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by roland35 5y ago
I am noticing a lot of the big tech companies are becoming more flexible about remote work, but they are still far away from a true remote friendly option for me at least. It seems the expectation is that they want people to be available to
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by roland35 5y ago
Is there something equivalent to a small robot? An open source platform for an all terrain outdoor robotic platform would be pretty useful as well
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by roland35 5y ago
Well, he also is unchecking all the boxes too
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by roland35 5y ago
I think it's also 6 prime hours of the day too - if it was down between 12-6am I'm sure that wouldn't have been nearly a big of a problem (in the US at least)
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by roland35 5y ago
I don't have any particular approach right now (my oldest is only 7), but I am trying to be open about finances with them. When we purchase things at the store or online we talk about how we are spending x dollars, or that we pay for t
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by roland35 5y ago
Not the OP, but check out devices like Microchip's PIC (8 bits) or AVR (8 bits), or ARM Cortex M0 or Cortex M3/4 devices. On cheaper devices you can get down to a few kB of RAM and Flash memory, so you need to be mindful of what
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by roland35 5y ago
It is frustrating. For some companies I believe it is because you might be the second or third choice, so they keep your application around just in case the first choice doesn't accept the offer. Obviously this is less likely the case
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by roland35 5y ago
I once stayed at work for 36 hours straight to finish assembling a batch of circuit boards for a customer's prototype. I dropped them off at FedEx for next day AM shipping right before they closed on a Saturday and felt pretty good to
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by roland35 5y ago
My wife and I are particularly concerned about lead, especially since there is no way to really cure lead poisoning. Any house built before the 1980s could have lead in it, with varying degrees of concern for children. Around the home her
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by roland35 5y ago
Manual labor sounds nice after a week of coding, but unfortunately I hurt my back a few years ago and can't do as much as I'd like! And I had to throw away all cookies in my house. I can't control myself.
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by roland35 5y ago
I set up a pull up bar next to my desk. Any time I start compiling I try to do a few pullups or pushups on the ground! I use a solid wood workbench from Lowes as my standing desk - it is very solid but does not easily go down. I use a stool
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by roland35 5y ago
Ask around for a real estate attorney recommendation. You can pay a flat hourly fee which should in total be $500-$1500 for their services. It sounds expensive, but remember you are paying realtors 3-6% of the sale price, it is actually a
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by roland35 5y ago
I used better for my first refinance, super easy to work with! I did have to use a different lender for a second refi since there seems to be a 6-month cooldown period (rates kept going down...) My only recommendation for buyers is to do s
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by roland35 5y ago
That is a beautiful project. With huge numbers of RGB LEDs I wonder if in the future using some sort of small FPGA per panel would make things easier? I have seen that done in some persistence-of-vision projects.
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by roland35 5y ago
I may be greasier than average, but if I did that there would be a pretty big smudge on the screen!
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by roland35 5y ago
Maybe next time your 7 key breaks you can set up a macro so everytime you type "6+1" it will replace it with "7"!
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by roland35 5y ago
Accounting for its own biases. Our brains are so good at automatically filling in the gaps it can be hard to know what is true and real and what the brain filled in on its own.
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by roland35 5y ago
I may feel about this differently in the future, but right now I prefer to rent access to entertainment media (books, movies, etc) rather than try to maintain ownership. I find it difficult to even maintain digital resources, but physical
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by roland35 5y ago
I agree, I think it is way more competitive in any pure software cloud type space. I think if you can bring something else to the table such as hard science, domain expertise, hardware, or electronics, it may eliminate a lot of the competi
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by roland35 5y ago
The standard mortgage in the US is a fixed rate 30 year mortgage. You can get lower rates for 10, 15, or 20 year mortgages. Also generally you pay an extra fee (PMI) monthly if you put less than 20% down. Adjustable rate loans and interest
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by roland35 5y ago
Things have certainly changed a bit! That was a pretty good parking lot, most people didn't know about it. The biggest drama in ~2007 was when they renamed North-South drive "Gale Lemerand Drive". Everyone preferred the old n
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by roland35 5y ago
Exactly! I found that a strict schedule goes out the window pretty quick with small children. What I try to do is have a few "anchor points" throughout the day - 11am is always lunch, 1 pm is nap time, 7:30 is bedtime. The rest
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by roland35 5y ago
When I was a student at University of Florida, they didn't have - grades (i.e. A-, B-, etc). I heard it was due to a faculty protest against grade inflation, which in the end benefited me since a 90.0% was a full A on the 4.0 scale! I
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by roland35 5y ago
I thought it also includes insurance, and you could also swap cars at any point? So pretty similar but a little more than a lease.
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by roland35 5y ago
Like: When I was taking an AWS certification class I sometimes got giddy with excitement thinking about how easily I could build anything at any scale, paying no money down! Anything you need to create a technical product is there. Securi
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by roland35 5y ago
I completely agree! I am completely pro vaccine.
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by roland35 5y ago
Not sure if there are any packaged solutions but sparkfun has some devices like this one: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12772
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by roland35 5y ago
There was one time in my life where I had an amazing comeback related to the tetanus shot. My coworker was complaining all day about how his arm was sore from his tetanus booster, so I finally asked him "Do you remember when I got my
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by roland35 5y ago
I have a fairly rough experience working at a consulting firm. I was on a long-term project, but even on relatively stable projects consultants are the first engineers to get cut or moved around when there is trouble. I ended up filling in
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by roland35 5y ago
I believe things like Home Assistant are the future of IoT. There are always going to be thousands of random devices and sensors - many of which may become obsolete or unsupported by their manufacturer. A centralized intelligent and well-

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