1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

They should’ve done a mental health check

 

Mines not even zip tied anymore

 

Such a good exercise for new programmers tho. We did a bunch of assembly on the mcu, and then some verilog/vhdl on fgpas. Makes python feel like witchcraft

 

It’s the coffee machine that really blows up my power budget

 

Among us, I've had enough Tokico shocks for two lifetimes. I thought they went out of business. Years ago, I switched to Koni and never looked back.

 

I feel it

I'm making 3-4 pots a day now


Living in an old house doesn't help that utility bill either, tstat is turned down to 60-63 now

 

I forgot, did you go to school in Chicago?

Sounds like our coursework was similar, though. I had one course which involved writing a compiler for "Jack" programming language. I wrote in an issue with arrays that created a memory leak and eventual fatal crash in long-running programs. I spent 10+ hours trying to find it but never did lol

 

gotta keep a fresh stock of zip ties on hand, they don't seem to last very long under there lmao

 

I keep my thermostat low as well, and just keep a radiant heater by the desk and a warm pad under my feat. Why heat the whole house when I’m chained to the desk?

 

Fancy lol

I got a blanket as part of my office attire and molly usually lays on my feet it the blanket is touching the floor lol

 

I was doing some math to use my desktop as a passive heater and at current eth rates I would break even on electric cost mining it and probably keep my office warm lol

 

We've done it, boys, AMSOIL 5W40 diesel oil is cheaper shipped than Rotella, Valvoline, or Mobil1

 

some days, I am the shredder.

 

Chicago suburbs, yeah. Then moved to Chicago proper immediately after school. My degree is in Computer Science.

I don't think my course work went as deep as a lot of schools. It was a smaller school. The folks who went to state schools and got degrees in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering got much farther into the weeds than I did. My degree mostly filled the back of my head with a bunch of abstract concepts and words to Google when I get stuck. That's been worth a ton to me, but at least once a week I find myself thinking "I should know this better than I do".

 

what color is the wheel? I need a tan one for the 4runner

 

haha Computer Science is fun for that lol,


My thought process is often something like
"Cool we studied algorithms and complex representations of data...yeah I don't remember any of that... Should I store a phone number as a string or numeric?"

 

I think this is a good place to be. Flexibility is key. I've seen the opposite end with people who tried to become "walking manuals" in a given area.

Interestingly, they became dated and the skillset went out of style as fast a 57 Plymouth tail fins. They managed to survive 20 to 25 years and then bailed out or completely burned out. They are gone.

 

I have coworkers that like to turn everything into a float, even nicely considered ints that only need to take up 8 bits.


Monsters.

 

One of my first internship projects was a Perl script to normalize international phone number formats in the company's directory. That's probably the last time I wrote Perl... and I don't know if they even used my script.

Agreed--I don't regret the education at all. That little inkling of what to search for has gotten me through a lot.

I also don't regret ignoring the "get a new job every 2 years" advice I mentioned the other day--I stayed at that job for almost 8 years. One can learn a lot from watching how fresh eyes react to the work their past-self did.

I am starting to feel old in the industry, though. I've spent my whole career writing C#, which I love, but I'm sure all the Cobol and Smalltalk and LISP developers loved their languages, too. I should get better at JavaScript.

So they like it when the numbers they read back are occasionally different from the numbers they wrote?