This is true with my job. We essentially have a hard cap that we hit and can’t go above it unless you transition to management. It’s frustrating if you don’t want to be management, and arguably unfair since engineers are as (or more) important to projects as good management is. Getting a 7% raise every year is great…

I’m in!

The problem is, most engineering jobs have a glass ceiling in how high the earning potential can grow. Unless you go into management, engineers quickly hit a salary cap and will struggle to move up from there.

Well, that’s anecdotal :P I like the taste the coffee (I drink mine black), but I understand it’s not for everyone. In regards to it being an “acquired taste,” there are different perspectives you can take. You’re not wrong that you shouldn’t have to suffer through something you dislike. The other side of the coin,…

I got two demands when working for free. (1) I will work on it on my own time. I will not move my schedule of paid work to put their project on my top priority to do list. If they want it done at a certain time they will need to pay me or find someone else . (2) I have full creative control of the project/whatever it…

The other service I’d want to mention is Overleaf, for people who are comfortable writing up papers/homework assignments/reports in Latex. Overleaf is really nice, in that they give you a bunch of example templates to choose from, with a bunch of the formatting/graphical elements in place already. It’s basically an…

For the cost, time, and effort required to make this thing, most people would be better off spending the extra $100 at Home Depot on a real room cooling window unit that will actually cool a room. It’s an investment that’s worth it, especially if you catch a sale when room cooling units are $100 or less.

Didn’t discover this until we actually traveled to Japan and attempted to find our AirBnB flat in Asakusa, Tokyo after flying 12+ hours and landing during evening rush hour. Fortunately, we immediately experienced how friendly and helpful the Japanese can be, as 2 different commuters actually approached us to help,…

I was there in ‘78-’79. There was a group on the base; the ‘Redstone Riders’. We went on lots of tour rides.

Huh, didn’t know they offered the SS trim on the 81 Vette.

This is the most time and work intensive method to avoid stale chips I’ve ever seen.

I’ve had a similar issue with in-laws. They keep suggesting really expensive things that I should do for my kids (e.g. private violin lessons). When I say it’s not in our budget, they make comments about me “playing poor.”

As a Brit now living in Seattle for 9 years. I can state the left lane campers here are unbelievable. Worst I have seen anywhere. I use my high beam to get them to move. Of course only when the lane ahead of them is clear. 90% of the time they ignore and do nothing, as stated above some weird sense of entitlement. In…

People have got to stop freaking out about voting for the President.

Maybe not you personally but several times a week I have someone buzz up behind me in the left lane, flashing lights for me to get over while everyone in the left lane, myself included, are passing everyone in the right—- and doing so at 75 in a 55. But there’s always that one guy who thinks that passing should be…

Indeed it is unlawful to impede traffic - that is what I was referring to with my last sentence. I habitually drive at the upper range of traffic speeds, but I can’t imagine a person being ticketed while passing if they were doing at least a couple MPH over what the other lanes are doing.

There are, of course, left…

There is some common sense to be applied, as would be the case with any rule. You don’t have to put the pedal to the floor because someone behind you wants to. But, as reason dictates, you should yield to the faster driver once it is safe for you to move to the other lane.

It’s a bit odd that the law is in place, that…

As a transportation engineer, it is shocking to me that these are “little known rules.”

You know what really flabbergasted me? My wife had no idea that dotted lane lines in through lanes (very short lines with very short gaps as opposed to the typical long lines and long gaps for broken lines) mean that the lane will…

But Vin, that’s not how sensationalism works! Leave out all the facts, turn off the part of your brain that makes connections and let others make up your mind for you!

To OP:
Self driving cars? Sure, it’ll be here within our lifetimes. And here as in, a normal thing that normal people actively choose.

Illegal to drive…

No, I don’t think there will be, because - again - it will be expensive to implement, and take time to support and regulate an autonomous standard. And that’s assuming everyone in said munincipalities puts up no argument against such restrictions on principle, which wouldn’t happen even if said infrastructure cost…