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by dvtrn 4y ago
I’m a little late to seeing your reply (my apologies) but the easiest point of reference (and where I’m drawing my prognostications from) is of course “Simulacra and Simulation”
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by dvtrn 4y ago
It's just a specific set of procedures that we follow which are skipped by traditional carrier Are you able to go into detail about this without giving up proprietary/secret sauce? Asking as a former pbx engineer at a couple of
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by dvtrn 4y ago
The barking sure (though I set up my office in the basement because FAMILY LOUD and so when they go off, it's pretty well muffled and people on zoom calls don't even hear it), it was the "bringing a squirrel inside and then s
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Oh dear. Can’t say I’ve had that problem...really ever. How many squirrels have you had to chase/escort out so far?
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by dvtrn 4y ago
> The dog has a lot of false positives from the cameras being triggered by car headlights or small animals. My real dog has the same feature, so you’re at least doing a good job mimicking nature, heh.
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by dvtrn 4y ago
"Baudrillard was right" - me, often.
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Retconning content on streaming services was something I was once concerned about, but eventually told myself wasn't a realistic worry. If anything it was on my mind because when it happened before (Star Wars, as someone else mentioned
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by dvtrn 4y ago
IT Admins bare blame in these incidents. May I amend this to say "IT policies " are to blame? Thinking back to my own days in the IT Department, I would have LOVED to say "No" to the requests to make yet another dist
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by dvtrn 4y ago
right clicks thread, mouses over “create new rule”, begins sweating profusely
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by dvtrn 4y ago
I almost want to make that painfully hackneyed “did we work together?” Joke because this was my last job. It was status update overload. Standups daily, then we’d have weekly all hands that I had to prepare status updates for, then a weekly
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Any other careers that require you to do "exercises" and "live exercises" ? Acting. Fwiw, I also despise “take home” assignments and most (but not all) forms of ‘technical assessments’ but since you asked…
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by dvtrn 4y ago
This is a Seinfeld quote (from one of my favorite episodes, heh), for those downvoting thinking the commenter is making any kind of actual value judgement. Merely commenting because you beat me to quoting the same scene
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Heh I absolutely adore that show, and now that you’ve mentioned it, and after reading this article, I’m off for a rewatch :)
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Im with you on snoozing and being incredibly bored with the quality and range of “curated” stuff coming with my apps and services.
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by dvtrn 4y ago
observing employers frequently having email campaigns soliciting "positive reviews" (and positive ones only) I really want to see a larger conversation happening over this one day, but all I have are grumblings and ramblings. Ne
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by dvtrn 4y ago
I forget the name of it now, but back when I was still in irc regularly, I used a client that would hilariously play an explosion sound effect whenever someone got kicked. Made for amusing chuckles to hear it in the background whilst workin
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Maybe someone like Joss Whedon could have breathed life into it? Joss Whedon has his turn with Cowboy Bebop when it was called 'Firefly' :P
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by dvtrn 4y ago
The lawsuit would also create a paper trail that you can use to exonerate yourself in the future. Thanks to the tragedy of a common name in my country, I’ve had to petition multiple jurisdictions to procure paperwork for a very similar re
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by dvtrn 4y ago
And all of that amounts to what if no one decides to cough up money to use your product?
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Oh for crying out loud Thanks for the evening chuckle brudgers
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by dvtrn 4y ago
There are people who’s sense of self-confidence is so fragile that they cannot allow themselves the possibility of losing or feeling “lesser than” in any context. Happened to a good friend of mine up in Seattle. Good fella, incredibly sma
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Once got to read a “penetration test report” that a past employer received and paid $30,000 for after badgering the Infosec Director to see it. The “methodology” was as comprehensive and revealing as a ping test. The doc contained a single
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Careful, now. “Getting SOC2-certified” isn't the same as “doing the engineering work to get SOC2-certified”. *Do the engineering now. As early as you can. The work, and particularly its up-front costs, scale with the size of your team
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Also, I want to note by being the distant uncle you are often hurting yourself for advancement. If you don't mind trafficking one personal anecdote for another, I've heard this since I entered the corporate workforce at 19 (got
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Then drop it. I’m serious. If the company wants to do that whole “we are a family” thing, let them. While you don’t have to be an aggrandizing ass in going about it, you don’t have to reciprocate the “family ties” either. Be the distant unc
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Who else read that story and is finding themselves having trouble figuring out what should have been done between “lie” and “don’t lie”? Just curious.
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by dvtrn 4y ago
The dopamine hit that comes from selection bias, probably. Last I heard, the executive who manifested this mindset is gone, too. Poetic. If my snark wasn't clear, it's a mindset of hiring and personnel management that I think is l
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Though I have worked for companies where “hire slow fire fast” was an actively spoken belief by senior leaders and executives. They currently sit at a 2.8 on Glassdoor. Think of that however you will.
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Rant incoming, you asked for it ;) Having been in organizations where the Devops/Infra org was brand new, it's not something I'm remotely eager to be a part of again. Some people have the tolerance to be the 'founding&#x
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by dvtrn 4y ago
I recently had a first round interview with a hiring manager, not a recruiter. It served as the screening call and hiring manager call. I was a bit surprised, as I’ve long said how much I want to talk to the HM as early as absolutely possib

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