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Be honest... Are you a bad person?
  • I've done some reprehensible things, but I don't think I'm a bad person. Bit of a short temper but I try be good to everyone and not hurt or use people like I was. But if karma existed, you would say I was a veritable Genghis Khan

  • Having to score strangers on their 'empathy' and 'courtesy' and 'knowledge' (anything less than a 5 star is a 'bad grade', I am sure)
  • Having had this rating determine how well I was doing at my job really sucked!

    Its a carrot that's dangled on a stick tied to your back, you can never reach the carrot on your own, the metric is completely out of your control.

    I only ever got scored badly during outages or when people were upset about something that the service didn't do, so my overall rating was good, but even with 10 5 star ratings, it just takes 1 4 star to ruin that.

    The customer correspondence rating (CCR) for our department was 4.64. That basically means that anything that isn't a 5 is bad.

    If you got a 3 and below, a team lead and a "quality" engineer would have meetings with you to correct what you did wrong.

    Whenever I have to rate things now, if the person wasn't a complete dickhead, I rate 5.

  • Why don’t you like Apple?
  • They pioneered modern day planned obsolescence, they also popularised unrepairable electronics. They try to block or bastardise any right to repair bills. They force chip distributors to not sell chips they use so their products can't be repaired. They make building applications for Mac at scale a huge pain in the ass and extremely expensive, the solution I recently built wastes insane amounts of power because of the way Apple licenses their stuff. Overall it's a shitty company who fucks poor people in developing nations, fucks the environment and fucks it's customers. I don't care how well it may or may not work, fuck Apple.

    Also OSX ui is shit and annoying.

  • What LGBTQ+ topic you wish more people knew about?
  • I think it's also important for people to understand the mental effects of dating an ace person as someone who isn't ace. I got caught up in that and it took a long while for me to stop thinking I was undesirable and gross.

  • I feel like I should leave the gaming industry

    So I've worked in IT for around 18 years now and in that time I've worked for 2 gaming companies, I started my most recent a year ago, but I'm wondering if I should just jump ship for the tech industry again, I'm now waiting for the layoffs in our business unit. I'm an immigrant living on a work permit and losing my job will mean losing the life I've made for myself over the last 4 years, and that terrifies me.

    I used to love the company I work for but now I'm wondering if it's worth it anymore.

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    Some advice on creating a 2.4 GHz antenna for Seeed ESP32-C3

    Hi,

    I'm looking for some help in a field that is super technical and I don't fully understand.

    I'm planning on using a bunch of these seeed studio Esp modules for some home automation projects, especially because they have a lipo battery charger making it great for portable stuff.

    The thing is the the ESP32s have U.FL SMD antenna connectors. Most of the antennas that you can buy with U.FL connections while are reasonably small, come with 50-150mm leads, which sort of makes the small size of the module a little less valid.

    What I'd like to do is get a female U.FL SMD connector and make a small daugherboard with an 2.4GHz SMD antenna on it, for instance a Janson 2450AT42B100 or a Molex 479480001.

    They go over the circuit board requirements quite thoroughly so I don't think designing it will be too difficult, but what I don't know is, they say that you need impedance matching on the circuit, and I see that there appears to be something that looks like it on the ESP circuit diagram, but I'm not actually sure if it is or not:

    You can see it in the middle near the bottom of the diagram here: Seeeduino-XIAO-ESP32C3-SCH

    So my questions are:

    1: Is this a dumb idea, having a direct plug-on SMD antenna?

    2: Is that an impedance matchning circuit between LNA_IN on the ESP chip and U.FL-R-SMT-1?

    3: If I can't get a female U.FL SMD connector, would using one with a lead and shortening it to make the daughterboard able to be much closer to the connector affect anything? Do I need to ensure that the lead length matches the wavelength at all?

    Edit: Found this SMD female U.FL, so they do exist.

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