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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • A user types at a terminal (a physical teletype). This terminal is connected through a pair of wires to a UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver and Transmitter) on the computer.

    Once I had the opportunity to sit at such a machine.

    A real typewriter with real paper. And no display! Only paper.

    I type my “command line” and it appears on my paper. Ok, where else…

    The computer responds by letting it’s response appear - what do you think? - on my paper, too. Not by magic, but by my machine typing it.

    I am typing to my paper. Then the computer is typing to my paper. And so on.

    Hardly ever have I had such a creepy feeling while doing computer work 😵‍💫



  • End goal of work is engineering or design but I’ll settle for factory or shop floor work or something

    And there’s the problem. You are selling yourself for cheap. They recognize that, inevitably. That’s why you are getting such terrible, impossible offers.

    Start to think reasonably about yourself, then present yourself reasonably.

    But you need a friend or two to help with this. It’s not easy to do such a change on your own.