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Yegolev
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Reply #38990 on: August 05, 2019, 10:25:06 AM

This only deserves about 1/3 of a thread so I won't bother moving this to Gaming... but I'm in the same boat with my white PS4. My friend has the same one as I do but his somehow runs more smoothly. His optical drive is defunct and my ethernet port periodically discos which forces me to go wireless. My choices are basically to limp along with a dying PS4, or drop $400 on a PS4 Pro now. Because who knows about the PS5?

I just realized that I could probably commandeer my son's newer PS4, however that has implications in the family dynamic. He mostly just uses it for Persona 5, though.
« Last Edit: August 05, 2019, 10:26:42 AM by Yegolev »

Why am I homeless?  Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Reply #38991 on: August 08, 2019, 03:59:12 PM

My wife has littered my house with several types and generations of Amazon Echos. Mostly I just use it to put stuff on the shopping list without washing my hands, but today the whole setup paid off when dinner was winding down and I said "Alexa, play Mary Mary by Run DMC".

Maybe you had to be there.

Why am I homeless?  Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.


Reply #38992 on: August 12, 2019, 12:15:20 PM

I don't advise trying to hang an 82" tv by yourself  why so serious?

Only a couple 'oh shit' moments, but man...they were toe curlers.

That said, full motion mounts are amazing!
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Reply #38993 on: August 13, 2019, 05:45:26 AM

Today, LinkedIn let me know that I have 2 connections with Brock PiErce... which is how he capitalizes it.

Why am I homeless?  Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Reply #38994 on: August 14, 2019, 06:07:04 AM

I got an email last week via LinkdIn from some company that thought I might like a position they had open in Ocala, FL.

 headache

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Reply #38995 on: August 14, 2019, 06:11:15 AM

Linkedin spams me daily, asking if I know my boss. Seems helpful.
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Reply #38996 on: August 14, 2019, 06:49:30 AM

I recently applied for a few jobs from LinkedIn, a number of them were with other recruiting services. Now I continually get fucking spam emails from people who either 1) want me to become a franchisee, 2) want to help me become an entrepreneur, or 3) want to interview me for some job that is wholly fucking unrelated to any of the jobs I applied for like insurance salesman or purchasing agent.

Linkedin is worse than useless.

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Reply #38997 on: August 14, 2019, 08:24:08 AM

You basically have to use linkedin to cull out the useless crap. Keeping your skills up to date, and your job history is helpful for that, but also intentionally accepting invites and targeting recruiting services that specialize in your field. I just ignore, remove, or block anything that's not relevant and usually that stops after about a month.

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Reply #38998 on: August 15, 2019, 07:01:40 PM

I find it useful when I go into private detective mode and want to know a bit more about some consultant or other person who is hanging around in my working world where I want to know more about what they're up to, what they're *really* trying to sell or do, etc. But I'd never use it if I were trying to hire someone or to get hired.
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Reply #38999 on: August 16, 2019, 03:32:37 AM

My boss used LinkedIn to see whose profile matched their resume and cull all of the female candidates...

It is a new level of stalking when you’re digging through a pile of resumes though. I’ve had one since 2006 and keep it semi-up to date and to see what my old work colleagues are up to.
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Reply #39000 on: August 16, 2019, 04:42:47 AM

Haha, that sounds super illegal.  The culling of females part.  Unless you're like, I don't know, a Chippendales dancer or something.

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Reply #39001 on: August 22, 2019, 11:05:14 AM

Some people don't seem to understand why I'd want to limit my data to private networks. How can you WordPress without Internet?Huh

Me - "How can I provide a single interface for private loadbalancers?"
That guy - "Install a Vyatta in front and provide that external interface..."
Me - "These are private VLANs."
That guy - "Didn't you say you wanted your customers to have a single endpoint?"
Me - *makes strangling gestures in the air*

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Reply #39002 on: August 22, 2019, 04:15:01 PM

There sounds like a lot of confusion in that entire conversation.

'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Reply #39003 on: August 22, 2019, 05:36:28 PM

I'm not supposed to say anything negative about the product.

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Reply #39004 on: August 24, 2019, 11:24:27 AM

Typically Medium bothers me a lot, and I don't read it much. However I found the story of the Energizer Bunny Screensaver very entertaining for some reason.

https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/how-the-energizer-bunny-saved-my-company-4d277fca3279

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Reply #39005 on: August 29, 2019, 07:28:00 AM

Signs your website is dead: when I do a gif search and automatically append -giphy.com so I can find one I can actually download and use directly from google.

Almost as bad as Pinterest for shitting up google image searches.
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Reply #39006 on: August 31, 2019, 12:53:59 PM

Bad enough there is a hurricane on Labor Day weekend, but an outage in AWS Virginia as well. Fortunately (?) I'm not drunk at DragonCon... *cry*

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Reply #39007 on: August 31, 2019, 06:52:16 PM

Saw that this Sat. morning. God help them.
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Reply #39008 on: August 31, 2019, 07:10:49 PM

Saw what?

"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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Reply #39009 on: September 01, 2019, 07:13:13 AM

Notice about AWS
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Reply #39010 on: September 01, 2019, 07:09:30 PM

Ah whoops, didn't see Yeg's comment.

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Reply #39011 on: September 02, 2019, 05:19:36 AM

For all of you F13ers out there in the path of the hurricane:  What the fuck are you doing in the path of a hurricane?  Move, already.  We've told you like 100 times.

Seriously, though, that looks like some bad shit.  Stay safe. 

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Reply #39012 on: September 25, 2019, 09:27:37 AM

Fuck Cancer.

Just found out niece's boyfriend was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.  Started in the brain and metastasized to the spine.  Started chemo last night.  He's only 34, forchrissakes.  He'd been having migraine's for a while but just chalked them up to stress from work (he's a construction foreman) but had been sick so niece finally got him to go to the ER (she's a nurse).  Extra-specially sucks because he doesn't have any insurance and this is going to be pricey. 

So tl;dr - fuck cancer.

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Reply #39013 on: September 25, 2019, 09:29:47 AM

Amen - fuck the cancer. All the cancers.

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Reply #39014 on: September 25, 2019, 11:25:06 AM

Also, fuck for-profit health care, while we're at it.
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Reply #39015 on: September 26, 2019, 08:15:20 AM

Good luck with that.

Why am I homeless?  Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Reply #39016 on: October 03, 2019, 07:28:29 AM

Sale on lightly-used "good" MBPs from 2015: https://www-store.shop.ibm.com/shop/us-en/icpeusbusiness/685001

Pretty sure this is a public link.

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Reply #39017 on: October 09, 2019, 07:16:38 AM

My son is so hyper at times I’m surprised it hasn’t happened earlier, but he made up for lost time by needing over 50 stitches in his knee last night  ACK!  But the doc was a good seamstress and there’s no joint injury.

(Playground football with his buddies)

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Reply #39018 on: October 09, 2019, 08:01:55 AM

The more import question is “how’s your gourd?”

'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Reply #39019 on: October 09, 2019, 08:08:26 AM

Still stitch-free  awesome, for real

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Reply #39020 on: October 11, 2019, 06:34:40 AM

Having been to Catalunya, this seems appropriate:

https://twitter.com/tylerhall/status/1181324733893287938

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Reply #39021 on: October 14, 2019, 09:01:10 AM

The new Mac OS is problematic, but I don't get the reference to Catalunya?

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Reply #39022 on: October 14, 2019, 11:44:07 AM

For you Lagavulin fans out there the Lagavulin Offerman Edition will supposedly be available soon:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/drink-like-ron-swanson-meet-the-lagavulin-offerman-edition-single-malt-scotch-whisky
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With Lagavulin distillery manager Colin Gordon he tasted different whiskies from the brand’s warehouses to help select the special-edition Scotch. What was Offerman looking for in the samples? “I suppose it’s interesting, it feels like it’s right in pace with my woodworking tastes. I like simple and bold things,” he says. “So I like to build a Craftsman oak table in the style of Gustav Stickley much in the same way that I like my Scotch to have signature peat and smokiness. For some reason, I tend towards the bucolic so I want to taste some leather and some soil. If there’s some actual oak sawdust stirred into the mix it won’t hurt my feelings.”


Also, for us Americans, remember the 25% tariff on single malt Scotch whisky is going into effect on October 18.
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Reply #39023 on: October 14, 2019, 12:28:37 PM

The new Mac OS is problematic, but I don't get the reference to Catalunya?

Catalonians manage to live on "island time" without actually living on an island.

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Reply #39024 on: October 14, 2019, 10:16:44 PM

For you Lagavulin fans out there the Lagavulin Offerman Edition will supposedly be available soon:

At 11 years old I would hope it is cheaper than the regular Lagavulin.
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