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I really want one of the hats for the Radpberry Pi but it doesn’t look easy to source. I don’t see any boards for sale and I’ve never tried to use PCBWay.

At least two of the hats https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi/wiki/I%C2%B2S-DACs look like they are currently for sale. And I didn’t check all of them.

Most of these appear to just be DACs. I want one with DIN in and out, a screen and some controls. The couple I can find seem to be gerbers and BOMs only.

The second one on the list, the Pisound, has two DIN ports (one in, one out) and looks like something that you can buy.

https://blokas.io/pisound/

> Pisound is an ultra-low latency high-quality sound card and MIDI interface specially designed for Raspberry Pi pocket computers.

> Equipped with 192kHz 24-bit Stereo Input and Output driven by the legendary Burr-Brown chips, DIN-5 MIDI Input and Output ports, user-customizable button and bundled software tools, this little Raspberry Pi HAT will bring your audio projects to a whole new level!

And seems to be pretty much ready to go as soon as you get it:

> Setup is Eaaasy!

> Pisound mounts directly onto Raspberry Pi, no additional power adapter or soldering is required.


It wouldn’t be obvious they’re using a scattershot approach when they’re a good match, though. I don’t see the downside.

Maybe not at the resume screening phase, but it’s usually still obvious once the interviews start when people aren’t interested in your specific company. Some people get lucky, sure, but the downside is that you have to get lucky, it’s wasting valuable time on low probability events. If you’re familiar with the statistical process of importance sampling, in my experience on both sides of the interview table, it’s effective and worthwhile to spend more time curating higher quality samples than to scatter and hope.

>but it’s usually still obvious once the interviews start when people aren’t interested in your specific company.

Can you really blame them? If you're not a houshold name, why would you expect someone to spend hours researching your specific company?

On the other hand, it can come off as creepy if your a small company and suddenly someone nerds out about how your CEO said this one thing at a talk years ago and knows your lead has cancer based on his personal blog. I'd rather just treat it as a transaction of my skills and services for money. We are not a family (multiple layoffs have taught me so)

> it’s effective and worthwhile to spend more time curating higher quality samples than to scatter and hope.

Not in this market. Too many ghost jobs, too many people ghosting after multiple rounds. Too many hiring freezes when you spend a month talking with a company. If you want respect from candidates, don't disrespect them.


Naw I don’t blame them. I’m not suggesting anyone spend hours researching each company. And I don’t expect candidates to do anything, I’m saying the candidates who do are the ones that tend to land the job, but it’s entirely the candidate’s choice. All it takes is minutes, really.

You sound like you’ve been burned. That sucks and I’m sorry, I sympathize. I’m hearing that the job market is very tough right now. A big part of that is because it’s extremely competitive. Taking it personally and assuming it’s disrespect isn’t going to help get the job though (even if there was disrespect… but that’s not the only explanation, so it’s a dangerous assumption).


>I’m saying the candidates who do are the ones that tend to land the job, but it’s entirely the candidate’s choice. All it takes is minutes, really.

Well, everyone has different experiences. I never felt like knowing about a company put me ahead in my early days. I guess I have a dump stat in Charisma (not surprised).

Like you said, the market is competitive. No one's going to take the nice guy over the one who blitz's an interview unless that nice guy has connections. Those few minutes of thousands of applications adds up to days of research. I just lack that time and energy these days.

>You sound like you’ve been burned. That sucks and I’m sorry, I sympathize.

several times, yes. It's honestly worse than my first job search out of college 10 years ago.

>Taking it personally and assuming it’s disrespect isn’t going to help get the job though

I only ask for basic decency. Keep a candidate in the loop, don't drag the process on for the sake of it, any take home should warrant a response (even if it's a template rejection letter). i.e. respect people's time.

I haven't been burned in a lot of my interviews, I'm not talking about bummers like the several times I was interviewing before a hiring freeze. I don't even treat non-responses as an interview process. But several of them just end with absolutely no communication nor closure after speaking for weeks with recruiters and hiring managers.

I don't know what to call that in a day and age where AI is supposedly increasing efficiency, other than disrespect. This has never happened before 2023, which makes the times all the more weirder.


My experience is that I've applied to companies where I was a perfect fit, but did not get an interview, and then I've applied to companies where I had not used any of the tech stack and still got an interview... There's a lot of wierd reason, one common is that they want to hire a specific person, maybe even in the company already, but they still need to post a job ad due to company policy. Or one where I got an interview even though I had no experience in their tech stack they explained they need to make at least 5 interviews before they hire and they had already found their guy so they interviewed other non qualified so that their candidate/friend would stand out as the most qualified... So never take hiring personally. It's just random. Do enough work to get an interview, many employers are very good at judging if you will fit in or not, so just leave it for them to figure that out, and be yourself. And don't take it personally when you get rejected. There's still a shortage of experienced software engineers, and lots of jobs to apply to Also if you get a bad feeling, just back out. It's when you've started turning down offers you have become good enough at searching/interviewing, and that's when you will find something great. Try to have at least 3 offers before you accept one.

I’m sorry is the job “professional Leetcoder”?

That doesn’t make any sense. The best engineers I know can’t pass these interviews because they started working long before they became standard.

That doesn’t matter. If the current qualification bar is “must do X” and you fake it, you’re committing fraud.

The B&W switch on the 2600 sets a register that can be read at runtime allowing for color changes that better support black and white TVs. Howard Scott Warshaw famously had only 5 weeks to complete the entire game, so supporting that feature probably didn't make the cut.

I’ve been through multiple layoffs in my life and I’m going through them again, but this is the first time I’ve heard the term “impacted” used so often in this context. It’s used 5 times in this article and it’s said constantly in our company town hall meetings when discussing the current rounds of layoffs.

$25k doesn't sound like a lot. Doesn't sound like it accounts for the difference in salary.


$25K is a lot.

Respectfully, You're out of touch until you lost your 6 digits job.


I’m not sure what your point is?

25K/yr IS a LOT.

Per the US Census, the median income in the US is a bit over 37,500, so it’s literally an entire paycheck.

Remember - the NHS is available to everyone, not just the rich.

Source: https://datacommons.org/place/country/USA?utm_medium=explore...


You're misunderstanding how the ACA subsidies work.


According to article linked to below there are 48 million uninsured Americans. Fifteen percent of the UK population isn’t without coverage. The subsidies don’t work well.


They want Bezos to be forced to sell off his assets and give the money over for government use. Sell it to who, though? Where did they get the money to buy it and why are they allowed to have that money in the first place? Why not just find out who wants to buy Bezos's assets, then take their money instead?


Give the stock to the government. Maybe to destroy some USD if you want you could make companies pay tax half in stock and half in cash.


This one is rather preachy. It is unintentionally arguing the existence of Amazon itself is bad and that everyone would be better off without it, including all the people it employs and serves, directly and indirectly.


Where does it argue against the existence of Amazon. Not that I disagree with it, but it doesn't even do that.

It is however, out of date. At the time of creation, the 400 richest people in the world owned $3.2T of wealth, now you only need to take the top 23 richest people to amass $3.2T of wealth.


"Updated April 3, 2021". Seems odd that 400 would go to 23 in less than 4 yrs, though.


Seems odd, but:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2023/12/19/the-10-...

In that year alone, Elon gained a hundred billion dollars. Most people did not

Wealth inequality is mind boggling.


If it is preachy it uses very few words to preach. In fact it only mentions Amazon once, and that's to highlight the average pay of an Amazon warehouse worker.


I see only demonstrated difference between exactly how wealthy one single man is versus things you also can't imagine but we can understand their relative size.

How many mouths Amazon feeds is not on-topic. Imagine that he got his wealth by magic. Poof. He has it. The data would still be the same.

His wealth, as of 2021, is literally unimaginable the same way that counting the number of stars in the universe is.

Wow. It's just... so... overwhelmingly wealthy. Amazingly, spectacularly, unfathomably wealthy.


As it should.


These comparisons are a bit simplistic as it assumes both party's wealth is in cash.


Just look how Musk could buy Twitter, a billionaire‘s leverage is much higher than normal people’s cash money.


Your statement is true but misses (deliberately?) the greater point.


whats the greater point?


That wealth, even if it's not in hard cash, can distort reality in ways that should simply not be permitted.


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