iamthepieman

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by iamthepieman 6mo ago
Consulting Director - Energy and Utilities, software engineering management Location: Northeast U.S. Remote: yes - for the past 14 years Willing to relocate: yes, to certain areas in the U.S. Skills: staffing and hiring, mentoring, cross-fu
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by iamthepieman 9mo ago
Also tried it and it could have been a lot better. If I had any type of interview with that voice (press interview, mentor interview, job interview) I would think I was being scammed, sold something, or had entered the wrong room.
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by iamthepieman 1y ago
My brother passed away from AML (acute myeloid leukemia) almost two years ago. His quality of life was dismal on treatment, he was constantly vomiting, mouth sores, unable to sleep but very tired, couldn't see his two young children an
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by iamthepieman 1y ago
The worst part is that a lot of the alfalfa and other feedstock crops are shipped out of the country.
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by iamthepieman 1y ago
The film "Never Let Me Go"[0] is kind of about that. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(2010_film)
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by iamthepieman 1y ago
Framing the whole thing around costs is the problem. Frame it around better quality, better service, buy it for life etc. There's no way I'm going to buy 3 times the cost for the exact same experience. I don't care about free
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by iamthepieman 1y ago
Thank you for the enthusiasm! It was not intentional but my post really does read like a little story vignette that ends with a gut punch. Not looking for sympathy so much as fellow appreciators of irony and schadenfreude but here's an
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by iamthepieman 1y ago
Creating stealth group in a huge Fortune 500 company with the blessing of my immediate boss but no other higher-ups. Trying to productize critical consulting tool sets in the utility industry so we can stop repeating ourselves for the 100th
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by iamthepieman 1y ago
Or find a way that works for you, gets you jobs and keeps you from breaking your moral framework. I compare it to driving in traffic. A lot of times I'm not in a hurry and can just stay in one lane and crawl along. Other times, I am in
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by iamthepieman 1y ago
Depending on where you live, you get it in your water and you don't need both sources of fluoride.
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by iamthepieman 1y ago
>XML has always seemed to be a data standard which is intended to be what computers prefer, not people Interesting take, but I'm always a little hesitant to accept any anthropomorphizing of computer systems. Isn't it always abo
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
Well made formal clothes are the most comfortable you'll wear. There is some mental discomfort for a while depending on your mindset because, at least for me, I was stuck thinking fancier clothes required fancier demeanor and attitude?
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
This story happened in my backyard. The shootout was about 40 minutes from me but Youngblut and Felix Bauckholt were reported by a hotel clerk dressed in tactical gear and sporting firearms in a hotel a few blocks from me. Weird to see a co
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
I first played Minecraft when Notch was posting demos as zip files on the TIGSource forums. I playtested and kept playing off and on until a little after the 1.0 release but that was still over 10 years ago. Some of the early demos also had
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
For better or worse, UNIX has won on embedded and server room. I think this is the HN bubble at work. Maybe you mean something qualitatively or quantitatively different than I do when you say server room but every client I've
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
I had print shop as a 10-15 year old and made all my own and many of my families birthday, anniversary and Christmas cards with it. I was the "computer guy" in my household and was therefore entrusted with this duty. I also printe
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
That makes total sense. I have been tempted to do this in the past. Fortunately time and resources constraints have kept it to costly sane and maintainable, performant configurations until I learned that I would never create the system I wa
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
I get the solution for this and I know what all the terms mean. But I don't understand the problem. Whether it's facetious or hyperbole or whatever, I just don't get who or what circumstances this is addressing. This is writt
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
Every old telco technician had a story about dropping a wrench on a busbar or other bare piece of high powered transmission equipment and having to shut that center down, get out the heavy equipment, and cut it off because the wrench had be
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
I agree. I've had this happen often enough on the job that it's not a totally made up example. And usually you'll be one of two or three people in the whole company who is able and willing. Debugging old DSL vendor specific l
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
I read this in a previous discussion of kagi. Not going to read it again but if I recall it was more than half complaining about things not at all related to kagi search. Stuff like how they manage their finances and administration. Sure th
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
If you can afford it, please try kagi[0]. It's not a panacea. It IS a lot better than Google and has been for some time. [0] https://kagi.com/welcome
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
I do not use this term to refer to myself. I respect those who do and respect the meaning behind it but am just old enough that it feels alien to me 99% of the time. But I am SO triggered by this piece. I had that intrusive feeling you some
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
I've had a really good scrum master. (Plenty of bad ones too). The really good one I could say something like "I started work on this item and realized that I'm actually missing a lot of context and information in the require
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
So basically encipher was never used in the context of the web. And the web is what made encrypt popular separate from encipher. It does look like maybe encipher was possibly going to take off but encrypt stepped on its head.
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
What a weird article. Feels like two or three little articles under a trenchcoat. Just this evening I finally got my old gaming PC out of the closet and back up and running. My 15 year old son helped me troubleshoot driver issues and bios e
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
Subaru still makes them. I would buy something else since I hate the anti privacy of the company and cars but it's all I can easily get
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
Even worse if someone else signs up somehow using your contact info. I got signed up (via email thankfully) for a political party in another country and no amount of "mark as spam", unsubscribe or replying would get me off the lis
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
Maybe I don't use tvs the way most people do. But the most pessimistic lifetime estimates for my use case on a 30,000 hour panel is 41 years. I don't really see a television as something to pass on to my heirs so that seems like a
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by iamthepieman 2y ago
You didn't lose your entire savings if you lost your wallet, usually.

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