@SidTheITGuy coke is 1000x better than weed

@PaperTrail oh shit, i have those socks. Woops.

@Demolishun just had a call with a coworker. He's started threatening other people as well...

Wtf are programmer socks? No I'm not googling it, I feel like I'll get on a list

Had a call with his manager. HR is involved, and the shit storm begins

@jestdotty HR is there to protect the business from people.

This is lawsuit territory, so they may actually give a fuck

@retoor cats out of the bag now!

Apparently the company has a policy about remote workers and time away from their geographical pay areas. Likely only used for people being insane. I wasn't even aware of it.

@jiraTicket estimated are there so managers can justify their presence.

The truth is, it takes as long as it takes. An estimate is just another date it won't be done by.

You can have something by a date, or you can have the thing you want when it's done.

If sales people would realize this, management wouldn't have to hound each other for dates, and engineers can just do their jobs

Nobody can estimate even the most predictable work.

So do less of it and you'll make fewer mistakes.

You worry too much about political ideologies.

Not enough clowns

It's likely a security policy/firewall/routing issue.

You'll have to post your VCNs topology for anyone to have any chance of troubleshooting with you.

Samsies. Stuck in corporate nonsense with artificial barriers at every turn.

I miss startups, but I couldn't take the pay cut. Damn kids...

1 error

Fix the bug

24 errors

Bash is great for automating terminal work. Calling commands in python is a PITA.

Doing math and working with data structures in bash is way worse though.

Yup

@electrineer tell me you don't work at scale workout telling me you don't work at scale.

Lots of engineers working round the clock really hard no doubt.

You can't force a normy to dev and be great at it, the same way you can't force a dev to YouTube and be great at it.

YouTube is for AV nerds. Some of them happen to be computer nerds at the same time.

Way to miss your target audience. Wasted money on this effort.

@kiki me? I don't. I just diet twice a year.

Once I hit 180ish lbs, I diet back down to the 160s.

@kiki for hunger control? Best bet is to shrink the stomach (not sure if it actually shrinks or it's a hormone thing).

When you have that inspiration, eat 5 small plates of mostly protein a day. After a few days to a week. the hunger gets better.

You can motivate yourself to get through the first hump with daily weigh ins and checking yourself out in the mirror.

I find after 3 weeks I've lost 15 to 20 lbs but the hunger comes back around then and slowly fall back into old habits, but by then I'm at my desired weight

The hard part isn't eating less. The hard part is controlling your response to hunger. That's ingrained and requires training.

Europe isn't too bad, but coordinating with India is truly awful.

5am meetings are the norm.

Gotta be firm with the customer about change policy up front to avoid these issues.

Some small changes can be accommodated at the discretion of the developer, all other change sizes must undergo a scope change and a replan"

The beginning of the end...

I used thrift at a company about a decade ago. Lots of little microservices that needed to communicate. It was a half decent way to do it, but I think there's much better RPC libs these days, and don't forget rest/graphql

@CoreFusionX that's how I learned it.

CTO demanded we move from two ec2 instances and an ALB, to a rancher managed multi cluster deployment.

We had a dozen MAUs, but he wanted to use the big key words when wooing future partners. It didn't work. I learned a fuck tonne though

Try geo blocking. Not many use cases for the rest of the world to talk to China, you'll have very few false positives.

Yup.

K8s is worth having a dedicated platform engineering team around to keep running. It's a complicated system, and having feature devs waste cycles on it gets you a half assed unstable cluster, and half assed features.

Good news, most people don't need it, Ave the ones that do can afford a dedicated team