HeyLaughingBoy

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by HeyLaughingBoy 8d ago
My experience with hardware engineers, at least IRL, is very different. They love to talk about their work. However, I used to be an EE so that probably helps. As for Reddit, there's a lot of "bury head in sand and problem will go
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by HeyLaughingBoy 15d ago
"I got five kids to feed"
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by HeyLaughingBoy 15d ago
It's funny. As a SW dev working on medical devices, I've done at least two catheter ablation machines that I can think of, but I never knew the specifics of exactly what problem it solves. I mean, I obviously know in detail what t
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by HeyLaughingBoy 15d ago
Huh. I was actually thinking about him a few days ago. Is he still among the living? I remember posting on PM about 15 years ago asking how to fix a mistake I kept making and he gently smacked me on the head and basically said just learn to
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by HeyLaughingBoy 15d ago
I had a co-worker who was an experienced software developer but had never worked on a system that interfaced with the physical world before. For quite a while, he hated having to test on real hardware because all sorts of failure modes that
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by HeyLaughingBoy 15d ago
That's not a valid comparison. A Jira log is not part of a Quality Management System (QMS). An aircraft maintenance log is. If you fake data in the QMS, software or not, for a regulated industry, I can assure you that it won't be
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by HeyLaughingBoy 15d ago
I don't think you guys are really disagreeing with each other. Just that one is using a colloquial definition of "missing" and the other, a technical one.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 16d ago
This really made me think about what got me interested in programming and I have no idea. In HS, I had a Physics teacher who had a TRS-80 (Model 3, I think) and he would let us use it during Lunch for whatever. But I was already interested
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by HeyLaughingBoy 16d ago
To paraphrase what I recently said to someone I haven't seen in 25 years: one of the greatest gifts that ageing has given me is increased self awareness.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 16d ago
I think this is just a Jira/bitbucket thing. If you add a feature branch, that's how the naming convention defaults. I've been seeing it for years.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 20d ago
PayPal? I sign in all the time. If you're referring to the popup to add a new authentication method, you can just escape past it.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 21d ago
I was confused by this (because I rarely carry cash) until I saw your response below. I think OP might be using credit/debit card interchangeably? I don't use my credit cards unless I have to, but my debit card is used daily.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 22d ago
It's probably mostly labor cost. An 8x10 shed kit starts at under $US2k but if you pay someone to assemble it, including electrical, the price will go up very quickly. I know someone who builds horse shelters that are larger than that,
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by HeyLaughingBoy 23d ago
I guarantee you that it's always been the case.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 23d ago
I'm sorry, but why is this a surprise?
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by HeyLaughingBoy 23d ago
That "just" is really doing a lot of heavy lifting. Economics is what makes this country work. If converting to renewables makes more money, that's what will happen and the people making the money will find a way to justify i
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by HeyLaughingBoy 23d ago
I was surprised by this too. From a background in writing code to control precision pumps, I have a good idea of what 50 µL looks like and it seemed like an awfully small amount. But I don't know how concentrated the oil is. FWIW, I ha
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by HeyLaughingBoy 23d ago
To be clear: the question isn't illegal. What is illegal is using it to discriminate against a protected class, so as a result, no interviewer with half a brain will ask those questions.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 23d ago
Usually not if you already have a day job. But that's completely orthogonal to the original statement.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 23d ago
Dunno about that. I live in the US. I can start a small business today and the only thing I'd have to do differently is file an additional form on my taxes next year. Yes, that's a simplification that doesn't apply to every s
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by HeyLaughingBoy 25d ago
So I can go out and kill my neighbor without having to worry about consequences, then? I mean, just say the word: he's been pissing me off recently.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 25d ago
Do you have an actual use for them? I might have a few tubes of Z80-CTC & SIO in the basement if I haven't given them all away yet.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 27d ago
Jesus, this rant is so eerily similar to one I read 25 years ago when someone explained why they stopped using C and started using C++ that I wouldn't be surprised to find that you are the same one who was complaining back then.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 27d ago
I'm in Medical Devices and while AI is at best a small part of development right now, rest assured that we are actively investigating how to make it an approved part of our process. Then again, coding was only ever a small part of our
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by HeyLaughingBoy 27d ago
I don't see that at all. These look like typical decisions that a technical team lead would make and then inform project management of the decision.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 27d ago
I would agree wrt my High School teachers. They were basically competent, but not particularly good. In college however, my Humanities professors were better than I appreciated at the time. They forced us to think about the material and cha
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by HeyLaughingBoy 27d ago
I couldn't find the exact point that I was thinking of (when Hamlet is telling Ophelia that men are basically all just assholes), but I think this modern-day version of Hamlet helps to illustrate your point: https://www.yout
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by HeyLaughingBoy 27d ago
A couple years after I graduated college, I came across the 1972 movie of Macbeth . The experience was so drastically different from reading it in high school that it seemed like a completely different play. Suddenly, it all made sense now
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by HeyLaughingBoy 28d ago
> Do you know how much it costs to operate a helicopter Do you know how easy and cheap it is to make gunpowder? I was making black powder rockets from grocery store ingredients when I was 12.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 29d ago
Reminds me of the movie I saw this weekend with the homeless guy who said he used to be a software developer at Apple, but there were some "disciplinary issues."

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