@davidjrusek
Used to work in a nest then in a fruit stand, now I work in a bank. I like playing guitar badly. Tired. Probably not even lurking here, if you need to find me and you don't know how then you probably don't need to find me.
I majored in CS because I liked CS. I got into Software Engineering because I needed to pay the bills. I never really enjoyed SE but I’m good at it so I keep doing it. I would have preferred to stay in CS but I didn’t have a path forward there.
I’m just a simple idiot asking stupid questions.
Why do people write production software services in Python. It’s so bad.
OH: “this project has a high probability of delivering nothing but a trail of incidents over then next year and a half”
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
I woke up today in a bit of a mood and I’m ready to make it everybody’s problem.
I’ve done that before, it’s such a great exercise. This is actually timely, thanks for reminding me about this; I’ll have to bring it to our next retro/onsite!
I know some people love this shit but offloading stuff to AWS, like load balancers, mostly sucks.
FWIW, it’s not a bad place, it’s just wasn’t a good place for me.
I feel a special connection with SRE. I inevitably gravitate towards making fast friends with folks in that org. They’re the cool kids and I just want to prove I can hang.
I’m a creature of habit and I really know the JVM quite well so it’s still a comfort thing for me to be running on that type of environment.
We use it at work as our server side language. It has a lot of the niceties of Scala but there are days I wish I actually had Scala. Java, while my base got-to language, ends up being limited.
I’m still a JVM obsessed dork. Java has been my go-to, especially since I enable previews. Scala grew on me but Kotlin seems like a nice compromise. Go is growing on me. Fuck Python.
I think there’s a reason everyone ends up building g their own control plane at some point.
I ended up quitting. It was mostly killing me working there. Much happier these days.
It was me
OH: Have the Istio folks actually ever run this stuff in production?
"Through AI Fluency, Ohio State students will be ‘bilingual’ — fluent in both their major field of study and the application of AI in that area"
Ohio State really not beating the allegations out of Ann Arbor here.
I might end up swapping the electronics as well. We’ll see how well this plays first. Honestly I’ll probably just buy a Fender Vintera II Bass VI if I want a “nicer” one. Who knows though, I might do a really good job with this one 😀
I will also need to do a fret leveling but I’ll save that for last.
The previous owner had also put strings that were WAY too big for the guitar and didn’t bother to fix the nut so it hat caused some cracking. I’ll update this thread with pics of the process of cutting a new nut when the materials come in.
The, typical of Squire, plastic nut was just loose in the slot, free ballin’ it, so to speak. I ordered a bone nut and some files so wish me luck trying to cut one for the first time…
The Indian Laurel needed some love. I used Monty’s tinted wax. I’ll let that sit for a few days while I wait for the shim and a new nut blank to arrive.
Replaced the stock trem with an AVRI one I had laying around. I will need to set it up when I eventually get some strings on it. I seem to have forgotten to take a pic of the new trem on.
The previous owner CRANKED the truss rod… I had to give it some relief.
Bought a cheap guitar to hone some of my guitar tech skills. Also Bass VIs are cool.
A promotion is impossible at my current company and I’m not interested in management here either.
My initial grant will run out in 18 months. I have max two years at this place before I need to move again. With three kids entering college every other year starting in 2027 and an emphasis on semi-retirement by 55 (12 yrs), I need to maximize income.
This is the second company who’s process I opted out of mid question. I don’t have the capacity to care about this nonsense anymore.
