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   by roland35 3y ago

   I think a lot of Americans are a little paranoid sometimes! Obviously most of us have never needed to drive 500 miles on short notice, but you never know... One scenario I could imagine is an evacuation for wildfires or hurricanes, but ofte
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   by roland35 3y ago

   Good luck finding a Toyota hybrid, it's shocking just how little inventory they have. I absolutely love my plug in hybrid - but they are just so hard to actually purchase right now, and the economics don't make sense when you have
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   by roland35 3y ago

   The arbitrage story definitely seems bogus. People have been aware of difference in bitcoin price across Asia since like the beginning of bitcoin - I don't think it is any huge billion $ opportunity. Now Tether on the other hand.. I wo
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   by roland35 3y ago

   I think leetcode helped me quite a bit as a software developer. I was in a similar boat as you, 12+ years experience doing software. I have an electrical engineering degree (famous for being bad programmers ha!) but no CS background. I c
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   by roland35 3y ago

   Isn't Arduino a sort of simple C++, not C? Also, for most beginners to embedded development I would recommend starting with ARM devices and a JTAG programmer for anything beyond simple blinky-type programs with Arduino. Being able to
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   by roland35 3y ago

   I have an HP server at home, TailScale helps with logging in on the go.
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   by roland35 3y ago

   How do you communicate in real time? Even a phone call can lead to bias unfortunately (accent, name, etc). Unless you fully are anonymous it is hard to eliminate bias
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   by roland35 3y ago

   You're basically halfway there, perspective wise. Just leave your attitude at the door and do the interview. For better or worse there really isn't a lot a company can do to fairly evaluate if someone can code other than actually
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   by roland35 3y ago

   Oxide is a bit of a darling child on HN - I think a lot of people (myself included) find it interesting that they are trying to re-engineer something somewhat commoditized and boring (servers) into something cool
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    by roland35 3y ago

    Nice story. Prince really did things his own way, sad we lost him
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    by roland35 3y ago

    My son was born a few weeks off the ultimate pi birthday, 1/4/15. Instead he is at ~60,000.
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    by roland35 3y ago

    I have a somewhat remote setup - I use a server which sits in my basement. It is helpful since running some things is just easier on a x86 Linux machine vs a M2 MacBook! Vs code works great but I would really prefer to find a way to get neo
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    by roland35 3y ago

    Looks like 4 cores and 24 GB fit inside the free tier: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
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    by roland35 3y ago

    Are there any good articles or overviews about GitHub actions versus other CI tools? It's surprisingly hard to Google for...
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    by roland35 3y ago

    I'm not sure about Microsoft specifically, but at other companies I've worked at (including the federal government) a level number is somewhat standardized across all roles, not just engineering. So that means an entry level engin
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    by roland35 3y ago

    I am a big advocate for job hopping, but in your case I think you need to stay on at one company for at least a few years and develop skills, and see a project through long term. You can always try starting something up, but it is honestly
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    by roland35 3y ago

    I like big json files and I can not lie! All the other programmers can't deny! When I load json with an itty bitty schema...
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    by roland35 3y ago

    That's interesting, I recently saw a map which showed that Spain in particular has a larger percentage of young adults living with parents: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/03/in-the-u
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    by roland35 3y ago

    Exactly the problem! When talking about market timing you can't just be correct in the direction but also be close to exact on the time!
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    by roland35 3y ago

    Not sure what sudden infant death syndrome has to do with gasoline??
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    by roland35 3y ago

    Some tips: - talk about things where you took initiative - how did you identify the problem? - how did you get support from your team/management? - how did the project go? - what was the outcome? - what went well, and what would you do
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    by roland35 3y ago

    I remember how much I wanted every new phone before - back in the days of my Motorola Droid there was always some awesome new feature or development. Now, the only reason I upgrade is if the phone ends up damaged or unusable.
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    by roland35 3y ago

    It's basically social engineering for AI !
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    by roland35 3y ago

    I used to love Verdana and used it everywhere back in high school...
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    by roland35 3y ago

    1 gram lighter!
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    by roland35 3y ago

    This already exists! Vendors often have demo boards of their parts, with complete schematics and design files, so it is pretty easy to find what you need.
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    by roland35 3y ago

    It would be handy to feed info like this (and datasheets) into an LLM, but unfortunately the risk of hallucinating AI is pretty high!
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    by roland35 3y ago

    The art of electronics is a great resource. It is probably better as a reference though!
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    by roland35 3y ago

    Lots of "economic uncertainty". Although I think the economy was just normal, and big tech just massively over hired
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    by roland35 3y ago

    It's probably better to just avoid onboarding new employees and all the ramp-up time associated with that. Although this is basically what a lot of other companies seem to be doing now sadly.