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by roland35 5y ago
I feel your pain... I was looking at building a house (with a national builder) and the historical prices in that neighborhood showed that the price went up about 30% in the past year. I think most of that was just the general price of hou
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by roland35 5y ago
It does not hurt to ask, especially at a larger corporation (you may hurt feelings at a smaller company for example). I would leave out any comparison to other interns and focus on how much value you have provided already. However, they ma
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by roland35 5y ago
I had a lot of this last time I was looking for a new job! I applied to about 15 as well, heard back from a few quick no's but had only one interview which led to an offer. Literally months later I then received about 6 interview reque
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by roland35 5y ago
I think it depends on the types of companies you are working with. Lots of larger enterprise corporations are going with Azure, there will be lots of opportunities in that space. Smaller and newer companies generally are using AWS more tha
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by roland35 5y ago
It's been a few years since I've used it, but that wouldn't surprise me. A lot of these project management tools bloat over time.
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by roland35 5y ago
Just because it is simple doesn't mean it is easy ;)
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by roland35 5y ago
Have you tried Wrike at all? Of all the project management tools I've used I enjoyed Wrike the most. What I liked most about it is that you can combine the same tasks together in multiple places... which helps me since many tasks don&
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by roland35 5y ago
I believe you can use either. I recently downloaded Libby but I still see my holds in overdrive too.
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by roland35 5y ago
I had some issues with my g code files on my prusa printer - I think it expects some special start up sequence of g code. There is also an x y z offset which seemed useful, but it replaced my calibration so I needed to recalibrate after!
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by roland35 5y ago
Some cron-like libraries, like Quartz Job Scheduler, actually have a seconds number first! That bit me once when I was trying to schedule something to occur every 5 minutes, and ended up running it every five seconds...
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by roland35 5y ago
I love org mode and use it all the time, but I still occasionally blow up my file with inadvertent vim commands! Yes I know I am a weirdo for using eVil mode :) The most common mistake I make is having caps lock on and hitting J a bunch whi
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by roland35 5y ago
So the question to me boils down to - what to do about it? We could easily have another decade (or 2 or 3) of economic growth before the next crash. The hard part isn't predicting the crash, it is predicting when it will happen. The
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by roland35 5y ago
I am trying to design a solution to something I encounted a lot during my hardware development days - keeping track of inventory of small and large parts alike. Basically a shelving system with an app which a user can search and the shelf
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by roland35 5y ago
The website we used to register for classes at University of Florida was also ISIS (Integrated Student information services or something like that). They have since rebranded it as well
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by roland35 5y ago
You definitely have that right, but at this point the choice isn't vaccine vs no vaccine, it is vaccine vs getting covid. It is much more contagious than it was last year.
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by roland35 5y ago
"mild" in terms of delta covid mMans you don't need to go to the hospital. Mild covid still can be pretty terrible, but it at least isn't life-threatening!
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by roland35 5y ago
If you need one car, the PHEV is definitely the best of both worlds. It also is not dependant on fast charging at all, so I did not need to install a level 2 charger at home or worry about my destination. The other benefit is it is still e
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by roland35 5y ago
PHEVs don't seem to be popular but my car (Chevy Volt) has been a great gateway to a future EV. The only times I use any gas is if I do way more driving than usual in a day, or when the "engine maintence mode" kicks in once
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by roland35 5y ago
Haha who is getting rich from patents? I started my career at a small R&D company which generated aerospace intellectual property and patents, and in general the process was slow, expensive, and not too lucrative since the patents were
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by roland35 5y ago
When I feel myself approaching overthinking, one strategy I try is to identify if there are different requirements or criteria I may have missed and write them down. A lot of decisions involve complicated trade-offs, and it is often too ea
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by roland35 5y ago
I keep finding that the more complicated the setup I use for productivity, the less I go back to it whenever there is a hiccup. Simple methods survive long term. Currently my wife and I use a shared google doc, and while it is far from per
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by roland35 5y ago
I love these types of charts. It looks like I am doing real work!!
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by roland35 5y ago
I think it is good to be conservative with your retirement savings though! It is much better to leave behind a large estate for your children/charities/whatever than risk spending the last years of your life pennyless due to a mar
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by roland35 5y ago
Is there another interface besides json? Json works great with languages like python but can get painful for embedded c on microcontrollers.
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by roland35 5y ago
Ooof... I have done a few double pointers in my day *, but anything beyond that seems like bad practice!
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by roland35 5y ago
I've tried questions like this (super basic but can quickly filter out people who know nothing), but sometimes the candidate seems insulted! I try to quickly move on to a harder question.
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by roland35 5y ago
It has happened! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19666545
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by roland35 5y ago
I generally walk into these "career advice" posts skeptically but I found this advice pretty good overall! For me I try to look at my jobs as a way to build a portfolio of skills. When I feel like I am not learning anything (and
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by roland35 5y ago
Yes, sorry I meant it would have made things much easier. My heart goes out to all the families with babies in the NICU. It is beyond stressful and obviously the financial side is nothing compared to the wellbeing of your baby, but then it
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by roland35 5y ago
My first son spent a week in the NICU since he had to be on antibiotics, otherwise was fine. The hospital entered in my insurance card incorrectly so we were billed as uninsured. Turns out a week at the NICU for a healthy newborn is about

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