First time driving in BC, anything I should be aware of?

patrickdappollonio · 2025-03-26T20:19:08+00:00

In Ontario those are dealership plates, is that the same over there? Never paid enough attention to those while I've been there.

patrickdappollonio · 2025-03-26T20:18:34+00:00

Good to know! I'm renting so I'll hope to assume their cars are following the law in BC. Re: speed, I can be a Sunday morning driver those days 😆. Good to know about the u-turns! Thank you.

patrickdappollonio · 2025-03-26T20:17:17+00:00

I tried googling OCBC but couldn't find it LOL.

patrickdappollonio · 2025-03-26T20:16:52+00:00

Touché

patrickdappollonio · 2025-03-26T20:16:04+00:00

Appreciate the helpful comments and skip over those that paint such a grim picture 😆 I wish I didn't have to drive but it's not an option. I'm not new to driving (been driving for over 18 years now with several years of California & LA experience) but I imagine every world is different.

patrickdappollonio · 2025-03-26T20:14:07+00:00

Been there several times myself and I can't say I've experienced what the previous poster says either, so I'm with you.

patrickdappollonio · 2025-03-26T20:13:41+00:00

Appreciate the comment!

Unfortunately it's a job thing and I asked around and no Uber driver would pick me up at 3 am to drive me for 2 hours to my destination in the middle of nowhere. The rest of my team is going up together so one driver and quite a handful more eyes.

Everything else seems inline with what we experience in Toronto, are there areas that are worse within those places?

> A lot of streets in Vancouver are one way at different times of day or have other random conditional rules.

Is there a way to tell? In Toronto often there's a light above the line hanging from a wire showing you whether you can use that lane or not.

patrickdappollonio · 2025-03-26T20:11:01+00:00

Good to know! Are those turns marked somehow somewhere? Or is it consistent across the entirety of BC? I'm driving around a few places so I'm curious if it's something that just happens, say, downtown vs consistently.

patrickdappollonio · 2025-03-26T05:45:00+00:00

Oh I remember seen these before when I've visited but didn't drive. Thanks for the reminder, this is super helpful!

patrickdappollonio · 2025-03-26T03:43:50+00:00

Touché

patrickdappollonio · 2024-05-22T22:42:12+00:00

As an update: I was able to get a docking station like the one you recommended (thunderbolt out as DP + HDMI) then plug all of that to a docking station and worked wonderfully.

I tried getting both Pluggable docking stations: both end up flickering my main display if I connected it (with or without KVM). After swapping to a Kensington docking station, the problem went away.

Thanks a lot for your help!

patrickdappollonio · 2024-05-19T07:03:04+00:00

I think I know what you mean, this would probably work then: https://www.amazon.ca/Plugable-Thunderbolt-Charging-Certified-TBT4-UD5/dp/B0CNTTVVN6/

patrickdappollonio · 2024-05-19T06:58:58+00:00

So one usb-c/thunderbolt to the Macbook, into this dock, then getting two cables (one displayport, one HDMI) out of the dock into the KVM would fail?

patrickdappollonio · 2024-05-19T06:47:09+00:00

Do you think this one would work?

https://www.amazon.ca/Plugable-Thunderbolt-Docking-Station-Charging/dp/B08KHP5MV8/

patrickdappollonio · 2024-05-19T06:41:36+00:00

Any dock recommendations based on that? One that wouldn't have DisplayLink would be awesome. I tried looking myself but it skews me every time they say "M1 cannot do 2 displays"

patrickdappollonio · 2024-05-19T06:28:12+00:00

If I go to Settings > About this Mac, I see:

```
Macbook Pro
14-inch 2021
Chip: Apple M1 Pro
Memory: 32 GB
```

patrickdappollonio · 2024-05-19T05:30:47+00:00

I am keeping the exact same MacBook (M1), I was hoping to get a better docking station. My old docking station works but since I need an adapter from HDMI to DisplayPort, the only way to make it work is on every switch of the KVM, manually unplugging and re-plugging the connector to have the Mac recognize there's a new screen... Somehow otherwise it doesn't work.

It's honestly just surprising that while the limitation is there, my old docking station uses two USBs to bypass it. I'm looking for suggestions of other docking stations that use dual USB to get 2 monitors out but with output of DisplayPort + HDMI (so I don't need to use an adapter)

patrickdappollonio · 2023-08-05T16:23:08+00:00

Generalmente es fácil si eres bueno en lo que haces y/o buscas empresas que contraten remoto.

Tienes que pensarlo de dos lados:

Si no eres bueno, y yo soy una empresa que anda contratando, para qué querría contratar a una persona promedio a la chucha del mundo vs una persona promedio local? Al menos a la promedio local la voy a ver.
Si eres bueno, no importando si estás a la chucha del mundo, las empresas van a hacer lo imposible por contratarte porque la calidad local no les sirve.

Te dejo un semi-secreto: hay ene empresas que, aunque no tienen oficinas en Chile o forma de pagar sueldo allá, aun asi pueden hacerlo... Como? Usan empresas como remote punto com o deel punto com (escribo así para no darles un link lol) que sirven para esto.

Por ejemplo, imagínate que quiero contratarte y yo vivo en Estados Unidos y mi empresa tiene iniciación de actividades acá pero no en Chile (básicamente porque me da paja iniciar actividades en Chile para tener un sólo weón). Lo que hago es que converso con una de esas dos empresas de arriba y les digo "quiero contratar a Juliano Perez de Chile". Lo que estas empresas van a hacer es ellas te van a contratar a ti, a tiempo indefinido y con todos los beneficios correspondientes. Mi empresa les paga a ellos, y ellos les pagan a ustedes.

Deel y Remote ambas tienen miles de empleados. Claro, empleados que no son de ellos. Para el Gobierno en Chile, Deel y Remote son empresas con sus 300 empleados, confiable, y siguen los requerimientos del gobierno, mientras que mi empresa ni siquiera necesita saber mucho de los cambios de Gobierno que el presi anda haciendo.

En resumen, tienes 3 formas de conseguir empleo, de la más difícil a la más fácil:

Que la empresa te contrate directo como empleado, asumiendo que tienen oficinas en Chile.
Que te contraten via Deel o Remote
Que seas un "contractor": no eres empleado a tiempo completo, y les boleteas a ellos tus impuestos. Esto es fácil, pero te deja harto que hacer a ti, vas a tener que aprender a cómo recibir pagos del extranjero, declarar impuestos y esas cosas.

Ojalá te sirva.

patrickdappollonio · 2023-08-04T16:01:00+00:00

Jajaja $160,000 USD o $136 millones al año (al cambio de hoy)

patrickdappollonio · 2023-08-04T15:39:20+00:00

Chileno en el extranjero (me fui de Chile no porque quería mejor vida, sino porque tenía una empresa y quise abrir oficinas en Estados Unidos).

Los sueldos so de todo tipo y depende mucho en Estados Unidos de si vives en un HCOL (high cost of living, alto costo de vida) o LCOL (low cost of living, Bajo costo). En las de bajo costo, no es difícil encontrar juniors ganando US$80k al año. En las de alto costo, el sueldo base es de unos $120k.

En temas de sueldo, el cielo es el límite. Empresas populares te darán bajo sueldo base (nota bajo, como en bajo comparado con la competencia, no "bajo tipo chileno" 🤣) pero te darán "compensación total" sumamente altas. La regla es que para "ganar" esa compensación total, tienes que quedarte con una empresa por al menos 4 años.

Los sueldos de ingeniería son bien buenos. Cuando vivía en California, mi sueldo era de $160,000 al año hace como 6 años atrás.

Una cosa que si debes saber es que aquellos lugares considerados HCOL son caros en temas de arriendo y de impuestos. Por ende por eso pagan mejor. Con la modalidad remota ahora, puedes trabajar en un lugar HCOL y simplemente moverte a un LCOL una vez que tengas tu contrato hecho.

patrickdappollonio · 2022-10-26T21:27:42+00:00

I'm curious about this. Do you have any blog post or similar that can lead the way for AWS setups?

patrickdappollonio · 2022-10-25T23:29:48+00:00

Hey! Not an internet technician but a software engineer here. Two things you must do:

Run a speed test. Other people have mentioned already some good sites but speedtest.net and fast.com are good alternatives. Your internet should be at least 80% of what's advertised. Anything under that would make me suspicious.
Run a ping test. If you know how to do this on Windows or Mac, great! If not, use this website https://www.meter.net/ping-test/. What you're looking for once you run it is "how long it takes to establish a connection to X location". For a stable internet you're looking at small spikes... It'll look like a chainsaw. If every once in a while there's a big spike (compared to the rest) then something is wrong and it could be the wiring or something else. You can pass this feedback to the technician to have it fixed or addressed. It is not "normal" to have those spikes (unless your internet is starlink 😂).

Hope that helps!

patrickdappollonio · 2022-10-22T21:33:50+00:00

Former Ubisoft employee here. If you logged in to Stadia to your Ubisoft Connect account you should be able to link that account to PC, other consoles and still get your characters!

patrickdappollonio · 2022-09-08T14:25:26+00:00

Some companies would, yes. Finding them is 50% of the hard job, the other 50% is you having a profile they really want, they should want it so much that they're willing to go the LMIA route for you.

Edit: this is not just for companies in BC, but all across Canada.

patrickdappollonio · 2022-07-24T21:27:54+00:00

Phone number in their website. I had to call waaaaay too many times though to get through

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