Ive become a fucking pro at squeezing as many tasks into a day as I possibly can. I frequently get told they have no idea how I keep on top of things. I basically work 2 and a half full time jobs for people at the same company, and I accomplish it by overlapping my time and billing per item not per hour
I book service calls (repairs). Between calls and especially using my hands free while driving between service calls, I return phone calls and texts. When I get where I’m going, if I’m ever early, I respond to emails or place calls. If I finish a thing early or ever have to wait for people, I return texts calls and emails while waiting.
Ive also aced driving distance between places in the city where I work so I’m able to build a solid schedule without running behind.
At night, to clear my head, I schedule a bunch of texts and emails to send off first thing in the morning. Gives the impression I’m working even though I’m probably still asleep.
Cocktails. I’m purely an amateur home bartender (I work in software development) but I’m better at making cocktails than most paid bartenders in the city, including a number of the ones working at craft cocktail bars I’ve been to across the country. I make my own syrups, creams, infusions, carved ice, and dehydrated fruit. I’ve recently started using an iSi whipper to make foam toppers; beer foam for old fashioneds, tropical foam for Mai Tais. My avocado orgeat is awesome. Fat washing with coconut oil is easy and makes Campari and cachaça amazing. I’ve hosted many parties in the 15-28 person range, as well numerous smaller cocktail nights, so I have experience creating thematic menus and then prepping and serving the drinks all night.
I have a ton of knowledge about spirits in general, both breadth and depth. Most bartenders and even mixologists don’t even know what baijiu is (let alone tried each aroma), know the difference between soju and shōchū, or why soju is rarely made with rice. My rum knowledge is where I’ve specialized and I can recommend multiple bottles of each type (Smuggler’s Cove categories or Minimalist Tiki’s) in varying price ranges, what cocktails they are best for, and the subtle differences between each bottle within its own category.
Automating functional tests for products and their subassemblies while on the manufacturing line.
We do write tests for our software too though. The projects are written in golang, unittests sprinkled in with go’s builtin test framework. Integration tests use our in house product simulations that were originally designed for firmware validation.
It seems people get fakes and knockoffs all the time, but I haven’t.
All I do is look at the product pictures; if they’re stock, I’ll ignore, but if they aren’t, and they are a tech product, DVD, etc., I’ll cross-reference UPC/Barcode, SN, etc. with search engines.
I’m curious if you’ve seen increased interest in hardening substations to attacks. I heard a lot about that after the attacks last year but none of the substations in my area are any different.
Unfortunately it boils down to which company owns them and the amount of $$ they’re willing to spend. Most new substations being built all have solid walls, for example, rather than the much-cheaper chain-link fence, which helps a little, but not by much for someone who really wants to get in there. Rarely will a company do any cosmetic updates to an already-built substation, so I’m not surprised the ones in your area haven’t changed.
The issue for making them more secure as far as I can tell (I’m fairly new to this field, and a designer, not an engineer, so my technical knowledge is still limited) is how volatile high-voltage electricity is. I’m not really sure what could be done to encase a substation against an attack that secures it against an outside projectile, while still being safe for on-site workers. We’re talking hundreds of thousands of voltages here, and most substations are ginormous.
Pretty much everything. The average person can’t read and write, can’t swim, can’t run or hold a steering wheel with two hands, because the average person doesn’t have two legs and two arms, etc
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