I have a desk job, but it is stimulating and I work for my friend, so no mega-corpo that makes money off my back. I know what he pays me, what he pays for social security and what he makes off of my hourly rate.

The problem is the busy work and bullshit office politics.

Because you don’t have the stress of the morning routine. You can take your time and live a little. The anomaly is a forced wake-up time.

And greasy pepperoni

It’s like recreating the vacuum of space with words.

PR talk needs to die a fiery death.

You are right about the fact that businesses are not legally obligated to accept cash. I was wrong on that.

As for e-payment not working, it happened to me at least 3 times since last year, and it fucking sucks.

I don’t like to walk with a lot of cash on me, but if I know that there is a outage of payment systems, I can at least use the cash I keep at home to pay for my basic needs.

More options is good in any case. We are already tracked enough as it is, so I understand people that want to use cash.

Ever had a moment where you needed to go buy groceries but couldn’t pay because the payment system is down nation wide?

Many people did many times and if you don’t have cash on you, well you can’t pay for shit.

A cashless society is not a good thing. And that is especially dumb since a merchant can’t refuse legal tender, but the federal government is refusing legal tender by doing this.

We’re in an era where corporations are buying housing at an unprecedented rate.

They have deep pockets, so even though the people holding mortgage will see relief, we will also see more housing bought by corporations.

The normal person cannot compete with the corporations, and they will have to either outbid the corporation, or hope that the seller find their storing touching and sell them the house even if the bid is lower.

So yeah, prices will raise for sure.

Then he can shut the fuck up asking Trudeau to commit a federal crime, and he can work with agencies to contain the members of his party that are named in the reports.

But that would take effort and integrity, the antipod of the conservative party.

The situation is just strange all around. Poilievre openly asking Trudeau to commit a federal crime, but at the same time, won’t take the time to get the security clearance to get the information himself.

People are gobbling that bullshit and asking for more.

Man, why didn’t we think of not putting these zone at risk of flooding. That would stop all these recent flooding.

Realtors should just shut the fuck up.

Using Windows is terrible right now, but we’ve spent so much time using it that we developped workarounds and knowledge of the OS.

When you switch to Linux, it’s a different OS altogether, and that’s not counting the different flavors.

So yeah, all that to say that the pain and friction pass quite rapidly and you are left with an uncluttered OS (until you fill it up with useless crap).

Corpos have worked so hard at making the UX “seamless” that people aren’t used to fiddling with the computer anymore.

Yeah, that’s probably more the issue. We’ve seen too many times throwaway code become production code because “it works already, we need to move forward”.

Thanks for your input.

I think I would like to follow all these people and their work on C, and their in depth knowledge. But free time is sparse, and I don’t have the mental energy when I do have some time.

As for my work, I work in a startup where I am the only one doing what I do. However, I have a lot of leeway in how I code, so I am always somewhat read on best practices. So I can’t really refer to a senior dev, but I can self-teach.

I think I coded enough that a lot of what I do is a reflex, and I often can approximate a first solution,but I have doubts all the time on how I implement new features. That makes it so that I am a slower coder and I really struggle to do fast prototyping.

I am aware enough of what I do well, and what I struggle, so there’s that.

They can see how it’s done and code their own thing. They don’t have to cut and paste the code, just know how its done.

At least, we know emotionally that it will get better with the second one haha, even if the day to day is rought.

With the first one, it felt like we would never get to the other side of it. But we did and we will for the second one.

I am eager to learn new things, so having so little free time is definitely tough. And the lack of sleep/energy makes it even harder.

Thanks for the encouragement, it’s nice to be acknowledged by someone else that went through the same thing. We often forget that we are not alone and a lot of people got through it before us.

I work in a startup, so I’d say that almost every day, I learn something new. So I don’t really need to look in-between tasks because a lot of tasks bring new challenges.

When I worked in corpos, my job was restricted to the same tasks and specific knowledge. Now it’s the opposite where I need to learn what I need to create a feature or fix an issue.

I guess that lately, a lot of new things have popped up and I need to absorb a lot of information to implement the features I need. And that is probably what is triggering the imposter syndrome.

Thanks for the insight, it is appreciated.

What I like about embedded is that it’s between software and hardware, where you have to know both to a certain extent. It kinda feels like being a mad scientist bringing a monster to life. Seeing that my code makes physical actions (lighting a LED or controlling a motor) never seems to get old, even when trivial.

I am confronted everyday about the things I don’t know because I work in a startup and I am the only one that does what I do. Any issue that I have tells me what I need to learn to fix the issue.

You are right that for a lot of people, what I do seems like magic and we often forget the extent of our knowledge because it has become innate.

Thanks for the insight, I appreciate it.

Through the different replies, I reflected on what I know and what I do for work and I feel like my skillset is more akin to a generalist/integrator, which is needed. But I also feel like everyone in my domain does that. Which might or might not be true.

I guess knowing our strengths and weaknesses is also a skill in itself and a little bit of self doubt here and there can help us grow and direct our knowledge in a certain direction.

Thanks for the insight.

It’s funny because I often have to look for the prototype of a function because I often forget all the arguments a standard C function uses, but otherwise, i feel like I am proficient enough to know where to look for, which in my case is normal because I won’t memorize all the details of how each peripheral of the mcu works.

I work in a small start-up where I am the only one doing what I do, so my epiphanies come from the struggles I have.

Other people I work with often have a blank look in their eyes when I try to explain some issues or what the code does because they don’t have the skillset to comprehend what I am doing. So this isn’t a path for me (yet, hopefully we can grow enough where we need more people in my field).

But I appreciate your experience. I will certainly think about a way to play in the innards of my language so that I can understand it better.