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doing the math in US measurements my previous company was paying me about 10 USD hour or roughly 19k USD yearly to do embedded C development for a financial institution and if i can get any remote job that won't immediately overstress and burn me out for that much i'm happy

RT @maplesbian@twitter.com

story time: at my previous job maintaining and porting applications to card payment machines we were briefly tasked with working on a new hardware from a new manufacturer. they brought in two people from the company who imports them from the manufacturer to teach us the SDK
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RT @maplesbian@twitter.com

does your company have legacy systems whose main programmer left the company and nobody else knows how it works? put me in there and i'll document it for you for the right price. i'll maintain your software for whatever forgotten platform. hire me

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RT @maplesbian@twitter.com

change of plans. please hire me. looking for full remote work only. i can do embedded C work, i can do web development like nobody's fucking business. i can do anything with computers. DM me for CV

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i can't (easily) find anywhere that's easy to solder which mirrors the jtag pins on the connector and cables that break out for jtag are unobtainium...

there is apparently 1 phone parts shop in EU which has the connector for making a cable but USD30 shipping on a USD3 part...

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i think the jtag vias (which would be marginally easier to solder onto) are all underneath the connector, so i would need to remove the board from the front half to access them but so far i haven't been able...

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this is what i bought the 30awg wires for and yes i did a test with my finest soldering iron tip and immediately bridged across two of the pins (shown here already removed)

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i'm trying to rescue a bricked GP2X, the ext plug gives JTAG pins but there's no way i can solder individual wires on that fine a pitch and none of those test pads seem related... suggestions?

RT @alienmelon@twitter.com

this was brought to my attention so i'll make it a point to say this again:
Cecilia D’Anastasio is an abusive journalist who hounds her sources, places them in danger, lies to them to get what she wants, and nearly pushed survivors to suicide because of her reporting- 1/10

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i am tired of self-absorbed patronising unitedstatian gringos and their continuing attitude that things that are financially easy for them must be financially easy for the third world they continue to exploit

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people who are condescending stop getting defensive when i call you condescending challenge (impossible???) (gone wrong)

RT @ithayla@twitter.com

this fucks me, this person literally went through the worst on this website including nazis, alt right, fucking having home address posted, family targeted, and its ANOTHER FUCKING MARGINALIZED PERSON WHO FINALLY DROVE THEM OFF twitter.com/425suzanne/status/

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RT @arielmtspeaks@twitter.com

I'm getting spurious FreeBSD kernel panics along with the random zombie'ing of my X11 server. I ran Memtest86+ to try & find hardware-caused problems, but I know that's far from the only tool.

Any recommendations for other amd64/x64 tools I can put on a USB stick & boot into?

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RT @arielmtspeaks@twitter.com

If you accept the obvious retort as both correct and not invalidating the question, then life, the universe, and everything make perfectly quixotic sense.

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RT @arielmtspeaks@twitter.com

The ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is, "Think of a number, any number." youtube.com/watch?v=z-2xa5Erex

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RT @maplesbian@twitter.com

it might just be my mood swings but the orchestrated two final bars of "journey of the sorcerer" that close off the post-credits of the last episode of the 1981 tv adaptation of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy hit me very strongly emotionally

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RT @maplesbian@twitter.com

still want to do a complete redesign of my website but until i do that, i just improved the tech page making it into a more eye-catching gallery

maple.pet/tech

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