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20 year Dota player here. I always play support and I’m ok with low wealth/ low xp. High impact tho!

Only thing I’m good at carrying is wards.


I was gonnna click the link, but then I got high.


I would’ve posted to say what I think, but I got high.


Can't be bothered to upvote, and I know why


Excellent, memorable scene.

But it is Red who suggests it should be filed under ‘education’!


You maybe right. I found a clip of it on YT, but it cuts off right before that line.


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.


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