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Why do developers spend so much time fixing infrastructure instead of coding?

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Non-Alcoholic Beer...

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Who taught you how to drive a stick?

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Couple friends from work, in my mid 20s. A couple test runs with each, then I went to the dealer to pick up the new truck I'd ordered with a stick and drove it home.

When a brand name has become so commonly used that people use THAT as the everyday word for a general item, even when it is not actually that brand. Add some developed in our generation!

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When a brand name has become so commonly used that people use THAT as the everyday word for a general item, even when it is not actually that brand. Add some developed in our generation!

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Today I announced that I won't be reviewing AI generated PRs at company meeting

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Do you have any debt?

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alinroc@reddit

They stated it right up front. $20K on credit cards and $100K on a HELOC. They're grossing $12.5K/month so unless they're being careless with their money, they should be able to knock out the credit cards by the end of the year.

Do you have any debt?

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alinroc@reddit

Nothing wrong with using credit cards as long as you do it responsibly. Take advantage of the benefits and you'll come out ahead.

Do you have any debt?

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alinroc@reddit

> Rate is so low I don’t worry about paying it down There was a time I considered refinancing, but I couldn't find anyone offering a rate low enough to make it worthwhile. Scored a pretty good rate on this note and been putting extra against principal every month.

Do you have any debt?

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Do you have any debt?

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alinroc@reddit

Mortgage and a camper. Cars are paid off, college is paid off, credit cards get paid off every month. Haven't carried a balance on a credit card in probably 15 years (and even then it was short-term).

Ever go back somewhere you haven’t been in literal decades? How did it compare to the memories of it in your younger days?

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Leasing a car to make sure I stay sharp?

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alinroc@reddit

Chrysler had push-button transmissions 60+ years ago. https://www.allpar.com/threads/chrysler’s-brief-foray-into-pushbutton-automatics.230024/

Peanut butter on a spoon

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Retire with $500k?

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How many concussions have you had?

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alinroc@reddit

Pretty sure it's two. Hopefully not more. But never actually diagnosed, checked out by a doctor, or anything else because when I was in middle school (when both would have happened), that wasn't something people thought about unless you were out cold for longer than a few seconds.

Please tell us about your experience.

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> Because the way many companies now interpret these surveys, 10 is the only acceptable answer. Anything 9 or below = failure. [Net Promoter Score](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_promoter_score) is a scourge.

Please tell us about your experience.

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20-odd years ago, when Dodge dealers had the "five star" program, I had a service manager tell me that it was _really_ important that I give them all 5s on the survey Dodge was going to send me about the service I had done on my truck. And that if I felt that I couldn't do that, I needed to call him and he'd figure out how to make things right. My dude, if we've gotten to the point of you handing my keys back to me and I'm not happy with the service, we're well past the point of you being able to convince me to bump that number up to perfection.

Please tell us about your experience.

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No, Lowe's, I really don't feel like rating and reviewing the three 2x4s I bought last weekend. Everyone knows your lumber is warped and wonky trash.

Was your company bought by private equity? How did it go?

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Worked for a non-tech company that was doing well by staying in its lane and not over-extending. Got bought by PE because they wanted to get into our industry, while having _no one_ on their staff that had any experience in that industry. Acquisition happens, top-level management all gets cushy severance packages (as one does). Anyone holding shares gets cashed out because that's what happens when all the shares (the company) are bought. Major changes happened immediately. Customer satisfaction dropped quickly thanks to mind-boggling decisions about running the business being made which very clearly demonstrated that the PE firm had no clue how the business and industry operated. Parts started to get sold off. Back office layoffs happened shortly after each sell-off because with a smaller field operations footprint, fewer people were needed in the back office. I exited about 18 months after the deal was closed. Less than 18 months after I left, the whole sell-off was finished and the company shut down. Went from being one of the better places in town to work to being nothing but a memory in less than 3 years, all thanks to PE.

It all makes sense now.

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It all makes sense now.

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It all makes sense now.

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alinroc@reddit

>49, undiagnosed (?) but pretty sure I have it. Nearly 49, pretty sure I have it to some degree but getting conflicting professional answers. My PCP ran a "prelim" questionnaire/test for me about 14years ago, said I was borderline ADHD. Put me on a medication, I didn't like the side effects after a couple weeks (the first couple weekends were _so_ productive though) and I quit it. I use physical exercise to manage things since. Changed PCP a couple years ago and asked about getting a formal test and diagnosis. I went and did that, was told I don't have ADHD. Damn near every person who hears that says "are you sure they tested you right? Because you sure seem like you have it."

The hacky sack is back

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Our high school just banned hacky sack. It's a "significant disruption" and now being treated the same as cell phones, which are banned during school hours by statewide law.

NASA Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA)

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alinroc@reddit

If the SCA got lift assist from the Shuttle wings, that was a side-effect and not the design goal of the wings. You don't put anything on something headed for orbit that isn't absolutely necessary for getting to orbit and returning. [This is why the wings are the size they are](https://thehighfrontier.blog/2015/10/19/blue-shuttle-how-the-air-force-influenced-the-sts-design-process/). A mission that the Shuttle never even tested.

NASA Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA)

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I don't think the Space Center wants Discovery. A bunch of politicians in Washington want to relocate it there, probably to make some friends who run companies that would do the work richer.

NASA Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA)

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I assume that disclaimer is at the bottom because the docents got tired of having to tell visitors that the platforms aren't original.

NASA Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA)

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NASA Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA)

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alinroc@reddit

I have that same picture! I found a nice bench in the middle of the building and just sat there for 15 minutes taking it all in

How are we handling multiple pairs of glasses?

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alinroc@reddit

I have 3 sets of prescription glasses. Progressives for most of the time / general use. They work for pretty much anything including using a laptop. Single-vision prescription set up specifically for my office setup (I actually gave them my eye-to-monitor measurement when I went in to get the prescription so they could make the lens for that distance). This is a different distance than typical laptop usage. Single-vision distance sunglasses. I can barely read my watch or phone when I'm wearing them.

So we buy a mall to live in.

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Rackspace turned a mall in San Antonio, TX into their HQ office. They've since vacated it and it's being converted to a warehouse. https://sanantonioreport.org/former-windsor-park-mall-windcrest-bexar-county-development/

So we buy a mall to live in.

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Most influential soundtrack of the ‘80s

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Parking spots

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alinroc@reddit

I set a reminder with the ID of the parking lot section and have it notify me about 5 minutes after my scheduled landing time.

Happy 81st Birthday, Kurt Loder! #MTVNews

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Genx wfh sucks, cell phones are a leash. I want 1995 back.

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I had just a personal phone that I put a couple work things on for a few years. When the company wanted more control over devices, I noped out of that and got a cheap used iPhone for a dedicated work phone. Whatever I'm spending on that Mint plan (I think it's $15, I pay for the year up front to get the cheapest rate) is **so** worth it. It's silent and sitting on a shelf outside work hours unless it's my turn in the on-call rotation.

Genx wfh sucks, cell phones are a leash. I want 1995 back.

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alinroc@reddit

>I live in my jail cell and if I leave my fu@$ing cell my phone via life 360 notifies my wardens That's not a general problem with cell phones being "a leash." It's your choice to have that particular app and those notifications fired.

Do you balance your check book to the penny?

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I just reconcile the checking account each month in Banktivity (like Quicken for macOS/iOS/iPadOS) & make sure everything's accounted for there. The only surprises I find are when things get double-entered because I was off by a penny or I had the date very wrong when I recorded it and the correct version got entered when I downloaded from the bank. >I just round everything up to the next dollar. When I look at my accounts, I round the other way. Balance is $490? I've got $400 in there. Basically tricking myself into thinking I have less in the account than I really do.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

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Most famous single photo of our generation?

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Who remembers this classic?

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Who remembers this classic?

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What’s your take on FinOps?

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alinroc@reddit

FinOps has been a thing since the mainframe days. Just a new name for it now. Remember "chargebacks?" Departments were charged a portion of the running costs of the mainframe based on what portion of the available resources their jobs & systems consumed. Things are just shuffled around now and we report them differently. But I digress... I think the core idea has merit, even if you're 100% on-premises. Especially now that it's getting harder/more expensive to get compute and memory because the AI companies are getting all the manufacturing capacity for the next 18 months. But these shouldn't be the only metrics you're tracking, and the end goal should not be "make the bill as small as possible" - the question is "are we spending the money intelligently?" We should be reviewing what's running or just allocated and sitting idle in the cloud _regularly_. Not only is it costing money, it's a potential liability - who has access to that storage bucket that we forgot about? What data is sitting on that VM that no one has touched in 6 months? If these things are necessary, are they properly secured? Can we consolidate into cheaper long-term storage because we don't need immediate access?

Why are non technical leaders obsessed with screen sharing during incident calls

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alinroc@reddit

> You can usually clear the non-technical crowd by letting people know upfront > the incident will take +15 minutes > names of any people across the org you’d need to consult (or that no one else will be needed) > you will keep a public thread updated every 15 minutes See also: [The RACI Matrix](https://project-management.com/understanding-responsibility-assignment-matrix-raci-matrix/)

Why are non technical leaders obsessed with screen sharing during incident calls

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alinroc@reddit

Peter Gibbons: And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now. Bob Slydell: I beg your pardon? Peter Gibbons: Eight bosses. Bob Slydell: Eight? Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it.

Why are non technical leaders obsessed with screen sharing during incident calls

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alinroc@reddit

> If people wanted to watch my screen in stoney silence That's the problem - they aren't silent. The people responding here have the peanut gallery throwing 5 questions per minute at them while they're trying to resolve problems.

Why are non technical leaders obsessed with screen sharing during incident calls

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Why are non technical leaders obsessed with screen sharing during incident calls

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alinroc@reddit

> Every 2 seconds there is a beep from teams for someone asking to join the call, every 30 seconds someone says they have the issue that we already know everyone is having. Product owners shouting random suggestions, leadership acting like they can bully a solution out of everyone, and operations reminding us every 10 seconds how fucked we are. This happened pre-COVID, when we were all working in the office too. Except it wasn't on Teams/Slack, it was people standing in your cube and literally breathing down your neck. It's a lot harder to tune people out that way.

Why are non technical leaders obsessed with screen sharing during incident calls

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alinroc@reddit

> Do they want it fixed or explained first? I’ll be they answer fixed first I _vividly_ remember an incident 25 years ago where I was standing at the rack console (remote access/management on these Compaq Windows servers was iffy) with the CIO at one elbow and a Sr. VP at the other and they were expecting me to narrate _what_ I was doing, _why_ I was doing it, _and_ what caused the problem - while I was still in the middle of diagnosis & fixing! I was still one of the more junior members of the team at the time, but after the dust settled I pushed for major changes in how incidents are managed - and got my wish.

Why is Challenger and not Columbia such a core Gen X memory?

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alinroc@reddit

We saw Challenger live on TV. "The whole world was watching" - it was seriously hyped up because of who was on board. Columbia was just a routine flight, returning on a Saturday morning. Landings were never broadcast unless it was a significant flight and even then, not until they were on final approach. Debris was recorded by a military aircraft or two after the breakup but that was it.