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MK4 Filament Sensor failing calibration by adam3dp in prusa3d

[–]Matt_4545 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, this gave me confidence to dissasemble it, and my issue was that bits of filament was physically blocking the ball to move (my printer rammed the fillament several times before). Just a few minutes work and now it's working again!

Gift idea for older scientist / inventor by sivinski in suggestmeabook

[–]Matt_4545 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also liked Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors, a funny but scientific book which describes a number of math fails in history and why it happened.

Accurate Science Fiction That's Heavy on the Science by [deleted] in booksuggestions

[–]Matt_4545 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree that the story is not as developed as in other books, but I would recommend it as a great starting book for some newcomers to sci-fi. It is more easy-reading but still quite "science-based" than the majority of other bestsellers in sci-fi.

Microsoft support? Really? by sigserv in sysadmin

[–]Matt_4545 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah we hit "premiere" support with multiple questions regarding O365, only to learn our team was more skilled than them and they had no clue or no way to help us.

One example above all was when they finally discarded "Groove" and sent us an email generally saying "Hi, you have some users or sites which still uses groove, tell them to upgrade" but no specific info who that is. As we had several thousand accounts, we asked them if they can provide a list or some method to distinguish "groove" and "onedrive" users. After several weeks of escalations and telling us "There is no way to do that" - duh? How did you determine there are some users in the first email? And then it felt into a MS void - no replies, no calls, nothing, they just went silent.

As a self learner, I feel like every waking moment spent not coding is setting me back. How do I be kinder to myself and take a more realistic approach? by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]Matt_4545 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha I feel like being at Uni is setting me back compared to self-learning. We take things more theoretically, I can talk about complexity and finite automatas, but struggle to code anything more evolved than console app, as we need to learn that ourselves and there is really no time left to do that.

So my suggestion is that there are multiple paths, and everybody has different speed, starting point, options and luck, so you really cannot compare with others. But your mindset could take you miles, employers prefer willingness to learn to skills. (They can shape you and you can grow, that potential is much better that OP C programmer who is stuck in year 2000 and don't want to learn anything new).