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Wrar posted:I quit my job after being there for 8.5 years. The last year was really a grind and management did me and a peer dirty for a promotion spot. I wasn't really looking as I had 12 weeks paid leave coming up, but I got a good offer with a decent pay bump and permanent remote, which was very appealing after my now pervious employer failed to define what flex work looked like. Enjoy the time off!
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LobsterboyX posted:It was quite a day for me in the sense that I actually have a chance to right the wrongs of my past, and to really understand how reinvented my career has become. This is so cool to hear and I like hearing good news. Great work and congrats on your new achievement. Same with Wrar. Go find a good job that appreciates you.
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Sheep Game Update! (click here to play today!) We're just under two weeks to the deadline of December 20th to get your Sheep Game entries in, and so far we are way down on entries compared to normal - the last two years we've had over 60 participants, this year we are on track for less than 40...this is disappointing AI, we can do better than this! Come take part in this end of the year tradition and have a little fun with your fellow posters, as we've done for the last seven years!
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RIP Paul Walker posted:Hey STR - https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbkbm/aws-outage-throws-amazon-into-chaos The IT thread is bemoaning/celebrating it. So much for five nines, and I bet they owe some penalties on uptime contracts. Wrar posted:I quit my job after being there for 8.5 years. The last year was really a grind and management did me and a peer dirty for a promotion spot. I wasn't really looking as I had 12 weeks paid leave coming up, but I got a good offer with a decent pay bump and permanent remote, which was very appealing after my now pervious employer failed to define what flex work looked like. You did what needed to be done. Never suffer for an employer.
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I ordered from a New Mexican place, and they had 5 peppers for 99 cents I was like ok maybe some fried jalapeños I ordered nachos too. Uber gets here (I have credit each month) and it’s 5 individually stuffed pablanos. Thought I hit the lottery but absolutely no taste…just the blandest thing ever. Dang it. The nachos were fine. Anyone need 4 pablanos down the street?
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BigPaddy posted:Touched on my wife’s illness a few times but today just underlines how bad healthcare in the US is. She was going to a pain clinic and one of the nurses did an exam without permission and was just generally unprofessional, I wasn’t there and this poo poo only happens when I am not there glowering and standing over these poo poo heels. Wife sends a complaint to the nursing board about the guy and they say they don’t investigate these things but pass the complaint into the pain clinic who have a secretary call her and say her care is terminated because she complained about the nurse. So now she has to start again somewhere else to try and get something done about her spine issues and the board who are supposed to you know look into jackasses copping a feel doesn’t look into jackasses copping a feel and the advice she has been given is to report it to the police as a sexual assault. She has been through that before a long time ago and expects it to go no where. These fuckers need to be impaled outside their offices as a warning to others. Tomorrow she has another appointment with a different specialist and I am going to be there and if that fucker says one thing I will make him eat that medical degree. Not to dox, but this is in AZ isn't it? BigPaddy posted:The best thing is there is one specialist in Phoenix who deal with her condition and a few months ago they stopped taking insurance and charge $2500 out of pocket for a consult. So what you are saying by doing that is you only want to treat rich poo poo heads. e: welp nevermind. I'm sorry you have to deal with this bullshit. My wife is a nurse and I can say that it's not that terrible everywhere, but there are certainly plenty of lovely people in healthcare, just like there are plenty of lovely people everywhere. Def not an excuse and you should absolutely stand up for and advocate for your wife, it's just sad that you have to. Being a patient advocate is literally what these shitheels are paid to do. Anywho, I got to play with legos the other day.     My kiddo even helped  ...sorta 
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Darchangel posted:The IT thread is bemoaning/celebrating it. The running theory at my company is that Amazon had a code freeze for their big Re:Invent conference last week. They finally made a bunch of deployments, and something went wrong with us-east-1, their oldest datacenter with the most legacy crap. It's been a hoot. GnarlyCharlie4u posted:My kiddo even helped This is awesome. 10/10 kid lego-ing.
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RIP Paul Walker posted:Hey STR - https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbkbm/aws-outage-throws-amazon-into-chaos Nope. They decided to go full send on some kind of new warehouse management system, with no testing.. just threw it into production. It did not go well... at all. Still isn't - none of the barcodes are scanning at delivery, all of us were missing parts of random orders, some of us had extra orders loaded that weren't in anybody's itineraries. They also changed our box labels significantly, and whoever stacked the pallets was obviously in a hurry - normally they're loaded from last delivery on top to first on the bottom (as they would be loaded in the truck), each pallet is normally 1 route (sometimes might be split into 2 routes); instead it was a jumbled mess. About half of Monday's orders went out today (truck didn't show up until ~12:30pm - usually shows up at ~5am, but did have all of Monday's orders), the rest go out tomorrow. Tuesday's also go out tomorrow. Wednesday's go out Friday. Thu and Fri are getting credited (NOT refunded). And our employee orders are also getting nuked (we get them on Thursdays, we don't get credits if they get nuked aside from whatever overage we covered).  That warehouse serves TX, OK, and LA - and apparently Austin/Waco was the one that got poo poo on so that the other markets in the state could get their stuff (along with OK and LA) - there's a LOT of angry customers out there. We were supposed to work Saturday to try and get Thursday's stuff delivered, but I was told that's been called off.Making it more fun, the company we lease an office and warehouse space from changed our access cards so they quit working after 5pm with no notice. We regularly finish after 5; almost all of us just took the van keys home with us (and our posted business hours on the door are even until 8pm). There's another company that also leases some space, they were also locked out (and their owner was spitting nails when I got back). Even our acting manager was locked out, and the manager of the company we lease from (the one responsible for the access control system) won't answer our calls. We do rely on some cloud stuff (dispatching is cloud-based, for example, and we use a mix of Slack and Telegram for communicating with manglement), but AFAIK it never went down. It's a third-party solution though... like everything else we use - I have no idea how much any of our stuff relies on AWS. There's nothing on the dispatch software developer's blog about an outage, though. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Dec 9, 2021 |
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Not to dox, but this is in AZ isn't it? Yeah, the whole thing with this one pain management place is a cluster gently caress since the imaging clinic is being lovely about not sending the MRI results to them and instead either send it to her PCP or just straight to us. Most of the responses from other medical professionals has been confusion and dismay about how they handled the situation. Just going to blacklist and terminate a patient who dared to complain about one lovely nurse has a lot of professional and ethical issues. I know it isn’t everyone but it just seems that if I am not there no one takes her seriously.
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As much as I hate using the legal system as a hammer, is there any value in attempting to sue them into oblivion for retaliatory practice? I have no idea if that's even a thing, any precedent, etc. So I replaced the right rear wheel bearing and axle on the Crown Vic. Axle and bearing are fine, but I also replaced the leaking pinion seal. Now the rear whines a little, because of course it does.  This is why I can't have nice things.
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Got my 3rd 5G reception enhancement in Lockhart today and decided to get some barbeque before heading home. Now I'll have a food coma instead of a COVID episode.
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I'm loving the increasingly obscure and esoteric 5G code you all are coming up with haha
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It is all driven from the love of the one true master William Henry Gates III who guides all.
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I had a doctor visit today and decided to go ahead and get my third shadow government tracking chip installed. I got Moderna before, but all they had was Pfizer, so now I have a cocktail coursing through my veins. They said it was fine. The nurse that gave the shot was so good at her job I thought she was cleaning my arm a second time when she gave me the shot.
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I'm half way through a voluntary two week quarantine. Wife had a work C19 exposure (provider) and a few days later she started experiencing headaches, painful coughs, and now has a double ear infection/sinus infection. Our daughter had also brought something home from daycare earlier in the same week. All of us now have the cough and we've all had a 1 day fever then back to normal. Headaches. Low energy. Standard cold nonsense. We've all been tested, all negative. Doctors looked at us and said, well it's not Strep, your lungs are fine (imaging), but we don't know what's wrong except: Cold and please quarantine just in case. Normally I'd be excited to be stuck at home, but after two years of this, it's just another day.
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Finally finished my home network and homekit setup today. For anyone who is even thinking of messing with homekit stuff - don’t. I do IoT at work and this was a whole other level of buggy software and questionable products. But its done. Every light switch is lutron caseta, the blinds are lutron serena in a couple rooms, garage door openers work, door bells work, cameras work, roomba even works through homebridge and I hacked up a hot water recirc pump and a smart plug to work. Done. So frustrating. Also don’t bother with a unifi dream machine. Not enough RAM. Get the pro or wait for its replacement. Synology and docker kick rear end.
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rdb posted:Finally finished my home network and homekit setup today. For anyone who is even thinking of messing with homekit stuff - don’t. I do IoT at work and this was a whole other level of buggy software and questionable products. But its done. Every light switch is lutron caseta, the blinds are lutron serena in a couple rooms, garage door openers work, door bells work, cameras work, roomba even works through homebridge and I hacked up a hot water recirc pump and a smart plug to work. Done. So frustrating. Also don’t bother with a unifi dream machine. Not enough RAM. Get the pro or wait for its replacement. Synology and docker kick rear end. Using Home Assistant as the center of the universe and just presenting stuff to HomeKit is the way to roll. Extra bonus is that you can do a lot of customization of what gets presented to HomeKit so it's easier for normies to use, when they aren't using switches (good choice on switches, my default focus is having physical interfaces to stuff - voice/phone control is simply a bonus). Oh, if you didn't already know, non-HomeKit devices - even Zigbee/Zwave devices - can be presented to HomeKit via Home Assistant.
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I know. I made the (false) assumption the native homekit certified stuff would be better because apple “just works”. And at the very least somewhat more secure. It sits on a vlan anyways. I will look into the home assistant thing. I really don’t want to spend the time getting this stuff setup again and the automations I want I think I can do in homekit. I assume home assistant can run on the synology somehow and it looks like its more of a custom application. I really just want the correct garage door to open when my phone enters the driveway. Going to start with that.
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rdb posted:I know. I made the (false) assumption the native homekit certified stuff would be better because apple “just works”. And at the very least somewhat more secure. It sits on a vlan anyways. If you're controlling IP stuff on its own VLAN, then Home Assistant is shockingly easy. I am controlling a bunch of Zigbee stuff as well so I had to gently caress with Zigbee2MQTT but that wasn't that hard, and for the most part it all "just works". If you have a Zigbee stick, a big benefit is being able to use the Ikea remotes/switches/etc natively without the bridge or any other garbage. The Ikea remotes are brilliant and super cheap - I've got them dotted all around the apartment.
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RIP Paul Walker posted:If you're controlling IP stuff on its own VLAN, then Home Assistant is shockingly easy. I am controlling a bunch of Zigbee stuff as well so I had to gently caress with Zigbee2MQTT but that wasn't that hard, and for the most part it all "just works". No zigbee or zwave here. Ikea is either st louis, Indianapolis, cincinnati or nashville, 3 hour drive for the most part. So I spent way more than I should have on Lutron. I still want some of the shades for my kids room but the bali ones I got at lowes will do for now. And to be fair, other than 1 lutron hub per email, its been solid and “just worked”. Morso than anything else I have bought. The logitech circleview doorbells were probably the buggiest. Had to have a 5v 2a USB charger to pair, PD usb C is wont work, and wait for new firmware so they work with the 24v AC transformer they said they would on the spec sheet and quit going offline every time the sun is out. MyQ garage door openers were so bad I gave up on their hub and let homebridge do it. Ecobee was a loving pain, required turning off 5gzh wifi and a hard reset and reconfigure on one of them before it would go in homekit. Even ubiquti has been kinda meh this time around. I mounted an outdoor AP on the eve of my steep rear end roof and it died after the first storm despite me using all the grommets and caulking the piss out of where the cable goes in. Maybe it was lightning. Either way its 3 stories up and I don’t have a ladder to reach it. I put it on with a manlift the contractor was using to set trusses. But its done. I have a few more reolink cameras to put in the garage but synology surveillance station handles those.
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rdb posted:Also don’t bother with a unifi dream machine. Not enough RAM. Get the pro or wait for its replacement. I recently finished a long-overdue network+wifi rebuild at my folk's old, rambling, lathe & plaster ranch house. I used a Dream Machine Pro, a 16port/8PoE switch, 4x Wifi6 APs and a really long day of using long-forgotten core muscles while lowcrawling cable in crawlspaces and tiptoeing beams up in the false ceilings. Pass-thru crimpers are the poo poo. Really liking the DMPro so far; was originally planning on using the basic Dream Machine since their needs are far from rackmount, but it was out of stock everywhere so I wound up with the Pro version + local AP and not regretting it at all. Will be very nice to be able to troubleshoot issues without actually having to go to the house. rdb posted:Even ubiquti has been kinda meh this time around. I mounted an outdoor AP on the eve of my steep rear end roof and it died after the first storm despite me using all the grommets and caulking the piss out of where the cable goes in. Interesting, will be curious to see how the one outdoor AP in my install fares. Not too worried about it; it's underneath a 3' bay window jut, shaded by bushes and is exposed to the fierce droughts of SoCal. side note: was trippy to rip out the ancient 250' pre-made cat5 cables from Fry's Electronics I ran down there in like, 2002, while installing Babby's First Linksys when I was ~17. So much extra cable coiled everywhere.
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https://youtu.be/ctThlj2LPCs I can’t remember who linked to Nats, but thank you.
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LobsterboyX posted:goon meet at the pre-viz?
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the spyder posted:https://youtu.be/ctThlj2LPCs Well there's a relationship I didn't know I needed. Check out the other collab on Nat's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inibLuHJjNc Boaz MacPhereson fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Dec 10, 2021 |
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I use Home Assistant with a bunch of Tasmota (an amazing custom firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 devices) and Zigbee gizmos. The only things I have that rely on the cloud are the Emerson Sensi thermostat and the Genie garage door opener. The garage door opener works terribly through Smart Things, so I'm moving that whole setup to a Z-Wave tilt sensor on the garage door and a Z-Wave relay to toggle the garage door. All of this started because my wife was envious of her sister's fancy red washing machine that played a song when it was finished. The built-in Zigbee support (ZHA) has advanced leaps and bounds in the last year or so, so if you're new to Hass, you won't really need to mess with Zigbee2MQTT unless you really want to. The overall Home Assistant setup experience has had a lot of the rough edges sanded off lately. You are much less likely to have to dive into configuration.yaml for anything important these days. PBCrunch fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Dec 10, 2021 |
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Does anyone have experience with overemployment? My line of work is somewhat niche and in pretty high demand so I'm tempted to try and hold down two jobs at once.
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Sickening in the IT thread does that. It sounds a lot like what I do with multiple projects as a consultant, but I can't imagine multiple 40 hour/week jobs being healthy. I already have to take like a month off in the middle of the year before I get really bitchy and angry, and I don't do more than like 15hours/week on 3 projects at the same time.
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:I recently finished a long-overdue network+wifi rebuild at my folk's old, rambling, lathe & plaster ranch house. I used a Dream Machine Pro, a 16port/8PoE switch, 4x Wifi6 APs and a really long day of using long-forgotten core muscles while lowcrawling cable in crawlspaces and tiptoeing beams up in the false ceilings. Pass-thru crimpers are the poo poo. Really liking the DMPro so far; was originally planning on using the basic Dream Machine since their needs are far from rackmount, but it was out of stock everywhere so I wound up with the Pro version + local AP and not regretting it at all. Will be very nice to be able to troubleshoot issues without actually having to go to the house. Agreed on the pass through crimpers. That poo poo is amazing easy. I had to show my wife one time and she did the remainder. Even the punch downs. I had the advantage of the home being new construction with an unfinished basement. I ran cat 6 everywhere through the studs behind the drywall. I know eventually it will be obsolete but for now every room other than bathrooms has an ethernet jack. I also ran direct burial in the septic trench to the garage in conduit. So the garage is hardwired too. My wife forced me to run rg6 coax for TVs as well. We live in the sticks and she likes OTA stuff so it all connects to a rooftop UFO antenna. I couldn’t/didn’t want to use the UDM pro because everything inside the house sits in one structured media enclosure in the laundry room closet. I even managed to get the cell signal booster inside along with a small UPS. It does get a little hot but its fine if I leave the closet door open. No big deal since its the laundry room. Eventually I think I will replace the UDM with a pfSense device and supplement a unifi cloud controller. The only thing I still want to do is check the propane tank level and maybe run an occupancy sensor in the master bath to trigger the hot water recirc pump. Maybe a gate operator at the bottom of the drive someday. Ohh and a big generator transfer switch beside the garage. Used PTO generators are fairly cheap and my big tractor will gladly output 105hp on the PTO all day long. I keep 300 gallons of diesel on site so it makes it even more appealing. I think 50kw will do since the house is either heat pump or propane. No electric resistance heat anywhere.
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RIP Paul Walker posted:Does anyone have experience with overemployment? My line of work is somewhat niche and in pretty high demand so I'm tempted to try and hold down two jobs at once. I would check your employment contract as it might have something in there about not doing this. If it is enforceable if it is there is another question.
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Tons of senior-level corporate jobs are pretty, uhh, flexible regarding hours, so I'm not super-duper worried about a work/life balance. KGR that's a good point, but I do want to clarify that my role is niche but it's applicable to basically every industry out there. One of the unintentional side effects of my meandering career path is being able to work almost anywhere (in theory). It seems like such an appealing thing but there are real downsides + with the newfound news coverage it is probably riskier now. BigPaddy posted:I would check your employment contract as it might have something in there about not doing this. If it is enforceable if it is there is another question. I will re-read but I don't think it does. I already pay attention to that stuff since I do tend to have side gigs off and on, which employers seem to be interested in because it's interesting vs. wanting to punish.
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RIP Paul Walker posted:Tons of senior-level corporate jobs are pretty, uhh, flexible regarding hours, so I'm not super-duper worried about a work/life balance. Are you an independent contractor? If so, start charging more until the economics of supply/demand start to level out. If you're not and really in super demand, I'd be asking for a higher wage/salary.
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hot drat The Expanse is back for another season again
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Man, I gotta print a bunch of these out to put under windshield wipers of douchebags
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BraveUlysses posted:hot drat The Expanse is back for another season again Have you watched the episode yet? I'm almost scared to get sucked back in. RIP Paul Walker posted:Does anyone have experience with overemployment? My line of work is somewhat niche and in pretty high demand so I'm tempted to try and hold down two jobs at once. Overemployment? No. Working 90-160 hours a week at the same job? Yeah. But separate overlapping jobs no. I did work nights at a hospital when I was a motorcycle mechanic so I could get health insurance, but those schedules never intersected. I just went from one job straight to the other and slept on Sunday/Monday.
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I didn't know where to put this, but I figure some of you boat weirdos might find this interesting. A 5ish minute trip from the North end of the Welland Canal to the south end from the boat's perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8F2XeQsHBk A bunch of overhead vids following a couple ships. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdkDWOcAyWQ
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