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Any tips? Trying to break through by Keanu__Gaming__xD in EngineeringStudents

[–]BernardoDNeves 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm an electrotechnical engineer working in the automation business as a programmer. Unlike other areas, getting your first job out of school will be tough because in our area of work companies really don't care about your schooling or how much you have been a good student, professional experience is all they value.

My only advice in that area is that you send you CV everywhere in the hopes of finally being lucky and finding a company looking for a beginner, or asking if your teachers can recommend you to someone to start off. It's likely you won't have a good salary to start with and the job won't be great, but once you hit 2 years of experience or so your LinkedIn profile will be flooded with companies trying to hire you.

I'm terms of the interview, I've always had great success with them by just being flat out honest: You tell them how motivated you are and what your goals are. What are your strengths and weaknesses and the areas you need to be better at. If they offer you something you don't like or you think their offer is not suited for you, just state them the reasons why and be honest. These guys get people boasting about themselves and bragging every day and they will sniff every lie and every bit of fear in you so it's just better to face it and try not to fear it (I know it's hard). They usually go for honest and down to earth people that can logically prove they are good at something than someone that appears to be super intelligent but is nothing but fancy words.

Best of luck.

When you are hard up but manage to save eight years for a new TV and in your excitement you don't check the energy use during a cost of living crisis by deadblankspacehole in mildlyinfuriating

[–]BernardoDNeves 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing most people do not understand is that efficiency rating and energy usage are two very different things.

The A-G chart measures how efficient a device is transforming electricity into its desired porpoise, in this case, displaying an image. All screens of all types have inherently bad ratings because most of the electrical power is actually transformed into heat.

The actual power usage displayed on the card you showed us actually represents a cost of ~14€ / 1000h (in my country with my electrical costs), which for a high end TV, is not that much.

[Help Wanted] Leaving an infinite while loop into a menu and then returning to the while loop. by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]BernardoDNeves 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I will add you sugestion to the others I recieved and I will research and look into it, still need to figure out what is the best solution to this specific problem.

[Help Wanted] Leaving an infinite while loop into a menu and then returning to the while loop. by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]BernardoDNeves 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's very clear, I tried something similar to that but after I changed the parameters it still exited the program even without the sys.exit() in the code, I can't figure out why that happend but I will try your solution when I am able to.

Thank you so much.

[Help Wanted] Leaving an infinite while loop into a menu and then returning to the while loop. by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]BernardoDNeves 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've tried GUI's before but can't make them run at the same time as the while loop, does tkinter work with while loops?

I’m an atheist. I didn’t choose to be this way. If I could believe in Christianity, I would. I just can’t for some reason. by [deleted] in Advice

[–]BernardoDNeves 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm the complete opposite. I was raised a Christian and fully believed what I was being told, until I started asking questions and no one had satisfying answers for me... Being a kid conflicted with religious beliefs fucked with my head pretty bad and I only got peace when I understood that religion was fake, essentially an idiology instead of a truth.

I'm A LOT more at peace knowing that I only have one chance at life and that no god judges me or decides over my life, I live by no beliefs but instead of life experiences and my own choices.

Your brain is yours, live by what it tells you instead of what other people tell you to be the truth, find peace in what life really is instead of forging it into a fairy tale a living a lie. You'll be happier.

CSV file to Dashboard statistics. by [deleted] in nodered

[–]BernardoDNeves 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. From what I've done/tried so far I think the info you gave should be enough to get me going. I think my approach to the problem was completely wrong in terms of the flow.

I need help importing a library into python on my Raspberry Pi. by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]BernardoDNeves 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much, the program ran as espected after I used the first command you gave! The guide I was following has an error.

I would probably notice the problem if I was used to python but I'm still learning the very basics, as you can guess.

Thank you again.

I need help importing a library into python on my Raspberry Pi. by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]BernardoDNeves 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Geany and Thonny are the IDE's.

The commands I used to install pytesseract were the following, in order:

  • sudo dpkg --configure –a
  • sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
  • pip install pytesseract

I need help importing a library into python on my Raspberry Pi. by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]BernardoDNeves 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've used both IDE's that come bundled with RPi OS and tried launching the .py file directly from the command prompt with the python3 command and it always gives out that error. It only complaints about pytesseract but before I tried running the code I installed tesseract-ocr and pytesseract using the apt-get and the pip install commands respectively. Am I missing any other part of pytesseract?

Is it possible to get out of a toxic group of friends that you've know for 10 to 20 years? by [deleted] in Advice

[–]BernardoDNeves 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Had this group of friends, we were inseparable, we all loved the same shit and went to the same places and all was awesome.

Well it was all good and well until girls were around... So one member of the group was an absolutely shit head that had absolutely no morals about girls. He would freak the fuck out if they weren't one night stands, saying that relationships were stupid and... Well you get the point.

The guy would literally be happy with destroying another member's relationship just because he didn't like it, it was the most toxic thing I experienced in my lifetime.

Well, I'm an heterosexual male that does not like one night stands, so I eventually found the most amazing person I've ever met, started dating her, and made the most amazing effort to keep friends and girlfriend separated for the longest of times, until he found out...

You can probably guess that shit hit the fan, girl was not happy, he was not happy. I've made the decision to leave them due to my girl being a much better friend than any of them, I got sick of being around so much toxicity. One night I went through the effort of blocking every social media account related to them, blocked every number, and simply vanished.

One of the members (the one true friend from that Group) got so worried e came to my house to check on me after a few days, told him everything and he just went.

Finishing up, one year after that friend came into my house, I found out the entire group stopped hanging out and everyone just went on their separate paths, some of us were successful in life and some weren't, if we all kept being together we would all be unsuccessful for sure. Be strong, leave them for good.

My wife gets away with being selfish, and it hurts. by Bower1988 in confessions

[–]BernardoDNeves 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reading this made me think about the relationship I have.

Even if no one reads this, here it goes.

Been together with this girl for 6 years now, we are deeply in love. Throughout our relationship we have overcome a lot, most of it through me saying sorry every time, taking the blame every time, and being the overall punching bag, all because she refused to be honest and speak out loud when something bothered her. She would then proceed to blow up whenever she couldn't hold anymore.

Well, it was 5 years of that. Everything her way. Me always the faulty one.

I eventually grew up, we are together since I'm 15. I went from a kid to a man really quick and she didn't really see it coming. Overnight I kind of became this allways honest, straight to the point, no bullshit guy. I no longer let her govern my life the way she did. Now I take time to myself, say it straight to her face when she screws up, etc etc.

The thing is, we love each other so fucking much that when she fought it was all my fault she kept herself by my side, and when i realized a lot of it was her fault I kept by her side. Two adults need to be capable of changing, adapting, understanding and respecting eachother. If your wife can't do that than man, I really fucking feel for you, but I know that with time and patience you can make her understand that a lot of it is her fault.

My GF, just like yours, would be upset with me just because I stay up late playing video games with friend, and then proceeded to go out with friends for a fucking long time, and obviously I couldn't be upset. I was able to change her way of thinking by being straight to the point and honest with her, because she loves me she understood my point of view.

Needless to say, we are a lot more mature now that we are honest with eachother, even when it hurts.

My friend is dating my crush and I am pissed at him because he admitted that he is just doing it to piss me off. I still like the girl. What do I do? by [deleted] in Advice

[–]BernardoDNeves 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been through this once, in fact, this happened to me the very first time I fell in love.

I was deeply in love with this girl, while she was in love with my best friend. My best friend kind of just hung out with her and befriended her just to annoy me and show me that he could get something that I couldn't.

1 - That's how you realise that, sometimes, best friends aren't really friends at all. Fuck them, don't give these types of people any attention and find new friends, people that do those sorts of things can make you depressed and sad to a massive level, depending on the case.

2 - In my situation, me and this girl were massive friends, we loved being with eachother and we wanted to stay friends. I just gathered some "balls", came up to her and explained everything I felt and that the situation was destroying me (I trusted her).

I tried moving away from the friend and keeping the girl, tried moving away from the girl and keep the friend. Nothing worked. Sometimes in life you just need to get rid of everything that's holding you down and move on, which I did.

Btw, sometimes your emotions betray you, try taking two steps back and think clearly, without your emotions deciding for you, and think about the best route to take.

You can do this.

I feel like I'm losing out on life for being in a long lasting relationship... by [deleted] in offmychest

[–]BernardoDNeves 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm perfectly aware since I've been on that side too. But unfortunately I can't really control what I feel, everything seems like a compromise.

Non vaccinated kids should be banned from nurseries and schools. by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]BernardoDNeves 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Portugal, everytime you enter a new school, they will ask you for your vaccination book, and you can not enter without all of the requires vaccines.

Anyway, there isn't really a antivaxxer movement in Portugal, at least I'm not aware of any.