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I'm on the season six finale of The Expanse, and i just had a hearty chuckle at the nod the show gave to Aliens with the names of Hicks, Hudson et al in the strike team. Then a "Ripley" checks in on comms and I'm like "Oh poo poo, they're not even being subtle about it", so i pause when I see the whole strike team roster come up on a screen to try to look up the rest of the names, and just as I'm thinking "yo they did my man Apone dirty", i see a "Rico, J", "Idaho, D", "Quaid, D", and start giggling. Then i see Will loving Riker, and what i assume to be a nod to Admiral Ackbarre in there and just burst out laughing and clapping. 10/10, solid albeit ham-fisted hommage, would chuckle again  I'm guessing all the other names are also from other movies, but those six movies is all i can come up with
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:If anything, I've probably had an asymptomatic case. I had the J&J Stab and two boosters now. Frankly this feels like a mild cold, not even the worst cold I've had. We're probably keeping my kid home from school for a couple days to play it safe.
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That's smart, don't let them spread that poo poo around.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:That's smart, don't let them spread that poo poo around. Yeah gonna get tested myself tomorrow so if the school gives us crap I can just go "I'm positive, so we're not risking other's kids over this"
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Times sure have changed since they days of, "Your kid has chickenpox? Want to take my kids for a sleepover?"
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Burt posted:I am going to go out on a limb here and say it you think you haven't had covid then you haven't because I have yet to meet anyone who got it and them say "I never knew I had it" as it seriously drops you on your arse. Had it twice, only reason I knew is because my fiancee got loving flattened and we tested her. Week or so of vague headache, and something like altitude sickness.
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I got covid almost a year ago but it was the barely registering to me as anything but a common cold and not even a severe one. Have had 4 rounds of shots now.
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Burt posted:I am going to go out on a limb here and say it you think you haven't had covid then you haven't because I have yet to meet anyone who got it and them say "I never knew I had it" as it seriously drops you on your arse. We haven't technically met, but hi. I only tested because a coworker identified me as a close contact after he was exposed but before he became symptomatic. I had zero symptoms whatsoever. Not a sniffle, not an ache (beyond the usual), not a cough. I've also had no reaction to any of the vaccines beyond injection site soreness like I get from most shots.
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Yo, what was that comically large new SUV that went viral because of a frontal blind spot so large you could hide like 9 kids or a full sized sedan in it? I recall seeing a POV clip of a guy at a red light where you thought the first car behind the hood is the vehicle immediately in front of the SUV, and once the light goes green, a whole rear end additional car drives out of the blind spot What was that brand/model again? Cannot find the loving video to save my life, and I've already wasted like half an hour
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GM side maybe the Suburban, or Escalade. https://carbuzz.com/news/carmakers-told-to-fix-big-suvs-front-blind-spot-after-shocking-experiment
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Jeep Grand Wagoneer. E: no, caddy. 
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I thought for sure it had to have been that Hummer EV
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Jeep Grand Wagoneer. Lol what the hell? I need to start paying attention.
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There was a different video but I can’t find it at the moment. Ford has a front facing camera to check your blind spot. Guy in the drivers seat has camera looking at his perspective and everything looks clear but then pans to his front camera and there’s a corvette there.
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Mr. Nice! posted:There was a different video but I can’t find it at the moment. Ford has a front facing camera to check your blind spot. Guy in the drivers seat has camera looking at his perspective and everything looks clear but then pans to his front camera and there’s a corvette there. Think I found it: https://youtu.be/dQoQoo78jDM There were a TON of kid line-up-in-front-of-SUV videos and I'm just wondering how much wrangling of the kids were involved in all of those! Maybe a Tesla has computer-controlled blind spots 
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Jan 9, 2023 22:15
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facialimpediment posted:Think I found it: https://youtu.be/dQoQoo78jDM Nah that's a proper truck. I found the one I was looking for but don't know how to inline a video from reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/sxrbnc/corvette_completely_hidden_by_truck_height/
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Mr. Nice! posted:Nah that's a proper truck. I found the one I was looking for but don't know how to inline a video from reddit. goddamn, you'd think the high ride-height would eliminate some of that dead zone, but gently caress
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Even with bad sightlines that specific problem is avoided by following the rule to stop while you can still see the rear tires of the car in front of you touching the pavement I guess the problem is that a lot of traffic will try to fill in to the quarter mile of space you leave
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facialimpediment posted:goddamn, you'd think the high ride-height would eliminate some of that dead zone, but gently caress The whole rear end hood is basically horizontal up to the very front corner. There's no slope like older trucks had, and the new trucks sit SO high. I've got a 1995 K2500 and a modern Ranger sits as high as I do, and probably sees less in front of him.
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New trucks usually come with a rake from factory but it’s the first thing to go when Cletus gets a hold of one
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I think I've told this story here before but when I was growing up in the 80s my dad had an old MGB as a project car that he would tinker with occasionally when his depression wasn't too bad. He did manage to get it running at one point, and the next thing it needed was outside his shade-tree skill level or needed tools he didn't have or something like that, so he needed to take it in to a specialty garage to have it worked on. He had Mom drive ahead of him in the typical mid-80s station wagon that all suburban families seemed to have at that time, and he followed in the MG so that he could get home. When they were headed back she told him that it was funny, she thought she'd lost him a couple times because when she looked in the rearview mirror she couldn't see the convertible when they were stopped at red lights and he was closer to the rear bumper. She joked that he should put a flag on it for visibility. At that point Dad took a good hard look at bumper heights, road safety requirements, how badly the MG would get obliterated in an accident, and me being not that far away from driving age. He ended up selling the thing to another enthusiast for a parts car. It took me a long time to get over being mad about it because I liked working on it with him and was really looking forward to being able to drive it, but it was absolutely the right decision because it wasn't long after that trucks started expanding in size, minivans and SUVs and other higher riding vehicle classes became more popular, and it would have made the danger even worse. Lemniscate Blue fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Jan 10, 2023 |
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This did not end as expected. I imagined you tooling around in the MG with a 10 foot whip in lovely orange plastic.
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New job update: in addition to my own cubicle section for my team, company provided phone and laptop, and 10% over my asking salary, apparently I'm getting a brand spanking new truck of my own to tool around the site in, and the approved $1000 in training books for my team on day 1. No, Army Brain, this isn't a trick, and my therapist says you can gently caress right off.
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The new truck keeps them from paying you mileage for driving your own car, but the 10% above asking should cover the loss of per diem. Congrats.
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Suntan Boy posted:New job update: in addition to my own cubicle section for my team, company provided phone and laptop, and 10% over my asking salary, apparently I'm getting a brand spanking new truck of my own to tool around the site in, and the approved $1000 in training books for my team on day 1. This is really good. Congratulations!
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Mr. Nice! posted:Nah that's a proper truck. I found the one I was looking for but don't know how to inline a video from reddit. That's the one I was looking for, cheers
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Watched this today. It was pretty good. Didn't spend as much time focusing on Korea as I thought it would, but it was still really solid. Worth a watch.
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I am paying for my girlfriend's tuition. I just graduated one year ago and the benefits were significant to me. I hope to enrich her life similarly to my experience. She's a bit of an rear end in a top hat, so these are difficult times. Hopefully, she will become a well educated, difficult rear end in a top hat. Let the semester begin!
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Passed my Network+ Exam this morning!  Total shitshow though, forgot my wallet and didn't realize till after I got to the testing center. Made it home and back with 4 minutes to spare. Oh and the center's internet dropped out like three times, causing my exam to crash. So that was fun. Had that usual feeling of "I'm bombing this!" throughout, so the internet going down really exacerbated that feeling. But I passed, so gently caress yeah! Onwards to Sec+ now.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Passed my Network+ Exam this morning! Great news! I’m glad you passed! Good luck on Sec+ and your journey in computer touching.
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Nystral posted:Great news! I’m glad you passed! Yup, well done, and welcome to the nerd herd 
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May your certifications be plentiful and your paychecks be fat.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Passed my Network+ Exam this morning! Nice, congrats! I've been working on Sec+ most of the year, myself. I have some practice tests -- PM sent.
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bird food bathtub posted:May your certifications be plentiful and your paychecks be fat. This. Always remember that your paychecks are fat because your knowledge. Certs are the easiest way to prove knowledge. Nothing will take that from you, demand better from your employer and walk for anyone willing to pay you more or make your job suck less. Be empowered.
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Reminder if you are looking for work in Kitsap County, WA as a babies first IT gig NMCI is hiring. Just need your sec+ and secret. It’s not on my team. We lost 2 Field Service tech to better paying positions which is totally expected after a year or two.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Passed my Network+ Exam this morning! what was your study plan? im workin on it now
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:what was your study plan? im workin on it now Basically spent the last 2.5 weeks watching Mike Meyers/Total Seminars Net+ Course on Udemy, and supplemented that with Prof. Messer's videos on stuff I was struggling with. Also used the Net+ eBook to read on some stuff. Also used that app you mentioned earlier to quiz myself whenever I had down time. I had done a Cisco CCNA course 20 years ago(  ) in high school, and do a ton of hobbyist poo poo with my home network, so I had a solid base of knowledge going into it.Then spent all of this week doing practice tests from Dion and Total Seminars. Looked at where I wasn't doing so hot, reviewed my notes and looked at the book/videos some more, and then took the test. Honestly the hardest part for me was acronyms and brute memorization, or at least acronyms for CLI commands and stuff. Subnetting, at least the amount you're expected to do for this cert, was stupidly easy. The only thing that threw me off with subnetting was when my exam asked me to subnet down from /24, not up as I expected, and it threw me for a loop. Otherwise, it was easy.
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Join us in the madness that is infosec. Joiiiinnnn ussssss.
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