countzeroasl's comments

"recruiters that don't know the industry beyond buzzwords. this is frustrating"

I am not even in the Tech Industry (Plastics Manufacturing Engineering), and this is the case. There are maybe... MAYBE... a handful of recruiters that have been in the business, working with my industry long enough to actually know what the heck they are talking about. They are ones that have actually gone to plants, gone on tours, asked questions, and tried to understand the difference between a dryer, a hopper, and a barrel on an injection molding machine. Modern recruiting is as much a numbers game as modern job hunting (for the most part) and it is completely idiotic.

I don't have really any advice, just wanted people to know that it's not just Tech that is seeing what you're seeing. The rest of us career professionals (16 years here) feel your pain and empathize.

Watabou is my go-to for low-prep toolbox apps in gaming. Between that one, and donjon (https://donjon.bin.sh/), and a name generator like https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/ , it's basically everything you need for a quick jaunt into the dark with your buddies.

Angel's Citadel, my TTRPG publishing company (https://angelscitadel.com). My wife and I do it together becuse we want to. No real other reason.

That's the great thing. You don't actually have to know anything about anything you're talking about and people will listen to you because you are a "celebrity". It happens all the time, across all spectrums and views. It's been happening for a very long time. This isn't particularly surprising, or unique.

That was way more fun that it should have been. Good job.

Seattle is every bit as bad as California. Interestingly enough, when California started getting bad, Washington was where they moved. Now? Hellloooo TEXAS!

Cost of Living. I was born in California. I lived there for two years again starting in 1998. Even 20 years ago, cost of living was stupid. And that was in rural northern California. It was worse in the city. And it hasn't gotten any better in the last 20 years.

In fact, I've even excluded California from my last and any future job searches because as a plastics engineering manager, a company can't pay me enough for my family and I to live on there. It's crazy.

As an engineering manager that does these types of projects for a living, I would be happy to chat with anyone who is interested in the actual process, design/manufacturing issues, or rough costs/timeline of this type of project.

Possible, depending on how simple the molds are. Typically, this is easier if you have a MUD unit (Master Unit Die) where you can just mill inserts, rather than the whole injection mold (ejection, injection, clamp plates, etc...)

The other option that is commonly used is using a mold with an internal manifold to heat the plastic, which is injected through heated tips or pneumatic/hydraulic valve gates. This shortens the space on the part such that the flow length of the plastic will be sufficient to fill the part, where with a single gate, it may not due to the part thickness and thermodynamic freeze.

I am an engineering manager for a plant that does contract manufacturing and specializes in injection molding. I'm happy to answer any questions someone might have about this process, plants that utilize it, or design/manufacturing limitations of it.

Took a break from Economics with Human Action by Ludwig von Mises, to go in a completely different direction with The Book of Joy by Douglas Abrams. Not sure whether I'm going to go back to Economics when I'm done or take another detour. I've got SO MANY on my list that are sitting on my shelf. Before those, it was Peopleware - Productive Projects and Teams by DeMarco and Lister.

This movie was a classic, but the way it wove tangential topics like Cold War tactics, and Game Theory in to make a substantial story blows my mind even today...

This movie was the first inkling that I can remember as a kid that I needed to put time into nonlinear games and their associated thought processes. Poker, Role-Playing Games, Wargames, etc... Anything and everything that "upped the ante" when it came to strategy, complexity, realism, and paradigm modeling became more interesting to me as time moved on, and it more or less started about the time I first saw this film.

It's amazing to me how well it stands up even after all these years.

Only problem I had with netbooks were the keyboard. My hands are kinda big...

Navier-Stokes. Always had a thing for fluid mechanics.

This was my answer. It's one of the reasons I became a licensed HAM.

Yes. Two reasons:

1.) Concentration Meditation calms my mind and allows it to settle so that the important thoughts can rise to the top more easily when I'm NOT meditating.

2.) Insight Meditation helps to increase the time between stimulus and my response to such stimuli, allowing me to respond mindfully rather than totally driven by conditioned reaction or instinct.

You have to include them. It's a mentality, not a medium.

Less keystrokes = optmal laziness.

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