You're describing my father. Now that he's retired his lack of hobbies is really catching up to him. His only hobby has been working and I've noted this about him since I was an adolescent and decided then as something I would not emulate.
A few times I've quit a FAANG job with no plan for after other than to wander, and both times the lack of professional competition meant not just coasting horizontally but that I was actually lowering myself somehow. Hard to explain, and I don't fully understand it.
I also noticed most people, especially women, determine your value by your 'right now'. While intentionally unemployed I'd answer truthfully and with a smile, 'I'm unemployed!' which visibly confused people.
If someone wanted to do business research for Mexico or any other LATAM country, while in the US and using English source data what resources would you look to?
Depends on what kind of business research you need. But there are at least collections of all tax treaties that exist available from a single source somewhere. I don't remember what the source is off the top of my head unfortunately.
Not to get into the historic details but growing up there was lot of tension in my parent's house. When you're a kid you feel these things and are aware of the issues that cause them, but you haven't yet learned how to talk about them or the right words to describe the truth of them. Instead you internalize them.
The lack of learning constructive perspectives and ways for discussing emotions while young, may very much be a source of depression, the same way people say "he can't help it, he has ADHD".
I was about 16 and the doctor recommended this new SSRI called ... I think it was Paxil, The side effects, especially if you missed a dose are hard to describe. If you missed a dose you couldn't function at school, and everyone thought you were really stoned. Also, you could look at a pretty girl and just nothing. A 16 year old boy doesn't know why THAT's happening, neither does the girl, and it just makes things worse. Try having that conversation with your Dad, while doped out on the drugs he told you to take. Imagine the anxiety. It's really depressing. Better to be alone, and safe in one's bedroom and on the Internet... ( and that was 20 years ago ).
Around the same time there was Ritalin and maybe a few others came out.
The issues kids are facing, the feelings they are then given pills to erase are still there, even when numbed to them. The answer lies somewhere in familial stability and relearning respect?, and how to constructively frame life's difficulties and teach that to our kids.
I would never give my kids anything that altered their brain chemistry. Even as adults, the only way is through.
I just bought one. I want the form factor, not for reading long form ebooks.
Out the door with a case and screen covers it was about $120 USD. We shall see how it all goes.
It's hard for me to be specific about this but I've worked for 2 cloud FAANGs and whatever the management culture was like at Intel, whenever I work with ex-Intel management... their behavior and perspective just really rubbed me wrong. None went to work because they liked what they did. What was worse is you could feel it. They had a smell; not Tech, no imagination.
As one might expect there are exceptions to this, I apparently happened to be in one of those orgs for 5 years. It was very outward-focused so not as tightly tied to the internal way of life, and was greedily dismembered by the empire-builders when that particular VP suddenly 'retired'. Occasionally we'd get an internal transfer that didn't quite gel with us. Every time I hear about that 'real' internal culture I am thankful I missed out on the bulk of it...
When I think of people that went into Tech 20+ years ago, this choice of work was a vocation. Not saying they were all pleasant, but they were all largely invested.
At some point Tech became a safe, lucrative profession, for people who say things like 'life is more than work. Nobody is required to like what they do.', like the managers from Intel.
> Those of the Elven-race that lived still in Middle-earth waned and faded, and Men usurped the sunlight. Then the Quendi wandered in the lonely places of the great lands and the isles, and took to the moonlight and the starlight, and to the woods and caves, becoming as shadows and memories, save those who ever and anon set sail into the West and vanished from Middle-earth.
it's a fine answer and it's the correct answer. Obsessive behavior is not easily identifiable when everyone around you is leading an unbalanced life. I'm sure in certain circles you could find people who agree both of us.
The difference is the the psychologists and the philosophers agree with me over the long term. Being work obsessed at age 40+ when you have other aspects of life worth exploring is simply mental illness.
Did you ever even consider that such people have other things to do?
It seems like you are addressing a completely different point, and creating a false dichotomy.
It makes sense that people dont want to work with others that try to do as shitty of a job as possible without being fired, fucking over whomever and whatever happens to be collateral damage.
Being an obsessive company man is not the only alternative, and certainly not what they were suggesting. Im not sure why you thought it was being advocated for.
Never is too absolute of a statement, but I bought a Siglent SDS2304X 7 years ago. It has 350 MHz of bandwidth and a 2 Gsps sample rate. I don’t think I’ve ever been limited by what it can do.
I paid the full price for it (>$2000), but almost all Rigol scopes have lower and higher BW versions with the same chassis and electronics. You can buy the lower BW versions for a fraction of the higher one and apply a software patch to unlock the higher BW.
This has been possible for years. Despite many SW revisions, Rigol has never made an effort to block this. I think they know that in the grand scheme of things, they make more money this way.
So research 100MHz Rigol scopes and check if they are hackable. Chances are high that they are.
on some of the latest models rigol put in a few hardware features that are only on the higher bandwidth versions, but the lower bandwidth are still hackable to higher bandwidth.
It's all about extracting as much as they can from each customer, but I'm happy they're willing to allow "willing to do hacking stuff" to be a market segmenter for them.
Unfortunately, I think the GP post question of a device a hobbyist can't exceed has a negative answer. I really like my DHO924S and there are a huge number of tasks where it is way more than enough (and it's very portable too). But around me there are kinds of computer and video and radio devices that run much higher than 250MHz, and going to 350 or 500MHz doesn't really change that fact. Scope prices go pretty exponential after a couple hundred MHz. ... so if you want to be snooping on a SFP+s sfi signal, USB3 some hdmi thing or whatever via a scope anything but a lucky surplus find is unlikely to be inside a hobby budget.
Yet I think it's totally reasonable for a hobbyist to want to work on the high speed digital signals that surround them in their own home.
(hobby solution to fast digital busses is to make custom boards with inexpensive FPGAs I guess, rather than using a 5+-figure oscilloscope)
In practice, you can get very far with high speed interfaces while never using a high-speed scope. I've spent years professionally doing HDMI, DisplayPort and LVDS interfaces with FPGAs and never had the need for scope shots. (Admittedly, a colleague did use it, but that was always for certification related measurements which is a non-issue for hobbyists.)
Part of the reason is that the specifications for these fast interfaces are created for robustness. They can sustain a lot of PCB design abuse and still work fine in practice even when out of spec.
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