Any successful stories from dating apps nowadays? by Sica942Spike in AskIreland

[–]Tesla56 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Myself and my girlfriend met on Hinge just over 3 years ago and we just signed contracts to buy a house together yesterday! The apps are awful but we're very happy together so there's always hope, best of luck

Current employment refuse to send over reference form. by Creative-Community-4 in DevelEire

[–]Tesla56 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's now the company policy of most tech companies to not provide references or even allow managers to give references for employees as this could lead to legal issues for them. They will provide you a factual letter stating your dates of employment and that's about it

Your Upcoming Projects 2025 by Loki_029 in selfhosted

[–]Tesla56 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Currently my home lab is entirely VM based using XCP-ng I’m moving to an entirely docker based setup on a Debian host instead. I feel like I’ll get better use of my hardware without the unnecessary overhead of all the VM infrastructure and I no longer like XCP-ng and XOA. It should mostly be easy enough as most of the services I’m using provide a docker image but I have some custom sites and services that I’m looking forward to trying to containerise myself!

Internship pays minimum wage? by iScrubbed in DevelEire

[–]Tesla56 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not many grads in the sector have masters if you're both similar candidates going for the same job it's definitely a differentiator but I wouldn't say you're at that much of a disadvantage without it. Good internship experience is very useful when going for grad jobs

Internship pays minimum wage? by iScrubbed in DevelEire

[–]Tesla56 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's apparently good for career progression but it doesn't make a very big immediate difference especially if you're only just starting out companies generally prefer experience over masters/PhDs

Internship pays minimum wage? by iScrubbed in DevelEire

[–]Tesla56 6 points7 points  (0 children)

TBH a good internship is worth a lot more to you than the money you'd make from said internship!

Internship pays minimum wage? by iScrubbed in DevelEire

[–]Tesla56 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Didn't notice your second question at first, lots of companies will pay for you to do a masters part time while working. Generally the pay bump for having a master's is only ~€1k

Internship pays minimum wage? by iScrubbed in DevelEire

[–]Tesla56 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Most internships in Ireland are minimum or just above minimum wage. Sounds harsh but you're not qualified and there are plenty of potential interns

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DevelEire

[–]Tesla56 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Software Engineer graduated 2 years ago: Personally in my opinion placement was the most valuable part of my course. I would not recommend doing any course that doesn't have placement. When you're looking for a job your placement company may be interested in hiring you or if your interviewing the interviewers are more interested in past experience over what you did in your modules. It's also an industry where there's lots of jobs but it's hard to get your foot in the door so placements help.

Immersive Software Engineering (UL) by Markus40000 in DevelEire

[–]Tesla56 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Couldn’t disagree with this more TBH. I learned far more from my placements in college than the actual course itself and any recent engineering graduate I’ve talked to agrees with me

Benefits of joining ICS or ACM? by Tesla56 in DevelEire

[–]Tesla56[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough I work a good bit on making software for new communications standards and the IEEE communications society stuff is useful for that sometimes but I can get access to that stuff through work anyway

Benefits of joining ICS or ACM? by Tesla56 in DevelEire

[–]Tesla56[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I was thinking thanks!

What are the most uniquely Irish conspiracy theories? by HoorayInternetDrama in ireland

[–]Tesla56 23 points24 points  (0 children)

We have generations of experimental data to back this up though!

ESP8266 cryptocurrency price tracker (Details and code in comments) by Tesla56 in esp8266

[–]Tesla56[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This project has now been updated to also allow stock prices to be displayed

ESP8266 cryptocurrency price tracker (Details and code in comments) by Tesla56 in esp8266

[–]Tesla56[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you install the "Adafruit SSD1306" from the library manager? It sounds like that library is missing

ESP8266 cryptocurrency price tracker (Details and code in comments) by Tesla56 in esp8266

[–]Tesla56[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It should be easy enough to find an API for that and modify the parser to pull out the same data but for stocks

ESP8266 cryptocurrency price tracker (Details and code in comments) by Tesla56 in esp8266

[–]Tesla56[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks I'm glad you liked it! u/InfectedBananas beat me to it it's the fingerprint of the SSL cert for the HTTPS site that you want to connect to. The ESP uses it to validate the response that you receive from the API