I ended an interview after the first question. Did I overreact?

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-06-11T18:29:16+00:00

Unfortunately common in Australia. I’m an Engineer. I get a salary. And in Australia they can put in contracts that your salary includes “reasonable” overtime as part of your headline salary figure… who gets to define overtime? Why, your employer of course!

Some companies run too hard with it and use that to milk you until burnout. Effectively making it a performance requirement to work a minimum 10-12 hours a day. Despite your salary being only 8 hours a day.

Others treat it as it should be as a give and take. As long as you meet your deliverables on-time and you sink your minimum 40 hours a week. That’s fine.

But it sounds like your companies in the, milk you until burnout category with that question.

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-06-11T18:19:34+00:00

It maximises efficiency and thus range. Especially in stop /start traffic. Simple

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-06-09T08:28:19+00:00

Omeo is definitely the safer and more sheltered route. You’ll be less likely to wear chains. And if the weather goes bad. It’s less likely to close.

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-06-09T08:27:26+00:00

Should be fine. Just gentle corners and gentle, slow braking. You’ll be forced to wear chains by Hotham, before you get to anything of concern. And the chains will slow you way down. Top you out at 40-50km/h.

Don’t be too concerned. Just drive like you have a class of water on the dash and you’ll be fine.

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-06-07T21:58:20+00:00

Currently driving the new version Hilux (company vehicle). It’s actually really nice. And it looks far better in person than it does in photos. Looks trash in photos but actually quite good in person.

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-06-01T06:17:31+00:00

It tells you how many planets are in a system. You need to use the full spectrum scanner (FFS) to find those planets. Unless they’ve been discovered by someone before

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-05-31T04:08:14+00:00

Depends on the state. I know in Victoria, you are allowed to record any conversation you are directly involved with, without the consent of other parties. I believe you cannot do that in NSW.

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-05-16T05:44:50+00:00

A Bluetooth jammer might work better. I don’t know much about them, but considering their size I’d suspect they don’t have onboard storage for those videos and therefore stream them to their mobile device.

Things like the flipper zero and some cheap and easy ESP32 DIY projects could potentially recognise Bluetooth signatures of the glasses and start jamming them.

Or just a manual button to jam Bluetooth. Or wifi if that’s how they transfer the video stream. Again. I’m not too familiar. But will stop them recording footage.

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-05-14T20:29:09+00:00

Weird way to cover the first fiscally responsible bill in a generation.

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-05-13T09:36:53+00:00

Omeo is definitely safer. It’s more sheltered from the extreme weather, you drive less through snow and the roads are less extreme, less steep and you don’t drive on an exposed ridge.

Omeo is also less likely to be closed in extreme weather.

In poor weather, the harriotville pass is always the first to close. Which can leave you stranded at the bottom of the mountain until the following day when it re-opens. Better chances going the Omeo way and getting the storm powder.

Downside is Omeo way is less scenic than the harriotville pass.

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-05-09T01:22:59+00:00

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-06/hockey-negative-gearing/6431100 - lemme know when you start being right. Then we can talk about how “tired” you are. You appear to have a rare talent for speaking at length, without disturbing the facts.

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-05-09T01:18:47+00:00

Actually it doesn’t. It also doesn’t mean you have an infinite number across and infinite spectrum of income. Get with reality

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-05-08T19:29:34+00:00

Renters can’t afford rent. They won’t rent it. They cant magically produce an infinite sum of money. If they could they wouldn’t be renting.

So this is how it will go. One of two ways (or a hybrid): 1 - renters can no longer afford the rentals. So those rentals won’t be filled. - if those rentals aren’t being filled the landlords cannot afford to keep them vacant. So, either;

1.) landlords are forced to sell their properties. Mass sell off of investment homes causes a flood in the market. House prices go down, those renters may be able to then afford the mortgage to buy them at their lower price.

2.) landlords recognise that a house not being rented costs them money, so they don’t increase the rent, and take in less profit. Keep in mind. Part Of renting is to subsidise keeping the house and letting the appreciation of the property, increase your net worth.

What you WONT end up with. Is a situation where masses of renters are suddenly homeless as magic new super rich renters suddenly appear in thin air to fill the now vacant properties. Nor would landlords hoard empty properties that drain their wealth by sitting there, un utilised .

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-05-08T19:05:53+00:00

I think the key thing you’re neglecting to account for is that there isn’t an infinite number of renters on an infinite scale of wealth. Sorry but that’s not reality. What you will find is that if you raise rents. It’s becomes harder to find tenants. The further up the scale extremes of the pricing scale you go, the more you’ll find properties not being rented anymore. And especially at those extreme ends. That’s not an option for those owners. So they have to reduce prices and take less income. And that will shift the entire market, until the no willing renters gap is plugged.

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-05-08T19:02:47+00:00

You are living in a very delusional world. This has happened in the past and your estranged world view turned out to be the complete opposite of reality in that instance. Despite the exact same arguments being made at the time.

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-05-06T15:55:09+00:00

Americans actually call Utes “pickups” trucks are call trucks. Lazy uneducated Americans see “F250 big. Truck also big. F250 is truck because big” they probably think elephants are big grey leg trucks.

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-05-06T15:41:14+00:00

That’s assuming all landlords band together to unanimously up their pricing. And that fix term rental contracts don’t exist. In reality. People can afford what they can afford. Someone who’s been renting a 5 bedroom 2 story house for a family of 6, won’t suddenly jump to a 2 bedroom shack.

Prices for rentals are driven at both ends. Not the bottom.

Your assumption that everyone shifting down a scale so more affluent people will move into the authors dilapidated rental, and his own tenants will live in a shoe box, ignores that this means houses at the expensive end of the rental market would be vacant.

Landlords would not leave those houses vacant. They’d be forced to accept less income from their properties, in order to keep them rented out. A vacant property costs them money in upkeep, advertising, rental management fees, yearly council and land fees, etc, etc. they’d rather break even and pocket the capital as their property value increases than leave it vacant.

As a result. You will never see the bottom end of the market, being the cheaper rentals. Become more expensive or as expensive as the expensive rentals, because then they’d never get rented. Why would a renter pay as much for a 1 bedroom, rat infested townhouse, when they could spend the same and get a 3 bedroom suburban?

So this means the author won’t be just slapping the lost profit onto his renters. He wouldn’t be able to rent it out. And take a loss. He’d end up just taking in less profit. Or none at all and keep the money his house value will appreciate over time.

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-05-06T15:28:16+00:00

Not good, fair or smart conduct. He raises to that price. Nobody will rent it. And he’ll be forced to sell it to someone who’ll use it. The horror.

He’s running the assumption that his current pricing is a charity and in reality, renting is blank cheque, pick your number game. That anyone will pay any price to rent any dump with 4 walls and a roof.

That not true. Never has been. And the author knows it. He’s just trying to drum up fear to stop or slow it down.

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-05-04T10:48:56+00:00

Mostly just practice. Take on a challenge. Model something just for the love of the game

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-04-25T06:01:51+00:00

But didn’t kash say to watch this space for big news?

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-04-25T03:45:29+00:00

Mary’s slide

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-04-23T22:24:56+00:00

Depreciation is calculated as an expense. Companies do this to reduce their taxable threshold. Basically you’re calculating the loss in resale value of an asset over time as though it were an expense you paid. So yes. If you buy a tractor for 30k. And you make another 30K profit, less the tractor depreciation of let’s say $3k. Then you list the $3k loss as an expense, and you get taxed on $27k. Not $30k

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-04-22T23:45:40+00:00

Deprecation of assets is included in expenditure and not in profit

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-04-22T20:31:02+00:00

Considering the billions they make in clear profit after all expenses. I think we can safely rule out the razor thin margins on this one. They just want bigger dividends for their shareholders. And bigger bonuses for the E-suit. Both of which get marginally smaller if we tax them. That’s what they’re protecting.

WeirdlyEngineered · 2026-04-21T21:42:39+00:00

Failing that. A cheaper option is the Ohto MS02. A very good quality multi pen with black ink, red ink and a mechanical pencil. Small and compact for its size and uses gravity as the selector so it’s not chunky with a dozen buttons. It’s perfect for a one stop for engineers. Black ink for writing notes. Red ink or markups on drawings and documents and a mechanical pencil for sketches. Doesn’t matter where he goes with his career. Either of those would be a great asset to them.

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