the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

did a bit of research into what it'd take to move to new zealand, since we're starting to look into jobs outside the US

apparently, we're automatically qualified for a visa on the basis of having a degree and experience (at least i hope we can claim our research assistantship as experience) in electrical engineering, a field they have on their "most needed" list

but of course because of covid they're not taking immigration applications "until further notice"
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context for this: we use almost exclusively the right shift (even typing things like |, yes that's awkward) and we've noticed some pain in our right little finger lately and i wonder if they're related
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when typing on a physical keyboard, do you use

Come to think of it, D-sub connectors are already "D subminiature", but I don't think we've ever seen the larger ones. Maybe that's why?

But smaller ones do exist, and you can still buy them, though the lack of production leads to very high prices; just take a look at this listing on digikey: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/molex/0836119006/WM2142-ND/1001287

There's also a "nano-D" size that we only just learned about that's even smaller and even more ridiculously priced: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/itt-cannon-llc/NDD-21PBRTT/1003-3059-ND/9691580

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I wonder why miniature D-sub connectors never took off, when mini-DIN and mini- and micro-usb became ubiquitous.
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why did video tape have a different color to it than cassette tape? was it a different formulation?
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...starting to seriously consider spending 60% of our savings on a valve index, rrf

this is not a good idea
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sometimes i just think about how audio CDs had vastly more storage capacity *purely in the metadata subchannels* than most people could dream of having on a hard drive when the CD first came out and yet somehow no one considered using CDs to store data until way later and just. why did no one think of that
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A shadow on a sunny day is just a solar eclipse over a very small area
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enchanteater
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pangolin
pangola
pangoloncello
contrabass pangol
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we have no experience outside of school but we do (or will, in a few days) have a master's degree in EE and a lot of experience working in a research lab, designing PCBs and assembling components on them, sourcing components, taking measurements, analyzing data, running simulations, all that fun stuff
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I guess we might as well ask here... Does anyone happen to know of an employer that has part-time (20-25 hours) positions for electrical engineers, that can offer sufficient pay to live off of (thinking $30-$35/hr or more but cost of living varies so maybe more or less depending on location)?

We're not picky about location, willing to move pretty much anywhere in the US... or anywhere else that speaks english really, not that we know how immigration works...
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you ever think about how good mightyena is
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what we find the most baffling about this is that, no one has done it yet (the link is a demonstration/explanation TAS) but this is all RTA viable
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apparently there's a new ocarina of time 100% route and it is glitchy as *fuck* including:

- glitching a give-item function onto a butterfly so that it gives link like two dozen items as he rotates to precise angles
- young link in a blue tunic
- glitch boots that make link run fast and also have no gravity
- angle-based wrong warps all over the place
- child link beating almost all of the bosses
- needing to use a memory viewer to understand what's going on

link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHZGiJD2KNk

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I like boron. It gets involved in some really interesting chemistry, is a useful semiconductor dopant, and gets overlooked a lot.
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we are not doing okay

we're not in danger or anything but

we're not doing okay
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