y ago
I'm still waiting but I keep coming close to grabbing a totally fanless M1 Air. But for my day-to-day use, even with barely leaving the house, a 15-16" display is much better for me. I would appreciate the speed and other features
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by ja27 6y ago
My 15" 2015 MBP was the best bang-for-the-buck Mac I've owned. Got it used (to avoid getting a butterfly keyboard MBP), almost max CPU, max RAM, swapped in an NVMe SSD and a semi-permanent microSD card. I love my 16" MBP but
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by ja27 6y ago
I've seen the same claim about obscure mobile apps.
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by ja27 6y ago
Despite my daily driver being my i9 16" MacBook Pro, I've started falling for the Thinkpads. Had a couple E-series before but right as the pandemic started I grabbed a used i5 X270. Swapped in a 1080 IPS screen, an SSD, and eventu
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by ja27 6y ago
2 years ago I went from a 2011 MBP to a used i7 2015 15" MBP and it was a great machine. I liked the ports and it was really handy to stash a 400GB microSD in the slot for more space. I upgraded the stock SSD to an NVMe and it really m
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by ja27 6y ago
Quick-n-dirty log level: debug && printf("counter: %d\n", i);
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by ja27 6y ago
My makerspace has done a program with Title 1 schools, Girl Scouts, etc. where we give kids a Pi with keyboard, mouse, display and teach them a little electronics, coding, etc. The biggest learned lesson has been that many of them do not ha
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by ja27 6y ago
Is it discontinued yet?
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by ja27 6y ago
There's a Classico pasta sauce line that uses jars molded with Atlas Mason on them and fit Mason jar lids but are not designed to be reused for canning. Just for marketing.
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by ja27 6y ago
Lays Stax come in an equivalent all-plastic tube and it's insane how much plastic that is compared to a bag of regular chips. The other one that bothers me is the larger Crystal Light packets which come in a very sturdy plastic contain
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by ja27 6y ago
Yeah I've been licensed for 25+ years and I'm still one of the younger hams here. I was never really into random rag-chews / chats on repeaters or HF. I did a lot of public service - disaster relief and helping with fundraisi
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by ja27 6y ago
Yes. My newest find is that you can option-click on the scaling options in Display prefs and sometimes get more choices.

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