seems like the the "Fall of Civilizations" episode on us is coming sooner that we thought.

to be fair, it's likely that some of the others(that have their episode) saw it coming and made an "effort" proportional to ours :D

As someone who switched careers, from working as a mechanical engineer to(at first) coding JS web to Java engineer later on - do not strategize too much upfront.

Building connections in domains of interest is something one should always pursuit and intensifying this might be the best immediate action to take.

Some other aspects:

- Keep your domain options as open as possible. Do not commit to a new career before securing it. This is vague advice, I know - but focusing on for ex. cybersecurity over general DevOps/cloud engineering with the security vector would be narrowing one's options.

- If you are not prepared financially, be very cautions.

- Manage your expectations, the major factor in a career switching is(IMO) luck and opportunity - over which you have no control but can sorta manage somewhat(ergo the networking).

Changing careers is a very general and realistic goal. Keep the way you go about it the same way.

I've found it very challenging, difficult and frustrating. Wouldn't do it again but glad I did it the first time.

Best of luck!

> clout engineering

Back in my day they used to call this "resume-driven development"

(Sorry had to)

Back in your day, did resume-driven development help at switching careers?

Solar market will further expand. Prices likely to go down as well.

Agree, the prices have already gone down dramatically in recent years

The Power of the Powerless by Havel

A consumer-grade HP printer for my home office.

Had a regular end-of-the-month printing need of about ~500pages. To my great frustration it still kinda works - needs monitoring for jams, bad prints, paper replenishment, wifi connection loss, you name it.

Should've kept(and very likely will go back to) using the services of a local professional print shop.

Brother monochrome laser is the only kind of home printer worth owning, honestly.

I’m a big fan of using older small form factor commercial office grade laser printers. You can basically get them free, especially if they lack wifi and usb, and most of the time they’ll last for years and years of hard use with essentially no maintenance- you can just drill a hole in the toner cartridge and pour toner in.

This. I have one and I think it may outlive me. That thing has been working flawlessly for over a decade.

This is an option too … https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35176474

A simple older HP office laser printer works very well as a home printer. It doesn't have an app, no wifi, no cloud services. Plug in ethernet and print, always works and the toner capacity is made for office use so it lasts a very long time in a home office.

I'd say it averages around 3 hours, with significant amplitudes.

My specific job consists of helping/automating my client's business problems/objectives and most of my effort is oriented around figuring out the domain and value I could bring to it.

Gratitude for the expose. I was(and assume most here were as well) completely unaware of Pave. I will, and hopefully other potentially impacted, look up if I am affected by this and if so - share experiences/info here.

too boring(to write about) for engineers, too complex for AI.

Still, very much present/popular in the ecosystems I dabble in.

>I imagine the people grinding LC are harder working/more innovative than people who watched TV instead.

I suspect the original author of the article that spawned this comment thread prepared for the interview somewhat rather than watching TV instead - and still got sickened of the LT style interview.

likely not as there are other, more efficient ways to roughly gauge that. It does however test one's conformity to arbitrary processes to some extent albeit in not the most efficient manner as well...