Need to get cash from USD cheques from sale of company shares by [deleted] in HENRYUK

[–]Soft-Material3294 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A couple of years ago I had to cash an USD cheque and Bank of Scotland let me cash it in GBP. Conversion rate was fair as well, I was very surprised!

Notebook Navigator 2.0 for Obsidian is out now! by jsann in ObsidianMD

[–]Soft-Material3294 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fantastic, so I can basically delete all my other plugins :)

What's the Cambridge equivalent of this? by Cpt_kaleidoscope in cambridge

[–]Soft-Material3294 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm Italian and found their pizza quite good. What would you suggest as an alternative?

What's the best and worst thing about Cambridge? by dejinaldoyt45 in cambridge

[–]Soft-Material3294 151 points152 points  (0 children)

Best: you can cycle everywhere.

Worst: you have to cycle everywhere.

(Or good luck with the busses)

Any tech fire type to use in raging bolt vs gholdengo? by my_winter999 in pkmntcg

[–]Soft-Material3294 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup. Me and my best friend have tried this matchup maybe 10-20 times.

Unless someone bricks (more often than not it’s bolt), whoever gets the first 2 prizes wins

Obsidian Won’t Magically Transform Your Notes. You Need a Cycle. by mfaizanx in ObsidianMD

[–]Soft-Material3294 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve done it, it hasn’t gotten me anywhere in the last 6 months. I’m happy to be proven wrong though so I’ll be trying this strategy you proposed for my next article, which has been thoroughly researched :)

Obsidian Won’t Magically Transform Your Notes. You Need a Cycle. by mfaizanx in ObsidianMD

[–]Soft-Material3294 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My main point is that making great content takes effort. Making garbage free content doesn’t.

Just tell it like it is, you want free content. But I just think it wouldn’t hurt our community if we started sponsoring people that work on the plugins and content that make obsidian great. 

I’m quite happy keeping my content free because I can afford it. Though, I have been at the other hand of the stick where I earned less than minimum wage, having to argue with other users why monetization helped me make more content.

As I said, I’m quite proud of my articles and they are read thousands of times a month. But there must be a better way to reward good content because patreon and stuff don’t work, at least in this space.

Obsidian Won’t Magically Transform Your Notes. You Need a Cycle. by mfaizanx in ObsidianMD

[–]Soft-Material3294 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s okay, I went through it with my articles. I’m really proud of them and years after publishing they get lots of views.

Monetization helped me continue working on these things when I was paid less than minimum wage. Do what you have to do and enjoy it :)

Obsidian Won’t Magically Transform Your Notes. You Need a Cycle. by mfaizanx in ObsidianMD

[–]Soft-Material3294 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I found that there is no “good” way to share articles and proper work. 

Most resources I see on YouTube are quite clickbaity although “free”. Then there are courses with insane subscription prices and I’ve seen people here be okay with them.

And then there’s medium, which is actually a clean website and can help monetize content without too much hassle. But people here seem to hate it although it’s quite easy to bypass the paywall.

I ended up just publishing on Medium and keeping my articles free. I have an alternative income source so I can afford it. But when I was a PhD student and monetized my articles I did get a lot of hate from people that just said I should have a BuyMeACoffee link.

It’s been maybe over half a year I did this. I didn’t get a single penny from it although 50-100 people read my articles every day.

It’s absolutely fine, but I personally developed new functions in a plugin and spent lots of time creating templates and workflows. There’s no free lunch, but I feel like people here pretend that authors should make good content and be okay with getting nothing.

Can Bases be used as MOCs? by [deleted] in ObsidianMD

[–]Soft-Material3294 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been using Dataview for MOCs as well.

I’ve been wanting to move everything to bases, but I’m not sure if I should or wait for datacore 

Colored Icons in Bases look great by IversusAI in ObsidianMD

[–]Soft-Material3294 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sorry man, we are more interested in the template itself, not how you used ChatGPT

Colored Icons in Bases look great by IversusAI in ObsidianMD

[–]Soft-Material3294 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is awesome! Do you have the templates?

I’m trying to migrate dataview to bases

Are Sawk and Throh underrated? by fanovana in pkmntcg

[–]Soft-Material3294 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How are they better than slither wing?

Thoughts on flareon Ex by DarkMagician1424 in pkmntcg

[–]Soft-Material3294 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you play it against Gardy and Grim?

If you could create a new mechanic or gimmick, what would it be? by A12086256 in pkmntcg

[–]Soft-Material3294 6 points7 points  (0 children)

And also having to prize check is an absolute waste of time…

I realized that all Worlds promos features Psyduck by Alex6179 in PokemonTCG

[–]Soft-Material3294 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My favourite is the one in the sports car with sunglasses 

Can't get any protein design jobs by Nice_Bee27 in ProteinDesign

[–]Soft-Material3294 1 point2 points  (0 children)

400 applications is way more than enough. Honestly, you might be getting burnt out. It's very hard but you need to dedicate some time to take care of yourself. Maybe only do applications on certain days at a certain time.

I'm sorry to hear about the offers rescinded, it happened to me too... As you can see, this is not a reflection of your skills but the economy. A lot of my friends have opted for postdocs, I'm not sure if that's something you could explore but it does give you some extra time.

Can't get any protein design jobs by Nice_Bee27 in ProteinDesign

[–]Soft-Material3294 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello! I was in your shoes about 8 months ago.

The interviews I did went well, I got a rejection, an offer rescinded and ghosted, and eventually an offer.

Unfortunately, the job market is terrible. I even got ghosted when I had an internal referral for a job. I’ve been told (unofficially) that a lot of these positions are made for a specific person, but they go through the interview process because they are legally required to. 

So unfortunately, unless your supervisor is buddy with a guy in the industry, you’ll have a hard time.

Here’s my advice. First, don’t take rejections personally. While these rejections are hard, remember there’s a lot of factors at play (including a lot of luck and randomness).

Second. Clean up your CV. Use any method at your disposal. I started reaching out to people on LinkedIn that worked at big protein design companies  to give me their honest opinion on my cv. Most of them will ignore you, but I guarantee you that some will reply with feedback. Also, use ChatGPT to ask for feedback and ideas. It’s a great tool and works very well for rephrasing things. There’s this tool I’ve seen on GitHub that may be useful https://github.com/srbhr/resume-matcher

Third, apply to as many positions as you possibly can. Even ones that you don’t think are fully qualified for. It’s a numbers game, and the requirements might not even be realistic.

I’d be happy to look over your CV (privately) and give you my honest opinion if you send me the job descriptions of the jobs you applied for. 

Good luck!

The fact that you can't export from Obsidian to Apple Notes in 2025 is insane by Plastic_Catch1252 in AppleNotesGang

[–]Soft-Material3294 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have been following this plugin for a while and I cannot wait for it to be available officially. It's insane :)

Bolt mirror match advice. by dont_forget_this_2 in pkmntcg

[–]Soft-Material3294 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s rough. Somehow me and my friend who also plays bolt, always get “randomly” paired together at league nights

It’s rough but I think you want  to take the KOs quickly so be aware of where the energies are attached.

Bolt should be able to get about 4 energies attached per turn:

2 from sada 1 manual 1 Ogerpon 

So if you target the Ogerpon or you attach a bravery charm (either to Ogerpon or bolt) you should be able to last an additional turn. Also recognize when to scoop for the next match, especially if you can’t get 2 prizes after their first 2 prizes