So apparently you cannot change the country of your PayPal account, you have to delete and remake it. Fine. Now I cannot delete my account because it's been 'limited' and I have to verify my identity and address? Fine. But now that failed because my official proof of address card from Hungary that is valid until 2026 was not made in the last 12 months.
Finally got myself to ditch my ISP box and configured everything for OpenWRT and it went... fine? I'm very much not used to my networking setups just immediately working.
I had a technical interview today (it went fine), but now they want to organize an even more technical interview next week. I am now afraid of spending the rest of my life going on increasingly technical interviews.
@malcircuit I just got invited to a technical screening before the first interview even. All completely automated of course, so if I get a low score I won't even be able to talk to a human working at the company.
In contrast, the interview for my previous job was just one round of talking with the PO, the technical part mostly him asking a couple of questions and discussing why my answers were right or wrong and what my thought process was.
With all the AI hype going around, I'm kinda afraid it's all gonna become automated quizes that will never get evaluated by a person at all.
Like every single time I have to do it, there are new pages of things they want to sell, new popups I have to decline and a new version of some dark pattern I have to figure out how to avoid.
Why would you store the number of remaining films in the camera in RAM? How am I meant to find out how many are left when the battery inevitably runs out and the counter gets reset?
I cannot believe that the microcontroller you're using doesn't have a single byte of in-system programmable non-volatile memory.
My coworkers made me a desk toy thing with an actual hardware sample of the product I was working on. Now I will have to find out if I can flash some software on it without access to any of our tooling or a debugger...
@mcc The 'Got it' button is the same as the 'Maybe later' buttons that are getting very popular, both signalling that you don't really have a choice, but should just accept what Big Company has already deemed best for you.
After a couple of days of troubleshooting, it turned out that my router decided to turn on DoS protection for whatever reason, which was blocking the LetsEncrypt ACME challenge requests, preventing my certs from renewing...
