1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

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I bet the AC’s nice

 

The more I think about this, the worse it sounds. HAving to figure out what you were thinking then, think of a better way to do it, and generate the motivation to do so all at the same time.... Good luck.

 

A nice 210 two-door wagon. A lot of work invested in that one.

I remember when nobody wanted to be caught dead in anything with fins -- unless they were dead and in a Cadillac hearse.

But if you could swing one of these, you were hot stuff.

 

I want to completely rewrite everything but it's not a priority at the moment. I have to add in the new functionality without breaking the old which means rewriting a bunch of shit anyways.

 

Can the metal of the roof of the truck be accessed from in the cab by just removing the headliner? Or is there more to pull back

Thinking about how I'm going to approach plugging the roof rack holes, seems doing it underneath from inside would be better than from the top. Not really sure how easily the headliner comes off though.

@BartMaster1234 you've taken yours off before if I recall, to install your light's wiring I think?

 

Pop a riv-nut in from the top and plug it with a flat head bolt lathered up in silicone.

 

I worked at the same small software shop (C#/ASP.NET) for 7 years. Watching my work age, revisiting it years later, and watching other people try to figure it out (sometimes without them realizing I was the one who made it) was both humbling and enlightening.

 

Interesting, that should certainly seal it and wouldn't require me to pull the headliner off. I had originally thought of just getting some 1/2" diameter plastic plugs with flat heads, plugged from underneath sealed in silicone. But I worry about the longevity of those plugs and their ability to seal long term.

 

hahaha sounds like a fun time. were you a full stack developer?


I used to do a lot of C#/.NET stuff for the webservices and internal tools at my last gig....on top of my actual job of developing the android app

 

Looking back its always like 'aw man that code is still great at what it does' or, 'oh god thats embarrassing'.

Most of my code over the years has been pretty temporary, fortunately.

 

Never used rivnuts before, just rivets...just watched a vid and that definitely seems like the way to go, thanks for the idea

Now I find myself wishing I had used those on my a-pillar for the snorkel rather than rivets

 

I put a bunch of money in XRP and TRX about 4 years ago and just recently remembered it. The coins are in Binance and apparently they shut down for US customers and now they won't allow me to access my funds

 

Occasionally, ex colleagues at Tesla hit me up asking how parts of my old production code works. Apparently I should've commented/documented it better haha. Glad to hear they're still using it though.

 

I consider myself a Microsoft stack generalist--ASP.NET, MS-SQL, Azure--but not truly full-stack. I haven't kept up with the HTML/CSS/JS shenanigans. I can follow what's going on, but I'm thankful to have somebody else writing it.

I wrote one application in particular that was both of those things. I wrote it pretty fresh out of college. It was ugly, but hardened. I watched a few other devs try and fail at replacing it. They all took fundamentally different approaches to the problem, so I couldn't help much--just do my best to answer whatever questions they asked. It was still running when I left the company. Might still be, for all I know...

 

LOL do you say "not my problem"?


about a year into this current job an old teammate reached out to me because my phone number was still tied to a cloud services production account 2FA and they couldn't login. (also yikes on going a year without checking production crash data lol) I spent the weeks leading up to my exit reminding my managers to take my email and phone off of those accounts and they apparently never did.

 

Lol. Nah, my old boss is one of my best friends. But he recently left for Waymo, so yeah, if they came calling again, I think I'd just say good luck haha.

 

It would be fun to be a fly on the wall in a place like that after you're gone. Sometimes that stuff sticks around for a very long time in surprising ways. I've got some diagnostic software like that I wrote right out of school as well.

 

lol. I once sort of inherited a codebase for a portable device that the previous guy had inherited. After sorting through six or seven hard drive images, finding the code in a git repo, which someone had checked into an SVN repo, I discovered that someone had disabled all of the c compiler warnings . I told my boss it wasn't going out the door again till it compiled cleanly.

My real task on that device was to add compatability for a new LCD screen, because the old one was EOL. The assembly people hated me for it, because I couldn't find a new screen with a connector on the right side, so you needed like six hands and a pry bar to assemble the thing when I was done.

I don't miss that job.