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Genuine question: how did you conduct your job search? What steps did you take during those two years? Do you have a degree?

LinkedIn applications, applying to every PM role available in my metro area that I could, attending as many tech & startup events as I could. I got to know the main writer of the local startup/tech news aggregator pretty well and would pester him regularly for contacts at new local companies that he's talking with. I was active in my city's tech Slack/Discord community.

I do have a degree albeit on not in STEM. Also have an advanced degree (also not STEM) that helped the company I was with from 2018 until 2021.


I want to back this guy up because I was in the same hole.

See my above post. Basically, tons of applications, going to networking events 2-3x a week, being active in local tech Slack/Discord groups, bothering the lead writer of the local tech/startup newsletter, etc.

They can encrypt data coming out of both ends?!


Sounds like something they pulled out of their ass..


But their algorithms are number 1 on the market!


#2. There's always somebody better. Sorry, just taking the piss there.


Completely anecdotal, and mostly unrelated, but my NES from 1990 is still going strong. Two PS3’s that I have owned simply broke.

CRTs from 1994 and 2002 still going strong. LCD tvs from 2012 and 2022 just went kaput for no reason.

Old hardware rocks.


LCD tvs from 2012 and 2022 just went kaput for no reason.

Most likely bad capacitors. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague may have passed, but electrolytic capacitors are still the major life-limiting component in electronics.


MLCC's look ready to take over nearly all uses of electrolytics.

They still degrade with time, but in a very predictable way.

That makes it possible to build a version of your design with all capacitors '50 year aged' and check it still works.

Sadly no engineering firm I know does this, despite it being very cheap and easy to do.


Looks like that plague stopped in 2007? I have a 8 year old LCD that died out of nowhere as well, So I'm guessing wouldn't be affected by this. Could still be a capacitor issue though



Specifically old Japanese hardware from the 80s and 90s - this stuff is bulletproof


I still have a Marantz amp from the 80's that works like new, it hasn't even been recapped.


For what it's worth my LCD monitor from 2010 is doing well. I think the power supplied died at one point but I already had a laptop supply to replace it with.


I had an LCD that worked from around 2005 to 2022. It became very yellow closer to 2022 for some reason. It was Samsung PVA, I think it was model 910T.


Its old enough to use a CFL backlight and those turn yellow with age.


Thanks ;)


Hey bossman thanks for pointing this out. Will have to look for it next time I watch. Yam seng.


It’s mentioned in the books, kopeng. I think it comes up in some of the repair scenes, but there’s such a jargon dump in many of them that it might slip by. Naomi is caressing some of it at one point, like she’s petting a cat. Which is not far off from how she sees the Roci.


*bosmang. I'm not sure it's mentioned in the show, but it is in the books.


I can think of two in the show, but one is right before Holden needs to tell Nagata something important, and the other is in the middle of a brain dump at Tycho station when the Roci is being diagnosed for repairs.

Might have been a mention on the Agatha King.


User name does not check out. :-)


Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1732/

@13,500 BCE


Awesome read. Ty for sharing.

>For nearly a decade he was the world's only radio astronomer.


Hello fellow CRT owner. What is your use case? Retro video games? PC games? Movies?


Hello indeed!

> What is your use case? Retro video games? PC games? Movies?

All of the above! The majority of my interest largely stems from the fact that for whatever reason, I am INCREDIBLY sensitive to sample and hold motion blur. Whilst I tolerate it for modern gaming because I largely have no choice, CRT's mean I do not for my retro gaming, which I very much enjoy. (I was very poor growing up, so most of it for me is not even nostalgia, most of these games are new to me.)

Outside of that, we have a "retro" corner in our home with a 32" trinitron. I collect laserdisc/VHS and we have "retro video" nights where for whatever reason, we watch the worst possible quality copies of movies we could get in significantly higher definition. Much the same as videogames, I was not exposed to a lot of media growing up, my wife has also not seen many things because she was in Russia back then, so there is a ton for us to catch up on very slowly and it just makes for a fun little date night every now and again.

Sadly though, as I get ready to take on a mortgage, it's likely most of my CRT's will be sold, or at least the broadcast monitors. I do not look forward to it haha.


> Outside of that, we have a "retro" corner in our home with a 32" trinitron.

A 32” Trinny. Nice. I have the 32” JVC D-series which I consider my crown jewel. It’s for retro gaming and I have a laserdisc player but a very limited selection of movies. Analog baby.

> Sadly though, as I get ready to take on a mortgage, it's likely most of my CRT's will be sold

Mortgage = space. You won’t believe the nooks and crannies you can fit CRTs into. Attic. Shed. Crawl space. Space under basement stairs. Heck, even the neighbors house. I have no less than 14 CRTs ferreted away in the house. Wife thinks I have only 5. Get creative. Don’t worry about the elements, these puppies were built to survive nuclear blasts. Do I have a sickness? Probably. But analog!!!


Speaking of laser disc it's wild how vivid colors are on that platform. My main example movie is Star Trek First contact and everything is very colorful. DVD is muddy. Even a Blu-ray copy kinda looks like crap. A total side note is the surround sound for that movie is absolutely awesome especially the cube battle scene.


> I have the 32” JVC D-series which

I would love one of these however I have never seen one in my country. Super jealous haha! The tubes they use apparently were an american made tube, with most of the JVCs that were released in my country using different tubes than those released in the US market.

That being said, I do own two JVC "broadcast" monitors that I love. A 17" and a 19". They are no D-series real "TV" but.


Can you point me towards these ‘workarounds’ so I can learn more? TY.


First-past-the-post voting systems are extra dangerous. I.e. where all the votes of a district go to the winner of the district.

If instead all votes go proportionally according to what people voted, you get less extreme policies and encourage parties to build coalitions. Nobody is happy, but fewer people are extremely unhappy.


Forbid Gerrymandering.

E.g. Republican Schwarzenegger has been advocating against gerrymandering for a long time.

Force all states to cast election votes to be proportional to citizens' votes (some states do but others do not).


I realize this is just my own idea, but I think the Constitution forbids gerrymandering, by demanding a "republican form of government" in the states. The question is how this opinion would stand up to being tested by the current Supreme Court.


You can find plenty of "workarounds" in any Wal-Mart or pawn shop in the US. You can even buy a "workaround" from someone directly and avoid a background check.


Two people tried to use their "workaround" prior to the election and failed.


I knew that TAS meant “a computer” but for those, like me, who forgot/ didn’t know, TAS stands for “tool-assisted speedrun”.


Correct. TAS usually means to use a tool that lets them painstakingly play the game on a frame-by-frame basis (usually 1/60th of a second), each frame making the theoretically optimal input.


Yes, and even for TAS you usually have a division of labour between people who find the exploits and people who create the TAS itself.


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