I work in energy r&d, and have for several jobs over the years now.

My sadness is transmuted into passion for solving these issues from the ground up. Top brass is interested in “stock options” and blah blah blah, I’m just focused on solving technical problems to make efficient, powerful energy production that isn’t hard on the earth.

The money won’t matter if there’s nowhere to live. My efforts may not be enough, ultimately, but I’ll die knowing I tried to help solve the problems we’ve caused.

Were they? What happened??

Thanks! Stickers sound cool as I don’t like carrying much, just phone with stick on wallet & a little key chain for my motorcycle/house.

But I’ll bet the sticker is a bit chunky?

Same, though I’d like to know about the work access card trick.

I saw the same when I lived in OC. It’s pretty lively up here in Seattle too.

Originally mechanical, moved over to high speed power by volunteering and taking on projects that needed more EE stuff vs ME.

I work in research and development, in terms of stress and fulfillment, jobs are invariably a mix of the two. You’ll need to build a portfolio of interesting personal projects which are useful, the ability to be creative and flexible… You know, stuff that helps you stand out, comparatively.

Do your time, just get your foot in the door. But do something more advanced with that time than you’re asked to, if you intend to demand more pay from other companies. And don’t plan on sticking around for more than 3 years, you only get real pay bumps by moving around, so it seems.

I make energy (a word describing the measure of the invisible magic which makes sea waves happen, the sensation of warmth of the sun on your skin, and the effort you put into lifting heavy rocks) move around really, really, really fast, and lots and lots of it too.

Controlling this ‘energy’ is a difficult task because if you give it even a little chance, ‘energy’ will escape in the easiest, most useless way possible. Half my job is planning how to prevent energy from escaping without doing something useful first.

Well… At least all the ones related to platform IO and other embedded development. Can’t say every extension, since I’ve not tried them all.

Represent! (It’s vscode with all telemetry and crap removed, all your vscode extensions still work fine)

Hear hear. That’s how the tools I write work as well.

Yeah it loaded after searching the ASIN hahaha

No cuz, the link doesn’t properly load 😂

E: try searching for just the ASIN: B07X66DCLM and note that I’m using the one you provided!

Don’t worry, someone else over here was saying programming is “the pinnacle” of engineering… Really hard not to disembowel a statement like that lol.

I think programming is both an art and a science, like all engineering disciplines.

Meh. There’s a saying in my field: “anyone can build a bridge, only an engineer can make one that barely doesn’t fall down”.

Humorously reductive as it is, software is what makes that “barely” thinner than human calculation would normally yield. So… Yeah. Not what I’d call a pinnacle.

Right? I do both electrical and mechanical in my daily, besides some meh quality C code haha.

Telekinesis, imagine what fun sex could be with a consenting partner. Probably a limit on distance, but until there…

Also, inner mechanisms of locks and vaults.

Meeehhh… Kinda. It was great, for windows, don’t get me wrong.

But personally I think windows 2000 was the most rock steady and speedy of all of em. But it also had less legacy stuff to support, didn’t have XP’s compatibility layer etc etc etc.

So it’s easy for me to love win2k, it was less complex, thus less likely to have serious bugs (after the 4th service pack lol).

Yeah. It’s come a long way, and if nothing else, Linux is a fertile playground for the philosophy of software design for those who handle the UX/UI stuff.

Windows 7 was beat to the punch by gnome/Ubuntu on the paradigm of representing apps in the taskbar as icons that then expand to become textual lists. Some people hate that idea, and that’s ok too, so long as they’re given alternatives that are easy to switch between.

So… You’re aware that all the things listed are Linux at their core, right? Android runs on the Linux kernel.

Constant tinkering really means understanding how the system works; not to mention a system (be it Mac/win/lin) which needs no modification is one unused. The only way construction in NYC would stop being a ‘problem’ is if the city were dead.

I’m supporting embedded devices, and I like the performance of C. I’ve used python, it’s meh. At least you don’t have to compile it.