Yep, just want something for stat pointing again
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Anyone happen to have a Rivian vehicle?
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If all youāre doing is pointing at a things in a meeting room then 5mW is plenty. Especially with green aince its apparent brightness is going to be greater than red at the same power.
But how will he be able to heat up his coffee from across the room also?
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I wanted one. I figure since i dont need a car now, i can comfortably wait until the VW ID Buzz is released, or something similar.
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Amputee makes entirely mechanical hand
I can ask around, What is it you are wanting to know?
iām thinking their keycards, which use a DESFire EV3 chip, donāt actually use any of the security features of the chips and just use literally the last 3 bytes of the UID onlyā¦ but I need someone with a Rivian and the keycards to do some testing and confirm some things for me.
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I gotta say, having this implant has had a weird benefit I was not expecting. I started to buy broken iPhone/Samsung lots on ebay and other sites, repairing them, and selling them for profit. Testing the NFC functionality is a lot easier when all I have to do is hold my hand to it 
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Got the new SQL job. They finally gave me a query to write from the beginning. It involves parsing out memos that allegedly have an official format but looking at the first dozen made it clear thatās not enforced.
So I ask the really smart guy āis there any reason I shouldnāt use Rlike? Any performance issues or unexpected behaviors?ā
And he tells me I shouldnāt because regex is hard, I donāt know it, and Iāll just spend forever tweaking what I wrote.
He sends me a starter query that has this:
,replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(upper(memotext),ā ā,āā),ā-ā,āā),ā/ā,āā),ā',āā),ā_ā,āā),ā.ā,āā)
to try to fish out formatting inconsistencies. Eventually he has a 17 line query that returns 36 results.
My four line query I wrote before I asked him gets the exact same results and doesnāt change the final output from that column and still works if some weirdo decided to use a colon instead of a space or whatever. And being 100% transparent all Iām using is the more advanced wildcards that Rlike allows. Iām not doing anything fancy.
So Iām sticking with mine because he needs to figure out that āI donāt think youāre skilled enoughā is not a reason for me to not do something. I donāt know regex but I know what the logic should look like to get what I want. Learning the written bit is easy from there. Thatās literally how I learned to use SQL.
I need to find some way to tell him I appreciate his willingness to help but if I ask a question he needs to answer that and not try to make me do things his way.
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Do a quantitative analysis to show performance gains and try to toss in some outliers. His concern is unintended consequences (a la regex)ā¦ so show that itās not regex and there should be no unintended results.
If he gets pissy, congratulations you have a shit boss.
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Oh itās going to come up again. This one is probably too simple to get a read on performance gainsā¦ But Iām rebuilding another dashboard and all the SQL in it and the original has 23 lines of nearly identical ālikeā statements to try to get all the right accounts. I promise I can clean that up and itāll definitely see gains in performance. That one is a whole mess and takes forever and I know they miss things due to how they wrote it.
Itās really funny because I was specifically asking him if there were any performance issues or unintended behavior I should be aware of. Because thatās a place where having a lot of experience is super helpful. You get to know what does and doesnāt work. But āDonāt do it because you donāt know enoughā is not a reason.
Itās even sillier because he was the one during the interview where we had the exchange āDo you know any pythonā and I went ānot really.ā Then he asked if I would look at some and try to tell him what it was doing. So I did. I was wrong about literally everything I said. But it didnāt stop me from trying.
I think he means well. He takes pushback well and heās always willing to help. But I get real annoyed by being told I canāt do something just because I donāt already know how to do it. How the fuck else do I learn?
Everyone on the team is good, but even good people can have annoying traits. Thatās just one where he and I keep not communicating well. Eventually he will hopefully get a feel for how I work and learn that it doesnāt matter if I know how to do it or not. Only technical issues or deadlines will stop me from trying.
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Would anybody like to try and unscramble this
GONADUSER NIGHTS
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DANGEROUS THINGS
I raise you this to descramble: 
amwrwzg.aqk/yyvaj?t=ztHXlm5ReI0
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Something tells me that itās a link to the rickroll that youāve got under your skinā¦
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that was my guess also
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I donāt see very many situations where āDonāt because you donāt know enoughā is valid. Certainly not in the IT field.
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I occasionally train people professionally. āYou donāt know enoughā, is always followed by āThis is how you do it, now repeat until you get it.ā
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Right? Like the information is all there on Google and Iām taking care enough to check I canāt straight up break everythingā¦ Part of the reason I asked is because I donāt see it in use in other queries where I think it should be used. If he was like āyeah when I port it into python for automation, it will stop working. So we canāt use it for automated projects.ā Thatās a concern I thought might be validā¦ He was like just āregex can get really complicated really fast and you can get stuck troubleshoot it forever.ā
I even said during the interview I use Google a lot to find the best way to do stuff. I want to learn. I donāt want to stagnate where I am. And they are trying to teach me different thingsā¦ By having me watch them do stuff over teams, a way I actively canāt learn. They also donāt want me to stagnate with my current skill set.
I think we will all eventually come to an understanding but itās going to be really frustrating until then. Probably for them as well. I will learn things out of spite. Iām incredibly bullheaded. Itās my defining trait. Iāve had friends warn prospective managers about me before they hired me. So I try to understand it goes both ways. I always become very good at whatever my job is. Thatās the trade off.
And as much as I am frustrated by things like this, I like the team Iām on. So once we get past the growing pains I think it will all come together nicely.
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