Venting thread

[xxx]

Who do you think has made a wrong move, and how?

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[Raphael]

Who do you think has made a wrong move, and how?

it was only me who mistakenly deleted and rewrote my message...
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Oh, thank you for clearing that up! That explains it.

[doctor shark]

Vent: Cleaning and packing is soooooo draining...

[malloc]

Some really worrying health news. Several months ago I noticed a small bump on my belly, about three millimeters in diameter. Initially I dismissed it and assumed it would disappear on its own, but it has not. Now before you scream at me to see a doctor, I must emphasize that it will cost thousands of dollars and numerous visits to get it investigated. I need good reason to believe that it truly is dangerous to justify wiping out my savings or even going into debt.

[Travis B.]

Some really worrying health news. Several months ago I noticed a small bump on my belly, about three millimeters in diameter. Initially I dismissed it and assumed it would disappear on its own, but it has not. Now before you scream at me to see a doctor, I must emphasize that it will cost thousands of dollars and numerous visits to get it investigated. I need good reason to believe that it truly is dangerous to justify wiping out my savings or even going into debt.

And I would say that a three mm diameter bump is probably not worth going to the doctor over in absence of any other sign. It is probably simply a wart, and if it worries you so, there are over-the-counter products to get rid of them (but honestly I wouldn't bother).

[malloc]

Based on some cursory google searching, it sounds rather like basal cell carcinoma. That said, I have an annual checkup in the coming months so perhaps I should wait until then to ask about it.

[alice]

Based on some cursory google searching, it sounds rather like basal cell carcinoma. That said, I have an annual checkup in the coming months so perhaps I should wait until then to ask about it.

Be aware that any amount, howerver small, of searching of any kind relating to symptoms will convince you that you're in imminent danger of a horrible and painful death from all kings of horrible things you never even heard of, never mind thought you'd ever catch.

[Raphael]

FWIW, a while ago, when I got my first wart in a long time, I was worried enough that I showed it to my doctor, and she took one close look at it and said "ah yes, that's a wart". Then again, from what I've heard about US healthcare, that might well have cost me a few grand over in the US.

[Travis B.]

Based on some cursory google searching, it sounds rather like basal cell carcinoma. That said, I have an annual checkup in the coming months so perhaps I should wait until then to ask about it.

Obviously you suffer from that fatal disease, WebMD syndrome. But seriously, it is a wart until a doctor tells you otherwise. And if it really is a basal cell carcinoma, it is not going to kill you in a few months.

[alice]

Does anyone else here want to hunt down and inflict severe pain upon whoever decided to put "n" and "m" together on the keynoard?

[Travis B.]

keynoard

LOL.

[alice]

keynoard

LOL.

Of course, I meant keymoard. See what I mean?

[Raphael]

I was just about to go to bed, and then I suddenly started to feel really very awake.

[Raphael]

Feeling kinda restless. Not sure what to do. Ran out of old entertainments, and didn't find any new ones yet.

[Torco]

Feeling kinda restless. Not sure what to do. Ran out of old entertainments, and didn't find any new ones yet.

me tbh

[Travis B.]

Someone wants to pay me to take a project on for them, outside of my normal day job. However, it is completely out of my ballpark (as it requires more a hardware engineer who happens to know how to program rather than a programmer who happens to be able to wire stuff up and do trivial soldering jobs like me). Furthermore, if I accepted, I would almost certainly run into all kinds of tax law issues (e.g. hiring a tax person who will advise me on income taxes on this kind of thing) that would probably negate what I would net out of the project (because I would have to pay the tax person in the first place).

[Torco]

I'd recommend charging him a lot, hiring whoever you need to, and pocket a nice profit. if he goes "damn, too expensive" you can explain that this is not, in fact, something you can easily do, but you're willing to try anyway. it's either good bizniz or no bizniz.

[Travis B.]

I'd recommend charging him a lot, hiring whoever you need to, and pocket a nice profit. if he goes "damn, too expensive" you can explain that this is not, in fact, something you can easily do, but you're willing to try anyway. it's either good bizniz or no bizniz.

The big thing is the whole project is outside my competencies. It asks for a knowledgeable hardware engineer, something I am not. The guy did not even say he already had a spec written down, meaning I would have to work with him (and bill him) to draw one out. But for this kind of thing I would not know where to start on creating a spec.

I do know a guy (who is a hardware engineer) who, from talking with him, said that at a time in the past he'd jump on this sort of project. But he's now retired and works on hardware projects as a personal hobby now, and has no interest in taking commissions these days.

[WeepingElf]

I'd recommend charging him a lot, hiring whoever you need to, and pocket a nice profit. if he goes "damn, too expensive" you can explain that this is not, in fact, something you can easily do, but you're willing to try anyway. it's either good bizniz or no bizniz.

The big thing is the whole project is outside my competencies. It asks for a knowledgeable hardware engineer, something I am not. The guy did not even say he already had a spec written down, meaning I would have to work with him (and bill him) to draw one out. But for this kind of thing I would not know where to start on creating a spec.

I do know a guy (who is a hardware engineer) who, from talking with him, said that at a time in the past he'd jump on this sort of project. But he's now retired and works on hardware projects as a personal hobby now, and has no interest in taking commissions these days.

Do you have to take that job, if you are not the right person to do it? Why don't you just turn it down?

[Travis B.]

I'd recommend charging him a lot, hiring whoever you need to, and pocket a nice profit. if he goes "damn, too expensive" you can explain that this is not, in fact, something you can easily do, but you're willing to try anyway. it's either good bizniz or no bizniz.

The big thing is the whole project is outside my competencies. It asks for a knowledgeable hardware engineer, something I am not. The guy did not even say he already had a spec written down, meaning I would have to work with him (and bill him) to draw one out. But for this kind of thing I would not know where to start on creating a spec.

I do know a guy (who is a hardware engineer) who, from talking with him, said that at a time in the past he'd jump on this sort of project. But he's now retired and works on hardware projects as a personal hobby now, and has no interest in taking commissions these days.

Do you have to take that job, if you are not the right person to do it? Why don't you just turn it down?

I did turn it down, and I explained the above as why.