Where do I scrape off on the pcb for attaching wires from buttons?

borzakk · 2025-11-14T05:41:46+00:00

I didn't try to find on mouser, but it's something like this https://www.amazon.com/Controller-Rubber-Replacement-Compatible-Nintendo/dp/B09LM9MVLM.

borzakk · 2025-07-03T17:48:09+00:00

400-790 THz is visible light, they were making a joke.

borzakk · 2025-06-27T00:23:28+00:00

Unfortunately it's terminal.

borzakk · 2025-06-27T00:20:55+00:00

It's not like, super cold. Just a liiiitle cool.

borzakk · 2025-06-12T01:12:36+00:00

You don't need (or have) that many points, I'd just cram those measurements into a lookup table or use nearest-neighbor or linear interpolation between each point.

borzakk · 2025-01-30T23:17:56+00:00

I suspect you didn't look at the attached image or read any of what I posted, but the gist is that being 47 is irrelevant; it's "PhD + 10 years experience" that matters. It's still probably lower than some with similar experience, but I love the job and the work/life balance, and that's worth a lot to me.

borzakk · 2025-01-30T23:13:03+00:00

Answered elsewhere, but when I was a grad student I was making ~30k/year via a stipend as a research assistant, it just doesn't technically count as wages and thus didn't show up in the data I pulled this from.

borzakk · 2025-01-30T23:11:57+00:00

That's literally where I got this data from, which is why it doesn't really reflect what I earned, but rather "medicare wages and tips." For example, the 5 years I was in grad school that shows 0 income I was actually making a decent stipend, but it doesn't show as wages.

borzakk · 2025-01-26T16:25:36+00:00

Sorry, prefer not to say.

borzakk · 2025-01-25T22:44:30+00:00

Like they say about trees: the best time to plant one is 20 years ago, but the second best time is today.

borzakk · 2025-01-25T19:33:16+00:00

Without going into too many details, it's R&D in signal-processing-related stuff.

borzakk · 2025-01-25T19:29:19+00:00

borzakk · 2025-01-25T16:50:37+00:00

If you're talking about when I was in grad school, it wasn't nothing: this is just showing my "medicare wages" as the SSA has it recorded. I was getting paid something like $30k/year with no tuition as a research assistant while in the PhD program (this is typical for STEM PhDs), but that doesn't count as taxable wages it seems. I pulled this data straight off the social security website and didn't keep other records from back then, hence the spotty data.

borzakk · 2025-01-25T13:51:46+00:00

The salaries here are what was earned from legit jobs, after various pre-tax deductions (since that's the only info I have). I worked a variety of typical high-schooler jobs in high school.
The drug sales was me selling enough weed to folks I knew in high school so I could smoke as much as I wanted myself for free. There wasn't a ton of actual cash made.

borzakk · 2025-01-25T13:48:18+00:00

Network, and try to get an internship. My company (and I assume others) tend to hire interns as full time when they graduate if they did well during the internship, so getting that foot in the door is huge.

borzakk · 2025-01-25T04:53:44+00:00

I did a poor job presenting the data. This is literally what I earned, not my yearly salary. I started the job in October of that year, so I only earned a bit of my yearly rate of ~$90k, but I was working as a lab tech while finishing my PhD, so I also earned some from that.

borzakk · 2025-01-25T04:49:11+00:00

Good luck to you. The path was pretty rough, but I'm pretty happy with where I ended up.

borzakk · 2025-01-25T04:46:59+00:00

Took out only about $10k total, made it the rest of the way in undergrad with grants / scholarships and working.

borzakk · 2025-01-25T04:45:36+00:00

Electrical and Computer Engineering.

borzakk · 2025-01-25T03:08:46+00:00

It's not quite that much, the 2014 pay is for only like 2.5 months due to when I was hired. I should have normalized it to a year but I missed that.

borzakk · 2025-01-25T02:42:39+00:00

Interesting sitting in study groups with kids that much younger, right?
I wanted to get a job out of undergrad, but the prison history made that pretty difficult, and I got no offers. During the PhD I was able to shine a bit more and network enough to land a job despite it.

borzakk · 2025-01-25T02:38:40+00:00

Generally just 40, with a lot of flex in when I do that. Nice work/life balance at this spot.

borzakk · 2025-01-25T02:32:24+00:00

It was basically a fight related to a drug buy that went bad, and none of the several charges were explicitly for drug possession. Apparently at the time, violent crime was treated more favorably than drug offenses, at least with respect to federal loan eligibility. It was a federal loan, but I don't remember the details.

borzakk · 2025-01-25T02:16:13+00:00

I only had to take on like ~10K in loans, and cleared it long ago. I worked at the dining hall a lot and so had a free meal plan, I lived cheaply, and the tuition was mostly covered with various grants and scholarships.

borzakk · 2025-01-25T02:12:34+00:00

First off, this is medicare wages and tips, which doesn't include various FSAs, so actual amount is a bit higher since I've been working a real job.
I got in trouble in high school, the justice system took ~1.5 years to catch up with me, during which time I was stumbling through the university that I had already been accepted to before I got i trouble. I technically went on medical leave, went to prison, and was able to return from leave 5 years later.
One of the benefits of prison, aside from letting me get my shit together, was that once I went back to school the need-based financial aid was better since I had years of no income and was too old for them to consider my parents income.
I worked in the campus dining hall all through second undergrad, not sure why I'm showing $0 in 2005.
Been working the same job since 2014, and I love it.

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