captainkrtek

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   by captainkrtek 4y ago

   I relate to this with my ADHD as well. I work for a certain cloud provider, and made my name by ambulance chasing both on my team and company-wide for interesting problems. Turned debugging complex networking/systems/security&#x2F
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   by captainkrtek 4y ago

   I struggled with this as well in school. In elementary we were taught cursive, then in middle school switched curriculum to print, so I ended up with a weird messy print/cursive hybrid. I can thankfully write cursive, for my own notes,
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   by captainkrtek 4y ago

   That’s fantastic that learning new languages works well for him as a form of speech therapy! Best wishes to your family as well during this time.
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   by captainkrtek 4y ago

   I’m not a big user, but in the last week it’s become a lot slower and buggier. Sections of the site don’t work reliably, searches spin loading, had the site not load at all multiple times, more spam, etc. Seems the site is just coasting and
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   by captainkrtek 4y ago

   Does anyone aside from Meta even want a “Metaverse”? Metaverse just feels like it’s trying to be a “premium” version of reality, that comes at a premium. Seems like such a small target audience to spend so much money on, when across the spe
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   by captainkrtek 4y ago

   Speak with loved ones, friends, former colleagues. The times I've felt my lowest I’ve usually neglected the fact that I have people who care about me, but who don’t know I’m struggling. You will get through this period and look back on
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   by captainkrtek 4y ago

   You’re lucky then
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   by captainkrtek 4y ago

   On a related topic, the book “Why Time Flies” by Alan Burdick is a great read, and touches on biology related aspects of time.
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   by captainkrtek 4y ago

   There are a number of rescue and related insurance options for climbers, either through affiliation with professional organizations (eg: AMGA) or privately as a perk of clubs/public organizations (American Alpine Club membership tier t
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    by captainkrtek 4y ago

    Amazon makes too much money off of these kinds of 3rd party sellers to change course. These days its no different than browsing alibaba or wish
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    by captainkrtek 4y ago

    This is the first search result if you google “github comcast” which is amazing since comcast does also have their own open source repos on github.
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    by captainkrtek 4y ago

    Couldn’t agree more. Been banking with a not-for-profit credit union for over 15 years. Never been charged unreasonable fees, great customer service, solid and simple app/website. I don’t want banking to be “exciting”
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    by captainkrtek 4y ago

    A few pointers from my own experience (usually in the context of design or proposals): - why does a document need to be written? Is it to be discussed, debated, just documentation? Let this drive what really needs to be written. Often I’ve
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    by captainkrtek 4y ago

    Same here. I find reading (book, kindle) before bed, drinking water to cool down, and not being on my phone for a couple hours help quite a bit
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    by captainkrtek 4y ago

    I find this as well. Earlier in my career it was useful, but in the last bunch of years I rarely if ever am on SO, and if I am, I’m trying to contribute answers. Wouldn’t be surprised if the survey data is largely skewed to more junior peop
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    by captainkrtek 4y ago

    This is cool (and terrifying)! :-)
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    by captainkrtek 4y ago

    Have similar memories on IRC rooting Android devices, lots of fun times and great memories
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    by captainkrtek 4y ago

    I left Amazon (AWS) after 6 years recently to go go a smaller operation. Happy to share my thoughts over beer/coffee, I am outside Seattle
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    by captainkrtek 5y ago

    Fascinating, great blog post. Don’t think I have the dedication to track things similarly, but love the data. I use a Whoop fitness band to track sleep, vitals, exercise, and enjoy seeing all the data. Would be cool go log more than health,
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    Vixen: A PV-in-HVM shim(lists.xenproject.org)

    55 points by captainkrtek 9y ago|11 comments
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    by captainkrtek 9y ago

    https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#compute-optimized " Q. What is the underlying hypervisor on C5 instances? C5 instances use a new EC2 hypervisor that is based on core KVM technology. "
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    Deploytron – feature flagging for safer deployments and quick rollbacks(deploytron.com)

    2 points by captainkrtek 11y ago|0 comments
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    by captainkrtek 11y ago

    Just got this up and running, this is fantastic! great work