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Wow... I dunno if it's the inflation of me getting old or the Australian market...
I thought I nailed an outrageously good salary this last 3~4 years with previous and current job...
But since I keep having recruiter sending me emails... it seems those outrageous salary are pretty normal... 
(good for me I guess  )
I feel sad though... playing D&D and other RPGs (in fact I avoid D&D to be precise, but it's another story) with mates working at local supermarket and local concrete store and both struggle with little pay and little prospect for better one...
In other news... my productivity was pretty low today and yesterday! 
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What are d&d (drinking and driving) and RPG (rocket propelled grenade) ?
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Traditional Australian past-times? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I think D & D is Dungeons and Dragons, and RPG stands for Role Playing Game.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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You got that right!
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The salaries which are out of touch with reality are a temporary thing.
Play the blip for what it's worth, but do remember, it's a blip; A bubble; and it will burst.
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I don't think it's a bubble. Competent developers are in short supply. High salaries will attract more people to the industry, but it will take time for it to have an effect.
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Given the inflation that most places are experiencing, the salary at which you were hired might now be more common. Because of that, and because you've survived your trial period, a nice salary increase after your annual review should not come as a surprise.
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As I dive into IoT arcana I'm still coming up with plenty of material which you'd think would be excellent fodder for articles, but it seems like these days all I'm digging up is so very specific to what I'm performing that it's hard to create a general article around. Like, the subject is good, but hard to generalize because it may only cover it from a very specific scenario. To make something that's general would be writing War and Peace here at CP and nobody has time for that.
I'd really like to write an article right now about using I2S to stream audio to an internal or external DAC on an ESP32. You'd think "hey, that would be great, right?"
The trouble is, my code is written for the M5 Stack Core2 and the Fire products and somewhat difficult to generalize (so far).
By the time I do generalize it, it will become part of a much more complicated library (SFX) and it will be hard to write articles for without losing the reader in a labyrinth of code. Instead I'll be forced to write articles on *using* SFX rather than how I coded it, which is a different topic.
There's not really an in-between due to the nature of real time audio requiring a somewhat involved bit of infrastructure to support things like DMA transfers. I can code a pretty simple specific case, but generalizing it makes the complexity explode.
I'm not really sure how to approach this, and feeling kind of frustrated right now.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I updated to Windows 11 ASAP and I recently discovered a missing feature which I think, if my memory serves me right, please confirm or deny, that the sounds setting / icon on the taskbar let you set the sound output level individually on an app basis, isn't that right?
I tried to multitask / listen to youtube during group zoom meeting, but without that it's difficult!😯😕
I am sure it was there at some stage in the past... 
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Excellent link, thanks!
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I can choose between Realtek Audio and my Dell monitor for output (notebook with an external Dell monitor).
There is also a "Waves" mixer app that came with the Dell installed software.
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Look in the Windows store (or chocolatey) for EarTrumpet
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+1, EarTrumpet is good software!
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Right-click, "Open volume mixer". You should then be able to set the volume on a per-app basis.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Is that option available in Windows 11?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'm running Windows 11 (21H2), and it works on my PC.
(That's not to say it won't stop working, or be moved somewhere else, in a future update. Because "consistency" is a swear-word in Windows-land.)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Having a melancholy late evening watching a slow death spiral... sigh..
Dilbert Comic Strip on 1995-10-30 | Dilbert by Scott Adams[^]
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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That's a good way to maximize cross team synergies!
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You're living Dilbert?
I am undead Dilbert.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Here, let me get this for you...
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That was a great comic! It reminded me of working for General Dynamics in the early '80s. It seemed as if every few months we had to pack our stuff for another reorg and physical move. I developed the theory that we had more employees than desks, so the company had to keep 10% of us in motion at all times.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger, me thinks we come from the same cut of cloth. True story... for you youngsters, enjoy. This is the way it was before the internet. 
So, it's early 1982 and as a first year EE graduate working my first job in a factory, I was bored out of my skull. Then all salaried people got a 5% paycut cause times were tough, etc. For all of you older CP'rs, we're going back to the heyday of EE Times where 30% of the back of the paper was nothing but job ads. Being bored out of my skull, I sent resumes to General Dynamics (Forth Worth, Texas) and Hughes Aircraft. Time passes...
One day in the mail I get a post card from GD - we've received your resume and are sending it to the appropriate groups, yada yada. In those days, we called them flush cards. And I forgot about it. A few weeks later, I received a call from Kathleen of Hughes Aircraft HR. Now I'm 22 sitting in a bullpen of desks, and I'm about to piss myself. She detects my discomfort, and says "I guess you can't really talk right now, can you?" So I called her back when I got home, expressed my interest. Within the week, it was clear they really wanted me to come to Tucson, Az for a plant trip. Thus began my wife's, "can I go to?" queries. Back then, I was terrified of saying, "you know, my wife needs to see the place too..." - thought they might pull the offer, etc. I promised my wife I would ask, but to be honest, I was terrified. Yeah, I was a noob.
Bear with me Roger... I'll get to the best part...
So, a couple of days later, I come home from work, and my wife is out front with a sh$$ eating grin on her face. Curious, I want to know what's going on. Turns out, Kathleen of Hughes HR had called home asking for me. Conversation:
Kathleen: "Hi, this is K from Hughes Aircraft. We're trying to get in touch with cg about a plant trip."
My love: "I'm sorry, he's not home from work, may I take a message?"
Kathleen: "Oh hi, this is Kathleen from Hughes Aircraft. We want to invite him out to Tucson for interviews and an area trip."
My love: "Oh that's nice, is there a number I could get, and I'm sure he'll call you back?"
Kathleen: "Well, actually, Hughes wants to invite you out as well considering this is a family decision. Would that be okay?"
An hour later - the grin. But I'm not done yet. So, we go out there, and with the exception of some exceptional conditions I'd still be there.
A week later, Hughes makes me an offer that just cannot be refused - 30% pay raise, full relo, and work I wanted to do. Wife was all on board.
Guess who called two days after I got the offer from Hughes? Yep GD. Wanted me for the flight control software in the F16.
When the guy called... he got his 30 seconds in and I interrupted him.
Me: "Dude, where were you 4 weeks ago?"
Him:"Crap, you already have an offer, don't you?"
Me: "Yep, and it's a good one."
Him:"Sh*t. Well I appreciate your time."
I've always wondered what would have happened had I gone that route, but we loved Tucson.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Good story! I enjoyed GD, but they had some practices that I disagreed with - that's why I quit. After a few years leading a team of engineers (even before I graduated) developing ATE for the missile factory, I got assigned a cool IRAD project. One year later, one of my former team got promoted to Sr. Engineer, while I was passed over. I was told that the reason was that the Sr. position requirements included supervision of others in the past 12 months. My previous supervision years there did not count. It took about a week to find a better job, and give them my notice. They counter-offered me a $1 million grant to continue the IRAD, but I passed.
I later learned from a former coworker there who was in management that there was a secret rating system, not shared with the employee, where I was rated as too valuable in that IRAD role to allow a change of position. That was high praise, but it was a chicken-s... practice that I still consider to be unethical.
Will Rogers never met me.
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