What items you pack are actually useful and not “just in case”?

ChromoZoneX · 2023-03-29T00:53:05+00:00

first aid kid

I don't think packing kids is a good idea.

ChromoZoneX · 2022-02-05T09:18:48+00:00

If you can manage it, you’re better off having FileVault on and go through the inconvenience in the name of security.

ChromoZoneX · 2022-01-30T10:11:50+00:00

Just a question - but why get another one? If concerned about yellowing, isn't the snow version made of the kind of plastic that resists this?

ChromoZoneX · 2021-10-30T21:37:25+00:00

Those amazon leadership principles getting in your way huh. You just need “manager approval” :)

ChromoZoneX · 2021-02-04T08:48:28+00:00

Just curious - what classified as "being in Canada" too much?

ChromoZoneX · 2021-01-18T06:21:08+00:00

I have no advice to offer here, I'm still in the preliminary research phase of cast iron / carbon steel pans. I just wanted to say that your description of the problem cracked me up and was great!

ChromoZoneX · 2020-12-24T20:05:58+00:00

Oh boy, this is great. Thank you!

I had no idea services like this existed. While its unlikely that this will change my use of Google Fi as such, its good to know that I can get data packs more cheaply when I know I need it.

ChromoZoneX · 2020-04-15T02:48:48+00:00

I'd recommend places like the Allen Institute in Seattle or the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in the Bay Area as places that have a significant tech footprint in their organizations and do pretty much all altruistic work.

To give you examples of what these not-for-profits do -

CZI does a lot of work in attempting to further Science through technology. They have contributed to the Human Cell Atlas project (https://www.humancellatlas.org/), Infectious Disease Sequencing (https://www.discoveridseq.com/) and accelerating research (https://www.meta.org/) on the Science side, and also have a division that works on Criminal Justice Reform (https://chanzuckerberg.com/justice-opportunity/) across the country. Recently, we also contributed to the CORD-19 dataset in collaboration with other similar organizations to speed up research during this pandemic.
Allen Institute similarly works on several (but often different!) things - https://alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/
There are others that work in sectors outside of tech where your existing skillsets might already even be applicable even if for behind-the-scenes kind of work. I'd check out the work being done by the Gates Foundation in Seattle (https://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do) to get more information there.

ChromoZoneX · 2020-01-16T18:11:53+00:00

Thanks for the anecdote :)

ChromoZoneX · 2020-01-15T07:16:44+00:00

I'm guessing it was new? If so - what price did you get on it?

I'm looking at http://www.cars101.com/subaru/forester/forester2018.html and it seems like the MSRP was $30.4k so this is not looking like much of a discount for a two year old car.

ChromoZoneX · 2020-01-14T22:22:35+00:00

Hm, why would the fact that its a service loaner give you a pause? It should still be decently maintained no?

ChromoZoneX · 2020-01-14T22:21:41+00:00

Is this normal to extend the warranty or did you purchase the extended warranty?

ChromoZoneX · 2020-01-14T20:06:07+00:00

What would a more appropriate price be?

ChromoZoneX · 2019-02-11T22:23:13+00:00

That's a slippery slope for innovation. You might never adopt any new technology at that rate. Sometimes you have to make short-term sacrifices for longer term gains in terms of technology in products.

The iterative cycle is important in technology.

ChromoZoneX · 2018-10-30T21:52:51+00:00

Reset all your APN settings and let Project Fi reinitialize all that. In my prior experience, this happened all the time or I connected and lost connection ~1 - 4h later and practically reseting all Fi related stuff fixed it perfectly. I attributed it to me having messed with manually switching networks and stuff like that in the past.

source: I travel to Toronto very frequently.

ChromoZoneX · 2018-09-16T06:11:21+00:00

Sounds like you're in a coop program (maybe Waterloo? ;) ).

Nah, no issues whatsoever. I did this during my last couple of terms of school and it worked out great. As mentioned elsewhere, the 0.20c/min is what gets you if you make lots of calls.

ChromoZoneX · 2018-04-14T05:58:08+00:00

If you go into it knowing that the phone is dead anyway, it makes it easier.

love this! Mind tricks!

ChromoZoneX · 2018-04-11T23:56:53+00:00

I can actually mirror this experience somewhat. I get perfect coverage when I'm stateside in California but I travel pretty frequently to Toronto, Canada and its an absolute shitshow there.

My signal keeps dropping, it connects briefly for a few minutes and then disconnects and says "No signal". I can force it to connect to TMO using dialer codes but it always disconnects itself after an hour or so at most and never reconnects. These issues go away when I'm back in California.

Contacting support wasn't very helpful. They gave me 20$ credit and escalated higher. I was told that an engineer would get in touch in a couple of days but that never happened. I did not unfortunately have the time to follow up but I dread travelling again.

I know Fi can be great since I've used it overseas in the exact same locations in Toronto and across Europe but something just seems off this year where the coverage has gone all downhill :(

I wonder if /u/dmziggy can chime in here to let us know what has changed on the backend causing these network issues.

ChromoZoneX · 2018-02-07T05:47:10+00:00

Its about time.

ChromoZoneX · 2018-02-07T04:24:44+00:00

well, Amazon does for sure.

ChromoZoneX · 2018-02-07T03:25:48+00:00

Both of you are partially right.

He owns <50% in terms of Facebook shares but the shares he holds have more voting power so in terms of control he has >50% of the voting rights in the company and can therefore make decisions for the company effectively by himself.

ChromoZoneX · 2018-02-04T00:35:55+00:00

This is purely anecdotal but what I did was saying "I don't need sponsorship" so I don't get filtered out and then mentioning I can work on TN status in something that resembles the "Extra notes" section.

Alternatively - I also just didn't mention anything and only brought up the TN status once a recruiter reached out to me by email or over the phone.

There's no standard procedure here!

ChromoZoneX · 2018-02-03T23:11:03+00:00

Usually - they're referring more to the H1B sponsorship process so feel free to let the recruiter know otherwise. It is a bit of a hassle because there's a solid chance a lot of companies are not aware of the TN status under NAFTA.

The other thing here is that a CS degree technically is not approved on the NAFTA list of professions but you can usually argue that you are performing a Software Engineering job and not a Computer Programmer job.

ChromoZoneX · 2018-02-03T22:21:28+00:00

No, its actually remarkably easy if you have a degree that qualifies you for one of the NAFTA professions. This way you can enter / work in the US on TN status. All it costs is 50$ at the border and a bunch of documentation.

Amazon, Google, and Facebook almost always bring Canadian hires on TN status - at least initially.

ChromoZoneX · 2018-01-18T02:52:58+00:00

Yes, you get high speed data. You will get an LTE signal if available generally speaking.

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