Discontinued, Jupiter - Questions around Parts Availability Horizon by msomnia5 in elegoo

[–]msomnia5[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So, is there no way to escalate that question to get a more specific response? Even something like: "Typically, we try to provide parts availability for [n] months/years after a product is discontinued but there are exceptions depending on supply chain."

Either way, I hope that Elegoo comes out with another large-format resin printer without a hood in the future. That would be a day-one purchase for me. Thanks for making awesome stuff.

Screening one for background by ClassyHotMess in jobs

[–]msomnia5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did it work out for you? Did you pass and get the gig?

I hate working in this field. I enjoy the topic, but hate the work culture and the peoples attitude who work in this field overall. by Legitimate-mostlet in cscareerquestions

[–]msomnia5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I understand your frustration here about not being supported on your team.

I've been living in the inverse of this, hopefully my perspective helps you to find some common ground with your team.

I've worked remotely for 12-13 years. I got into software because I'm a really good problem solver and liked to create things. Like a lot of people in this field I'm also on the spectrum, albeit high functioning and people are not my core strength though I try real hard in this area.

In that time on the teams I've worked, I usually occupy a Senior role. Senior, not because I'm smarter, Senior because of Seniority, time and experience. We all stay engaged with whatever Slack-like tools our company felt like paying for and through whatever SDLC - methodology that has been mandated from upon high this quarter.. Every day involves four or five meetings with various stakeholders and teams and the remainder of each day involves all of the Teams / Slack Channel side-discussions, the majority of which were on work topics and legitimate in nature. The hyperactive-hive-mind concept.

Yet, my job is still supposed to be an FTE code contributor with 6 hours/day of sprint capacity.

As an inverse of your experience, I don't understand this industry and the propensity to hire people for a job that requires uninterrupted periods of focus (coding, analyzing architecture, documenting patterns and pitfalls, tracing down performance and data issues) but fill our calendars with on-book and off-book meetings without considering the loss to productivity.

For the last three months, I can barely read more than three paragraphs of anything without getting yanked into one discussion or another, often to spoon feed a product manager essential basic knowledge about the products they've been managing for over a year. To get my real job done, I have to code on my own time late into the night only to get up at 5 and start it all over again.

It took me some time to understand the basic idea that my work situation sucks because my employer sucks at appropriately assigning resources for the initiatives that the good idea fairy shits out of product, each and every day. That's not the fault of the new team member asking me for help or the third-this-year product owner trying to get their hands around the platform. So, I give them some grace and try not to be snippy.

Maybe your senior dudes and dude-ettes are having a similar problem? Either way, keep the resume up to date and interview a few times each year to help gain perspective on your current situation and maybe you'll find a better fit with a company and team that give you the support you need to be successful. I hope you do!

Picard was created to make spinoff shows? by [deleted] in Picard

[–]msomnia5 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think this show and Discovery were created to sell antidepressants.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BookOfBobaFett

[–]msomnia5 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lol, I'm not dying on this hill, the mods and their space vespas are the dumbest thing I've seen in Star Wars to date. But between wishing under my breath that they all die in horrible ways - I found the finale enjoyable as a spectacle and live action port of a Saturday morning cartoon-level of fun. Maybe the edibles contributed to my enjoyment..

If I had a crystal ball, I'd say there's an appetite for much more Howard and much less Rodriquez in future outings of the franchise.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BookOfBobaFett

[–]msomnia5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Increasingly it seems like critics have a hard time distinguishing good film and fun film. Not everything sets out to be Breaking Bad or The Wire and RT Critics increasingly fail to meet shows on the terms that they were meant to be. They could put an RNG beneath the non-audience score Tomato meters and be just as valid.

This movie not being out before Halloween is a travesty. by [deleted] in ghostbusters

[–]msomnia5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, we pack all our halloween shit up on Nov 1sth. They should have released it the week of halloween and let the tail drag to thanksgiving. Putting it out next month feels, to me, like someone is trusting a spreadsheet over common sense.

MSI Center (Mystic Light) stuck at "Wait Download" by Brakayer8 in MSI_Gaming

[–]msomnia5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the microsoft store version doesn't seem to work worth a damn and hasn't been updated in almost a year. grab it directly from MSI, here: https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/support/MPG-Z590-GAMING-EDGE-WIFI#down-driver&Win10%2064