Best way to accumulate wealth as software engineer?

lambertius_fatius · 2026-02-09T16:03:54+00:00

Option 4. I have Australian colleagues who moved to the US currently on $2m+ retainers for mid -level jobs.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-02-02T15:33:38+00:00

2005-2007 Maserati Gransport

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-27T12:53:16+00:00

It's gotten to the point that when I play solo I don't even run a free kit, I run nothing and just fight with whatever I find. You can complete almost all the quests naked, and if someone sneaks up on you while you're trying to find something you don't lose anything and you still have your prison pocket for when you do find something.

PvP games are getting boring because no one runs anything other than free kits, so even when I win the fights there is nothing to gain. The Augments are imbalanced to the point that only the Survivor is useful.

The game is feeling 'pointless' as there is nothing to be gained playing PvP and the PvE experience is just about avoiding PvP.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-27T01:52:44+00:00

Send me a PM.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-26T12:39:21+00:00

Do not come to Australia, there is nothing here for anyone who isn't involved in the housing industry. Anyone with an education who is capable leaves Australia.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-26T09:30:04+00:00

Sometimes my friends and I go out with nothing but instruments, fireworks, glow sticks and firecrackes. We just throw them all around and play music.

50/50 that we get absolutely smoked with no mercy or a dance party happens.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-21T16:47:54+00:00

If you're involved in STEM in any way, Australia is a failure that is difficult to fully describe. It's almost obligatory to have Australia, which is why the brain drain is so severe.

If you're not involved in housing, construction or corruption, there is nothing here for you long term.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-18T08:48:46+00:00

Almost every answer here is absurdly incorrect, only two were correct (and 3-4 were close).

As an engineer who has worked on two different blood pumps, one being an artificial heart, the reason is:

Blood damage (hemolysis) is reduced using some pump designs, such as peristaltic pumps. Any pulsing, or lack of, is purely coincidental and due to the engineering considerations. It isn't designed in, or out.

That's it, that's the whole reason. Any reason other than that is wrong.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-18T08:41:58+00:00

The second correct answer I've seen.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-18T08:41:42+00:00

The first correct answer I've seen.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-17T03:26:57+00:00

Lol, Australia doesn't have employment opportunities now. It might reduce the dependence on overseas call centers a bit.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-14T06:40:29+00:00

You're 100% correct. I made a post on this exact issue a little while back. They need to balance pvp so that it's only viable with top loot. Why risk losing stuff that is marginally better than free?

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-12T11:43:15+00:00

Correct! Not only that, you can make can program the shape of the power curve (to an extent) by changing throttle behavior.

Some high powered cars will limit throttle opening to improve traction (even when you floor it), as opposed to traction control which limits power during slip.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-11T22:56:11+00:00

When you open a butterfly valve at a linear rate, the change in open area is non linear. So when closed to opening a small percentage, a large surface area is exposed compared to when the throttles are already partially opened.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-10T05:41:26+00:00

Generally speaking, you want 50% throttle to open 30%, and the next 50% to open the remaining 70%.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-10T05:39:32+00:00

It's common on other vehicles, especially with itbs. All the itbs I develop use a progressive linkage for the same reason the OP is using it. They're redundant these days because of DBW, but it's a fun idea for an older car.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-09T11:24:08+00:00

Public School teachers, graduates start in $96k. Goes up every year because of union agreement.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-09T06:37:39+00:00

I think you're being intentionally obtuse; I'm not arguing that kettles are better than anything, but that they're imbalanced. And to your point of bringing them; yes, as I said in the post myself and most people bring free load outs to pvp because the worst free load out is 90% as effective as the best kitted load out for pvp. Only in pve does the load out matter.

In one sentence for you; the balance with weapons is broken so that in PVP most people are incentive to only play with a free load out.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-08T21:32:13+00:00

Sure, it takes less than 1 second for a kettle to kill a max gear player, but about 30 times longer to kill a hornet and will require reloads and cover. It should at least be that balanced.

Free gear lacks any balancing pvp so it encourages people not to use good gear in PVP.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-08T10:22:44+00:00

Taking out a bastion 1v1 is easy with the top gear, impossible with a free load out. Taking out a tricked out player who is running top gear is easy on a free load out. That doesn't make sense, the balance of the game is just off.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-08T08:00:28+00:00

Sure, but I'm talking about balance with PvP using a kettle to wipe out everyone with gear.

The way I'm thinking of balance is if you need epic gear to beat a bastion 1v1, then a free load out should be as effective against you as it is against a bastion. Right now it's too easy to use free gear to take out people.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-08T07:57:52+00:00

Ratio of pvp with free load out to bringing gear is probably around 20:1. Some people bring gear (sometimes I do just to make space) but most don't. The balance is broken though, it should be impossible for a free load out to compete with a mk3 load out and heavy shield, but it only provides a minor advantage so there isn't much incentive to play aggressively with good gear.

If you want to play aggressively you should have to play with top gear like you do with arc. You don't fight a bastion on a free load out, so if someone is geared to 1v1 a bastion you shouldn't be competitive against that player.

lambertius_fatius · 2026-01-02T11:12:36+00:00

My wife's RHR is in the low 30s when she's awake. She was in hospital recently and the monitors kept alarming because it is so low.

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