mech422

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by mech422 3y ago
I quit my previous position back in May '23, and am just starting to put any effort in looking. Seeing a bunch of jobs but the all seem pretty boring/run-of-the-mill stuff. I'm mostly just relaxing - I basically took 6 mont
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by mech422 3y ago
any users groups or maker spaces around you could try ?
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by mech422 3y ago
Hang in there - first jobs are always a PITA... You might be able to get some relevant 'work' experience by volunteering somewhere while you look? (though, that doesn't put food on the table...)
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Single terms might be too short - but I'd be happy with anything <= a 20 year limit...2 terms (same as president), 3 terms, or even 4 terms.. I also think term limits are the first step towards getting anything else fixed. Without
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by mech422 3y ago
Really, thats interesting... Thanks!
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by mech422 3y ago
Don't know about the interview processes - but if you've been looking 4 months, you started back in Q4, which is normally a REALLY slow time (everyone is busy with holidays, parties, vacations, and budgets are basically spent). H
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by mech422 3y ago
man - I used to love him in Cover Up!
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I guess they needed to find something after the bootleg VHS/DVD movie market dried up? :-P
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by mech422 3y ago
From what my ex-coworkers are saying it applies to Taos, and BoxBoat - and RH was accquired long before either of them so I'm assuming it applies to them as well.
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by mech422 3y ago
>> I think ultimately the issue here is we won't ever come to an agreement of what is "basic effort." Yeah - probably just talking past each other... :-D >> I personally hit the former extreme a lot due to
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by mech422 3y ago
Wow..Thats a name I haven't seen in ages! I remember when that happened..Horrible and last time I looked (10-15 years ago??) the wells were still contaminated, and people still had to drink the water :-/
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by mech422 3y ago
Also, tax breaks... Notice how many jobs in Texas are on-site only? Texas is aggressively enforcing the tax deals they had with companies to have XX% of their workforce on site, spending money locally to keep the tax benefit.
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by mech422 3y ago
>>If you can't expend the basic effort, don't expect someone else to bail you out... Wow - you really went out of your way to ignore that basic statement I made (and I stand by). No one expects juniors to come in with perfec
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by mech422 3y ago
Ahh - that's a unique usage of 'militantly' - I've never seen it before.
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by mech422 3y ago
I'm sorry, I don't find a junior not knowing what terms to google to be a compelling argument. Nor do I find "proprietary workplace tools" to be a compelling arguement. Either the on-boarding sucked, or they didn'
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by mech422 3y ago
>>Freelancing While I agree in principle it can often be easier to contract thru an agency. When freelancing I found I wasn't very good at initial sales, marketing, cold calling, etc. Collections also sucked and the lead ti
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by mech422 3y ago
I hear ya :-) Everything old is new again... Hope ya got something fun to work on! Lets hope we're cranking away until the passion dies :-D
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Heh - I actually have to stop and remember 2010 was 13 years ago now.. We literally have a generation of geeks with 10 years experience that have never seen a slow down before. I guess it would be pretty unnerving.
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by mech422 3y ago
I think this is like third? fourth? time I've been thru it.. God knows how many times in my career I've been told programmers were all gonna be replaced (Hell, COBOL was IBM's ploy to make programming an 'entry level&#x2
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by mech422 3y ago
The "dour, guilt-ridden, or militantly proselytizing" are what make Christianity compelling for you? The first 2 I could see as personal choice but isn't "militantly" anything sorta anti-christian? (I'm an agn
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by mech422 3y ago
also, fairly unrelated to what you mentioned... I hate the junior engineers "its so easy to ask a more experienced engineer a _quick_ question" comments.. If you're asking me a 'quick' question - google it dammit. I
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by mech422 3y ago
yeah - I never had access to a 'real' unix. Closest I came was solaris and maybe Irix. Other then that, it's just been Linux. Keep meaning to give *BSD a try... P.S. - oh! and I had friends that loved HP/UX - another on
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by mech422 3y ago
Heh...rebuilding gcc on slackware to enable shared libs was an adventure - but that wasn't till the late 90s(??). I think I spent like a week bootstrapping the new gcc, rebuilding glibc and rebuilding all the stuff I used.
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by mech422 3y ago
I'd assume even if you have all that, you'd still be tied to the city grid, so it wouldn't require any 'extra' over your current connection? (At least, thats how it works here - you might have roof top solar, but yo
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by mech422 3y ago
Congrats!
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oh - the Vanadium thing is interesting... I guess the poor round trip efficiency and poor energy-to-volume ratio are what we're waiting for before they become more common? speaking of ammonia - what do you think of ammonia engines? I j
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by mech422 3y ago
not who you responded to but... Do we even have enough lithium etc. to produce all the solar panels (and batteries for ev's ??) we're gonna need ? P.S. - good point on the dangers of mining!
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Dam - now it let me reply - sorry, I responded above
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Sorry - it wouldn't let me reply to your last comment... >> Nuclear, all nuclear, has the down side of needing local power. If you have to shut down in an emergency you need to keep shit running (this is what killed Fukushima in
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by mech422 3y ago
iirc, I live near the largest nuke plant in the US. No complaints. Perhaps the issue is more with the people running the plants, then the plants themselves. Also, recycling nuke waste like many countries do cuts the amount of waste down dr

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