Hint: its not an emperor

This pun only works if you mispronounce one or the other

Doing a short 5-10min presentation on problem solving or a project portfolio isn’t unusual in higher level positions where your experience does more weightlifting than your education. But 4 whole rounds of interviews on top of a FULL 30 minute presentation is definitely excessive and seems like a string-along.

Its so hot it’s smooth like butter.

I am so glad this brand new sentence has blessed my eyes

I live alone in a moderately low cost of living area making about 52k take home. With no extenuating expenses related to health I can put away a hundred or two a month after rent, gas, utilities, food and car maintenance (I drive and fix old shit myself rather than make a car payment). But that is literally all I can do. If I had a second person to support or was in any other area I’d be underwater quick.

Vast majority of this funding will get vacuumed up by corporate farms and continue to leave most small family/independents out to dry

pass

The worst people seem fuelled by hate alone and survive longer than they have any right to. See: Dick Cheney.

As well as allow billionaires to continue vacuuming up assets at fire sale prices

yay extra protein

Cast iron is nice because it’s lower conduction rate means you can get a lot more radiant heat without burning whatever’s on it. (Also I guess the “seasoning” adds flavor but eh.)

All day every day I vastly prefer cooking with stainless. It’s infinitely tougher than any coating can be, sheds no flavor to the food when cooking with acids, you can scrub the shit out of it, and it doesn’t warp like aluminum.

The worst part is you know someone has blasted rope to this image at least once

Yup. Close to lossless 480 will always look infinitely better than a poorly encoded 720/1080/4k. Compression blocks ruin images INSTANTLY.

Its why NTSC analog tv was always just Enough.

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The only file format that pretty much 100% guarantees support on most media hardware is h.264 in MP4 containers. With some encoder tuning you can make them decently small without loss of fidelity; people will notice bad encoding more than they will a slight loss in pixels. I would focus on making a really high quality 720p copy of the shows ans batch encoding them with handbrake (or finding good encoded copies on the usual places)

I hate to say it, but prebuilts are the absolute best bang for your buck that you can get now. At least for another month or two until the shortages start impacting OEM inventories.

Right now you can get decent high end ish machines like this: https://www.costco.com/p/-/ibuypower-element-gaming-pc-desktop-amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5070-12gb-windows-11-home-32gb-ram-2tb-ssd/4000384603?langId=-1 and like 35% of the total machine cost washes out to JUST the memory right now. You’ll need to replace the PSU and likely the water cooler for the long term, but the bones are relatively good.

There are many independent small indie games, many DRM free, for less than $20 on steam. What kind of games do you play if any?

Shoulda stuck to stupid consumer products, Vince. Now I won’t buy anything I see your dumb face near.