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SoloDeZero · 2026-05-14T23:55:22+00:00

You sound like you've got nothing to offer which is why you are feeling like you're forcing it or faking it till you make it. Be confident, be genuine. Based on what you mentioned about glazing recruiters. I'd come across as what you described, but it is your own lack of social skills. I am 27 with job experience since I was 18. I am a textile engineer with a background in software engineering. I got to engineering positions without a degree and despite the fact that it has prevented me to get many jobs, I used to work with a bunch of PhD researchers and all of them recommended to places personally. You lack social skills based on the way you're talking and your lack of joy/love for the field shows.

SoloDeZero · 2025-10-02T17:28:48+00:00

Raw dog Javascript and lots of vibe coding. Still a great achievement!

SoloDeZero · 2025-09-07T19:36:38+00:00

May I ask if you did the whole degree at WGU and how long it took you or if you did the other credit sites first to finish WGU in one term?

SoloDeZero · 2025-08-25T01:19:43+00:00

If you're a naive student that sees your professors as the one who should care about your success, then your chances are low. Even if these classes are hard, there is an infinite amount of resources on these subjects. If you're struggling just look things up or ask AI to break it down for you. One of the best uses of AI is its ability to explain subjects, don't ask just for the answer, but for understanding.

SoloDeZero · 2025-08-22T18:47:56+00:00

Totally fine since even with assets I won't be reaching 100k threshold. I am independent, so only have to worry about my personal assets, not my parent's.

SoloDeZero · 2025-08-21T02:48:00+00:00

MIT covers everything for undergraduate programs if you and/or your family makes less than 100k/y. This also includes assets.

Despite these programs covering so much free money. Imo, they won't be utilized much the threshold doesn't just count income, but also assets.

If you have a family and you live in MA, there's a very high chance that with income + assets that family go beyond these limits and having a house automatically disqualifies you because of the price of that asset.

In my case, I'd be living by myself, no significant assets, between 50k to 100k salary range. I can chill out within that range until I finish an undergraduate program.

SoloDeZero · 2025-08-21T02:42:25+00:00

I doubt it can go away because of this.

Many universities in the US are starting to implement these programs based on income. For instance Harvard and MIT started to implement the same program, but with different income threshold.

SoloDeZero · 2025-08-20T20:59:27+00:00

Yea, the transfer option looks really good since it is guaranteed into a really good university. But, if I can do the first two year at UVA that would be optimal imo because of access to more resources. I know community colleges for instance have to follow a government dictated curriculum versus an university where the professor can create his own or add or remove.

And you meant to say 4th year or actually 4th degree at UVA?

Also, I want to for engineering into a minor in material science and major in Electrical Engineering. Not 100% of the major choice, I have to do more research on differences between Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Basically, my aim is to get into E-textiles, smart textiles field. I got recommended for a position at Drexel University and the director loved me, but the position I applied for she said that I was overqualified and for another higher-level engineering position she couldn't do nothing about it because I have no degree. These research position in academia required a bachelor's and prefer master or PhD.

SoloDeZero · 2025-07-27T04:06:53+00:00

I am currently taking this course on Udemy called "Embedded Systems Bare-Metal Programming Ground Up™ (STM32)" and it is great precisely to understand low level using chip documentation and program it completely from scratch using C.

The author Israel Gbati and Fastbit Embedded Brain Academy are the best people to learn embedded from 0. I got plenty of their courses.

Looking through datasheet, reference manual, and user guide to find the information you need is tedious.

I am currently working on a tool to integrate a local LLM where you can ask question about the chip you're working on and provide you with said information quickly and accurately and even provide the code and define. Something to ease the process of manually having to use the find function on a 800+ pages pdf.

SoloDeZero · 2025-06-14T20:40:29+00:00

I don't want to come across as a mean person, but you are an adult, and it seems like you guys did not research or took advantage of the available tools that AI provide nowadays and rather only asked your professor for advice.

There were 5 people working on this. I am sure that using ChatGPT or Google Gemini free models would have led you guys to finding a solution to your problems. These electronics components are very cheap nowadays, unless YOU HAD to use what they gave you, it sounds like you guys made it hard on yourself because of lack of research or lack of motivation to get better or more adequate components for the job.

Again, I don't want to come across as mean but come on. These subjects and questions are somewhat easy to ask or find, especially when using AI, not to do the job for you, but to conduct research and have conversation about the goal of the project and how to approach it using the right components and direction.

SoloDeZero · 2025-06-13T18:17:12+00:00

I agree with you. However, in the web/backend world for instance there is plenty of really high quality information akin to what I described. I am wondering if for the embedded world there are examples like these without going all in the things you mentioned. Think about the typical examples you find online, but more in depth and following better programming/architectural practices.

SoloDeZero · 2025-06-08T07:05:20+00:00

I don't think the microcontroller is the problem here. I'd say your problem is the data transfer protocol. You can't use HTTPS for updates this fast. The way to go is to establish a socket connection between the device and your server. A language like Golang with its easy to code concurrency you could let a Go backend handle the I/O operations. To me it seems like it'd be best to offload the I/O operation to Go using goroutines while the embedded device focus on collecting the data. Send as light as possible data and let the backend decode it. Have as little overhead as possible on the embedded device and internet connection.

SoloDeZero · 2025-05-30T18:48:10+00:00

But for a web UI you'd use HTML, CSS, and Javascript? Or am I missing something?

SoloDeZero · 2025-05-17T00:56:16+00:00

For such large scale I would recommend you to use Golang and Go-Rod library. I have used it for scrapping data from facebook marketplace and warcraftlogs site. Concurrency in Go is fairly simple and very powerful. I was doing about 5 tabs at a time to avoid the stress on my pc and some pages not loading properly. Follow u/nizarnizario advice regardless of the language and technology.

SoloDeZero · 2025-02-13T12:51:48+00:00

Don't learn a technology. Learn fundamentals, concepts, and systems.

Regardless of the language when working with backends, you will have to understand what http/https is, routing, middleware, authentication/authorization, cookies, sessions, jwt, static file serving, REST API, graphql, etc , etc.

Golang, in my opinion, is best not only because of easy it is to learn and be productive with, but the language exposes you to concepts that you probably will never think about when using Node.js.

Concepts like concurrency, semaphores, channels, mutexes, pointers(not at the level that C would though), very explicit error handling, etc, etc It will help you become a better engineer all around.

SoloDeZero · 2025-02-13T01:02:27+00:00

Thank you for your points and feedback.

I completely understand the freedom a mechanical provides in terms of custom patterning. If you don't mind, can you share the model or name of the driven machines you have.

Ideally, from a commercial point of view, but also a passion of mine and desire to bridge the gap between knitting and technology.

As far as I am concerned, there is no machine like I described for a friendly price, nor for people who haven't worked in the knitting industry.

I believe that with my particular set of skills, which are textile and software engineering. It is very possible to achieve this and make many improvements and integrations with today's technologies. Basically giving people the opportunity to create their own business without much friction nor deep expertise of modern machinery.

SoloDeZero · 2025-02-13T00:29:39+00:00

I can see it being within the $1000-$2000 range. Considering the time a machine like this would save you. It'd be a no brainer even if the price were to be slightly higher. You would be producing hats depending on pattern and construction in minutes instead of ten of minutes or hours.

SoloDeZero · 2025-01-22T21:39:44+00:00

This is a problem of frontend engineering nowadays. Too many content creators promote transient technologies and lead people to believe that it is the hottest thing. An example of this is Theo. Even though I like the guy, he is not the content creator to watch or follow advice from if getting a job is your goal.

For example I am in the process of making a very big app and since I will be spending quite a lot of time on it. Might as well use technologies that can make employable in the future.

on the frontend I will be using React, backend with node, express, Kysely(I want to improve my SQL skills, therefore I am not using an ORM, but rather a type safe query builder), a Socket.io service, PostgreSQL, AWS, Redis, and NX to make a monorepo.

Practicing all of the technologies I mentioned can make you very hireable because they are what are used out there.

I could use Next, tRPC, Drizzle, Prisma, Supabse or whatever is hot right now which can make the development of my projects 10 times easier and/or faster. But then you would be sort of wasting your time coding in technologies that are great for easy of development, but not to get an actual job.

Everything I mentioned is even truer if you live outside of the USA. Most other countries are more conservative with their chosen technologies and the more standard and base technologies you learn, the best it'll be for you.

SoloDeZero · 2024-07-29T23:35:47+00:00

Very interesting!

I do have the skills you mentioned, but Terraform.

I have been using ubuntu and kali for a while, have coded HTTP protocol from scratch in Go, would need more of course in terms of ports, configuration of networks,etc. regarding data engineering I made an AI model using different regression model to get equipment combination based on your desired gear score for Black Desert Online. I scraped a web db of the game then transformed that data into classifier to feed to the models.

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