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Manual work is underrated. Especially the kind of work where you can see an immediate end result from your efforts. I worked in a kitchen for two years and I can tell you slicing f…

Not the average software engineer and definitely not at the entry level. I always had a feeling that "engineer shortage" articles are only made to push people into studying CS so e…

For what it's worth, we've been running about 15 TP-Link EAP225 in a warehouse without any hiccups so far. Most importantly they don't randomly die or lose the controller pairing l…

Just wondering, is job hopping as engineering manager as easy as coder/individual contributor? It seems like the market for people with focus on soft skills is way more saturated (…

Most of my friends from university who went into recruiting burned out and quit within 6 months. The turnover (especially in temp agencies) is insane

It was me! Thanks for the tip about M -> H. Sorry I deleted the comment - I wasn't 100% sure about the models (I don't have the laptops near me at the moment and I didn't want to s…

I've quit toxic competitive gaming (League of Legends, Overwatch) and replaced it with Netflix and shortwave radio listening. I'm still procrastinating because I work a bullshit jo…

Sure. Unless there's a generous bonus on quality of work or project completion, the only rational way to play the game as a random employee is to maximize the gain and minimize the…

I've noticed the used video card prices have skyrocketed. I've put up an eBay auction for a GTX 1060 6GB and it ended up selling for twice than what I bought it used two years ago.…